Inpress Catalogue 2009-2010 by Inpress Ltd

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Mahala: Chris Barnard Publisher:

Aflame

Price:

£7.99

ISBN:

978-1-906300-04-3

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x 140mm, 170pp

Pub. date:

April 2009

Genre:

Fiction

• A psychological thriller of existential proportions from one of South Africa’s great writers. • Barnard’s screenplay of Paljas nominated for an Oscar.

About Mahala by Chris Barnard Deep in the African bush, Delport lives alone, and in fear. For nine long 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.

About the author: 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 of Paljas was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.

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The Jazz Composer: Graham Collier Publisher:

Northway Publications

Price:

£19.99

ISBN:

978-0-955788-80-2

Format:

Hardback

Size:

220 x 140 mm, 322pp

Pub. date:

April 2009

Genre:

Music - Non fiction

• “I find ‘the jazz composer’ to be an insightful, intelligent, creative and artful view to the understanding of jazz composition.” — Justin DiCioccio • “Not for the squeamish. Prepare to be provoked.” — Mike Gibbs, jazz composer

About The Jazz Composer by Graham Collier 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. His website, www.jazzcontinuum.com, publicises the book, which will be linked to a new CD issue, and various launch events are planned. 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, so reviewers and jazz-enthusiasts will have a ball with this book. This title will also appeal to readers with a general interest in jazz. About the author: Described by The Times as “a pioneer…a true jazz original”, Graham Collier is a wellknown jazz composer. He is the author of seven previously published books on jazz, including Cleo and John: A Biography of Cleo Laine and John Dankworth (ISBN: 978-0704333208). He is formerly artistic director of the jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Frontiers: Modern Poetry in Translation Publisher: Modern Poetry in Translation Price:

£9.95

ISBN:

978-0-955906-41-1

Format:

Paperback

Size:

201 x 140 mm, 200pp

Pub. date: April 2009 Genre:

Poetry

• Including: Kathryn Maris, Philippe Jaccottet, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sasha Dugdale, Georgi Gospodinov. • Contains previously untranslated poems by Bertolt Brecht.

About Frontiers by Modern Poetry in Translation Every issue of MPT crosses frontiers. Contributions come in from all over the world. Copies go out worldwide. Whatever their subjects, the translations themselves, out of many languages, cross frontiers of space and time. MPT 3/11 concentrates on that essential act, and makes connections of many kinds - of going-betweens and crossings-over. Poetry has always gone out to these boundaries, to survey them and to cross them. Some passages are customary and welcome; others are more like smuggling and transgression. Some borders are open; others are walled, barb-wired and mined...

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Sticky: Andy Croft Publisher:

Flambard

Price:

£8.00

ISBN:

978-1-906601-05-8

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x 138 mm, 112pp

Pub. date:

April 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “[Full of ] wit and brio.” — the Guardian • “The unofficial poet laureate of the North.” — Northern Echo • “Staggeringly flawless verse that is never heartless in perfection.” — the North

About Sticky by Andy Croft Sticky is a book of poems about an age of imperial slaughter already sticky with blood and lies. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but depleted uranium really hurts us. Sticky is a book about the stuck and the sticky, the straight and the crooked. Armed with only a pile of spooky sticks - and a sticky file of spooks - Andy Croft sets off in search of the Land of Righteousness. He gets the wrong end of the stick in Vulgaria and finds himself in a sticky situation in Mudfog. When he meets the ghosts of Brecht, Bunyan and Baron Munchausen - by the banks of the river Styx - he realises he can’t stick it any more. About the author: Andy Croft’s seven previous books of poetry include; Just as Blue, Comrade Laughter and Ghost Writer. He has written forty-four books for teenagers, mostly about football, and has published widely on the history of the British Labour Movement. He writes a regular poetry column in the Morning Star, runs Smokestack Books, and lives in Middlesbrough. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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The Blue Cat Walks the Earth: F. D. Reeve Publisher:

Smokestack

Price:

£8.95

ISBN:

978-0-956034-10-6

Format:

Paperback

Size:

197 x 127 mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

April 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Legendary US radical poet. • Winner of the ‘Golden Rose’ of the New England Poetry Society Award. • Includes free poetry / jazz CD. • UK events in Summer 09 including at Ledbury Poetry Festival.

About The Blue Cat Walks the Earth by Frank Reeve The Blue Cat is a courteous, well-read, outspoken, randy anarchist ready again to lay down one of his lives for what he believes. 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 these new poems, accompanied by Don Davis on sax and Joe Deleault on piano.

About the author: 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 currently emeritus professor at Wesleyan University.

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Not for Specialists: W.D. Snodgrass Publisher:

The Waywiser Press

Price:

£9.99

Format:

Paperback

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904130-35-2

Size:

129 x 196 mm, 128pp

Pub. date:

April 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Pulizer Prize-winning poet. • First publication of new work in the UK since the author’s death in Jan 2009. • “A judicious selection from a significant oeuvre.” – Publishers’ Weekly • “Poem after jewelled poem... his poems will stay with us, persisting in their loveliness.” - Jay Parini, The Guardian

About Not for Specialists by W. D. Snodgrass Not for Specialists includes 35 new poems complemented by the superb work he wrote in the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Heart’s Needle, along with poetry from seven other distinguished collections.

About the author: W. D. Snodgrass 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. Snodgrass died in January 2009.

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The Sleepwalkers’ Ball: Alan Bilton Publisher: Alcemi Price:

£9.99

ISBN:

978-0-955527-26-5

Format:

Paperback

Size:

140 x 215 mm, 256pp

Pub. date: May 2009 Genre:

Fiction

• “A script put together by Franz Kafka, Spike Milligan and Charlie Chaplin at a drunken party to celebrate the twinning of Royston Vasey with the Gorbals. A welcome addition to Celtic Gothic.”’ — Lloyd Jones • “Stimulating…wide-ranging... thoroughly readable... superb.” —(European Journal of American Culture)

About The Sleepwalkers’ Ball by Alan Bilton Set sometime around now - and yet also any time - this 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.” About the author: Alan Bilton teaches American Studies at Swansea University. His nonfiction titles are An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction (New York/Edinburgh University Press) and the threevolume (co-authored) America in the 1920s (Helm). He is currently writing a book on silent film comedy. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Scars Beneath the Skin by A. J. Duggan Publisher:

Flambard Press

Price:

£8.99

ISBN:

978-1-906601-06-5

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x 138 mm, 256pp

Pub. date:

May 2009

Genre:

Fiction

• Book has already attracted strong media interest: author was a victim of Manchester bombings in 1996. • A dark modern love story, set in the aftermath of a terrorist bomb. • Author has strong online presence with 1000 fans on MySpace. • Debut novel deals with anxieties of living within a post-9/11 world.

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

About the author: A J Duggan’s life changed on a sweltering day in Manchester, in June 1996, when the city centre was torn apart by a 3300 lb 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.

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Comrades: Marco Antonio Flores Publisher: Aflame Price:

£8.99

ISBN:

978-1-906300-06-7

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x 140 mm, 234pp

Pub. date: May 2009 Genre:

Fiction

• “… bristling with profanity, graphic sexuality, bitter humour, and wordplay.” — Roy C. Boland • Raw and candid language shockingly reveals how a generation’s revolutionary zeal was coloured by a heady mix of sex, drugs, and political ambition. About Comrades by Marco Antonio Flores When first published in 1976, Comrades was hailed as a masterpiece - and as establishing a new genre in Latin America - for it addressed in raw and candid language the country’s conflict, and caused uproar on the Left. 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. Heavily influenced by James Joyce, Marco Antonio Flores has created an intricate map of the peregrinations and emotional journeys travelled by a generation of young Guatemalans, who were caught in a maelstrom of violence they were unable to control… About the author: 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.

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Zeus Amoeba: David Greenslade Publisher:

Two Rivers Press

Price:

£9.00

ISBN:

978-1-901677-63-8

Format:

Paperback

Size:

234 x 156 mm, 140pp.

illustrated.

Pub. date:

May 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “Fantastic Stuff. I highly recommend it.” — David Bellamy • “I like these animal poems. They are fresh and entertaining, with a curious mixture of factual observation and wild invention.” — Desmond Morris About Zeus Amoeba by David Greenslade David Greenslade has been described as a ‘genuinely original voice’, a ‘radical nonconformist’, ‘avante garde’ 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, mythic creatures and untamed others 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.

About the author: David Greenslade has lived for long periods in Japan, the United States and in Oman. He writes in Welsh and in English. He currently works at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.

