170 × 240 SPINE: 3.5 FLAPS: 0
INPRESS BOOKS JULY – DECEMBER 2012 1 0 T H A N N I V E R S A RY C AT A L O G U E
INP R E S S B OOK S | J U LY – D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 2
Inpress Ltd Churchill House 12 Mosley Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1DE
“a powerf ul force for good” – Sir Andrew Motion Tel: +44 (0)191 230 8104 enquiries@inpressbooks.co.uk www.inpressbooks.co.uk @inpressbooks www.facebook.com/inpressbooks
170 × 240 SPINE: 3.5 FLAPS: 0
Inpress Poetry Garden Market
Saturday 15th September at Foyles Southbank, London “Inpress is an efficient and necessary operation, which brings poetry and literary fiction publishers together in a collective, and in the process greatly benefits its members as well as their audiences. It is a powerful force for good, matching diversity with high quality, and old technologies with new. It deserves widespread support and admiration.” Sir Andrew Motion, poet, novelist and biographer Poet Laureate 1999–2009 “Inpress does invaluable work supporting the small presses who take risks, nurture bold new voices and publish a wealth of poets in translation and groundbreaking anthologies. Their bookshop is an Aladdin’s cave where I am always discovering new poets to inspire my own writing.” Pascale Petit, T.S. Eliot Prize nominee for 2010 “Discovering the Inpress website is a little like chancing upon a hidden gem of a bookshop on a sunny afternoon and happily losing all sense of time as you browse the beguiling titles on its shelves. It’s easy enough to find first-rate poetry collections among these pages; the hard bit is narrowing the list down...” Julia Copus, Forward Prize-nominated poet (in 1995 and 2010)
Join us in celebrating 10 years of Inpress as we enjoy the better-late-than-never sunshine, soak up some poetry and sip a glass of wine at Foyles Southbank. In partnership with the much-loved independent bookseller, The Poetry Garden Market will bring a selection of Inpress poets to the Foyles ‘lawn’, with books for sale, readings, workshops and a poetry competition.
Market Events 11am Our Poetry Garden Market opens with stalls featuring poetry pamphlets, anthologies, books, magazines and special limited editions. Plus! Our hand-tied poetry bouquets. 1pm to 3pm Readings on our Poetry Library Stage, with poets specially selected and introduced by Poetry Library staff. 3pm to 6pm Close readings of work by our guest poets with The Poetry School. 7pm Poetry Garden Market ‘Indian Summer’ Poetry Competition finalists read their work, and winner announced by our guest judge. 8pm to 9pm Join us for wine and cake at the Inpress 10th Birthday Party.
Indian Summer Poetry Competition Our poetry competition is free to enter. Poems should be written on the theme of ‘Indian Summer’ and there are two categories: over 16 and under 16. The closing date for the competition is Sunday 9th September at 5pm. See www.inpressbooks.co.uk/poetrygardenmarket for more details.
www.inpressbooks.co.uk/poetrygardenmarket
Gentle things put in a safe place, shut away from the general tumult. Joaquín Giannuzzi, ‘Coffee and apples’ (tr. Richard Gwyn) [see page 27]
Contents
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Frontlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Backlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Sales Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Our Poetry Garden Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Inpress: supporting the growth of leading literary book publishers for a decade
For the past ten years, Inpress has worked on behalf of the UK and Ireland’s leading literary book publishers to promote, sell and distribute their titles. We market over 200 new print titles a year to the book trade – from poetry and fiction to cultural non-fiction and literary criticism – through our specialist sales team. Inpress sells directly to readers through www.inpressbooks.co.uk, where we are building the UK’s largest online store of artisan, literary books, pamphlets and magazines. We also manage the conversion of our publisher’s titles from print to digital books and distribute them to major ebook retailers around the world. We’ll be marking our 10th anniversary this autumn with a range of special events for publishers, authors and book lovers. See www.inpressbooks.co.uk/weareten for more information or follow @inpressbooks www.facebook.com/inpressbooks
Also to come in 2012/13... • Seminars • Events • Business support • Book markets • Social media marketing • Ebook advice • Networking events • Funding guidance
Rachael Ogden Managing Director rachael@inpressbooks.co.uk James Hogg Sales and Marketing Executive james@inpressbooks.co.uk Emily Tate Finance Executive emily@inpressbooks.co.uk
w] sco
o s [M
Gla
Iron Press [Cullercoats] Red Squirrel [Morpeth] INPRESS Flambard Press [Newcastle] Smokestack [Middlesbrough]
Arc [Todmorden]
Salmon [Cliffs of Moher]
Dedalus [Dublin]
Valley Press [Scarborough] Peepal Tree [Leeds] Egg Box The Rialto Elastic Press [Norwich]
Comma Smith Doorstop [Manchester] [Sheffield] Cinnamon [Blaenau Modern Poetry Rockingham Ffestiniog] in Translation Press [Ware] Waywiser [Oxford] Seren [Bridgend]
Two Rivers [Reading]
Agenda [Mayfield]
Acumen [Brixham]
Banipal CB Editions Hearing Eye The London Magazine Menard Penned in the Margins [London]
hai·ku [hahy-koo] noun, plural hai·ku for 2. 1. a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons. 2. a poem written in this form.
All Hail the Haiku
PROFILE
Consisting of only three lines, and focusing the attention on a single insightful moment, haiku can appear deceptively simple, yet past Japanese masters such as Basho or Buson spent decades mastering the form. No longer than a tweet or sound bite, the haiku is the perfect 21st century poetic form.
One year on – No tan lines On my ring finger
condensation I draw myself a happy face
my letter to you I rejoin the perforations of two stamps
Alison Williams
Lynne Rees
Graham High
was set up in the North-East by the writer Peter Mortimer in the long-lost days of 1973. In more than a third of a century it has produced a truly eclectic body of work. Iron is the country’s leading independent publisher of haiku, and published the first two books by David Almond in his pre-Skellig days.
As a verse form, the haiku has been around in Japan for more than a thousand years, but its rise in popularity in the West is relatively recent. In the early 20th Century, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore composed haiku in Bengali. More recently, poets such as Paul Muldoon and Tony Curtis have adopted the form while others, like Michael Longley, have taken inspiration from the haiku’s close relationship to nature poetry. Best read in chunks, perhaps a dozen at a time, haiku has the ability to gently and gradually make us see the world anew.
The British Haiku Society was formed by David Cobb and Dee Evetts in 1990, and has its own magazine, Blithe Spirit (named after the inspirational writer R.H. Blyth). In 1992, working with the BHS, Iron Press brought out its first haiku title: the tiny (A7 page size) though significant The Haiku Hundred. The book attracted in excess of 5,000 submissions and, more than 15,000 copies in, is now in its seventh print.
This year, Iron will publish their fifth haiku collection: The Humours of Haiku, edited by David Cobb (recently lauded as ‘the haiku expert’ by Stephen Fry). With over 200 haiku inspired by the full range of human emotions, this pocket-sized gift book is set to bring the ancient Japanese form to a much wider readership. See page 26 for more details.
978-0-906228-42-5
978-0-955245-07-7
978-0-956572-51-6
In the Greenest of Our Valleys
PROFILE
Founded in 2008, Scarborough’s Valley Press is the newest addition to the Inpress stable. The press has already published 26 titles – including poetry, non-fiction, humour and fiction – and in 2012 they will diversify further with (among other things) a definitive history of heavyweight boxing by Ralph Oates and the travelogue of journalist Kris Mole, who visited every capital city in the mainland European Union without spending a single cent. Valley Press was Highly Commended in the 2012 Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards, making it one of the top thirty graduate businesses in the UK. We spoke to editor and founder Jamie McGarry.
is an independent publishing house based in Scarborough. It joins Peepal Tree Press in Leeds and Smith Doorstop in Sheffield to make an Inpress Yorkshire triangle, just without the rhubarb.
What was the impetus behind setting the company up? I have had a peculiar interest in publishing throughout my life – at the age of 6, I was filling exercise books with stories, then adding ‘front matter’, a blurb and even a barcode. I can’t really explain this behaviour (then or now), except to say it must have been hard-wired from birth! I continued to experiment with publishing whilst at university, under the name ‘Valley Press’, so after graduation – having struggled for eight months to find any sort of gainful employment – I felt I had no choice but to get some more books printed and give it a proper go.
there is a greater scope for specialisation, of topic and of region, which does wonders for our literary diversity. What are your aspirations for the company? This is an easy one. I would like to put in place an infrastructure that could take any book, edit and produce it to be the very best it could be, and market it in such a way that it was brought to the attention of everyone who could gain something from it. I think at heart, this is the goal of all publishers: no-one really goes into this for the money, do they?
What is the primary focus of the press? Up to now, Valley Press has been responsible for a certain type of poetry – the word ‘accessible’ springs to mind, but never simplistic or banal. Poetry that would satisfy someone with a wide knowledge of the medium, but also work that anyone could get something from; poetry that doesn’t exclude. That’s my particular passion and area of expertise, but as readers of this catalogue will see, during the next six months I’m experimenting with a few other genres – in the hope me and VP can continue to make ends meet. What do you think small independents contribute to the publishing landscape? More opportunities for authors to get their work in print; more opportunities for readers to discover new books; and new ways of discovering books. Also, with independents
Poetry: There are No Such Things as Seagulls by David Agnew (Page 12) Short Stories: Front Lines: Short Stories on Modern Society by Writers Under 25 edited by Dan Formby (Page 14) Children’s Fiction: Lives of Lilo by Felix Hodcroft (Page 15) Travel Writing: Gatecrashing Europe: Part One by Kris Mole (Page 17) Sport: Aspects of Heavyweight Boxing by Ralph Oates (Page 18) Fiction: Staying Afloat by Sue Wilsea (Page 19) Poetry: Journeying by Paul Sutherland (Page 31) Poetry: Some Things Matter by James Nash (Page 39) Historical Fiction: Winston and Me by Mark Woodburn (Page 41) Drama: Wingbeats by Adam Strickson (Page 49)
Book to the Future We have always looked to poets and novelists to help us make sense of the world. Science fiction has long been a top-selling genre because it gives us glimpses of what the future might look like: utopian, dystopian or just plain weird. Science fiction writers become soothsayers whose visions also offer satirical or prescient commentary on the world of today.
PROFILE
Science fiction offers writers access to a narrative style which enables them to be at their most inventive and radical. Many have successfully made the leap from literary to sci-fi: Margaret Atwood with Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid’s Tale; Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World; even Cormac McCarthy’s unremitting postapocalyptic journey along The Road.
In 2012, London’s Penned in the Margins, who have built their name with beautifully produced, slim volumes of poetry, limited edition pamphlets and ground-breaking anthologies, will break into the unchartered territory of Science Fiction. Their three new titles offer very different – and often loose – interpretations of the genre.
published their first title in 2006 and have since built up a list of over 20 titles, spanning poetry, criticism and short fiction. Their titles have been Highly Commended by the Forward Prize, and featured in Time Out, the Sunday Times, and on The Culture Show and BBC Radio 3.
Holophin Luke Kennard
Emergency Window Ross Sutherland
A hilarious yet sinister sci-fi mystery, Holophin follows Hatsuka and Max, two students at the esteemed Takin International School, which produces a revolutionary reality-enhancing gadget. Award-winning poet Luke Kennard’s first foray into fiction is set in the year 2031, when the must-have device is a small, dolphin-shaped personal microprocessor which cures its users’ worst fears and phobias and makes everything look ‘much, much prettier’.
In Ross Sutherland’s second fulllength collection, the poet finds himself trapped in a world of hacked computers and digital avatars. With poems written in collaboration with a computer program and inspired by Google Street View, Ross dismantles conventional ideas of poetry in light of a world mediated by technology. Welcome to a science fiction reality of mirrors, windows and menacing simulacra – where nothing is as it seems.
Published September 2012, see page 30 .
This anthology of contemporary science fiction poetry is the first of its kind. From alternate worlds and dystopian futures to alien landings and photon guns, these interstellar poems will delight and excite Star Trek and poetry fan alike. Featuring work by over thirty poets from around the UK including Ron Butlin, Lorraine Mariner, Joe Dunthorne, Edwin Morgan and W.N. Herbert.
@RossGSutherland
@LukeKennard “ it’s the first sci-fi novella to be narrated by a sentient holographic dolphin sticker”
Where Rockets Burn Through Russell Jones (ed.)
@PennedintheMargins
“ a lot of it is about technology falling apart. It’s sci-fi but more in the way that 8yr old me would think of 2012 as sci-fi”
“ Think of this as being like the music of other worlds”
Published July 2012, see page 24
.
.
Published November 2012, see page 46
J U LY There are No Such Things as Seagulls David Agnew “Arresting reflections” – Christina Hardyment, The Times on Walking into Eternity The new poetry collection by Leedsbased, Belfast-raised writer David Agnew is focused on neither of those cities – instead it offers up 60 poems inspired by, or written in, the North Yorkshire seaside town of Whitby. Calling to mind the laconic, undemonstrative style of John Hegley, readers will find David sitting on the pier, walking on the cliffs, enjoying cups of tea and the occasional cigarette, people-watching and, of course, seagull-watching – even if they don’t technically exist. David Agnew was born in Belfast in 1944. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including the Leeds Writers Circle Anthology 2011 (Valley Press, 2011). His first collection, Walking into Eternity (2006), was followed by the book-length prose poem First I Dreamt the Journey (2008), and Belfast via Bedlam (2010). He lives in Leeds.
Valley Press » Paperback £8.00 » 978-1-908853-15-8 198x129mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
J U LY
| 12
Above the Forests Ruth Bidgood
Home More or Less Paul Casey
Eleventh collection from popular Welsh poet, twice shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year
“A collection that truly merits international attention” – Ian Duhig
Ruth Bidgood’s writing has always shown ‘how different is real / from ordinary’. In these poems she casts her celebrated gaze over the lie of the Welsh land, local and family history, but also over the less traditional prompts of dream and scientific speculation. At 90 years of age, the voice here remains effortlessly precise, yet still with further discoveries to be made.
Home More or Less is the result of Paul Casey’s extensive wanderings – both literal and figurative – including eight months of homelessness on the streets of Dublin. His journey takes in family history and the African origin of our species, and the art of poetry itself.
“These are daring poems... Above the Forest combines deep feeling with keen intelligence.” Anne Cluysenaar
“The ‘More or Less’ in Casey’s title beautifully captures the collection’s absorbing exploration of a variety of homes – on different continents, in different linguistic forms, and in different degrees of being…” Leanne O’Sullivan
Ruth Bidgood was born in Glamorgan. Her recent collections include Time Being (Seren, 2010), winner of the Roland Mathias Prize 2011 and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Hearing Voices (Cinnamon, 2008) and New & Selected Poems (Seren, 2004). She has twice been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award, in 1993 and 1997.
Paul Casey was born in Cork in 1968. In 2010 he completed a poetryfilm interpretation of the awardwinning poem by Ian Duhig, ‘The Lammas Hireling’ (from the 2003 Picador collection of the same name), which premiered at the Zebra PoetryFilm Festival in Berlin. He is the founder and organiser of the weekly Ó Bhéal poetry reading series in Cork, where he now lives.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-66-0 216x140mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Wales
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-09-0 210x134mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
Saying Yes in Russian Caroline Clark First collection with Agenda – “The long and the short of excellence in poetry” (The Independent) Saying Yes in Russian is a powerful first collection by Caroline Clark, the result of her experiences first studying and then living the Russian language in Moscow. The poems perfectly capture the otherness of Russian as a language, and allow us to follow Clark on her journey of new discoveries, both light and dark. Come to a rafter within the stable’s cool, two silk-sooted swallows above a horse at rest. Who knows such tail-tipped balance unthought, untrained? Lástochka, lástochka, loved first then named. (‘At Yasnaya Polyana’) Caroline Clark was born in Lewes, East Sussex. Her poems and essays have appeared in magazines like Poetry Review, Agenda, The North, PN Review, The Reader, The Frogmore Papers and Smiths Knoll. She lived in Moscow for eight years, and now lives in Montreal, Canada.
Agenda Editions » Paperback £8.50 » 978-1-908527-04-2 210x150mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF)
Blokelore and Blokesongs from Old Fred Robert Conquest Championed by Martin Amis and the late Christopher Hitchens In this hilarious and irreverent new collection, Robert Conquest, now in his 95th year, lets us in on the musings of Old Fred, a man reflecting on the battle of the sexes, and wholly impervious to notions of political correctness. The poems give witty expression to a mind at once resigned and optimistic, baffled and amused, stoical and exuberant. “All Conquest’s strengths are evident here – wit, love of life, ferocious technique, and the infinite taking of pains.” Martin Amis “I find I rather take to Old Fred, with his stoicism and resignation, yet mild faith in the good.” Christopher Hitchens “The Old Fred poems deserve to become classics.” Standpoint Robert Conquest was born in Malvern in 1917. A former Oxford communist, he wrote poetry that was praised by Philip Larkin. His previous collection is Penultimata, published by Waywiser in 2009.
