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Alone, taken from Poems by Georges Rodenbach. pg. 48

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Inpress: supporting leading literary book publishers for over a decade Dear bookseller and reader, Welcome to the Inpress catalogue July – December 2014.

Our publishers and their authors have been working tirelessly to create a brilliant selection of titles to accompany you to the end of the year.

Take a browse. This season’s selection will take you on a journey from the ginnels of York (In Between pg. 13) to the plains of the Western Sahara (Settled Wanderers pg. 24). Travel the length and breadth of the UK in limerick form (Limerick Nation pg. 25), or sit back and contemplate the urge to travel and the plight of the exile (Homesickness and Exile pg. 22).

As ever, there are a huge variety of books within these pages ranging from eco-thrillers (Enemy of the Earth pg. 30) to teen fantasy (Devilskein & Dearlove, pg. 12, Cry at Midnight pg. 18), historical novels (From Whitechapel, Double the Stars pg. 27) to the ultra-modern (Bilbao - New York – Bilbao pg. 30, The Blinding Walk, pg. 33). Homages to Dylan Thomas (The Poet and the Private Eye pg. 12, The Advantages of an Older Man pg. 32), work from some of the greatest artists living (John Berger collected poems pg. 26) and dead (Places and Other Poems – Thomas Hardy pg. 26). And as I hope you have come to expect, a fine selection of poetry from debuts, rising stars and established names, check out Pascale Petit, Michael Laskey, Wioletta Greg, Jack Lindsay, Salena Godden and Khadijah Ibrahiim. To name but a few!

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Dedalus [Dublin]

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Two Rivers Modern Poetry [Reading] in Translation Waywiser [Oxford] The Emma Press [Winnersh] Burning Eye Books [Bristol] Hogs Back Books [Guildford] Acumen [Brixham]

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Arachne Banipal CB Editions Hearing Eye Influx Press The London Magazine Menard Penned in the Margins [London]

Agenda [Mayfield]

Pighog [Brighton]

Debut Poets Swimming Home, A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, The Lighthouse, The Garden of Evening Mists… just a few independently published success stories that went on to be the next big thing. Talent is everywhere, just waiting to be unearthed, and the publishers we work with are tireless in their pursuit of the bold, the exciting and the new. This catalogue is full to the brim with debut collections from the brightest and best rising stars of the poetry world, here’s just a small taste of what’s on offer…

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I see now, East African Shoebill, that you are the true face of my bird fear.

David Attenborough may laud

Carved in cellular streams by the hand of one deity or another we were born.

your survival in shrinking marsh but I know you’re a dodo gone bad, a malicious sock puppet

We burned away the dark; drew the first music from the first strings beneath blackened oak.

with inappropriate legs. I’m not surprised when one of your chicks kills the other while I’m eating my spaghetti bolognaise,

The sea inscribed our history on a palimpsest of sand then erased it.

watching. You see me, fork raised, appalled and your Stanley knife mouthpiece flaps into close up. I press a cushion to my face but you knock it aside to pluck out my eyes while David moves onto the parties rhinos throw by night.

Taken from Playing House

by Katherine Stansfield. (pg. 25)

We forged iron. Harrowed the ground for ideas, or angels, or ideas of angels.

Flowers conjoined the earth to the air — received the comfort of morning — and nothing dwelled beneath that we knew.

If you should worry about us alone in the short dawn, we have left writings for you drawn with a stick in the dust of our souls’ leavings.

Somehow we found the words.

Taken from The Pilgrim Trail by Frances Spurrier. (pg. 25)

“Publishing a debut poet – working with an optimistic, open-minded writer and conferring on them the status of published poet, with all the esteem and new opportunities that brings – is definitely one of my favourite experiences as a publisher.” Jamie McGarry, Valley Press

Dream Woman

Homespun

I am not the woman of your dreams My hair is not made of sunbeams My eyes aren’t deepest ocean blue My lips aren’t ruby in their hue My cheeks are pale and rarely blush My legs too short, my skin too rough My toe bones click, my knee bones knock My wrist bones stick, my jaw bones lock I like my food, I put on weight I’m size 14 not slender 8 I’m spotty sometimes, yes, I fart I’ve no finesse or female art My breasts are not as big as hers I’m growing more advanced in years I’m not a princess, not a queen I’m more a nightmare than a dream I’m no pin-up or fantasy And yet you say that you love me And I love you – I will forever So let’s not dream, just sleep, together

My stays at Cowper Street were long – sometimes up to a year of Grandma’s “kidnap” – to compensate for my father being overseas, so I was split between my mother’s looser apron strings and Grandma’s homespun rules of do’s and don’ts and decency, when chores were regular and never shirked for skipping ropes, jacks and hot rice, when skylarking carried the repercussion of : Stand up straight, pull your socks up!

Never mind de playing outside wid dem pickney. Dem favour leggo beast.

Go find a book and read.

At Cowper Street, love’s strict hand nurtured studies, mental arithmetic and recitation on the spot, but Grandma also styled party frocks on the Singer in her bedroom and quilted the foundations of our kinship for generations; told me of her Welsh-blooded grandfather, Jabez, who gambled away the family’s Jamaican land, and of her first and second husbands, her six children: five names beginning with the letter ‘D’, the first born with an ‘S’; these stories stitched tightly to me.

Taken from Poor Queen by Mab Jones. (pg. 19)

Taken from Another Crossing by Khadijah Ibrahiim. (pg. 34)

Penned in the margins P

enned in the Margins began in August 2004 as a makeshift reading series in a converted railway arch in south London.

I had just graduated and was preparing to throw myself headlong into the city’s poetry scene. I didn’t know how to use a microphone stand, and my address book wasn’t exactly heaving.

When the poets were reading, the walls would shake from the trains rumbling overhead.

10 Penned in the Margins Ten Year Party

Rich Mix, London – Saturday 6 September, from 6pm, Tickets £5.

Two years later and I decided to quit my job to take on Penned in the Margins full-time. In December 2006 we released our first perfectbound book, Generation Txt, and the next year, with the help of an Arts Council grant, took the six contributors on a fourteen-date tour of England. Since then we have published over forty books, comprising poetry, criticism, experimental fiction and non-fiction; promoted hundreds of live events with a wide range of writers, performers, musicians and theatre-makers; and produced nine specially commissioned touring shows.

Always central to our ethos is the importance of thinking across genres, aesthetics and art forms. Poetry is at the core of what we do, and the range of styles and voices we support demonstrates what a vital artform it can be. It is also healthier when engaging in dynamic ways with the broader cultural landscape - not sitting on the naughty step or standing alone in the corner wearing a dunce’s hat (as Jeremy Paxman and others might have it).

Over the past decade we have enjoyed some significant successes, winning awards from the Poetry Book Society for Adventures in Form, Beowulf and Beautiful Girls, and a Guardian First Book Award longlisting for The Shipwrecked House. And we are always looking for exciting ways of bringing new writing to the stage through productions such as Kalagora, The Shroud and Electronic Voice Phenomena. We recently announced our programme a trio of outstanding associate artists – Ross Sutherland, Siddhartha Bose and Hannah Silva. And our commitment to ‘language in performance’ continues apace this year with a programme of new works such as Drift by Caroline Bergvall, The Shipwrecked House by Claire Trévien and Schlock! by Hannah Silva. We are always seeking opportunities to cook up unusual and thought-provoking performances, whether it’s an immersive after-hours tour of Keats House or a solo stage show inspired by Fifty Shades of Grey.

Running a small business is never easy, and poetry publishing has got to rank pretty high in the best ways to lose a fortune. Over the past decade, there have been some challenging times: legal threats, disastrous vehicle breakdown and even a fist-fight at a poetry gig spring to mind. But by working with talented writers and performers and with the support of partners such as Inpress, we have been able to build a loyal following and – we hope – stretch the limits of language on page and stage. I hope that you will join us on this exciting journey through word, text and voice as we begin the next ten years!

Tom Chivers

Arts Council England has announced its latest three-year funding decisions, and Penned in the Margins has been selected to join its National Portfolio. They will receive a total of £135,000 over three years to support their ambitious, cutting-edge programmes of books, literary events and cross-artform productions.

The Shipwrecked House

Adventures in Form

Luke Wright

by Claire Trévien

ed. by Tom Chivers

This lyrical and hallucinatory debut from the young Anglo-Breton poet is a surreal vision of a world steeped in myth and music in which everything is alive and constantly switching form.

Discover a multitude of new and unusual poetic forms, from tweet to time-splice, and from skinny villanelle to breakbeat sonnet, in this inspiring and inventinve anthology.

PB | £8.99 | 9781908058119 | 80pp Poetry (DCF)

PB | £9.99 | 9781908058010 | 192pp Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

“The best young performance poet around.”

The Observer “One of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation.”

Johann Hari, The Independent Explosive political satire and acerbic wit leap from stage to page in this debut collection from Luke Wright.

Mondeo Man celebrates and laments a country of disappearing pubs, celebrity anti-heroes and motorway service stations, perfectly capturing the English idiom at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Yummy mummies and debauched Tories mingle with drunk Essex commuters and leering tabloid paps; a small town chip-shop becomes the site of a heart-wrenching story of failed marriage; and a televised manhunt enthralls an entire nation. Fast-paced and inventive, this is poetry at its most approachable, satirical, fun, and archetypally English.

PB | £9.99 | 9781908058096 | 96pp Poetry (DCF)

© Bristi Chowdhury

Mondeo Man

For me, being part of the Penned in the Margins ‘stable’ means knowing that my book is in a safe pair of hands, from the early editing stages to its life beyond the publication, such as its current transformation into a show. It also means being in fantastic company, I was a fan long before I joined it, and the choices Tom continues to make with the books he publishes and the shows he produces, make it one of the most exciting publishing houses around.

Claire Trévien

Find details of the Penned in the Margins 10th anniversary anthology Marginalia on pg. 25 of this catalogue.

In the aftermath of a wholly unforeseen and deeply tragic turn of events, young Mel Seuchar strides along Longniddrie Beach in Edinburgh. He is trying to fit the broken pieces together. What really happened? How had it come about? He pictures himself and his friend Yehune; their flight out of New Zealand across the Asian Continent and all the way to Europe; Mairi, the girl they met there. Still the pieces won’t fit, the story refuses to cohere. Rebuilt in his head in a moment of wild insight, their story will become this narrative, the narrative of The Blinding Walk. We spoke to the author K. M. Ross.

The blinding walk What inspired the idea for The Blinding Walk?

It was an image that lived with me for many years, gaining power all the time: the picture of a new way of describing how we experience things. The story itself came later, built out of what actually happened in my life – my eventful trip from New Zealand via China and the Trans-Siberian Railway out to Eastern and then Western Europe, and the experience of trying to live on a shoestring in Edinburgh. It was always the focus of all my efforts; the book that I had to write one day – I’m still dazed by the fact that it’s finished or that it even could be finished.

What would you hope people would take away from reading it?

So many books I’ve read have opened up access to an inner country, a place that can be revisited any time in the stillness of the mind. This is the power of novels: to make worlds.

And it’s not only the authors who create them; a lot of the imaginative detailing, the personal meaning, comes from deep within the reader. I’d hope to create such a place for many people, where new aspects of their inner selves can be brought out into their eyes.

Who are your major influences?

In English language literature, the great Modernists, Joyce, Faulkner, Hemingway and Virginia Woolf; J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis; Joseph Conrad and Henry James; extraordinary individual talents such as Laurence Sterne, John Cowper Powys and Patrick White; Post-Modernists such as Kathy Acker and J. G. Ballard; and too many poets to name.

How was working with Waywiser Press and how important are independent publishers to a new author?

Working with Waywiser has been something like a very good dream. Nothing in my previous experience of the publishing world led me to expect that someone like Philip Hoy, so discerning and helpful, could exist.

As for independent publishers – newness is the life’s blood of any art. It’s wonderful to have huge companies that can bring literally millions of books to the reading public. But someone has to test the water and take the risk – have the vision to recognise the value of something that’s not the same as last year’s winner. These are the real contenders, these are the hunters; the ones who give chances to writers and keep reading alive.

You’ve got one sentence to convince someone to read your book, GO:

Someone who had read the book in typescript sent me a very nice note, which I’d like to quote here: “Alan Bennett says somewhere that ‘The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.’ I’d expect that readers of The Blinding Walk might well experience moments – perhaps even many moments – like that.”

Morri Creech’s The Sleep of Reason, also published by Waywiser Press, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2014.

(ISBN: 9781904130536)

Sydney Evening ‘Now, did I tell Mel the Yip? Think so, Yip and the Piano, but it won’t be late enough yet, if not’s not a worry. Yip yip yahoo.

Might not even have got off. A huh, a huh-huh… shit what a clown, bugger me if it isn’t.’

That was the form of words. It made small print tracks across street crossings, under the historic Coke sign, threaded in block-square letters through and around the solid metallic joints of scaffolding at the fag-end of the Strip past the King’s Cross club and bar signs. Where the light died yielding to light. Cracked neon, red and specious yellow. Fail light, fall light; where the night draws down its brow. Beetly-nighto.

Hey yeah good one.

‘What did you say your name was?’ the girl Neeomi had asked.

‘Yehune.’

‘Oh. Um, I’m sorry, can you say that again?’

‘Yehune.’

‘Oh, right. What sort of a name is that?’

‘It’s of Hebraic origin,’ he’d said to her, face held enigmatic under the strip-lights of the bar before: yip-yip.

‘Ah…’ Print Shop Tony put in in a stage whisper, ‘He means he’s Jewish, dumbo.’

‘Oh, Jewish? Why didn’t you say so? No need to be embarrassed, we love the Jews over here. This is a civilised country.’

Thees eez a see-vilised country. Seev, a seev-a. Words appeared to him again like shark’s teeth carried on the manylustred air, just as the tail of his eye was drawn to an unusual shape lying down in the gutter. What looked like the brokenoff snout of a shark moulded in iridescent plastic. Why not? he thought for a moment incoherently: says he’s Jewish.

