LoudnessShortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2011. Shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2012. Loudness is the beautiful debut collection from Judy Brown. Her poetry combines a straightforward manner with artful complexity, a gift for ironic humour with exacting observations of the everyday. Titles like The ExPats, The P45 and The Crash kick start edgy narratives, full of characters who will suffer for their modern sins.

they include Nadia Alkowkobani

It shattered on the coffin lid

and the lure of Penylan Quarry

his work tells much of his life and the changing times

dying is always a mistake

Jon Hendricks

Mihai Ursachi

he has also published a novel

or even how perfectly ordinary things can 'balk account'

Primrose is also a performance poet who has read and performed her work at international festivals

is a good measure

Whether it is his native south Wales