Waywiser Press » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-904130-48-2 » 197x129mm » 72pp » Poetry (DCF)
13 |
J U LY
Front Lines: Short Stories on Modern Society by Writers Under 25 edited by Dan Formby New fiction anthology responding to Austerity Britain and ‘the big society’ Front Lines is a new anthology of short stories on the theme of ‘anticonventionalism, anti-society, and young people’s anger at the world that has been left by the generations before us.’ Its six contributors are all under 25, the young people living on the front lines of Austerity Britain. The selected stories are uncompromising and gripping – including tales of lost society and global warfare, as well as the moral instability and unscaleable summits that today’s young people must face. Dan Formby is studying at Manchester Metropolitan University. Felice Howden now works in central London. James Mcloughlin is studying at Leeds Trinity University College; his first poetry collection, Encore, was published by Valley Press in 2011. Nathan Ouriach has written for Shortlist and GQ, and lives in Herne Bay, Kent. David Whelan lives in London. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the Times, the Independent and the Sunday Times. Ryan Whittaker is studying at MMU.
Valley Press » Paperback £7.50 » 978-1-908853-10-3 198x129mm » 64pp » Fiction (FYB) North West
J U LY
| 14
The Place Inside Matthew Geden “A quiet contemplative poet alive to the hours and the seasons. A true voice” – Derek Mahon Matthew Geden’s second collection of poems explores questions of belonging, travel and displacement – and the challenges of staying connected in an ever-changing world. Many of the poems echo a sense of being ‘on the edge, halfway out / the door’. The poems often zoom out to a cool objective view, while others chart intimate relationships and their potential to change everything: ‘the mountains blush / under the glint / in your eye’. Matthew Geden was born in the East Midlands, and now runs a bookstore in Kinsale, County Cork. He co-founded the SoundEye International Poetry Festival in Cork, and his poems have appeared in magazines like Shearsman, Poetry Salzburg and Agenda, as well as anthologies like Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland (Dedalus, 2010). His first full-length collection, Swimming to Albania, was published in 2009.
Dedalus Press » Paperback £9.00 » 978-1-906614-56-0 214x140mm » 56pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
Mentioning the War: Essays & Reviews, 1995-2011 Kevin Higgins Appears in Faber’s Forward Book of Poetry 2009 and Bloodaxe’s Identity Parade This is Kevin Higgins’ first book of essays on poetry, the written word, and the wider world. Higgins is an enthusiastic advocate for the new generation of Irish poets emerging from a thriving live poetry scene. With subjects as diverse as socialism and neo-conservatism, George Orwell, arts funding and the antiwar movement, Higgins informs, infuriates and entertains. “There’s an arresting phrase, a new angle on a writer or a political position you thought you already knew about, in just about every piece here…” John Goodby Kevin Higgins is a writing tutor in Galway, where he co-organises the Over the Edge series of literary events. His first collection, The Boy With No Face (Salmon, 2005) was shortlisted for the 2006 Strong Award. It was followed by Time Gentlemen, Please (Salmon, 2008), a poem from which was featured in the Forward Book of Poetry 2009; and Frightening New Furniture (Salmon, 2010).
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £12.00 » 978-1-908836-12-0 210x134mm » 80pp Irish Non-Fiction (DNF) Rep. Ireland
Lives of Lilo Felix Hodcroft
Don’t Go There Colm Keegan
More Than Ithaca Charles Leftwich
Debut children’s fiction from well-known Yorkshire poet and performer
Shortlisted four times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award
Includes poem which won Cambridge University’s Chancellor’s Gold Medal
Lives of Lilo is the story of Lilo – a blue-and-red seaside accessory – blown from its beach-holidaying family out to sea, and onto an adventure like no other. Lilo’s direction is decided purely by chance, along with the kindness (or brutality) of humans and animals alike.
Don’t Go There is an energetic, frenetic debut collection. Colm Keegan’s poetry is marked out by a level of streetwise lyricism, hard-earned through experience of increasingly disparate life in the Irish capital.
This posthumous collection by South African Charles Leftwich brims with a love for South Africa – its landscapes, culture and language. Combining sharp intellect with startling imagery, Leftwich paints the wilderness of his native Natal, before touching on the ancient and new worlds experienced on his many world travels.
Lilo’s voyage is at the heart of a narrative which extends across hundreds of years, past and future, in an epic modern fable for children, and a word of extraordinary imagination that will delight young readers and their parents alike. Felix Hodcroft is well-known in Yorkshire as one half of the spokenword performance double-act ‘The Hull to Scarborough Line’, with fellow author Sue Wilsea. His debut poetry collection, Life After Life After Death, was published by Valley Press in 2010, since reprinted in a second edition. He lives in Scarborough.
Valley Press » Paperback £9.00 » 978-1-908853-13-4 198x129mm » 214pp Children’s Fiction, 8+ (YFB) Yorkshire
“These new poems for a new era grow into a powerful and often dark portrayal of contemporary Dublin... It delves into the richest and the darkest corners of the human condition, without Keegan ever compromising the deep humanity at the core of his unblinking vision of life passing by.” Dermot Bolger Colm Keegan was the All Ireland Slam Poetry Champion in 2010. He has performed his poetry at various festivals, including the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire. He is a contributing poet for RTE Radio One’s nightly arts show Arena, and teaches in Dublin.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-06-9 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
There are sudden moments of pure vulnerability, of love, music and eroticism, and above all an extravagant zest for life, made all the more haunting after the poet’s untimely death. Charles Leftwich was born in 1953, and grew up in Natal. He studied at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor’s Medal for an English poem (won by Tennyson in his time) with ‘Cadenzas’, included in this collection. His poems have been widely published in journals in the UK, South Africa and the US. He died in 2009.
Agenda Editions » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-907056-88-8 210x150mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF)
15 |
J U LY
Fast Talking PI Selina Tusitala Marsh
Celtic Mists edited by Patricia McCarthy
The UK edition of Top 5 bestseller in poet’s native New Zealand
Includes poems by Sheenagh Pugh and Mary O’Donnell, and essays on Patrick Kavanagh and Norman McCaig
I throw out a life line but no one’s read it (from ‘Cardboard Crowns’) A Pacific Islander (PI) of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent, Selina Tusitala Marsh reflects on the issues affecting the Pacific communities of New Zealand, as well as indigenous peoples around the world – including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi (mixed race). The book is made up of three sections: ‘Tusitala’ (personal poems), ‘Talkback’ (political and historical poems) and ‘Fast Talking PIs’ (sequences of dialogue). Together the poems smash stereotypes, and challenge historic injustices the world over. Selina Tusitala Marsh was the first Pacific Islander to graduate from the University of Auckland with a PhD in English, where she now lectures in Maori and Pacific literary studies. In 2010 she won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry for this collection.
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £11.99 (hb) / £8.99 (pb) » 978-1-904614-77-7 (hb) / 978-1-904614-35-7 (pb) 223x145mm (hb) / 216x138mm (pb) » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) J U LY
| 16
Celtic Mists is the Summer 2012 issue of Agenda poetry magazine (vol. 46, no. 4), and brings together a fascinating array of Celtic poets – mainly Scottish and Irish, including native Gaelic speakers – who have been hidden away in the mists of time. The poets in this issue include Sheenagh Pugh, Mary O’Donnell, Peggie Gallagher, Eamonn Grennan, Liam Ó’Muirthile and Gary Allen. There are also essays on poetry in Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock and Liam Ó’Muirthile, plus appraisals by the likes of Derek Mahon, Andrew McNeillie and W S Milne, Patrick Kavanagh, Patrick MacDonagh, John Hewitt, Norman McCaig, Alexander Scott and Desmond O’Grady.
The Lucky Star of Hidden Things Afric McGlinchey Winner of the 2010 Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award This collection takes its title from the translated name of a star called Sadalachbia, part of the constellation Aquarius. In the Arab deserts, the star’s appearance prompts nomads to seek pastures new; here Afric McGlinchey traces her own nomadic upbringing in the south of Africa. These are the poems of a perennial outsider: questioning and challenging, but shadowed in doubt. “An exciting and innovative Irish writer.” Leanne O’Sullivan “Afric McGlinchey writes brave and erotically charged poems. Her words mine the pain of love and capture an early exile in Africa with an acute and affecting music. Her poetry seduces and enthralls.” Paul Perry Afric McGlinchey won the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award in 2010. Her work has appeared in The Shop, Southword, Poetry Ireland Review, Scottish Poetry Review, Acumen and Magma. Her recent awards include a Faber Academy Fellowship and commendations in the Magma and Dromineer Poetry Competitions. She lives in Kinsale, County Cork.
Agenda » Paperback » £12.00 978-1-908527-05-9 » Paperback 210x150mm » 144pp Poetry (DCQ)
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-08-3 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF)
Waiting for St Brendan and Other Poems David McLoghlin
Gatecrashing Europe: Part One Kris Mole
Featured in Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series of readings for emerging new poets (2008)
Originally featured on BBC online and in the Sun, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail
Born in Ireland but raised in Brussels, then New England and New York, David McLoghlin’s debut collection is shaped by both the fracture and the possibilities found on the road. This collection is divided into three sections: the first on emigration and a search for belonging; the second explores themes of betrayal and abuse; the third imagines the private lives of saints, and meditates on loss and love on the New York subway.
In 2007, Kris Mole flew one-way to Stockholm, vowing not to return home until he had visited every capital city in the mainland European Union. No money would be spent or handled during the journey, and no credit cards used either. The great Euro Freebie Challenge began: 23 cities to be visited, without spending a single penny – to raise money, in fact, for Cancer Research UK.
“These are big, ambitious, sometimes sprawling poems, rich in narrative and in detail.” Moya Cannon and Theo Dorgan, Judges for the Patrick Kavanagh Award. David McLoghlin was born in Dublin in 1972. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, The Shop and The Stinging Fly. In 2008 he won second prize in the Patrick Kavanagh Awards and won the English section of the Frances Browne Multilingual Poetry Competition. He lives in West Kerry.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-05-2 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
The colourful story of this six-month trip was first told by charismatic, wise-cracking Kris in a series of blogs, and followed by readers of the Daily Mail, the Telegraph and BBC online. July 2012 marks the first appearance of this epic tale in book form – to be concluded in Gatecrashing Europe: Part Two, due in July 2013. Kris Mole was born in London in 1983, and currently lives in Brighton. He works as a freelance journalist and news editor. He is officially banned from a small town just outside Rome, and played two seasons of semiprofessional football in the Slovenian national league.
Valley Press » Paperback £15.00 » 978-1-908853-16-5 198x129mm » 298pp Travel Writing (WTL) Sussex
The Book of Water John Murphy Shortlisted (twice) for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Prize, the Bridport Prize and the Patrick Kavanagh Prize Once an Olympic-style wrestler, now a computer science professor, John Murphy brings a wealth of unusual experience to this debut collection. The Book of Water broaches themes as diverse as the economic crisis, fatherhood, illness, marriage and divorce, along with the inevitable flux and uncertainty of 21st-century life in Ireland. All are approached with a mixture of European sensitivity and a dark sense of humour. John Murphy lives and works in Dublin. He received a PhD from Trinity College in 1994, and is now a computer scientist and university tutor. His work has twice been shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Prize, as well as for the Bridport and the Patrick Kavanagh Prizes. His poems have been published in magazines like Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers and Ambit. A founding member of the Beneavin Writers group, he regularly reads at the Whitehouse Poets in Limerick, and at OBheal in Cork.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-07-6 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
17 |
J U LY
The Fado House Mary Noonan Winner of the 2010 Listowel Poetry Collection Prize Mary Noonan’s debut collection is characterised by an intense musicality and a determinedly outward look. Its themes range from music, visual art and myth to travels abroad and the magic of family and friendship.
Aspects of Heavyweight Boxing Ralph Oates High profile for sport in 2012, including the Olympics at London’s ExCeL Ralph Oates has been writing on the sport of boxing for over 25 years. In Aspects of Heavyweight Boxing, his eighth book, he has compiled a definitive collection of the most interesting facts and feats from the pinnacle of the sport – the heavyweight division. The book covers all the major heavyweights over 123 years of boxing history: from the last bare-knuckle contest in 1889 to the Klitschko brothers, from the first gloved heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan to David Price’s British & Commonwealth triumph in May 2012. The book also includes a 16-page photo insert featuring many of the most iconic images of the sport’s key figures, past and present.
There are poems which treat the loss of loved ones with great sensitivity, alongside very personal translations of Baudelaire and de Nerval – all written in the same enduring tones of celebration, wonder and survival. Mary Noonan works as a lecturer in French at University College Cork. Her poems have featured in the anthologies Best Irish Poetry 2010 and The Alhambra Poetry Calendar: 365 Classic and Contemporary Poems (2010). In 2007, she was selected to take part in the Poetry Ireland Introductions series in Dublin; she also read at the Poetry Hearings festival in Berlin in 2009.
Ralph Oates is recognised as the UK’s leading author of boxing quiz books – his most recent being The Ultimate Boxing Quiz Book (2009). He is the Boxing Consultant for Guinness World Records, and recently contributed to the BBC’s National Lottery programme Who Dares Wins. He lives in Hornchurch, Essex.
Valley Press » Paperback » £9.50 » 978-1-908853-11-0 198x129mm » 180pp » Sport / Boxing (WSTB) Sussex
J U LY
| 18
Dedalus Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-906614-57-7 214x140mm » 78pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
When the Barbarians Arrive Alvin Pang Launching as part of Poetry Parnassus at Southbank Centre’s Cultural Olympiad When the Barbarians Arrive is a selected works from Singaporean poet Alvin Pang’s five previous collections, including Testing the Silence (1997) and City of Rain (2003; 2nd ed. 2010). Wry, sensitive and intelligent throughout, the selection ranges from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, at once recognisably national and international in reach, offering a fresh edge and energy to the wave of urban poetry emerging from Singapore. Alvin Pang was born in Singapore in 1972. A Fellow of Iowa University’s International Writing program, he has appeared at major festivals and in anthologies worldwide. He has edited the anthologies No Other City (2000), Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia (with John Kinsella, 2008) and Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (2009). Pang was named the 2005 Young Artist of the Year for Literature by Singapore’s National Arts Council, and received the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007.
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £12.99 (hb) / £9.99 (pb) » 978-1-906570-99-6 (hb) / 978-1-906570-98-9 (pb) 216x138mm » 96pp Poetry (DCF) London
Waxed Mahogany Omar Sabbagh
Staying Afloat Sue Wilsea
Third collection from BritishLebanese poet highly commended in 2011 Forward Prize for Poetry
“I think it’s beautifully written, a very delicate story... I enjoyed it enormously” – Dame Judi Dench on ‘Paper Flowers’
In his third collection, his boldest to date, Omar Sabbagh lets loose his overwrought, powerful poetic ego on an ever hostile world. These poems alternate between the visionary, the philosophical and the erotic, riddled with allusions to classical art and literature, as well as Sabbagh’s own very personal cultural heritage. Throughout, he explores the juxtaposition of the Old World with the New with trademark energy, tenderness and vulnerability. “I warmly recommend him.” Fiona Sampson, editor of Poetry Review Omar Sabbagh completed an MA at Goldsmiths and a PhD at King’s College London, and currently teaches English and Creative Writing at the American University of Beirut. His first collection, My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint (Cinnamon, 2010), was highly commended by the 2011 Forward Prize Poetry judges; one of the poems was selected for The Forward Book of Poetry 2012. His second collection, The Square Root of Beirut, was published by Cinnamon Press in February 2012.
Agenda Editions » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-908527-01-1 210x150mm » 96pp Poetry (DCF)
Sue Wilsea’s witty, resonant and often devastating short stories have been delighting readers for two decades. Staying Afloat collects 19 of her finest tales, including ‘Paper Flowers’, which was serialised and read by Dame Judi Dench on BBC Radio. In the other stories, Stephen faces a mother’s death and a father’s insanity, Dick the Vic is led astray from the ministry to a club known only as ‘The Dirty Habit’, and an unnamed narrator tries to piece together the events which led to two of her friends leaping off the Humber Bridge. Sue Wilsea was born in Portsmouth in 1952. In 2010 she was named as one of nine ‘New and Gifted’ writers by the Jerwood/Arvon Foundation. She has also been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her first collection of short stories, Blood Sisters, was published in 1993. She is currently a Creative Writing tutor at the University of Hull, and lives in East Yorkshire.