Past the angles of pipes, the busker he’d seen took on line and detail, bobbing and ducking in the face of a small crowd. He was cadaverous in an orange raincoat, with a

clown’s deep-red mouth, working to a beat in the middle of a bombsite of strewn cups and paper plates and fragments of old food. A huh, a huh-huh; rubbish of a street-fest; Sydney Lighting Association. Banners hung from the trees. Just as Yehune drew in, the clown was making a show of offering kids the limp prophylactics of burst balloons.

Sucks, wouldn’t you say? And: kids, so there are kids in fucking King’s Cross, this hour; but those could be the parents just over there. Not those others. Three taller ladies stood off to one side, done up in careful plumage.

Unhesitatingly, Yehune broke formation. His workmate Tony was just then gassing discoursing print print on about something, the girls caught in different attitudes behind them. His first trip was to the gutterside to pick up the sharkend, then he had a job matching the soughing splintered edges roughly to the borders of his face. Got it – there – but can’t see fuck. Next, he bore down, bore in, making a sort of noise in the back of his throat, mm-ooiiinn, mm-ooiiinn, which made for a strange discordancy with the tin-blip beat of the ghetto blaster. Shark warning; out of the water. Better get a wriggle on. A voice from behind him, Tony’s voice, ‘Ah… Yehune?’ was lost in the logic of moments streaming back behind him, and broken into by a far louder shrilling from one of the transvestites, ‘Owwwm, look what’s comin’ our way darlings.’

Near the last moment, the clown met his eye through a gap, and before the crescendo of his throat-noise turned to words Yehune was able to see just one time the sad apprehensive brow under grease paint, the eyes, the chin too long under the ruby smile: a real person, flawed and fallible, life not artifice.

He roared into the shark-mask, ‘I – eat – clowns.’

Find details of the The Blinding Walk by K.M. Ross on pg. 33 of this catalogue.

T-junction

T-junction is a four-day poetry festival of readings, workshops, performances, debates, masterclasses, guest lectures and book launches, the programme so far includes a dozen poets of local, regional, national and international reputation. It is a unique opportunity for local readers and writers to enjoy the richness and diversity of international contemporary poetry, a showcase for the best of Teesside’s own long-standing poetry scene and a celebration of the region’s international history and multicultural character.

T-junction programme

T h u r s d ay 1 6 O c t o b e r

The Electric Kool Aid Cabaret of the Spoken Word T-junction kicks off with the legendary, high voltage performance night hosted by poets Bob Beagrie and Andy Willoughby, combining poetry, live music and comedy.

Featuring guest performances from Patience Ezinwoke, Hannah Lowe and Amir Darwish.

The Black Light Engine Room Teesside’s Black Light Engine Room magazine hosts a special night of poetry from Black Light regulars, plus special guests Nikola Madzirov, Nader Al Hussein, Marilyn Longstaff and Tara Bergin.

7.30pm, Westgarth Social Club, Southfield Road, £5/£3

Nikola Madzirov

7.30pm, venue to be confirmed, £5/£3

Nikola Madzirov was born in Strumica in Macedonia in 1973. He has published several prize-winning collections of poetry, including Locked in the City, Somewhere Nowhere, Relocated Stone and Remnants of Another Age. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

F r i d ay 1 7 O c t o b e r

Taking a Line for a Walk A Creative Writing walk through Middlesbrough, past and present. All you need is a pen, some paper and a bit of historical imagination. Led by local poet PA Morbid.

2.30pm (starts at the Bottle of Notes) FREE

John Berger

NadEr AL hussein Nader Al Hussein was born in 1985 in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Lebanon. He has published poetry, criticism and stories in the Lebanese newspaper al akhbar, usually under the pseudonym shahid aayan (‘witness’). He is presently studying Psychology at Teesside University

We are proud to welcome John Berger to T-junction for the UK launch of his Collected Poems, published by Teesside’s Smokestack Books. A unique opportunity to hear the distinguished novelist and critic read and answer questions about his work.

5.30pm refreshments, event starts 6pm, University of Teesside, Stephenson Lecture Theatre, Stephenson Building, off Borough Road. FREE

John Berger John Berger was born in London in 1926.

A poet, novelist, draughtsman, film-maker, essayist and critic, he is one of the major European intellectuals of our time, the author of books like Ways of Seeing, Permanent Red, To the Wedding, A Painter of Our Time, Pig Earth, Once in Europa, Lilac and Flag, The Seventh Man, The White Bird and Pages of the Wound. In 1972 he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize for his novel G. In 2009 he was awarded the Golden PEN award by London PEN for a lifetime’s contribution to literature. He lives in a village in Haute-Savoie in the French Alps.

Marilyn Longstaff Marilyn Longstaff lives in Darlington, where she is a member of the writing, performing and publishing collective Vane Women. Her books include Puritan Games, Sitting Among the Hoppers and Raiment.

Tara Bergin Tara Bergin was born in Dublin. She moved to England in 2002 to write a PhD on poetry in translation. She has published a book of stories Russian Conversations, and a collection of poetry, This is Yarrow

Tickets for all T-Junction events are available on the door or from the Middlesbrough Town Hall box office which is open 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. Call 01642 729729. http://www.tjunctionfestival.co.uk/

S at u r d ay 1 8 O c t o b e r

Unacknowledged Legislators

An opportunity to work with some of the poets taking part in this year’s T-junction: Martín Espada, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez and Linda France.

Are poets really the ‘unacknowledged legislators’ of the Age? Or is Jeremy Paxman right to say that these days poets write only for each other? Join our international panel as they discuss the roles and responsibilities of poets in the contemporary world.

10am-12 noon, mima, £6/£4

4-5pm, Middlesbrough Central Library, FREE

Poetry Master-classes

Martín Espada

Snake Diva

Martín Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has worked as a bouncer, a primate caretaker, a door-to-door encyclopaedia salesman, a gas station attendant and a tenant lawyer.

He has published more than fifteen books as a poet, editor, critic and translator, including The Trouble Ball, Imagine the Angels of Bread, The Republic of Poetry (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Alabanza, Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas, The Meaning of the Shovel and His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Victor Jara.

Espada is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

The launch of Gail Henderson’s Snake Diva from Teesside publishers Ek Zuban.

Víctor Rodríguez NúÑez Víctor Rodríguez Núñez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1955.

During the eighties he was the editor of El Caimán Barbudo, one of Cuba’s leading cultural magazines. He has also worked in Nicaragua, Colombia, and the United States, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College. He has published eighteen books of poetry, including Cayama, El último a la feria, Reversos, Thaw and The Infinite’s Ash. His poetry has been translated into a dozen languages.

He is currently the assistant director of the Mexican cultural journal, La Otra.

5.30pm, mima, FREE

I Wish I Was in Middlesbrough T-junction’s big Saturday night poetry reading with poems from John Berger, Amir Darwish, Martín Espada, Riina Katajavuori and Bill Herbert. Plus special guests.

7.30pm, mima, £6/£4 S u n d ay 1 9 O c t o b e r

Poetry Master-classes Your chance to work with three of our brilliant festival poets – Hannah Lowe, Ivana Milankov and Riina Katajavuori.

10am-12 noon, Town Hall, £6/£4

Donny Johnny The Teesside launch of A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands. Three of the book’s authors – Bill Herbert, George Jowett and Andy Croft – drag Byron’s satirical anti-hero laughing and screaming into the twentyfirst century.

12.30pm, Town Hall, FREE

Inpress Poetry Book-fair LINDA FRANCE Linda France was born in Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1958 and now lives near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Her books include Red, The Gentleness of the Very Tall, Storyville, The Simultaneous Dress, The Toast of the Kit Cat Club, book of days and You Are Her. In 2014 she won the National Poetry Competition.

A chance to buy books from independent poetry publishers including Bloodaxe, Arc Publications, Iron Press, Five Leaves, Smokestack, Ek Zuban, Vane Women, Arrowhead and Mudfog.

12 noon to 5pm, Town Hall, FREE

Mushaira An afternoon of poetry in Urdu, Punjabi and English from local, national and international poets. All welcome.

2pm, St Mary’s Centre, Corporation Road, FREE

Blue Horse

Mudfog

Darlington’s Vane Women collective launch Blue Horse, the latest collection from Forward Prize short-listed poet and Arrowhead editor Joanna Boulter.

Middlesbrough publisher celebrates twenty years of publishing with readings by some of the many local writers they have helped to put into print over two decades.

12.30pm, mima, FREE

4pm, Baker Street Kitchen, Albert Road, FREE

Jewels and Binoculars

The Crypt-Kicker Five

A reading of poems written in response to the new exhibition at mima telling the story of jewellery design from the 1960s to the present day.

T-junction ends with a bang rather than a whimper, with a poetry-reading from Nikola Madzirov, Linda France, Ivana Milankov, Sasha Dugdale and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez.

2.30pm, Jewellery Gallery, mima, FREE

7.30pm, Town Hall Crypt, £6/£4

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Kanyakumari Hazel Manuel When close friends and seasoned travellers Rachel and Gina take a trip to India, Rachel expects the usual combination of sight-seeing and relaxation. But when the secret Gina is harbouring shatters the calm of their idyllic adventure the two women are thrown together by a rapidly escalating series of perilous events. Interwoven with this unfolding drama is the story of Sandrine, who writes letters home to her brother as she travels around India in the late 60s. This is an unusual and powerful tale of friendship, danger and loss as three women find themselves alone and facing some of their deepest fears and challenges.

Cinnamon Press » PB » £8.99 » 9781909077270 » 272pp » Fiction (FA)

Devilskein & Dearlove Alex Smith In this contemporary reworking of The Secret Garden, young Erin Dearlove has lost everything in a violent attack on her family. She now lives with her bohemian aunt Kate in a run-down apartment block.

Locked into a fantasy of her previous life, she shuns all overtures of friendship from her new neighbours, until she meets Mr Devilskein, the demon who lives on the top floor, and opens a door into another world. Readers (young and old) of Neil Gaiman and Markus Zusak in particular will enjoy the mix of glee and horror, darkness and hope; while the story will also appeal to readers of Roald Dahl, Eoin Colfer and Lemony Snickett.

Arachne Press » PB » £10.99 » 9781909208155 256pp » Fiction (FA)

The Poet & the Private Eye Rob Gittins In October 1953, Time magazine hired a private detective to shadow Dylan Thomas during what turned out to be his last visit to New York City. Dylan had taken out a libel suit against Time because of a lessthan-flattering profile the magazine had published about him some months before.

Time intended to use any new material gathered by the detective to defend its portrait of Dylan who, they alleged: ‘... argues like a Bolshevik, dresses like a bum... drinks like a culvert... smokes like an ad for cancer... sleeps with any woman who is willing... borrows with no thought of returning is lent... seldom shows up on time, is a trial to his friends and a worry to his family...’

In The Poet and the Private Eye these two men are placed centre stage.

Y’Lolfa » PB » £8.95 » 9781847718990 » 304pp » Fiction (FA)

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In Between John Wedgewood Clarke York’s secret history lies in its snickets, passageways, courts and yards – all of those in-between, out-of-the-way routes: walk them and you inhabit history.

In a newly-commissioned sequence of site-specific poems for York Curiouser, a project that explores hidden York through contemporary art interventions, John Wedgwood Clarke explores the way people have shaped and been shaped by these transitional places. To read the poems is to haunt these hidden ways and to be haunted by them; to fill yourself with the breath and spirit of an extraordinary city.

John is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull and his first full collection, Ghost Pot, was published by Valley Press last year.

Valley Press » PB » £5.99 9781908853417 » 30pp Poetry (DCF)

Reader, I Married Him & other queer goings on Dorothea Smartt From the first poem to the last, Smartt’s new chapbook collection advocates a revolutionary decampment from the madhouse of desires “reigned in” to protect a precarious and often incoherent code of Caribbean respectability.

This is Smartt at her sensual and lyrical best. These poems sing, and dance and love passionately ‘til morning cum. From the hazardous terrain of same-sex loving in Jamaica for some couples, to the manipulation of heterosexual marriage conventions in Barbados in the name of love, to the freedom of sexual abandon and the fulfilment of desire in Amsterdam, this small body of work is subversive, radical, and surprisingly panoramic. Smartt’s cartography renders new the old directive that we love each other, that we build and sustain community, that we protect and care for each other’s needs, desires and dreams. Ultimately, Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer Goings On is about Black diasporic love at its most radical and life-affirming.

Peepal Tree Press » PB » £4.99 » 9781845232870 » 32pp Poetry (DCF)

Horses Between Our Legs Patricia McCarthy This special poetry collection, focusing on World War I, is rich with cultural meaning, emotion and collective memory. The poems beautifully and hauntingly, in varied mastered forms, contribute their orchestra of voices to the 1914 conversation, and beyond.

The collection starts off with the poem, ‘Clothes that escaped The Great War’ which won the National Poetry Competition in 2013 and was described by Vicki Feaver, in Poetry Review, as, “following on from the wonderful poems written by poets like Owen and Sassoon.”

Agenda Editions » PB » £10.00 » 9781908527189 » 56pp » Poetry (DCF)

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The Owl & the Pussycat & the Turtles of Fun Matt Black & Pip Hall Have you ever wondered why the Owl and the Pussycat set sail in their legendary pea green boat? What were they leaving behind? And did they dance by the light of the moon for ever?

Quirkily illustrated to match the humour in the poems, this new edition of Lear’s most famous nonsense poem is accompanied by a prequel and a sequel, exploring what might have led up to and resulted from the famous wedding on the sand.

Although not a fairy tale ending, you’ll find that Owl did pursue a musical career and their happy-ever-after encompasses yet more enchanting characters such as the Whiskery Walrus and a turtle, called Ted.