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Soothing Music for Stray Cats: Jayne Joso Publisher: Alcemi Price:

£9.99

ISBN:

978-0-955527-25-8

Format:

Paperback

Size:

140 x 215 mm, 256pp

Pub. date: May 2009 Genre:

Fiction

• “Jayne Joso’s novel skillfully blends the esoteric and the everyday, the surreal and the banal, to create a strangely gripping narrative full of dark humour.” — Joe Moran • “An unexpected and moving story about the redemption of misfits and the consolation of strangers.” — Natalie Haynes About Soothing Music for Stray Cats by Jayne Joso Mark’s best friend, Jim, has just jumped from the twentieth floor. Mark has stepped out of his life to flatsit for Ron, who’s gone off to ‘find himself’ in Costa Rica. On grief’s low-battery setting, cold and underfed, Mark drifts through a familiar - yet 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, when it counts, in another’s life; and his irritation - at the rubbish music collection - leads him to buy better CDs for Ron and the city throws chances, to trust, at Mark. Flooded with warmth, this novel examines friendship, altruism, songwriting and Samurai philosophy. About the author: Jayne Joso has written extensively on Architecture and on Japanese arts & 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.

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Russell Margerison: Boys at War Publisher:

Northway Publications

Price:

£7.99

ISBN:

978-0-9537040-8-8

Format:

Paperback

Size:

198 x 129 mm, 212pp

Pub. date:

2nd edition reprint,

available from 3 May 09

Genre:

Biography/military history

• Serialised in The Mail on Sunday from 3rd to 24th May 2009 • “A fascinating wartime memoir that deserves a wide readership.”— Mail on Sunday • “Amid the plain prose, he produces arresting images. His candour increases one’s admiration for him.”— Guardian About Boys at War by Russell Margerison In Boys at War Margerison writes candidly of the dangerous and strangely unreal world of a mid-upper air gunner with 625 Squadron in WW2. 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 to visit the crash site, and his tearful reunion with the Belgians who risked everything to help him survive. The author lives in Blackburn, Lancashire.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: Pro Eto-That’s What Publisher:

Arc Publications

Price:

£15.99 (hb) £12.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-904614-71-5

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-31-9

Size:

138 x 216 mm

Pub. date:

May 09

Genre:

Poetry

• First publication in English of seminal work. • Includes 12 inspired photomontages by Rodchenko. • Tie in with Alexander Rodchenko exhibition at Tate Modern until 17 May 09.

About Pro Eto-That’s What by Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post revolutionary Russia. His poetry, influenced by Whitman and Verhaeren, is strangely akin to modern rock poetry in its erotic thrus and bluesy emotion. 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. But 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. Beautifully published with 12 full page plates by Alexander Rodchenko designed to interleave and illuminate the text.

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The Wall-Menders: Kate Noakes Publisher:

Two Rivers Press

Price:

£8.00

ISBN:

978-1-901677- 64-5

Format:

Paperback

Size:

210 x 140 mm, 60pp

Pub. date:

May 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “Reading her poems with the care they deserve gives an intimation of what it might feel were the world in safe hands.” — Peter Robinson • Themes of environmental damage and renewal; earthy poetry rooted in the land.

About The Wall-Menders by Kate Noakes Kate Noakes explores themes of environmental damage and renewal. She uses imagined narratives to suggest options, to us, for repairing the planet, and relearning how to live in harmony with it. This is earthy poetry - rooted in the land - that looks at skills we have forgotten, and real food. Kate’s work chimes with some important social themes, but this is poetry of subtlety, rich in its song and imagery.

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

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Stop Sharpening Your Knives 3 Publisher:

Eggbox Publishing

Format:

Paperback

Price:

£12.99

ISBN:

978-0-955939-92-1

Size:

198 x 129 mm , 80pp

Pub. date:

May 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Eds. Nathan Hamilton, Sam Riviere, Jack Underwood. • “A remarkable gathering of emerging poets”– Lavinia Greenlaw • “Energy, maturity and sharpness” – George Szirtes

About Stop Sharpening Your Knives 3 The Stop Sharpening Your Knives 3 anthology is a selection of poetry and illustrations from 23 of the most talented and exciting new poets around, edited by Nathan Hamilton, Sam Riviere and Jack Underwood.

It contains poems from Emily Berry, Tim Cockburn, Charlotte Geater, Mollye Miller, Jon Stone, Nathan Hamilton, Heather Phillipson, Jack Underwood, Christian Ward, Margot Douaihy, Joe Dunthorne, Stuart McCarthy, Ben Borek, Sarah Hesketh, Michael Zelenko, Kirsten Irving, Joe Kennedy, Meghan Purvis, Sam Riviere, Hayley Buckland, Matthew Gregory, Robert Herbert and Agnes Lehoczky.

Illustrations by Benjamin Brett, Beatie Fox, Steph Von Reiswitz, Gawain Godwin, Hannah Page, Franks Pudney, Tristan Stevens, Hannah Bagshaw, Oliver Beavis, Zoe Taylor and Richard Dinnis were commissioned to accompany the poetry.

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Blue Bay Palace: Nathacha Appanah Publisher:

Aflame

Price:

£7.99

ISBN:

978-1-906300-07-4

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x 140 mm, 164pp

Pub. date:

June 2009

Genre:

Fiction

• “This is … despite the intensity of emotion, a story of how passion is intertwined with class and economic position.” — World Literature Today • “Blue Bay Palace resembles the Mauritian version of ‘Titanic’, or ‘West Side Story’ in the tropics: impossible loves, castes and clans, arranged marriages and passions that burst into flames…” — www.lire.fr

About Blue Bay Palace by Nathacha Appanah 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…

About the author: 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.

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Penultimata: Robert Conquest Publisher:

Waywiser Press

Price:

£8.99

ISBN:

978-1-904130-36-9

Format:

Paperback

Size:

129 x 197 mm, 192pp

Pub. date:

June 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “…A strong and individual voice, talking about things that matter.” — Thom Gunn • “In the history of modern poetry, Conquest occupies a permanent place.” — Czeslaw Milosz (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature), National Review • “In addition to imperishable works of modern history, Conquest has been one of our most distinguished poets.” – Christopher Hitchens, TLS

About Penultimata by Robert Conquest 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, historical sufferings — and even odd demons, planets and philosophies. About the author: 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 so-called ‘Movement’. After distinguished service in WWII he became a diplomat and then a historian of international renown. Having repented of his communism, he also did a stint as Margaret Thatcher’s speechwriter. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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No Apples in Eden: John Lyons Publisher:

Smith Doorstop

Price:

£9.95

ISBN:

978-1-902382-99-9

Format:

Paperback

Size:

215 x 140 mm, 112pp

Pub. date:

June 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Award winning poet also known nationally and internationally as a painter.‘In a hauntingly beautiful language, John Lyons recounts snippets of Caribbean life through poems which dance in the memory long after the book is closed.’ — Valerie Bloom

About No Apples in Eden by John Lyons 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. “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

About the author: John Lyons received the prestigious Windrush Arts Achiever Award, and has thrice won The Peterloo Poetry Competition. He is a poet and painter; and also works as a writing tutor, for the Arvon Foundation and in schools and colleges. He lives in Ely.

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Yelp! Liz Almond Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-904614-91-3

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-38-8

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 94pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry

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

About Yelp! by Liz Almond 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 has a tiny house.

About the author: 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.

Previous Collection: The Shut Drawer (2002) by Arc (ISBN: 978-1-900072-93-9, £6.95). Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Knife Sharpener : Sargon Boulus Publisher:

Banipal

Price:

£7.95

ISBN:

978-0-9549666-7-6

Format:

Paperback

Size:

125 x 198mm, 154pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry

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First major poetry collection in English translation by one of the best-known and influential of contemporary Arab poets.

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“Sargon seemed to feel also the even greater, historical weight of conflicts, tensions, misunderstandings and oppressions of the spirit, as if his poems came through his own time and language but from somewhere else.” - Pat Boran

About Knife Sharpener by Sargon Boulus Knife Sharpener is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus. Written between 1991 and 2007, these poems were translated by Boulus himself and include the 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, plus nine pages of photographs and tributes from fellow poets and writers including: Saadi Youssef, Kadhim Jihad Hassan, Khalid al-Maaly, and Elias Khoury. Afterword by Margaret Obank.

About the author: Boulus was born in Iraq in 1944 into an Assyrian family and is one of Iraq’s bestknown and popular contemporary poets. He is an inveterate translator of English-language poets into Arabic. He began publishing poetry in 1961, contributing to the ground-breaking Shi’r [Poetry] magazine, based in Beirut. He left Iraq in 1968, going to Beirut, and in 1969 to the USA, settling in San Francisco. He has published six poetry collections and has translated many British and American poets into Arabic. A study of his life and works, Sargon Boulus: his Life and Writing (in Assyrian and Arabic), was published in Baghdad in 1999. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Everyman Street: Julian Colton Publisher:

Smokestack

Format:

Paperback

Price:

£7.95

ISBN:

978-0-955402-88-3

Size:

197 x 127 mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Colton is writing fellow for Dumfries and Galloway. • A front-line perspective of class, violence, love and religious intolerance.

About Everyman Street by Julian Colton 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 home-sweet home for winners and losers, for the lost and the lucky, the stuck-in-a-rut and the just-passing-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.

About the author: Julian Colton lives in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. Previous publications include Something for the Weekend (2001), Two Che Guevaras (2007) and a book of ghost stories for children, The Looking Glass Years (2004). Julian is currently CREATE Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway.