Valley Press » Paperback £9.00 » 978-1-908853-12-7 198x129mm » 158pp Fiction (FYB) Yorkshire
19 |
J U LY
The Beholder Kate Behrens Debut collection from runner-up in 2010 Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition The poems in The Beholder capture those fleeting moments between people and the world around them, distilling them without judgement or resolution. A deer trapped in someone’s garden makes a dangerous leap for freedom; someone hangs onto a sense of beauty in the face of an ugly and collapsing life.
Burying the Wren Deryn Rees-Jones Poetry Book Society Recommendation; author has judged the Costa, T.S. Eliot and National Poetry Competitions In her new collection, Deryn Rees-Jones presents poems of intense lyricism in the face of loss, including an extended elegy to her late husband, the poet and critic Michael Murphy. Above all, though, this is poetry that celebrates the life that surrounds us: from Roethkean ‘small things’ like birds, stones and flowers, to poems of the body, ‘the blue heartstopping pulse at the wrist’ and the transformative qualities of love. “One of the strongest forces in contemporary Welsh poetry.” TLS Deryn Rees-Jones was born in Liverpool. The Memory Tray (Seren, 1995) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her other works are Signs Round a Dead Body (Seren, 1998) and Quiver (Seren, 2004), and a critical book, Consorting with Angels (Bloodaxe, 2005), alongside its accompanying anthology Modern Women Poets. She was named as one of Mslexia’s top ten poets of the decade in 2004, and won a Cholmondeley Award in 2010. She teaches Literature at the University of Liverpool.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 » 978-1-854115-76-8 » 216x138mm » 72pp » Poetry (DCF) North-West
J U LY
| 20
Kate Behrens speaks from a new Europe, a place that feels more and more unfamiliar – looking out from city flats, from a train window out to the burning horizon, from the viewpoint of victims of trauma. But there is celebration here, too – in the ways children can heal and inspire, and in nature’s capacity to nourish and regenerate. Kate Behrens was born in 1959, one of twin daughters to two painters. She was a runner-up in the 2010 Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition. She lives in Oxfordshire, and reads regularly at the Poets Café in Reading.
Two Rivers Press » Paperback £7.95 » 978-1-901677-83-6 210x135mm » 48pp Poetry (DCF) Oxfordshire & Reading
AUGUST
Ghosts Curdella Forbes
Fault Lines Kendel Hippolyte
South Eastern Stages Anthony Kellman
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary celebrations of Jamaican independence
“Perhaps the outstanding poet of his generation” – The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry
Eighth collection by central figure in Caribbean poetry, with early links to the London poetry scene
The futuristic Caribbean island of Jacaranda is a place under the constant pressures of crime, globalisation, advancing technology and environmental decay. Under these ominous skies, Curdella Forbes builds a compelling tale of love, murder and psychological mayhem – a forbidden, tragic love affair, and a family torn apart by injustice.
With the verbal urgency of Ginsberg’s Howl, and a visionary imagination in the company of Blake, Fault Lines confirms Kendel Hippolyte’s reputation as one of the Caribbean’s most important poets.
South Eastern States is a poetry collection centred around travel – from his native Barbados, across the Southern States of the US (especially his home-state of Georgia), and on to Brazil.
These poems are urgent prophecies of ‘a black sky beyond’ the beauty of St Lucia – indispensable guides to life on a small island, constantly threatened by the thrashings of capitalism in crisis.
There are also telling observations on the tenacity of the old and the ‘small deep gestures’ of the very young, alongside witty savagings of the pretensions still rife on the island of his birth.
Kendel Hippolyte was born in St Lucia in 1952. He has published five books of poetry, including Birthright (Peepal Tree, 1997) and Night Visions (2006). His work also appears in The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse (2005). In 2007, he won the Bridget Jones Travel Award to travel to the UK to present his one-man dramatised poetry production, Kinky Blues, at the annual conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies. In 2000 he was awarded the St. Lucia Medal of Merit (Gold) for his contribution to the arts.
Anthony Kellman was born in Barbados in 1955. At 18 he moved to London, drawing up close links with the Poetry Society and the likes of Alan Brownjohn, James Berry and Peter Forbes. He is the author of seven collections, including Wings of a Stranger (2001) and Limestone (2008); and two novels, The Coral Rooms (1994) and The Houses of Alphonso (2004), all published by Peepal Tree. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Augusta College, Georgia.
Written in a heady, lyrical mix of English and Jamaican Creole, Ghosts gleams with Caribbean spirituality, reflects on the timeless capacity of the human heart, and marks an important contribution to West Indian literature as a whole. “An artist in absolute command of her medium.” Times Educational Supplement Curdella Forbes is the criticallyacclaimed Jamaican author of Songs of Silence (2002); a collection for younger readers, Flying with Icarus and Other Stories (2003); and more recently A Permanent Freedom (Peepal Tree, 2008). She is currently Professor of Caribbean Literature at Howard University, and lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845232-00-9 206x135mm » 170pp Fiction (FA)
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-845231-94-1 206x156mm » 68pp Poetry (DCF)
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845231-98-9 206x135mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF)
21 |
AUGUST
Bloodhoof Gerður Kristný translated by Rory McTurk Arc Translations series edition of winner of the 2010 Icelandic Literature Prize
Hold Me to an Island: An Anthology of Writing about Caribbean Place edited by Kwame Dawes & Jeremy Poynting Landmark anthology featuring work of over 60 writers, including Kwame Dawes, Kamau Brathwaite and Austin C. Clarke This anthology brings together poetry and prose chronicling the relationship between the Caribbean people and their home, one of the most radically altered and ecologically threatened areas of the world in human history. The contributors, around 80 in total, include Opal Palmer Adisa, Kamau Brathwaite, Jan Carew, Myriam Chancy, Austin C. Clarke, David Dabydeen, Cyril Dabydeen, Kwame Dawes, Neville Dawes, Marcia Douglas, Curdella Forbes, Wilson Harris, Anthony Kellman, Rabindranath Maharaj, Roger Mais, E.A. Markham, Mark McWatt, Edgar Mittelholzer, Rooplall Monar, Lakshmi Persaud, Geoffrey Philp, Orlando Patterson, Velma Pollard, Jennifer Rahim, Eric Roach, Sam Selvon and Jan Shinebourne. Kwame Dawes is one of the Caribbean’s most prominent poets. His anthologies include Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry (Peepal Tree, 1998) and Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (Peepal Tree, 2010). Jeremy Poynting is the managing editor of Peepal Tree Press.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £14.99 978-1-845231-63-7 » 206x135mm » 320pp » Anthologies (DCQ) AUGUST
| 22
Bloodhoof is a compelling modern recasting of the ancient Eddic poem Skírnimál – the epic tale of the abduction of Gerður Gymisdóttir from a land of giants and her eventual return from the court of Freyr with her beloved son. Full of iron-hard rocks, ice and serpents, and fields of corn whispering in the breeze, Bloodhoof is a story of ‘ghosts and long-dead heroes’ – a game of thrones that will linger in the memory. Parallel-text verse in Icelandic and English. Gerður Kristný was born in Reykyavik in 1970. Her work recently featured in the anthology Best European Fiction 2012 (Norton, 2011). She has given readings at Poetry Parnassus 2012, Waterstones Piccadilly and at poetry festivals worldwide. Rory McTurk is Emeritus Professor of Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds, and the editor of The Blackwell’s Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture (2007).
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £12.99 (hb) / £9.99 (pb) » 978-1-908376-11-4 (hb) / 978-1-908376-10-7 (pb) 223x145mm (hb) / 216x138mm (pb) » 128pp » Poetry (DCF)
SEPTEMBER
Still Waters Run Deep: Young Women’s Writing from Russia edited by Natasha Perova Glas 55 – 5th collection of Russian women’s writing, by women in their 20s and 30s In this new collection, six Russian women take a sobering view of the modern world after two decades of social upheaval. All in their 20s or 30s, the authors have all won Russia’s prestigious Debut Prize. There are fascinating and frank self-portraits, alongside merciless takes on the opposite sex. Taken together, their vision is always sharp and often unexpected, leaving no taboo unturned. Yaroslava Pulinovich is a playwright from Omsk. Natasha’s Dream is the monologue of an orphaned teenage girl who falls in love with a reporter with immoral sights on her life story. Olga Rimsha is from Novosibirsk, and won the Debut Prize for Still Waters. Irina Bogatereva was born on the Volga, and won the Debut Prize for Auto-Stop. Ksenia Zhukova, from Moscow, won her second Debut in 2011 for 20 Letters from the 1920s. Anna Lavrinenko lives in Yaroslavl, and won the Debut in 2006. Anna Leonidova won the Debut in 2011 for Before I Croak.
Glas New Russian Writing Paperback » £8.99 978-5-717200-95-0 » 200x125mm 300pp » Fiction (FYT)
Ismith Khan: The Man & His Work Roydon Salick “Khan’s ear for dialect and his ability to render it in print made his novels lasting successes” – The New York Times Trinidadian author Ismith Khan (1925-2002) is celebrated in this new critical study, which sheds invaluable and entertaining light on his life, his short stories and his three novels: the semi-autobiographical The Jumbie Bird (1961), The Obeah Man (1964), which was adapted as a play for the BBC, and The Crucifixion, published by Peepal Tree in 1987. Khan’s literary accomplishments are clearly and fully documented – particularly his skill in representing the diversity of Trinidadian culture – and the survey gives a persuasive case for the re-evaluation of this great writer’s work. Roydon Salick is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. He is the author of The Novels of Samuel Selvon: A Critical Study (2001).
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-845231-74-3 234x156mm » 128pp Biography / Lit. Studies (BGL / DSK)
The Next Life Pat Boran “The lightness of his syntactic touch is masterly” – Bernard O’Donoghue, The Irish Times Following his acclaimed memoir The Invisible Prison (Dedalus Press, 2009), Pat Boran’s first full-length collection of poems in over a decade sees him explore questions of love, belonging and connection, recognising that old challenges may lead to new beginnings. Despite echoing the promise of religious belief, ‘the next life’ is to be found entirely in the here-and-now and the near-to-hand: in the play of sparrows on a lawn, the unusual games of his two small children, and in the trust and faith of lovers whispering ‘words never uttered before’. “Amongst the most tantalising poetry being written in Ireland.” Fortnight Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise in 1963. Since his New and Selected Poems in 2005, he has edited the Dedalus Press anthologies Shine On (2011) and The Bee-Loud Glade (2011). He is a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and presenter of The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1. He lives in Dublin.
Dedalus Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-906614-55-3 214x140mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
23 |
SEPTEMBER
Call Mother a Lonely Field Liam Carson “This memoir is a must-read” – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill; 1970s Troubles interest for UK readers Call Mother a Lonely Field is a warm but powerful first-hand account of an Irish-speaking family living through the worst of the Troubles in 1970s Belfast.
Emergency Window Ross Sutherland Second full collection from one of the Times’ Top Ten Literary Stars (2008) Ross Sutherland is an uneasy observer of our age of inauthenticity, hacked computers and digital avatars. Emergency Window includes a hilarious and strangely prescient version of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, a poem written using Google Streetview, sonnets inspired by the Street Fighter 2 video game, and a sequence of computer-generated translations of classic literature. Surreal, funny, intelligent and experimental, these poems chart a search for meaning in a disintegrating world. Ross Sutherland was born in Edinburgh in 1979. Things To Do Before You Leave Town was published by Penned in the Margins in 2009, followed by the limited-edition mini-book Twelve Nudes in 2010 and the free National Poetry Day e-book Hyakuretsu Kyaku in 2011. Ross regularly appears at the Aldeburgh, Manchester, Glastonbury and Latitude Festivals; he is taking his latest show, Comedian Dies in the Middle of Joke, to the Edinburgh Fringe 2012. He lives in Cambridge.
Penned in the Margins » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-908058-02-7 » 216x138mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF)
SEPTEMBER
| 24
Liam Carson’s West Belfast childhood is captured through the various lenses of dystopian science fiction, punk rock, American comic books, and the still-present echoes of World War II. Then, after years in London and Dublin, the deaths of his parents bring Carson back to Belfast, where he begins to heal his fractured relationship with Northern Ireland and the Irish language. The result is a revealing memoir by an author constantly drawn to the vanishing worlds of childhood, of the city, of home. Liam Carson was born in 1962 in Belfast. He is currently the director of the IMRAM Irish Language and Literature Festival, which he founded in 2004. His reviews, criticism and poems have appeared in the likes of Poetry Ireland Review, Fortnight, the Irish Review, the Irish Examiner and the Sunday Tribune.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-854115-88-1 » 216x138mm 136pp » Memoir (BMA)
A Promiscuity of Spines Patrick Chapman “One of the very best Irish poets born in the last 40 years... You avoid him at your cool-quotient peril” – Todd Swift Patrick Chapman has one of the most distinctive and creative voices in Irish poetry today. This book contains 22 new poems and selected work from his five previous collections: Jazztown (1991), The New Pornography (1996), Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights (2007), A Shopping Mall on Mars (2008) and The Darwin Vampires (2010). Chapman’s work has always followed its own imaginative path – heartfelt yet adventurous, shocking yet moving – exploring themes of lost childhood innocence, fractured love, fear and mortality. Patrick Chapman was born in County Roscommon in 1968. He has twice been a finalist in the Hennessy Literary Awards. He is also a scriptwriter, working in children’s TV and on Doctor Who audio-plays. He also adapted his own short-story for Burning the Bed (2003), a short film starring Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen, which received several awards on the US festival circuit and a general theatrical release across the UK. He lives in Dublin.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-14-4 210x134mm » 130pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
Jubilation!: Poems Celebrating 50 Years of Jamaican Independence edited by Kwame Dawes Jamaica 50 celebrations planned across the UK (including London, Leeds and Birmingham) throughout Summer 2012 In Jubilation!, over 50 contemporary Jamaican poets reflect in complex, outspoken, meditative, humorous and outrageous ways on Jamaican independence from Britain and the years that followed. The anthology includes work from the best-known poets of the last fifty years, as well as some of the new and exciting voices in Jamaican poetry today. The authors featured include the work of, among others, Opal Palmer Adisa, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Kwame Dawes, Ann-Margaret Lim, Rachel Manley, Shara McCallum, Mervyn Morris, Velma Pollard and Ralph Thompson. Kwame Dawes is the recipient of numerous awards including the Musgrave Silver Medal, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award 2012 and, most recently, a Guggenheim Fellowship. His latest poetry book is Wheels (2011), and he recently edited A Bloom of Stones: A Trilingual Anthology of Haitian Poems After the Earthquake (2012), both published by Peepal Tree.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-845232-04-7 » 206x135mm » 182pp Anthologies (DCQ)
25 |
SEPTEMBER
Jericho & Other Stories and Poems edited by Rowan B. Fortune Latest taste-making poetry and fiction anthology from Cinnamon Press
The Humours of Haiku edited by David Cobb Latest anthology from the UK’s leading independent publisher of haiku; The Haiku Hundred now on 7th reprint, has sold more than 15,000 copies to date This new Iron Press anthology showcases 240 haiku by over 100 poets, exploring the full gamut of emotions possible in just a handful of lines. The book includes more than 50 haiku poets, including Ken Jones, Hamish Ironside, Doreen King, David Cobb, Bill Wyatt and Jackie Hardy. The book itself comes in pocket-size A6 format, printed on textured cream paper, cementing Iron Press’ reputation for producing beautiful gift editions of haiku poetry. David Cobb was recently referred to by Stephen Fry on BBC Radio 4 as “the haiku expert”. His other anthologies include The Iron Book of British Haiku (Iron, 1998), The British Museum: Haiku (2002) and Euro-Haiku (Iron, 2007). He has judged haiku contests in the UK and the US (including the Times national haiku contest), while his own haiku have won many international awards, including the Cardiff International Competition and contests in the US, New Zealand, France, Croatia, Serbia and Japan. He lives in Braintree, Essex.
Iron Press » Paperback » £7.00 » 978-0-956572-54-7 148x105mm » 76pp » Anthologies / Haiku (DCQ) Essex
SEPTEMBER
| 26
Jericho introduces new and emerging voices in short story and poetry. The fiction includes title story ‘Jericho’ by Vivian Hassan-Lambert, a slowburning, brilliantly atmospheric story of intimidation and prejudice on a 1960s train journey across America. The poetry comes courtesy of rising stars Edward Ragg and Ian McEwan, together with a range of innovative poetry and fiction from Noel Williams, Kaddy Benyon, Phil Madden, Jill Teague, Joanna Campbell, Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn and Eithne Nightingale. Rowan B. Fortune is assistant editor at Cinnamon Press. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. His recent anthologies include A Roof of Red Tiles (2011) and In Terra Pax (2012).
