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Inpress 2009 - 10 C ata l o g u e

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Contents Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Biography and Music Non-Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Backlist Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Distribution and Sales Representation . . . . . . . . . 63

P o e t ry

Frontiers

Sticky

Modern Poetry in Translation

Andy Croft

Contains previously un-translated poems by Bertolt Brecht.

“[Full of] wit and brio.” The Guardian

Frontiers (Modern Poetry in Translation, Series 3, Issue 11) focuses on physical and linguistic boundaries, considering how poetry can survey and cross these borderlines. Includes new work by Kathryn Maris, Philippe Jaccottet, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sasha Dugdale and Georgi Gospodinov.

Sticky is derived from the Russian stikhi, meaning poems. Much of Andy Croft’s work is preoccupied with the failure of democratic socialism and Sticky continues to develop that theme. Croft employs cadence, rhythm, rhyme and parallelism in his work to strong effect; and these poems are both laced with regret and poignantly optimistic. This collection is one man’s journey through the imagined lands of Righteousness, Vulgaria and Mudfog, to the banks of the river Styx, where he meets the ghosts of Brecht and Bunyan.

Modern Poetry in Translation was founded by Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes in 1966. The magazine was re-launched under the editorship of David and Helen Constantine in 2004. Circumstances may have changed since the magazine’s inception, but the need for readers and writers to be confronted by what is foreign is as pressing as ever. MPT remains a leading literary journal with an international reputation for the wide range of poets and translators that it presents.

Modern Poetry in Translation | Paperback | £9.95 | 978-0955906411 | 201x140mm | 200pp | Apr-09 | Poetry

Andy Croft lives in Middlesbrough. His seven previous books of poetry include; Just as Blue, Comrade Laughter and Ghost Writer. He has written forty-four books for teenagers, including for Hodder’s Livewire/Real Lives Series, and has published widely on the history of the British Labour Movement. He writes a regular poetry column in the Morning Star and runs Smokestack Books. Flambard Press | Paperback | £8.00 | 978-1906601058 | 216x138mm | 112pp | Apr-09 | Poetry

The Blue Cat Walks the Earth Frank Reeve

Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems W. D. Snodgrass

Legendary US radical poet and winner of the ‘Golden Rose’ New England Poetry Society Award.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

The Blue Cat is a courteous, well-read, outspoken, randy anarchist ready again to lay down one of his lives for what he believes in. He’s a cross between Top Cat, Puss in Boots, Schrödinger’s Cat and the Cat in the Hat. He’s a trickster, a prankster, an illusionist and an illusion. The Blue Cat Walks the Earth is the third book in which Frank Reeve has let the Blue Cat out of the bag. This book comes with a CD of Frank Reeve reading his work.

Not for Specialists includes 35 new poems completed before the author’s death in January 2009. The collection is complemented by the superb work Snodgrass published in his (now out of print) Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Heart’s Needle, along with poetry from seven other distinguished collections.

Frank Reeve is an award-winning US poet, novelist, short story writer, critic and translator. He taught in Moscow and Leningrad and translated for Robert Frost when he met Khrushchev in 1962. He is the father of the actor Christopher Reeve. He is currently Emeritus Professor at Wesleyan University.

W. D. Snodgrass, a contemporary of Robert Lowell, was born in Pennsylvania in 1926. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. His first book of poems, Heart’s Needle, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960, and he received numerous awards and honours for his poetry, translations, and criticism. An early exponent of confessional poetry, Snodgrass is now highly regarded as an avant-guarde poet and a master of non-traditional forms. “Poem after jewelled poem... his poems will stay with us, persisting in their loveliness.” Jay Parini, The Guardian

Smokestack Books | Paperback | £8.95 | 978-0956034106 | 197x127mm | 64pp | Apr-09 | Poetry

The Waywiser Press | Paperback | £10.99 | 978-1904130352 | 129x196mm | 128pp | Apr-09 | Poetry

Zeus Amoeba

Pro Eto: That’s What

David Greenslade

Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Fantastic Stuff. I highly recommend it.” David Bellamy

First English publication of this seminal work, including photomontages by Rodchenko.

David Greenslade has been described as a “genuinely original voice”, a “radical nonconformist” and “relentlessly modern”. In this collection, he praises the astonishing variety and sheer wonder of animals. He lets the presence of fish, insects, reptiles, mammals, sponges and mythic creatures speak as “beings whose facts become their beauty”. Eminent zoologists have praised his accuracy and his poetic invention. Zeus Amoeba lyrically displays the regal glory, generous splendour and miraculous fragility of the animal kingdom.

Pro Eto: That’s What is a book-length love poem about the pain and suffering inflicted on the poet by his lover, and her final rejection of him. As well as being an agonising parable of separation and betrayal, it is also a political work, highly critical of Lenin’s reforms of Soviet Socialism. This title is beautifully published with 12 full page plates by Alexander Rodchenko, designed to interleave and illuminate the text.

David Greenslade has lived for long periods in Japan, the United States and in Oman. He has received British Council and Arts Council England support for his work and publishes in both Welsh and English. He currently works at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. Greenslade’s other titles include: Each Broken Object and Weak Eros.

Two Rivers Press | Paperback | £9.00 | 978-1901677638 | 234x156mm | 140pp | May-09 | Poetry

Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post revolutionary Russia. His poetry, influenced by Whitman and Verhaeren, has affinities with modern rock music in its erotic thrust and bluesy emotion.

The Wall-Menders

Stop Sharpening Your Knives 3

Kate Noakes

Edited by Nathan Hamilton, Sam Riviere and Jack Underwood

Themes of environmental damage and renewal.

“A remarkable gathering of emerging poets.” Lavinia Greenlaw

In The Wall-Menders, Kate Noakes explores themes of environmental damage and renewal. She uses imagined narratives to suggest options for repairing the planet and relearning how to live in harmony with it. This is organic, vital poetry that reminds us of the skills we have forgotten in modern life. Kate’s work chimes with some important social themes, but this is poetry of subtlety, rich in its song and imagery.

The anthology Stop Sharpening Your Knives 3 is a selection of poetry and illustrations from 23 new UK poets, edited by Nathan Hamilton, Sam Riviere and Jack Underwood. It contains poems from Emily Berry, Tim Cockburn, Charlotte Geater, Mollye Miller, Jon Stone, Heather Phillipson, Christian Ward, Margot Douaihy, Joe Dunthorne, Stuart McCarthy, Ben Borek, Sarah Hesketh, Michael Zelenko, Kirsten Irving, Joe Kennedy, Meghan Purvis and Agnes Lehoczky. A series of illustrations are also included, which were commissioned to accompany the poetry.

Kate Noakes was a prize-winner in the 2006 Poetry London Competition and the 2007 Iota Poetry Competition. She won the Cheshire Poetry Competition in 2007 and the Rhyme & Reason Poetry Competition in 2008. Her work has appeared in small press magazines in the UK, USA, Canada and Europe. She teaches writing workshops for adults and children.

“Individualistic, anarchic, dissident, argumentative, fun. I wish I’d written some of these myself.” Hugo Williams

“Reading her poems with the care they deserve gives an intimation of what it might feel were the world in safe hands.” Peter Robinson

Two Rivers Press | Paperback | £8.00 | 978-1901677645 | 210x140mm | 60pp | May-09 | Poetry

Egg Box Publishing | Paperback | £12.99 | 978-0955939921 | 198x129mm | 96pp | May-09 | Poetry

Penultimata

Yelp!

Robert Conquest

Liz Almond

“A strong and individual voice, talking about things that matter.” Thom Gunn

Winner of a writer’s award from Arts Council England.

Robert Conquest stresses poetry’s relationship to the phenomenal universe: in particular to landscape, women, art and war. His entirely individual poetic voice gives us disturbing fictions, emotive landscapes, vivid erotica, off-beat humour and historical sufferings. The acclaimed historian’s seventh collection of poetry offers depth, seriousness and subtle cadences. Highlights include poems about his early loves and his role in World War Two.

Liz Almond’s second collection of poems, Yelp!, is about recuperation and retreat. Almond reflects on her visits to far-flung places; from remote parts of Greece and Southern India to Andalucia, where she owns a tiny house.

Robert Conquest is 92 years old. A former Oxford communist, he wrote poetry that was praised by Philip Larkin, and together with Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn and others, was a leading member of the Movement. Having repented of his communism, he also did a stint as Margaret Thatcher’s speechwriter. He is the author of twenty-one books on Soviet history, political philosophy, and international affairs, including The Great Terror.

The Waywiser Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1904130369 | 129x197mm | 192pp | Jun-09 | Poetry

Liz Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, grew up in South London and has lived for many years in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. She has taught Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Alsager Faculty and at the University of Huddersfield. Her previous collection is The Shut Drawer. “The ground of her work is the family, but the family as we might recognise it from Greek tragedy, writ large, its pains and relationships as vivid and terrifying as war. There is nothing domestic about this book.” Jo Shapcott

Knife Sharpener: Selected Poems

Everyman Street Julian Colton

Sargon Boulus

First major poetry collection in English translation by one of the most influential of contemporary Arab poets.

A front-line perspective of love, violence, class and religious intolerance.

Knife Sharpener is a selection of Sargon Boulus’s poems, written between 1991 and 2007, and translated by Boulus himself. This edition includes an afterword by Margaret Obank and Boulus’s essay Poetry and Memory, written a few months before he died in October 2007. The book features a foreword by Adonis, an introduction by Dublin poet and publisher Pat Boran, and nine pages of photographs and tributes from fellow writers including Saadi Youssef, Kadhim Jihad Hassan, Khalid al-Maaly, and Elias Khoury.

Everyman Street is a book of poems which is part soap-opera, part radio-play and part tragedy. There is an Everyman Street in every town. It’s anonymous, familiar and homesweet-home for winners and losers, for the lost and the lucky, the stuck-in-a-rut and the justpassing-through, for the butcher, the baker and the trouble-maker. When Anwar opens a corner shop he sets in motion a series of tragic events which leave Everyman Street and its inhabitants changed forever.

Sargon Boulus was born into an Assyrian family in Iraq in 1944. He began publishing poetry in 1961, contributing to the ground-breaking Shi’r [Poetry] magazine, based in Beirut. He left Iraq for Beirut in 1968 and in 1969 relocated to the USA, settling in San Francisco. He published six poetry collections and was a prolific translator of English-language poets into Arabic.

Julian Colton lives in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. Colton is currently CREATE Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway, and his poems have appeared in magazines such as The Rialto, Stand, New Welsh Review and Envoi. He currently co-edits The Eildon Tree poetry magazine with Tom Murray. Colton is also a storyteller and facilitates writing and reading events.

Banipal Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0954966676 | 125x198mm | 154pp | Jul-09 | Poetry

Smokestack Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0955402883 | 197x127mm | 64pp | Jul-09 | Poetry

The Sum Total of Violations

The Green Parakeet

Regina Derieva (translated by Daniel Weissbort)

Desmond Graham

“Regina Derieva [is] one of the outstanding writers of the contemporary Russian Diaspora.” Tomas Venclova

“Graham has a way of finding fugitive rays of light.” Poetry Wales

Regina Derieva is one of Russia’s leading contemporary poets. Her work has received commendations from many prominent authors including the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky and the Australian poet, Les Murray. Derieva embodies the new internationalism of poetry that has erupted since the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening of Eastern Europe. She represents a poetry freed of national and cultural boundaries and addressed to an audience linked by a larger vision of human possibilities.