Two Rivers Press » PB » £10.00 9781909747036 » 48pp » Children’s Poetry (YDP)

Fishing in the Aftermath Salena Godden How often is it that a poet with the name recognition factor and critical standing of Salena Godden publishes their first collection 20 years into their career? This is more than a sweeping up exercise, more than a greatest hits retrospective, more than a gathering up of old work. Salena takes us on a hairraising ride through the process of a writer, the highs, the lows, the drinks, the lovers, the fights, the sex (especially the sex) that she has embraced like a method actor in search of a character, and shared with audiences over twenty years.

Salena Godden is one of Britain’s foremost spoken word artists. A regular performer at literary festivals in the UK and around the world, in a career than is now entering its third decade.

Like a 21st Century female Bukowski, Godden delivers her message straight and full strength.

Not for the weak-kneed or faint-hearted, Salena’s is a hurricane of personality and energy, and the full force of the considerable talent that has made her a hit at literary festivals the world over is delivered here in all its frank glory.

Her memoir of childhood in the 1970’s will be released by Unbound in October.

Burning Eye Books » PB » £12.00 9781909136366 » 168pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Earthshine Mimi Khalvati “Written around the time of my mother’s death, these poems take the day’s weather as a starting-point before spinning off in their own directions.

The only person, apart from the speaker, that appears in these poems is the figure of my mother. By way of elegising my mother’s death, I celebrate these living companions. Although they have a sad undertow, I hope the poems are light and playful without denying the dark and dangers in the wider world.”

Mimi Khalvati “In classic elegy, the lost beloved returns in the form of a spirit that quickens the natural world. In the wake of that death, as she reconceives her life on earth, Khalvati is also reinventing poetry.’

Alfred Corn Earthshine has been named the Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet choice.

Smith | Doorstop » PB » £5.00 » 9781906613877 » 34pp » Poetry (DCF)

The Year I Loved England Joseph Horgan & Antony Owen The product of a highly successful collaboration between the poets Joseph Horgan and Anthony Owen, this anthology voices the experience of living in the rapidly changing urban landscape of 21st Century Britain. The poems explore changing attitudes and identities attributed to immigration, conflict, loss and unemployment.

The pages of the book loosely represent the house numbers of a street where people of different ages and different backgrounds co-exist with each other. The poems range across a time span from an industrial Britain in the shadow of the Second World War through to the modern day.

Pighog » PB » £10.99 » 9781906309428 » 80pp Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

As I Sit Quietly, I Begin to Smell Burning Colin McGuire A variety pack of poetry loosely based on the theme of Hell from one of Scotland’s best-known young performance poets, As I Sit Quietly… pushes the boundaries of what poetry has to say with hilarious and uncompromising material about masculinity and pornography.

Colin McGuire is an experienced performance poet and slammer. He is opposed to straight biogs but when pushed, says of himself, ‘McGuire: A thin 30 year old Glaswegian man, touch giddy in the head, sometimes poet of mangled form and dirty prose, sporadic drummer, drunk grammarian, waffler, painter using crayons, lover, hater, learner, teacher, pedestrian, provocateur, wanderer, confronter of shadows, irritating whine.’

Red Squirrel Press » PB » £7.99 » 9781906700744 » 68pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Our Storeys John Davies & Sue Ridge Our Storeys is a major art project at North Middlesex University Hospital, London. Lead artist Sue Ridge and poet John Davies (aka Shedman) tell the story of the project and their work in arts and healthcare adopting a salutogenic approach. Critical appreciations of the commission are accompanied by the poetry contributed to it by many different poets including three Laureates: Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion and Michael Rosen.

With essays by Susan Francis (Programme Director, Architects for Health), Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Prize winner Wendy French and environmental psychologist Veronica Simpson.

Pighog » PB » £12.99 » 9781906309343 » 164pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

The Midlands Tony Williams The Midlands by is the second collection by Tony Williams, following his much-acclaimed debut The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street in inimitable and lyrical style. His poems compose a tragi-comic paean to vanishing hinterlands and fine-tuned weirdness, to domestic relics, to dog walks, dust and phantoms. Strange forces are at work, and we find ourselves travellers in perpetual motion, stopping only to gather our disappointment at the OK Café on the A1.

“To read Williams’s work ….is to be convinced afresh that this is an exciting time for poetry.”

Sean O’Brien, Poetry Review. “…from all our cultural loam and junk, Williams has made real magic.”

Frances Leviston, the Guardian.

Nine Arches Press » PB » £8.99 » 9780992758936 » 96pp » Poetry (DCF)

THE Ballad of New Cockaigne Catherine Smith The Land of Cockaigne was a medieval hedonistic fantasy, explored in legend, oral history and art – a topsy-turvey land of limitless pleasure and constant sensual gratification; a sunny paradise where talking pigs trotted about with knives stuck in their backs, buttered chickens landed at one’s feet, work was banned, competitive burping and farting were spectator sports, rivers and lakes were filled with wine and beer, sex was readily available and everyone stayed forever young. Catherine Smith explores a contemporary version of this pleasure paradise in a pamphlet ballad specially written for Pighog’s Sussex Series.

Pighog » PB » £8.00 » 9781906309503 » 34pp » Poetry (DCF)

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All Men Are Afraid

Scrap-Iron Words

Last Man Standing

Ground Level

Bill Trüb

David Perman

Stuart Medland

Jennifer Rahim

Focussing on dysfunctional relationships, All Men Are Afraid showcases a unique poetic voice at its most distinctive, displaying a penchant for sound play and word association.

David Perman is better known as a supporter of poetry than a poet, founding Rockingham Press which has introduced individual collections by more than 120 poets.

This uplifting, compelling collection explores the life of the poet’s late father’s battle with cancer in haunting detail that WS Milne described as, “reminiscent of Larkin.”

A risk-taking collection that speaks to tradition and moves beyond it, from a woman named as one of the best of the new generation of Caribbean poets.

Cinnamon Press » PB » £7.99 9781907090967 » 80pp Poetry (DCF)

Acumen » PB » £8.90 9781873161432 » 76pp Poetry (DCF)

Agenda Editions » PB £10.00 » 9781908527165 Poetry (DCF)

Undefeated: The Story of the Lions of 1974

Our Boys: Ware Men in the First World War

Footfalls in the Silence

Rhodri Davies

Derek Armes

To mark the 40th anniversary of their astonishing achievement in South Africa, the players finally lift the lid on the most successful British and Irish Lions tour in history.

Derek Armes tells the story of the 220 men from the small town of Ware who died fighting in the First World War, a story of comradeship, love and loss.

The celebrated Welsh poet and essayist John Barnie writes with his characteristic lack of sentimentality about, “how,” as he says, “I became the poet I am today.”

Rockingham Press » PB £9.99 » 9781904851547 104pp » History (AHB)

Cinnamon Press » PB £8.99 » 9781909077287 180pp » Memoir (BM)

Y’Lolfa » PB » £9.95 9781847719317 » 288pp Sport (BGF)

John Barnie

Peepal Tree Press » PB £8.99 » 9781845232054 76pp » Poetry (DCF)

Brighton and Sussex Medical School: Ten Years of Success Professor Gordon Ferns, Professor Helen Smith & Professor Kevin Davies An anthology of essays by key people involved in the creation and development of Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

Pighog » PB » £9.99 9781906309282 » 144pp Medicine (MB)

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Cry at Midnight Mavis Gulliver On their first night in Aunt Aggie’s cottage on the Hebridean Isle of Tiree, Merryn and Hamish McQueen begin an exciting, but terrifying adventure. Finding a carved box containing a necklace of sea-beans and hagstones, Merryn discovers that she possesses The Gift.

Inherited from her great-great-great-great-grandmother, Merryn McQueen, she is able to connect with magical beings, both benevolent and malevolent.

With her brother’s help, she embarks on a mission to save a horse called Kester. Trapped in a fencepost by a witch, Kester can be released by Merryn between midnight and sunrise. Riding through successive nights, she and Hamish are hindered by Aunt Aggie’s strict rules, and beset by the witch’s increasingly powerful spells. Selkies and Fairy Folk pledge their help, but not until seemingly impossible challenges have been met. Kester and the children travel to Highland locations; the famous Ringing Stone and the beach of Traigh nan Gilean, where we will finally discover whether Kester will be freed and where his true identity will be revealed.

Past and present, success and failure, magic and courage are swirled together in a story that brings a new voice to the myths, legends and traditions of folk and fairy tales.

Cinnamon Press » PB » £9.99 » 9781909077355 250pp » Children’s Fiction (YFB)

The Arts of Peace ed. Adrian Blamires & Peter Robinson The 1st of August 1914 saw the beginning of the war that was to end all wars and which, instead, ushered in a century of armed conflicts, two of them described as global. This anthology’s title is borrowed from Andrew Marvell’s ode on Cromwell’s return from Ireland, in which he deprecates ‘the inglorious arts of peace’.

With this gathering of newly composed poems, and against that grain, we look to celebrate all left behind in times of conflict and which conflict is so often evoked to defend. In this spirit, Adrian Blamires and Peter Robinson have edited a collection of poems that address peace and war from an unusually varied range of angles.

The more than fifty contributors include Fleur Adcock, Robyn Bolam, Vahni Capildeo, Fred D’Aguiar, Gerald Dawe, Jane Draycott, Elaine Feinstein, Roy Fisher, Debora Greger, Philip Gross, Angela Leighton, William Logan, Allison McVety, Bill Manhire, John Matthias, Anthony Rudolf, Carol Rumens, Elizabeth Smither and Gregory Woods.

Two Rivers Press » PB » £10.00 » 9781909747043 120pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

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Poor Queen Mab Jones Mab Jones is Wales’s answer to a post-modern Pam Ayers.

Like Pam her verse is light, accessible and always intended to amuse, but Poor Queen is packed with dark humour and Mab is frequently far more bawdy than Pam would ever dare to be.

A much loved performer across the UK, she regularly appears as the support act to Phill Jupitus and performs at major festivals such as Glastonbury and Latitude. She projects the frustrations of ordinary people and everyday life in a straight talking rhythmic blast of comedy. Be prepared for your ribs to ache after reading this book.

“Absolutely brilliant.”

The Guardian “A superb performance poet… her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths.”

Phill Jupitus

Burning Eye Books » PB » £8.99 » 9781909136410 72pp » Poetry (DCF)

Applied Mathematics Dan Simpson In Applied Mathematics Dan Simpson presents a debut collection on the theme of geekiness, maths and science. Dan is a poet who likes to play around with form. He likes to deconstruct and get a bit meta with the mental algorithms that sit beneath a poem. That means he enjoys a bit of rhyming from time to time. Many of the pieces included here started life as performance pieces. Many were commissioned for a variety of public projects and, unlike many a debut poet, Dan has given this collection a thorough test drive around the live circuit. Dan has a style and voice that is enjoyably geeky in its references and humour and the result is a collection of poems that are clever but accessible.

Burning Eye Books » PB » £8.99 » 9781909136373 » 72pp » Poetry (DCF)

Late News from Britain Christopher J.P. Smith Christopher writes poetry predominantly based on the countryside he knows and loves, the South West and Wales, yet he is not sentimental but has an objective eye which gives his work an acute atmospheric influence. He can also be sharply satirical. His previous pamphlet, Mushroom Lane, was widely acclaimed: ‘“Witty reflections on classical themes.”

Weyfarers Magazine “Smith handles verse with a wry sense of humour. The main voice of his poems is nature-bound, with a strong dislike of too much talk and false traditionalism.”

Chapman Magazine “A light, wry look at the species, very effective.”

Poetry Quarterly Review This is his first full collection.

Acumen » PB » £8.99 » 9781873161418 » 64pp » Poetry (DCF)

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A Bloody Mess Richard O’Brien “Richard O’Brien is one of the strongest poets of his generation. He’s fiercely intelligent but smart enough, within these poems, to abandon pure intellect for love and for beauty. He manages to make the love poem feel fresh and direct statements such as ‘grass will heal more easily than skin’ seem to break through mere ‘poetry’ and into somewhere else entirely.

This is a clever, beguiling and dynamic collection; smart enough to wear its learning lightly. The poems bounce effortlessly from clever similes to ancient mythological references to intriguing characters, but these devices are never deployed simply for their own sake, they are each used to the benefit of the poem, to the benefit of the reader.”

Andrew McMillan

Valley Press » PB » £5.99 » 9781908853387 » 46pp » Poetry (DCF)

Outside Looking On Chimene Suleyman London born, bred and still residing, poet Chimène Suleyman has lived under the watchful eye of Canary Wharf for most of her life.

Her debut poetry collection, Outside Looking On, explores the positive and negative side of loneliness and boredom, using the Docklands as allegory and symbol. The tall, glass monoliths are as lonely as the characters who exist around them. But they offer constant support; a navigation tool, stars in the sky, always there, lights on. A constant presence of reminder and reassurance.

Is it possible to reclaim a building that doesn’t know you exist? Is it possible to take ownership of an area that doesn’t want you there?

Outside Looking On is another powerful, daring work of site-specific literature from Influx Press.

Influx Press » PB » £9.99 » 9780992765552 » 160pp Poetry (DCF)

Where the Wind Sleeps: New & Selected Poems Noel Monahan In a secular post-national Ireland, Noel Monahan strives to belong somewhere, always searching to find home. A series of meditative sonnets takes him to the stillness of ruins of medieval monasteries on the islands of Lough Ree. Here, the ether of the past generates poetic energy. In this in-between world, the past lingers in the ‘slow noise of old ways dying’. Yet, Monahan’s territory is everywhere. He extends the parameters of Irishness, shifts from writing in English to Irish. He engages with Europe: Pessoa’s Lisbon, Budapest, Sardinia’s Nuraghi culture.

Where the Wind Sleeps: New & Selected Poems features selections from five previous collections, published over twenty-three years, as well as new work and gives us an intriguing insight into Monahan’s observations at the edges of time and place.

Salmon Press » PB » £12.00 » 9781908836809 » 172pp » Poetry (DCF)

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New titles from salmon POETRY

Adoptable Patrick Hicks A tender, hopeful collection full of humour, sensitivity, and startling honesty about one man’s journey to understand his adoptive son.