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-907090-67-7 216x140mm » 144pp Anthologies (FYB / DCQ)
A Complicated Mammal: Selected Poems Joaquín Giannuzzi translated by Richard Gwyn First bilingual selection of the influential 20th-century Argentinian poet Introducing the work of Joaquín Giannuzzi (1924–2004) to English readers for the first time in this bilingual selection, Richard Gwyn writes that he “cast a powerful influence over two subsequent generations of Argentinian writers… his understated, pessimistic, yet always humane poetry contemplating the tumultuous and, for Argentina, often ruinous second half of the twentieth century”. Joaquín Giannuzzi was born in Buenos Aires. A journalist, his ten collections of poetry established his reputation as one of the most admired and influential Spanish-language poets of his time. Richard Gwyn has published several collections of poetry, two novels and a memoir, The Vagabond’s Breakfast (Alcemi, 2011). He is Director of the MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.
CB Editions » Paperback £7.99 » 978-0-956735-98-0 198x129mm » 100pp Poetry (DCF)
Terrain Jean Harrison Previously shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and the Bridport Prize Jean Harrison takes in the details of her terrain ‘as a hunter might, or a surveyor’, mapping it with unerring precision. She is a poet who can merge into the background, as though ‘half-asleep’, yet ‘alert the moment a mouse scratches’, sensing the smallest of life’s disturbances. “Illuminating, questioning, processing... Even when she writes of sadness and tragedy she is always borne up by an underlying sense of hope and resurrection.” Janet Fisher on Junction Road Jean Harrison’s poem ‘Woman on the Moon’ was shortlisted for the 2004 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Her first collection, Junction Road, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2009, and she was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2011. Her poems have been published in The North, Iota, Seam and The New Writer. A retired schoolteacher, she lives in Settle.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-69-1 216x140mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
Beyond the Pampas: In Search of Patagonia Imogen Rhia Herrad Unique exploration of the Welsh diaspora in southern Argentina, mixing social history and personal memoir Beyond the Pampas is both a modernday travelogue and a history of the nineteenth-century Welsh settlers in Argentina. Between star-gazing in the Andes and whale-watching on the Atlantic coast, Imogen Herrad discovers a fascinating melding of Welsh- and Spanish-language cultures, from metropolitan Buenos Aires to the Welsh-speaking tea rooms of Chubut. This is a book about heritage and identity, set against the unsettling backdrop of the plight of Patagonia’s indigenous peoples, the Tehuelce and the Mapuche. It is also Herrad’s own journey of self-discovery, from an abusive childhood in Germany to acceptance in the communities of Wales and Patagonia. Imogen Herrad was born in Germany. She is the author of The Woman Who Loved an Octopus and other stories (Seren, 2007). She has been longlisted for the Raymond Carver Short Story Award, and currently divides her time between Cardiff and Cologne.
Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-854115-91-1 208x135mm » 240pp » Memoir / Travel Writing (BMH / WTL) Wales
27 |
SEPTEMBER
An Unscheduled Life Joseph Horgan & Brian Whelan Poet won 2004 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry, shortlisted for Hennessy Award for Irish Writing An Unscheduled Life is a mesmerising collaboration between Patrick Kavanagh Award-winning poet Joseph Horgan and visual artist Brian Whelan. Both are secondgeneration Irish, and their efforts explore the experience of the Irish in Britain. Together, the poems and pencil sketches tackle the themes of displacement and longing, loss and love.
Girl in White Sue Hubbard “Beautifully written and wholly knowledgeable – Girl in White is a triumph of literary and artistic understanding, a tour de force: masterly, moving” – Fay Weldon Girl in White is the extraordinary story of the German expressionist painter Paula Modershohn-Becker (1876-1907), told from the fictionalised perspective of her daughter, Mathilde. Becker was a pioneer of modern art in Europe, but denounced as degenerate by the Nazis after her death; Sue Hubbard draws on the artist’s diaries and paintings to bring to life her intense relationship with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and her struggle to find a balance between being a painter, wife and mother. “A writer of genuine talent.” Elaine Feinstein Sue Hubbard is a novelist, poet and art critic. Depth of Field, her first novel, was published in 2000; John Burnside called it “lyrical, highly visual and beautifully observed”, while Booker Prize-winner John Berger hailed it as a “remarkable first novel”. Sue is a regular contributor to the Independent and the New Statesman, and runs Creative Writing workshops at the Royal College of Art. Her poem Eurydice is London’s largest public art poem, at Waterloo.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-907090-68-4 » 216x140mm » 270pp Fiction (FA) London SEPTEMBER
| 28
We are taken into a world of nightboats and mail-boats, of Irish shiftworkers and their ‘invisible’ women making a living amidst warehouses, bricks, factories, terraces and backyards wreathed in tar smoke. Joseph Horgan was born in Birmingham, and has lived in Ireland since 1999. He has been shortlisted for a Hennessy Award for Irish Writing and received the 2004 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. His prose work The Song at Your Backdoor (2010) was serialised as an RTE ‘Book on One’. Brian Whelan trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and now lives in Norfolk.
Agenda Editions » Paperback £9.00 » 978-1-908527-07-3 210x150mm » 64pp (28 b&w ill.) » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
The Festival of Wild Orchid Ann-Margaret Lim
The Invisible Threshold Catherine Phil MacCarthy
Rodin’s Shadow Patricia McCarthy
Important year for Jamaican literature, as country celebrates ‘Jamaica 50’
Winner of the 2010 Fish International Poetry Prize and former editor of Poetry Ireland Review
“A real page turner” – Tim Liardet
Ann-Margaret Lim’s poetry is alert to all the contradictions of contemporary Jamaica. There are lyric and delicate poems that find fresh things to say about its land and seascapes, and its novelties as discovered by her child. And then there are pungent, arresting poems in response to the endemic violence, misogyny and poverty of a still-divided society. Lim writes in both Caribbean English and Jamaican patois, reflecting on her Chinese and African heritage. Hers is a feisty, questioning persona, charged with an imaginative eye and the warmth of celebration. Ann-Margaret Lim was born in 1976 and lives in Red Hills, Jamaica. She has been published in journals, anthologies and her country’s two major newspapers, the Gleaner and the Observer. She has a BA in English Literature and has been influenced by workshops given by Wayne Brown, Mervyn Morris and Kwame Dawes, as well as the poetry of Derek Walcott.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845232-01-6 206x135mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF)
Catherine Phil MacCarthy’s fourth collection explores the liminal – life on the ‘threshold’, moving from one moment to the next. These poems celebrate life with a sense of wonder, seeking meaning in mortality and loss. Reconciliation with a mother’s death brings ‘a sense of first breath on the earth’, where grief delivers a new freedom, ‘open to pure being’. “A powerful... observer of love in all its forms.” Thomas McCarthy, The Irish Times “The poems seem artlessly simple, until the reader… begins to appreciate their challenging precision.” Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Catherine Phil MacCarthy was born in County Limerick in 1954. Her previous collections include This Hour of the Tide (1994), The Blue Globe (1998) and Suntrap (2007). Her poems appear in the anthologies To the Winds Our Sails (Salmon, 2010), Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007 (Salmon, 2006) and The Bee-Loud Glade (Dedalus, 2011). She lives in Dublin.
Dedalus Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-906614-60-7 214x140mm » 74pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
The poems in Rodin’s Shadow peer into the lives of the great French artist’s mistresses, dramatically giving voice to Camille Claudel, Gwen John and Rose Beuret, as well as Clara Westhoff, the neglected sculptress wife of Rilke who was Rodin’s secretary. These are lives beset by passion, obsession and even madness, but also by devotion, as in the case of Rodin’s long-term companion Rose Beuret, who he finally married in the year they both died. Patricia McCarthy was born in Cornwall, brought up mainly in Ireland, and has lived in Washington D.C., Paris, Bangladesh, Nepal and Mexico. A Second Skin was published by Peterloo Poets in 1985. Her work has been widely anthologised and a Selected Poems is forthcoming. She now lives in Mayfield, Sussex.
Agenda Editions » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908527-09-7 210x150mm » 98pp Poetry (DCF) Sussex
29 |
SEPTEMBER
Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British & Irish Poetry John Redmond Features essays on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath and John Burnside Poetry and Privacy breaks new ground in exploring the function of – and continuing need for – poetry outside the academic and literary worlds, and investigating the effects of the wider society on the practice of poetry.
Holophin Luke Kennard “Inventive... fearless and hugely enjoyable” – Nick Laird, The Telegraph It is 2031 and the must-have gadget is the Holophin: a tiny, dolphin-shaped microprocessor which cures your worst fears, comforts you in times of need, and makes everything look much, much prettier. Hatsuka and Max are students at the Takin International School, the magnificent learning institute where a billion Holophins have been made and sold. But when Takin’s best students are stalked by a shady rival manufacturer, Holophin’s monopoly, and the narrative itself, begins to unravel. This hallucinatory and darkly funny sci-fi mystery is the debut novella by acclaimed poet Luke Kennard – a refracted meditation on identity, technology and the imagination. Luke Kennard was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1981. In 2007 he became the youngest poet ever nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Collection for The Harbour Beyond the Movie (2010). In 2010 he co-judged the 2010 Foyles Young Poets Prize with Jane Draycott. His criticism appears in Poetry London and the TLS. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham.
Penned in the Margins » Paperback » £12.99 978-1-908058-06-5 » 216x138mm » 112pp Science-Fiction (FL) London / West Midlands SEPTEMBER
| 30
Redmond’s writing is full of insight into poetry as a whole, as well as offering fresh appraisals of the likes of Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, John Burnside, W.S. Graham, Derek Mahon, Vona Groarke, Robert Minhinnick, Glyn Maxwell and David Jones. The essays serve as a portrait of British and Irish poetry in a new century in which – in politics, society and poetry – there is a broad sense of an ending. John Redmond was born in Dublin in 1967. His own poetry is published by Carcanet: Thumb’s Width (2001) and MUDe (2008), and he has also written the textbook How to Write a Poem (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005). He is now a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool.
Seren » Paperback » £14.99 978-1-854115-85-0 216x138mm » 280pp Literary Studies (Poetry) (DSC) North-West / Rep. Ireland
A Gather of Shadow Mark Roper Previous collection was one of the Books of the Year in the Irish Times (2010) Opening and closing with poems that describe what he calls a river’s ‘breath’, Mark Roper’s new collection develops his reputation as one of the most admired nature poets of his generation, and acts as a deeply personal record of the loss of his elderly mother. “One of the most accomplished and engaging poets writing in Ireland.” Irish Literary Supplement Mark Roper was born in Derbyshire in 1951, moving to County Kilkenny in 1980. A former editor of Poetry Ireland, he now works in adult education in Waterford and Kilkenny. His poetry collections include The Hen Ark (1999), which won the 1992 Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection, and Even So: New & Selected Poems (Dedalus, 2008); ‘Hummingbird’ was a Poem of the Week in the Guardian. His collaboration with photographer Paddy Dwan, The River Book: A Celebration of the Suir, was one of the Irish Times Books of the Year for 2010.
Dedalus Press » Paperback £9.00 » 978-1-906614-59-1 214x140mm » 58pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
Seán Tyrone: A Symphony of Horrors Mark Ryan Novelisation of Ryan’s last stageplay, finished shortly before the playwright’s death in 2011 Years ago, Seán ‘Tyrone’ O’Brien left his wife and son in County Tyrone to find work in the South Wales Valleys. Now his wife is dying, and sends her son Jack out to find out what became of his father. Seán’s last letter came from ‘somewhere called Aberuffern’. Unbeknownst to Jack, Aber-uffern translates as ‘the mouth of Hell’, and a young man’s journey in innocence is quickly enveloped in nightmare. Inspired by the Mexican novel Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, this haunting novella is based on a play of the same name, premiered in Cardiff in 2010, and is accompanied by 20 woodcuts by the author. Mark Ryan played in various punk bands during the late 1970s, including Adam and the Ants. He later began a successful career as a playwright; The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde As Told To Carl Jung By An Inmate Of Broadmoor Asylum received five-star reviews in Edinburgh, London, Cardiff and San Francisco.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-854116-47-5 196x128mm » 144pp (20 b&w ill.) » Fiction (FA) Wales / Northern Ireland
Journeying Paul Sutherland “Paul Sutherland makes a poetry of contradiction: psychological and intellectual inquiry are matched by a ready emotional depth…” – Ian Duhig In this latest collection from Dream Catcher editor Paul Sutherland, ‘Journeying’ is an activity, a state of mind, and a wide-reaching metaphor. The poems cover the realities of physical journeying, and the thoughts and observations as we move from place to place. In turn these are contrasted with scenes of extreme stillness – as in the memory of a night’s vigil at the bedside of his elderly grandmother – and discussions of more abstract journeys along ‘inner paths, outside time and space’. Paul Sutherland was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1947, and arrived in the UK in 1973. He is founder and editor of the literary journal Dream Catcher, currently in its 26th issue. Previous collections of Paul’s own work include Seven Earth Odes (2004) and Spires and Minarets (2010). He was highly commended in the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition in 2009. He lives in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire.
Valley Press » Paperback £8.00 » 978-1-908853-05-9 198x129mm » 98pp Poetry (DCF) Lincolnshire
31 |
SEPTEMBER
Taking Words for a Walk: New & Selected Poems Ralph Thompson Featured poet in The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry and The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
The Prince of Wails Stephen Knight Author’s other collections both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize Two rites of passage run through Stephen Knight’s latest collection: the death of a father, and late fatherhood. Formal ingenuity and playfulness mixes with the cool authority of his “level, heartbreaking voice” (Joseph Brodsky) as he confronts the rain, the northerly wind, and the prospect of ‘everyone packing up everyone going home’. “A masterpiece in miniature… by a top craftsman with a quirky and disconcertingly loveable voice.” Robert Potts, The Guardian (Books of the Decade) on Dream City Cinema Stephen Knight was born in Swansea. His two previous collections, Flowering Limbs (Bloodaxe, 1993) and Dream City Cinema (Bloodaxe, 1997), were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His novel Mr Schnitzel (Penguin, 2000) won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award. He now lives in London.
CB Editions » Paperback » £7.99 » 978-0-956735-96-1 198x129mm » 66pp » Poetry (DCF) London
SEPTEMBER
| 32
The poems in this collection display a remarkable energy from a writer now in his 80s: effortlessly exploring the grand themes of ambition, rebellion and innocence lost. The selected poems, some significantly revised, retain their original lustre and now enter into dialogue with a range of new works – the centrepiece of which is ‘The Colour of Conscience’, a long poem exploring the dynamics of being a white poet in a black country. “A superb craftsman.” The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English Ralph Thompson is a leading Jamaican poet. View from Mount Diablo (Peepal Tree, 2009) won the 2001 Jamaican National Literary Competition and was hailed as “a remarkable achievement” by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson. His work has been published in many international journals, including The London Magazine, as well as The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry (1992) and The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse (2009).
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-845231-95-8 206x135mm » 144pp Poetry (DCF)
OCTOBER
A Small Life Sue Vickerman
The Propriety of Weeding Colin Will
The Roaring Boys John Barnie
Second novel, follows Cinnamon Press debut Special Needs (2011)
Author elected Makar to the Scottish Federation of Writers in 2011
Previous winner of Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature, and finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award
Suki is a struggling writer and poet. A bit anorexic, slightly suicidal, she turns to life-modelling to make ends meet. A Small Life is a sad, funny story about loneliness, the search for love and the quest for meaning, told through Suki’s diary notes and the drawings and paintings she snaps on her mobile. Edgy and intimate, this innovative collection of prose, poetry and life drawing is rich in its variety, and taboo-breaking in its honesty. Sue Vickerman was born in Bradford, where she now lives. While living in a Scottish lighthouse, she had two poetry collections published: Shag (2003) and The Social Decline of the Oystercatcher (2005), the latter championed by the likes of Sandi Toksvig and Magnus Magnusson. Her short stories been anthologised by Virago and Diva Books. She received an Arts Council award to complete her debut novel, Special Needs, published by Cinnamon Press in 2011.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £11.99 » 978-1-907090-75-2 216x140mm » 120pp (60 col. ill.) » Fiction (FA) Yorkshire
Colin Will’s experience and knowledge of gardens and plants is one of the threads running through this second collection. Yet the poems range widely in subject and treatment: from landscapes and world travels to family history and childhood memories of his teacher, Norman MacCaig. The title comes from the name of the gardener’s lodge in the Summer Palace, Beijing, which the author visited in 2007. Colin Will was born in Edinburgh in 1942. He has had long-term involvements with the Scottish Poetry Library and StAnza. In 2008 and 2009 he was the Scottish Poetry Library’s Poet Partner to Moray, and he is also the webmaster for Poetry Scotland. His recent collections include Sushi & Chips (2006) and The Floorshow at the Mad Yak Café (Red Squirrel, 2010). He lives in Dunbar.