The Green Parakeet extends the poetic sequence begun in Desmond Graham’s previous collection, Heart-work, encapsulating a darker mood and engaging with daring contrasts of form. The first half ’s elegiac sequence on an older brother finds vitality through loss, and love through difference. The second section consists of ‘Postcards from Germany’. Graham’s postcards range from dark and elusive to bright and teasing; they are of places we cannot know without imagination. Throughout, Graham’s humour and invention make this an accessible collection that is a pleasure to read.

Regina Derieva was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1949 and now lives in Sweden. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in magazines in the UK, Russia and Sweden. In 2003 she was awarded the Shannon Fellowship of the International Thomas Merton Society. “…hers is a brave and eminently readable voice.” Poetry Review Arc Publications | Hardback and Paperback | £13.99 (hb) £10.99 (pb) | 978-1906570101 (hb) 978-1904614708 (pb) | 138x216mm | 170pp | Jul-09 | Poetry 12

Desmond Graham is formerly Professor of Poetry at Newcastle University. His most recent previous collection, Heart-work, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Graham cotranslated Two Darknesses, a selection by the major Polish poet Anna Kamienska, in 1994 with Polish poet Tomasz P. Krzeszowski. He edited the The Complete Poems of Keith Douglas (Faber). Flambard Press | Paperback | £7.50 | 978-1906601041 | 216x138mm | 80pp | Jul-09 | Poetry

At the Edge of the Night

Shepherd of Solitude

Anise Koltz (translated by Anne-Marie Glasheen)

Amjad Nasser (translated by Khaled Mattaw)

First UK collection from this year’s Prix de Littérature winner.

First poetry collection by London-based Jordanian poet in English translation.

At the Edge of Night, a selection from four recent collections by Anise Koltz, Luxembourg’s best-known poet, brings the work of this daring and audacious writer to the attention of the English-speaking literary world for the first time. Written in Koltz’s prolific seventh decade, these brief poems – with their short, unpunctuated lines, clearly separated stanzas and powerful, direct language – are both personal and universal.

Shepherd of Solitude is Amjad Nasser’s first English collection, translated and introduced by Khaled Mattaw, the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English. The poems have been selected by Mattaw from Nasser’s Arabic volumes, spanning 25 years from 1979 to 2004.

Anise Koltz was born in Luxembourg in 1928. She has written poetry in German and French, and children’s books in Luxembourgish. She is also a translator and photographer. She has won many prizes, the most recent of which is the Prix de Littérature Nathan Katz 2009. She is a founder member and permanent honorary president of the European Academy of Poetry.

Amjad Nasser was born in Jordan in 1955. He is a major contributor to today’s Arab poetry scene and has published eight volumes of poetry and two travel memoirs. He is Managing Editor and Cultural Editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily newspaper. A selection of his poetry was published in French translation, Ascension de l’amant, with a foreword by Adonis (1998). “With his unusually wide and expressive range Amjad Nasser unites the varied facets of his experience in a discourse at once perceptive, critical, tender, and ironically comic.” Alfred Corn Banipal Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0954966683 | 125x198mm | 186pp | Jul-09 | Poetry

Night Train

Her Leafy Eye

Sean O’Brien & Birtley Aris

Lesley Saunders

First new collection since O’Brien won the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Forward Prize in 2007.

“Her poems are vivid, edgy and accomplished.” Helen Dunmore

Night Train is a collaboration between acclaimed poet Sean O’Brien and artist Birtley Aris. This beautifully produced book is presented as a poet-artist’s sketchbookcome-notebook, in which the text as well as the artwork is hand drawn. This is a world of steam-trains, platforms and railway landscapes glimpsed by night, with a buried tale of love and madness. Sean O’Brien’s previous titles include: The Drowned Book and Cousin Coat: New and Selected Poems.

A poet and an artist/garden designer collaborate to catch the spirit of the Rousham Gardens, Oxon. The text and computergenerated illustrations are in a shifting threeway dialogue with each other and with the culture of landscape. Familiar features such as a rill, a dovecot, espaliers and a walled garden all make an appearance – though these turn out to be simply the leaping-off point for a grand tour of the imagination.

Sean O’Brien lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His title The Drowned Book won both the Forward and T. S. Elliot Prizes for poetry in 2007. Birtley Aris lives in Northumberland. A major retrospective of his work was exhibited at the DLI Museum and Art Gallery in Durham in 2007.

Lesley Saunders’ poem ‘The Uses of Greek’ was shortlisted for the Best Single Poem in the Forward Prize 1999. Rill, which appears in Her Leafy Eye, won first prize in the Buxton Poetry Competition 2008. Saunders was joint-winner of the inaugural Manchester Poetry Prize in 2008, worth £10,000. “Verbally exuberant and richly textured.” Fleur Adcock

Two Rivers Press | Paperback | £12.00 | 978-1901677669 | 240x157mm | 48pp | Jul-09 | Poetry

Dark Room Elegies

The Book of Belongings

Michael Shepler

Brian Johnstone

“A gleam of genius.” Allen Ginsberg

“A maturing, considered voice.” Kathleen Jamie

Dark Room Elegies tells the story of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), the beautiful Hollywood silent-movie star who became a revolutionary photographer. Arriving in the United States from Italy when she was 16, she worked in sweat-shops and as an artist’s model before becoming an actress. In Mexico City she immersed herself in bohemian and radical life, and appeared in several paintings by Diego Rivera. This is a book about art and politics, love and revolution, idealism and power, from Hollywood and Mexico to Moscow and the battlefields of Spain.

The Book of Belongings reads like an archaeology of the lost, its pages carefully uncovering and observing what has vanished, died or been abandoned. Visiting former theatres of war, remote landscapes of Scotland, France and Greece, pre-war classrooms and the nightmares of childhood, these poems are not afraid to gaze long and hard at what has been deliberately concealed, erased, or dismissed as worthless. Brian Johnstone writes with an enviable facility, often from unusual perspectives, eliding time and space, letting geography merge seamlessly into history, and giving vanished histories a voice.

Michael Shepler is the author of seven books of poetry. Dark Room Elegies is his first major UK publication. He teaches film at the Jazz School in Berkeley, California and is Poetry Editor of the magazine Political Affairs. “Shepler is savage and accurate... There’s no faking in this one.” Louis Simpson Smokestack Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0955402890 | 197x127mm | 64pp | Jul-09 | Poetry

Brian Johnstone is currently Festival Director of StAnza: Scotland’s Poetry Festival, which he co-founded in 1998. He has appeared at the Ledbury Poetry Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Brian Johnstone’s previous two poetry collections are The Lizard Silence and Homing. Arc Publications | Hardback and Paperback | £11.99 (hb) £8.99 (pb) 978-1906570156 (hb) | 978-1904614753 (pb) | 138x216mm | 142pp | Aug-09 | Poetry 15

Their Mountain Mother Edmund Prestwich

Well Versed: Poetry from The Morning Star John Rety (editor)

Book-length poem set in South Africa, illustrated by printmaker Emily Johns.

Introduction by Tony Benn.

Their Mountain Mother is a single long poem set in Lesotho, South Africa, between 1820 and1824. Having been invaded by starving hordes from across the mountains, the Southern Sotho chiefdoms soon collapse in massacre and starvation. The tiny Mokoteli clan lies directly in the path of the invaders – will the wise Mokoteli chief Moshoeshoe be able to lead his people to safety? This title includes four plates by printmaker Emily Johns.

The Morning Star, Britain’s daily paper of the left, may not seem the obvious place to discover a weekly haven of poetry, yet that’s exactly what it has become thanks to Poetry Editor John Rety. Well Versed brings together these poems for the first time, presenting a unique mix of established poets including John Heath-Stubbs, Dannie Abse, Jacques Prevert, Victor Hugo, Adrian Mitchell, Mimi Khalvati and Bernard Kops, alongside lesser-known talents selected by the editor. Encompassing the full spectrum of human life, from the mundane to the defiant, the romantic to the political, Well Versed surprises, delights and shocks, but never fails to challenge.

Edmund Prestwich spent his first fifteen years in Natal, South Africa. He now lives in Manchester, where he teaches English at Manchester Grammar School. His first collection Through the Window appeared in 1997.

Hearing Eye | Paperback | £7.00 | 978-1905082469 | 210x210mm | 32pp | Aug-09 | Poetry

John Rety is the editor of Hearing Eye, an independent poetry publisher based in Kentish Town, London. He is the co-founder of the reading series Torriano Nights, and Poetry Editor at The Morning Star.

Hearing Eye | Paperback | £9.99 | 978-1905082421 | 148x210mm | 160pp | Aug-09 | Poetry

Cold Spring in Winter

I Spy Pinhole Eye

Valérie Rouzeau (translated by Susan Wicks)

Simon Denison and Philip Gross

Introduced by T.S. Eliot Prizeshortlisted poet Stephen Romer.

A unique collaboration between poet and photographer.

Cold Spring in Winter caused a stir when it was published in France in 1999. Here was the shock of an authentically new voice in whose urgent, stammered cadences an adult, and the little girl she used to be, join together to compose a lament for her dead father, a scrapmetal dealer. A mixture of child-speak, youth slang, made-up words, puns and sophisticated adult expression come together to create a unique work of literature. This title is Number 25 in the Arc Visible Poets’ series. Translated by Susan Wicks and introduced by T.S. Eliot Prizeshortlisted poet Stephen Romer.

Innovative and intellectually challenging, I Spy Pinhole Eye is a remarkable collaboration between poet Philip Gross and photographer Simon Denison.

Valérie Rouzeau was born in 1967 in Burgundy, France and now lives in a small town near Paris. She has published twelve poetry collections as well as translations of the work of Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams and Ted Hughes. Susan Wicks, poet and novelist, is the author of five collections of poetry including Singing Underwater which won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize. Arc Publications | Hardback and Paperback | £12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb) | 978-1904614593 (hb) 978-1904614302 (pb) | 138x216mm | 158pp | Aug-09 | Poetry

Philip Gross is an award winning poet, fiction writer, dramatist and Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. His previous poetry collections include The Wasting Game, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Simon Denison’s documentary and conceptual landscape photography has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He is the author of two photographic books, The Human Landscape and Quarry Land.

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £11.99 | 978-1905614998 | 170x170x | 80pp | Sep-09 | Poetry

Collected Poems

Undraining Sea

Michael Schmidt

Vahni Capildeo

A retrospective of one of the most recognisable figures in contemporary British poetry.

Sassy, dark poetry from poet highly commended by the judges of the 2009 Forward Prize.

Collected Poems brings together over three decades of Michael Schmidt’s work. Schmidt’s poetry is remarkable for its sustained quality and seriousness of purpose, and – despite an unusual variety of approach and material – for its coherence and genuinely distinctive voice. Rich in texture and colour, Schmidt’s poems are among the most readable, engaged and engaging of our time.

Vahni Capildeo’s second full-length collection is modern but composed without fear of traditional subjects or language. Her poem ‘From first to last...’, included in this collection, was highly commended by the judges of the Forward Prize 2009. Capildeo is due to appear in a number of anthologies over the next couple of years, including Identity Parade. One of the finest and most exciting young poets around.