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The Sum Total of Violations: Regina Derieva Publisher:

Arc Publications

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978-1-906570-10-1

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-70-8

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138 x 216 mm, 170pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “Regina Derieva [is] one of the outstanding writers of the contemporary Russian diaspora.” — Tomas Venclova • “…hers is a brave and eminently readable voice.” — Poetry Review About The Sum Total of Violations by Regina Derieva Regina Derieva is one of Russia’s leading contemporary poets. Her work has received commendations from a number of prominent authors including the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky and the contemporary 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. About the author: Regina Derieva was born in Odessa in 1949 and now lives in Sweden. Her work has been translated into many languages including English, French, Swedish and Arabic and her poetry has appeared in magazines in the UK, Russia and Sweden. In 2003 she was awarded the Shannon Fellowship of the International Thomas Merton Society.

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The Green Parakeet: Desmond Graham Publisher:

Flambard Press

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Paperback

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£7.50

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978-1-906601-04-1

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216 x 138 mm, 80pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “Graham has a way of finding fugitive rays of light.” — Poetry Wales • “His poems challenge us to see the world as a place of connections and connectedness.” — Daniel Thomas Moran, Poetry Salzburg Review About The Green Parakeet by Desmond Graham The Green Parakeet extends the poetic sequence begun in Desmond Graham’s previous collection, Heartwork, 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.

About the author: Until recently Desmond Graham was Professor of Poetry at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Flambard have published three previous collections by him: After Shakespeare (2001), Milena Poems (2004) and Heart-work (2007). Graham co-translated Two Darknesses (1994), a selection by the major Polish poet Anna Kamienska. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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At the Edge of the Night: Anise Koltz Publisher:

Arc Publications

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ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-03-3

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-56-2

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 94pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• First UK collection from this year’s Prix de Littérature winner. • “This poetry feels utterly European…it speaks to the reader directly, jumping cultural barriers.” — Anne-Marie Glasheen, translator

About At the Edge of the Night by Anise Koltz 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 poet 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.

About the author: 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 been awarded 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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The Legend of Liz and Joe: John Murray Publisher:

Flambard

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£8.99

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978-1-906601-07-2

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216 x 138 mm, 224pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Fiction

• “One of the best comic writers we’ve got, the only natural heir to Flann O’Brien.” — Jonathan Coe, the Observer • “Very funny – Murray has a fine eye for life’s custard pies.” — Kate Saunders, The Times About The Legend of Liz and Joe by John Murray 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. About the author: John Murray has published eight critically acclaimed novels and a collection of stories, Pleasure, which won the Dylan Thomas Award in 1988. Jazz Etc. (ISBN: 978-1-873226-62-9, £8.99) was long listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize and Murphy’s Favourite Channels (ISBN: 978-1-873226-68-1, £8.99) was Novel of the Week in the Daily Telegraph Praise for A Gentleman’s Relish: “A Flann O’Brienesque romp… beautifully written and laugh-out-loud funny.” — Independent on Sunday Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Shepherd of Solitude: Amjad Nasser Publisher:

Banipal

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£7.95

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978-0-9549666-8-3

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Paperback

Size:

125 x 198mm, 186pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry

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First poetry collection by London-based Jordanian poet in English translation by foremost Arabic translator of poetry.

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Amjad Nasser blends his Bedouin Arab heritage with European literary modernism producing an enthralling range of vivid, thoughtful and intimate poems.

About Shepherd of Solitude by Amjad Nasser 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 are selected by the poet and translator Khaled Mattaw, from Nasser’s Arabic volumes over 25 years from 1979 to 2004. Back cover supporting statement by Alfred Corn: “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

About the author: Amjad Nassser 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, Flight of Wings (1998) and Under More than One Sky (2002). 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). Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Night Train: Sean O’Brien & Birtley Aris

Publisher: Flambard Press

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978-1-906601-09-6

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ISBN (paperback):

978-1-906601-08-9

Price:

£18.99 (hardback)

Size:

148 x 210 mm, 64pp

£9.99 (paperback)

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry & Contemporary Art

• First new collection since O’Brien won the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Forward Prize in 2007 • “…a terrific language technician.” — the Guardian • “…the bard of urban Britain.” — The Times

About Night Train by Sean O’Brien & Birtley Aris 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 sketch-cum-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 (2007), Picador (ISBN: 978-0330447621) Cousin Coat: New and Selected Poems (2002), Picador (ISBN: 978-0330490979)

About the author and artist: 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 2007 Forward and T. S. Elliot Prizes. Birtley Aris lives in Northumberland. His 2007 exhibition was a retrospective at the DLI Museum and Art Gallery in Durham.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED HARDBACK, NUMBERED 1 to 150.

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Her Leafy Eye - Lesley Saunders Publisher:

Two Rivers Press

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Paperback

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£9.95

ISBN:

978-1-901677-66-9

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240 x 157 mm, 48pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry

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“Verbally exuberant and richly textured.” — Fleur Adcock

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

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Poems inspired by the wonderful Rousham Gardens (Oxon) which ‘capture the soul of this glorious space’. — Alys Fowler, BBC Gardeners World

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Winner of the Manchester Poetry Prize 2008.

About Her Leafy Eye by Lesley Saunders A poet and an artist/garden designer collaborate to catch the spirit of the Rousham Gardens, Oxon. The text and computer-generated illustrations are in a shifting three-way 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.

About the author: Lesley Saunders’ poem The Uses of Greek was shortlisted for the Best Single Poem in the Forward Prize 1999. Rill, which appears in the present collection, won first prize in the Buxton Festival poetry competition 2008. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Dark Room Elegies: Michael Shepler Publisher:

Smokestack

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£7.95

ISBN (pb):

978-0-955402-89-0

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197 x 127 mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

July 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “A gleam of genius.” — Allen Ginsberg • The fascinating life-story of a Hollywood silent screen star.

About Dark Room Elegies by Michael Shepler 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. Later she travelled to Europe and the USSR. She helped organize Red Aid during the Spanish Civil War. 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.

About the author: Michael Shepler is the author of seven books of poetry including Red Windows and Angel’s Flight. He teaches film at the Jazz School in Berkeley, California. He is poetry editor of the magazine Political Affairs. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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The Book of Belongings: Brian Johnstone Publisher:

Arc Publications

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ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-15-6

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-75-3

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 142pp

Pub. date:

August 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “A maturing, considered voice.” — Kathleen Jamie, Forward Poetry Prize winning author of The Tree House • “A syntax that flows and flexes…both precise and musical.” — Esther Morgan About The Book of Belongings by Brian Johnstone 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 – the past with all its demons, its sad domestic litanies. Brian Johnstone writes with an enviable facility, often from unusual perspectives, eliding time and space, letting geography merge seamlessly into history and, in so doing, gives vanished histories a voice.

About the author: Brian Johnstone 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 Johnsone’s previous two poetry collections are The Lizard Silence (1996), Homing (2004) both with The Scottish Cultural Press. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Their Mountain Mother: Edmund Prestwich Publisher:

Hearing Eye

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Paperback

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£7.00

ISBN:

978-1-905082-46-9

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210 x 210 mm

Pub. date:

August 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “Powerful story telling…laid throughout with rich, moving detail it achieves great pathos and mythical force.” — Ian Pople, poet • “Emily Johns has passion not just for ‘man’ but for humanity itself…” — Eve Boyer, Brighton Argos About Their Mountain Mother by Edmund Prestwich This single long poem with four plates by printmaker Emily Johns deals with Lesotho, 1820 - 1824. Invaded by starving hordes from across the mountains, the Southern Sotho chiefdoms collapse in massacre and starvation. The tiny Mokoteli clan lies directly in the path of the invaders. The Mokoteli chief Moshoeshoe is both brave and wise. But will he be able to lead his people to safety?

“Emily Johns’ powerful linocuts continue the notable tradition of political illustration epitomized by the likes of Clifford Harper and Kathe Kollwitz.” — Gareth Evans, Time Out

About the author: Edmund Prestwich spent his first fifteen years in South Africa. He lives in Manchester, where he teaches English at the Manchester Grammar School. His collection Through the Window was published by Rockingham Press in 1997.

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Well Versed: Poetry from the Morning Star ed. John Rety Publisher:

Hearing Eye

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Paperback

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£10.00

ISBN:

978-1-905082-42-1

Size:

148 x 210 mm, 160pp

Pub. date:

August 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “Since its inception the poetry column in the Morning Star has raised circulation on Thursdays by 2%, such a hit has the column become.” — the Guardian • “We should all be indebted to the Morning Star’s poetry collection, which is full of fun, sadness, cynicism and anger.” — Tony Benn

About Well Versed: Poetry from The Morning Star 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 Well Versed. This anthology brings together the poems for the first time, presenting a unique mix of established poets including John HeathStubbs, Dannie Abse, Jacques Prevert, Victor Hugo, Nazim Hikmet, Alan Brownjohn, Adrian Mitchell, Mimi Khalvati, Bernard Kops and unknown talents selected by Morning Star poetry editor John Rety. Encompassing the full spectrum of human life, from the mundane to the defiant, the romantic to the political, it surprises, delights and shocks, but never fails to challenge.

