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APRIL - JUNE 2019
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POETRY PAMPHLETS IF YOUR RESOLUTION IS TO READ MORE POETRY, START SMALL...
PAMPER ME TO HELL AND BACK Hera Lindsay Bird Love, death, Bruce Willis, public urination, being a woman, love, The Nanny, love. This pamphlet by Hera Lindsay Bird is a startling departure from her bestselling debut by defying convention and remaining exactly the same, only worse.
JAZZ PEAS Ian McMillan
CUMSHOT IN D MINOR Melissa Lee-Houghton
Jazz Peas carries on Ian McMillan’s examination of what it’s like to be a middle-aged grey-haired grandad in the former South Yorkshire coalfield in the grip of an uncaring government. It could almost be the 1980s except for the grey hair.
In this pamphlet Melissa Lee-Houghton revisits the perils of sexuality, threat and persistence that have made her not only one of the most-read of the Next Generation Poets, but also one of the most controversial and gripping poets of our time.
TPB | £7.50 | 9781910367841 1 FEBRUARY 2018
TPB | £5.00 | 9781910367056 27 OCTOBER 2014
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Hannah Lowe
TO SWEETEN BITTER Raymond Antrobus
In this themed collection, Hannah Lowe focuses on the urban places she knows and loves, and finds a rich complexity of neighbourliness under the extreme pressure. These poems look urgently into the future, into communities bearing the weight of austerity and gentrification, where global struggles manifest in the local.
After the death of his father, British Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus returns to Jamaica but restless questions begin to unearth inside him. Upon returning to the UK he travels around to meditate in the places where the pain and grief of history is bigger than his own.
OSP | £5.00 | 9781999679224 28 JANUARY 2019
OSP | £8.00 | 9780993103872 4 APRIL 2017
ORB | £5.00 | 9780993231346 17 AUGUST 2017
KNOWING THIS HAS CHANGED MY ENDING Alex Macdonald “Enigmatic and atmospheric, freewheeling and finely turned, the poems in Alex MacDonald’s brilliant debut strike a rare note in British poetry. ” Sarah Howe
ORB £6.00 | 9781999930448 30 AUGUST 2018
#100WOMENPOETS THE POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RAN A CAMPAIGN
TO FIND THE NATION’S BEST LOVED 100 WOMEN POETS, HERE ARE SOME INPRESS FAVOURITES WHO MADE THE LIST...
A RECIPE FOR SORCERY Vanessa Kisuule
SUNSHINE Melissa Lee-Houghton
THE ART OF FALLING Kim Moore
A Recipe for Sorcery is a cathartic explosion, an unspooling of long harboured fears and resentment and a delving into ugly and uncomfortable truths. With frankness, humour and a decided fuck-you to fear, Vanessa digs deeper than she ever has to find something resembling sorcery.
“Melissa Lee-Houghton is a bold, observant and daringly honest poet who intuitively knows what she is doing, even when she ventures into the scariest places.” Poetry Book Society
A young poet from Cumbria, Kim Moore writes with a compelling directness and power about her life and the lives of others. Vigorously alive and often full of humour, there are poems about ordinary people: the scaffolders and plasterers, shoemakers and carers amongst us.
£9.99 | 9781911570196 PB | BURNING EYE BOOKS
£9.99 | 9781908058386 PB | PITM
ALL MY MAD MOTHERS
ANIMAL PEOPLE Carol Rumens
All My Mad Mothers explores love, sex and family relationships in vivacious, lush poems that span the decades and generations. All the time, incandescent and luminous as an everlasting lightbulb, at the heart of each poem is a delicate filament kicking out a heavy-duty wattage.
Drawing on personal and family experience, these poems are infused with the author’s characteristic empathy, curiosity and humanity. There is a strong sense of commemoration, of time passing and of the challenges of mortality.
Jacqueline Saphra
£9.99 | ISBN PB | NINE ARCHES PRESS
£9.99 | 9781781723180 PB | SEREN
£9.99 | 9781781722374 PB | SEREN
SHORT DAYS, LONG SHADOWS Sheenagh Pugh Sheenagh Pugh steps into a new, northern landscape, the Shetland Islands, and her poems are steeped in the wilder weathers and views of rugged coastlines, sweeping sea-vistas and the hardy historical characters who have inhabited these lands.
£9.99 | 9781781721568 PB | SEREN
PRAISE SONG FOR THE BUTTERFLIES Bernice L. McFadden Abebe Tsikata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nineyear-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Tsikatas’ idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abebe’s father places her in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as atonement for the crimes of his ancestors. Unspeakable acts befall Abebe for the years she is enslaved within the shrine. When she is finally rescued, broken and battered, she must struggle to overcome her past, endure the revelation of family secrets, and learn to trust and love again. In the tradition of Chris Cleave’s The Other Hand, Praise Song for the Butterflies is a contemporary story that offers an educational, eye-opening account of the practice of ritual servitude in West Africa. Spanning decades and two continents, Praise Song for the Butterflies will break and heal your heart.
JACARANDA BOOKS | £18.99 | 9781909762886 HB | 264PP | 31 JANUARY 2019 | FICTION
TROUT, BELLY UP Rodrigo Fuentes (translated by Ellen Jones)
Rodrigo Fuentes Trout, Belly Up
Finalist for the Gabriel García Márquez Short Story Prize 2018.
Translated by Ellen Jones
“With grace and humility, Rodrigo Fuentes has written a subtle, luminous, memorable book.” Rodrigo Hasbún “Trout, Belly Up is pure cruelty, pure tenderness.” Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez In this original collection of short stories, Guatemala is ever-present in the background, at once peaceful and violent. We follow Henrik, a good man struck time and again by misfortune, as he confronts different diatribes posed by the crude realities of farming life. Through his journey we meet merciless businessmen, drug dealers and fallen angels, all wanting a piece of their pie. Told with precision and astounding beauty, Trout, Belly Up is a unique collection of highly entertaining stories from a country devastated by political violence. FINALIST GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ SHORT STORY PRIZE
2018
CHARCO PRESS | £8.99 | 9781916465619 PB | 100PP | 7 FEBRUARY 2019 | FICTION
HIS DARK SUN Jude Brown All those disaster movies you’ve watched, all the YouTube videos you’ve seen with people frying eggs on the pavement, seeing ice cubes melt in minutes, that’s nothing. You’ve no idea. London, 2022. The heat is rising and things are reaching boiling point. As the world struggles to catch up to its new climate, nineteen-year-old Luke Spargo believes he’s the only one who understands what’s really happening to the sun – and if he’s right, he’s the only one who can stop it. But Luke’s childhood demons are closing in. With the arrival of vibrant, turbulent Fee, the precarious balance of Luke’s life shifts irrevocably; as the endless heatwave presses in and his secrets begin to spiral out of control, Luke must confront the terrible price of protecting them.
MAYFLY PRESS | £7.99 | 9781911356097 PB | 215PP | 11 FEBRUARY 2019 | FICTION
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THE WHITE PAPER Satoshi Nakamoto In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto published a revolutionary white paper that described a simple peer-to-peer electronic cash system that would later become Bitcoin. In the decade since its publication, the nascent technology behind cryptocurrency has become recognised holding the same transformative potential of the printing press or the internet, set to impact our sense of identity and provenance as much as finance. It has disrupted traditional financial markets with a spectacular explosion in value, paved the way for thousands of similar digital currencies and laid the groundwork for a decentralised future of the web. But what does it mean for everyday life? The White Paper returns to the document that started it all, taking Nakamoto’s text as a Rosetta Stone to decode the meaning of blockchain for contemporary society. In an acute and definitive Introduction, James Bridle, leading technologist and author of New Dark Age, charts the rise of blockchain from its roots in clandestine online cultures and examines the continuing debates around the meaning of money, democratic values and security in an era of surveillance capitalism.
IGNOTA BOOKS | £12.99 | 9781999675929 PB | 144PP | 14 FEBRUARY 2019 | NON-FICTION
WITCH Rebecca Tamás “Thrillingly strange.” Katherine Angel WITCH by Rebecca Tamás is a raw, strange book of poems that merges feminist exploration with occult expression and ecological language. At turns lyrical, philosophical and obscene, Tamás’s astonishing debut evokes the sexual prowess of nature as an organism that swallows and consumes. These are poems that unsettle the reader, taking them to dark, magical places where earth and blood, politics and pornography, intermingle; they celebrate poetry as ‘a small, bright, filthy song’. A visceral, unflinching and darkly witty first collection that introduces a major new voice in British poetry.
PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £9.99 | 9781908058621 PB | 120PP | 20 MARCH 2019 | POETRY
J SS BACH Martin Goodman J SS Bach is the story of three generations of women from either side of Germany’s 20th Century horror story - one side, a Jewish family from Vienna, the other linked to a ranking Nazi official at Dachau concentration camp - who suffer the consequences of what men do. Fast forward to 1990s California, and two survivors from the families meet. Rosa is a young Australian musicologist; Otto is a world-famous composer and cellist. Music and history link them. A novel of music, the Holocaust, love, and a dog. The author’s writing is a wonderland, captivating and drawing the reader in to the presented world. Time becomes no object as a literary universe unfolds and carries the reader through eighty years, where emotions are real and raw and beautifully given.
WRECKING BALL PRESS | £14.00 | 9781903110621 HB | 276PP | 6 MARCH 2019 | FICTION
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TRUTH STREET David Cain On 15 April 1989, during the opening minutes of the FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, 96 men, women and children died in what remains the most serious tragedy in UK sporting history – the Hillsborough Stadium disaster. Thousands more suffered physical injury and long-term psychological harm. For almost thirty years the survivors and the families of the dead had to campaign against the police, government and media who blamed the supporters for the tragedy. Eventually, in 2016 a second inquest ruled that the supporters were unlawfully killed due to failures of the police and ambulance services. In June 2017, six people were charged with manslaughter by gross negligence, misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice. Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the disaster, Truth Street combines the eye-witness testimonies of the survivors at the second inquest to create an epic-poem that is part oral history and part documentary theatre. Inspired by the work of Charles Reznikoff and Svetlana Alexietich, Truth Street was first performed in 2017 at the Utter Lutonia festival and the Brighton Festival.
SMOKESTACK BOOKS | ÂŁ7.99 | 9781999674243 PB | 96PP | 1 APRIL 2019
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THIS NOISE IS FREE Andy Green A portrait of life on the streets from the point of view of a busker.