Red Squirrel Press Paperback » £6.99 978-1-906700-61-4 216x138mm » 84pp Poetry (DCF) Scotland
John Barnie’s poetry is known for its compelling blend of elegiac imagination and biological observation. In The Roaring Boys, there is the wry humour and sharp irony of a poet who recognises how the scale of the universe makes us all ‘lower case’ – deities and major poets included. This new collection also finds the poet at his most confessional, and in dialogue with the dead Canon Davies of St Mary’s, Abergavenny, on the subject of free will, language, bacteria, and the need to accord value to human life. John Barnie was the editor of Planet from 1990 to 2006. His books include a memoir, Tales of the Shopocracy (2009), and the poetry collections Sea Lilies: Selected Poems (Seren, 2006) and The Forest Under the Sea (Cinnamon, 2010). He lives in Comins Coch, Aberystwyth.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-70-7 216x140mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF)
33 |
OCTOBER
Just Like That Peter Carpenter “Peter Carpenter has the ability to pull the rug from under your feet at the very moment when you think you’ve got his number” – Jeremy Page From the brilliant ‘Being in Bed with Philip Larkin’ to a glimpse of a footballing T.S. Eliot, Peter Carpenter’s poems explore our recent history in writing, teaching and politics with both wit and insight. Steely Dan are here and so are Cambridge, the Thames and Venice, but above all these are poems about love and family. “A naturally restrained poet… but he makes his plainness interesting.” John Greening, TLS Peter Carpenter is the author of five other poetry collections, including The Black-Out Book (2002) and After the Goldrush (2009). He has worked for many organisations including The Poetry Society, The Arvon Foundation and The Poetry Trust, and has performed at Aldeburgh, Ways with Words, The Troubadour and the Poetry Cafe. His poems and criticism have appeared in the Independent, The London Magazine, The North, PN Review, Agenda, Poetry Wales and The Rialto. He currently teaches at Tonbridge School, and lives in Kent.
Smith Doorstop » Paperback £9.95 » 978-1-906613-81-5 215x140mm » 128pp Poetry (DCF) South East
OCTOBER
| 34
Counting Steps: A Journey through Landscape and Fatherhood Mark Charlton
In a Time of Burning Cheran translated by Lakshmi Holmström
Creative non-fiction collection by author of Views from the Bike Shed blog, with several hundred visits every week
Recent interest in Sri Lankan civil war: e.g. Jon Snow’s Channel 4 documentary The Killing Fields
Mark Charlton’s debut collection of creative non-fiction captures one man’s astonished journey into fatherhood. As well as the author’s own experiences as a parent, the stories also emerge out of strong connections to his childhood, local landscapes, and fractured relationships with his parents. “What distinguishes Mark Charlton is an absolute honesty allied to reflective wisdom and a fresh, alert eye. [...] These reflections are a treat not to be missed. And more than that, they’re a liberal education. They quietly, modestly, enhance our understanding of the world we inhabit in its every aspect.” Jim Perrin Mark Charlton is Company Secretary of Smiths News PLC (previously WH Smith News), and was recently appointed Group Communications Director. He has tutored writing courses at Ty Newydd and runs the blog Views from the Bike Shed. He lives in the West Country and Pembrokeshire.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-907090-71-4 216x140mm » 160pp Memoir (BMA) Wales / Wiltshire
This selection charts the civil war in Sri Lanka, a war which has raged for more than three decades, leaving a once idyllic landscape devastated. Together these works encapsulate the Tamil story of exile and displacement, of love overshadowed by uncertainty. Amma, don’t weep. There are no mountains to shoulder your sorrow there are no rivers to dissolve your tears. The instant he handed you the baby from his shoulder, the gun fired. (from ‘Amma, don’t weep’, 1985) Cheran was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. His two early collections, A Second Sunrise (1982) and God of Death (1984), and an anthology of Tamil resistance poems, Amidst Death, We Live (1985), are all landmarks in contemporary Tamil poetry. Lakshmi Holmström recently co-edited The Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry (2010).
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £12.99 (hb) / £9.99 (pb) » 978-1-906570-33-0 (hb) / 978-1-906570-32-3 (pb) 216x138mm » 128pp Poetry (DCF)
Transitions edited by David & Helen Constantine and Sasha Dugdale Introduces new MPT editor Sasha Dugdale – “one of the most original poets of her generation” (Paul Batchelor in The Guardian) The autumn issue of Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3, Number 18) will be one of transition, and not just in the seasonal sense. Transitions will be jointly edited by David and Helen Constantine and the poet and translator Sasha Dugdale, who will succeed them as editor from 2013. As such, in this issue translated poems, short essays and anecdotes will address the idea of transition in as many ways as possible: from the theory of translation itself, to the life of the translator as someone constantly hovering between the foreign and the native. By its very diversity MPT has always acted against set minds; Transitions will be proof and promise that it always will. It will be a celebration of movement, flux, change, of the eternal possibility of moving on out of forms that have lost their liberating and enlivening force, and into new, revitalised ways of thinking.
Modern Poetry in Translation Paperback » £9.95 978-0-957235-40-3 201x140mm » 200pp » Poetry (DCQ)
Six Armenian Poets edited by Razmik Davoyan Ninth in Arc’s ‘New Voices from Europe and Beyond’ series; editor part of Poetry Parnassus UK tour The latest bilingual anthology in Arc’s ‘New Voices from Europe and Beyond’ series features the work of six of Armenia’s poets – three men, Anatoli Hovhannisyan, Khachik Manoukyan and Hrachya Saroukhan and three women, Violet Grigorian, Azniv Sahakyan and Hasmik Simonian. Together they have all helped to shape the face of contemporary Armenian poetry. Of the six, Grigorian and Hovhannisyan originally began writing in the age of Stalin, only becoming more visible since independence. Saroukhan, Sahakyan and Manoukyan established themselves in post-Stalin Soviet Armenia, while the youngest poet, Hasmik Simonian, is a writer of the new Armenia, out of the shadow of the Soviet past. Razmik Davoyan is the unofficial Armenian poet laureate, and recipient of the President’s Prize for Literature (2003). His collections in English are Selected Poems (Macmillan, 2002) and Whispers and Breath of the Meadows (Arc, 2010).
Arc Publications » Paperback £10.99 » 978-1-906570-87-3 234x156mm » 160pp » Anthologies (DCQ)
Perhaps the Heart is Constant After All Mary Dorcey Poetry taught in Irish Junior Certificate English, and previously for UK GCSE Since her first book twenty five years ago, Mary Dorcey has written from the border lines of human experience. In language that is lucid, lyrical and powerfully compressed, she has spoken for the voiceless, informing and transforming the mainstream of Irish literature. These new poems blend sensual meditation and passionate memoir, always seeking out the redemptive in a damaged but luminous world. “Clear eyed and heart-breaking.” Nuala Ní Dhomnaill Mary Dorcey was born in County Dublin. She won the Rooney Prize for Literature for her short story collection A Noise from the Woodshed (1989), and her novel Biography of Desire (1997) was a bestseller and reprinted three times. Her poems and stories have been anthologised by Penguin, Picador, Faber and Bloomsbury. She has published four poetry collections, most recently Like Joy In Season, Like Sorrow (Salmon, 2002). She is a Research Associate at Trinity College Dublin, and lives in County Wicklow.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £12.00 » 978-1-908836-10-6 210x134mm » 78pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
35 |
OCTOBER
On Becoming A Fish Emily Hinshelwood
Real Swansea Two Nigel Jenkins
See How They Run Lloyd Jones
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem in 2010
Latest in Seren’s series of unusual local history/geography titles, edited by Peter Finch
Publicity by Riot, plus tour appearances at the Hay, Edinburgh, Oxford Literary and Dylan Thomas (Swansea) Festivals
Emily Hinshelwood’s new poetry collection was inspired by a series of walks around the 186-mile Pembrokeshire coastal path, known for its spectacular cliff-top views of the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel. Out to sea there are fishermen, pirates and shipwrecks; on the shore there are neolithic memorials of times long ago, alongside remnants of recent industrial decline. There are encounters with modern-day lifeboat crews, lighthouse keepers and skinny-dippers, as well as characters conjured from history – including the ‘four hundred Welsh Women wearing stovepipe hats’ who foiled the last invasion of Britain in 1797. Emily Hinshelwood was born in London. Her previous collection is Sucking at Sticky Fingers (2004). Her poetry has also been published in The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Aesthetica and New Welsh Review. She won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry in 2003, and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem in 2010. She lives in Tairgwaith, south Wales.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-854115-77-5 216x138mm »64pp Poetry (DCF) Wales
OCTOBER
| 36
With humour, insight and an eye for the oddball, Welsh poet Nigel Jenkins returns to his hometown to explore the areas of the city not covered in the original Real Swansea (Seren, 2008). Jenkins’s subjects include sport, the Welsh language, drama, sex, drugs, refugees and asylum seekers; key buildings like the Guildhall, the Glynn Vivian and the National Waterfront Museum; and the districts of Morriston, the Hafod and Sandfields. From Dylan Thomas’ Kardomah café, the Grand Theatre and the Welsh School of Architectural, to Mumbles Pier, Llangyfelach and Salubrious Passage, all Swansea life is here, celebrated in stylish prose and pinsharp poetry. Nigel Jenkins is a poet, prose writer and editor of the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (2008). He won the Wales Book of the Year Award for Khasia in Gwalia, about Welsh missionaries in northeast India (1996). He is currently Co-Director of Creative Writing at Swansea University.
Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-854116-48-2 208x135mm » 220pp » Travel Writing (WTL / 1DBKWS) Wales
Based on the Third Branch of the Mabinogion, See How They Run tells the story of Llwyd Evans, a small-minded, malicious academic tasked with researching one of Wales’ biggest heroes, the rugby player Big M. Self-satisfied. Llwyd’s work takes him to Dublin and Dun Laoghaire, then to Holyhead and the luxurious but bizarre Hotel Corvo on the west Wales coast, as he begins to unravel a mystery that links rugby and the gods of Celtic myth, and a tattoo of a mouse with a string of tragic deaths that may not have been accidents after all. Lloyd Jones lives in Llanfairfechan, north Wales. Mr Vogel (Seren, 2004) won the McKitterick Prize, and Mr Cassini (Seren, 2006) won the Wales Book of the Year in 2007. His shortstory collection, My First Colouring Book, was published by Seren in 2008.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-854115-90-4 196x128mm » 200pp Fiction (FA / FQ) Wales / Rep. Ireland
Bird, Blood, Snow Cynan Jones
The Skin of Mercy Dana Littlepage Smith
“Lovely, poignant” – Sarah Waters, The Guardian on The Long Dry
“Poems full of verve and colour” – Pauline Stainer, Bloodaxe poet
This novella is a retelling of ‘Peredur son of Efrog’, part of the Welsh Mabinogion – a medieval Arthurian tale of a daring young knight defending maidens, killing witches and righting wrongs as a good Christian. Here Peredur’s quest is to escape the estate that has ruined the lives of his father and brothers and seen his mother collapse into alcoholism, as he heads off in search of an absent, imaginary guardian named Arthur. Cynan Jones was born in 1975. His first novel, The Long Dry (Parthian, 2007), won a Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors and has been translated into Italian, Arabic and French (“A book of moving beauty”, Le Monde). Everything I Found on the Beach was published by Parthian in 2011, and his work appeared in Granta 119: Britain (2012). He lives near Aberaeron in west Wales.
Seren » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-854115-89-8 196x128mm » 200pp » Fiction (FA / FQ) Wales
In this third collection, Dana Littlepage Smith combines extraordinary imagery with quiet but precise observation. The poems here see Smith seeking out new ways of appreciating everyday things: so that ‘asylum’ ‘may lie / in the light rug this woman carries, / in the frayed edge of cloth / she will wrap herself in’ (‘Sanctuary’) and so that hope ‘lands like the periwinkle blue moth’ (‘Better to travel hopefully’). “These are poems full of verve and colour, speaking with many tongues from many horizons – a generous brave poetry, unfailingly informed by the heart!” – Pauline Stainer Dana Littlepage Smith is an American poet; her previous collections are Women Clothed with the Sun (2001) and Black Elk Dances for Queen Victoria (Cinnamon, 2007). Her work has been widely anthologised and published in magazines, including Stand and Iota. Dana now lives in Exeter, where she works as a teacher.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-69-1 216x140mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF) Souh West
Panther and Gazelle Paula Ludwig translated by Martina Thomson 20th-century Austrian poetry in translation, illustrated with poet’s own paintings and drawings Panther and Gazelle contains translations of 42 poems from Paula Ludwig’s To the Dark God (1932), with an introduction by the translator, plus reproductions of three other handwritten poems, two drawings and a painting by Ludwig. The poems arose from a passionate affair in 1931 with the surrealist poet Ivan Goll (‘the Dark God’). They express moods of elation and desolation in concise and vivid imagery: ‘I became a dancer under his eyes – / darkly his voice beat the gong of my heart.’ Paula Ludwig (1900-1974) was born in Austria and studied at the Breslau poetry school in Germany. In 1938 she escaped Hitler’s Germany for Brazil. In 1962 she received the Georg Trakl Prize. Her poetry was featured in Modern Poetry in Translation: Poetry and the State (2011). Martina Thomson, born in Berlin of Austrian parents, came to England as a child. Seven of her Ludwig translations have appeared in MPT. She lives in Camden Town.
Hearing Eye » Paperback £8.50 » 978-1-905082-67-4 210x150mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) London
37 |
OCTOBER
Where Sadness Begins John MacKenna “A consummately skilled author” – Antonia Logue, The Guardian The poems in this collection range from the boglands of MacKenna’s native Kildare to Northamptonshire, home of one of his poetry heroes, John Clare. Like his fiction, they explore the lives of people on the periphery, here interspersed with a deeply personal response to the death of his only brother in 2005, and a strikingly honest depiction of relationships with his parents and children. John MacKenna is a winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award, the C DayLewis Award and the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. His most recent novel, The Space Between Us (2009), was shortlisted for the Kerry Book of the Year Award. His prose has been critically acclaimed in the Sunday Times, the Irish Times, Scotland on Sunday, and even in Jeffrey Archer’s prison diaries. He is also a winner of a Jacob’s Radio Award for his documentary work with the poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen. He teaches at NUI, Maynooth in County Kildare.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £12.00 » 978-1-908836-11-3 210x134mm » 98pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland / Northants
OCTOBER
| 38
Jessica Casey and Other Works edited by Mary Madec Launching at the Cúirt Festival 2012 Jessica Casey and Other Works is the first poetry and fiction anthology from Away With Words, an innovative arts project for people with learning difficulties in Galway, now celebrating its fifth anniversary. ‘Jessica Casey’ brings us into the funny, phantasmagorical world of a young woman on the verge of adulthood. It tracks Jessica’s adventures as she gets a job on a farm, learns to drive, and struggles to make a dream-trip to Australia a reality. The other works, mainly poems, serve as a gentle reminder of the human value of the creative process. Mary Madec was born in the west of Ireland. In 2007 she was chosen for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, and in 2008 she won the Hennessy Award for Emerging Poetry. In Other Words was published by Salmon in 2010. She is currently Director of the Villanova Study Abroad Program in Galway.
Salmon Poetry Paperback + DVD £12.00 » 978-1-908836-15-1 210x134mm » 98pp Anthologies (DCQ / FYB) Rep. Ireland
A Discoverie of Witches Blake Morrison Previously published by Penguin, Faber, Chatto & Windus, Vintage and Granta Lancaster Assizes, 1612 – ten people from Pendle in Lancashire are hanged, guilty of witchcraft. These poems give voice to those involved in the trials: from the accused to the accusers, from a child bearing witness against her own mother to the hangman carrying out the final deed, but not without stirrings of compassion. The collection also includes the controversial long poem, ‘The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper’. Blake Morrison was born in Burnley and grew up in Skipton. A former literary editor of the Observer and the Independent on Sunday, his poetry appears in the Penguin anthologies Contemporary British Poetry and Penguin Modern Poets. His other works include a Granta Selected Poems (1999); two bestselling memoirs, Things My Mother Never Told Me (Vintage 2nd ed., 2003) and And When Did You Last See Your Father (Granta 2nd ed., 2007); and the novels South of the River (2008) and The Last Weekend (2011), both published by Vintage. He lives in South London and is Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths.