Michael Schmidt was born in 1947 in Mexico City. He is founder and Editorial Director of Carcanet Press and PN Review, and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow. In 2006, he received an OBE. His many publications include novels and criticism, including a full history of poetry in English, and several anthologies, including The Harvill Book of Twentieth Century Poetry. Schmidt’s Selected Poems was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

Vahni Capildeo was born in Trinidad in 1973. She currently holds a Teaching Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of Leeds and works freelance for the Oxford English Dictionary and the Caribbean Review of Books. Her poetry includes No Traveller Returns and Person Animal Figure.

Smith Doorstop | Hardback | £18.95 | 978-1902382005 | 140x220mm | 212pp | Sep-09 | Poetry

Egg Box Publishing | Paperback | £12.99 | 978-0955939907 | 198x129mm | 96pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Sonata for Four Hands

Freed Speech

Amarjit Chandan (translated by Julia Casterton and John Welch)

Modern Poetry in Translation

First full-length collection to be published in UK.

New translations and poetry celebrating the liberation of speech.

Translated from the Punjabi by the author, Julia Casterton and John Welch, Sonata for Four Hands is Amarjit Chandan’s long-awaited first full-length collection to be published in Britain. Ironic, lyrical, sometimes angry or regretful, these poems, written in Punjabi but by a poet long settled in Britain, add a new dimension to contemporary poetry. This edition comes with a preface by the distinguished writer John Berger, a long-time admirer of Chandan’s work.

2009 sees the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One of those rights is freedom of speech. Freed Speech (Modern Poetry in Translation, Series 3, Issue 12) celebrates that right, featuring examples from all over the world, from all manner of circumstances, of people being enabled to speak and of their voices being heard. It explores the repression of those voices, but chiefly shows the triumph of the will to speak. Includes new translations of Brecht and Ritsos, and an appreciation of James Kirkup.

Amarjit Chandan was born in Nairobi in 1946 and studied in India at Panjab University, coming to Britain in 1980. He has published five collections of poetry and three collections of essays in Punjabi. He was one of ten British poets selected by Andrew Motion to read on National Poetry day in 2001 and has received two life-time achievement awards, one from the Punjabi Government in 2004 and the other from the Punjabis in Britain All-Party Parliamentary Group in 2006. Arc Publications | Hardback and Paperback | £13.99 (hb) £10.99 (pb) | 978-1906570354 (hb) 978-1906570347 (pb) | 138x216mm | 160pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Modern Poetry in Translation was founded by Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes in 1966. The magazine was re-launched under the editorship of David and Helen Constantine in 2004. MPT remains a leading literary journal with an international reputation for the wide range of poets and translators that it presents.

Modern Poetry in Translation | Paperback | £9.95 | 978-0955906428 | 201x140mm | 200pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Beans in Snow

Wrong Horse Home

Jennifer Copley

David Crystal

“Charming, sensuous and disturbing.” Carol Rumens

A strong, compelling collection, full of human warmth.

Beans in Snow is a stunning exploration of the consolations and cruelties of childhood. Like Angela Carter and Vicki Feaver, Jennifer Copley is fascinated by the way we act out stories from childhood in our adult lives. Trying to find her brother after his death, Copley becomes Gerda, Gretel and the goose-girl, making sense of his death through memory, imagination and story-telling. Beans in Snow is a book about childhood and growing up, about fear and belief, and about our enduring need for happy endings.

David Crystal’s poems examine the lives of ordinary people who turn out not to be so ordinary after all. There’s a surreal familiarity about much of his work; a familiarity that comes not just from the everyday world they depict but also from half-recollected folktales. Birds fly in and out of his poems like Bede’s sparrow through the mead-hall of life. We often find ourselves in the landscape of loss, in some of the poet’s most accomplished work to date.

Jennifer Copley was born in Barrow-in-Furness, where she still lives. She has published two pamphlets, Ice and House by the Sea, plus a fulllength collection Unsafe Monuments. In 2005 she was South Cumbria’s Poet Laureate. In 2006 she was the national winner in the Ottakar’s/ Faber Poetry Competition. Her work appeared in The Forward Prize Anthology 2008.

Smokestack Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0956034120 | 187x127mm | 64pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

David Crystal was born in Prudhoe, Northumberland, in 1963 and now lives and works in London. He has worked as literary editor of DOG magazine and his work featured in the Body & Soul exhibition at the ICA. He has had two previous collections from Two Rivers Press.

Tall Lighthouse | Paperback | £8.00 | 978-1904551669 | 210x130mm | 56pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Planet Box

Book of Days

Laura Daly & Diana Syder

Linda France

“A dazzling celebration of an inquiring human mind.” New Scientist

An almanac of poetry written in a 10th Century Japanese form.

Planet Box is a collaboration that re-configures our notion of the poetry book. More than just a sequence of poems drawing us into the imaginary life of its speaker, this ‘box’ contains the life’s work of an entirely fictional character, a woman squaring up to the dark matter of her own imagination. Planet Box is the culmination of a three-year partnership between two acclaimed artists from diametrically opposing fields, brought together as artists-in-residence at the Yorkshire Amateur Space Observatory.

In 2006 Linda France set herself the challenge of writing a renga verse every day for twelve months. Adapting this 10th century Japanese form, France created the world’s first ‘year renga’. Friends, walks, the weather, things seen, heard and read, became her collaborators in 365 ‘word pictures’ that bear witness to the flow of things, the connected and the disconnected, the numinous and the everyday. Book of Days is illustrated by Sue Dunne’s striking ceramic fragments: reliefs created by casting flowers found in the woods and hedgerows of Northumberland.

Laura Daly is a graduate of Goldsmiths College. Her previous residencies include The New Forest’s ArtsWay scheme. Diana Syder is the author of four acclaimed collections of scienceinformed poetry. In 2000 she was the recipient a Public Awareness of Science Award from the Institute of Physics.

Comma Press | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-1905583249 | 129x198mm | 48pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Linda France was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. She has published five previous collections: Red, The Gentleness of the Very Tall, Storyville, The Simultaneous Dress and The Toast of the Kit Cat Club. Sue Dunne was born in rural Essex. She studied ceramics in Bath, and has lived in Northumberland for the last twenty-five years. Smokestack Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0956034137 | 187x127mm | 64pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Background Music

A Compression of Distances

Cynthia Fuller

Daphne Gloag

Previous collection received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Science and nature are skilfully combined in this new poetry collection.

Cynthia Fuller’s new collection is concerned with personal histories and how we begin to retrace the paths that lead from then to now. The poems in Background Music explore the stories behind landscapes, families and individuals, and the choices and chances that shape the present. The poems look for continuities between generations and the underlying rhythm connecting the different selves we have been.

“Her poems are remarkable, especially in the way she has successfully taken complex concepts in modern science – particularly cosmology – and integrated them successfully and seamlessly into poems which speak of the human condition in an effective and moving manner. Her treatment of the scientific components of her writing is both authoritative and poetic. This is without question an important collection.” John Latham

Cynthia Fuller was born in Kent, but has lived in the North East since the 1970s. She has co-edited and appeared in several poetry anthologies, and her earlier collections include Instructions for the Desert and Only a Small Boat. Her most recent collection, Jack’s Letters Home, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Daphne Gloag was a medical journalist and editor after studying classics and philosophy. Many of her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies (including in Italy bilingually). Her prizes include the Poetry on the Lake Competition’s Silver Wyvern award. Diversities of Silence was published in 1994. She lives near London and is the widow of poet Peter Williamson.

Flambard Press | Paperback | £7.00 | 978-1906601102 | 216x138mm | 64pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1905614790 | 216x140mm | 80pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Quarantine Contagion

The Secret History

Brian Henry

Michael Hulse

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry and a National Book Award.

“Long awaited new collection by awardwinning ‘master craftsman’.” Time Out

Quarantine Contagion is a book-length poem that explores sexuality and subjectivity, set outside London in 1665 during the bubonic plague. Lying in a field beside his dead wife and son, the narrator describes the events leading up to his and his family’s death. Passages written in the third-person are interspersed throughout Quarantine Contagion, providing an objective vantage point.

Michael Hulse’s moving new collection is a quest for the meaning of home. These are meditations on the parents and childhood God he has lost, the national legacies of England and Germany he was born into, and the discovery of home through love. The marriage of imaginative scope and emotional directness that Sean O’Brien observed in Michael Hulse’s writing has never been so compellingly displayed as in these poems. Tender, venturesome, charged with intellectual energy, The Secret History is eloquent testimony to Hulse’s technical virtuosity, and shows a poet at the height of his powers.

Brian Henry was born in 1972 in Columbus, Ohio. Since 2005 he has been Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of six books of poetry and an editor of the poetry magazine Verse.

Michael Hulse has won the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Poetry Prize (twice), plus Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley Awards from the Society of Authors. He has translated more than sixty books from German, among them works by W. G. Sebald, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, Goethe and Rilke. He teaches at the University of Warwick. Arc Publications | Hardback and Paperback | £12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb) | 978-1906570255 (hb) 978-1906570248 (pb) | 138x216mm | 110pp | Oct-09 | Poetry 23

Our Sweet Little Time

Educational

Hamish Ironside (illustrated by Barnaby Richards)

Valerie Jack

Modern, urban haiku for the 21st Century.

An assured poetic debut drawing on childhood events.

This distinctive book takes us through a full year of the author’s life in haiku, culminating in the birth of his daughter. This book comes from the country’s leading independent publisher of haiku and features beautiful illustrations by Barnaby Richards. Extract: “Babyless belly / the thrill of a stranger / in our bed.”

Educational is a mature and assured debut collection from a young writer. Life lessons, death lessons, quirky school kids and scientific experimentation feature in this exciting and contemporary range of poems. Navigating classroom, bedroom and the World Wide Web, this poet reminds us that in life and love, you can never know enough.

Hamish Ironside, born 1971, has published haiku in magazines such as Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Presence, Acorn and Blithe Spirit. His longer poems have appeared in publications such as Poetry Review, P N Review, The Rialto and The Guardian. With Roddy Lumsden, he co-edited the Anvil New Poets 3 anthology in 2001. Barnaby Richards, born 1974, studied Art History at Manchester University before becoming an illustrator. He passed an Illustration: Authorial Practice MA with a distinction at Falmouth College of Arts and won The Financial Times Young Illustrator competition in 1998. Iron Press | Paperback | £6.00 | 978-0955245077 | 105x148mm | 144pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Valerie Jack has worked as an A level examiner, and has taught or volunteered at nine educational establishments, but still knows little for sure. She teaches English and Classics, and lives on a 59-foot narrow boat with her cat. “Valerie Jack’s pared-down hyper-realist vocabulary brings the world into high definition. Her poems are like arrows to the mark, we feel their impact. Shunning additional metaphor, they achieve metaphorical status by telling the truth.” Hugo Williams

Tall Lighthouse | Paperback | £8.00 | 978-1904551713 | 210x130mm | 54pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

This is the Woman Who

Hole

Claudia Jessop

Kathleen Kenny

Debut collection concerned with the nuances of everyday life.

“Well crafted, intellectually sharp and emotionally convincing.” Brendan Kennelly

This is the Woman Who is a remarkable first collection from a poet whose senses are attuned to the nuances of life, everyday objects and routines. Deceptively simple, the fine observation and careful recounting in these poems gives them a depth that can at times take on the mesmerising pulse of litany. The poetry is lucid, precise and accessible, but awakens layers of meaning in the spaces between words.