This Noise is Free is a book about buskers and busking, drawing on the author’s experience as a street musician. It’s a front-row seat to the universe, located somewhere between the rainbow and the gutter, between pigeons and gargoyles, slaveholder mansions and charity shops licking their lips. Inspired by Walt Whitman, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson and Elizabeth Cotten, Andy Green is an unofficial archivist of life on the streets, from Matlock to Memphis, exploring their hidden histories, characters, music and unexpected camaraderie. This Noise is Free is a book about public art, good music, bad weather, and not getting a proper job. Andy Green is an alt-folk singer-songwriter who performs as ‘Burnt Paw’. He lives in Edinburgh. His most recent record is Stolen Apples Lost Crowns. His previous book is These Notes Are Out Of Order (Shoestring Press).
SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999674250 PB | 64PP | 1 APRIL 2019
THE ENGLISH DISEASE Lydia Towsey •
“One of the new, intriguing voices of her time.” Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, MBE.
Exploring notions of Englishness across six sequential chapters, The English Disease moves chronologically from the experience of pregnancy and having a baby in a year of general election, through to the immediately arising political events of 2016, 2017 and beyond... With zombies, cats, undead break-ups, pineapples, buses, breastfeeding, rewritten nursery rhymes and Gothic, illustrated re-imaginings of Beatrix Potter. The English Disease draws upon British icons and family histories - as well as the personal experience of motherhood, Englishness, eating disorders and the undead to explore, class, colonialism and other themes. Lydia Towsey is a poet exploring her Hungarian, Welsh/British heritage and her experience of growing up in the multicultural city of Leicester. Lydia has won a Decibel commission and been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize.
BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570547 PB | 1 APRIL 2019
CLOUD RIVER Charles Bennett • •
New collection from a widely published and award-winning poet. “Charles Bennett writes so beautifully.” Alison Brackenbury
These lyrical poems, like the cloud river of the title, are a ‘journey down a length of weather-music’. Set in a level landscape of corners and lines (on fields, maps, the sky and the page), they generate beautiful surprises. They see a passing plane as ‘the polished arrow of a plough’, and teach us how to read cloud language. Through a fresh appreciation of England’s lowest and newest landscape, they exemplify how engagement with straight rivers and big skies leads to a balancing of spirit. Charles Bennett is a widely published and award-winning poet who has collaborated with musicians, photographers and artists and been translated into German and Spanish. His work as a librettist with choral composer Bob Chilcott featured in the 2012 BBC Proms. He was the first Director of Ledbury Poetry Festival and is currently Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Northampton where he leads the BA in Creative Writing.
CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781788640466 PB | 1 APRIL 2019
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A SENSE OF NORTH David Underdown •
New from the author of Time Lines (ISBN: 9781907090387).
Drawing on subjects as varied as Roman legionaries and a worn-out shirt, modern air travel and the imagined life of a lugworm, A Sense of North searches for purpose and order in the human condition. A sense of wonder finds itself kindled in the small and familiar as much as the large and emotive. Whether pondering the fickleness of memory or the meaning of love and loss, this is poetry that asks what it means to be alive. Though English by birth and descent, David Underdown has spent most of his adult life in the West of Scotland. He lives in the village of Corrie on the Isle of Arran where for the past five years he has been an organiser of the McLellan Poetry Competition. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. His first full collection was Time Lines (Cinnamon 2011).
CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781788640459 PB | 1 APRIL 2019
ALL THE WAY HOME Jane Clarke • •
A poetry collection exloring the experience of war for a brother at the Front and his sister at home. “Jane Clarke brings emotional tact and lightness of touch to this resonant evocation of one family’s experience of the First World War.” Moniza Alvi
Jane Clarke’s powerfully moving poems respond to the Auerbach family archive of World War I letters and photographs represented by the Mary Evans Picture Library. The sequence imagines the emotional landscape of war for a brother at the Front and his sister at home. These quietly lucid and subtle poems tell one story amongst many. Combining poetry and photographs, this moving book explores the experience and impact of war, creating both a memorial and a testimony to lives lost and maimed. Jane Clarke’s first collection, The River, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. Jane works as a creative writing tutor and group facilitator. She lives with her wife in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow.
THE POETRY BUSINESS | £6.00 | 9781912196685 PB | 42PP | 1 APRIL 2019
MATERIA PRIMA Amanda Berenguer •
The first English translation of one of Uruguay’s greatest poets.
Materia Prima is the first English-language collection of Amanda Berenguer’s poetry. A key contributor to Uruguay’s famed literary Generación del 45, Berenguer (1921-2010) stands among the most important post-World War II poets of Latin America, along with her now-legendary compatriot Marosa di Giorgio. Berenguer’s poetry, stylistically and conceptually varied, ranges from classic, measured lyric to Dickinson-inspired gnomic utterance; from metaphysical and erotic rhetorical effusion to condensed and radically concrete experiment; from seemingly apolitical languor to pointed ideological dissent. Amanda Berenguer (1921-2010) was a vital presence in Uruguayan literary life for more than six decades. Her first book appeared in Montevideo in 1940, followed by a steady stream of collections recognized for their excellence. Awards for her contributions included, among many others, the prestigious international Casa de las Américas Prize for Poetry (1986).
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £16.00 | 9781946433060 PB | 272PP | 8 APRIL 2019
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THE KNOTSMAN Math Jones A poetry collection for lovers of history and the uncanny. “A memorable mythic collection. “ Sarah James
The Knotsman does not exist, you will not find him in history books or collections of ‘bygone’ skills. But Math Jones has created him, and his fellows, in a time very like the English Civil War. There he is, going from house to house, village to village, battlefield to gallows, unravelling knots and problems, physical, emotional and psychological; a new kind of cunning man, not always welcome, not always quite as clever as his fingers and picks would have him believe. Math Jones was born, and currently lives, in London, but lived in Worcester for many years. A pagan in the Old English and Norse tradition, he often writes poetry on the stories and in the metres of that tradition. He also writes more usual verses, performing throughout the Midlands and London.
ARACHNE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909208735 PB | 112PP | 11 APRIL 2019
ZEBRA Ian Humphreys • •
Debut collection from a poet featured in Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe, 2017) along with Will Harris, Yomi Sode and Raymond Antrobus . “Ian has an enviable gift of finding final lines of poems, many of which are seared on the surface of my memory.” Mona Arshi
Zebra is the debut collection from Hebden Bridge-based Ian Humphreys. These acutely-observed and joyful poems explore mixed identities, otherness, and coming-of-age as a gay man in 1980s Manchester. Humphreys is a fellow of The Complete Works programme (which aims to promote diversity and quality in British poetry) and was highly commended for his work at this year’s Forward Prizes. Ian lives in West Yorkshire. His work is widely published in journals and anthologies, such as The Forward Book of Poetry 2019, The Poetry Review, The Rialto, Ambit & Magma. Awards include first prize in the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize.
NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027706 PB | 80PP | 11 APRIL 2019
WORDPLANTING Kendel Hippolyte • •
New from the author of Night Vision (ISBN: 9781845232351). He works in traditional forms like the sonnet and villanelle as well as in free verse and forms influenced by rap and reggae.
This is Kendel Hippolyte’s sixth collection of poetry. To the immense strengths found in his earlier work is added a new sense of urgency, of time running out. He is quite simply amongst the very best of Caribbean poets who warrant an international reputation. No poet’s voice sounds more Caribbean, yet in his poems there are echoes of the most radical and questioning voices in the whole of poetry in English. Born in St. Lucia in 1952, Kendel Hippolyte studied and lived in Jamaica in the 1970s, where he explored his talents as a poet, playwright and director. As a poet, his writing ranges across the continuum of language from Standard English to the varieties of Caribbean English and he has also written poems in Kweyol, his nation language.
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234355 PB | 64PP | 11 APRIL 2019
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POINT OF HONOUR Maria Teresa Horta (translated by Lesley Saunders) •
This landmark book brings together, for the first time in English, translations of the poems of Maria Teresa Horta.
This collection contains selections from each of Maria Teresa Horta’s 21 volumes of poetry published over a writing career that spans six decades. The book opens with a critical essay by Ana Raquel Fernandes, which enables an English readership to acquire a sense of the formal, emotional and intellectual power and significance of this poet’s work. The book also serves to underline the importance of sustaining cultural connections between the UK and Europe. Maria Teresa Horta – one of the most revered writers of modern Portugal – was born in 1937 and began writing before the revolution that deposed the brutal Estado Novo regime; her early work was banned for being ‘an outrage to public morals’.
TWO RIVERS PRESS | £12.99 | 9781909747470 PB | 200PP | 21 APRIL 2019
PRIMERS VOLUME FOUR Edited by Jane Commane & Kim Moore •
COVER COMING SOON
The latest in a series of anthologies published in conjunction with The Poetry School that have launched the careers of a new generation of poets.
The fourth instalment of the annual Primers scheme, run in partnership between The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press, featuring three new and emerging voices. The Primers scheme provides an important platform for emerging poets who are seeking to develop their writing and build towards a full collection of poems. With the involvement of a different guest poet each year as mentor and one of the selecting editors, Primers nurtures and supports new talent that may otherwise not find an outlet. It also aims to provide an important opportunity for poets to develop their skills, work on their poetry practice, receive mentoring and editing and find audiences for their work.
NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027713 PB | 80PP | 25 APRIL 2019
AFTERNOONS GO NOWHERE Sheenagh Pugh • •
Sheenagh Pugh’s tenth collection of poems is packed with her insightful, provocative, thoughtful new work. Her last collection, Short Days, Long Shadows, was published in 2014 (ISBN: 9781781721568).
A fascination for history, both as a source of human drama and a field for artful speculation, characterises this collection of poems by Sheenagh Pugh. Here we are with the rebels who sack the Palace of Savoy or inside the head of the disturbed King of France, who was convinced he was made of glass, or with the Bishop Thorlack, blessing a demon-haunted cliff. Complex but with clear themes and lucid, musical language, this collection will delight readers. Sheenagh Pugh has published nine poetry collections, two ‘Selected Poems’, two novels and a critical book on Fan Fiction. She says, “My interests are language, history, northern landscapes from Shetland to the Arctic and all points in between, snooker, mortality, cyberspace and above all, people.”
SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724989 PB | 72PP | 30 APRIL 2019
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Richly imagined, skillfully executed, The Bramble King is noted fantasy author Catherine Fisher’s newest poetry collection. Her last collection was Altered States (ISBN: 9781854112736).
The Bramble King is full of darkly resonant tales, ingenious parables, curiously haunted rooms and palaces and beautifully observed images of the natural world. A prolific, popular and prize-winning author of fantasy fiction for children, Fisher began her writing career as a poet and now returns to poetry with her first collection since 1999. This is a beautifully thoughtful and wonderfully entertaining collection of verse. Both her fiction fans and poetry readers will find much to enjoy. Catherine Fisher was born in Newport, Wales. An acclaimed poet and novelist, Catherine regularly lectures and gives readings to groups of all ages. Catherine has won many awards and much critical acclaim for her work. In 2013 Catherine was appointed the inaugural Young Person’s Laureate for Wales.
SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781725078 PB | 72PP | 30 APRIL 2019
IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM...
EVERYTHING THAT CAN HAPPEN: POEMS ABOUT THE FUTURE edited by Suzannah Evans & Tom Sastry This is an anthology of poetry inspired by ideas of the future. We’re talking robots, time travel and life in other galaxies, millennium bugs, Mayan predictions, Nostradamus, the next war, the Enlightened future; the making of prophecy; the failure of prophecy. This anthology is a rich document of visions, a survival guide to the possible disasters that we’re all staring down, the book that archaeologists will unearth in a few thousand years and study as a document of how justifiably paranoid we all were.
£10.00 | 9781910139523 PB | THE EMMA PRESS
PENUMBRA Kate Behrens
LANTERN Seán Hewitt
In Penumbra, Kate Behrensʼ third collection, the poems are linked by themes of dislocation and heredity. If the dead are ever-present here, so is love: the absence of, rewards and longing for it, the endurance and effort of it.
Wild and deep as the forests they explore, Seán Hewitt’s poems go to the woods to understand, to follow the ‘searching root’ of ‘snowberry, hazels, thistles, bracken’ to the source. The trees hum with information, with messages and myths to be read and understood. These are queer spaces, these consecrated places of communion and sex, secluded and dripping with rain.
We are led from the poetʼs bohemian childhood to the complex grief, in middle age, that followed the death of her painter father, and on to individual animals, people, and even trees that are differently uprooted or burdened. Everything is haunted here, but the boundaries of death and love are permeable, nature full of revelation.
£9.99 | 9781909747463 PB | TWO RIVERS PRESS
This is a jewel-bright and quietly euphoric debut, as thrilling in its physicality as it is dextrous in its imagination, and, despite the thorns of love and pain, unafraid to dive into the wilderness.
£6.00 | 9781999930493 PB | OFFORD ROAD BOOKS
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THE VALLEY PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF PROSE POETRY Edited by Anne Caldwell & Oz Hardwick Prose poetry is a form of writing that borrows elements from both poetry and prose. More ‘poetic’ than flash fiction, but without the deliberate line breaks that characterise most poetry, it is a notoriously difficult form to pin down – though that hasn’t slowed its popularity among recent generations of wordsmiths. This ambitious publication from Valley Press will be among the first dedicated to the form. Featuring a diverse range of writers from across the UK, each with new poems that will challenge, excite and thrill readers familiar and unfamiliar with prose poetry, it aims to be a definitive and ground-breaking collection of work. Contributors include Simon Armitage, Jen Hadfield, Luke Kennard, Helen Mort, George Szirtes, Kim Moore and Carrie Etter – who recently defined a prose poem as “circling or inhabiting a mood or idea”.
VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912436200 PB | 80PP | 30 MAY 2019
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New from the author of Behind the Lines (ISBN: 9781907090486).
This a collection about looking, and seeing. Through it runs the story of the transformation of the poet’s poor eyesight after cataract surgery. The poems look closely at places: a city by the sea, a small island, a valley in the Pennines, and at small natural objects: daisies, woodlice, a tiny spider. They also look into stories from the history of these and other places and of the poet’s family. Chris Considine is a poet and former school-teacher who lived for many years in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, before moving to Plymouth. Her publications include St. Cuthbert and Bystanders (Redbeck Press, 2001) and Swaledale Sketchbook (Smith/ Doorstop Books, 2002), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in the best first collection category in 2002.
CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781788640503 PB | 6 MAY 2019
CATCH ME WHILE YOU HAVE THE LIGHT Richard W. Halperin •
New from the author of Quiet in a Quiet House (ISBN: 9781910669204).
Catch Me While You Have the Light, Richard W. Halperin’s fourth collection for Salmon, continues in the startling language which has characterised his work from the beginning. Jesus, Miss Marple, Henry James, make brief appearances. Ireland, France, Japan, make longer appearances. Many love poems. People, whether friends or strangers, who are no longer here, are in fact still here, caught – as in a poem about Venice – ‘in the gum of time.’ Joseph Woods has written, “like all great artists, Halperin makes no distinction between the living and the dead.” Richard W. Halperin holds Irish and U.S. nationality, and for the past decades has lived in Paris. His poetry is widely published in journals and magazines in Ireland. His other collections include Quiet in a Quiet House, 2016; Shy White Tiger, 2013; and Anniversary, 2010.
SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781912561216 PB | 106PP | 6 MAY 2019
JOURNEY TO THE SLEEPING WHALE Jane Robinson •
Debut collection from an award-winning ecopoet.
“Jane Robinson is a poet of serious intent. More importantly she is a poet with enough range and depth of imagination and technique to give expression to that intent. Her poems are firmly grounded in the physical world. This is one reason why her sometimes daring flights of the imagination seem so real, so immediate and so credible. Throughout her work the combination of observation and description is confident and authoritative and is part of the fabric of her poems, which use the language and observational power of the scientific mind to make wonderfully serious and seriously wonderful poems.” Paddy Bushe Jane Robinson grew up in Ireland and worked abroad, in the USA and India, for twenty years. Informed by a BA from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in Biological Science from the California Institute of Technology, much of her writing would now be described as ecopoetry.
SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781912561377 PB | 86PP | 6 MAY 2019
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SEEING EYE Chris Considine
THE LAUREATE’S CHOICE 2019 The Laureate’s Choice is a pamphlet publication project from The Poetry Business working in collaboration with the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Each year since 2015, four new poets have been selected by the Laureate as ‘ones to watch’, and pamphlet collections of their work have been published under The Poetry Business’ award-winning Smith|Doorstop imprint. As Carol Ann Duffy’s time as Laureate draws to a close, her last group of poets are set to help her go out with a bang... THE LAUREATE’S CHOICE ANTHOLOGY Selected by Carol Ann Duffy The Laureate’s Choice Anthology brings together substantial selections from each of the 20 poets chosen by Carol Ann Duffy during her time as Poet Laureate. As Carol Ann concludes her hugely successful 10-year tenure we celebrate these exciting and eclectic new voices in contemporary verse. This anthology is a vital resource for anyone interested in the current landscape of contemporary poetry featuring a selection of outstanding poets with a diverse and rich range of styles, voices, and subject matters including multiple prize-winning poets and best-selling poets. Contains work by Mark Pajak, Emily Cotterill, Faith Lawrence, Greg Gilbert, Hera Lindsay Bird, John Fennelly, Keith Hutson, Louise G. Cole, Karen Smith, Natalie Burdett, Thirza Clout, Victoria Gatehouse, Yvonne Reddick, Geraldine Clarkson, Zeina Hashem Beck, Tom Sastry, Nichola Deane, David Borrott, Rachel McCarthy &Wayne Price.
£10.00 | 9781912196760 PB | 180PP | 1 MAY 2019
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AUNTS COME ARMED WITH WELSH CAKES Thirza Clout In this moreish collection Welsh cakes come to represent secrets and things which remain unsaid in an atmosphere of dark domesticity. Nevertheless, Thirza Clout finds humour and delight in the absurdities of ‘normal life’.
£7.50 | 9781912196678 | PB | 1 MAY 2019
THE DAY OF THE FLYING ANTS Emily Cotterill The Day of the Flying Ants is about home and leaving home. Much of this entertaining pamphlet focuses on finding, losing, and loving a sense of place. Ants fly when they’re compelled to leave home, when they’ve grown up, when there’s no place in the nest anymore. Whether in Derbyshire or Wales, these well-observed poems find their own place in an odd but familiar world.
£7.50 | 9781912196197 | PB | 1 MAY 2019
THE MECHANICS OF LOVE Victoria Gatehouse The Mechanics of Love explores the impact of medicine on personal experiences and the human condition. As both biochemist and poet, Victoria Gatehouse is uniquely positioned to examine everything from mechanical heart valves and folklore to her experiences of an 80s childhood and being a mother with non-sentimental, scientific, yet tender scrutiny.
£7.50 | 9781912196661 | PB | 1 MAY 2019
SLEEPING THROUGH Faith Lawrence Heavenly lidos, the siren call of the Doctor Who theme tune, the tender melancholy of early motherhood - all these feature in poems which hold ham sandwiches, and salted caramel ice-cream together with unfashionable abstractions like ‘death’ and ‘probability’.
£7.50 | 9781912196654 | PB | 1 MAY 2019
ALSO AVAILABLE AS A BOUND SET. ISBN: 9781912196739 | PRICE: £20.00 This season, we are focusing on promoting poetry pamphlets. We have a limited supply of spinners we can offer to interested booksellers, so please do get in touch to discuss further. Contact rebecca@inpressbooks.co.uk.
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OUR KILLER CITY - ISMS, CHISMS, CHASMS AND SCHISMS: ESSAYS AND POEMS Rita Ann Higgins •
A collection of essays and poems from the popular and acclaimed author of Tongulish (Bloodaxe Books, 9781780373034).
Our Killer City: isms, chisms, chasms and schisms gathers together articles from Rita Ann Higgins’ Sunday Independent ‘This Woman’s Life’ column, as well as other select essays and poems, many of which are previously unpublished. Rita Ann Higgins was born in 1955 in Galway, Ireland, where she still resides. Her first five poetry collections were published by Salmon:, as well as a memoir Hurting God (2010). Bloodaxe Books published her next five collections. She won the Peadar O’Donnell Award in 1989 and has received several Arts Council of Ireland bursaries. Her collection Sunny Side Plucked was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781912561094 PB | 122PP | 6 MAY 2019
PLACES TO SLEEP Patrick Kehoe •
New from the author of It’s Words You Want (ISBN: 9781907056772).
Patrick Kehoe taught English classes in Barcelona for two years between 1978 and 1980. The poems gathered here re-assemble that vibrant metropolis as a parallel city of the imagination. There are visits to other Spanish cities, a memory of a brief walk through Murcia some forty years ago, and more recent poems deriving from stays in Madrid, La Coruña and Bilbao. Kehoe’s short lyrics are redolent of hopeful motorways, of entries and exits, of crossings and re-crossings. They sing of the exhalations and exhaustions of the streets and of the vast cities of Spain. Ultimately, the Barcelona of the late seventies – an untramelled, bold-spirited place, that knew few tourists between October and May – continues to inform the work of the poet. Patrick Kehoe was born in 1956 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford where he still lives His debut collection Its Words You Want appeared in July 2011, published by Salmon Poetry. The Cask of Moonlight was published by Dedalus Press in 2014.
SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781912561322 PB | 106PP | 6 MAY 2019
ROGUE STATES Fred Johnston •
”Fred Johnston’s new collection proceeds from a generous and enhanced awareness of poetry as a human necessity for good living.” Noel Monaha
The phrase ‘rogue states’ has been conjured up with deadly purpose, by major world powers to describe weaker countries who have fallen out of favour with the West, some of whom enjoyed the role of client states for many years, or were permitted to rule despotically under the benevolent threat of ‘regime change’. Issues of human rights never entered into it. Johnston’s new collection of poems adopts the phrase and personalises it; serious illness is seen as a ‘rogue state,’ a usurpation of the lived ordinary, a demolishing of physical and moral routine, a form of invasion. In illness, as in civil turmoil, civilising rules are often turned upside down or disregarded, a powerful and selfish striving for survival develops. Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951. Most recently, his poems have appeared in The Spectator and The New Statesman. He has published nine collections of poems, four novels and two collections of short stories.
SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781912561254 PB | 74PP | 6 MAY 2019
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“This is remarkable poetry by Nathaniel Farrell. “ CAConrad
Taking as a point of departure the retail utopia of the American mallscape — a composite of town square, garden and space station — Lost Horizon spirals out through interstate and rail to touch national parks, local attractions, truck stops, big box stores, strip malls, tattoo parlors, oil rigs. flower shops, and baggage claims. Throughout the incessant movement of the book-length poem, unbroken by stanzas or sections, Farrell privileges observation over judgment and seeks out the crossroads between cultural myth and brand image. The poem speaks from between the mall fountain and the wishing well, the Disney princess and Spenserian queen, the noble hero and the voyeur. Lost Horizon is a poem that catalogs and indexes the collision between fantasies of high and low. Nathaniel Farrell was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. He is the author of Newcomer (UDP) — a personae poem narrated by an anonymous soldier and set in an undefined military campaign
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £14.00 | 9781946433251 PB | 6 MAY 2019
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“No one in recent years has made more of poetry as a platform for inquiry, for essayistic investigation, than Jena Osman.” Brian Blanchfield
Motion Studies consists of three essay-poems that begin as meditations on 19th century science and end firmly as research into the present. From chronophotography to algorithmic surveillance, from phrenology to fMRI brain scans, from Victorian specimen collections to the bleached bones of the Great Barrier Reef, each poem in this collection explores technologies of knowing each other and the world we’re in. Jena Osman’s books of poems include Corporate Relations (Burning Deck), Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press), The Network (Fence Books, National Poetry Series selection), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books) and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize).
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £14.00 | 9781946433237 PB | 6 MAY 2019
THE WINTER GARDEN PHOTOGRAPH Reina Maria Rodriguez • •
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A new translated work from one of Cuba’s foremost poets. “I am stimulated as a reader by her intellect and use of intertextuality, and drawn in by her intimacy and vulnerability.” Rosa Alcalá
A meditation on the power and limitations of images, The Winter Garden Photograph began as an homage to a magazine, The Courier, published by UNESCO. Reina María Rodríguez used the magazine’s photographs of faraway places to spark an investigation of the mental landscapes comprising her own, contemporary Havana. With the original Cuban edition of this book, Rodríguez won her second Casa de las Américas Prize for Poetry. Reina María Rodríguez was born in Havana in 1952 and lives there still. In Cuba she is recognized as a major poet and also as an advocate for non-governmental cultural spaces. Her rooftop home, informally known as la azotea de Reina, has served as a salon for the Cuban literary community for many years.
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £14.00 | 9781946433220 PB | 6 MAY 2019
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OPPOSITE: POEMS, PHILOSOPHY AND COFFEE Helen Mort & Aaron Meskin • •
The idea: a poet writes poems based on philosophy papers, then the authors of those papers write a short essay on the resulting poem. 50p from each sale of this book will be donated to The Leeds Fund ‘Holiday Hunger’ campaign, supporting the 33,000 Leeds children currently living in poverty.
What happens when poetry and philosophy connect? In Opposite: Poems, Philosophy and Coffee, award-winning poet Helen Mort and Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics Aaron Meskin set out to answer that very question. Whilst meeting at the Opposite café in Leeds, they came up with an intriguing idea for a creative dialogue: Aaron would introduce Helen to a range of philosophers who write about art and aesthetic matters, Helen would respond imaginatively to their ideas with original poetry, then the philosophers would write their own responses to Helen’s poems.
VALEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912436217 PB | 64PP | 10 MAY 2019
CALLING THIS BODY HOME Grace Cohen •
Debut collection from a performance poet previously published in publications such as Route 57 and The Sorgenkind Poetry Anthology.
Grace Cohen was born in Bristol and began quietly writing poetry in her diary as a slightly out of love, slightly love-handled teenager. This eagerly anticipated (mainly by herself) first collection tackles relationships between womanhood, the body, and grief, creating a deep landscape of metaphor to get lost in. Calling This Body Home speaks to the soul with a wry humour infused with sadness, refusing to remain quiet any longer. Grace Cohen is a performance poet, perpetual student, and chronic over-sharer. Originally from Bristol, she has performed in festivals, bars, and bedrooms around the United Kingdom, winning the annual WOMAD festival slam, and representing Bristol in the Hammer and Tongue Slam national final at The Royal Albert Hall. She lives in London.
BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570639 PB | 15 MAY 2019
RECKLESS PAPER BIRDS John McCullough • •
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New from the award-winning author of The Frost Fairs (9781844713981) & Spacecraft (9781908058362). “[McCullough] is somehow both shrewdly sceptical and wide-eyed with wonder at once.” Gregory Woods, The Guardian
Reckless Paper Birds blends raw emotion, acute social observation and sharp wit to capture the gay male experience. The author of the critically acclaimed collections The Frost Fairs and Spacecraft, Brighton-based John McCullough pulls no punches in this latest - and his most powerful - collection. These are poems of skill, joy and quiet musicality that reflect the conflict and complexity of being. John McCullough’s first collection of poems, The Frost Fairs, won the Polari First Book Prize in 2012. It was a Book of the Year for The Independent and The Poetry School, and a summer read for The Observer. He lives in Hove, East Sussex.
PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £9.99 | 9781908058638 PB | 80PP | 15 MAY 2019
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Part poetry collection, part slapdash scrapbook – Little You is a five-part journey exploring some of the most formatives parts of a little life.
‘I think this was my first day of school playing “kitchen” with Andrew. I was old enough to terrify my parents and siblings but young enough not to know what a prime age I was. Often, I struggle to access love for myself. At those times, it helps me to think of Little Rachel. I feel this duty of care to this baby girl who has torn through heaven and earth and ultimately, faced death to get me to today. I have a duty to her, she has done her best and is tired. So now it’s my turn.’ Rachel Nwokoro is a young black woman of Nigerian heritage, specifically belonging to the Indigenous people of Biafra. Rachel has been performing spoken word poetry for four years (nationally and internationally) and she has also won a number of awards and competitions, most notably 2016 UK Slam Poetry Champion.
BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570646 PB | 21 MAY 2019
THREAT Julia Webb • •
New from the author of Bird Sisters (ISBN: 9781911027058). “Threat knows how closely love and loss, comedy and tragedy, violence and sexuality can be bound together within the tight confines of a poem.” Andrew McMillan
This is the second collection by poet Julia Webb. Forensically detailed and disturbing, the dark and sometimes brutal undertow of small town lives seeps to the surface of these unsettling poems. Julia Webb grew up in Thetford, a small town in rural Norfolk. She lives in Norwich where she teaches creative writing and is a poetry editor for Lighthouse, a journal for new writing. In 2011 she won the Poetry Society’s Stanza competition. Her poem “Sisters” was highly commended in the 2016 Forward Prize. In 2016 she was writer in residence on Norwich Market. Her first collection, Bird Sisters, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2016.
NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027621 PB | 30 MAY 2019
ALSO BY JULIA WEBB... BIRD SISTERS “Glittering and shadowy, the ‘magic’ of this first collection is anchored in the ‘real’ of nylon sheets, a rented TV, Thetford Forest... Its language is spare and supple, wry, and can stun with such transformations as “a baby dandled on the knee of the sea” (‘Quiet Man Norfolk’) and “Water held a knife to the throat of the village” (‘Water’). Beset by the dark instability of a particular family’s life, Bird Sisters exerts a powerful hold, as if to read it is to be haunted by things one half-remembers.” Moniza Alvi “There is something both comforting and predatory about the sisters that keep reappearing in Julia Webb’s first collection. It is a visceral world they inhabit where people and animals partake of each other’s existence through constant metamorphosis. [...] All is strange or estranged in fact, but it is articulated in poems of supple inventive concentration. In that sense Bird Sisters is a book that casts deep shadows.” George Szirtes
NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027058 PB | 80PP | 2 MAY 2016
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ERATO Deryn Rees-Jones “Deryn Rees-Jones is a mid-career poet, whose initial splash in the newcomers’ busy pool has turned into a healthy long-distance swim. Her five collections demonstrate a restless inventiveness.” Carol Rumens Deryn Rees-Jones’ fifth collection, Erato, combines brief prose narratives with artful lyrics to explore themes of memory, grief, loss and love. Erato takes its title from the muse of lyric poetry. At the centre is an interrogation of the lyric as a vehicle to write the world, both the beauty and the horror. Drawing on documentary-style narratives of her life, combined with lyric reinventions, Deryn Rees-Jones asks questions about past, present and future, about the slippages of memory, all our errors and erasures, and the places we inhabit when processing trauma. It is a book full of flames and scars, landscape and animals, and at its heart the transformative music that runs beneath words, and the bodies we inhabit when we love. Her selected poems, What It’s Like to Be Alive (ISBN:9781781723388) is also published by Seren.
SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781725108 PB | 72PP | 28 JUNE 2019
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The first complete UK edition of Isabella di Morra’s poetry.
Isabella Morra (c1520-1545/6) was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in Southern Italy. Forced to live in strict isolation in the family castle in Valsinni on a steep cliff above the Ionian Sea, she devoted herself to writing a series of extraordinary poems about her longing for escape. When she was twenty-six she was brutally murdered by three of her brothers in an honour killing. She was buried in an unmarked grave, and her poetry was forgotten for several hundred years. Today Isabella Morra is regarded as a unique and powerful voice in Italian literature. Two plays about her life and work have recently been staged in Paris and in Rome. The Io Isabella International Film festival is dedicated to her memory. This collection includes a series of poems written by translator Caroline Maldonado about the life and brutal death of this remarkable young woman in the context of femminicidi and honour killings in our own time.
SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999674274 PB | 300PP | 1 JUNE 2019
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Three decades of work captured in one multimedia extravaganza of a book.