Salmon Poetry » PB » £10.00 9781908836823 » 74pp Poetry (DCF)

Mother Lung Lisa Marie Brodsky Brodsky artfully uses the “unspoken,” to illuminate the mother-daughter bond, the boundaries of self and the transformative power of grief.

Salmon Poetry » PB » £10.00 9781908836892 » 96pp Poetry (DCF)

Demeter DOES NOT REMEMBER

Her Father’s Daughter

Mary Madec

Nessa O’Mahony

These poems take us on a woman’s journey through time and experience to selfrealisation and maturity through the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone.

A parallel sequence of poems, one relating to the poet’s relationship with her father, whose decline and death she charts with painful honesty, the second exploring the life of her grandfather.

Salmon Poetry » PB » £10.00 9781908836311 » Poetry (DCF)

Salmon Poetry » PB » £10.00 9781908836854 » 80pp Poetry (DCF)

Skip Diving Celeste Augé Skip Diving inhabits the small joys and disasters that shape a world. These poems reveal ordinary miracles, shaking out the unlit edges of life into the open air.

Salmon Poetry » PB » £10.00 9781908836885 » 88pp Poetry (DCF)

The Truth and Other Stories

The World Next to This One

The Rain on Cruise’s Street

Sarah Clancy

Robert McDowell

Edward O’Dwyer

In The Truth and Other Stories Sarah Clancy excavates the wreckage caused by the recession in her native Ireland without sacrificing any of her usual warmth and wit

“His is the very spirit of poetry. Robert McDowell is a wordsmith and a soul crafter of the highest order.”

Dr. Jean Houston

Edward O’Dwyer’s poetry is widely published in magazines, periodicals and anthologies throughout Ireland, Britain, the USA and Australia. His chapbook, Revival Trio, was released in 2007.

Salmon Poetry » PB » £10.00 9781908836915 » 96pp Poetry (DCF)

Salmon Poetry » PB » £10.00 9781908836786 » 74pp Poetry (DCF)

Salmon Poetry » PB » £10.00 9781908836816 » 84pp Poetry (DCF)

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Fauverie Pascale Petit In this new book, prolific poet Pascale Petit returns to her native Paris and begins to obsessively revisit the zoo, the Fauverie, and remembers her father, a violent and unpredictable man, who she visited when he was on his deathbed in Paris some years ago.

The zoo animals become totemic, emblems of this traumatic relationship. The poems are unusually raw and unashamedly confessional. They are immersed in visceral details: in the blood, fur, claws, teeth, horns, hides, of the animals she sees, and how they echo the decay she observes in her father’s body and spirit as he dies.

Eventually finding strength in the peace and beauty of the natural world, this collection is bound together by a touchingly optimistic view of humanity.

Seren » PB » £9.99 » 9781781721681 » 72pp » Poetry (DCF)

Crimsoning the Eagle’s Claw – the Viking Poems of Rognvaldr, Earl of Orkney Ian Crockatt, trans.

A genuinely unique European treasure, this volume bristles with all 33 of Rognvaldr’s verses from the Orkneyinga Saga. Rognvaldr was a 12th century Christian Viking, a Norwegian by birth and upbringing, who became the Earl of Orkney in 1135. While full of highly stylised, often grotesque images, the poems convey the skill, vigour and daring of the original. Skaldic poetry is one of the most accomplished and original in European literature and this collection finally brings it to the deserved attention of the English-language reader. Rich narratives and old Norse mythology blend with familiar placenames and landscapes to create a peculiarly alluring, sometime comic, world that never quite settles around the reader, as if time travel is possible from a favourite armchair.

Arc Publications, PB » £9.99 » 9781908376602 » 96pp » Poetry (DCF)

The Emma Press Anthology of Homesickness and Exile ed. Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright How does it feel to be a foreigner? Can you choose where you call home? What if you reject your home or your home rejects you? Homesickness and Exile is a fascinating collection of poems about the fundamental human need to belong to a place, as poets from across the world provide profound and moving insights into the emotional pull of countries and cities. Poems about homecoming, departure and both voluntary and involuntary exile provoke reflections on alienation and identity, and a recurring theme is the yearning for a sense of belonging and acceptance by a place.

This anthology is inspired by the Tristia, a collection of poems written by the Roman poet Ovid after he was banished from Rome by the Emperor for an unknown misdemeanour. Homesickness and Exile expands on Ovid’s themes and considers spiritual as well as physical exile in the modern world, with poets writing about rootlessness and geographical ennui.

The Emma Press » PB » £10.00 » 9781910139028 » 64pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

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A Landscape Blossoms Within Me Eeva Kilpi These poems evade labelling. Under a simple surface, Kilpi’s poems display a multi-voiced modernism, ranging from bawdy humour, sexual comedy, daily irritations, and the absurdities of old age, as well as delicate expressions of love and loss. The carnival of voices extends from poem to poem, and reading them becomes more like listening to jazz, where what matters is the way the instrumentalist takes up and varies the riffs to hand. In her own words she is ‘sometimes a verb, sometimes a noun’ and sometimes goes off to ‘scare the birds in the fields’. Kilpi is indeed a shape-shifter, and reading her poems thus becomes a voyage into different ways of being.

In this, the first UK bilingual publication from this Nobel Literature Prize Nominee and one of Finland’s best loved poets, Kilpi addresses the aging process with a fresh, passionate voice.

Arc Publications » PB » £9.99 » 9781908376855 » 128pp » Poetry (DCF)

The Garden of Shadow and Delight Rebecca Hubbard In her debut collection of prose poetry, freelance journalist Rebecca Hubbard observes fragility and change with an incisive eye and a humane heart. Lucid, precise language, fresh imagery and a bitter-sweet sensibility leads us through five themes on the garden.

Sometimes poignant, sometimes joyful, but never sentimental Rebecca Hubbard was described by the poet Philip Gross who called the work a, “a remarkable find,” as giving, “a sense of someone being picked up by their material and genuinely surprised by what they find themselves writing.”

Meditative, but accessible, this accomplished sequence of prose poetry offers the garden as a locus of art, rhythm, healing, vision and remembrance; moving between light and shadow, but always with the promise of ‘the scent of azaleas gusting in like honey.’

From Physic Garden by Rebecca Hubbard A blackbird sings from the top of the great sequoia that dwarfs the mansion house, upper branches raised, the lower limbs trailing onto the lawn. The bird sings, thin toes clasped round a pale, dead twig.

Its voice carries to the hollyhock spires, wet-petaled roses and gardeners below. It travels into the offices and corridors, like bubbles threading through water, and seeps down into the tree’s resinous heartwood. Perched high on a wizened finger, the blackbird is singing the tree through its first small death, and into magnificent summer.

Cinnamon Press » PB » £8.99 » 9781909077379 » 96pp » Poetry (DCF)

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The Poet’s Notebook Brendan Cleary Beautifully produced for budding (and flowering) poets and artists alike, The Poet’s Notebook is a lovely hardbound Seawhite notebook including both blank pages for personal notes and developing work together with helpful tips, guidance and advice from one of Britain and Ireland’s leading poets. Distilling his 30 years’ experience of teaching poetry, Brendan Cleary, one of today’s most distinctive poets, brings his brilliant insights to the margins of the notebook as a constructive, step-by-step guide to the creative process. The text of The Poet’s Notebook was the first book to be published as a series of Tweets on Twitter.

Pighog » HB » £19.99 » 9781906309817 » 100pp » Poetry (DCF)

Digressions Ian Duhig & Philippa Troutman In 2013 – the tercentenary of the birth of Laurence Sterne – artist Philippa Troutman and poet Ian Duhig immersed themselves in his work, started digressing, getting lost in time and space around Shandy Hall. They chanced on riches from Viking ghost stories to Conceptual Poetry, in a meteorite-riddled topography of forgotten monuments, mazes, ruins and traps, sharing their discoveries and creations in texts, exhibitions and online. The results range from the humorous and moving to the fascinating and macabre, engaging and extending Sterne’s legacy for the twenty-first century.

Their previous collaborative book, Pandorama, based on Troutman’s The Shanties, an acclaimed travelling exhibition about the railway navvies and their families, was published by Picador in 2010.

Smokestack Books » PB » £5.95 » 9780992740979 64pp » Poetry (DCF)

Settled Wanderers Sam Berkson The people of Western Sahara live at the Algerian border in the largest and longest running refugee camp in the world (250,000 people, living there for over 35 years). Poetry is a cultural oral tradition in the region that goes back millennia.

Sam Berkson collected poems from the greatest poets of the Western Sahara.

They have been translated into English by Sam and an assistant. This collection also features poems Sam wrote in English while in residence at the refugee camp and essays concerning the history of the area.

This title was previously scheduled for release earlier in the year but delayed due to difficulties arising from the political situation in Western Sahara.

Influx Press » PB » £7.99 » 9780992765545 » 170pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

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Splitting the Difference Mary O’Donnell This vibrant collection, crackling with precision and danceing between love and horror is a generous introduction to Mary O’Donnell for those yet to discover her powerful voice.

Arc Publications » PB £9.99 » 9781908376572 96pp » Poetry (DCF)

The Other Side of Sleep: narrative poems ed. Cherry Potts An anthology of 24 poems that consciously, and with great relish, break the rules of every poetry competition going.

Arachne Press » PB » £9.99 9781909208186 » 160pp Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Marginailia

The Pilgrim Trail

Playing House

ed. Tom Chivers

Frances Spurrier

Katherine Stansfield

An anthology celebrating the tenth anniversary of one of the UK’s most innovative literary publishers, featuring extracts from their most celebrated works.

Frances Spurrier’s poetry grabs the reader’s attention and holds it with beautifully turned lyrical phrases and the ability to create haunting moments in time.

A concise wit, a distinct voice and an unsettling view of the domestic characterize these poems whose subjects are the ordinary as viewed through the author’s satirical yet sympathetic eye.

Penned in the Margins » PB £9.99 » 9781908058201 108pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Cinnamon Press » PB » £8.99 9781909077386 » 58pp Poetry (DCF)

Boldface

Blues in the Park

Nasser Hussain

Jeremy Robson

Boldface presents a collection from Leeds poet Nasser Hussain that come honed from his extensive experience as a spoken word performer.

A welcome return to the printed word from the founder of the legendary London Poetry and Jazz in Concert events.

Burning Eye Books » PB £10.00 » 9781909136380 108pp » Poetry (DCF)

Smokestack Books » PB £8.95 » 9780992740948 112pp » Poetry (DCF)

Seren » PB » £9.99 9781781721933 » 64pp Poetry (DCF)

Limerick Nation: the UK in Verse ed. Eileen Jones & Pete Mortimer More than sixty poets have contributed and each of the limericks is inspired by the writer’s place of residence.

Iron Press » PB » £7.00 9780957503236 Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

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Collected Poems John Berger Novelist, draughtsman, film-maker, essayist and critic – John Berger is one of the major European intellectuals of our time. For sixty years he has been challenging the way we see the world and how we think about it. But although Berger has always written poetry, often smuggling poems inside books like The Seventh Man and The White Bird, this is the first time his poetry has been collected in English.

Collected Poems reflects Berger’s longstanding concerns with art and politics, love and war, history and memory, emigration, immigration and the life of the European peasantry. It includes well-known poems like ‘The Ladle’, ‘Village Maternity’ and ‘Death of La Nan M.’ as well over twenty previously unpublished poems. From ‘My Coney’ (written in 1952 when Berger was just twenty-six) to ‘They Are the Last’ written in 2008, Berger the poet demonstrates an enduring commitment to the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. These are perfectly framed still-life images, sensual and plain, delicate sketches of hard lives caught between the provisional quality of language and the permanence of things. John Berger’s Collected Poems reveals its author to be a major poet of our time.

Smokestack Books » PB » £8.95 » 9780992740955 160pp » Poetry (DCF)

Places and Other Poems Thomas Hardy Creator of the lightly fictionalized region of Wessex, where Reading features as Aldbrickham, Thomas Hardy was a poet for whom ideas of place played a central role in his work. In this new collection of his poems, each selected for its relation to a specific locale, and finely illustrated by Sally Castle, Hardy’s imagination appears most intensely engaged by connections between people and place.

This latest offering from the classic poetry series of Reading’s Two Rivers Press, renowned for the quality of its artistic, design, and editorial standards, promises delights to both eye and mind for all those new to his verse, as well as, of course, for Hardy lovers everywhere.

Two Rivers Press » PB » £8.95 » 9781909747067 » 72pp Poetry (DCF))

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From Whitechapel – A Novel of Jack the Ripper Melanie Clegg Set against the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 the lives of three women intertwine as they are propelled towards a collision with the crime spree of the legendary serial killer: Alice Redmayne, daughter of a famous artist, haunted since childhood by the disappearance of her sister Beatrice, finds herself enmeshed in the dark secrets of the past and caught between two very different men.

Emma Johnson was working in a Calais brothel when a terrible mistake turned her whole world upside down.

Forced to flee to Whitechapel, she believes herself to be safe until her pursuer reveals a murderous intent.

Cora Lee is the youngest daughter of a H Division Sergeant, living above the Whitechapel Police Station.

Bored with her life and longing to escape, she makes a split second decision that will change everything and turn her whole world upside down.

Based on the author’s own family history, From Whitechapel is a dark and sumptuous tale of love, friendship, loss and redemption.

Burning Eye Books » PB » £8.99 » 9781909136434 304pp » Historical Fiction (FV)

Double the Stars Kelley Swain In 1844, at 94 years of age, Caroline Herschel was in the midst of a frustrated attempt at writing her memoirs. She sent the writings and many letters to her niece Arabella, suggesting the girl ‘twist it into a Novel entitled The Life and Adventures of Miss Caroline Herschel’. Arabella never wrote the proposed novel. Now Kelley Swain, with exclusive access to these memoirs and writings, has finally brought Caroline Herschel’s story life in Double the Stars.