Smith Doorstop » Hardback £12.99 » 978-1-906613-60-0 215x140mm » 84pp Poetry (DCF) Lancashire / Yorkshire / London
More for Helen of Troy Simon Mundy Well-known on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and the official blogger of the Hay Festival Simon Mundy’s new collection is inspired by the landscapes of Powys, Italy, and a number of islands all over the world – Grenada, Jamaica, Shetland. And as the title suggests, More for Helen of Troy is concerned with desire: for the ideal of a beautiful woman; for the vision of a pristine countryside. Helen proves to be an imago for women from all times: pursued, desired, lonely, restless, she haunts the poet’s imagination throughout. “The poems are always entertaining for their formal play and their lively lingo. Mundy can be cheeky, he can be rueful but he is always passionate.” Daljit Nagra Simon Mundy has broadcast for over 30 years on BBC Radio 3 and 4. He has written three poetry collections, three novels and several biographies of classical musicians, including Elgar, Purcell and Tchaikovsky. He has read his work all over the world, from Hay-on-Wye to Brisbane. He lives in the border hills of Wales.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-854115-78-2 216x138mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) Wales & Scotland
Some Things Matter: 63 Sonnets James Nash Regularly appears at poetry events and festivals across the North of England This collection, which marks the Leeds-based poet’s 63rd year, builds a sequence of 63 carefully-crafted pieces on a diverse range of topics. If you should ever go, my heart would break, Leaving a house of empty rooms behind. If you should go, be careful what you take, Some things matter, but others I’d not mind. So take the books, the CDs and the fridge, The pictures from the wall, the bathroom sink, Take the front garden, and the laurel hedge, For these are not important things, I think. But leave your imprint upon the pillow, And the faded tee-shirt you wear in bed, Leave the battered sofa, and its hollow, On the arm, where you always rest your head. For if you should go, there is no doubt, In truth, it’s you I could not do without.
James Nash is a writer and longterm resident of Leeds. His poems appear in Enitharmon’s Branch-lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry anthology (2007). An ebook, A Bit of an Ice Breaker: Selected and Uncollected Poems, was published by Valley Press in April 2012.
Valley Press » Paperback £8.00 » 978-1-908853-04-2 198x129mm » 74pp Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
Recreation Ground Tom Phillips “Intelligent and watchful poems” – Philip Gross, T.S. Eliot Prize winner Tom Phillips’ first full-length collection ranges across Eastern Europe and Australia to the more familiar climes of the Home Counties and his own back garden in Bristol. From these various vantage points, unlikely connections emerge: between chance meetings and ‘big history’, family stories and the state we’re in. “In Tom Phillips’ work, the world is unsettlingly close… echoes of conflict or loss disturb the surfaces of life, which are nonetheless carefully, caringly observed in these intelligent and watchful poems.” Philip Gross Tom Phillips was born in Buckinghamshire in 1964. He has contributed to the Guardian, Contemporary Review and Tribune. His poems appear in the pamphlets Burning Omaha (2002) and Reversing into the Cold War (2007), and the anthologies A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens (Two Rivers, 2011) and 100 Poets Against the War (2003). He lives in Bristol.
Two Rivers Press » Paperback £7.95 » 978-1-901677-85-0 210x135mm » 60pp Poetry (DCF) Bristol / South-West
39 |
OCTOBER
Believing in Reading Adam Sowan Follows success of Adam Sowan’s The Reading Quiz Book (2011), now reprinting
Otherwhere Catherine Smith Previously shortlisted for a Forward Prize (twice) and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize Catherine Smith is well known for her sexy, sassy and recklessly wise writing. Her latest collection is as unpredictable as ever – including the spaghetti harvest and the drought of 1976, vegetarian hangovers, horse-racing, teenage girls inhaling helium and cats brought in a case through customs. “Her scary, unsettling voice seems unexpected in poetry, and cuts her free of the crowd.” The Times Catherine Smith has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize twice: for Best First Collection for The New Bride (Smith Doorstop, 2001), and for Best Collection for Lip (Smith Doorstop, 2008). The Butcher’s Hands (Smith Doorstop, 2003) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Sussex, and lives in Brighton.
Smith Doorstop » Paperback » £9.95 » 978-1-906613-76-1 215x140mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF) Sussex
NO OV CE TM OBER
| 40
Reading has many places of worship, serving a number of faiths. This book profiles the ten most interesting, both historically and architecturally, inside and out: including the three medieval parish churches; Greyfriars; Roman Catholic St James’s; and the Friends’ Meeting House, where prominent Quakers Huntley and Palmer are buried. The book also covers the rise of other faiths, some of which worship in former Christian buildings. Together the book embraces a variety of architectural styles: medieval Gothic, classical, Victorian neo-Gothic and neo-Norman, Moorish-Byzantine and Islamic, plus the work of architects like Waterhouse, Bodley and Comper. Adam Sowan’s previous books about Reading, all published by Two Rivers, include The Reading Quiz Book (2011), A Much-Maligned Town: Opinions of Reading 1126-2008 (2008), A Mark of Affection: The Soane Obelisk in Reading (2007), The Holy Brook (2003) and Abattoirs Road to Zinzan Street: Reading’s streets and their names (2004).
Two Rivers Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-901677-84-3 215x136mm » 82pp (30 b&w ill.) » Architecture / Religion (AMN / HRAC) Reading
The Pembrokeshire Murders: Detecting the Bullseye Killer Steve Wilkins with Jonathan Hill Follows success of Seren’s 2012 true-crime book Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman This is the story of Operation Ottawa (2006-2009), the ‘cold case’ detection of John Cooper by DyfedPowys Police for the Scoveston Manor murders of 1985 and the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path murders of 1989. In May 2011, Cooper was convicted on all charges and jailed for life. For the first time, the lead detective opens the case files on how a vicious killer was brought to justice. Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Wilkins explains how he gathered a specialist team to review the murders, used cutting-edge forensic techniques to prove Cooper’s involvement in the crimes, and even how the TV show Bullseye led to a crucial breakthrough. Steve Wilkins is a Detective Chief Superintendent with 29 years’ Police service to his name, 27 as a Detective. Jonathan Hill has been a leading reporter and presenter on ITV Wales news for almost 20 years. His documentary about the Cooper case, The Bullseye Murderer, was broadcast on ITV Wales in 2011.
Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-854115-86-7 216x138mm » 220pp True Crime (BTC) Wales
Winston and Me Mark Woodburn
Collected Poems Macdara Woods
Follows recent success of fictionalised war histories, e.g. Laurent Binet’s HHhH
Celebrates 70th year of “one of the most original poetic voices of Ireland over a third of a century” (Books Ireland)
Lying about his age to join the army, young and poor Jamie Melville leaves Edinburgh for the mud of Flanders during the First World War. There he comes to the attention of the new Colonel of the 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, one Winston Churchill. Jamie becomes the Colonel’s new batman, and is soon thrust into the line of fire. After the war, when Churchill returns to the Cabinet, Jamie becomes assistant to the new Minister’s Private Secretary, Edward Marsh, who introduces Jamie to the artistic side of London life. Along the way Jamie falls in love with a nurse and makes contact again with his broken family, leaving him with a difficult choice to make: stay with Winston, or set off on his own. Mark Woodburn was born in Edinburgh, 1968, and grew up in Scotland, Canada and South Africa. He lives in West Lothian.
Valley Press » Paperback £12.00 » 978-1-908853-17-2 198x129mm » 320pp Historical Fiction (FV) Scotland
Macdara Woods is one of the bestknown names in contemporary Irish poetry, with his work translated into more than a dozen languages. To celebrate his 70th year, this Collected Poems is a generous overview of his many collections, from his 1970 debut to last year’s The Cotard Dimension, along with a number of new and previously uncollected poems. As politically aware and lyrically adventurous as ever, the poems cement Woods’ place at the very forefront of Irish poetry. “One of the most individual voices in Irish poetry... He writes like no one living.” Fortnight Macdara Woods was born in Dublin in 1942. A member of Aosdána, he is also a founder editor of the literary journal Cyphers, along with poets Pearse Hutchinson, Leland Bardwell and his wife, the poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. He lives in Dublin.
Dedalus Press » Paperback £19.50 » 978-1-906614-64-5 214x140mm » 400pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
41 |
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER Lime Green Tree Chris Andrews
Navel String Adrian Augier
The Son of a Shoemaker Linda Black
Winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2012, judged by Mark Strand
New poetry from the 2010 Caribbean Laureate for Arts and Letters
Lime Green Chair is a collection of poems prompted by a mix of real-life episodes in Melbourne and Sydney, dreams and constructions from curious fragments of language.
Adrian Augier’s latest collection teems with the rich imagery of Caribbean life, politics and social history. It is also a poignant, faithful exploration of the human condition across several generations, at home and abroad.
“Powerful pieces that few of Black’s contemporaries could match” – Martyn Crucefix, PBS Bulletin on The Beating of Wings
The poems range in tone from the comic to the elegiac, and in form from the 231-syllable ‘expanded sonnets’ of parts I and III to the ‘short-story’ poems of part II. Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia in 1962, and grew up in Melbourne. His previous poetry collection, Cut Lunch (2002), won the Anne Elder Poetry Prize (2003) and the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize (2004). His translations of Latin American fiction include Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile (2003) and César Aira’s Varamo (2012). In 2005 he was awarded the Vallé-Inclan Prize for Literary Translation by the British Society of Authors. From 2002 to 2010 he reviewed Spanish and Latin American books for the TLS. He now lives in Sydney.
Waywiser Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-904130-51-2 197x130mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF)
NOVEMBER
| 42
For more than three decades, Augier’s work has been chronicling an evolving Caribbean culture, sometimes in jubilant celebration, sometimes with a deep sense of loss. His voice is passionate and disturbingly prophetic, delving into issues of identity and ownership against a background of irrevocable change in the landscape of St Lucia and the wider Caribbean. Adrian Augier is an award-winning poet and theatre producer from St Lucia. He is the 2010 Caribbean Laureate for Arts and Letters, as awarded by the ANSA Foundation. His previous poetry collections include Out of Darkness (1979), Genesis (1980), Of Many Voices (1981), Tears & Triumphs (1982) and BridgeMaker (2001).
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845232-02-3 206x135mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF)
The Son of a Shoemaker is a sequence of 18 prose poems based on the early life of Hans Christian Andersen. The poems are collaged from a fictionalised biography of Andersen, The Shoemaker’s Son, by Constance Buel Burnett, which was published by George G Harrap & Co in 1943. The text is illustrated by the author. “The collection is beautifully illustrated by the poet herself with drawings that capture their fantastic, ordinary, haunted world.” Luke Kennard, Poetry London (on Inventory) Linda Black is a poet and a visual artist. Her awards include the 2004/5 Poetry School Scholarship, the 2006 New Writing Ventures Poetry Award and an Arts Council Writer’s Award in 2007. The Beating of Wings (Hearing Eye, 2006) was a PBS Pamphlet Choice. Her other prose poem collections are Inventory (2008) and Root (2011), both published by Shearsman. She lives in London.
Hearing Eye » Paperback £7.50 » 978-1-905082-68-1 210x150mm » 36pp (10 full-page ill.) » Poetry (DCF) London
Woke Up This Morning Brian Docherty
Beyond the Sea Anne Fitzgerald
Ten Days in Jamaica Ifeona Fulani
Widely published in magazines, including Acumen, Magma, Poetry Salzburg, Ambit, Fire and Iota
“Fitzgerald is a writer going from strength to strength” – Frank McGuinness on The Map of Everything (2006)
Short-story collection by Jamaican author, set in Jamaica, the UK, the US and India
Woke up this Morning is a hitchhiker’s guide to cultural alienation, from Glasgow to London to San Francisco and back again. Brian Docherty grew up in Scotland in the 1960s, listening to Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon on the radio. In the 1970s he hitched across Europe, then followed the Vikings West to Vinland in North America, that green utopia ‘where everything seemed possible’. The result is a series of studies in estrangement and exile, real and imagined: Stanley Spencer in Cookham, Dracula in Whitby, Gauguin on Tahiti, Otis Redding sitting on the dock of the bay. Brian Docherty was born in Glasgow in 1953. His first two books, Armchair Theatre (1999) and Desk with a View (2008), were both published by Hearing Eye. He has coedited several Macmillan anthologies, most recently British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s: Politics and Art (1997). He lives in North London.
Smokestack Books Paperback » £7.95 978-0-957172-22-7 197x127mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) London / Scotland
Anne Fitzgerald’s poetry flies in the face of the Irish literary tradition, unfolding in surprising, often bewildering ways. Beyond the Sea sees her marrying her own Irish origins with truly international experiences at all corners of the Atlantic and beyond – from Beara Island to Iceland, New York to Taos, New Mexico, Montana to Monaco. “Fitzgerald is a poet whose work I have followed with great interest for a long time... She creates her unique effects with a densely-patterned music which takes us from tight lyrics through to the edges of prose poetry.” Ian Duhig Anne Fitzgerald is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her other collections are Swimming Lessons (2001) and The Map of Everything (2006). In 2007 she was a recipient of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Bursary at The Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco. She lives in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-20-5 210x134mm » 76pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
This collection of short stories travels from the lush hills and sunny beaches of Jamaica to London, New York and Calcutta, following the hearts and desires of Caribbean people in search of love and life in unfamiliar places. In the title story, a Jamaican youth hustles a living as an escort to tourists. In ‘Fevergrass Tea’ a young woman returns from New York to Jamaica to find that the rules of romance have very much changed. In ‘Elephant Dreams’, Black Londoner Jewel’s dreams of riding an elephant lead her to India, where her lover Arjun will introduce her to his family. Together the stories are funny, vivid and moving in their insight into lives of self-discovery, and self-deception. Ifeona Fulani is the author of Seasons of Dust (1997) and Archipelagos of Sound (forthcoming). She has had short stories published in the Beacon’s Best anthology series, and teaches Writing at New York University.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845231-99-6 206x135mm » 120pp Fiction (FYB)
43 |
NOVEMBER
UEA 17 Poets Anthology 2012 edited by Nathan Hamilton & Rachel Hore
UEA Creative Writing Prose Anthology 2012 edited by Nathan Hamilton & Rachel Hore
UEA Scriptwriting Anthology 2012 edited by Nathan Hamilton & Rachel Hore
New poetry anthology from world-renowned UEA Creative Writing course
With a Foreword by Andrew Miller, winner of the 2012 Costa Prize for Pure
Theatre Studies interest; includes interview with playwright and Guardian columnist Steve Waters
The University of East Anglia is proud to announce its new anthologies of work from the prose (including life writing), poetry and scriptwriting strands from their world-renowned Creative Writing MA. The first of these, the UEA 17 Poets Anthology 2012, carries an introduction from Lavinia Greenlaw and George Szirtes.
With a foreword by former student and Costa Prize-winner, Andrew Miller, the UEA Creative Writing Prose Anthology 2012 showcases over 30 talented new writers from the Prose and Life Writing courses.
The UEA Scriptwriting Anthology 2012 includes an interview with British playwright Steve Waters and an introduction by course director Val Taylor.
Over the decades, the UEA course has produced many successful, well-loved and prize-winning authors, such as Ian McEwan, Tracy Chevalier, Toby Litt, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Boyne, Susan Fletcher, Joe Dunthorne, Anajali Joseph and Sam Byers. “The interaction of such different voices has helped each to become more distinctive, more its own.” Lavinia Greenlaw “No house-style, no ready-mades, simply original thinking, original writing from an exciting set of individual voices.” George Szirtes
Egg Box Publications Paperback » £9.99 978-0-956928-94-8 210x148mm » 176pp Anthologies (DCQ) East Anglia
NOVEMBER
| 44
“In years to come, when some of these writers are household names, this book will allow you to say, with total superiority: ‘I preferred their early stuff.’” Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine “Thoughtful prose... provocative stories that stay in the mind, extracts from novels that make one long for the finished book.” John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
“Out of such talent the notion of nonfiction might yet be invented anew.” Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan or, The Whale (winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for NonFiction) “UEA has a knack of discovering writers with a distinctive voice... Read them and sample the future.” John Boyne .
“The UEA is a supportive community, a creative muse and a fertile ground... to grow the best crop of new writers each year. Sample and enjoy this season’s produce.” Jeremy Page, author of Salt and The Wake
Egg Box Publications Paperback » £9.99 978-0-956928-93-1 210x148mm » 208pp Anthologies (DQA) East Anglia
Egg Box Publications Paperback » £9.99 978-0-956928-95-5 210x148mm » 144pp Anthologies / Drama (DQDD / DD) East Anglia
Loose Connections Maurice Harmon
The Breaking of the Day Michael Heffernan
Still Life Gordon Hodgeon
“Harmon displays an ability to combine tenderness and pathos with a fiercely unsentimental honesty” – Paul Perry, The Irish Times
Regularly features on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac radio show
Winner of the Mirehouse Poetry Prize (Keswick) in 2004 and 2007, judged by Ruth Padel
The Breaking of the Day is a book built around a 3-piece title sequence as Michael Heffernan, now in his 70s, reflects on life from his own backyard. The poems take in the whole of Ireland, northern Michigan and the shores of the Great Lakes, even a tumbledown Parisian backstreet. Together they convey an increasing uncertainty in the power of human testimony, seeking solace in the control of the classical metre and vision of the master poets who preceded him.