Introduced by Tony Benn

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Cold Spring in Winter: Valerie Rouzeau Publisher:

Arc Publications

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ISBN (hb):

978-1-904614-59-3

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-30-2

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 158pp

Pub. date:

August 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Unique poetry translated to English, the influence of Sylvia Plath can be seen in this work. • Introduced by T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Stephen Romer. About Cold Winter in Spring by Valerie Rouzeau Cold Spring in Winter (Pas Revoir in its original French) caused quite a stir when it was published 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 scrap-metal dealer. It takes a page or two to get used to this strange mixture of ‘child-speak’, youth slang, made-up words, puns and sophisticated adult expression (all perfectly conveyed in Susan Wick’s translation), but once immersed in this extraordinary sequence of poems, it is hard to put it down, so compelling, strange and moving does it prove to be. Arc Visible Poets’ series no. 25

About the author: Valérie Rouzeau was born in 1967 in Burgundy, France and now lives in a small town near Paris. She has published a dozen collections of poems and also translations of the work of Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes into French. About the translator: Susan Wicks, poet and novelist, is the author of five collections of poetry including Singing Underwater (1992) which won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Natural Selection: Cecilia Szperling Publisher:

Aflame Books

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Paperback

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£8.99

ISBN:

978-1-906300-08-1

Size:

216 x 140 mm

Pub. date:

August 2009

Genre:

Fiction

• “Natural Selection is an accomplished vision of the social savagery of big cities.” — Página/12, Buenos Aires • “It paints a picture of a sordid, uncomfortable ecosystem in … which the appearance of stability cannot mask the hysteria within.” — Latin American Review of Books About Natural Selection by Cecilia Szperling 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.

About the author: 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, 1997) 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.

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Collected Poems: Michael Schmidt Publisher:

Smith Doorstop

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£18.95

ISBN:

978-1-902382-00-5

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Hardback

Size:

140 x 220mm, 212pp

Pub. date:

September 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “Vibrant, radiant... steeped in modernist tradition (Yeats and Eliot) and questingly new... a passionate discourse that is at once earthy and numinous”. – John Ashbery About Collected Poems by Michael Schmidt Collected Poems brings together three decades and more of Michael Schmidt’s work. It is a remarkable achievement, not least for the 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. About the author: 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 for services to poetry. His many publications include novels and much criticism, including a full history of poetry in English, and several anthologies, not least The Harvill Book of Twentieth Century Poetry (The Harvill Press, 2000 ISBN: 978-1860467356). Michael Schmidt’s own Selected Poems (Smith/Doorstop, 1997 ISBN: 978-1-869961-82-4) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

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Undraining Sea: Vahni Capildeo Publisher:

Eggbox Publishing

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Hardback

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£12.99

ISBN:

978-0-955939-90-7

Size:

198 x 129 mm, 96pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “Vahni Capildeo’s profoundly intelligent poems are original in a very unusual way. They are modern, but composed without fear of traditional subjects or language. Every topic springs to life, in a way that is both disturbing and beautiful.” - Bernard O’Donoghue About Undraining Sea by Vahni Capildeo “Capildeo’s poetry is sassy, sometimes scary; dark, certainly, but there’s light there, too, even sweetness, and much humour; complex, even virtuosic, though she can be simple, in her own unique way. She’s one of the best around, and I applaud her. “ - David Miller, poet and editor “So much of the world has been rendered familiar by the industries of interpretation (including the literary) that it takes a genius to recover its real intransigence. It is like being brought up hard against an unmoveable rock amidst all the torrents of counterfeited poetry when you catch hold of any poem by Capildeo. “ - Rod Mengham, poet and academic

About the author: 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 (Salt, 2003); Person Animal Figure (Landfill, 2005); Undraining Sea is the second full collection from this vastly talented poet. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Sonata for Four Hands: Amarjit Chandan Publisher:

Arc Publications

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Hardback & Paperback

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£13.99 (hb) £10.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1906570-35-4

ISBN (pb):

978-1906570-34-7

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 160pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Translated from the Punjabi by the author, Julia Casterton, John Welch and others. • First full-length collection to be published in UK. • Amarjit Chandan is well-known in Britain through his readings at festivals and radio broadcasts.

About Sonata for Four Hands by Amarjit Chandan Sonata for Four Hands is Amarjit Chadan’s long-awaited first full-length collection to be published in Britain and comes with a preface by the distinguished writer John Berger, long-time admirer of Chandan’s work. Ironic, lyrical, sometimes angry or regretful, these poems, written in Punjabi but by a poet settled in Britain, add a new dimension to contemporary poetry. About the author: Amarjit Chandan was born in Nairobi in 1946 and studied in India at Panjab University, coming to Britain in 1980. The translator and editor of many anthologies of Indian and world poetry and fiction, 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 Panjabis in Britain, All-Party Parliamentary Group in 2006. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Freed Speech: Modern Poetry in Translation Publisher:

Modern Poetry in Translation

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£9.95

ISBN:

978-0-955906-42-8

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Paperback

Size:

201 x 140mm, 200pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• New translations and original poetry celebrating the liberation of speech through translation and other means. • Including new translations of Brecht and Ritsos and an appreciation of James Kirkup; poems about Ethiopia.

About Freed Speech by Modern Poetry in Translation 2009 sees the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One of those rights is freedom of speech. This issue of Modern Poetry in Translation celebrates speech that has been freed. Poetry and translation, working together, have often been the means and the best expression of that liberation. Freed Speech features examples from past and present, from all over the world, from all manner of circumstances, of people being enabled to speak and of their voices being heard. It also explores the repression and harming of those voices, but chiefly shows the triumph of the will to speak, the freeing, the recovery and the enjoyment of tongues.

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Beans in Snow: Jennifer Copley Publisher:

Smokestack Books

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£7.95

ISBN:

978-0-956034-12-0

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Paperback

Size:

187 x 127mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “Urgent, visceral… not for the faint-hearted.” - U.A. Fanthorpe • “Charming, sensuous and disturbing.” Carol Rumens • “Quietly life-enhancing, full of real rewards and surprising consolations’. - W.N. Herbert About Beans in Snow by Jennifer Copley Beans in Snow is a stunning exploration of the world of childhood, its consolations and cruelties, real and imagined. Like Angela Carter, Liz Lochhead 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, she becomes Gerda, Gretel and the goose-girl, making sense of his death in memory, imagination and in the power of story-telling. Beans in Snow is not just a brilliant and original re-working of some well-known fairy-tales, it is a book with something profound to say about childhood and growing up, about fear and belief, and about our enduring need for happy endings. About the author: Jennifer Copley was born in Barrow-in-Furness, where she still lives. She has published two pamphlets, Ice (Smith Doorstop, 2002) and House by the Sea (Arrowhead Press, 2003), and a full-length collection Unsafe Monuments (Arrowhead Press, 2006). 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Planet Box: Laura Daly & Diana Syder Publisher:

Comma Poetry

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Paperback

Price:

£7.95

ISBN:

978-1-905583-2-49

Size:

129 x 198 mm, 48pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry & Contemporary Art

• “A dazzling celebration of an inquiring human mind.” — New Scientist • “Here is an English poet who is amazed by the world and wants to tell you how amazed she is.” — Jim Burns on Diana Syder’s poetry

About Planet Box by Laura Daly & Diana Syder 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 for as artists in residence at the Yorkshire Amateur Space Observatory.

About the authors: Laura Daly is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, London whose previous residencies include The New Forest’s ArtsWay scheme. Diana Syder is the author of four acclaimed collections of science-informed poetry. In 2000 she was the recipient a Public Awareness of Science Award (Institute of Physics).

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book of days: Linda France Publisher:

Smokestack Books

Price:

£7.95

ISBN:

978-0-956034-13-7

Format:

Paperback

Size:

187 x 127mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “A gathering of verses that carry, alone and together, a whole year’s work.” - Gillian Allnut • “The form and its practice Linda has offered are a step into the poetics of the day. Take up this book and in doing so you too can take up the form.” - Alec Finlay About book of days by Linda France At the beginning of 2006 Linda France set herself the challenge of writing a renga verse every day for twelve months. Adapting this 10th century Japanese form, Linda France has 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, inside and out, the connected and the disconnected, the poised and dynamic, the numinous and the everyday. book of days is illustrated by Sue Dunne’s striking ceramic fragments – reliefs created by casting flowers, leaves and branches found in the woods and hedgerows of Northumberland. About the author: Linda France was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. She has published five collections with Bloodaxe Books: Red (1992), The Gentleness of the Very Tall (1994), Storyville (1997), The Simultaneous Dress (2002) and The Toast of the Kit Cat Club (2005). Sue Dunne was born in rural Essex. She studied Ceramics in Bath, and has worked in various potteries, some in Ireland and Scotland. She has lived in Northumberland for the last twenty-five years. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Background Music: Cynthia Fuller Publisher:

Flambard

Price:

£7.00

ISBN:

978-1-906601-10-2

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x 138mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

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Previous collection received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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Widely anthologised poet who regularly gives readings in the North East.

