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For pre-orders, we’ll dispatch within 3 business days of receiving the item from our supplier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003ch3\u003eManylion y cynnyrch \/ Product details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN 13\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e9781068694622\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGwales Code\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003egwales.com.9781068694622\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGwerthwr \/ Vendor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCyngor Llyfrau Cymru\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLong Title\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEXPOSURE: war media democracy — war media democracy\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSub Title\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ewar media democracy\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAwdur \/ Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eGraham, Angela\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCurrent Price ex VAT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e£14.00\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCurrent Price inc VAT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e£14.00\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailability Status (EN)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAvailable\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailability Status (CY)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eAr gael\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDyddiad cyhoeddi \/ Publication Date\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e2026-02-15\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCyhoeddwr \/ Publisher\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCulture \u0026amp; Democracy Press\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia Type (EN)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia Type (CY)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eClawr meddal\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e108 pages\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003e165 × 235 mm; depth 5 mm\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage Code\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEnglish\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCategori \/ Category\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCY: Barddoniaeth (yn Saesneg) | EN: Poetry (in English)\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs-gategori \/ Subcategory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCY: Beirdd Unigol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Individual Poets (in English)\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFSC Status\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eNo FSC or PEFC logo\/certification declared\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\u003csection\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCynnwys \/ Table of Contents\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE PHOTOGRAPHS OF A DEAD RUSSIAN SOLDIER ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF KHARKIV, taken 24 – 27 February 2022 Photograph of a Dead Russian Soldier on the Outskirts of Kharkiv Photograph of a Dead Russian Soldier, Shifted Point of View Both Photographs Finding an earlier Shot Maksim Levin’s Credo Proof in the Form of Images An Act of Mercy? Lower Angle Reversed Point of View Weather Moving on Visitants Exposure I IMAGINE BEING On presuming to speak in the Persona of Someone Encountered through Journalism I Imagine Being a Ukrainian Soldier … I Imagine Being Oleh Bondarenko I Imagine Being Vovan, Unit Commander in the Defence of Kharkhiv I Imagine Being Vovan, on Furlough Making contact IMAGE A Matter of Degree Photograph of a Young Man in a Hoodie Prighozin’s Slaves Inflation Your Worst Fear Trump, Vance I Imagine the War Approaches my Town Station Fifteen Dialogue Though I am not in the War Zone 'Let the atrocious Images haunt us.' THE ISRAEL\/GAZA WAR IMAGINING Imagining, in the UK In a Bombarded City Bombarded City 2 Bombarded City 3 I Imagine I Am Noor’s Mother Imagination NEWS REACHES ME Opening Hell The Night Sky over Tel Aviv Staying in Tehran Point of View A Plan for the Development of Gaza Ceasefire Joint Enterprise 2. CITIZENS AND POLITICIANS ASSAULTS ON DEMOCRACY Campaigners for Voter Registration, Mississippi The Illegal Prorogation of Parliament, Westminster Assaults on Democracy, Washington Compassion Saviour Terrorism Photograph of a Party Leader To a Belligerent Northern Irish Politician ‘Troubles’ Journalist City Lights In the Emergency Ultrasound Unit, Cardiff CHANGE Shïft Change Newid Productivity Choice Brutalists Int Én Bec \/ The Blackbird by Belfast Lough Thon Merle Plea TACTICAL VOTING The Transactionalist They Came for the Journalists In the Eye Clinic Waiting Room, Cardiff Group Think Healthcare, Housing, Jobs … Tyranny By Ordinary Means Our stubborn little Acts of Love Domestic Politics This, and This too\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003csection\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBywgraffiad yr Awdur \/ Author Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUn o Ogledd Iwerddon yw Angela Graham. Mae ganddi cael gyrfa hir ac arobryn fel gwneuthurur ffilm a sgriptiwr yng Nghymru. Ym 2002, dyfarnwyd Cymrodoriaeth Oes Anrhydeddus iddi gan Sefydliad Materion Cymru am ei gwaith dros y cyfryngau a democratiaeth. Roedd hi ar y rhestr fer Wobr Seamus Heaney ar gyfer Ysgrifennu Newydd yn 2025. Mae ganddi gasgliadau barddoniaeth, Exposure: war, media and democracy (culture and democracy press, 2026), Star (culture and democracy press, 2024) a Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere (Seren Books, 2022) a straeon byrion, A City Burning (Seren Books, 2022) wnaeth gyraedd rhestr hir Gwobr Edge Hill. Ennillodd y Wobr Farddoniaeth yng