Following a series of unsuccessful spinal operations in 2010, Gordon Hodgeon has been confined to bed and wheelchair, unable to move his arms and legs and often unable to breathe without a ventilator.
This new collection sees Maurice Harmon re-examining a life’s loose connections: departure to boarding school, family separations, an extramarital affair, sexual pleasure and abuse, misunderstandings between fathers and sons. Evil is encountered in the home, the church and the doctor’s surgery – offset by the beauty of a woman in a Dublin café, flowers in Achill, horses in the field, a snow-capped mountain. Maurice Harmon, former Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College Dublin, is a distinguished poet and literary historian. He edited the pioneering Little, Brown anthology Irish Poetry After Yeats (1988), and his work appears in Poetry Ireland, Shearsman and The Stinging Fly, and at the National Gallery of Ireland. His Salmon poetry collections include The Last Regatta (2001), The Doll with Two Backs (2004), The Mischievous Boy (2008) and When Love is Not Enough: New & Selected Poems (2010). He lives in Dublin.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-19-9 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
“Michael Heffernan is a national treasure. By turns haunting, ethereal, quirky, and humorous, his poems never fail to delight.” Martha Silano Michael Heffernan was born in Detroit. His most recent collections are The Odour of Sanctity (Salmon, 2008) and At the Bureau of Divine Music (2011). He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-18-2 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
Still Life captures the poet’s comingto-terms with a gradually narrowing view on the world; some were dictated to friends and nursing staff, some typed using voice-recognition software. But most of all it is a book about living, a wonderfully energetic and sharply humorous celebration of the fact of being alive – the birth of a granddaughter, the slow changing of the seasons through the hospital window. Gordon Hodgeon was born in Lancashire in 1941. His previous books include November Photographs (1981), A Cold Spell (1996) and Winter Breaks (Smokestack, 2006). He won the Mirehouse Poetry Prize (Keswick) in 2004 and 2007. He lives in Stockton-on-Tees.
Smokestack Books Paperback » £7.95 978-0-957172-20-3 197x127mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) North-East
45 |
NOVEMBER
The Songs of Man Mahmud Kianush Third collection from prominent Iranian working with Persian section of the BBC This is the third collection of English poems by the Iranian-born poet, critic and story-writer Mahmud Kianush. For Kianush, poetry has always been the language by which human beings first began to understand themselves and the mysteries of the world around them.
Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UK edited by Russell Jones Ground-breaking anthology featuring poems by Joe Dunthorne, Ross Sutherland, W.N. Herbert and the late Edwin Morgan Where Rockets Burn Through features sci-fi poems from over thirty writers currently living and working in the UK, including Joe Dunthorne, W.N. Herbert, Ross Sutherland, Ron Butlin, Ken MacLeod, Jane Yolen, Aiko Harman, Jon Stone, Kirsten Irving, Lorraine Mariner and Chrissy Williams. The anthology also showcases work by the late Scots Makar Edwin Morgan, a pioneer of sci-fi poetics. From alternate worlds and dystopian futures to alien landings and photon guns, this collection of interstellar poems will delight and excite Trekkie and poetry fan alike. Russell Jones is an Edinburgh-based writer, editor and researcher. His chapbook of science fiction poems, The Last Refuge, was published in 2009. He is guest editor for the Interdisciplinary Science Review and is currently completing his PhD in Creative Writing and tutoring in Scottish Literature at Edinburgh University.
Penned in the Margins » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-908058-05-8 » 216x138mm » 192pp Anthologies (DCQ) Scotland
NOVEMBER
| 46
But suddenly something happened Something beyond Nature’s laws, Something even beyond God’s expectations, And Poetry dawned on me And made me a Human Being. And now, It is Poetry that lives in me; And now I am Poetry Incarnate Mahmud Kianush works as a freelance producer for the BBC Persian Section. In 1996 he translated and edited the Rockingham Press anthology Modern Persian Poetry. His previous collections, both published by Rockingham, are Of Birds and Men: Poems from a Persian Divan (2004) and The Amber Shell of Self (2011). He has translated the works of John Steinbeck, D.H. Lawrence, Federico Garcia Lorca and Samuel Beckett into Persian. He lives in Pitshanger, West London.
Rockingham Press Paperback » £9.99 978-1-904851-45-5 210x140mm » 92pp Poetry (DCF) London
Empire of Shadows Hugh McFadden
Ad-liberation Sai Murray
Bistro Kate North
Published in magazines like Poetry Ireland Review and Cyphers
“A truly original voice” – Courttia Newland
Twice shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (2001, 2002)
In Empire of Shadows, Hugh McFadden develops the themes of war and peace first examined in his Selected Poems: Elegies and Epiphanies (2005). The poems look at the effects of carpet-bombed cities in the Second World War, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Blitz, the fire-bombing of Tokyo, and the more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The war verses are counterpointed by poems about modern-day Ireland, after the ‘Celtic Tiger’ debacle. There are also poems of domestic peace, as well as several elegies for friends who have crossed the great divide. Hugh McFadden was born in Derry. For many years he was a journalist with the Irish Press, regularly reviewing books in the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, the Sunday Tribune and Hibernia. His previous poetry collections are Cities of Mirrors (1984), Pieces of Time (2004) and Elegies and Epiphanies: Selected Poems (2005). He lives in Dublin.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-13-7 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
Following in the political footsteps of the late great Adrian Mitchell, and delighting in the kind of punk wordplay that brought fame to John Cooper Clarke, Sai Murray has built an enthusiastic audience for his dramatic poetry performances. Challenging the status quo, his poems take on the age of consumerism. He also delivers parodies of the language of the Red Tops, the clichés of our political rulers, the trivialisations of Facebook, and the burying of history in a Caribbean made fit for tourists. Sai Murray is a now a writer and artist, but in a former life he worked in advertising – the first part of his novel Kill Myself Now: The True Confessions of An Advertising Genius was published by Peepal Tree in 2008. He is currently a poet/ facilitator for Shake! Young Voices on Arts, Race, Media & Power, and the Communications Director for Leeds Young Authors. He lives in Pontefract.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845232-06-1 206x135mm » 72pp Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
Family and partners feature heavily in this new collection from Kate North, which explores issues of sexual and cultural identity. The situations may be intense, uncomfortable and at times painful, but North is not afraid to explore them with humour and disarming honesty. “She is among those rare emerging contemporary poets whose work is experimental without drawing attention to itself…” Jane Monson Kate North was poetry editor for Aesthetica from 2006 to 2007, and currently edits for Iota. Her own work has been widely anthologised, including in Not a Muse (2010) and The Pterodactyl’s Wing: Welsh World Poetry (2003). Her first novel, Eva Shell, was published by Cinnamon in 2008, and she recently edited The C Word, an anthology of writing by students at the University of Wales, Cardiff (Cinnamon, 2011). She currently lives and teaches in Cardiff at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-73-8 216x140mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) South Wales
47 |
NOVEMBER
An Absence of Ruins Orlando Patterson
The Flowering Rock E.M. Roach
“A very moving book” – Robert Nye, The Guardian
Includes some of the best loved, most quoted Caribbean poems
An Absence of Ruins was originally published in 1967, a period of decolonising ferment in Jamaica. This important and much soughtafter Caribbean Modern Classic is now lovingly restored to print, with an introduction by Jeremy Poynting.
This is a second, significantly revised, edition of the work of Eric Roach, who with Claude McKay and Louise Bennett was the Caribbean’s most important poet before the generation of Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite.
Through the tangled love life of Alexander Blackman, Patterson offers up a devastating critique of middleclass pretension, turning instead to the vibrant realities of the Jamaican working class. Full of sardonic humour and social commentary, the novel looks into the dark heart of social hierarchy and the impact it has on both the individual and the many.
When the first edition appeared in 1992, it was recognised as one of the most important Caribbean publishing events of recent years. This second edition adds a number of rediscovered poems and includes significant variants of a number of Roach’s most important poems. Introduced by Kenneth Ramchand, Professor Emeritus at the University of the West Indies.
Orlando Patterson was born in Jamaica in 1940. He is the author of three novels: The Children of Sisyphus (1964, reprinted by Peepal Tree, 2011), An Absence of Ruins (1967), and Die the Long Day (1972). He received the Order of Distinction from the Government of Jamaica in 1999. He is now Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-845231-04-0 206x135mm » 140pp Fiction (FA)
NOVEMBER
| 48
Eric Merton Roach was born in 1915 in Tobago. In 1974, leaving behind ‘Finis’, a suicide note transformed into art, Roach drank insecticide and swam out to sea at Quinam Bay, itself the subject of his poem ‘At Quinam Bay’. He was posthumously awarded the Trinidad and Tobago National Hummingbird Gold Medal in 1974.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £12.99 » 978-1-845232-07-8 206x135mm » 230pp Poetry (DCF)
The Book behind the Dune Andrés Sánchez Robayna translated by Louis Bourne First bilingual edition of one of Shearsman’s Recommended Hispanic Poets The Book behind the Dune (El libro, tras la duna) is a major Spanish visionary work which has been translated into Czech, Italian, Arabic, French, German, and now, for the first time here, into English. It is the delving, philosophical odyssey of a boy poet who becomes a student of the world, trying to ‘penetrate the invisible’. The book is filled with classical and literary allusions, in a virtuoso display of how the arts of poetry, visual art, sculpture and song unite to become ‘the world’s music’. Andrés Sánchez Robayna was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain in 1952. Since 1979, he has held a Professorship in Spanish Literature at the University of La Laguna, Spain. Louis Bourne was born in Virginia in 1942. He has translated works by Vicente Aleixandre, María Victoria Atencia, Justo Jorge Padrón, Rafael Bordao and Clara Janés.
Agenda Editions » Paperback £11.00 » 978-1-908527-08-0 210x150mm » 128pp Poetry (DCF)
Wingbeats Adam Strickson Two operas produced as part of imove, Yorkshire’s Cultural Olympiad program Wingbeats is the result of a two-year cultural project, inspired by the wonder of flight, which brought together international and UK artists, school children, students and residents of Yorkshire’s East Riding to create two ambitious operas, performed in Leeds and Bridlington. Flight Paths (2011) is the story of a Leeds girl’s rollercoaster journey from Bempton Cliffs to Flamborough on a midsummer’s day, and how it turns her life around. Amy’s Last Dive (2012) was inspired by aviatrix Amy Johnson, the girl from Hull who flew around the world, took huge risks and made history. Wingbeats contains a fascinating selection of material from the project: including poems, diary and blog extracts, full texts for both operas, and a DVD featuring film and sound recordings. Adam Strickson is a poet, theatre writer and director. He recently won the Yorkshire Prize in the Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leeds.
Valley Press Paperback + DVD » £10.00 978-1-908853-14-1 210x135mm » 112pp Performing Arts (AVGC9 / ASZ) Yorkshire
The Limerickiad: Volume II, From John Donne to Jane Austen Martin Rowson Pre-Christmas 2012 tie-in with the Independent on Sunday; sequel to strong-selling first volume Every week for the last six years in the Independent on Sunday, award-winning cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson has been telling the story of world literature using illustrated limericks. Following the runaway success of the first volume of The Limerickiad in 2011 (from Gilgamesh to the Complete Works of Shakespeare), Volume II takes the story from John Donne to Jane Austen. Yet again Rowson manages to lower the tone – poking fun at Jacobean Tragedy, mangling all twelve books of Paradise Lost, and ridiculing the Romantics and their flowery ways. Martin Rowson is an award-winning cartoonist whose work regularly appears in the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Mirror. His books include graphic adaptations of The Waste Land (Penguin, 1990) and Gulliver’s Travels (Atlantic, 2012), which was featured on BBC and in the Guardian and Daily Telegraph. His other books include Stuff (Vintage, 2008), a memoir longlisted for the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in London.
Smokestack Books » Hardback » £9.99 978-0-956814-49-4 » 197x127mm » 124pp (20 b&w ill.) Humour (WHC) / Poetry (DCF) London
49 |
NOVEMBER
On the Saltmarsh Ruth Valentine Previously commended in the National Poetry Competition (2007) and the Troubadour International Poetry Prize (2010) The latest collection from Ruth Valentine looks unerringly at the true toll of conflict in the modern world, be it in Chile, Kosovo or Iraq. Like the shifting sands and swelling tides of the Saltmarsh itself, these are places where the bodies are too easily buried, lost on the map, out at the margins and away from public view and inquiry. These poems of war, migration and exile rise out of old photographs, bloody handprints and broken headstones – the redrawn borders of the victors, the unmarked graves of the defeated, and the suppressed memories of the survivors. Ruth Valentine’s previous books of poetry include The Tide Table (1998) and The Announced (2009). She has also published two books for schools on welfare issues, and a history of Horton Hospital in Epsom. Her prose piece ‘Stalking the Tiger’ features in Iain Sinclair’s London, City of Disappearances (2006). She lives in Tottenham, North London.
Smokestack Books Paperback » £7.95 978-0-957172-21-0 197x127mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) London NOVEMBER
| 50
Newtown: A Photographic Journey in Reading, 1974 Terry Allsop Unique photographs of the 1970s redevelopment of Reading Newtown is a collection of unique photographs, recording the days prior to the demolition of part of Victorian Newtown to make way for its 1970s replacement, now a suburb of Reading. Evocative black-and-white images of the streets, the houses, the canal and the people reveal glimpses of a vibrant society on the brink of change, in which children play in streets fragile with decay but still intricate in their construction. This beautiful book will fascinate anyone either personally or professionally interested in the social history of Reading. Terry Allsop was born in London in 1940. Working for an architectural firm in Reading, he was charged with recording each building in every street in the 16-acre site about to be demolished and redeveloped. He staged two exhibitions of the Newtown photographs in conjunction with Reading Library in 2009 and 2011.
Two Rivers Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-901677-88-1 210x185mm » 188pp (107 b&w ill.) » Local Interest / Photography (WQP) Reading
Harm’s Way Conor Carville Winner of the 2007 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry Conor Carville’s first collection of poems moves back and forth in time, and across the world, to listen to accounts of harm and the means by which it has been resisted or overcome. The poems probe how violence and abuse reverberate through history and memory, politics and psychology, be it through the voices of St Patrick’s sister Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Kandinsky, Walter Benjamin, an 18thcentury mariner or a modern-day wheelie-bin. Moving and incisive, the poems also combine memories of childhood and youth in Northern Ireland with reflections on the globalised present. Conor Carville was born in Armagh City. In 1997 he won the Friends Provident Irish National Poetry Prize, and in 2007 the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. A Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Reading, he lives in London.
Dedalus Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-906614-62-1 214x140mm » 70pp » Poetry (DCF) London / Ireland
DECEMBER
On this Side of the River: Selected Poems David Ferry First UK Selected by winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Prize for 2011 David Ferry is one of the most eminent poets writing in the US today, yet his work remains almost completely unknown on this side of the Atlantic. In On this Side of the River, his first UK Selected Poems, Waywiser presents a large sampling of his work, both as original poet and unrivalled translator. “The best poet now writing in America.” Christopher Ricks “Now that most of a lifetime’s poems and translations have been gathered together into one book, many more readers must now realize what a masterly poet we have had among us.” Robert Mezey David Ferry was born in New Jersey in 1924. His works include the collections Dwelling Places (1993) and Of No Country I Know (1999), a finalist for the New Yorker Book Award, along with translations of Horace and Virgil, and his widely-celebrated Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse (Bloodaxe, 1993). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Waywiser Press » Paperback £12.99 » 978-1-904130-52-9 197x130mm » 248pp » Poetry (DCF)
Exiles edited by Patricia McCarthy With poems by Greg Delanty and Martyn Crucefix, and translations by Ruth Christie, Richard McKane and Sasha Dugdale Exiles is the Winter 2012 issue of Agenda poetry magazine (vol. 47, no. 1), a haunting compilation of poems and translations/versions, from many parts of the world, on the theme of exile. There are poems by the likes of Tim Liardet, Peter Dale, Sheenagh Pugh, Greg Delanty, Martyn Crucefix and Nausheen Eusuf, and translations by Ruth Christie, Sasha Dugdale, Richard McKane, Timothy Adès, Stephen Watts and Will Stone. The issue also includes William Bedford interviewing Bernard O’Donoghue, Francis O’Gorman discussing the exile theme in Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach, and Belinda Cooke writing on Russian women poets. “Agenda, as the title insists, does several things that need to be done if literary culture is to stay in good shape.” Seamus Heaney
Agenda » Paperback » £11.00 978-1-908527-06-6 210x150mm » 128pp Poetry (DCQ)
Broad Street Chapel & The Origins of Dissent in Reading Geoff Sawers Full historical account of one of Reading’s most important buildings The beautiful façade of Broad Street Congregational Chapel, one of the jewels of Reading’s town centre, conceals a fascinating past. Geoff Sawers chronicles the life of the building and its origins: from the Lollards of the 1500s, through puritanism and persecution in the 1600s, respectability in the 1800s, and final decline in the 1960s. In this comprehensive and detailed account, the story of the building is told in its entirety, right up to its present-day restoration, now home to a thriving bookshop. Geoff Sawers is a poet and artist from Reading. His previous Two Rivers books include A Thames Bestiary (2007) and A Ladder for Mr Oscar Wilde (2008). His illustrations appear in the Two Rivers books The Island of Anarchy by Elizabeth Waterhouse (1997) and The Reading Quiz Book by Adam Sowan (2011).