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The most moving and most life-affirmed book I’ve read for ages - R.V. Bailey on Jack’s Letters Home .

About Background Music by Cynthia Fuller 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.

About the author: 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 (Flambard, ISBN: 978-1-873226-16-2) and Only a Small Boat (Flambard, ISBN: 978-1-87322649-0). Jack’s Letters Home (Flambard, ISBN: 978-1-873226-85-8), her previous collection, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2006.

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Quarantine Contagion: Brian Henry Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£10.99 (hb) £7.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-13-2

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-73-9

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 80pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry and a National Book Award. • Quarantine is set outside London in 1665 during the bubonic plague. • “Henry…takes his speaker’s voice to a gritty extreme.” —Publishers Weekly

About Quarantine Contagion by Brian Henry Narrated by a man dying of the plague, Quarantine is a book-length poem that explores sexuality and subjectivity. Lying in a field beside his dead wife and son, the narrator describes the events leading up to his and his family’s death. To counter-act the narrator’s hold on the story, ten passages, written in the third-person, are interspersed throughout Quarantine, providing an objective vantage point.

About the author: 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.

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The Secret History: Michael Hulse Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-25-5

ISBN (pb):

978-1-906570-24-8

Size:

138 x 216 Mm, 110pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Multi-award winning poet. • “Long awaited new collection by award-winning ‘master craftsman’.” — Time Out • “Compelling and moving.” — Poetry Review About The Secret History by Michael Hulse 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.

About the author: Michael Hulse’s poetry has won him firsts in the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Poetry Prize (twice), and 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Our Sweet Little Time: Hamish Ironside Publisher:

Iron Press

Price:

£6.00

ISBN:

978-0-955245-07-7

Format:

Paperback

Size:

105 x 148mm, 144pp

Pub. date:

October 09

Genre:

Poetry

• Illustrations by Barnaby Richards. • Iron Press is the country’s leading independent publisher of haiku, branching out from the form’s traditional concerns to embrace those of our modern urban economy. About Our Sweet Little Time by Hamish Ironside This distinctive book takes us through a full year of the author’s life in haiku - a main point of which is the birth of his daughter. Extract: Babyless belly / the thrill of a stranger / in our bed. About the author: Hamish Ironside (born 1971) has published haiku in magazines and journals including Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Presence, Acorn and Blithe Spirit. His longer poems have appeared in publications such as Poetry Review, P N Review, The Rialto, The Guardian and Parnassus. He co-edited the Anvil New Poets 3 anthology in 2001, with Roddy Lumsden. Illustrator Biog: Barnaby Richards (born 1974) studied Art History at Manchester University before deciding to become 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Hole: Kathleen Kenny Publisher:

Smokestack Books

Price:

£7.95

ISBN:

978-0-956034-11-3

Format:

Paperback

Size:

187 x 127mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Powerful evocation of Tyneside in the 1960s. • “Well crafted, intellectually sharp and emotionally convincing.” - Brendan Kennelly • “Deeply-felt poems suffused with a poignant sense of loss. An impressive collection.” - Brendan Cleary

About Hole by Kathleen Kenny 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 making way for the promise of a new Brasilia.

About the author: Kathleen Kenny is the daughter of an Irish mother and Irish-Geordie father. Her previous poetry collections include Sex & Death (Diamond Twig), Goosetales and other Flights (Koo Press), Sandblasting the Cave (Flarestack) and Firesprung (Red Squirrel Press). She lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she works as a creative writing tutor for the Centre for Lifelong Learning.

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The Wisteria’s Children: Sarah Lawson Publisher:

Hearing Eye

Price:

£5.00

ISBN:

978-1-905082-53-7

Format:

Paperback

Size:

165 x 117mm, 54 pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

But about haiku— they have to have seventeen syllables, no more. You may say that these are not like those of Japan— but I say, So what?

About The Wisteria’s Children by Sarah Lawson 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, thought-provoking collection.

About the author: Sarah Lawson is an American-born Londoner. She is a writer of poetry, non-fiction and plays and translates from French, Spanish and Dutch. Her translation of Christine de Pisan’s Treasure of the City of Ladies (Penguin, 1985, ISBN: 978-0140444537) was the first translation of that work in English since it was written in 1405. Her translation of Selected Poems by Jacques Prévert (Hearing Eye, 2002) 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 and her collection of poems about teaching at Suzhou University, All the Tea in China. Her forthcoming book, The Ripple Effect, is a prose memoir about Poland. www.sarah-lawson.net Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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A Casual Knack of Living: Herbert Lomas Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£19.50 (hb) £14.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-41-5

ISBN (pb):

978-1-906570-52-1

Size:

156 x 234 mm, 424pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Herbert Lomas has long been a highly-regarded poet, translator and reviewer. • The Vale of Todmorden (Arc, ISBN: 978-1900072-81-6) was very well received and elicited excellent reviews. • Ted Hughes greatly admired Lomas’s work.

About A Casual Knack of Living by Herbert Lomas 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, and thus brings Lomas’s poetry back into print.

About the author: 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 (Oxford Paperbacks, ISBN: 978-0-192819-59-8) 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Russell Margerison: Boys at War Publisher:

Northway Publications

Price:

£14.99

ISBN:

978-0- 955788-83-3

Format:

Hardback

Size:

218 x 142 mm, 216pp

plus 8-page photo section

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Biography/military history

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Serialised in The Mail on Sunday, May 2009.

• Over 2000 copies of the paperback edition sold between 1st May and 25th June. •

“Boys at War is a minor classic of the Other Ranks’ war.” - Daily Mail

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

About Boys at War by Russell Margerison In Boys at War Margerison writes candidly of the dangerous and strangely unreal world of a mid-upper air gunner with 625 Squadron in WW2. 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 to visit the crash site, and his tearful reunion with the Belgians who risked everything to help him survive. The author lives in Blackburn, Lancashire. (Boys at War paperback edition ISBN: 978-0-953704-08-8). “This vivid story tells of just a few individuals... But in its meticulous accuracy and totally honest recall... it paints a picture far more real than any history book or idealised film could do.” - Manchester Evening News Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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No Other World: Kunwar Narain Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£13.99 (hb) £10.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-20-0

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-81-4

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 160pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Arguably the most highly-regarded poet writing in Hindi today. • Winner of several Indian awards, including the Hindustani Academy Award andPrem Chand Award. • Poems inspired by India’s rich and varied history. About No Other World by Kunwar Narain No Other World is Kunwar Narain’s first full-length collection of poems to be published in English translation, and consists of poems selected from five volumes across five decades. Frequently inspired by characters, legends and actual events in India’s rich and varied 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. About the author: Born in 1927, Kunwar Narain 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, essays, translations and varied writings on the arts have been translated internationally and received many literary awards world-wide. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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The Ark Builders: Mary O’Donnell Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1906570-04-0

ISBN (pb):

978-1904614-58-6

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 94pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• ‘Mary O’Donnell is the secret, unseen star of Irish writing’ - The Irish Times • ‘An adventurous poet in search of her own objectives’ - Derek Mahon • Mary O’Donnell is a well-known broadcaster on

Irish radio.

About The Ark Builders by Mary O’Donnell 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’ – which she explores with a refreshing candour.

About the author: The Irish poet Mary O’Donnell 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Breath: Ellen Phethean Publisher:

Flambard

Price:

£7.00

ISBN:

978-1-906601-11-9

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216x138 mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• First full-length collection by widely broadcast and anthologised poet. • A deeply personal exploration of love and loss. • Reflects on the changing cultural landscape of Newcastle upon Tyne. About Breath by Ellen Phethean These poems explore love and loss and the way life insists we carry on. In 2005 Ellen Phethean lost her close friend Julia Darling to breast cancer. Only two months later her husband, the composer Keith Morris, and their close friend, the musician Joe Scurfield, were killed in a hit-and-run accident. In despair and turmoil, all she could do was write: to make sense of the past and to come to terms with the present.

About the author: 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 (Smokestack, ISBN: 978-0-955106-16-3), a teen novel in poems. Her poetry is included in Sauce (Bloodaxe) and has been widely broadcast and anthologised, but this is her first full-length collection.

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Springing From Catullus: Chris Pilling Publisher:

Flambard

Price:

£8.50

ISBN:

978-1-906601-12-6

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x 138mm, 128pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Modern recreation of the work of hugely influential Latin poet. • Prize-winning poet and translator. • Funny, inventive and highly readable.

About Springing From Catullus by Chris Pilling 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.

About the author: Chris Pilling, who lives in Keswick, has published nine books and pamphlets of his own poetry, including Foreign Bodies (1992) and Life Classes (2004), 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.