Kathleen Kenny was brought up in a family where her father and her brother never spoke to each other. Hole is the story of a lifelong struggle to understand the unspoken secrets contained in the silences of her childhood, to measure the damage and the hurt of its “strange normality”. Set against the changing landscape of the West-end of Newcastle in the 1960s, Kathleen Kenny connects “the accidental fall from childhood” to the violent demolition of a working-class community, swept aside for the promise of a new Brasilia.

Claudia Jessop has published her poems widely in magazines. She was a runner-up in the Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition 2007 and shortlisted in the Second Light Network Poetry Competition, 2008.

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1905614905 | 216x140mm | 64pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Kathleen Kenny is the daughter of an Irish mother and Irish-Geordie father. Her previous poetry collections include Sex & Death, Goosetales and other Flights, Sandblasting the Cave and Firesprung. She lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she works as a Creative Writing tutor for the Centre for Lifelong Learning.

Smokestack Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0956034113 | 187x127mm | 64pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

The Wisteria’s Children Sarah Lawson

A Casual Knack of Living: Collected Poems Herbert Lomas

New collection of haiku from established writer.

Highly-regarded poet, translator and reviewer is bought back into print.

Sarah Lawson’s haiku range from the traditional to quirky three-liners, from evocations of sunlight on apricots to startling puns and wordplay. Now she has gathered 100 largely unpublished haiku into one arresting, thoughtprovoking collection.

A Casual Knack of Living: Collected Poems gathers together the best of this much-admired poet’s work from his nine published collections (the first of which appeared 40 years ago), together with some previously unpublished poems, bringing Lomas’s poetry back into print.

Sarah Lawson is an American-born Londoner. She is a writer and translator of poetry, nonfiction and plays. Her translation of Christine de Pisan’s Treasure of the City of Ladies is published by Penguin. Lawson’s translation of Selected Poems by Jacques Prévert was a Poetry Book Society Translation Recommendation in 2002. Hearing Eye has published her poetry pamphlets Twelve Scenes of Malta and Friends in the Country. Her forthcoming book, The Ripple Effect, is a prose memoir about Poland.

Hearing Eye | Paperback | £5.00 | 978-1905082537 | 165x117mm | 54pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Herbert Lomas was born in the Pennines, served with the infantry 1943-46, including two years on the North West Frontier of India, and graduated with first-class honours and an MA from Liverpool University. His Letters in the Dark was an Observer Book of the Year and his Contemporary Finnish Poetry won the Poetry Society’s 1991 biennial translation award. He is a member of the Finnish Academy, and he was made Knight First Class, Order of the White Rose of Finland “for his services to Finnish Literature”. He lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

No Other World

The Ark Builders

Kunwar Narain (translated by Apurva Narain)

Mary O’Donnell

Award-winning Hindi poet.

“An adventurous poet in search of her own objectives.” Derek Mahon

No Other World is Kunwar Narain’s first fulllength collection of poems to be published in English translation, and consists of poems selected from five volumes written across five decades. Frequently inspired by characters, legends and actual events in India’s rich history, Narain writes with wisdom and a humanity that is at once compassionate and unremittingly moral. In his son’s beautifully-modulated translations, Narain’s poems communicate themselves to the English-language reader with freshness and energy.

The Ark Builders, Mary O’Donnell’s fifth poetry collection, is thoughtful, sensuous and witty, combining the topical with the timeless. One of its themes is that of the ageing woman: the “walls” through which she has to pass and what she might find on the other side, her relationship with her body, her sexuality, her ability to “keep going”. She explores all of this with a refreshing candour.

Kunwar Narain was born in 1927 and now lives in Delhi. His literary output has spread over more than half a century of Hindi literature, and is concerned with post-independence India. Narain’s poetry, short stories, literary criticism and essays have been translated internationally and received many literary awards world-wide, including the Hindustani Academy and Prem Chand Awards. Arc Publications | Hardback and Paperback | £13.99 (hb) £10.99 (pb) | 978-1906570200 (hb) 978-1904614814 (pb) | 138x216mm | 160pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Mary O’Donnell is an Irish poet who lives in County Kildare and has published four collections of poetry to date, all of which have been enthusiastically received. Formerly the Sunday Tribune’s drama critic, she is a regular contributor to RTE Radio and has presented a number of programmes including the European poetry translation series Crossing the Lines. She is a member of the Irish academy, Aosdána.

Breath

Springing From Catullus

Ellen Phethean

Chris Pilling

First full-length collection by widely broadcast and anthologised poet.

Modern recreation of the work of hugely influential Latin poet.

A deeply personal exploration of love and loss, Breath is written in response to the deaths of the author’s husband and close friend within two months. Heart-wrenching though the subject matter is, these poems insist that we carry on. In despair and turmoil, all Phethean could do was write in order to make sense of the past and to come to terms with the present.

Of all the major Latin poets of the first century BC, Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84–c.54) is the one who speaks most directly to the modern reader. In his English version of Catullus’s complete works, Chris Pilling’s approach is to communicate to modern readers the feel that the poems had for Catullus’s own audience. These poems spring from Catullus, with Pilling’s characteristic wit, inventiveness and virtuoso rhyming.

Ellen Phethean is a sound artist, poet, playwright and editor, and co-founded Diamond Twig Press with Julia Darling. She spent 2003–04 as Writer in Residence at Seven Stories where she wrote Wall, a teen novel in poems. Her poetry is included in the Bloodaxe anthology Sauce and has been widely broadcast and anthologised. This is her first full-length collection.

Flambard Press | Paperback | £7.00 | 978-1906601119 | 216x138mm | 64pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Chris Pilling lives in Keswick. He has published nine books and pamphlets of his own poetry, including Foreign Bodies and Life Classes, but is particularly well known for his translations of French poets, including Tristan Corbière, Max Jacob and Lucien Becker. A selection of his Catullus translations won the first prize in the prestigious John Dryden Translation Competition in 2006.

Flambard Press | Paperback | £8.50 | 978-1906601126 | 216x138mm | 128pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Whispers & Breath of the Valleys

Reaching Peckham Hylda Sims

Razmik Davoyan (translated by Armine Tamrazian)

A book charged with energy from Armenia’s most prominent living poet.

“Hylda Sims makes us want to rhyme, to sing, to laugh.” Mimi Khalvati

Davoyan’s work reflects the experiences of an old nation, yet it is fresh and very personal at the same time. It is impossible not to feel the struggles, hopes and aspirations of his native land in his work. W. N. Herbert, in his introduction, describes it as being “saturated with joy”. This is accessible, readable poetry from a world, a way of life and a culture unfamiliar to most English-language readers and, as such, it fascinates and enthrals.

Set in the mid-1990s, Reaching Peckham concerns the life, history and landscape of a South London suburb. It is also about the process of writing fiction. The poems of the book tell the story of reclusive poet Oliver, his friend Lorna - author of the narrative - and her teenage pupil, the illiterate gang-leader Mehmet.

Razmik Davoyan was born in 1940 in Spitak, Armenia. Over 20 volumes of his poetry have been published in Armenia, while translations of his work have appeared in Russia, the Czech Republic and the UK. In 1986 he received Armenia’s State Prize for Literature and in 1997 received Armenia’s highest non-military award from the President for his achievements and services to the country.

Hylda Sims writes novels, poems and songs. She has been a folksinger, teacher, communard and single parent. The love-child of itinerant communist market traders, she was educated at Summerhill School, The University of Hull and The London School of Economics. She co-runs Fourth Friday - an acoustic music and poetry event at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden, London. She has two daughters and four grandchildren and lives in East Dulwich, London.

Hearing Eye | Paperback | £7.00 | 978-1905082452 | 148x210mm | 60pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Simple Distraction

Mainstream Love Hotel

Marc Swan

Todd Swift

Poems inspired by the American road movie.

Debut collection from Oxfam’s poet in residence.

Steadfast but never predictable, the poems in Simple Distraction engage the reader on a journey through 40 years of work. Each carefully honed poem conjures the imagination of both emotion and place; there are poems of love, loss and anger, interspersed with elegies to family, friends and the day-to-day. This is Marc’s second collection with Tall Lighthouse following his 2007 debut In a Distinct Minor Key.

In this elegant, strongly cinematic debut, Todd Swift artfully blends the cerebral with the erotic. The poems in Mainstream Love Hotel demonstrate Swift’s generous poetic talent, with work ranging from traditional poems of love and emotion to the more radical and experimental poems at which he excels.

Marc Swan is a vocational rehabilitation counsellor who lives in Portland Maine, a working seaport with a vital arts community. His work has been widely published in magazines across the world over a period of some 20 years. He recently visited the UK to launch his collection and will return in 2010 for series of readings.

Tall Lighthouse | Paperback | £7.00 | 978-1904551638 | 210x130mm | 64pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Todd Swift has had four full collections published by DC Books in Quebec. Seaway: New & Selected Poems was published by Salmon. Mainstream Love Hotel is his first British collection. Todd Swift was born in Montreal, and has lived in Europe for more than a decade. A graduate in Creative Writing at UEA, he lectures in Creative Writing at Kingston University and is a tutor at The Poetry School.

Tall Lighthouse | Paperback | £8.00 | 978-1904551546 | 210x130mm | 64pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

UEA Creative Writing 2009: Poetry

No Apples in Eden: New and Selected Poems

Foreword by Lavinia Greenlaw and George Szirtes

John Lyons

Emerging poetic talent from one of the UK’s most prestigious Creative Writing MA courses.

“Poems which dance in the memory long after the book is closed.” Valerie Bloom

The world-renowned UEA Creative Writing MA presents a selection of new poets. Founded in 1992, course tutors and students have included Paul Batchelor, Owen Sheers, Kathryn Simmonds, Denise Riley, Andrew Motion, Ben Borek, Lavinia Greenlaw, George Szirtes, Matthew Hollis, Adam Foulds, Hugo Williams, Daniel Kane, and Anthony Thwaite. Buy this to glimpse the future of new poetry in Britain and further afield.

An entertaining and powerful performance poet, John Lyons is also known nationally and internationally as a painter. No Apples in Eden draws on his four previous collections and includes more of his trademark vibrant new work.

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

John Lyons received the prestigious Windrush Arts Achiever Award in 2003, and has thrice won The Peterloo Poetry Competition. Born in Trinidad, Lyons works as a poet and painter; and also as a writing tutor for the Arvon Foundation and in schools and colleges. He lives in Ely. John Lyons’s previous collections include: Behind the Carnival, Voices from a SilkCotton Tree and The Sun Rises in the North. “Most of these poems are made from the tough materials and the tough language of folklore and custom. Say them aloud and improve your English as well as your Trinidadian.” Roy Fisher

Egg Box Publishing | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-0955939945 | 210x148mm | 80pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Smith Doorstop | Paperback | £9.95 | 978-1902382999 | 215x140mm | 112pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Mountain Language / Lingua di montagna

The Skiers: Selected Poems Jill Bialosky

Stephen Watts (translated by Cristina Viti)

A moving meditation on loss, beautifully presented in a bilingual (English and Italian) edition.

Esteemed US poetry editor presents first UK collection.

Mountain Language is a long poem in bilingual form, with text and drawings by Stephen Watts and an Italian translation by Cristina Viti. Inspired by the migration of Watts’s grandfather from the Italian Alps to London, the poem opens into a deep and lyrical meditation on language, memory and place.