A book that connects to a world wide web of wordly possibilities. OWN gives full access to a breathtaking breadth of poems, songs, and performances from this trailblazing artist through a collection of written word that links to a whole host of digital treats: from video and audio recordings of hilarious gig moments, to animated enhancements of rich poetic expression, to glorious climaxes reached from the front of a gypsy klezmer ska band, all collected and connected like a dungeons and dragons quest. Steve Larkin is a poet, singer song-writer, storyteller, theatre maker, comedic host and impresario renowned for his highly original and entertaining live work. A former International Poetry Slam Champion he is the founder and chief of Hammer & Tongue - the UK’s leading poetry slam organisation
BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570653 PB | 3 JUNE 2019
DARLING, IT’S ME Alison Winch •
New from the author of Trouble (9781910139394).
Fiery, feminist and funny, Darling, It’s Me is the first collection by Norwich-based writer and academic Alison Winch. Winch combines refreshing explorations of marriage and motherhood with re-imaginings of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and rebuttals to the ‘great’ (male) philosophers of the Enlightenment. Fusing philosophical interrogation with humour and pop cultural resonances, Darling, It’s Me plots new ground for confessional poetry. Alison Winch is a lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is author of Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood (Palgrave, 2013) and co-editor of Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature (Bloomsbury, 2013). Her debut pamphlet, Trouble, was published in 2016 by The Emma Press.
PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £9.99 | 9781908058676 PB | 80PP | 3 JUNE 2019
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SQUEAK, BUDGIE! John Gohorry •
A contemporary reworking of John Skelton’s sixteenth century satire, Speak, Parrot!
John Gohorry has been talking to a budgie called Pipsqueak, and somebody has definitely been rattling his cage. Pipsqueak offers an irreverent commentary on the follies and failures of our age – from bird-brains on twitter and tabloids parroting lies to politicians talking cuckoo. Alternating between Rime Royal and satirical songs with medieval Latin choruses, Pipsqueak gets his beak into Brexit, Trump, the refugee crisis, the rise of neo-Fascism, the royal wedding, the World Cup, the Chequers agreement, cabinet resignations, the Windrush scandal, the implosion of the Tory party and culminating in the seceding of the UK from the European Union in March 2019. This is one sick parrot. John Gohorry was born in Coventry in 1943. He has published nine collections and thirty pamphlets.
SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999674267 PB | 140PP | 1 JUNE 2019
SAFETY BEHAVIOUR Emma Jeremy • •
Winner of The Poetry Business’ New Poets Prize 2017/18, selected by Kayo Chingonyi. “Brilliantly strange and full of quiet humour, Safety Behaviour serves itself up like a piece of delicious cake, and, lucky for us, there’s enough for everyone.” Wayne Holloway-Smith
Safety behaviours are coping strategies we use in situations or moments of fear, anxiety or panic. This thrilling collection finds a dark humour that sustains the reader through these unsettling but necessary poems. Emma Jeremy was born in Bristol and lives in London. She studied English at Brunel University, and her poems have featured in publications such as Rising, Poems in Which and Poetry London. She was shortlisted for the Poetry School/Nine Arches Press Primers scheme in 2016 and was a winner of The New Poets Prize in 2018.
THE POETRY BUSINESS | £5.00 | 9781912196715 PB | 30PP | 1 JUNE 2019
SOMEWHERE FAR Joe Carrick-Varty • •
Winner of The Poetry Business’ New Poets Prize 2017/18, judged by Kayo Chingonyi. “These are assured and beguiling poems.” Kayo Chingonyi
Somewhere Far is not a place. The poems explore the traumas of growing up too early; of encountering an adult world of loss, of addiction, of absence, of mental illness, all the while trying to make sense of a future. Permanently out of kilter, the poems reveal more than their speakers know. Joe Carrick-Varty is a writer based in Manchester whose poetry and reviews have appeared in PN Review, The North, The Dark Horse and elsewhere. In January 2018, he was named one of Eyewear’s Best New British and Irish Poets. He is a graduate of the Centre for New Writing. Having recently acquired a very (very very) overgrown allotment, he divides his time between the library and the Southern Allotments Society.
THE POETRY BUSINESS | £5.00 | 9781912196692 PB | 32PP | 1 JUNE 2019
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Winner of The Poetry Business’ New Poets Prize 2017/18, judged by Kayo Chingonyi. “The poems invoke a world within a world making for a multi-layered perspective on life in the UK at the present moment.” Kayo Chingonyi
Warda Yassin’s poems cross borders and cultures, combining the family storytelling of a home in Somalia with a childhood in a UK city. These vibrant, vivid poems contain so many lives: the colour, the laughter and the heartache. Warda Yassin is a Sheffield based Somali poet. She is part of the Hive network and The Writing Squad. Warda writes about family and culture, and the spaces between these worlds. She has performed alongside the likes of Buddy Wakefield and Jean Binta Breeze. Her work has been anthologised in Introduction X (Smith|Doorstop), Verse Matters (Valley Press) and Halfway Smile (Hive).
THE POETRY BUSINESS | £5.00 | 9781912196722 PB | 30PP | 1 JUNE 2019
WOODSONG Tristram Fane Saunders • •
Winner of The Poetry Business’ New Poets Prize 2017/18, judged by Kayo Chingonyi. “I am reminded, by reading this, of poetry’s capacity to tell a tale and to sing at the same time, and in so doing give us a sense of a word’s arcane resonances; those that show themselves only if we take the time to listen.” Kayo Chingonyi
Lost and bewildered, cursed to flit from tree to tree, Sweeney has lived in the woods so long he’s almost forgotten who he is. Most of us have forgotten, too. Playful and poignant by turns, Woodsong reinvents the medieval epic Buile Suihbhne as a sequence of slant lyrics about loneliness, companionship and what keeps a myth alive. Tristram Fane Saunders lives in London. His poems have appeared in journals including Poetry Ireland Review and The London Magazine. His last chapbook was Postcards From Sulpicia (Tapsalteerie). He works as a journalist.
THE POETRY BUSINESS | £5.00 | 9781912196708 PB | 30PP | 1 JUNE 2019
DOWNBURST Mark Fitzgerald •
New from the author of By Way of Dust and Rain (ISBN: 9781907090103).
Mark Fitzgerald’s second collection of poems, Downburst, explores thresholds and turning points of everyday life and the natural world, how through compassion and courage the weather can change within us. Through disruption, through the violence of storms, Fitzgerald searches for a necessary design, resilience and a new path to the meadow, where falcons dazzle the morning air. As rich in sound as in sense, this book is about finding magic in the ordinary, the afterglow of time, family inspirations, and resurgences across seasons. Mark Fitzgerald is the author of By Way of Dust and Rain, a collection of poems published by Cinnamon Press in 2010. His poetry has appeared in various periodicals, including Santa Clara Review, Slipstream, Crab Creek Review, Naugatuck River Review and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. He lives in Oakton, Virginia, with his wife, Paige, and son, Blake.
CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781788640527 PB | 3 JUNE 2019
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THE LAST WALK OF GIOVANNI PASCOLI Giovanni Pascoli (translated by Danielle Hope) •
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A dual language edition of the works of Italian poet Giocanni Pascoli, complete with original commentary from the translator.
The poetry of Giovanni Pascoli interested Seamus Heaney as well as generations of Italian schoolchildren. Danielle Hope, who has lived in Pascoli’s Romagna, offers a new translation and commentary – illustrated with paintings by Frances Wilson. Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) was arguably the greatest Italian poet writing at the beginning of the twentieth century. While certainly no Modernist, his almost imagistic focus on piccole cose (small things) and his scaling back of the era’s grandiose language and rhetoric both contributed to the modernization of Italian poetry.
ROCKINGHAM PRESS | £9.99 | 9781904851776 PB | 48PP | 10 JUNE 2019
SINGING MY MOTHER’S SONG Rebecca Tantony •
New from the author of collections Talk You Round Till Dusk (9781909136519) and All The Journeys I Never Took (9781909136984).
This collection started as a whisper, a quiet mouth asking questions. Over the years it became a coherent voice that kept getting louder. Now it is a song, sprung from a yearning to fill in the missing parts, to understand my mother’s story. Perhaps it’s something that goes beyond what is experiential and real and moves into memory and imagination. Perhaps it is a book of magic, of synchronicity and colliding moments in time, too strange to be logical, too concise to be chance. Ultimately, it’s a way of shedding light, in order to change the direction of a past. Sometimes, I think it has been formed by my imagined daughter, clearing the way ahead before her own birth. Or by whole generations of women, celebrating a future, formed from the heart of us. A poet and writer of flash non-fiction, Rebecca Tantony has worked across the globe, from Oakland to Istanbul, on the stages of Womad and Glastonbury Festivals, for the BBC, Radio Four, and featured within The Guardian.
BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570622 PB | 12 JUNE 2019
MIDNIGHT PICNICS IN TEHRAN Leilah Jane King •
Poetry that is comedic yet painfully reflective, sharing experiences of prejudice, conflict and mental health.
Midnight Picnics in Tehran is Leilah King’s debut pamphlet. It is a tale of two countries, three cities and an innumerable amount of drinks being thrown in people’s faces. Leilah paints striking imagery of the bustling cities of Shiraz and Tehran, the former her mother’s birth place. She conveys a melancholic nostalgia and love for a culture still novel to her that is remembered warmly from childhood summers spent in Iran’s beautiful mountains and parks. Midnight Picnics does not only focus on Iran but talks about Leilah’s time living in Bristol and Brighton. She shares an open, honest and raw account inviting you to navigate your way through sexuality, androgyny and anger. Leilah Jane King is a half Iranian footballer and performance poet based in Bristol. She has performed at festivals such as Buddhafield, Bristol and Exeter Pride and Bristol Harbour Festival and won a Milk poetry slam in 2017.
BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570660 PB | 20 JUNE 2019
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SINGER IN THE NIGHT Olja Savicević “...Savičević has a rare ability to speak of the deadly serious with a hedonistic lightness that lures you into a spirit of abandon, only to go on to deliver breathtaking blows of insight.” Kapka Kassabova, the Guardian ‘’Savičević’s prose, which is always relaxed and descriptive, and sustained with conversational ease, becomes increasingly beautiful in moments of high drama.” Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Famous soap opera scriptwriter, Naranča, is slowly losing her memory and decides to embark on a road trip down memory lane (in a golden convertible) in search of her greatest love and ex-husband, an artist whose uncompromising artistic integrity is opposed to Naranča’s fickle life in the world of TV drama. It is the memory of a series of letters written over several weeks and hand-delivered to the inhabitants of the street where they lived, that cracks open the novel. The letters, triggered by a mysterious couple who make love loudly for hours in the middle of the night, keeping the neighbourhood awake, touch upon the nature of love, war, lust, nationalism, capitalism, and childhood, highlighting the paradox of the human condition through playful humour. Singer in the Night is a rich, sensual novel which comments on communal perception, on how life is really lived. In its final message, the novel gives a playful warning about the consequences of choosing banality over true human connection.
ISTROS BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781912545971 PB | 160PP | 15 APRIL 2019
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A moving debut novel.