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Whispers and Breath of the Valleys: Razmik Davoyan Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£13.99 (hb) & £10.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-904614-96-8

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-47-0

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 160pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “…saturated with joy.” — W N. Herbert, New Generation poet • A book charged with energy from Armenia’s most prominent living poet. About Whispers and Breath of the Valleys by Razmik Davoyan 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. Whispers & Breath of the Valleys is a book charged with energy – indeed, W. N. Herbert, in his introduction, describes it as being ‘saturated with joy’. Davoyan displays ‘an equal empathy for the suffering and the exultant, finding for both a voice that implies such oppositions are finally resolved in the poem’. 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 enthralls.

About the author: 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.

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Thirsty River: Rodaan Al Galidi Publisher: Aflame Price:

£8.99

ISBN:

978-1-906300-10-4

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x 140 mm, 324pp

Pub. date: October 2009 Genre:

Fiction

• A humorous family saga has been compared with Garcia Marquez of Colombia. • Deals with invasion of Iraq from an Iraqi standpoint. • Being considered for Hay Festival’s Beirut 39 programme. About Thirsty River by Rodaan Al Galidi 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. An unfortunate incident with Saddam, a sheep and a television aerial results in all the men of the Bird household disappearing, leaving the family matriarch, Simahen, spending long days outside the Party office in the hope of their return. 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. About the author: Rodaan Al Galidi was born in southern Iraq sometime in the early 1970s. Births were not recorded and so he and his 10 siblings share the birthday of July 1. 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.

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Reaching Peckham: Hylda Sims Publisher:

Hearing Eye

Price:

£7.00

ISBN:

978-1-905082-45-2

Format:

Paperback

Size:

148 x 210mm, 60pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

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

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

About the author: 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.

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INPRESS: Advance Information Swing from a Small Island – the story of Leslie Thompson: Leslie Thompson with Jeffrey Green Publisher: Northway Publications Price:

£19.99

ISBN:

978-0-955788-82-6

Format:

Hardback

Size:

224 x 143 mm, 224pp

plus 8 pages gloss photos

Pub. date: October 2009 Genre:

Music / Jazz

• Published to coincide with Black History Month, October 2009. • The story of a swing era trumpeter from Jamaica. • Making music and history in London in the Blitz and post-war years. About Swing from a Small Island by Leslie Thompson and Jeffrey Green First published in 1985, long out-of-print and now republished in a new edition, the life story of this swing era jazz trumpeter encompasses his experiences in the West India Regiment, his move to Britain in 1929, and performing 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 (ISBN: 978-0-953704-02-6 ). About the author: Jeffrey Green lives in London and has researched the pre-Windrush Black presence in Britain for decades, assisted by veterans including Leslie Thompson, publishing the findings in many articles and books including his biography of Black American-born, London-educated composer Edmund Thornton Jenkins and Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain 1901–1914 (ISBN: 978-0714644264). A guitarist, liking 1920s and 1930s jazz, he worked in Uganda in the late 1960s and has travelled globally as an export manager and for curiosity. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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UEA Creative Writing: Poetry Foreword by Livinia Greenlaw & George Szirtes Publisher:

Eggbox Publishing

Format:

Paperback

Price:

£8.99

ISBN:

978-0-955939-94-5

Size:

210 x 148 mm, 80pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

“This group of poets have come from all over the world to work together at UEA. The interaction of such different voices has helped each to become more distinctive, more its own.” - Lavinia Greenlaw

About UEA Creative Writing: Poetry The world-renowned UEA Creative Writing MA presents a selection of new poets. Founded in 1992, course tutors and students have included 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. “No house-style, no ready-mades, simply original thinking, original writing from from an exciting set of individual voices.” - George Szirtes

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UEA Creative Writing Foreword by Tracy Chevalier Publisher:

Eggbox Publishing

Format:

Paperback

Price:

£9.99

ISBN:

978-0-955939-93-8

Size:

210 x 148 mm, 304pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Fiction

”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

About UEA Creative Writing 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.

“To all of you with Blurb-fatigue: We always say that this group of writers is exceptionally gifted, promising, and startlingly original.. I won’t lie: they actually are all of that, and more. Sorry to have got your hopes up. Established writers will wish we’d strangled this lot at birth.” - Trezza Azzopardi

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Mountain Language / Lingua di Montagna Stephen Watts and Cristina Viti Publisher:

Hearing Eye

Price:

£7.00

ISBN:

978-1-905082-48-3

Format:

Paperback

Size:

148 x 210mm, 56pp

Pub. date:

October 2009

Genre:

Poetry

‘A profoundly moving meditation on loss, history, roots and much else. The layerings and the cameos of visits and characters are iceaxed, chiselled in the mind rather than simply sketched.’ - Simon Jenner

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

About the authors: Stephen Watts is a poet, translator and editor whose published works include poetry collections Gramsci & Caruso (Bellew Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-857251-490-4) and The Blue Bag (Aark Arts, ISBN: 978-1-899179-92-5). 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. Awarded a twoyear Arts Council grant in 2007 for writing & research. Cristina Viti is a translator and poet whose published work includes translations of Apollinaire, Cendrars, Morante, Alesi.

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The Skiers: Jill Bialosky Publisher:

Arc Publications

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Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£12.99 (hb) & £9.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-904614-93-7

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-43-2

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 142pp

Pub. date:

November 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• “(Bialosky) combines the best aspects of confessional and lyric poetry…” — The New Yorker • “…the poet of the secret garden, the place, at once, of grace and sadness.” — Gerald Stern About The Skiers by Jill Bialosky The Skiers: New and 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 marked 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 About the author: Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has published two collections of poems, Subterranean (2001) and The End of Desire (1997), two novels, The Life Room (2002) and House Under Snow (2007) and co-edited the anthology Wanting A Child (1998). 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Blood/Sugar: James Byrne Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1906570-29-3

ISBN (pb):

978-1906570-28-6

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 96pp

Pub. date:

November 2009

Genre:

Poetry

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“One of the best new poets in the UK - The Times

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Blood / Sugar launches already arranged in New York & London

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“This poet operates without a safety net, walking the tightrope of language between heart and mind…” - Penelope Shuttle

About Blood / Sugar by James Byrne Blood / Sugar sparkles with wit and irony. 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. Byrne is a complete original.

About the author: 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 by Flipped Eye in 2003. In 2004, he helped to organize the ‘World Poets’ Tour’ for the Poetry Translation Centre at SOAS, London and 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.

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A Cure for Woodness: Michael Haslam Publisher:

Arc Publications

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Price:

£12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-36-1

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-84-5

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 96pp

Pub. date:

November 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• After a four-year wait, this volume completes Haslam’s trilogy, Music. • “I haven’t read anything that sounds as beautiful as this for years.” - Robert Potts, The Guardian on Music About A Cure for Woodness by Michael Haslam 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 (Arc, 2001. ISBN: 978-1900072687) and A Sinner Saved by Grace (Arc, 2005. ISBN: 978-1904614166) were widely praised and received excellent reviews when they were published. Like the first two parts of the trilogy, A Cure for Woodness is a reaffirmation in of the nature, language and music with which the poet finds himself surrounded in his hilltop home in the Pennines. About the author: Michael Haslam was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1947, and has lived in the Calder Valley since 1970. Widely published in the network associated with ‘The Cambridge School of Poetry’ in the 1960s, he became widely known through the publication, to great acclaim, of his collected poems, A Whole Bauble (Carcanet, ISBN: 978-1-857541878). 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Stealth: Sonallah Ibrahim Publisher:

Aflame

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Paperback

Price:

£7.99

ISBN (pb):

978-1-906300-09-8

Size:

216 x 140 mm, 184pp

Pub. date:

November 2009

Genre:

Fiction

• Latest novel by one of Egypt’s greatest living writers. • Offers a fresh point of view on contemporary Arabic society.

About Stealth by Sonallah Ibrahim 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 - listening in on conversations he is not supposed to hear, watching behaviour he is not supposed to see, witnessing longings he is not supposed to understand. Stealth is an intimate, offbeat, yet strangely affecting Bildungsroman in which Sonallah Ibrahim mines his own unconventional upbringing to adopt a child’s-eye – and intensely personal – view of Egypt at a time of political turmoil. Growing opposition to King Farouq, the Zionist control of Palestine and political infighting form the backdrop to the novel. About the author: Sonallah Ibrahim was born in Egypt in 1937. After studying law and drama at Cairo University, he became a journalist until his imprisonment in 1959 for leftwing activities. He has published eight novels. In 1999, he was a visiting associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of California at Berkeley. 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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After the Revival: Carrie Jerrell Publisher:

Waywiser Press

Format:

Paperback

Price:

£8.99

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904130-38-3

Size:

197 x 130 mm, 80pp

Pub. date:

November 2009

Genre:

Poetry

After the Revival

• Winner of the fourth annual Anthony Hecht POEMS BY

Poetry Prize. • “Carrie Jerrell’s After the Revival is a book of

Carrie Jerrell

rich, tightly-packed poems suffused with the grit, rueful humor and pain of American coun-