Escaping a life of drudgery with her mother, Caroline becomes a successful singer in high society 1780s Bath, but this life is wrenched from her when her brother, William, is appointed astronomer to King George III. As William makes discoveries that shoot him to celebrity, Caroline falls in love with astronomy for herself, making her own discoveries about the skies she sweeps from the roof-top. Friendship, love, betrayal and loyalty compete in this beautifully rendered life of an extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times.

Cinnamon Press » PB » £9.99 » 9781909077362 160pp » Fiction (FA)

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Significance Jo Mazelis Lucy Swann is trying on a new life. She leaves the UK without telling anyone that she is going away. Perhaps she’ll only go for a week, or a month, she doesn’t know yet. She’s cut and dyed her hair, bought new clothes. She has only gone as far as a small town in Northern France when her journey is abruptly brought to an end by her violent death.

Jo Mazelis traces the events of Lucy’s last days to give her a decent ‘life before death’. We see her brush past a number of other lives; a troubled Canadian man, his brain damaged brother and poet wife, young lovers and elderly lovers, who misremember a crucial conversation. When Inspector Vivier and his handsome assistant Sabine Pelat begin their investigation all these take on a new significance.

Seren » PB » £9.99 » 9781781721872 » 400pp » Fiction (FA)

Death at Dawn Peter Mortimer This powerful and controversial stage play, due to premier in Tyneside in September 2014, is built round the real life story of William Hunter, a young World War I soldier from North Shields who was shot for desertion in France in 1916. Hunter claimed to have been underage when he signed up, which would usually have seen the sentence reduced to imprisonment. For reasons never made clear, Hunter received no such clemency. The play is produced by Cloud Nine Theatre Company at The Linskill Centre, North Shields, less than half a mile from where Hunter lived.

Red Squirrel Press » PB » £8.99 » 9781906700928 » 92pp Drama (DD)

In Her Own WORDS: Women, Poetry and Wales Alice Entwistle In Her Own Words is a collection of interviews with women poets from Wales compiled by writer and academic Alice Entwistle. The interviews slip casually between topics ranging from personal biography, the complex joys and strains of balancing life with art, issues of cultural politics, gender, family life, to the women’s often contrasting experiences of various kinds of change, including political devolution. The challenges and tensions associated with living and working – or for Wales-identifying writers like Deryn Rees-Jones and Wendy Mulford, not living and working – in Wales’ dual-language culture is a lodestone for the book.

Editor Alice Entwistle has selected for interview Tiffany Atkinson, Ruth Bidgood, Anne Cluysenaar, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans, Catherine Fisher, Gwyneth Lewis, Wendy Mulford, Sheenagh Pugh, Deryn ReesJones, Anne Stevenson, Zoë Skoulding, and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch.

Seren » PB » £19.99 » 9781781722022 » Literary Essays (DNF)

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Gatecrashing Europe Kris Mole In 2007, Kris Mole flew one-way to Stockholm with a vow not to return home to England until he had visited every capital city in Europe. He set himself eight simple rules, most importantly a) that no money would be spent or handled during the journey, and b) no credit cards would be used either.

Twenty-three cities to be visited, 6000 miles to be covered, without spending a single penny on the journey – to raise money, in fact, for Cancer Research UK. The colourful story of this six-month trip told by charismatic, wise-cracking, semi-anti-hero Kris sees him drawing on his formidable resourcefulness to acquire all of life’s necessities, resting wherever he could find a place, and travelling by foot, hitch-hiking, or stowing away on trains – experiencing a wild emotional ride in the process.

Valley Press » PB » £10.99 » 9781908853394 » 390pp » Travel Writing (WTLP)

Allen W. Seaby: Art and Nature Robert Gillmor & Martin Andrews Allen W. Seaby’s life has been described as “a classic tale of Victorian self-improvement.” But there is more to the tale than just upward mobility. A. W. Seaby was a pioneering, innovative and inspirational man who rose to become a prominent print-maker, teacher, author and illustrator.

A prominent wildlife artist, the story of Seaby’s many accomplishments is recounted by his grandson, who inherited Seaby’s love of birds and became internationally renowned in his own right, Robert Gillmor.

Alongside this personal recount, Martin Andrews selects aspects of his career and expands upon his techniques, his illustrative methods, his circle of fellow artists and the books he published to give a full and rounded account of a man whose work is currently enjoying a well-deserved renaissance.

Two Rivers Press » PB » £12.99 » 9781909747050 » 76pp » Individual Artists (AGB)

OTHER TITLES BY ROBERT GILLMOR

Birds Blocks and Stamps Robert Gillmor, ornithologist, artist, illustrator and author, was commissioned by Royal Mail to produce four series of stamps featuring British birds. Brought together for the first time in largerthan-stamp size, these prints demonstrate the author’s lifelong love and appreciation of our nation’s garden birds.

Two Rivers Press » PB » £12.50 » 9781901677799 » 64pp

Cover Birds Cover Birds is a fully illustrated autobiography by Robert Gillmor.

Illustrated with Robert’s artwork throughout, this is a beguiling account of one man’s development, over 60 years, as both artist and bird-lover.

Two Rivers Press » PB » £10.00 » 9781901677966 » 60pp

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Bilbao – New York – Bilbao Kirmen Uribe When Liborio Uribe found that he was going to die, he wanted to see a painting once again by Aurelio Arteta, his wife’s father. Uribe had spent his entire life at sea, like his son José, living out unforgettable adventures which actually later fade into obscurity. Years later, faced with the same painting, Liborio’s grandson Kirmen, a writer and poet, uses these family stories to write a novel.

Bilbao-New York-Bilbao takes place during a flight to New York and tells the story of journeys of three generations of the same family. The key to the book is Liborio’s fishing boat, named ‘Dos Amigos’: who are these two friends, and what is the nature of their friendship?

Through letters, diaries, emails, poems and dictionaries, it creates a mosaic of memories and stories that combine to form a homage to a world that has almost disappeared, as well as a hymn to the continuity of life.

A novel, an acclaimed work already translated into 14 languages, it is also a reflection on the art of writing, and lies between life and fiction.

Seren » PB » £9.99 » 9781781722053 » Fiction (FA)

Enemy of the Earth Ruth Ruderham As eco-terrorist attacks throw London into chaos, John and Sue Forster are faced with the news of their daughter’s death in this striking debut novel.

Struck by grief and desperate to find meaning in his life, John abandons his life-long career in search of his daughter’s legacy and finds himself in the midst of an environmental movement. Sue fights to keep their marriage alive, unaware that John’s activism has become an obsession that jeopardises not only their relationship, but their lives. In the fight against ecoterrorism will John be on the right side?

Pighog » PB » £9.99 » 9781906309909 » 380pp Fiction (FA)

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Oz Bobbie Darbyshire Mark Jonnson’s life is a mess.

He’s been cheating on his wife, fears his marriage is over, but can’t bear to leave his boisterous 7-year-old daughter, Matilda. Just when he thinks things can’t get worse, his mother is killed in a road accident. Shocked and grieving, he decamps to her house, where he uncovers a secret that will turn his life upside-down and send him and his daughter on a whirlwind search for the truth.

Another gripping read from the author of Truth Games and Love, Revenge & Buttered Scones.

“What a delight to find a novel that’s both a page-turner and a nuanced exploration of characters. The tensions and subtleties of relationships of marriage and parenting across the decades are explored with delicacy, yet the storytelling never falters, as a constantly-evolving plot keeps you hooked until the last page.”

– Sarah Rayner, author of One Moment, One Morning.

Cinnamon Press » PB » £8.99 9781909077454 » 300pp » Fiction (FA)

November 2008, Monday By the time I’ve walked back to Clapham Junction it’s dark. A bitter wind cuts through the crowd on the platform, but that’s not why I’m shaking. I pull out my mobile and dial Hove. ‘Dad,’ I say.

He wants to know how, of course. I close my eyes, breathing short, difficult breaths. It’s a joke in bad taste.

My brain can’t bypass the words, so I’m blurting them out. ‘She fell under a bus.’

‘Mark.’ His surprise crackles in my ear. ‘Nice to hear you. It’s been a—’

‘What?’ he says.

‘Dad, I’ve something to tell you.’

I imagine him at the window of his flat, looking out at a turbulent sea. The phone’s clamped to my cheek. ‘She’s dead,’ I say.

‘Whitehall. This morning. Not looking.’

‘Oh—no—’

‘Who?’

‘St Thomas’s rang me. I went there, I saw her, and now,’ I’m choking, ‘now her house, Dad—I’ve just been there too, and it was... It’s exactly as she left it, as if she’s due back any minute, and—’

‘Mum.’

‘I’m so sorry, Mark.’

I hear his intake of breath, but his words are drowned by the station announcement. ‘... seventeen twenty-one... calling at Vauxhall and London Waterloo.’

I stall. Sorry. The word’s wrong.

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The Advantages of an Older Man Gwyneth Lewis The Advantages of an Older Man is a light-hearted novella exploring the incidents surrounding a Swansea girl who is apparently possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Unsurprisingly. things are not all they seem.

The girl, who works in the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea meets a rather different Dylan to the one she knows by repute, one who doesn’t really fit in with the ghosts of other poets in heaven and desperate to train himself to join the shades of the long distance runners instead. Her own life, which has been lonely and sad, is completely transformed by the encounter.

In this touching book humour nestles alongside warmth and pathos, and some interestingly pithy observations on poets and poetry and the nature of fame.

Seren » PB » £8.99 » 9781781721902 » Fiction (FA)

© Keith Morris

Midland Honor Gavin Midland exists as an experimental novel and an experiment in not being a novel. An intervention within the growth and decay of a post-60s Birmingham, the text expands like the city it describes.

Through the life stories of three influential citizens and her experiments into a sonic cartography, Honor Gavin unveils a history that is both industrial and deeply personal, written as it is through the eyes of the author’s own family and in particular her grandfather, who designed the famous Bull Ring shopping centre.

Here, the ground is held together by pins…

Penned in the Margins » PB » £12.00 » 9781908058232 168pp » Fiction (FA)

Everyone Knows This is Nowhere Alice Furse Ever felt your life didn’t match you at all, as if you’d picked the wrong one by accident?

Go to university, get a degree they tell you, and a successful, happy future will be yours... so how have you wound up working at Weblands and living with a Traffic Warden?

There’s Kim, who loves being pregnant for the attention, Ruth, who clings to old Secret Santa presents, the boss who has a personality as blank as a piece of 80gsm A4 and days filled with low paid office work you could have mastered at 14.

With a mind-numbing job and a boyfriend without ambition, a young woman believes there must be an apocalypse on the horizon and hatches a dramatic plan to escape – before it’s too late.

Forget the excess of Girls and similar dispatches from post-university America, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere is a post-feminist report from the kafkaesque state of austerity Britain. A dark, comic and heartbreaking novel about the road to discovering that life rarely happens as we expect.

Burning Eye Books » PB » £8.99 » 9781909136441 » Fiction (FA)

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The Blinding Walk K.M. Ross An exciting and unusual breakthrough novel from an author tipped for success. For fans of David Foster Wallace, Will Self and George Saunders.

Waywiser Press » HB £17.99 » 9781904130628 520pp » Fiction (FA)

A Little Dust on the Eyes Minoli Salgado This novel explores connections between the dual tragedies of the civil war and the tsunami in Sri Lanka, while addressing the consequences of bearing witness to traumatic events.

Peepal Tree Press » PB £9.99 » 9781845232405 196pp » Fiction (FA)

New Day V.S. Reid A long out of print and much requested classic novel, this was first Caribbean novel to really exploit the rhythms of Caribbean language in the narrative voice.

Peepal Tree Press » PB £13.99 » 9781845230906 340pp » Fiction (FA)

The Sleepers of Roraima & The Age of Rainmaker Wilson Harris Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths, fables and fragments of history of the Caribbean, now brought together in this volume.

Peepal Tree Press » PB £8.99 » 9781845231651 180pp » Short Stories (FYB)

ALSO BY PADDY KEHOW

Deported to Paradise Edgar Nkosi White

The Cask of Moonlight

Essays that offer a powerful antidote to despair whilst being unwavering in their diagnosis of the ills of contemporary empire, small island life and late capitalism.

A love affair in a city, and a love affair with a city, the poems of Patrick Kehoe’s second collection The Cask of Moonlight are odes to Barcelona.

Peepal Tree Press » PB £9.99 » 9781845232863 156pp » Literary Essays (DNF)

Paddy Kehoe

Dedalus Press » PB » £10.50 9781906614959 » 105pp Poetry (DCF)

It’s Words You Want

The Cost of Keys

Paddy Kehoe

Sue Rose

Poems that conjure the life of a young man abroad in that city, five years or so after the death of General Franco.

This is beautifully written, evocative, moving poetry from a fine writer. Whilst there is a good deal of loss and wistfulness in these pieces, nothing is ever cloying or sentimental.

Salmon Poetry » PB » £10.00 9781907056772 » 72pp Poetry (DCF)

Cinnamon Press » PB » £7.99 9781909077430 » 80pp Poetry (DCF)

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Another Crossing

Already the FLAMES

THE SAME ROAds back

Rituals

Khadijah Ibrahiim

Clive Watkins

Frank Dullaghan

Josephine Scott

Musical and honest poems that tell the stories of Black British settlement and explore the politics of multicultural Britain in this long-anticipated debut from one of the UK’s foremost Black woman poets.

This powerful collection is by turns sombre, lyrical and discursive, exploring the position of those complicit in suffering or compelled to observe it in a world that appears ruled by malice or chance.

Accomplished, thoughtful and moving, Frank Dullaghan’s poetry is confident, elegant and accessible, his lucid style displaying humanity and experience that makes these pieces resonate long after reading.

With a keen eye and a feather light touch, Josephine Scott writes with feeling and great skill about the rituals of everyday life, rituals that go unnoticed and rituals often lost.