Two Rivers Press » Paperback £7.95 » 978-1-901677-89-8 170x125mm » 64pp Local Interest (WQH / HRCC2) Reading
51 |
DECEMBER
MAGAZINES ALL MAGAZINES AVAILABLE TO THE BOOK TRADE THROUGH CENTRAL BOOKS. CONTACT MARK@CENTRALBOOKS.COM FOR FURTHER INFO.
MNAOGVAEZMI N BE ER S
| 52
BACKLIST
To celebrate our 10th Anniversary, here are some Inpress highlights from the last decade.
POETRY The Limerickiad: Volume I, from Gilgamesh to the Complete Works of Shakespeare by Martin Rowson
Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Poetic Forms, Rules & Constraints by Tom Chivers (ed)
Smokestack | Hardback | 125pp | £9.99 978-0-956814-42-5
Penned in the Margins | Paperback | 192pp | £9.99 978-1-908058-01-0
[Featured in the Independent and on Radio 3]
[Featuring Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel, Joe Dunthorne]
Animal Magic: Poems on a Disappearing World by Liz Brownlee Iron | Paperback 96pp | £10.00 978-0-956572-53-0
BACKLIST
| 54
Charmed Lives by Mike Barlow
Cloud Camera by Lesley Saunders
Clueless Dogs by Rhian Edwards
Smith Doorstop | Paperback 64pp | £9.95 978-1-906613-52-5
Two Rivers | Paperback 80pp | £8.99 978-1-901677-81-2
Seren | Paperback 72pp | £8.99 978-1-854115-73-7
POETRY
Selected Poems by John Fowles
Letter to Patience by John Haynes
Flambard | Paperback | 132pp | £12.00 978-1-906601-35-5
Seren | Paperback | 96pp | £7.99 978-1-854114-12-9
[Featured in the Bookseller]
[Winner of Costa Prize 2006]
The Haiku Hundred by David Cobb, James Kirkup & Peter Mortimer (eds) Iron | Paperback 64pp | £3.50 978-0-906228-42-5
His Hands Were Gentle by Víctor Jara
How Abraham Abandoned Me by Bejan Matur
Smokestack | Paperback 174pp | £8.95 978-0-956814-41-8
Arc | Hardback & Paperback 160pp | £13.99 / £10.99 978-1-906570-01-9 (hb) 978-1-906570-00-2 (pb)
How to be a Grandfather: The Complete Edition by Victor Hugo Hearing Eye | Paperback 180pp | £12.00 978-1-905082-66-7
55 |
BACKLIST
POETRY Life After Life After Death by Felix Hodcroft
The Little Auto by Apollinaire
Valley Press | Paperback 86pp | £8.00 978-0-956890-49-8
CB Editions | Paperback 148pp | £7.99 978-0-956735-94-2
Pray for Us Sinners by Joolz Denby
Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry by Kwame Dawes (ed)
Split Screen: Poetry Inspired by Film & TV by Andy Jackson (ed)
Arc | Hardback & Paperback 116pp | £12.99 / £9.99 978-1-906570-44-6 (hb) 978-1-906570-22-4 (pb)
Peepal Tree | Paperback 252pp | £9.99 978-1-845231-29-3
Red Squirrel | Paperback 86pp | £6.99 978-1-906700-60-7
Tokens for the Foundlings by Tony Curtis (ed)
Welsh Retrospective by Dannie Abse
A Year in the Bull-Box by Glyn Hughes
Seren | Paperback 180pp | £12.99 978-1-854115-81-2
Seren | Paperback 72pp | £7.99 978-1-854114-86-0
What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo by Pascale Petit
Comma | Paperback 80pp | £6.99 978-0-954828-06-6
BACKLIST
| 56
Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam by Todd Swift & Kym Lockwood (eds) Cinnamon | Paperback 144pp | £8.99 978-1-907090-62-2
Seren | Paperback 72pp | £8.99 978-1-854115-15-7
A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens by Peter Robinson (ed) Two Rivers | Paperback 160pp | £10.00 978-1-901677-78-2
Arc | Hardback & Paperback 64pp | £10.99 / £7.99 978-1-906570-78-1 (hb) 978-1-906570-79-8 (pb)
FICTION
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
Stranded by Val McDermid
Seren | Paperback | 384pp | £8.99 | 978-1-854115-41-6
Flambard | Hardback & Paperback 216pp | £14.99 / £7.99 978-1-873226-74-2 (hb) 978-1-873226-74-2 (pb)
[Longlisted for 2011 Man Booker Prize]
[With foreword by Ian Rankin]
Big Low Tide by Candy Neubert
A Book of Blues by Courttia Newland
The Book of Idiots by Christopher Meredith
Butterfly in the Wind by Lakshmi Persaud
Seren | Paperback 208pp | £8.99 978-1-854115-83-6
Flambard | Paperback 224pp | £8.99 978-1-906601-22-5
Seren | Paperback 220pp | £8.99 978-1-854115-65-2
Peepal Tree | Paperback 260pp | £7.99 978-0-948833-36-6
57 |
BACKLIST
FICTION Dancing for the Hangman by Martin Edwards
The Gospel of Us by Owen Sheers
A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees by Clare Dudman
Sister of the Artist by Dai Vaughan
Flambard | Paperback 256pp | £8.99 978-1-906601-00-3
Seren | Paperback 200pp | £8.99 978-1-854116-22-2
Smoked Meat by Rowena Macdonald
This is Not a Novel by David Markson
Truth Games by Bobbie Darbyshire
The Turing Test by Chris Beckett
Flambard | Paperback 256pp | £8.99 978-1-906601-33-1
CB Editions | Paperback 174pp | £7.99 978-0-956107-33-6
Cinnamon | Paperback 288pp | £8.99 978-1-905614-72-1
Elastic | Paperback 230pp | £7.99 978-0-955318-18-4
CB Editions | Paperback 152pp | £7.99 978-0-956735-97-3
Seren | Paperback 300pp | £7.99 978-1-854115-18-8
New Stories from the Mabinogion (Seren)
The Dreams of Max and Ronnie 9781854115027
BACKLIST
The Meat Tree
The Ninth Wave
The Prince’s Pen
White Ravens
The White Trail
9781854115232
9781854115140
9781854115522
9781854115034
9781854115515
| 58
NON-FICTION
Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman by John Morris
The Art of Denis Williams by Evelyn A. Williams
Seren | Paperback | 220pp | £9.99 | 978-1-854115-66-9
Peepal Tree | Paperback | 176pp £27.99 | 978-1-845231-93-4
[UK & International Media Coverage]
[Artist acclaimed by Salvador Dali & Henry Moore]
Birds, Blocks and Stamps by Robert Gillmor Two Rivers | Paperback 64pp | £12.50 978-1-901677-79-9
Canterbury Tales: Chaucer Made Modern by Phil Woods Iron | Paperback 72pp | £5.95 978-0-906228-43-2
Real Bloomsbury by Nicholas Murray Seren | Paperback 200pp | £9.99 978-1-854115-26-3
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy? by Mavis Nicholson (ed) Seren | Paperback 280pp | £9.99 978-1-854115-29-4
59 |
BACKLIST
A
E
K
Abse, Dannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Edwards, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Keegan, Colm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Agnew, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Edwards, Rhian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Kellman, Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Allsop, Terry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
F
Kennard, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Andrews, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Ferry, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Khan, Ismith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Apollinaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Fitzgerald, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Kianush, Mahmud . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Augier, Adrian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Forbes, Curdella . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Kirkup, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
B
Formby, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Knight, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Barlow, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Fortune, Rowan B. . . . . . . . . . . 26
Kristný, Gerður . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Barnie, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Fowles, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
L
Beckett, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Fulani, Ifeona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Lavrinenko, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Behrens, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
G
Leftwich, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Bidgood, Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Geden, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Leonidova, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Black, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Giannuzzi, Joaquín O. . . . . . . . . 27
Lewis, Gwyneth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Bogatereva, Irina . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Gillmor, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Lim, Ann-Margaret . . . . . . . . . . 29
Boran, Pat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Griffiths, Niall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Littlepage Smith, Dana . . . . . . . 37
Bourne, Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Gwyn, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Lockwood, Kym . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Brownlee, Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
H
Ludwig, Paula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
C
Hamilton, Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . 44
M
Carpenter, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Harmon, Maurice . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
MacCarthy, Catherine Phil . . . . 29
Carson, Liam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Harrison, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Macdonald, Rowena . . . . . . . . . 58
Carville, Conor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Haynes, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
MacKenna, John . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Casey, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Heffernan, Michael . . . . . . . . . . 45
Madec, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Celyn Jones, Russell . . . . . . . . . 58
Herrad, Imogen Rhia . . . . . . . . . 27
Markson, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapman, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Higgins, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Marsh, Selina Tusitala . . . . . . . . 16
Charlton, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Hill, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Matur, Bejan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Cheran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Hinshelwood, Emily . . . . . . . . . 36
McCarthy, Patricia . . . . . 16, 29, 51
Chivers, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Hippolyte, Kendel . . . . . . . . . . . 21
McDermid, Val . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Clare, Horatio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Hodcroft, Felix . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 56
McFadden, Hugh . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Clark, Caroline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Hodgeon, Gordon . . . . . . . . . . . 45
McGlinchey, Afric . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Cobb, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 55
Holmström, Lakshmi . . . . . . . . . 34
McGuinness, Patrick . . . . . . . . . 57
Conquest, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Hore, Rachel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
McLoghlin, David . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Constantine, David . . . . . . . . . . 35
Horgan, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Mcloughlin, James . . . . . . . . . . 14
Constantine, Helen . . . . . . . . . . 35
Howden, Felice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
McTurk, Rory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Curtis, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Hubbard, Sue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Meredith, Christopher . . . . . . . . 57
D
Hughes, Glyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Mole, Kris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Dafydd, Fflur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Hugo, Victor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Morris, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Darbyshire, Bobbie . . . . . . . . . . 58
J
Morrison, Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Davoyan, Razmik . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Jackson, Andy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Mortimer, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Dawes, Kwame . . . . . . . 22, 25, 56
Jara, Víctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Mundy, Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Denby, Joolz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Jenkins, Nigel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Murphy, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Docherty, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Jones, Cynan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Murray, Nicholas . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Dorcey, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Jones, Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Murray, Sai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Dudman, Clare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Jones, Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Dugdale, Sasha . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
INDEX
| 60
N
T
Nash, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Thomson, Martina . . . . . . . . . . . 37
And a true poem is a glimpsed oblique track
Neubert, Candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Thompson, Ralph . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
opened by the strenuous silver writhing
Newland, Courttia . . . . . . . . . . . 57
V
of a poet
Nicholson, Mavis . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Valentine, Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
riddling a living way through dying language,
Noonan, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Vaughan, Dai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
North, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Vickerman, Sue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
O
W
Oates, Ralph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Whelan, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Ouriach, Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Whelan, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
P
Whittaker, Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Pang, Alvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Wilkins, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Patterson, Orlando . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Will, Colin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Perova, Natasha . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Williams, Evelyn A. . . . . . . . . . . 59
Persaud, Lakshmi . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Wilsea, Sue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Petit, Pascale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Woodburn, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Phillips, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Woods, Macdara . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Poynting, Jeremy . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Woods, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Pulinovich, Yaroslava . . . . . . . . 23
Z
R
Zhukova, Ksenia . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
creating a whole, hoping we fall, mindful, into it Kendal Hippolyte, ‘Silverfish’ [see page 21]
Redmond, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Rees-Jones, Deryn . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Rilke, Rainer Maria . . . . . . . . . . 56 Rimsha, Olga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Roach, E.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Robayna, Andrés Sánchez . . . . 48 Robinson, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Roper, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Rowson, Martin . . . . . . . . . . 49, 54 Ryan, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 S Sabbagh, Omar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Salick, Roydon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Saunders, Lesley . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Sawers, Geoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Sheers, Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Smith, Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Sowan, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Strickson, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Sutherland, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Sutherland, Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Swift, Todd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
61 |
INDEX
Trade Orders Our distributors are Central Books; please contact them for trade orders. For all other enquiries, please contact Inpress. Central Books Ltd 99 Wallis Road London E9 5LN Tel: 44 (0)845 458 9911 Fax: 44 (0)845 458 9912 orders@centralbooks.com www.centralbooks.com
Our Sales Representatives For more information on any of our titles – in the UK, Ireland, or further afield – please contact a member of our sales team. England Rachael Ogden rachael@inpressbooks.co.uk
Spain and Portugal Peter Prout, Iberian Book Services pprout@telefonica.net
Wales Ian Tripp iantripp@ymail.com
Australia and New Zealand Eleanor Brasch, Eleanor Brasch Enterprises brasch2@aol.com
Scotland Don Morrison donmo@blueyonder.co.uk Ireland Geoff Bryan independentpublishersagent@gmail.com
The new www.inpressbooks.co.uk 4,000 Books from 40 Independent Publishers All-New Rewards & Recommendations Free P&P in the UK
Image credits Front Cover: ‘Study of a spray of dead oak leaves’ (1879) by John Ruskin; Collection of the Guild of St George, Museums Sheffield Backlist: Detail from ‘Cendra / Vida’ (2009) by Assumpció Mateu (www.assumpciomateu.com) Catalogue Design: Jeremy Hopes
170 × 240 SPINE: 3.5 FLAPS: 0
Inpress Poetry Garden Market
Saturday 15th September at Foyles Southbank, London “Inpress is an efficient and necessary operation, which brings poetry and literary fiction publishers together in a collective, and in the process greatly benefits its members as well as their audiences. It is a powerful force for good, matching diversity with high quality, and old technologies with new. It deserves widespread support and admiration.” Sir Andrew Motion, poet, novelist and biographer Poet Laureate 1999–2009 “Inpress does invaluable work supporting the small presses who take risks, nurture bold new voices and publish a wealth of poets in translation and groundbreaking anthologies. Their bookshop is an Aladdin’s cave where I am always discovering new poets to inspire my own writing.” Pascale Petit, T.S. Eliot Prize nominee for 2010 “Discovering the Inpress website is a little like chancing upon a hidden gem of a bookshop on a sunny afternoon and happily losing all sense of time as you browse the beguiling titles on its shelves. It’s easy enough to find first-rate poetry collections among these pages; the hard bit is narrowing the list down...” Julia Copus, Forward Prize-nominated poet (in 1995 and 2010)
Join us in celebrating 10 years of Inpress as we enjoy the better-late-than-never sunshine, soak up some poetry and sip a glass of wine at Foyles Southbank. In partnership with the much-loved independent bookseller, The Poetry Garden Market will bring a selection of Inpress poets to the Foyles ‘lawn’, with books for sale, readings, workshops and a poetry competition.
Market Events 11am Our Poetry Garden Market opens with stalls featuring poetry pamphlets, anthologies, books, magazines and special limited editions. Plus! Our hand-tied poetry bouquets. 1pm to 3pm Readings on our Poetry Library Stage, with poets specially selected and introduced by Poetry Library staff. 3pm to 6pm Close readings of work by our guest poets with The Poetry School. 7pm Poetry Garden Market ‘Indian Summer’ Poetry Competition finalists read their work, and winner announced by our guest judge. 8pm to 9pm Join us for wine and cake at the Inpress 10th Birthday Party.
Indian Summer Poetry Competition Our poetry competition is free to enter. Poems should be written on the theme of ‘Indian Summer’ and there are two categories: over 16 and under 16. The closing date for the competition is Sunday 9th September at 5pm. See www.inpressbooks.co.uk/poetrygardenmarket for more details.
www.inpressbooks.co.uk/poetrygardenmarket
170 × 240 SPINE: 3.5 FLAPS: 0
INPRESS BOOKS JULY – DECEMBER 2012 1 0 T H A N N I V E R S A RY C AT A L O G U E
INP R E S S B OOK S | J U LY – D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 2
Inpress Ltd Churchill House 12 Mosley Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1DE
“a powerf ul force for good” – Sir Andrew Motion Tel: +44 (0)191 230 8104 enquiries@inpressbooks.co.uk www.inpressbooks.co.uk @inpressbooks www.facebook.com/inpressbooks