WINNER OF THE ANTHONY HECHT POETRY PRIZE, 2008

try music.” – Dorianne Lauxful About After the Revival by Carrie Jerrell 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, to rivers full of leeches; from tornados to 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. About the author: Carrie Jerrell was born in Petersburg, Indiana, USA in 1976. She received her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and 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 the anthologies Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets, Cadence of Hooves, and Best New Poets 2005. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she also serves as the poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Shore Ordered Ocean: Dora Malech Publisher:

Waywiser Press

Format:

Paperback

Price:

£8.99

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904130-39-0

Size:

197 x 130 mm, 80pp

Pub. date:

November 2009

Genre:

Poetry

Shore Ordered Ocean

• Finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, 2007 and 2008. POEMS BY

• “These are wonderful poems. Dora Malech

Dora Malech

knows just about everything there is to know about the risky music that lives in language.” – Bill Manhire

FINALIST FOR THE ANTHONY HECHT POETRY PRIZE, 2008

About Shore Ordered Ocean by Dora Malech 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, 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 poems which explores place, politics, the body, love, art, and more. It is bound together by an urgent, physical and beguiling relationship with language itself. About the author: 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 a 2008-09 Teaching Fellow at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and she will be a Writing Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy in the summer of 2009. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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We Know Where You Live: Edited by George Szirtes Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Paperback

Price:

£12.99

ISBN (pb):

978-1-906570-50-7

Size:

156 x 234 mm, 352pp

Pub. date:

November 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• The culmination of a 5-year project between Hungarian and English poets. • Published in the year that Hungary celebrates ‘The year of the Hungarian Language’. • A celebration of the twentieth anniversary of political change in Hungary.

About We Know Where You Live: edited and introduced by George Szirtes 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 coincides with 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 Erdős (b.1968), Jáos Térey (b.1970), G. István László (b.1972) and Anna T Szabó (b.1972). About the Editor: George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948. His first book, The Slant Door (ISBN: 978-0-436509-97-1), was published in 1979 and won the Faber Memorial prize the following year. He has published several books and won various other prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize for Reel (ISBN: 978-1-852246-76-1) in 2005.

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Carnival Edge: Katherine Gallagher Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£14.99 (hb) £11.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1906570-43-9

ISBN (pb):

978-1906570-42-2

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 200pp

Pub. date:

December 2009

Genre:

Poetry

• Her two previous collections are in their second edition. • Launch events planned across the UK.

About Carnival Edge by Katherine Gallagher Carnival Edge: New & 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.

About the author: 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. Her work has been widely reviewed. 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 (Arc, ISBN: 978-1900072-47-5) and Circus-Apprentice (Arc, ISBN: 978-1904614-02-9). Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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The Book of the Snow: François Jacqmin Publisher:

Arc Publications

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£13.99 (hb) £10.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-02-6

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-55-5

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 160pp

Pub. date:

December 2009

Genre:

Poetry

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Translated by Philip Mosley.

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François Jacqmin is one of Belgium’s most influential poets of the 20th century.

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The Book of the Snow won the Max-Jacob Prize in 1991.

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This is Jacqmin’s first full collection to be translated into English .

About The Book of the Snow by François Jacqmin 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 which are both lyrical and suffused with irony, allusion and paradox. The Book of the Snow is Jacqmin’s twelfth poetry collection.

About the author: 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. He became involved with the Belgian surrealist periodical Phantomas from whose formal subversiveness he developed a distinctive identity as a writer inspired primarily by botany and metaphysics. About the translator: 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 the Belgian cinema.

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A History of Jazz in Britain: Jim Godbolt Publisher:

Northway Publications

Price:

£15.00

ISBN:

978-0-955788-81-9

Format:

Paperback

Size:

238 x 154mm, 300pp

Pub. date:

January 2010

Genre:

Music History/Jazz

• Fourth edition (the third edition (Northway, hardback) remains in print. • Substantial work of reference. • Trenchant and pithy humour throughout. • ’If you have not bought this book, I urge you to do so - now!’ - Humphrey Lyttelton, BBC ‘Sounds of Jazz’ about the first edition.

About A History of Jazz in Britain by Jim Godbolt 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.

About the Author: 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 (ISBN: 978-0-955090-84-4), was republished by Northway in 2007.

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Six Slovac Poets: Edited by Igor Hochel Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Paperback

Price:

£10.99

ISBN:

978-1-906570-38-5

Size:

156 x 234 mm, 160pp

Pub. date:

January 2010

Genre:

Poetry

• An ideal introduction to the ‘here and now’ of Slovak poetry. • Bilingual edition, of interest to Slovakian as well as to English-language readers. • The sixth in a much-praised series of bi-lingual anthologies which focus on the ‘smaller’ languages of Europe.

About Six Slovac Poets: Edited by Igor Hochel and Translated by John Minahane The sixth anthology in Arc’s acclaimed series, this book features the work of six of Slovakia’s leading poets including 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 bi-lingual edition features the Slovak original and the English translation on facing pages.

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The Shape of Time: Doris Kareva Publisher:

Arc Publications

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Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£12.99 (hb) £9.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-37-8

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-89-0

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 120pp

Pub. date:

January 2010

Genre:

Poetry

• Translated from Estonian by Tiina Aleson. • Doris Kareva is regarded as an iconic figure in contemporary Estonian poetry. • The Shape of Time is the first full-length collection by Doris Kareva to be published in the UK.

About The Shape of Time by Doris Kareva 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 Estonia. In style, it is more restrained than her earlier collections but its themes are the same – love and its great enemies, death and time – and the poems still retain the romantic bravado and recklessness that make her work so compelling.

About the author: Doris Kareva is arguably Estonia’s leading female poet. Born in Tallinn in 1958, she studied English Language and Literature at Tartu University and worked in 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. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Dreams That Spell the Light: Shanta Acharya Publisher:

Arc Publications

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Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£10.99 (hb) £7.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-906570-05-7

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-61-6

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 72pp

Pub. date:

February 2010

Genre:

Poetry

• Shanta Acharya is a well-known figure on the London poetry scene. • Reading tour planned for 2010. • “Acharya… is generous with her reality, in every sense. Reading [her work] is an experience of meeting the poet.” - R. V. Bailey, Envoi

About Dreams That Spell the Light by Shanta Acharya Shanta Acharya’s fifth full-length collection is gentle, poignant and unpretentious. She writes about real concerns with a directness and a linguistic tension which registers her Indian origins without being merely exotic.

About the author: 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. Since 1996, she has been the founder director of “Poetry in the House” at Lauderdale House, Highgate, London. Her previous collection was Shringara (Shoestring Press, 2006, ISBN: 978-1-904886-23-5). www.shantaacharya.com

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It’s Just the Beating of My Heart: Richard Aronowitz Publisher:

Flambard

Price:

£8.99

ISBN:

978-1-906601-13-3

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x138mm, 224pp

Pub. date:

February 2010

Genre:

Fiction

• Eagerly awaited second novel from the author of Five Amber Beads. • ‘The writer’s distinctive poetic voice offers a welcome fresh perspective.’ The Guardian on Five Amber Beads. • Critically acclaimed author with a loyal readership.

Draft Cover

About It’s Just the Beating of My Heart by Richard Aronowitz 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 further disconnected from the art world. The only glimmer of hope for John comes through the weekend visits of his twelve-year-old daughter Bryony, who begs him to drink less. A chance encounter with the beautiful widow from the mysterious neighbouring stone house may offer the chance of a new beginning for John, if only 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.

About the author: Richard Aronowitz was born in 1970 and grew up in rural Gloucestershire. 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 (ISBN: 978-1-873226-83-4) and his poems have appeared in The Guardian and The Independent, and are anthologised in Anvil New Poets 3. He is married and lives in Cambridge.

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The Seer Sung Husband: Bob Beagrie Publisher:

Smokestack Books

Price:

£7.95

ISBN:

978-0-956034-14-4

Format:

Paperback

Size:

197 x 127 mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

February 2010

Genre:

Poetry

• Winner of a Northern Promise Award and a Time to Write Award from New Writing North, and the Biscuit Poetry Prize (2002). • Explores witchcraft and folklore in the north of England. • Launch events across the north. About The Seer Sung Husband by Bob Beagrie 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 book about folklore and myth, imagination and belief. It’s a portrait of England at a time of radical social, religious and political crisis. It’s a magical realist verse-epic set against the violent upheavals of 16th Century England. It’s a book about witchcraft and statecraft, religious faith and political betrayal. About the author: Bob Beagrie’s previous collections include: Gothic Horror (Mud Fog Press, 1996), Masque: The Art of the Vampyre (Mud Fog Press, 2000), Huginn & Munnin (Biscuit Publishing, 2002), Endeavour: Newfound Notes (Biscuit Publishing, 2004), The Isle of St Hild (Hartlepool Borough Council, 2004), Perkele with Kalle Niinikangas, (Ek Zuban, 2006) and Yoik (Cinnamon Press, 2008). He lives in Middlesbrough. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Collected Poems: Paul Birtill Publisher:

Hearing Eye

Price:

£12.00

ISBN:

978-9-05082-55-1

Format:

Paperback

Size:

129 x 196mm, 148pp

Pub. date:

February 2010

Genre:

Poetry

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“If you believe that one of the uses of poetry is to make you feel less alone, then read Paul Birtill’s Willing to Change.” – Maggie Sawkins, Poetry News

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“Bleedin’ fabulous.” - John Cooper Clarke

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“Darkly comic pieces.” - New Statesman Draft Cover

About Collected Poems by Paul Birtill Paul Birtill’s new Collected Poems features a selection of the poet’s work published by Hearing Eye since 1987. These are dark poems based on the poet’s experience: often dealing with universal themes of family, love and the desire for anonymity.