Peepal Tree Press » PB £8.99 » 9781845232412 64pp » Poetry (DCF)

Waywiser Press » PB » £8.99 9781904130727 » 140pp Poetry (DCF)

Cinnamon Press » PB » £7.99 9781909077409 » 80pp Poetry (DCF)

Red Squirrel Press » PB £8.99 » 9781906700942 68pp » Poetry (DCF)

ALSO BY RED SQUIRREL

VP50 ed. Jamie McGarry This anthology celebrating five years of Valley Press is literary journey, a business lesson and a cautionary tale rolled into one.

Valley Press » PB » £9.99 9781908853509 » 250pp Poetry Anthologies (DCQ)

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Lies My Mother Never Told Me AF Harrold A.F. Harrold’s comic genius is very much to the fore in his latest collection of poetry as he utilises his considerable poetic dexterity to beguile, charm, dazzle and amuse.

Burning Eye Books » PB £10.00 » 9781909136458 108pp » Poetry (DCF)

Double Bill

SPLIT SCREEN

Various Authors

VARIOUS AUTHORS

Double Bill is the sequel to 2012’s hugely successful Split Screen anthology of poems inspired by film and television. Featuring over 130 poems from John Hegley, Ian McMillan and many others

Poets including George Szirtes, Simon Barraclough and Annie Freud talk about Tom and Jerry, Jayne Mansfield, Bond movies, The Clangers and It’s A Wonderful Life.

Red Squirrel Press » PB £10.00 » 9781906700959 160pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Red Squirrel Press » PB £6.99 » 9781906700607 86pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Oils Stephen Sexton Oils is a gorgeous, beguiling collection of poems where the poise of the delivery belies the emotional, existential turmoil within. Through his portraits of an atheist, a pickpocket and a spinach-loving sailor (among others), Stephen Sexton evokes a strange kind of melancholy as he strives to reconcile passion with detachment and profound self-doubt with unwavering love.

This is a confident debut from a poet whose fascination with anxiety is majestic, and whose attempts to connect with characters and paintings is sublimely beautiful and moving.

The Emma Press » PB » £6.50 9781910139035 » 36pp » Poetry (DCF)

Subimago I have been well prepared for small endings.

At eight years old, my first poem killed a mayfly.

My first poem rhymed nothing with nothing.

From that flash; seek endings every few minutes.

Stop at kerbs on quiet roads, stop at traffic lights, stopping nothing.

Let’s take the longest way to your house.

Telling the long story short takes longer than the long story.

Study each red man with hands by his sides at each crossing.

I will your house (I’ve never seen) to pull further away I will the frozen avenues longer.

I will each small ending into one unendable.

Imagine your doorstep at the end of the long story short.

Imagine turning back on your doorstep, endless green lights.

New flies tumbling from the knots of trees.

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Who Are the English? Selected Poems 1935-81 Jack Lindsay Who are the English? Selected Poems 1935-81 is a unique poetic record of British intellectual and political life from the high hopes of the Popular Front and the anti-Fascist War through the long retreat of the Cold War to the nuclear arms race of the 1980s as seen through the eyes of the prolific Australian born writer Jack Lindsay. Immersing himself in English history he dedicated his life to discovering its radical traditions as well as its revolutionary potential and by the time he died he had written over 170 books. This collection includes the Mass Declamations On Guard for Spain, Who are the English? Cry of Greece, and a remarkable series of letters in verse to Pablo Neruda, Tristan Tzara and the Soviet poet Nikolai Tikhonov.

Smokestack Books » PB » £9.95 » 9780992740931 » 168pp » Poetry (DCF)

The Ringmaster’s Apprentice Oz Hardwick From northern rail sidings to the edges of the Otherworld, Oz Hardwick’s latest collection haunts boundaries and blurs borders. Hardwick’s world closely resembles our own until we look close and see a retired Elvis gardening in suburbia, Charlie Chaplin weaving between the stalled cars on the M25, and dragons’ grandchildren whispering under the bed. It’s a world where the ghosts of Bacchantes stir the sleep of cats, a mysterious woman struggles with her umbrella on every street corner, and flowers fall unexpectedly from a clear sky. Above all, it is a world of illumination, in which satori of sorts may be glimpsed in the most unlikely of places as you move almost imperceptibly across divides you didn’t notice, all the while watched over by the kaleidoscope eyes of The Ringmaster’s Apprentice.

Valley Press » PB » £7.99 » 9781908853431 » 64pp » Poetry (DCF)

Epitaphios Yiannis Ritsos On 10 May 1936 the Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. The poem combines Mary’s lament at Christ’s tomb with popular Greek folk traditions of resurrection and Spring to create a universal lament sung by every bereaved mother, ‘who sits and mourns on the blood-stained street with her heart flayed, her wing broken.’ Although Epitaphios was banned in Greece for many years, in the 1950s an expanded version of the poem was set to music and recorded by Nana Mouskouri. This is the first time Epitaphios has been published in book form in English.

Smokestack Books » PB » £8.95 » 9780992740962 » 64pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Borrowed Space: New and Selected Poems

Rivers Wanted

Homecoming

Groundings

Rachel Piercey

Andrew Forster

Nicola Warwick

Piercey’s sharp, unflinching world view still leaves room for romance and is both glorious and heart-rending.

This is a beautiful collection of poems about love, identity and home.

This entertaining and thoughtful book, that is both a literary pilgrimage and a travelscape, has Wordsworth and the Lake District very much at its heart as it explores meanings of “home.”

An extraordinary debut from a writer with a distinctive voice. This is a collection to savour, full of wild places, strange creatures and liminal spaces where anything might happen.

The Poetry Business » PB » £9.95 » 9781910367049 Poetry (DCF)

Cinnamon Press » PB » £7.99 9781909077416 » 80pp Poetry (DCF)

A Place to Pay Attention

The Woman Who Was Not There

Finite Formulae and Theories of Change

Bonnie Thurston

Joelle Taylor

The Emma Press » PB £6.50 » 9781910139042 36pp » Poetry (DCF)

Bonnie Thurston’s poetry celebrates her mountain homeland in West Virginia – its rugged beauties, its history and its grip on her heart.

Cinnamon Press » PB » £7.99 9781909077393 » 80pp Poetry (DCF)

“Joelle Taylor does not mess about. Her poetry is fearless. It gets right to the point. It has purpose.”

Benjamin Zephaniah

Burning Eye Books » PB £10.00 » 9781909136397 120pp » Poetry (DCF)

Edna Wyley Ms. Wyley’s poems are perpetually fresh, utterly scrutinised, marked by vigour and virtuosity, arriving on the page as accomplished things, like settled law, fit for the long haul language calls us to.

Dedalus Press » PB » £12.50 9781906614966 » 190pp Poetry (DCF)

Wioletta Grzegorzewska Using true stories from her own family annals, Wioletta Greg makes a literary journey through the last century, from Poland at the outbreak of the First World War to present-day Britain. Wioletta has published several volumes of poetry, a collection of short prose poems and, most recently, a debut novel Guguły (2014), which has already been hailed as the “discovery of the year” by critics and readers alike. Widely admired in Poland this is her first full English collection.

Arc Publications » PB » £9.99 » 9781908376 916 » 128pp Poetry (DCF)

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Ephemeris Dorothy Lehan Dorothy Lehane’s debut poetry collection is experimental and exploratory – part daybook, and part astronomical chart, this is a voyage into both the self, the body and the personal as well as into an ever-expanding cosmos of stars, planets and space.

The poems of Ephemeris are fiercely bright and tuned in on a precise, musical wavelength of sound and form. Language, seen here through this particular telescope, is exuberant and numerous with possibilities, gracefully testing its own boundaries. In galaxies of sounds and shapes, Lehane brilliantly takes a giant lyric leap from poem to poem, making for something of a stellar debut.

“Ephemeris is a stellar nursery for new poetic formations to address our changing perceptions: here, the stars simultaneously twinkle and are giant gas clouds. Renewing lyric’s hunger for discovery, for the edge of making and unmaking, they are doubly experimental, yoking Albert Einstein’s particles and Gertrude Stein’s participles. These poems are colliders as much as star charts: Schröedinger texts.”

Sophie Mayer

Nine Arches Press » PB » £8.99 » 9780992758967 » 69pp » Poetry (DCF)

Blue Movie Bobby Parker Bobby Parker’s poems play truth or dare, baring the soul of the small town blues: undaunted by subject matter and fearless of propriety or prettiness, he writes with dynamic clarity of frightening, lonely places within and without our selves.

In this debut collection, Parker holds back on nothing – both daringly up-front and utterly candid, Blue Movie veers between disaster, horror, comedy, sex, drugs, love and parenthood with dare-you-to-laugh brilliance. Along with their starkness and mucky-faced honesty, these poems are meticulously crafted, canny, and always one step ahead.

Nine Arches Press » PB » £8.99 » 9780992758974 » 88pp » Poetry (DCF)

Poems of the Living Present Mahmud Kianush Mahmud Kianush is an Iranian poet, novelist and literary critic, who has been living in England with his family since 1976. Four of his collections of English poetry have been published by Rockingham Press, which also published his anthology Modern Persian Poetry. He is a frequent contributor to the BBC Persian Service on social, cultural and philosophical subjects.

Poems of the Living Present includes the long poem – ‘Suddenly Man and his Earth’ – one man’s apocalyptic vision of a world destroyed by greed and heartless hedonism. Not only were the fruits of science and learning squandered on creating a world of servants and the served, but the Earth itself was changed. And with it died poetry and love – “and the Creation was left empty of songs of meaning”.

Rockingham Press » PB » £9.99 » 9781904851578 » 72pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Tilt Rosalind Hudis Pared down and precise imagery, beautifully observed moments and flashes of lyrical writing that is startling and original, mark this accomplished debut. Rosalind Hudis has a gift for taking us straight into the action, often using titles that run into the poem as in ‘Erosion’, ‘Lead Mine’, ‘Cheap Pianos’. Form and content work together and there is great use of sound patterning in these admirably controlled pieces that know what not to say, leaving the reader space to enter the moment.

Cinnamon Press » PB » £7.99 » 9781909077447 » 64pp » Poetry (DCF)

Here’s Looking at You Kid Helen Burke Helen Burke is a poet constantly on tour, and – in typical rockstar fashion – at each stop she makes time to take, and recite, requests from the audience for poems from her vast back catalogue.

These ‘requested poems’ have been brought together for Here’s Looking at You Kid, the long-awaited follow-up to Helen’s muchloved first volume The Ruby Slippers. Readers will discover the secrets of ‘hospital lingo’, find out why dogs are so especially kind, learn how to handle mothers who are at ‘that difficult age between 81 and 81-and-a-half’, and the lurid details of ‘what they found in the poet’s stomach’. The collection also features the return of Helen’s charming notes on each poem, and an introduction by the author – ‘why I (still) write’.

Valley Press » PB » £8.99 » 9781908853424 » 96pp » Poetry (DCF)

Also BY Helen Burke

The Ruby Slippers Helen Burke’s The Ruby Slippers is nothing less than a poetry landmark; collecting thirty-one of the finest poems from a remarkable forty-year poetry career, in which Helen – the toast of her native Yorkshire – has won more competitions and prizes than you can shake a stick at. This sparkling selection tells the story of her journey through poetry, from her early poems applauded by ‘a very young Simon Armitage’ to her recent work with the Origami Poems Project.

Any poetry lover will treasure this collection, and be delighted and touched by this ‘magnum opus’ from one of Yorkshire’s most valuable poets.

“A poet with verve, wit and humanity.”

Ian McMillan

Valley Press » PB » £8.00 » 9780956890436 » 78pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Manifestations Stevie Ronnie Manifestations is the long awaited full-length debut collection of poetry from Stevie Ronnie. This collection introduces a fresh new voice that is at once accessible and challenging. Here are poems that resist the current divisions in contemporary poetry to combine the spoken and the written word. This is a poet not afraid to experiment, taking risks with language, shape, subject and form that push poetry into uncharted territory. Much of the work in this collection has existed in other media blurring the line between poetry and other art forms. Most of all this is a poet who knows how to communicate an emotional experience through words and their music.

Red Squirrel Press » PB » £7.99 » 9781906700812 » 62pp » Poetry (DCF)

WEIGHING the Present Michael Laskey A new collection from Michael Laskey, founder of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, is always a cause for celebration. Twice Poetry Book Society recommended, and shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, Michael is widely regarded as one of Britain’s warmest and most insightful poets. Weighing the Present includes poems about family and wider society, often through brilliantly evoked particular details and specific scenes from ‘everyday life’. Short linked poems, which amount almost to sequences, deal with difficult material – elegies for lost friends for instance – while still remaining somehow life-affirming. At the heart of the book are tender but unsentimental love poems.

The Poetry Business » PB » £9.95 » 9781910367032 » Poetry (DCF)

May Day ed. Jan Fortune May Day introduces new and emerging voices in poetry, showcasing names to watch. Drawn from the winners and short list from November 2013 Cinnamon Press poetry collection competition, the anthology includes work by Laura Seymour, Sheila Wild, Patricia Helen Wooldridge and Carole Powell. Helen Ivory and Martin Figura wrote of the the winner and second placed poets (Seymour and Wild): “In the end it came down to two very different voices – One wild, imaginative, surreal and witty – the other calm, with a sense of considered vulnerability. We chose the former as our over-all winner, but it was like choosing between fire and an artichoke. We were therefore delighted and relieved to hear that Cinnamon Press is going to publish both collections.”

May Day is an opportunity to sample the work of these and many other exceptional new writers.

Cinnamon Press » PB » £7.99 » 9781909077423 » 140pp Poetry Anthology (DCQ) OC T O B ER

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Mr O’Toole and His Very Cool Zoo John O’Donoghue (author) & Zara Slattery (artist) Visually striking and verbally inventive, Pighog’s unique new graphic poetry book Mr O’Toole and His Very Cool Zoo tells the story of a zookeeper and the menagerie of animals in his care that love getting dressed up. It contains some vivid sequential images that draw the poetry into an attention-grabbing story packed full of action and colour. Mr O’Toole and His Very Cool Zoo is ideal for reading aloud with young children and because of its layout and child friendly size, will be appealing, engaging and absorbing to all kinds of learning styles.