Christine wakes up one morning to discover that her husband, Ray, did not come home from his evening out with a friend. She waits to hear from him but has no message or news. The friend she thought he had arranged to see has left a phone message to say that he is sorry they did not meet. Ray’s work believe he has gone away on sabbatical and the police are sympathetic but unhelpful. Ray is gone and there is no reason to think he might come back again soon. From being settled and content, Christine’s life lies in tatters. Until she encounters a young man tending a cat injured by a speeding car. Against her instincts, Christine is drawn to the young man and a strange, fragile association grows between them, one which gradually alters Christine’s life. Sarah Connell lives in a northern city, a fictional version of which is both the setting and the subject of her novels.
CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781788640473 PB | 92PP | 1 APRIL 2019
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“Henrietta Rose-Innes writes an admirably taut clean prose... A welcome addition to the new South African literature.” J. M. Coetzee “Rose-Innes is a writer almost in the Virginia Woolf mould – lateral of mind and poetic in her style of narration.” Sunday Times
A virus inflames a woman with mortal desire; a colonial naturalist seeks an impossible specimen; invisible violence stalks a safari; and a child’s bullying summons archaic armies. Ranging from taut human drama to phantasmagoria, these short stories make rich and strange connections – between ancient and new, human and animal, Africa and Europe, reality and dream. Includes prize-winning stories as well as previously unpublished works from one of South Africa’s foremost novelists. Henrietta Rose-Innes is a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of four novels, including Nineveh and Green Lion, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and won the 2015 Prix François Sommer.
UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT | £12.99 | 9781911343561 PB | 200PP | 4 APRIL 2019
THE LARGE DOOR Jonathan Gibbs •
An acid-sharp novella of longing and language from Jonathan Gibbs, acclaimed author of Randall, or The Painted Grape (Galley Beggar, 2014).
When Jenny Thursley, a 40-year old linguistics lecturer, returns to Europe for a conference in Amsterdam, she finds herself pitched back into the presence of a life she had fled: a once-inspirational mentor now dying, a former lover again within reach, the flickerings of new desire. Over little more than twenty-four hours Jenny must write a keynote conference speech, face up to her own mortality, and to the consequences of the bad choices she has made – while finding the nerve to make new choices that might be no better. Witty, sexy and provocative, The Large Door is a meditation on life and living, that recalls the sparkling mid-century work of writers such as Muriel Spark and Brigid Brophy. Jonathan Gibbs is a writer, critic and lecturer based in London. His novel Randall, or The Painted Grape was published to wide acclaim. It was longlisted for the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and shortlisted for the inaugural Figaro Prix du Livre de Voyage Urbain.
UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT | £12.99 | 9781911343547 PB | 160PP | 4 APRIL 2019
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Ten years after the cult hit Donjong Heights, Ben Borek is back with another brilliantly surreal and darkly comic satire.
Sissy is an hilarious romp of epic proportions, encompassing in its burlesque scope our modern crisis of masculinity, the banality of City work, our retreat into virtual lives and the alienating effects of modern technology, with lots of variegated sexing in-between. Sissy is an anti-hero and antidote to Don Juan. He is a modern masculine counterweight and sad manifestation of the internet-induced fright of the real: a thirty-something wimp by day and a would-be-Weinstein by virtual night. The novel’s brilliant overall set piece is a virtuosic attack on the notion of the male Romantic Hero and it is written, appropriately, in a language that is rich and flamboyant; enjoyably, hilariously, baroque but also an extraordinary reclamation of the narrative epic form for ‘now’. Ben Borek is unique: no-one else writes like this, or can write like this. His vision is unflinchingly dark but also, almost inexplicably, obscurely warm and deeply humane. .
UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT | £12.99 | 9781911343578 PB | 220PP | 4 APRIL 2019
THIS PARADISE: STORIES Ruby Cowling •
A delicious, bold and often frightening collection from a prize-winning short story writer of enormous promise.
This Paradise is a rare and beautiful collection of stories about people fleeing towards places or times or situations they hope might be better – trying to outrun their nature, to deny the undeniable. Written with an arresting eye for detail, a rich sense of compassion and a darkly comic understanding of the human psyche, the stories in this volume propose a series of haphazard questions, not least of which is: where do we run to when there’s nowhere left to run? Ruby Cowling was born in Bradford and now lives in London. This Paradise is her first book. Her stories have won The White Review Prize (2014) and the London Short Story Prize (2014) among others and been widely published in journals and anthologies, including Lighthouse, The Letters Page, Unthology, and The Lonely Crowd.
UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT | £12.99 | 9781911343554 PB | 160PP | 4 APRIL 2019
A BOOK OF SECRETS Kate Morrison •
An exciting new historical fiction writer for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir and Joanna Courtney.
A Book of Secrets is the story of a woman named Susan Charlewood living in Elizabethan England. Born in what is now Ghana, Susan is enslaved by the Portuguese but later rescued by British sailors, who bring her to England where she is raised and educated in an Catholic household. When Susan comes of age, the family marry her off to an older Catholic man who runs a printing press and supplies the Papist nobility with illegal Catholic texts to foment rebellion amongst the Catholic underclass. When Charlewood dies, Susan takes over the business and uses her new position to find out more about her origins. A look at racial relationships on the eve of the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, A Book of Secrets is a revealing and compelling glimpse into a fraught time. Kate Morrison is a British debut novelist. A Book of Secrets was longlisted for the Mslexia Unpublished Novel Award in 2015. She currently lives in Bristol.
JACARANDA BOOKS | £16.99 | 9781909762695 PB | 324PP | 8 APRIL 2019
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WHERE THERE ARE MONSTERS Breanne Mc Ivor •
A debut collection of short stories that reach deep into the roots of Trinidad folk narratives to present us with very modern versions of our troubled selves.
In this powerfully engaging collection of short stories, Breanne Mc Ivor lifts the tropes and characters of Caribbean folklore and places them among the concrete, glass and heat of a hectic, recognizable, crime-ridden Trinidad. These are not simply modern or modernised folktales, but beautifully crafted, fully formed contemporary stories by a hugely talented writer who uses them as narrative vehicles to address weighty questions about human nature and Trinidadian society. Breanne Mc Ivor was born and raised in west Trinidad. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, the Fish One-Page Prize and the Derek Walcott Writing Prize. In 2015, she won The Caribbean Writer’s David Hough Literary Prize.
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234362 PB | 18 APRIL 2019
THE GOVERNESSES Anne Serre •
The sensational UK debut of a major French writer - an intense, delicious meringue of a novella. • “Prim and racy, seriously weird and seriously excellent.” The New York Times In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children’s education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor much is mysterious. Written with the elegance of old French fables, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces English readers to the marvelous Anne Serre. Anne Serre is the author of fourteen books, as well as numerous short stories and essays.
LES FUGITIVES | £9.99 | 9780993009396 PB | 120PP | 29 APRIL 2019
MUD Chris McCabe •
COVER COMING SOON
“Mud is fucked up. It’s unlike anything else. It’s amazing.” Sam Jordison
Borak and Karissa must search the 24 types of mud until they find a trapped bubble of air. Only then can they be released from their relationship. “Remind me never to date a wizard”. Chris McCabe’s macabre version of the Orpheus myth brings its themes into the present day as we follow a couple whose quest forces them to resist throttling each other, and falling in love all over again. Chris McCabe is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Triumph of Cancer (Penned in the Margins). Pharmapoetica, with Maria Vlotides, was shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award and his plays Shad Thames, Broken Wharf and Mudflats have been performed in Liverpool and London. His debut novel Dedalus (Henningham Family Press) was LRB Bookshop Book of the Week.
HENNINGHAM FAMILY PRESS | £12.99 | 9781999797430 PB | 30 APRIL 2019
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TRIANGULUM Masande Ntshanga From the award-winning writer of The Reactive, Triangulum is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over 40 years in South Africa’s recent past and near future -- starting from the collapse of the apartheid homeland system in the early 1990s, to the economic corrosion of the 2010s, and on to the looming, large-scale ecological disasters of the 2040s. In 2040, the South African National Space Agency receives a mysterious package containing a memoir and a set of digital recordings from an unnamed woman who claims the world will end in ten years. Assigned to the case, Dr. Naomi Buthelezi, a retired professor and science-fiction writer, is hired to investigate the veracity of the materials, and whether or not the woman’s claim to have heard from a “force more powerful than humankind” is genuine. Thus begins Triangulum, a found manuscript composed of the mysterious woman’s memoir and her recordings. Haunted by visions of a mysterious machine, the narrator is a seemingly adrift 17-year-old girl, whose sick father never recovered from the shock of losing his wife. She struggles to navigate school, sexual experimentation, and friendship across racial barriers in post-Apartheid South Africa. With extraordinary aplomb and breathtaking prose, Masande Ntshanga has crafted an inventive and marvelous artistic accomplishment.
JACARANDA BOOKS | £8.99 | 9781909762954 PB | 200PP | 30 MAY 2019
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GOLD Steven Savile •
“A wild combination of Indiana Jones, The Da Vinci Code and The Omen.” Kevin J. Anderson
“I am Solomon. Remember my name.” The triumphant conclusion of the story that began with the international bestseller Silver. Steven Savile has written for Doctor Who, Torchwood, Primeval,Stargate, Warhammer, Slaine, Fireborn, Pathfinder, Arkham Horror, Rogue Angel, and other popular game and comic worlds. He won the International Media Association of Tie-In Writers award for his novel, Shadow of the Jaguar, and the inaugural Lifeboat to the Stars Award from for Tau Ceti (co-authored with International Bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson). His latest books include Sherlock Holmes and the Murder at Sorrows Crown, published by Titan in September 2016, Papallel Lines a brand new crime nove from the same publisher in March 2017, and Glass Town, a mythic fantasy novel published in hardcover by St Martin’s Press in April 2017.
SNOWBOOKS | £8.99 | 9781911390633 PB | 416PP | 1 MAY 2019
FEEBLEMINDED Ariana Harwicz (translated by Carolina Orloff & Annie McDermott) •
New from the author of Die, My Love, Longlisted for Man Booker International Prize 2018.
In Feebleminded, Harwicz drags us to the most uncomfortable and fascinating aspects of love, need and dependency, by analysing the dynamics between a mother and her adult daughter, both searching through their own past and present as they try to give meaning to their lives and relationship. Written in a wild stream of consciousness narration we follow the characters on a roller coaster ride of extreme emotions and critical self-examinations where everything – from a childhood without answers, to a desolate loveless present – has been buried. Compared to Virgina Woolf and Sylvia Plath, Ariana Harwicz is one of the most radical figures in contemporary Argentinian literature. Her prose is characterized by its violence, eroticism, irony and direct criticism to the clichés surrounding the notions of the family and conventional relationships.