About the author: 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 (ISBN: 978-1-870841-51-1) and Willing to Change (ISBN: 978-1-905082-25-4). He also writes plays, five of which have been staged at Pentameters Theatre Hampstead, including Squalor which was short-listed for the prestigious Verity Bargate Award, The Lodger which was Time Out Critic’s Choice and Happy Christmas which has been staged at the theatre twice. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Niketche - A Story of Polygamy: Paulina Chiziane Publisher:

Aflame Books

Price:

£7.99

ISBN:

978-1-906300-05-0

Format:

Paperback

Size:

216 x 140 mm, 204 pp

Pub. date:

February 2010

Genre:

Fiction

• First novel in English from groundbreaking Mozambican author. • Powerful tale of female empowerment. • Offers unexpected view of society in an African country. About Niketche - A Story of Polgamy by Paulina Chiziane After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband is a collector … of wives. She is horrified to discover that Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, 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. Translated from Portuguese by Richard Bartlett. ‘...not only has she now made her mark in Mozambican literature, she is also becoming one of the most interesting African women writers to follow.’ Tony Simões da Silva, African Review of Books. About the author: 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 (translator) has translated authors including Pepetela and Ondjaki. He studied in South Africa and now works as a journalist for The Financial Times. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond Peter King Publisher:

Northway Publications

Price:

£19.99

ISBN:

978-0-955090-89-9

Format:

Hardback

Size:

224 x 143 mm, 350 pages

plus 8 pages of gloss photos

Pub. date:

February 2010

Genre:

Music / Jazz

• Written by a British jazz legend. • Publicity will include performances by the author. • One of the great jazz autobiographies.

About Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond by Peter King 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 and the dilemmas of surviving as a top creative musician in an often inhospitable world. With cool, unsparing self-analysis, he describes the drug addiction that accompanied his brilliant career for many years. About the author: Internationally recognised as a jazz star, Peter King has performed and recorded with a galaxy of musical legends, many of them his close friends. 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. Flying High tells of an exhilarating high altitude journey, in the jazz world and beyond.

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Ljubljana: Meta Kusar Publisher:

Arc Publications

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Price:

£12.99 (hb) & £9.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-904614-92-0

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-41-8

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 112pp

Pub. date:

February 2010

Genre:

Poetry

• One of Slovenia’s leading female poets. • A sensual yet spiritual book.

About Ljubljana by Meta Kusar 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 that she returns and this city, her constant home, has become her muse. Ljubljana, in its 77 untitled poems, reflects all of this. Each poem opens a door onto a different aspect of Ljubljana, 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. Arc Visible Poets’ series no. 27

About the author: 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. Since 1980 she has regularly contributed to the Slovene National Radio and the RAI-Trieste with cultural and historical talks. She has also directed a musical performance of her poetry, The Throne of Poetry, which was staged in Slovenia, Washington (1991) and London (2000). Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Keir Hardie Street: Alan Morrison Publisher:

Smokestack Books

Price:

£7.95

ISBN:

978-0-9560341-6-8

Format:

Paperback

Size:

197 x127 mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

February 2010

Genre:

Poetry

• The Mansion Gardens was widely reviewed in 2006. • Poetry with a strong Socialist and Labour History, set in London. • Morrison has published work in over 30 journals, including The London Magazine.

About Keir Hardie Street by Alan Morrison Allan Jackdaw, an unremembered early twentieth-century 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 is in a secret, parallel London: a living, bustling socialist utopia. On Keir Hardie Street, the shabby figure of a baker’s boy stares in awe at the pictures in a bookshop window... About the author: Alan Morrison was born in 1974. His poetry first appeared in Don’t Think of Tigers (The Do Not Press, 2001). He is the author of a play for voices Picaresque (Chipmunk Publishing), and of two critically praised collections, The Mansion Gardens (Paula Brown Publishing, 2006) and A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (Waterloo Press, 2009). Morrison is currently Poet-in-Residence at Mill View Psychiatric Hospital, Hove, and is the founding editor of the radical literary webzine, The Recusant. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Pavilion: Deborah Tyler-Bennett Publisher:

Smokestack Books

Price:

£7.95

ISBN:

978-0-956034-15-1

Format:

Paperback

Size:

197 x 127 mm, 64pp

Pub. date:

February 2010

Genre:

Poetry

• Winner of the prestigious Hugh McDiarmid Trophy in 2001. • Fantastical poems inspired by Brighton and The Royal Pavilion.

About Pavilion by Deborah Tyler-Bennett Welcome to the Pleasure Dome. 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 1 listed building, a monument to dandyism and a museum of royal kitsch. Between the Pavilion and the ruined West Pier lies the coast of Greeneland, peep-shows and arcades, cheap thrills and expensive mistakes. This new collection is a celebration of the world of the English dandy, 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. About the author: Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s previous publications include Selected Poems: Clark Gable in Mansfield (The King’s England Press, 2003). 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 literary magazine, The Coffee House. Tyler-Bennett lives in Loughborough. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Uncle Freddie and The Prince of Wales: Alex Ferguson Publisher:

Iron Press

Price:

£10.00

ISBN:

978-0-955245-08-4

Format:

Paperback

Size:

148 x 210 mm, 240pp

Pub. date:

March 2010

Genre:

Short Stories

•

Drama series My Uncle Freddie ran for six years on BBC Radio Four and won the Writers’ Guild Award for Comedy & Light Entertainment.

•

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

Draft Cover

About Uncle Freddie and The Prince of Wales by Alex Ferguson A new collection of short stories from the acclaimed South Shields writer Alex Ferguson again focusing on the author’s part-real part-mythical Uncle Freddie, and again 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 – meeting such famous characters as the Prince of Wales or Joe Stalin upstairs on a no.38 bus en route to Hebburn. 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, who is again planning to dramatise the new collection, this time for the stage with her own successful indie production company CrossLab Productions.

About the author: 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!

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Out of the Cold Blue: Richard McKane Publisher:

Hearing Eye

Price:

£10.00

ISBN:

978-1-905082-32-2

Format:

Paperback

Size:

129 x 196mm, 112pp

Pub. date:

March 2010

Genre:

Poetry

• ‘Richard McKane’s arrival has been long delayed, but now he steps into the rather crowded ranks of the most brilliant poets of the last twenty years or more. His poems are faultlessly alive, so fully worked out.’ - Peter Levi in the Introduction to Amphora for Metaphors (ISBN: 978-0-948684-09-8).

About Out of the Cold Blue by Richard McKane These selected poems of Richard McKane, written from the mid-1960s to the turn of the century, amplify and vastly expand his first book Amphora for Metaphors (Gnosis Press, New York, and Diamond Press, London, 1993, ISBN: 978-0-948684-09-8). This collection is a companion volume to Poet for Poet (mainly translations) also published by Hearing Eye and chosen by Helen Bamber OBE on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs (ISBN: 978-1-870841-57-3). About the author: 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 (ISBN: 978-0-948684-09-8) was published in New York and London in 1993 and his Turkey Poems was published bilingually in Istanbul. Whilst continuing to translate, he also works as an interpreter at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, in London. Orders: Central Books, T: 0845 458 9911, F: 0845 458 9912, E: orders@centralbooks.com, www.centralbooks.com Direct orders and publicity: Inpress, T: 0191 229 9555, E: customerservices@inpressbooks.co.uk

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Before the Invention of Paradise: Ludwig Steinherr Publisher:

Arc Publications

Price:

£13.99 (hb) £10.99 (pb)

ISBN (hb):

978-1-904614-94-4

ISBN (pb):

978-1-904614-45-6

Format:

Hardback & Paperback

Size:

138 x 216 mm, 160pp

Pub. date:

March 2010

Genre:

Poetry

• First full-length collection of Steinherr’s work to be published in the UK • Steinherr’s poetry is firmly rooted in the tradition of Paul Celan. • Publicity tour planned for 2010.

About Before the Invention of Paradise by Ludwig Steinherr Before the Invention of Paradise is a selection from Steinherr’s nine collections published since his debut collection in 1985. Dealing with the things that concern many modern German poets – silence, memory, knowing and the impossibility of knowing, the everyday and what is beyond – Steinherr’s is profound yet accessible poetry. This bi-lingual edition is the first full-length collection of his work to be published in the UK. Translated by Richard Dove.

About the author: Ludwig Steinherr was born in Munich in 1962, where he still lives, 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 published widely in 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.

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