Pighog » PB » £9.99 » 9781906309299 » 30pp Children’s Poetry (YDP)

Real Gower Nigel Jenkins Gower was the first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the UK and is rightly famous for its beaches, its surfing and its history. Here are the cliffs, bays and beaches of the south coast, including the iconic Worm’s Head and Rhossili, with their castles, disappearing industrial remains and literary links. And here too are the rugged moorlands, farms, quiet ruins and slopes to the Loughor Estuary. Nigel Jenkins, Gower born and raised, and always a near neighbour in Mumbles, brings a rich mix of history, personal memory and intimate insights as he walks the territory and writes about the place he loved best, in what was to be his last book before his death in 2014.

Real Gower will appeal to locals, visitors and enthusiasts for Gower anxious to get beyond the tourist brochures and find out more about the area from a first-hand source.

Seren » PB » £9.99 » 9781781722190 » 220pp » Topography (RGBT)

The Workshop Handbook for Writers Jackie Wills The author gives the reader ideas and advice on how to improve their approach to day, week or longer workshops whether they are just starting out or already working in the sector. The book is an invaluable aid to all kinds of creative tutors in using words and writing to encourage creativity.

Along with great advice The Workshop Handbook for Writers contains essential, easy-to-use plans, activities and case studies from business, major arts organisations and schools. These are designed to ensure the reader understands how to run successful creative workshops in the community, business and the education sector.

Jackie Wills understands that when the conditions are right, a workshop is seriously playful, and an increasingly popular and effective way of developing creativity and creative skills, airing issues and resolving problems.

Pighog » PB » £14.99 » 9781906309800 » 280pp Creative Writing Guide (CBV)

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Total Shambles George F After slipping through the cracks of modern life and into the amoral underground beyond work-aday society, George F finds himself at the heart of London’s political frontline, where anarchy, alcohol and addiction stalk the streets of a different city to the one you know.

From life on the street to behind the barricades, from the occupation of derelict buildings to inevitable evictions and confrontation with law and order, from euphoria to despair, Total Shambles follows the journey of an idealistic writer as he tries to thrive and survive in the contentious world of squatting in London.

Written from someone deep set in the squatting and anarchist community, George F is a pseudonym used for the protection of the author.

Influx Press » PB » £9.99 » 9781910312049 » 160pp Memoir (BM)

City Mission: The story of London’s Welsh chapels Huw Edwards Broadcaster Huw Edwards traces the history of London’s Welsh churches, examining the origins of the London Welsh, the pattern of Welsh migration to London past and present, the influence of Howel Harris and the early Methodists, the tradition of Welsh preaching, and describes in detail the Welsh religious causes in London.

The book also appraises their contribution since the 1770s and reviews the current position and projections for the future. It is a comprehensive fully illustrated book that will appeal to the London Welsh as well as to Londoners keen to learn more about the city’s religious and architectural heritage.

Y’Lolfa » PB » 9781847719058 » £24.95 » 400pp Church History (HRCC95)

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If I Lay On My Back I Saw Nothing But Naked Women Jacqeline Saphra This unusual picture book marries the sumptuous prose poems of Jacqueline Saphra with Mark Andrew Webber’s striking studies in the nude female form. Saphra constructs an eerie, sensuous world with her loosely narrative sequence of poems told from a child’s point of view, drawing the reader in with lush, wry descriptions of eccentric parents and step-parents. The surreal mood is complemented by Webber’s beautiful naturalistic linocut prints, which are based on speed-sketches from lifedrawing classes.

The Emma Press » PB » £12.50 » 9781910139066 36pp » Poetry (DCF)

Liffey Swim Jessica Traynor Liffey Swim is the debut poetry collection from Dubliner Jessica Traynor, in which family portraits and mythological imaginings combine to create a strikingly fresh suite of poems. A dramaturg for The Abbey Theatre, Traynor holds an MA in Creative Writing from UCD and is already widely published in journals and magazines, as well as in the recent Dedalus anthology, If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song.

Dedalus Press » PB » £10.50 » 9781906614973 » 76pp Poetry (DCF)

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A Pocketful of Windows: Poems to Gaze, Reach or Crawl Through ed. Felix Hodcroft Felix Hodcroft has spent a lifetime voraciously reading, writing and thinking about poetry – so Valley Press felt it was time to put him in charge of an anthology, a blank canvas to show the world just what he thinks poetry is all about. The result is A Pocketful of Windows, a unique collection of must-read poems from writers known and unknown, living and dead.

This will be the first in a series of ‘Pocket Anthologies’ from Valley Press – small, affordable volumes to help all readers get their poetry fix.

Valley Press » PB » £3.99 » 9781908853400 » 64pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Myrtle Ruth Wiggins ‘And in a flat over Tesco, there’s a pot of myrtle from which, night after night, love creeps.’

Myrtle is a celebration of the primal, female force of Nature. Herbs and wildflowers fill the poems with a heady richness and bracingly open voices reflect on fertility and death. A carnival stallholder battles with a spider and a bored housewife contemplates life as a fox, while lovers fear death and separation and gods look on with amusement and faint awe. Ruth Wiggins’ sumptuous debut collection is a masterpiece of dry humour and hard-won wisdom, and the fragility of modern life is laid bare as she examines the pursuit of perfection and agelessness.

The Emma Press » PB » £6.50 » 9781910139059 36pp » Poetry (DCF)

Voices Bright Flags Geoffrey Brock Voices Bright Flags is a series of experiments in what is sometimes called public poetry, with Brock’s country, America, and his relation to it, as his main theme. The poems approach America from a range of perspectives — political, historical, and personal — and in a range of styles and voices, with each voice planting its own flag, as it were, implying its own America. Together the poems form a partial (in both senses) mosaic, a discordant chorus, a succession of conversations and quarrels between the poet and the motley citizens of his imagination.

Waywiser Press » PB » £8.99 » 9781904130642 » 120pp » Poetry (DCF)

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The Facebook of the Dead Valerie Laws Pathology, politics, people. In her thirteenth book, her fourth full collection of poetry, Valerie Laws tackles her trademark challenging and surreal subjects with scientific yet moving insight, but also with wit. Speed-dating tortoises, crushes on Satan, new takes on Hamlet and Pride and Prejudice, more of her outrageous sex and dating comedy poems, rub shoulders and strike sparks with meditations on neuroscience and post-mortem photography, spiced with polemic activist pieces for causes like libraries, rhinos, and rape.

This collection, which contains many poems which have won awards and distinctions already, is entertaining and thought-provoking by turns.

Red Squirrel Press » PB » £8.99 » 9781906700966 » 68pp » Poetry (DCF)

God’s Spider Cyril Dabydeen Cyril Dabydeen writes with lyric grace, but perhaps his most characteristic voice is conversational, often witty and amused in its sharing of experiences as diverse as the incidents of travel, cricket, and the absurd pretensions of the literary world.

In these conversations with the reader, the poems make enlightening connections between ancient Greece and Amerindian myth in Guyana; the present and the buried voices of the past. In paying homage to the great Guyanese writer Wilson Harris, Cyril Dabydeen signals that he too is a rejector of absolutes, in search of multiple possibilities.

Peepal Tree Press » PB » £8.99 » 9781845232443 » 112pp » Poetry (DCF)

Nine Bright Shiners Theo Dorgan Nine Bright Shiners is the latest poetry collection from one of Ireland’s best known poets, Theo Dorgan – part vision of contemporary Ireland, part celebration of love and travel – and at its centre the sequence of elegies that gives the book its title. Dorgan’s most recent poetry collection is Greek (Dedalus, 2010); he has also published a number of prose travelogues, including Sailing for Home: A Voyage from Antigua to Kinsale (Dedalus, 2010).

Dedalus Press » PB » £10.50 » 9781906614980 » 140pp » Poetry (DCF)

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The Book of Days Colin Will In this collection Colin Will writes of his travels, experiences, ideas and philosophy through the medium of haibun.

Red Squirrel Press » PB £8.99 » 9781906700973 88pp » Poetry (DCF)

The Failed Idealist’s Guide To The Tatty Truth

Islington Born and Bred: A Memoir of Childhood

Fergus McGonigal

David Perman

The truth about parenthood and the idealism of youth giving way to the disappointment of middleage in poems beneath whose manic laughter lies a grain of truth.

Memoir of a childhood spent in Islington , charting his family’s life working on the Regent’s Canal, being bombed out in the Blitz, evacuation, grammar school, and National Service.

Burning Eye Books » PB £10.00 » 9781909136403 96pp » Poetry (DCF)

Rockingham Press » PB £7.99 » 9781904851530 80pp » Memoir (BM)

Plant Portraits

by Post Julia Trickey Botanical watercolour images and poetry that are vibrant with life and redolent of the emotional connection we all have with our national wild flowers.

Two Rivers Press » PB £12.99 » 9781909747074 76pp » Art & Botany (AFCC)

UEA Creative Writing Anthology Prose Fiction (2014)

UEA Creative Writing Anthology Poetry (2014)

UEA Creative Writing Anthology Scriptwriting (2014)

UEA Creative Writing Anthology Creative Nonfiction (2014)

An anthology showcasing new writers from the UEA Prose Fiction MA which has produced many successful, well-loved authors, such as Ian McEwan, Tracy Chevalier and Kazuo Ishiguro.

“No house-style, no readymades, simply original thinking, original writing from an exciting set of individual voices.”

A new anthology of work from the scriptwriting strand of the UEA world-renowned creative writing MA, including an introduction by course director Val Taylor.

UEA’s Creative Nonfiction MA course counts Granta author Mark Cocker among many successful alumni, and this new anthology introduces the next set of names to watch in this evergrowing field.

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Egg Box » PB » £9.99 9780957661165 » 80pp Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Egg Box » PB » £9.99 9780957661172 » 112pp Drama (DD)

Egg Box » PB » £9.99 9780957661189 » 80pp Creative Nonfiction (CBV)

Rhyme & Reason: the Poetry of Leadership Sam Chittenden This inspirational book uses poetry as an exemplar and practical guide for leadership and individual development through the use of metaphor, language and the nature of poetry.

Pighog » PB » £14.99 » 9781906309619 » 280pp Management (KJM)

The Fairy House Sally Barton It’s not all about us, you know – this story about fairies, told entirely through Sally Barton’s beautiful illustrations, makes us think about our position in the world. And whether you believe in fairies or not, there’s a hidden, magical world of animals, birds and nature that does exist.

Hogs Back Books » PB » £6.99 » 9781907432194 Children’s Picture Book (YBC)

Sniff Lynne Hudson Sometimes the things you own become a part of you, and that’s how Scruffy feels about his blanket. So when it goes missing, this loveable little dog sets out on a very smelly journey to sniff it out.

Hogs Back Books » PB » £6.99 » 9781907432187 Children’s Picture Book (YBC)

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Best Friends Forever ed. Amy Key This anthology reflects the scale of intensity within female friendships and captures the defining characteristics of this frequently-overlooked relationship: the intimate and the casual, the life sustaining and the life changing, as well as the tensions and the joys. Above all, this book celebrates the transformative power of friendship among women, considering the moments where friendships are ‘made’, the relationship between friendship and romantic love and friendship and rebellion, the role of culture – fashion, cinema, music, art – in forming friendships, and feelings towards friendships lost or regained.

The Emma Press » PB » £10.00 » 9781910139073 » 64pp Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Opposite the Tourbus SophiA Walker Having been advised to ‘Always travel in the opposite direction to the tour bus’ Sophia Walker set out to get away from the big noise, big tourist attraction, tick box bucket list experiences of life and find out what was happening quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) on the other side of the street. The poems collected here tell those stories, whether that is an eye opening report from a sex education workshop in an everyday British town, or something more harrowing from Iraq or Africa. Here, it is not always the journey but the landing that counts, the coming back, it is not the specific moment of an experience that tells the full story but also what comes afterwards and those who seek to damage and harass unwittingly leave strength and resilience in their wake.

These are the less-heard stories, all are true.

Burning Eye Books » PB » £8.99 » 9781909136427 » 48pp Poetry (DCF)

Poems Georges Rodenbach Bruges was Rodenbach’s muse and poetic source, as portrayed in his famous novel Bruges la Morte, and in these poems, he sifts the elements that make up the decaying Bruges which he sees as a medieval corpse laid out for him to ‘rescue’ through his interpretation of its atmosphere of melancholy, its seductive romantic decline and its lonely atmosphere. With rare beauty and delicacy, Rodenbach’s poetry spins its web of tonal impressionism and seems always to exist on the border of silence. This is the first UK bilingual publication from this great Symbolist poet whose work influenced such writers as Proust, Zweig and Rilke.

Arc Publications » PB » £10.99 » 9781904614 647 » 144pp Poetry (DCF)

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Are You as Single as that Cream?

Amy McAllister The Dublin-born rising star of the spoken word scene writes about haggis, robots, illicit affairs and International Pillow Fight Day.

Burning Eye Books » PB £8.99 » 9781909136427 60pp » Poetry (DCF)

The Hills Were Joyful Roger Mais A long acknowledged classic of the Caribbean canon that led the way towards an authentic and autonomous Caribbean literary aesthetic is restored to print after almost twenty years.

Farmer Christmas Daniel Bird and Edward Ward On his annual mission to deliver presents to children around the world, Santa Claus is forced to crash-land his sleigh by a farmer who is obsessed with flying.

