MametzFor five years, photographer Aled Rhys Hughes visited Mametz on the anniversary of the Battle of Mametz Wood to make images which are equally about the battle and about Wales today. His book collects colour photographs of the battlefield its topography, the military detritus still to be found there, and mementoes made by the soldiers who served there. He photographed trees surviving from the battle (some with artillery shells entwined in them), and

It’s a phrase of infinite possibility and tender worry

If you get the chance to go and see him read

save the Geats from being wiped off the map

His poems show a mastery of form and technique

On the eve of Occupy Wall Street

like the rest of us

There is no holding back on any subject matter in either fiction or poetry – the family

The fact that [chef] Esther is also anorexic adds a contemporary twist

plus an essay on his works in English translation by poet Stephen Watts

pensees and table-talk'

To adopt a child from another country necessarily means taking them away from their culture

a world that is uncompromising