CHARCO PRESS | £9.99 | 9781916465602 PB | 110PP | 2 MAY 2019
HUMANS, BEING Gareth Davies •
A debut novel by a Welsh author about love, life and happiness.
Humans, Being follows the lives of two humans, being. Vic and Mia are two fortysomethings struggling to cope with divorce, custody battles, infidelity, money worries and dating sites. Through their friendship, they explore the pitfalls of modern life and their pursuit of happiness leads them to ask what is normal and whether it is okay to live outside the norms that society dictates. Funny, touching, and thought-provoking in equal measure, Humans, Being reveals what it’s like to be a middle-aged human in the twenty-first century. Gareth Davies is a teacher, writer and storyteller. After living in Prague for nearly twenty years, he moved back home temporally to Cardiff in 2015 Temporary became permanent and Gareth is now an active member of the literary scene in Cardiff, being a frequent visitor and performer at events such as Roath Writers, First Thursday, and Storytelling at Milgis. He has had several short stories published in magazines and kept a daily short story blog running for five years.
CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781788640510 PB | 6 MAY 2019
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New novel from the author of The Truth in Masquerade (9781910836255), which was widely featured and reviewed, including on BBC Radio 3.
Isabel Grey, a successful opera singer who disappeared in the late 1970s and has not been heard of since. Two musicians, facing life-changing crises of their own, decide to look for her. Stephen Bennett’s career as an orchestral bassoonist has been ended by a violent mugging; singer Alice Wade is suffering serious vocal problems and trying to move on from the latest in a long line of failed relationships. As Isabel emerges from the shadows, Alice faces the loss of all she values most. Not wanting her life to become a sad echo of Isabel’s, she must face the future with courage and acceptance. Carole Strachan grew up in Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, and now lives on the coast near Cardiff. She’s spent most of her career working in theatre and music. .
CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781788640497 PB | 6 MAY 2019
UNDER PRESSURE Faruk Šehić •
New from the author of Quiet Flows the Una (ISBN: 9781908236494).
With this collection of brutal and heart-wrenching stories, the Bosnian writer Faruk Šehić secured his reputation as one of the greatest writers to emerge from the region. A war veteran and a poet, Faruk Šehić combines beauty and horror to seduce and surprise the reader. Until the outbreak of war in 1992, Faruk Šehić studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. After the war he studied literature and has gone on to create his own literary works. Literary critics have hailed Šehić as the leader of the ‘mangled generation’ of writers born in 1970s Yugoslavia, and his books have achieved cult status with readers across the whole region. His debut novel Quiet Flows the Una received the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in the region, and also the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. Šehić lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist.
ISTROS BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781912545025 PB | 166PP | 6 MAY 2019
A GIRL CALLED EEL Ali Zamir • •
An exceptional, award-winning debut novel. “It is rare to say about a book that you have never read anything like it, and this is one such case.” Elle
Anguille is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at sea. She drifts between two states of mind and between two islands ‘in a hollow maze’, evoking her memories so as to forget nothing and so as to delay the inevitable outcome. Confronted with the pressing immediacy of imminent death, Anguille recounts the story of her whole life in one long, sustained breath, in a series of brief couplets. A story told in a single sentence, A Girl Called Eel is a memorial, a reckoning, and a powerful narrative imbued with a prevailing sense of urgency. Ali Zamir was born on Anjouan in the Comoros. First published in French as Anguille sous roche by Le Tripode in 2016, A Girl Called Eel is his first novel.
JACARANDA BOOKS | £8.99 | 9781909762817 PB | 320PP | 6 MAY 2019
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A SONG OF THYME AND WILLOW Carole Strachan
ADUA Igiaba Scego •
COVER COMING SOON
From influential Somali-Italian writer, the epic and troubled story of a woman in search of herself in a long journey from Somalia to Rome, between past and present.
Adua, who ran away from her strict father and the communist dictatorship, finds herself in Rome aged 18, dreaming of making it in the movie industry. Unfortunately, the only movie she will star in, a soft porn called Somali Female, will only bring her humiliation and shame. Today Adua is a grown woman. She tells her story to the elephant statue that supports the obelisk in Santa Maria square. Igiaba Scego is a Somali Italian novelist and journalist. She writes on several national newspapers such as la Repubblica. In 2010, Scego published a narrative memoir, La mia casa è dove sono (Rizzoli), which was awarded Premio Mondello.
JACARANDA BOOKS | £8.99 | 9781909762923 PB | 190PP | 6 MAY 2019
PLEASE READ THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY Karen Havelin • •
The debut novel from a Norwegian writer and translator, based on her own experiences of endometriosis. “A burning triumph.” Paul Beatty
Written in first person and following a reverse chronology which subverts the typical illness story, Please Read This Leaflet Carefully follows Laura Fjellstad in her struggles to live a normal life. Having been diagnosed with severe endometriosis in her twenties, she believes that the only way to survive her painful and debilitating illness is to be completely self-reliant. In between doctors’ appointments and in and out of hospitals, Laura confronts single parenting after her divorce, leading a life her own teenage self would be in awe of. Karen Havelin is a writer and translator from Bergen, Norway. She completed her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in May 2013. Her work has been published both in Norwegian and in English.
DEAD INK BOOKS | £12.00 | 9781911585541 PB | 7 MAY 2019
TERMIN Henrik Nor-Hansen (translated by Matt Bagguley) •
Nominated for the 2017 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Kjetil Tuestad lives in the village of Hommersåk – an area of Norway transformed by the oil boom. Termin begins with a moment of violence and goes on to chart the movements of Tuestad’s lonely, fragmented and troubled life for over 20 years. Against a backdrop of economic instability and flux in the labour market, our narrator details his existence in West Norway and the occasional occurrences of violence in the town with equal sobriety. His relationships are distant and fleeting, both private and professional. It’s a story of anonymity, using the kind of didactic analysis you’d find in a log or a journal - everything is nameless and bureaucratic to Tuestad. The novel deals with the loss of empathy and intimacy in the 21st century. Henrik Nor-Hansen has spent most of the last decade or so sailing round the world with his wife in a rather small boat. His first novel was published in 1996 and he has since written a number of books and collections of poetry.
NORDISK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995485242 PB | 80PP | 23 MAY 2019
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An English translation of a prolific French-Tunisian novellist. The author is the recipient of the prestigious Prix Marguerite Duras award,
On the night following the gun massacre on the beach of Sousse in 2015, shortly after the brutal death of a close friend, a woman writes, facing the sea: a love letter to the motherland, Tunisia, from one who feels forced to leave; and an ode to her late father, an apparently simple man. Fellous’s voluptuous writing nods to Proust and composes a mosaic of vivid portraits, sweeping readers onto a musical journey from Tunisia to Paris, to a Flaubertian village in Normandy, celebrating the voices of little people, and loved ones now silent. Colette Fellous is the author of more than twenty novels, including Aujourd’hui (2005), for which she received the Prix Marguerite Duras, and La Préparation de la vie (2014). A former radio producer at France Culture, she is also a photographer. Born in Tunisia, Fellous studied with Roland Barthes in the 1970s. .
LES FUGITIVES | £13.00 | 9781999331801 PB | 200PP | 23 MAY 2019
IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM...
JANE EVANS Christine Purkis In the 1850s, a young woman runs away from her poverty-stricken life on a farm in the heart of rural Wales, to escape harsh treatment by her brothers and a forced marriage to a much older neighbour. Arriving in London, she eventually finds herself shipping out to the Crimea to assist in a hospital for injured soldiers. Given that the arena of the war is so small she comes into direct contact with Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Betsi Cadwaladr in their mutual battle against inhuman conditions, and tries to bring some relief to the lost souls she finds there. Will she survive the dangers and return home to Wales, and if she does, what reception will she find there?
£8.99 | 9781912631001 PB | Y’LOLFA
FROM SEVEN TO THE SEA Jayne Joso From Seven to the Sea explores the emotions of childhood and an almost limitless capacity for imagination, invention, and fearlessness as it charts the survival of seven-year-old Esther as she negotiates her mother and stepfather’s dysfunction, and a school environment that exposes her to further prejudice and injustice. It is a window onto the world of a child who rejects convention and expectation, and who embarks on an expedition into liberty and freethinking; and who, each day, in place of school, sets out to sea.
£9.99 | 9781781724828 PB | SEREN
THE PUNCH Kate North Punch is a collection of stories exploring the uncanny, the uncomfortable and the surreal in the everyday, at home and abroad. Whether it’s a man with a growth on his hand, a couple trying for a baby, a woman finishing a book, a pope with penis envy, or a bullied girl, characters throughout the collection assess their surroundings and are often forced to reassess themselves. Punch offers the reader a humorous and disturbing take on life in the twenty-first century.
£10.99 | 9781788640428 PB | CINNAMON PRESS
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THIS TILTING WORLD Colette Fellous
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YEOYU
New from Strangers Press, the people who brought you Keshiki, comes their next exciting global collaboration Yeoyu – new writing from Korea, a series of eight exquisitely designed chapbooks showcasing some of the best writers writing in Korean today, translated by a team of hugely talented expert translators from across the globe. The series features work from famous names such as Han Kang alongside relative newcomers to an English audience and was selected in collaboration with translation trailblazer and Man Booker International Prize winner, Deborah Smith.
FIVE PRELUDES & A FUGUE, CHEEON HEERAHN, TR. EMILY WON [9781911343585 / £6.99]
IMITAYSHUN & THE EX-WRESTLER, JEON SUNG-TAE, TR. SORA KIM-RUSSELL [9781911343592 / £6.99]
EUROPA, HAN KANG, TR. DEBORAH SMITH [9781911343608 / £6.99]
DIVORCE, KIM SOOM, TR. EMILY WON [9781911343615 / £6.99]
KONG’S GARDEN, HWANG JUNG-EUN, TR. JEON SEUNG-HEE [9781911343622 / £6.99]
MILENA, MILENA, BAE SUAH, TR. DEBORAH SMITH [9781911343639 / £6.99]
EVIL WINDS, KANG HWA GIL, TR. VIVIAN ØVERÅS [9781911343646 / £6.99]
WE, THAT SUMMER, HAN YUJOO, TR. JANET HONG
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TRANSFER WINDOW Maria Gerhardt (translated by Lindy Falk van Rooyen) Transfer Window is a utopian vision of the wealthy suburbs north of Copenhagen as a luxurious hospice. Everyone wears white. New-age nuns grow organic cannabis on the beach. The internet and music are forbidden, but you can swim in the icy sea in the winter. In amongst it all come the crushing memories of life as a terminal cancer patient, otherwise our narrator and her friend Mikkel hang out, talking about the 80s and about how they would prefer to die. They also laugh at the mistakes of the healthy. Maria Gerhardt was born in 1978 and grew up in Dragør, not far from Copenhagen. After winning the player of the year award for Dragør FC in 1991, she moved to Copenhagen where she became part of the punk and feminist scenes that were flourishing in the now somewhat gentrified area of Nørrebro. During the 00s, she was the go-to name (under her DJ alias, Djuna Barnes) in the city’s nightlife, providing the soundtrack to fashion shows, festivals and night clubs. At the age of 34, Gerhardt was diagnosed with breast cancer, receiving the all clear (and publishing her first, bestselling book) the year after. Gerhardt suffered a relapse in 2015 and, less than a week after her third book, Transfer Window, was published to unanimous critical acclaim and commercial success, she died on March 16th, 2017 (aged 39). Gerhardt left behind her wife, Rosa Nøss Bendixen, and son, Bjørnstjerne.