The Skiers: Selected Poems is a selection from Jill Bialosky’s three collections published in the US, plus a body of new work. Drawing on her experiences of childhood and adolescence, of childbirth and death, of motherhood, love and sexuality, she creates poems that are at once moving, unflinchingly honest and distinguished by a consummate technical skill. She has been described by Gerald Stern as “the poet of the secret garden, the place, at once, of grace and sadness” and her poetry has a dignity, a magic and a passion that makes it utterly distinctive.

Stephen Watts is a poet, translator and editor whose published works include poetry collections Gramsci & Caruso and The Blue Bag. Current work includes co-translations of Ziba Karbassi, Meta Kusar and Adnan al-Sayegh as well as an online bibliography of 20th Century poetry in English translation. Cristina Viti is a translator and poet whose published work includes translations of Apollinaire, Cendrars, Morante and Alesi.

Hearing Eye | Paperback | £7.00 | 978-1905082483 | 148x210mm | 56pp | Oct-09 | Poetry

Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has published two collections of poems, Subterranean and The End of Desire; two novels, The Life Room and House Under Snow; and co-edited the anthology Wanting A Child. She has received a number of awards, including the Elliot Coleman Award in Poetry. She is currently an editor at W.W. Norton & Co. and lives in New York City. Arc Publications | Hardback and Paperback | £12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb) | 978-1904614937 (hb) 978-1904614432 (pb) | 138x216mm | 142pp | Nov-09 | Poetry

Blood/Sugar James Byrne

Quaintness and Other Offences Ann Drysdale

“One of the best new poets in the UK.” The Times

Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and Poetry Digest’s Bard of the Year Award.

Byrne’s poetry sparkles with wit and irony, and Blood / Sugar is his long-awaited first collection. The editor of a highly-regarded poetry magazine, Byrne maintains great technical proficiency in his structuring of verse, moving effortlessly between the traditional and the innovative to shape poems that brim with lyricism and confidence.

Characterised by wry wit, delightful humour and an extraordinary grasp of the intricacies of language, the fifth poetry collection from acclaimed poet, biographer and journalist Ann Drysdale displays all the skills of an assured and deeply humane writer. Her ability to handle poignant subjects with emotional depth, but not a trace of sentimentality, is matched by her astute intelligence and sharp observational eye.

James Byrne was born in 1977 and is the editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine. His debut collection, Passages of Time, was published in 2003. In 2008 he won the prestigious Treci Trg poetry prize in Serbia. Since 2006 James has taught Wolf Workshops, which have helped many students with first book and pamphlet publications.

Ann Drysdale was born near Manchester, brought up in London, married in Birmingham, ran a smallholding and raised three children on the North York Moors and now lives half way up a mountain in South Wales. She was a journalist for several years and has written several poetry collections and nonfiction books, including the two-part memoir Three-three, two-two, five-six and Discussing Wittgenstein, described by Professor Raymond Tallis as “a masterpiece”.

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1905614844 | 216x140mm | 80pp | Nov-09 | Poetry

A Cure for Woodness

After the Revival

Michael Haslam

Carrie Jerrell

Long-awaited collection will complete the Music trilogy.

Winner of the fourth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.

A Cure for Woodness is the third part of Haslam’s trilogy Music, the first two parts of which, The Music Laid her Songs in Language and A Sinner Saved by Grace received excellent reviews on publication. Like the first two parts of the trilogy, A Cure for Woodness is a reaffirmation of the nature, language and music which the poet finds himself surrounded by in his hilltop home in the Pennines.

Equal parts church hymnal and outlaw country album, Carrie Jerrell’s After the Revival exudes a reverence for all things run down and wrecked. From abandoned coal mines to overgrown cemeteries; from rivers full of leeches to tornados; from demolition derbies to weddings gone wrong: the places and events explored in this dazzling debut collection give rise to playful, poignant meditations on the shifty limits of language, memory, faith, and love.

Michael Haslam was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1947, and has lived in the Calder Valley since 1970. Associated with The Cambridge School of Poetry in the 1960s, he became widely known through the publication of his collected poems, A Whole Bauble. He has worked as a labourer most of his life, but now, thanks to a legacy, he is able to devote his time to writing. “Haslam is truly excellent: I haven’t read anything that sounds as beautiful as this for years.” Robert Potts, The Guardian. Arc Publications | Hardback and Paperback | £12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb) | 978-1906570361 (hb) 978-1904614845 (pb) | 138x216mm | 96pp | Nov-09 | Poetry 34

Carrie Jerrell was born in Petersburg, Indiana, USA in 1976. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in English as a Chancellor’s Fellow at Texas Tech University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, as well as the anthologies Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets, Cadence of Hooves, and Best New Poets 2005. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she also serves as Poetry Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.

The Waywiser Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1904130383 | 197x130mm | 80pp | Nov-09 | Poetry

Shore Ordered Ocean

The Shadow House

Dora Malech

Kathy Miles

Second collection from leading American poet.

New Collection from Welsh-based poet who featured in the 2008 Forward Book of Poetry.

By turns playful and serious, the poems in Dora Malech’s long-awaited second collection, Shore Ordered Ocean, revel in the inherent tensions and pleasures of sense, sound and syntax. Her poems reveal the resonance in the offhand utterance, seek the unexpected in aphorism and cliché, and tap into the paradoxical freedom of formality. This is an extraordinary collection of highly idiosyncratic work which explores place, politics, the body, love, art, and more. It is bound together by an urgent, physical and beguiling relationship with language itself.

“These rich, imaginative new poems from Kathy Miles are well worth the wait since her last collection. Her poems are layered with myth, history, personal experience. They are full of fine observation, whether of love and loss, weather, a walk in low sunlight, a boy fetching the mares home, or Anthony Gormley’s iron men striding the sea edge near Liverpool. It is a lovely collection, human, humorous, sensuous, the real enriched by myth, and myth deepened by the essential realism of the poet’s vision.” Gillian Clarke

Dora Malech’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, the Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Best New Zealand Poems, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. She is the 2008-09 Teaching Fellow at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and will be a Writing Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy in the summer of 2009.

Kathy Miles is a poet, playwright and shortstory writer who also writes children’s stories and monologues. She was born in Liverpool and moved to Wales in 1972. Educated at University of Wales, Lampeter, Kathy now works in the College library. She has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies and successful in several major competitions. She is a founder-member of the Lampeter Writers’ Workshop.

The Waywiser Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1904130390 | 197x130mm | 80pp | Nov-09 | Poetry

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1905614837 | 216x140 mm | 80pp | Nov-09 | Poetry

Carnival Edge: New and Selected Poems

The Book of the Snow

Katherine Gallagher

François Jacqmin (translated by Philip Mosley)

Third collection from leading Australian poet.

First English translation of this winner of the 1991 Max-Jacob Prize.

Carnival Edge: New and Selected Poems is Katherine Gallagher’s third book from Arc, and draws together the best work from five of her previous collections, together with a substantial body of new work. Gallagher is a prolific and popular poet, and this comprehensive new collection will delight her many devotees, both in the UK and in her native Australia.

The Book of the Snow consists of 112 short poems inspired by a bleak and beautiful natural landscape, where the falling snow gives rise to a sequence of poems that are both lyrical and suffused with irony, allusion and paradox. The Book of the Snow is Jacqmin’s twelfth poetry collection and is translated by Philip Mosley.

Katherine Gallagher is a widely-acclaimed poet with six books published as well as four chapbooks. Born in Australia, Gallagher has lived and worked in London since 1979. She has been an active force in the community, giving poetry readings, running workshops (for adults and children), judging poetry competitions, and participating in poetry festivals. Gallagher also translates from the French and her own poetry has been translated into French, German, Italian, Romanian, and Serbian. Her two previous collections are Tigers on a Silk Road and Circus-Apprentice. Arc Publications | Hardback and Paperback | £14.99 (hb) £11.99 (pb) | 978-1906570439 (hb) 978-1906570422 (pb) | 138x216mm | 200pp | Dec-09 | Poetry 36

François Jacqmin was born in 1929 in Belgium and spent his formative years in England during the Second World War, writing his first poems in English. His distinctive identity as a writer is inspired primarily by botany and metaphysics. Philip Mosley is professor of English, communications, and comparative literature at Penn State University. As well as being a highly-regarded translator, he is author of books on Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges Rodenbach, Ingmar Bergman and Belgian cinema.

How to Pour Madness into a Teacup

On the Brink Robin Ford

Abegail Morley

Brilliant debut collection from the winner of the Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award.

Third collection from widely published, Isle of Wight-based poet.

How to Pour Madness into a Teacup is a compelling first collection from a poet whose exploration of mental illness is acutely observed, wry, poignant, dark and humane. Deceptively simple poems are layered with precise observations and meaning that resonates long after reading. Lucid and accessible, this is poetry that takes risk with stunning results.

On the Brink is a remarkable collection from a mature and deeply humane voice. Ford’s subjects include surviving mental illness and the particularities of island life. His sequence on Faustus fizzes with humour, delightfully twisting language and astute observations of human psychology. This is a noteworthy collection from a superb voice.

Abegail Morley was the winner of the 2008 Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award and has been widely published in magazines. “We are shown the painted veil of everyday life only to have it slashed with a knife before our eyes, allowing us to glimpse the horror that lies within, sometimes frightening but always lit with a strange visionary beauty. Morley’s poems are daredevil ambassadors to a savage place.” Hugo Williams

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1907090004 | 216x140mm | 64pp | Dec-09 | Poetry

Robin Ford started writing poetry in his mid-fifties after several too-close encounters with the asylums that form the subject of this volume. He has been published in a wide range of magazines including Envoi, Ambit, Magma, Tears In The Fence, Poetry Review, The Interpreter’s House and others. His previous two collections are After The Wound and Never Quite Prepared For Light. He currently lives in Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight.

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1907090011 | 216x140mm | 64pp | Jan-10 | Poetry

Six Slovak Poets

The Shape of Time

Edited by Igor Hochel and translated by John Minahane

Doris Kareva (translated by Tiina Aleson)

An ideal introduction to the here-andnow of Slovak poetry.

First UK publication of this iconic figure in contemporary Estonian poetry.

The sixth anthology in Arc’s acclaimed Visible Poets series, this book features the work of six of Slovakia’s leading poets: Ján Buzássy, Mila Haugová, Kamil Peteraj, Daniel Hevier, Peter Repka and Ivan Štrpka. With an introductory essay by translator Igor Hochel which sets the poets within a wider literary context, this bilingual edition features the Slovak original and the English translation on facing pages.

The Shape of Time is Doris Kareva’s eleventh collection and, as with all her books, its publication was hailed as a major literary event in her native Estonia. Kareva’s themes are love and its great enemies: death and time. In style, The Shape of Time is more restrained than her earlier collections but the poems continue to display the romantic bravado and recklessness that makes her work so compelling. Doris Kareva is Estonia’s leading female poet. Born in Tallinn in 1958, she studied English Language and Literature at Tartu University and worked for the cultural weekly Sirp from 1978-1993 and from 1997-2002. From 1992 onwards, she has been the Secretary General of the Estonian National Commission for UNESCO in Estonia. She has published one book of essays and 14 collections of poetry which have been translated into over 20 languages.

Arc Publications | Paperback | £10.99 | 978-1906570385 | 156x234mm | 160pp | Jan-10 | Poetry

The New Order

Dreams That Spell the Light

Edited and introduced by George Szirtes

Shanta Acharya

A celebration of the twentieth anniversary of political change in Hungary.