Nghystadleuaeth Ysgrifennu Ulster-Scots y Linen Hall, 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003csection\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBywgraffiad yr Awdur \/ Author Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngela Graham is from Belfast. She was a finalist in the 2025 Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. Culture And Democracy Press published her poetry collection, Star in 2024 and in 2026 will bring out Exposure, 75 poems on war, media and democracy. Her 2022 poetry collection, Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere, and 2020 short stories, A City Burning are from Seren Books (Edge Hill longlisted). She won the Poetry Prize in the inaugural Linen Hall Ulster-Scots Writing Competition, 2021. She speaks Welsh. Angela is from Northern Ireland. She has had an award-winning career as a film maker and screenwriter in Wales. In 2022 she received an Honorary Life Fellowship from the Institute of Welsh Affairs for her work on media and democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003csection\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAdolygiad y Cyhoeddwr \/ Publisher Review\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘radically human’ Exposure reviewed in Nation Cymru CJ Wagstaff Angela Graham demonstrates that the language of documentary is her bread and butter in this sensitive and assured riff on photopoetry from Culture and Democracy Press. Across the collection, Graham positions poetry as a form of creative record-keeping as she seeks to sit unflinchingly with global conflict. The first section, titled ‘Soldiers and Civilians’, features poems responding to contemporary war photography ranging from genocide in Gaza to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Here, Graham stretches her ekphrastic muscles, producing poems which are rich with restraint and physical presence. Rather than grand moral statements, she opts for powerfully understated description, as she responds, for example, to a photograph of a deceased soldier: ‘patches of camouflage emerging like moss in a parody of Spring’ (‘Weather’) Graham’s specificity is what makes this work exciting. She zooms in on each scene to isolate its finer details: the steel finish of an armoured vehicle, or the sun setting behind wholesale sheds in Ukraine. Meaning is not imposed but emerges instead through the poet’s careful attention to her subjects. Notably, the source photographs themselves are absent from the collection, leaving the reader to rely entirely on Graham’s interpretations. Some of these are undeniably graphic. Visceral moments such as a soldier ‘rotting inside his uniform’ (‘Photograph of a Dead Russian Soldier’) confront the reader with violence that is difficult to sit with. This will not be to everyone’s taste, but it stands staunchly as a testament to the role of poetry as witness. These are poems that insist on the responsibility of the artist not to turn away, even when the act of attention feels uncomfortable. Interspersed throughout the collection are also poems that turn their gaze inward, becoming self-reflexive meditations on the photographic process. Juxtaposed with the ekphrastic work, these pieces are as unsettling as they are compelling, interrogating the relationships between subject, lens, and viewer. In ‘An Act of Mercy?’, Graham observes how ‘a perfect fan of emptied winter branches \/ by the top left corner \/ gives a sense of distance and proportion’. What might read as apathy here is a gambit in a collection that otherwise sings with compassion. As a combined work, this feels, above all, radically human. Graham’s moral clarity is patently rooted in lived experience, having grown up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. This is a history which has clearly shaped her ethical framework. She reflects: ‘Born into Ulster my whole life I’ve had to think about revenge: what was taken; what should be taken back.’ This background informs a keen sense of justice, evident in her deeply empathetic portraits. This empathy is particularly vivid in a sequence of six persona poems spanning pages 26 to 34, in a section titled ‘I Imagine Being’. These, for me, are where Graham’s writing is strongest, most imaginative, most complete. In the first poem of this sequence, she inhabits the perspective of unit commander Vovan as he returns to his mother after active duty, marking what is arguably the most powerful moment in the collection. Graham contrives an intimate proximity to these narrators, imagining gestures of care and domesticity in an otherwise hostile world – ‘Mama cried out, My golden boy! My little fish!’ – effective reminders of the real lives and stories continuing on despite it all. This is a meticulously structured collection, with poems divided into clear categories and sub-categories. Its second half, ‘Citizens and Politicians’, shifts toward a more abstract, idea-driven mode. Here, Graham’s personal politics are more overt as she addresses world leaders and offers observations on the global sociopolitical climate. But while this section contains moments of sharp insight, it is admittedly less consistent than the earlier work. Graham is at her strongest when dealing with the concrete, drawing significance from lived or closely imagined experience rather than reaching outward. This is demonstrated in ‘Trump, Vance, 28 February 2025’ with a well-meaning reference to lynching that feels slightly jarring in the broader context of the collection. The best moments remain grounded in tactile detail: the advance and retreat of snow in Ukraine; a climbing frame-turned-memorial piled with teddy bears and flowers. Images that leave space for the reader to locate their own response to the work. Overall, this is an ambitious collection marked by moments of profound clarity and beauty. Graham’s commitment to noticing, alongside her disciplined formal approach, results in a collection that is rigorous, innovative and thoughtful. 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