The farmer and his family try to rectify the situation (ultimately successfully, would you believe it!) and along the way discover a few truths about the powers of carrots and the real reason we leave them out on the mantelpiece every Christmas Eve. Told in easy to read verse with stunning comic strip graphics,

Peepal Tree Press » PB £12.99 » 9781845231002 320pp » Fiction (FA)

Farmer Christmas will appeal to everyone who loves Christmas

Pighog » PB » £15.99 » 9781906309923 » Children’s Poetry (YDP)

The Weather in Kansas

Dancing With a Stranger

Crista Ermiya

Pauline Plummer

Stories set in inner-city London and the North East, with a diverse range of characters from a variety of cultural backgrounds. In this collection myths from world culture meet British realism.

Hard-hitting short stories ultimately about people, how they live and love and get through life in the global village of the world, and in the changing multicultural environment in the UK.

Red Squirrel Press » PB £8.99 » 9781906700997 150pp » Short Stories (FYB)

Red Squirrel Press » PB £8.99 » 9781906700980 150pp » Short Stories (FYB)

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Sugar Hall Tiffany Murray

Easter 1955. As Lilia Sugar scrapes the ice from the inside of the windows and the rust from the locks in Sugar Hall, she knows there are pasts she cannot erase. On the very edge of the English/Welsh border, the red gardens of Sugar Hall hold a secret, and as Britain prepares for its last hanging, Lilia and her children must confront a history that has been buried but not forgotten.

Based on the stories of the slave boy that surround Littledean Hall in the Forest of Dean, this is a superbly chilling ghost story from Tiffany Murray.

‘Sugar Hall is a dark tale brightly told, beautifully written and thoroughly unsettling.’

Emylia Hall, author of The Book of Summers and A Heart Bent Out of Shape

‘Tiffany Murray isn’t quite like anyone else writing today.

She’s a mad geneticist of a writer, specialising in taking narrative elements we think we know and splicing them with the unexpected, giving us Emily Bronte the rock chick (Diamond Star Halo) or Stella Gibbons with a louchely 70s drug habit (Happy Accidents).

Sugar Hall lingers in the mind like a half-remembered nightmare and confirms Murray’s as an intensely British talent.’ Patrick Gale, author of Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man

‘Sugar Hall is not just a brilliantly effective ghost story.

It also pries open a window on to a vanished decade, exploring the long consequences of old sins and the suffering of the exile, the refugee and the powerless. Chillingly empathetic, it’s a book that cries out to be read again - and again.’ Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy and The Scent of Death

‘A shiveringly good read, Sugar Hall reminds me of the days when I used to read under the bedcovers with a torch, because I simply had to find out what happened next.’ Aminatta Forna, author of The Hired Man

‘Tender, troubling and telling, Sugar Hall is a box of delights. With prose delicate as moth scales, Tiffany Murray has written her best book to date, a simply delicious and creepy read.’ Jon Gower

‘As darkly tantalising as any enchanted forest, a novel that sees a writer with the lightest of touches take on the deepest of our fears – spellbinding.’

Tim Butcher, author of The Trigger

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‘A beautiful and haunting book.

Tiffany Murray is a wonderful storyteller.’ Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit

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E is for Egypt

by Charles C Somerville Why are we so fascinated by ancient Egypt? Is it because Egyptian treasures are rich and colourful? Is it because we can’t work out how pyramids were really built? Is it because of the mystical curses, which seem to inflict anyone who opens up the tomb of a pharaoh?

E is for Egypt feeds our fascination with this ancient civilisation. It provides an alphabetical guide, to its most bizarre and funny facts, which is as entertaining to adults as it is to children.

9781907432163 | £5.99

F is for Football

by Ned Elliott & Charles C Somerville F is for Football is packed with fascinating facts about the “beautiful game”. It describes the origins of the football, the formalising of the rules (including the debate on whether kicking your opponent should be allowed), and the most remarkable events that have taken place on and off the pitch.

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Arachne Press are a small, literary publisher of novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction based in South London. Much of their work is sourced from the many readings, workshops and events they both organise and take part in. Their community minded output and commitment to the new and unusual makes them the perfect addition to the ever growing Inpress family.

Weird Lies

Lover’s Lies

London Lies

ed. by Katy Darby & Cherry Potts

ed. by Katy Darby & Cherry Potts

ed. by Katy Darby & Cherry Potts

More than twenty tales, varying in style from stories not out of place in One Thousand and One Nights, to the completely bemusing.

This book is designed expressly for romantic Cynics and cynical Romantics, and to bring the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their new and upcoming authors to a wider audience.

From the mean streets of Hackney to sleepy South London suburbs, from boho Bloomsbury to City wine bars, London Lies is a tour of the capital as you’ve never seen it before.

Discover mirrors that predict the immediate future and museums where your personal future life is exhibited in the kind of ephemeral objects that might normally find their way into a dustbin. Meet tadpoles, lazy assassins, and assiduous poisoners; observe deals with the devil, and workplace stress taken to its logical conclusion.

Heroes, villains, and animals – anything and anyone could provide the twist in the tale – cursed travellers, persistent dreamers, aliens, robots and even ice might be the object, or source, of love.

Arachne Press » PB » £9.99 9781909208100 » 160pp Short Stories (FYB)

Join them as we wallow in the many facets of relationships. Explore roleplay gone wrong, goldfish that eat loneliness, and a very literal leap into the unknown. Old love, cold love, true love, new love, dead love, we’re through love – making babies and making whoopee, disappointment and contentment, playing at home, playing away or just playing; missed chances and new romances: everything from first conversation to last breath, strange journeys and stranger destinations.

Arachne Press » PB » £9.99 9781909208025 » 160pp Short Stories (FYB)

Moving from 1930s Camden to a Royal Wedding “riot”, via football fights, office steeplechases and awkward dates in art galleries, London Lies is a bizarre, funny, moving and sometimes unnerving glimpse into the secret life of the city we all love and know.

Featuring nineteen writers and twentythree stories showcased at monthly live literature event, London’s Liars’ League: Alan McCormick, Cherry Potts, Clare Sandling, David Bausor, David Mildon, Emily Cleaver, Emily Pedder, Harry Whitehead, James Smyth, Jason Jackson, Joan TaylorRowan, Katy Darby, Laura Martz, Laura Williams, Liam Hogan, Martin Pengelly, Nichol Wilmor, Rosalind Stopps, Simon Hodgson.

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A Man Against a Background of Flames Paul Hoggart Historian James Appleby uncovers a dangerous secret hidden deep in a chest of 400 year-old documents. To his horror, its discovery ignites a global firestorm that threatens to engulf all that he loves.

Face

The Last Wolf of Scotland

Brendan Cleary

MacGillivray

From a series commemorating a brother to love poems of great simplicity and truth, Cleary’s work has the uncanny ability to make the mundane astonish and the otherworldly intimate.

Discover the ritualistic world of MacGillivray, a Scottish poet, singer-songwriter and visual artist of exceptional standing. Her debut poetry collection distills her multifaceted artistic persona into a poetry of echoing, incantatory force.

As Appleby’s research inspires a worldwide movement, his enemies begin a murderous hunt from Amsterdam to Washington, New York and all over England.

Face includes three sequences of poetry: ‘Face’, ‘In Company’ and ‘The Ward’. Cleary’s distinguished style and intimacy with language addresses incomprehensible loss with profound clarity.

Scorched by the embers of his marriage and his weakness for extra-marital affairs, Appleby finds out just how dangerous ideas can be.

His use of dialect commemorates a time and place with a rare honesty, marking this collection a work of profound depth.

Pighog » PB » £9.99 » 9781906309367 471pp » Fiction (FA)

Pighog » PB » £9.99 » 9781906309442 80pp » Poetry (DCF)

Written in a free verse that modulates between romantic shadow and performative revelation, the poems collide action and image into surprising combinations. From the lion ‘sick on honey heather’ who is devoured by a horse from a George Stubbs painting, to a Wild West Rodeo at Loch Ness, the poet twists the past into visceral new configurations.

The work reflects her passion for the weird and wonderful legends which fill Scottish history. Wildly atmospheric, MacGillivray’s debut collection is an essential read.

Pighog » PB » £9.99 » 9781906309510 92pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Pighog is an award-winning independent publisher creating groundbreaking experiences of the written and spoken word.

They publish high quality original poetry, fiction and nonfiction work from a diverse range of regional, national and international voices. They are known for discovering exciting new talent and for their unique and distinctive publications.

POE T R Y B ACK L I S T A Poetic Primer for Love and Seduction ed. Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright

Opera di Cera

by Kelley Swain

Grown Up

by Scott Tyrrell

Poems

by Emile Verhaeran

Valley Press Paperback | 88pp | £8.99 9781908853363

Red Squirrel Press Paperback | 68pp | £7.99 9781906700768

Arc Publications Paperback | 160pp | £10.99 9781904614692

Standard Twin Fantasy

by Sam Riviere

Lighthouses

by Allison McVety

Sister Invention

by Judith Kazantzis

Difficult Fruit

by Lauren K. Alleyne

Egg Box | Paperback | 24pp £7.99 | 9780956928986

The Poetry Business Paperback | 69pp | £9.95 9781906613891

Smokestack Books Paperback | 152pp | £8.95 9780957574786

Peepal Tree Press Paperback | 72pp | £8.99 9781845232276

Petrol Honey

by Rob Auton

Boom!

by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Mondeo Man

by Luke Wright

War Reporter

by Dan O’Brien

Burning Eye Books Paperback | 96pp | £10.00 9781909136311

Seren | Paperback | 64pp £9.99 | 9781781721759

Penned in the Margins Paperback | 96pp | £9.99 9781908058096

CB Editions Paperback | 130pp | £8.99 9780957326675

The Emma Press Paperback | 64pp | £10.00 9780957459632

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New & Selected Poems

by Fergus Allen

No Return Game

by Tom Mathews

Adventures in Form ed. Tom Chivers

Heimlich’s Manouvre

by Paula Cunninghan

CB Editions | Paperback | 164pp £8.99 | 9780957326668

Dedalus Press Paperback | 80pp | £9.50 9781906614751

Penned in the Margins Paperback | 192pp | £9.99 9781908058010

The Poetry Business Paperback | 64pp | £8.99 9781906613839

Ghost Pot

by John Wedgewood Clarke

Pro Eto – That’s What

by Vladimir Mayakovsky

A Rose Loupt Oot

by Various Authors

It’s No Good

by Kirill Medvedev

Valley Press | Paperback | 72pp £7.99 | 9781908853271

Arc Publications | Hardback 176pp | £12.99 9781904614319

Smokestack Books Paperback | 64pp | £8.95 9780956417503

Ugly Duckling Presse Paperback | 280pp | £10.00 9781933254944

Whitehall Jackals

by Chris McCabe & Jeremy Reed

Imagined Sons

by Carrie Etter

Marshland

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INDEX

A

F

K

Andrews, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

F, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Kehoe, Paddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Armes, Derek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Forster, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Ket, Amy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

AugĂŠ, Celeste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Fortune, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Khalvati, Mimi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Furse, Alice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Kianush, Mahmud . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

B

Kilpi, Eeva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Barnie, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

G

Barton, Sally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Gavin, Honor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

L

Berger, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Gillmor, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Laskey, Micheal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Berkson, Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Gittins, Rob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Laws, Valerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Bird, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Godden, Salena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Lehan, Dorophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Black, Matt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Gordon, Ferns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Lewis, Gwyneth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Blamires, Adrian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Grzegorzewska, Wioletta . . . . . . . 37

Lindsay, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Brodsky, Lisa Marie . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Gulliver, Mavis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 M

Burke, Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 H

MacGillivray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

C

Hall, Pip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Madec, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Chittenden, Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Hardwick, Oz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Mais, Roger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Chivers, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Hardy, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Manuel, Hazel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Clancy, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Harris, Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Mazelias, Jo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Cleary, Brendan . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 53

Harrold, AF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

McAllister, Amy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Clegg, Melanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Hicks, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

McCarthy, Patricia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Crockatt, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Hodcroft, Felix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

McDowell, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Hoggart, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

McGarry, Jamie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Horgan, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

McGonigal, Fergus . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Hubbard, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

McGuire, Colin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Hudis, Rosalind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Medland, Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Hudson, Lynne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Mole, Kris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Hussain, Nasser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Monahan, Noel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

D Dabydeen, Cyril . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Darby, Katy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Darbyshire, Bobbie . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Davies, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Davies, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Mortimer, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 28

Davies, Rhodri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

I

Dorgan, Theo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Ibrahim, Khadijah . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 N

Duhig, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Dullaghan, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

J Jenkins, Nigel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

E

Jones, Eileen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Edwards, Huw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Jones, Mab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Elliott, Ned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Entwistle, Alice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Ermiya, Crista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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Murray, Tiffany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Nkosi White, Edgar . . . . . . . . . . . 33

S

W

O’Brien, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Salgado, Minoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Walker, Sophie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

O’Donnell, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Saphra, Jacqeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Ward, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

O’Donoghue, John . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Scott, Josephine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Warwick, Nicola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

O’Dwyer, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Sexton, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Watkins, Clive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

O’Mahony, Nessa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Simpson, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Wedgewood Clarke, John . . . . . . . 13

Owen, Antony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Slattery, Zara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Wiggins, Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Smartt, Dorothea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Will, Colin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Smith Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Williams, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Smith, Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Wills, Jackie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Smith, Christopher J.P. . . . . . . . . . 19

Wright, Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Smith, Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Wyley, Edna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

P Parker, Bobby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Perman, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Perman, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Petit, Pascale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Piercey, Rachel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 37 Potts, Cherry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 52 R Rahim, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Reid, V.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Ridge, Sue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Ritsos, Yiannis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Robinson, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Robson, Jeremy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Rodenbach, Georges . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Ronnie, Stevie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Somerville, Charles C . . . . . . . . . . 51 Spurrier, Frances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Stansfield, Katherine . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Suleyman, Chimene . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Swain, Kelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 T Taylor, Joelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Thurston, Bonnie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Traynor, Jessica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Trickey, Julia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Troutman,Philippa . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Trüb, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Rose, Sue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Ross, K.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

U

Ruderham, Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Uribe, Kirmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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