“She cuts to the heart of things.” Peter Porter

The prize-winning poet and translator George Szirtes has selected work from eleven of Hungary’s leading young poets for this bi-lingual anthology, the publication of which follows the twentieth anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall. This is the first major anthology of Hungarian poetry of this generation. Contributors include: István Kemény (b.1961), Szilárd Borbély (b.1964), András Imreh (b.1966), Mónika Mesterházi (b.1967), Krisztina Tóth (b.1967) Virág Erd?s (b.1968), Jáos Térey (b.1970), G. István László (b.1972) and Anna T Szabó (b.1972).

A well-known figure on the London poetry scene, Shanta Acharya’s fifth fulllength collection is gentle, poignant and unpretentious. She writes about real concerns with a directness and linguistic tension which registers her Indian origins without being merely exotic.

George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948. His first book, The Slant Door, was published in 1979 and won the Faber Memorial prize the following year. Since then, Szirtes has published several books and won many other prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize for Reel in 2005.

Arc Publications | Paperback | £12.99 | 978-1906570507 | 156x234mm | 352pp | Jan-10 | Poetry

Shanta Acharya was born and educated in Orissa, India and won a scholarship to Oxford where she completed her doctoral thesis on Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1983. She was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard before joining Morgan Stanley Asset Management in London in 1985. She has worked in the asset management industry ever since and is the author of several books on the subject. Her previous collection was Shringara.

The Seer Sung Husband Bob Beagrie

Collected Poems: 1987 – 2010 Paul Birtill

Award-winning poet explores witchcraft and folklore in the North of England.

“Bleedin’ fabulous.” John Cooper Clarke

The Seer Sung Husband tells the story of the Pilgrimage of Grace, the Sixteenth-century Northern rebellion that briefly defied the authority of Church and State. Tobias Shipton, carpenter and husband of the Yorkshire witch and soothsayer Old Mother Shipton, weaves a wyrd tale of love and loyalty, rebellion and royal retribution. The Seer Sung Husband is a fascinating portrait of England at a time of radical social, religious and political crisis.

Paul Birtill’s Collected Poems is a retrospective of the poet’s work published by Hearing Eye since 1987. These are dark poems based on the poet’s experience and they deal with universal themes of family, love and the desire for anonymity.

Bob Beagrie’s previous collections include: Gothic Horror, Masque: The Art of the Vampyre, Huginn & Munnin, Endeavour: Newfound Notes, The Isle of St Hild and Yoik. He lives in Middlesbrough.

Smokestack Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0956034144 | 197x127mm | 64pp | Feb-10 | Poetry

Paul Birtill was born in Walton, Liverpool in 1960. He moved to London in his early twenties, when he began writing, and apart from a brief period in Glasgow has lived there ever since. His poems appear regularly in national newspapers and literary magazines, and he has read them on national radio and at poetry venues nationwide. He has published a number of collections with Hearing Eye including Odd Behaviour and Willing to Change. He also writes plays, including Squalor which was short-listed for the prestigious Verity Bargate Award and The Lodger which was Time Out Critic’s Choice.

Hearing Eye | Paperback | £12.00 | 978-1905082551 | 129x196mm | 148pp | Feb-10 | Poetry

Ljubljana

Keir Hardie Street

Meta Kusar (translated by Ana Jelnikar and Stephen Watts)

Alan Morrison

Slovenia’s leading contemporary female poet.

A collection based upon an imagined line of the London Underground.

Ljubljana is Meta Kusar’s city, where she has lived, wandered, bought and cooked her food, thought, written and loved. When she travels, it is to Ljubljana she returns. The city has become her muse and Ljubljana, in its 77 untitled poems, reflects this. Each poem opens a door onto a different aspect of the city, and onto a different aspect of the world and life itself. It is a sensual yet spiritual book, full of all the contrasts and contradictions one might expect to find in a city, and yet full of wisdom and beauty too.

Allan Jackdaw, a forgotten early Twentiethcentury poet undertakes a fantastical journey on the hidden Sea-Green Line of the London Underground. Along the way he meets various shady and variously shaded characters, including the accidental capitalist Short Shanks the Shopkeeper, the scribbling Hermit of Hercules Buildings (William Blake), the Turpentine Prophet (Robert Tressell) and the Ghost of a Poet (John Davidson). When Jackdaw disembarks, he finds himself in a secret, parallel London: a living, bustling socialist utopia...

Meta Kusar, poet and essayist, was born in Ljubljana in 1952. With three collections of poetry in print, she is one of Slovenia’s most popular and successful women poets. She has also directed a musical performance of her poetry, The Throne of Poetry, which was staged in Slovenia, Washington and London.

Alan Morrison was born in 1974. His poetry first appeared in Don’t Think of Tigers. He is the author of Picaresque, a play for voices, and of two critically praised collections, The Mansion Gardens and A Tapestry of Absent Sitter. Morrison is currently Poet-in-Residence at Mill View Psychiatric Hospital, Hove, and is the founding editor of the radical literary webzine, The Recusant. Smokestack Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0956034168 | 197x127mm | 64pp | Feb-10 | Poetry

Pavilion Deborah Tyler-Bennett

Seeing Birds in Church is a Kind of Adieu Arlene Ang

Fantastical poems inspired by Brighton and The Royal Pavilion.

Surreal and inventive fifth collection from Italian-based poet.

The Brighton Pavilion is one of Britain’s best loved follies. Built for the Prince Regent (later George IV) to entertain his mistresses, it is a Grade I listed building, a monument to dandyism and a museum of royal kitsch. This new collection is a celebration of the world of the English dandy, with its gorgeous peacock feathers and fading glamour. Her cast of eccentric and complicated characters entertain their listeners at the bar, flashy and flamboyant as Brighton’s fantasy Pavilion, revealing the sad truths and disturbing secrets behind their cheap make-up.

Arlene Ang’s fifth collection is concerned with images and perception; and with the intricacies and strangeness of human relationships. Her language is sometimes surreal but always sensual and inventive. Seeing Birds in Church is a Kind of Adieu displays a sharp sense of poetic craft and a unique voice.

Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s previous publications include Selected Poems: Clark Gable in Mansfield. In 2001 she won the Hugh MacDiarmid Trophy at the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition. She is the co-author of a creative writing web-package for the Victoria and Albert Museum, and co-founded the literary magazine The Coffee House. She lives in Loughborough. Smokestack Books | Paperback | £7.95 | 978-0956034151 | 197x127mm | 64pp | Feb-10 | Poetry

Arlene Ang is the author of four previous poetry collections, the most recent being a collaborative work with Valerie Fox, Bundles of Letters Including A, V and Epsilon. She works as Staff Editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1 and is widely published in international journals and anthologies. Ang’s competition credits include the 2006 Frogmore Poetry Prize and the 2008 Juked Poetry Prize. She lives in Venice.

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1907090066 | 216x140mm | 80pp | Mar-10 | Poetry

The Forest Under the Sea John Barnie

Out of the Cold Blue: Poems 1999 – 1967 Richard McKane

A Wales Book of the Year 2008 finalist.

“His poems are faultlessly alive, so fully worked out.” Peter Levi

“Characterised by a probing seriousness, the volume is also energised by Barnie’s trademark ironies – a wryness he sees operating in the structures of the universe. His vision is best described as teasingly dark. Longlisted for the 2008 Wales Book of the Year award for his previous collection, Trouble in Heaven, John Barnie proves with The Forest Under the Sea that he is unquestionably one of our most urgent contemporary voices” Damian Walford Davies.

This selection of Richard McKane’s poems, written from the mid-1960s to the turn of the century, amplifies and expands his first book Amphora for Metaphors. This collection is a companion volume to Poet for Poet, which consists mainly of translations and was chosen by Helen Bamber OBE on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

John Barnie is a poet and essayist from Abergavenny, Gwent. He was editor of Planet from 1990-2006 and has published several books of poetry and fiction; and two collections of essays, one of which, The King of Ashes, won a Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature in 1990. He is a Fellow of Yr Academi, (the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency) and the Society of Authors.

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1907090042 | 216x140mm | 80pp | Mar-10 | Poetry

Richard McKane was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1947. In 1978, he was the first non-US citizen to be awarded the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University as a writer. As a translator from Russian and Turkish, he has published books with Bloodaxe Books, Anvil Press and Arc Publications. The first collection of his own poetry Amphora for Metaphors was published in New York and London in 1993 and his Turkey Poems was published bilingually in Istanbul. He also works as an interpreter at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, in London. Hearing Eye | Paperback | £10.00 | 978-1905082322 | 129x196mm | 112pp | Mar-10 | Poetry

Before the Invention of Paradise Ludwig Steinherr (translated by Richard Dove)

First full-length collection of Steinherr’s work to be published in the UK.

Before the Invention of Paradise is a selection from Steinherr’s nine collections published since his debut in 1985. Dealing with the things that concern many modern German poets – memory, silence, knowing and the impossibility of knowing, the everyday and what is beyond – Steinherr’s is profound yet accessible poetry. Ludwig Steinherr was born in Munich in 1962, where he still lives. He studied philosophy at the University of Munich and is now a freelance writer and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Eichstätt. His poems have been appeared in many magazines and anthologies in Germany and abroad and have been translated into various languages, including French and Czech. Steinherr was elected a fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 2003.

F I C T I ON

Mahala

The Sleepwalkers’ Ball

Chris Barnard (translated by Luzette Strauss)

Alan Bilton

Psychological thriller from an Oscarnominated screenwriter.

Romantic comedy set in an imagined Scottish city.

Deep in the African jungle, Delport lives alone and in fear. For nine years he has endured nights of mosquitoes and mysterious drumming, and days of burning sun, waiting for his past to catch up with him. His past arrives in the form of a young woman with a mask that bears an unsettling resemblance to his nemesis. A work of literary fiction, set in the wilderness of southern Africa, Mahala encapsulates the angst of a generation of white South Africans who had such power but lived with such hidden fears.

The Sleepwalkers’ Ball is a beautifully surreal slapstick romantic comedy, wrapped around the forms of the silent film and the Gothic city ghost tour. A cross between Kafka and Mary Poppins - Clara Bow meets Charlie Chaplin by way of Gogol - The Sleepwalkers’ Ball is filmic, funny and lyrical in turns. Always moving, it follows two people - a man and a woman - and their many attempts to hook up together. “Back to the castle we go, for all tours must end at the same point they begin. What’s that sir? Our theme? Why, the indolence of man, sir, lethargy, laziness and sloth.”

Chris Barnard was born in South Africa in 1939. His first book appeared in 1963 and he has four novels to his name. Over the past 40 years he has worked as journalist, author and scriptwriter. His screenplay for Paljas was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.

Aflame Books | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1906300043 | 216x140mm | 170pp | Apr-09 | Fiction

Alan Bilton teaches American Studies at Swansea University. His non-fiction titles are An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction and the three-volume (co-authored) America in the 1920s. He is currently writing a book on silent film comedy.

Alcemi | Paperback | £9.99 | 978-0955527265 | 140x215mm | 256pp | May-09 | Fiction

Scars Beneath the Skin

Comrades

A. J. Duggan

Marco Antonio Flores (translated by Leona Nickless)

Darkly modern love story which deals with the anxieties of living in a post9/11 world.

“… bristling with profanity, graphic sexuality, bitter humour, and wordplay.” Roy C. Boland

The traumatised survivor of a terrorist bomb attack finds love at the point of suicide. But will it be enough to save him? Scars Beneath the Skin is a dark contemporary love story set against the anxieties of a post-9/11 world.

When first published in 1976, Comrades was hailed as a masterpiece - and as establishing a new genre in Latin America - for the way it addressed in raw and candid language the country’s conflict. Comrades relates the stories of young revolutionaries - embroiled in Guatemala’s bloody civil war - and describes how their zeal was coloured by a cocktail of sex, booze and ambition. Influenced by James Joyce, Marco Antonio Flores has created an intricate map of the emotional journeys travelled by a generation of young Guatemalans caught in a maelstrom of violence.

A J Duggan’s life changed on a sweltering day in Manchester, in June 1996, when the city centre was torn apart by a 3300lb bomb. Attempting to make sense of this experience, he began to write, eventually leading to this, his first novel. He was born in Liverpool in 1963, lives in Cheshire and works in the computer industry.

Marco Antonio Flores is one of Central America’s most acclaimed novelists and is also a poet, essayist and journalist. A revolutionary activist twice exiled from his country, he has lived for most of his life with the threat of violence and persecution.

Flambard Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1906601065 | 216x138mm | 256pp | May-09 | Fiction

Aflame Books | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1906300067 | 216x140mm | 234pp | May-09 | Fiction

Soothing Music for Stray Cats

Blue Bay Palace

Jayne Joso

Nathacha Appanah (translated by Alex Stanton)

“An unexpected and moving story about the redemption of misfits and the consolation of strangers.” Natalie Haynes

A tale of unrequited love, set on the island of Mauritius.

When his best friend commits suicide, Mark tries to escape his grief by flat-sitting for Ron, who’s gone off to ‘find himself ’ in Costa Rica. Cold and underfed, Mark drifts through an alien cityscape, and listens to Ron’s rubbish music collection. His guilt at failing to save Jim spurs him to wonder whether anyone can intervene in another person’s life. When he decides to buy better CDs for Ron, the city begins to throw chances at Mark. Flooded with warmth, this novel examines friendship, altruism, song writing and Samurai philosophy.

Blue Bay Palace is a passionate tale of unrequited love in tropically diverse Mauritius. When lonely young Maya, whose name means ‘illusion’, falls hopelessly in love, she also falls into the trap of thinking that she will escape her poverty and find happiness away from her ramshackle home. But the object of her affections proves too weak to renounce his family and caste. When he proceeds with an arranged marriage, Maya’s love turns into hate and murderous madness ensues…

Jayne Joso has written extensively on architecture and on Japanese arts and culture. Her first children’s book was recently published by Benesse in Japan; and her first play, China’s Smile, enjoyed a long theatre run and was later televised. Soothing Music for Stray Cats is her first novel.

Alcemi | Paperback | £9.99 | 978-0955527258 | 140x215mm | 256pp | May-09 | Fiction

Nathacha Appanah was born in 1973 on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. She grew up there, and in 1999 moved to Lyon, France, where she works as a journalist and writer. She has published four novels, the first of which, Les rochers de poudre d’or, won the Prix RFO for literature in 2003.

Aflame Books | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1906300074 | 216x140mm | 164pp | Jun-09 | Fiction

Up Close

Truth Games

Shelagh Weeks

Bobbie Darbyshire

Family drama set in North Wales.

Winner of the 2008 fiction prize at the National Academy of Writing.

When Owen and Jan take their three children on holiday to North Wales, their life as a family is already unravelling. A carefully pieced patchwork of events unfolds, seen from the different perspectives of parents and children, each sealed in with their own perceptions. Years pass and the family meet again on holiday in South Wales. There are different partners and family secrets have been unearthed, but there are resolutions still to be negotiated.

In mid-seventies London a group of friends play a dangerous game of open marriages, secrets and lies. “It’s only sex, Ann. It won’t hurt us,” claims Lois, beautiful, talented and determined to get whatever or whoever she wants without being held back by her longsuffering, academic husband, Hugh. In homes and offices, at parties or on holidays, sex is there for the taking. But bed-hopping carries a price. Can love be free? Truth Games is fast, funny and sexy, but as the summer heat increases, stakes are raised and consequences have to be faced...

Shelagh Weeks has worked in many jobs, including as a market-stall seller in Cambridge and in community education. She currently lives in Cardiff with her partner and children and works as a lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University. She also writes short stories and her award winning story ‘Mint Sauce’ won the Cinnamon Press short story prize in 2007.

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1905614653 | 198x129mm | 240pp | Jun-09 | Fiction

Bobbie Darbyshire lives in Clapham, where she runs a writers’ group and is a volunteer adultliteracy teacher. She won the 2008 fiction prize at the National Academy of Writing (whose president is Melvyn Bragg) in Birmingham, and has been published in their anthology, Finding a Voice, and by Mslexia. Darbyshire’s mystery romantic comedy, The Real McCoy, is being serialised in a new print magazine. Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1905614721 | 198x129mm | 288pp | Jul-09 | Fiction

The Legend of Liz and Joe

Storm at Galesburg

John Murray

Rowan Fortune-Wood (editor)

“One of the best comic writers we’ve got, the only natural heir to Flann O’Brien.” Jonathan Coe, The Observer

Anthology of award-winning short stories and poetry.

Joe Gladstone’s north Cumbrian gourmet guesthouse is losing a packet, not least because of the unusual requirements he makes of his would-be guests. Meanwhile, his wife Liz has embarked on her first extramarital affair at the age of seventy, and has started having spiritual visions. John Murray’s latest comic extravaganza features a wild dialect epic, as well as some diverting table talk about the ethics of eating and drinking.

Storm at Galesburg brings together the best stories and poetry submitted for the Cinnamon Press Writing Award. The title story by the widely published reviewer and short story writer Jeremy Worman, is a slow build, full of atmosphere and impeccably controlled. There are also stories by award winning Welsh author, Huw Lawrence; the young Irish writer attracting attention for his forensic attention to detail, Miceál Kearney; European writer Brigita Pavsic’s haunting, honed style; and a poignant, disturbing tale from Guatemalan-based author, Cassandra Passarelli. The anthology includes poetry from Sally Lewis, Will Kemp, Ben Parker, David Underwood and Aisling Tempany. With lyrical writing that explores the boundaries of language, love and identity, Storm at Galesburg is an anthology to savour.

John Murray has published eight critically acclaimed novels and a collection of stories, Pleasure, which won the Dylan Thomas Award in 1988. Jazz Etc. was long listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize and Murphy’s Favourite Channels was Novel of the Week in the Daily Telegraph. “Very funny – Murray has a fine eye for life’s custard pies.” Kate Saunders, The Times

Flambard Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1906601072 | 216x138mm | 224pp | Jul-09 | Fiction

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1905614875 | 216x140mm | 144pp | Aug-09 | Fiction

Natural Selection

The Schoolboy

Cecilia Szperling (translated by Oscar Luna)

Holly Howitt

A wild and frenzied novel set in | Buenos Aires.

A coming-of-age tale from new Welsh novelist.

Natural Selection tells the story of a group of young people in Buenos Aires as they embark together on a journey through a drug-fuelled mire of their own making in the Argentine capital. A dizzying cross between Trainspotting and Factotum, Natural Selection has a breathlessly changing pace that gives it the speed of a road movie without brakes.

A Clockwork Orange meets American Psycho meets The Catcher in the Rye, The Schoolboy is dark and funny psychological study of a disturbed adolescent mind. It is also a commentary on morality and society and a gripping read from one of the most talented young writers around. The narrative follows Nick in his last year at school. Plagued by secrets, self doubt, guilt and fury, Nick soon falls into the hands of damaged, unscrupulous and malevolent characters.

Cecilia Szperling is a writer, journalist and dramatist whose work has been extensively published in her native Argentina. Her first book of short stories, El Futuro de los Artistas (The Future of the Artists) gained a Fundación Antorchas award and Selección Natural, her first novel, was a finalist in the prestigious Premio Clarín 2003. She lives in Buenos Aires.

Aflame Books | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1906300081 | 216x140mm | 180pp | Aug-09 | Fiction

Holly Howitt was born and grew up in Wales. She writes fiction in various forms, and is particularly interested in truncated and overlooked genres, such as micro-fiction and the novella. Her highly acclaimed micro-fiction collection, Dinner Time, was launched at the Guardian Hay Festival in 2008. She is currently editing an anthology of micro-fiction for Cinnamon Press and is working on a second novella. Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1905614882 | 198x129mm | 160pp | Sep-09 | Fiction

Ring of Stones

Thirsty River

Marianne Jones

Rodaan Al Galidi (translated by Luzette Strauss)

Winner of Cinnamon Press Novella Award.

The history of modern Iraq, explored through a family saga.

Growing up on a remote Scottish island, Ceit is torn between possibilities that offer progress and escape, but threaten the fragile traditional existence that has been her world. The struggle to maintain the island’s identity, language and culture seems inextricably linked with disturbing facts about the high infant mortality rate in Ceit’s traditional community and the use of domestic violence against those who question too much. Are outsiders like the Moores, the school teachers, merely a threat to the local language and harbingers of an empire that no-one wants to be part of, or can Ceit find a way to bring together disparate worlds and discover her own identity in the process?

The destiny of the Bird family in the town of Boran on the banks of the Thirsty River, southern Iraq, is intimately tied to the rise and fall of Saddam Hussein. The birth of each of the Bird children coincides with regime change in Baghdad, until that of Adam – who never wakes from his sleeping condition. The trials and tribulations of the family depicted by Rodaan Al Galidi in Thirsty River mirror those of Iraq over the past 40 years, yet these victims of history bring humour and hope to a country ravaged by one of the greatest tragedies of our time.

Marianne Jones was born shortly before the end of World War Two and grew up on Ynys Môn/Anglesey, where she now lives with her husband, an environmental campaigner.

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1905614967 | 198x129mm | 112pp | Oct-09 | Fiction

Rodaan Al Galidi was born in southern Iraq in the early 1970s. Births were not recorded and so he and his 10 siblings share the birthday of July 1st. Since 1998 he has been living in the Netherlands, where he spent ten years as an illegal alien before gaining the right to remain. He writes in Dutch and has gained fame as a writer with three novels and numerous other collections to his name. Aflame Books | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1906300104 | 216x140mm | 324pp | Oct-09 | Fiction

UEA Creative Writing 2009: Prose Foreword by Tracy Chevalier

Stealth Sonallah Ibrahim (translated by Hosam Aboul-Ela)

New prose writing from one of the UK’s most prestigious Creative Writing MA courses.

A landmark novel by one of Egypt’s greatest living writers.

The world-renowned UEA Creative Writing MA presents new work from the three prose strands of the course: fiction, life writing, and scriptwriting. Past course tutors and students have included Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Toby Litt, John Boyne, Trezza Azzopardi, Rose Tremain, Malcolm Bradbury, Anne Enright, Angela Carter, Ali Smith,Tracy Chevalier, Joe Dunthorne, Adam Foulds and Tash Aw. Buy this if you want an exciting glimpse the future of new prose writing in Britain and further afield.

An eleven-year-old boy growing up in Cairo describes his day-to-day existence living with his aged father. The young narrator glides through life as a surreptitious observer of the adult condition, eavesdropping on conversations and watching behaviour he is not supposed to see. Stealth is an intimate, offbeat, strangely affecting bildungsroman in which Ibrahim mines his own unconventional upbringing to adopt an intensely personal child’s-eye view of Egypt at a time of political turmoil.

“Thoughtful prose, provocative stories that stay in the mind, extracts from novels that make one long for the finished book. Read it and sample the future.” John Boyne

Sonallah Ibrahim was born in Egypt in 1937. He worked as a journalist until his imprisonment in 1959 for leftwing activities. He has published eight novels. In 2003 he was awarded the prestigious prize of the Arab Novelist Assembly, and stunned participants when he denounced it because “It is given by a government that does not have credibility”. He lives in Cairo.

Egg Box Publishing | Paperback | £9.99 | 978-0955939938 | 210x148mm | 304pp | Oct-09 | Fiction

Aflame Books | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1906300098 | 216x140mm | 184pp | Nov-09 | Fiction

The Milliner and the Phrenologist

It’s Just the Beating of My Heart

Kay Syrad

Richard Aronowitz

An ambitious and compelling debut novel with a Victorian narrative.

Eagerly-awaited second novel from the author of the acclaimed Five Amber Beads.

1860s London: a period of discovery, competing ideas and rigid social hierarchy. When Alice Heapy, an unusual and artistic young milliner, daringly sets up her own business, the mother of John Motton, eminent phrenologist, is amongst the first of her bourgeois and eccentric clients. Alice and Motton play out the ferocious Victorian tensions between social classes, men and women, science and art, faith and reason. The reader is quickly drawn into the sensuous imagery and subtle humour of this sharply observed drama. Brimming with delicious wit, The Milliner and the Phrenologist is a remarkable debut.

Waking each morning alone, John Stack finds solace in long, alcohol-fuelled walks though the unchanging landscape of a Gloucestershire valley. His wife Linda has left him and his reputation as a man with the golden touch is diminishing as he becomes disconnected from the art world. A chance encounter with the beautiful widow from the mysterious neighbouring stone house offers the chance of a new beginning for John, if he can quieten his suspicions about the death of her husband. Told in sparkling poetic language, It’s Just the Beating of My Heart is a story of loss and heartbreak in a world peopled by ghosts.

Kay Syrad lives in Lewes, East Sussex. She is interested in the nature of perception, which she explores in her recent poetry publication Objects of Colour: Baltic Coast, in collaboration with photographer Gina Glover. She is also co-author of a Thames & Hudson monograph, Silent Spaces, on the artist Chris Drury.

Richard Aronowitz was born in 1970. He studied at the universities of Durham, Heidelberg and London and now works at Sotheby’s. His debut novel, Five Amber Beads, was published by Flambard in 2006 and his poems have appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and Anvil New Poets 3. He lives in Cambridge.

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1905614714 | 198x129mm | 208pp | Nov-09 | Fiction

Flambard Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1906601133 | 216x138mm | 224pp | Feb-10 | Fiction

Niketche: A Story of Polygamy

Livingstone’s Funeral

Paulina Chiziane

Landeg White

First novel in English from groundbreaking Mozambican author.

“Original, subtle, inventive.” Jack Mapanje

After twenty years of marriage, Rami is horrified to discover that her husband Tony is has four other households, children and families. With humour and compassion, she crafts a cautionary tale about assumed male superiority that brings together stories from the country’s myriad traditions and regions. .

Landeg White brings a lifetime of scholarship and lyricism to bear on this epic novel, but the intensely personal story of a young woman’s search for identity is not always as it seems. Maria, a student in Brighton, begins to piece together her family history during a dull Christmas visit to her grandmother, after buying an African carving that she can’t resist. When Maria discovers that Caroline, the long suffering-colonial wife whose letters are still safely kept, was not her great-grandmother at all, she begins a journey of discovery that pieces together her disparate narratives.

(translated by Richard Bartlett)

Paulina Chiziane married early but separated in her mid-twenties to study and devote herself to work as an author. She has since become regarded as one of her country’s most important authors, with four novels to her name. Although described as a feminist writer, she prefers to consider herself as a storyteller, who bases her work on the rich heritage of the oral tradition in her country. Richard Bartlett has translated authors including Pepetela and Ondjaki. He studied in South Africa and now works as a journalist for The Financial Times.

Aflame Books | Paperback | £7.99 | 978-1906300050 | 216x140mm | 204pp | Feb-10 | Fiction

Landeg White was born in South Wales. He taught at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, the University of Malawi, the University of Sierra Leone, and the University of Zambia. His first book was V.S. Naipaul: a Critical Introduction, and he won the 1998 Teixeira-Gomes Prize for his translation of Camões’ The Lusiads (Oxford Classics). He lives in Portugal. Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1905614868 | 198x129mm | 208pp | Feb-10 | Fiction

Uncle Freddie and The Prince of Wales

Thinner than a Hair Adnan Mahmutovi´c

Alex Ferguson

“In all his work there is a sense of joyous dreaming from which one awakes completely satisfied.” The Guardian.

A Bosnian refugee writer who explores issues of war and identity.

This new collection of short stories from the acclaimed South Shields writer Alex Ferguson again focuses on the author’s part-real, partmythical Uncle Freddie, and is located in the Jarrow of the 1940s where the author grew up. Ferguson’s writing is a unique amalgam of the starkly real - the terrible poverty of wartime Tyneside - and the surreally imaginative. Iron Press published Ferguson’s story collection The Pineapple King of Jarrow in 2004, which rapidly sold out. That work was dramatised by the award-winning BBC Radio Four producer Melanie Harris.

Mahmutovi´c’s writing is lucid and beautiful. Thinner than a Hair is about a young woman coming of age as her country falls into war and hatred. The deceptively simple narrative takes the reader on a journey across landscape, political boundaries and emotions. The impact is powerful and evocative and the voices are authentic. Full of poignancy and truth, this novella will establish Mahmutovi´c as one of the leading writers of his generation.

Alex Ferguson was born in Jarrow and lives in South Shields, Tyneside. He has won a Guinness National Theatre Award, a Writers’ Guild Award for comedy, a Sony Nomination for Creative Radio Writing and a Royal Television Society nomination for his film Lads!

Adnan Mahmutovi´c was born in 1974 in Banja Luka, Northern Bosnia and moved to Sweden as a refugee in 1993. He lives in Stockholm, where he is finishing a PhD in English Literature. He describes himself as “a Bosnian exile in beautiful and calm Sweden, the land whose naked north glistens with green Northern Lights”. He won the 2008 Cinnamon press Novella Award.

Iron Press | Paperback | £10.00 | 978-0955245084 | 148x210mm | 240pp | Mar-10 | Fiction

Cinnamon Press | Paperback | £8.99 | 978-1907090035 | 198x129mm | 208pp | Mar-10 | Fiction

B i o g r aph y and M usic N o n - F ic t i o n

Boys at War

Swing from a Small Island

Russell Margerison

Leslie Thompson and Jeffrey Green

A fascinating wartime memoir, serialised in The Mail on Sunday in May 2009.

The story of a swing era trumpeter from Jamaica.

In Boys at War Russell Margerison writes candidly of the dangerous and strangely unreal world of a mid-upper air gunner with 625 Squadron in World War Two. The author tells of the last dramatic moments caught in his blazing Lancaster, followed by weeks on the run with the Belgian Underground, and then as a POW. One of the book’s highlights is Margerison’s recounting of a long, terrifying march in January 1945, when for 18 days he joined nearly 1,500 prisoners being forced to walk through blizzards to another camp, surviving on meagre soup rations. Boys at War also tells of his poignant return to Belgium in his seventies, and his tearful reunion with the Belgians who risked everything to help him survive.

First published in 1985, and now brought back into print in a new edition, this is the life story of a swing era jazz trumpeter. It encompasses his experiences in the West India Regiment, his move to Britain in 1929, and his performances in London clubs in the Blitz and the post-war years. Thompson worked with the most significant Black British swing musicians and his recollections are recorded in a fascinating narrative and a clear and readable style. From the same publisher, the story of a fellow-musician of Jamaican origin: Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz by Coleridge Goode and Roger Cotterrell.

“Amid the plain prose, he produces arresting images. His candour increases one’s admiration for him.” The Guardian

Jeffrey Green lives in London and has researched the pre-Windrush Black presence in Britain for decades, publishing his findings in many articles and books including his biography of composer Edmund Thornton Jenkins and in Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain 1901–1914. Northway Books | Hardback | £19.99 | 978-0955788826 | 224x143mm | 224pp | Oct-09 | Music Non-Fiction

The Jazz Composer

A History of Jazz in Britain

Graham Collier

Jim Godbolt

“Not for the squeamish. Prepare to be provoked.” Mike Gibbs, jazz composer

A substantial work of music reference, now in its fourth edition.

Collier takes a detailed look at the music of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Gil Evans. He argues that jazz composition happens in real time, once. The author is a well-established composer with controversial views. He includes strong criticism of some well-known jazz composers and important figures in the jazz world. Jazz-enthusiasts will have a ball with this book, which will also appeal to readers with a general interest in the genre.

This book covers the American trail-blazing artists of the twenties and thirties in Britain: the local musicians they influenced, the specialist magazines, rhythm clubs, discographers and pundits, and the fascinating cloak-and-dagger plots to defy the Musicians Union ban. A History of Jazz in Britain is expertly written, with trenchant and pithy humour throughout.

Graham Collier is a well-known jazz composer, who was described by The Times as “a pioneer…a true jazz original”. He is the author of seven previously published books on jazz, including Cleo and John: A Biography of Cleo Laine and John Dankworth. He is formerly artistic director of the jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Northway Books | Hardback | £19.99 | 978-0955788802 | 220x140mm | 322pp | Apr-09 | Music Non-Fiction

Jim Godbolt worked in the entertainment industry from 1946, representing jazz and pop musicians. He left in 1971 for a career in writing and in 1979 founded Jazz at Ronnie Scott’s, the house magazine of Ronnie Scott’s Club, which he edited until 2006. His hilarious autobiography, All This and Many a Dog, was republished by Northway in 2007. “If you have not bought this book, I urge you to do so - now!” Humphrey Lyttelton, BBC ‘Sounds of Jazz’ on the first edition.

Northway Books | Paperback | £15.00 | 978-0955788819 | 238x154mm | 300pp | Jan-10 | Music Non-Fiction

Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond Peter King

One of the great jazz autobiographies, written by a British jazz legend.

Peter King’s book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. One of the world’s leading alto-saxophonists, he tells his story with searing honesty, revealing the obsessions and motivations that have driven him, as well as the dilemmas of surviving as a top creative musician in an inhospitable world. With cool, unsparing self-analysis, he describes the drug addiction that accompanied his brilliant career for many years. Flying High tells of an exhilarating high-altitude journey, in the jazz world and beyond. Peter King is internationally recognised as a jazz star and has performed and recorded with a galaxy of musical legends. Among those vividly recalled in this book are Bud Powell, Milt Jackson, Ray Charles, Anita O’Day, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Hampton Hawes, Al Haig, Philly Joe Jones, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Witherspoon, Dakota Staton, Red Rodney, Jon Hendricks, Tony Bennett and Marlene Dietrich. Northway Books | Hardback | £19.99 | 978-0955090899 | 224x143mm | 350pp | Feb-10 | Music Non-Fiction

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