NORDISK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995485259 PB | 112PP | 27 JUNE 2019
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JAMAICA ON MY MIND Hazel D. Campbell • •
The collected stories of one of Jamaica’s leading short story writers. Includes previously unpublished works.
Hazel Campbell’s career spanned almost fifty years – and there are few writers with such a sharp ear for how Jamaican people speak. Observant of the continuing inequalities of Jamaican society, her writing is also wholly unsentimental or judgemental over the way her characters so often make the wrong choices. This work is drawn from earlier published collections, The Rag Doll and Other Stories, Women’s Tongue and Singerman. Across their range Jamaica emerges from colonialism to the present, years of struggle, violence but also of continuing hope in the people’s capacity for both endurance and re-invention. Hazel Campbell was born in Jamaica in 1940, and passed away on 12 December 2018.
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £14.99 | 9781845234409 PB | 6 JUNE 2019
THE MURDERS OF BOYSIE SINGH Derek Bickerton •
A Carribean classic with themes that remain pertinent to Trinidadian culture.
The Murders of Boysie Singh, first published in 1962, is a classic for several reasons. It tells the true but almost unbelievable story of a Trinidadian badjohn who in the 1940s and 1950s was a much reported celebrity of the criminal and legal world. Believed to have committed scores of murders in his guise as a pirate who dumped would-be migrants from Trinidad to Venezuela overboard to the sharks, he was hanged for just one proven crime, a murder he in fact may not have done, and for which no body was found. Like V.S. Naipaul’s Ganesh Ramsumair in The Mystic Masseur, Derek Bickerton’s Boysie Singh was a shapeshifter who metamorphosed from rural small-time crook, pirate, saga-boy urban gangster, brothel-keeper and, when the law closed in, to an itinerant preacher who had found God.
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £10.99 | 9781845234492 PB | 13 JUNE 2019
STORY CITIES Edited by Kam Rehal, Cherry Potts & Rosamund Davies •
An anthology of flash fiction inspired by city life.
Story Cities explores ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city. Explore new short fictions in multiple genres that address the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: its markets, squares, cafés, hotels, parks, stations and ports; the main streets, side streets, back alleys dead ends and the crossroads. Never identified, the city has a voice of its own.
ARACHNE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909208780 PB | 112PP | 13 JUNE 2019
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“... a compulsively readable mixture of humour and dark fate, Nikolaidis bitterly explodes all Balkan post-Communist myths.” Slavoj Žižek ‘’...makes Samuel Beckett look positively cheery; yet the relentless pessimism has an oddly invigorating effect.’ ’ Five Star Review, The Independent
The Olcinium Trilogy brings together three of Andrej Nikolaidis’ short novels: The Son, The Coming and Till Kingdom Come, which together encompass an apocalyptic vision of this ancient town; where mystics have prophesized, regimes plotted against their citizenry and ordinary people resorted to crime and deceit in order to survive. Nikolaidis’ prose is precise and bitingly funny and his protagonists hopeless misanthropes. Andrej Nicolaidis is Montenegro’s most controversial writer, as well as being its most awarded one. An ardent supporter of Montenegrin independence, anti-war activist and promoter of human rights, Nikolaidis became known for his political views and public feuds. He writes regular columns for the daily Montenegrin newspapers and has written a number of articles for the Guardian.
ISTROS BOOKS | £11.99 | 9781912545995 PB | 330PP | 15 JUNE 2019
A RESPECTABLE OCCUPATION Julia Kerninon •
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“Marvellously contagious.” Le Point
Julia Kerninon’s nano-autobiography begins at five and a half years of age when, dressed in a leopard-skin coat, she made the decision to become an author. The memoir that unfolds is a tribute to writing; as a space for self-discovery as well as a ‘respectable occupation’. The daughter of a pair of bohemian-bookworms, Kerninon grew up infected by their passion for literature. Opening with a pilgrimage to Shaskespeare & Company, the book entwines the French and Anglo-Saxon traditions, reminding us of the value of European exchange. In this account a devoted pursuit of a metier, Julia Kerninon offers an intense and frank view of the world. At the age of thirty, Kerninon has already been awarded several high-profile prizes, including the Prix Françoise Sagan, and is recognised as one of France’s notable new voices. Her latest work, Ma Devotion, is to be published in English translation by Europa Editions.
LES FUGITIVES | £10.00 | 9781999331818 PB | 24 JUNE 2019
SIXTY LOVERS TO MAKE AND DO Sophie Herxheimer • •
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A debut novel from a popular and prolific poet and artist. “Herxheimer is a prolific, multi-disciplinary artist whose own poetry is fiercely energetic, erudite and punchy.” Bidisha, BBC Arts online
In the short texts of Sixty Lovers To Make And Do by Sophie Herxheimer, a litany of characters collage everyday objects to make companions for themselves. Focusing their loneliness, frustration and passion upon their creations. Sophie trained in painting at Camberwell and Chelsea. She’s held residencies for LIFT, Southbank Centre and Transport for London. Exhibitions include The Whitworth, The Poetry Library and The National Portrait Gallery. She’s illustrated five fairy tale collections, made several artists books and created a 300 metre tablecloth to run the length of Southwark Bridge, featuring hand printed food stories from a thousand Londoners. Sophie teaches for The Poetry School and The Royal Drawing School, and collaborates extensively.
HENNINGHAM FAMILY PRESS | £12.99 | 9781999797478 PB | 30 JUNE 2019
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THE OLCINIUM TRILOGY Andrej Nikolaidis
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THE NOVEL INSIDE YOU Paul Magrs “This is so much more than How To Write, it’s How To Live. Part-memoir and part-tutorial, this book asks ‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ and, miraculously, finds an answer. From life. From memory, family, lovers, heartbreak, childhood, loss and joy, all captured beautifully in these pages.” Russell T. Davies
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SNOWBOOKS | £8.99 | 9781911390589 PB | 320PP | 1 APRIL 2019
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The collected essays of one of the Caribbean’s finest critics and thinkers.
Gordon Rohlehr published all his outstanding works of literary and cultural criticism in Trinidad. Along with Kamau Brathwaite and Kenneth Ramchand, no critic did more to establish the subject of Caribbean writing and its aesthetics as a distinctive body of work. My Strangled City a record of how Trinidad’s poets responded to the upsurge of revolutionary hopes, radical shams, repressions and disappointed dreams of 1964-1975 is an indispensable account of those times and the diversity of literary response that continues to speak to the present. The energy of his work restores forgotten voices, and his writing about the giants Walcott and Naipaul is some of the finest, most acutely focused criticism around. Gordon Rohlehr is Emeritus Professor at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine. Unquestionably one of the Caribbean’s finest critics and thinkers, his territory covers both literature and popular culture, particularly Calypso.
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £19.99 | 9781845234379 PB | 25 APRIL 2019
PERFECTED FABLES NOW Gordon Rohlehr •
In putting together what he says is his last book, Gordon Rohlehr doffs the costume of the carnival figure of the “Bookman”, the recording Satan of the devil band, who walks with the book in which he writes down the names of the damned.
Since the mid 1960s, Gordon Rohlehr has been an incomparable recorder and analyser of Caribbean literature and culture and their intersection with politics. His work on the emergence of Caribbean writing from its colonial shell and his analysis of calypso as the voice of Trinidadian consciousness establishes him as essential to our time as William Hazlitt was to the Romantics in documenting and characterising the turbulent spirit of his early 19th century age. Radical but never willing to compromise his sense of what was fraudulent or power-seeking amongst his fellow travellers, Rohlehr is the best touchstone we have for both what the Caribbean has achieved and of its struggling neo-colonial fragility in the face of the new imperialism of economic and cultural globalism.
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £19.99 | 9781845234508 PB | 300PP | 25 APRIL 2019
THE CONSTITUTIONALS Peter Robinson •
A modern day reworking of Robinson Crusoe.
Taking some convalescent wanders around Reading, the narrator of The Constitutionals, a figure haunted by being called Crusoe in childhood, also ‘sets out to avert global catastrophe, hoping to trigger the end of neoliberalism by going for a walk.’ What does he discover about the place in which he’s settled with his wife, who he will call Friday, and their ocean-haunted daughter? Published on the tercentenary of Robinson Crusoe’s appearance, our author answers such questions by paying sustained tribute to the town, and the founding ‘autobiography’ by which it has—as have so many works alluded to here—been indelibly marked. Peter Robinson is currently Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. The author of many books of poetry, translations, prose fiction, and literary criticism, he has been awarded the Cheltenham Prize, the John Florio Prize, and two Poetry Book Society Recommendations.
TWO RIVERS PRESS | £12.99 | 9781909747487 PB | 200PP | 27 APRIL 2019
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MY STRANGLED CITY Gordon Rohlehr
SEEPERSAD AND SONS: Edited by V. J. Maharaj •
A collection of academic works exploring the legacy of Seepersad, Vidia and Shiva Naipaul.
These conference papers explore the writing careers of Seepersad Naipaul and his two sons, Vidia and Shiva. Seepersad and Sons is highly readable because whilst papers have an academic rigour, they have followed the urging of the keynote speaker, Professor Kenneth Ramchand, that the purpose of the conference was to demonstrate the importance of the Naipauls and literature to the wider society. Contributors include: Kenneth Ramchand, Vijay Maharaj, Bhoendradatt Tiwarie, Nicholas Laughlin, Aaron Eastley, Brinsley Samaroo, Arnold Rampersad, Robert Clarke, Andre Bagoo, Sharon Millar, Keith Jardim, Raymond Ramcharitar, Kevin Frank, Jim Hanna, Hywel Dix, Elizabeth Jackson, Paula Morgan and others.
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £19.99 | 9781845234386 PB | 266PP | 2 MAY 2019
SHADOWS OF REALITY Edited by Clive Scott, Nick Warr, Jo Catling & Nathan Hamilton
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A fully-illustrated catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s photographic materials.
For the first time ever, this volume presents a thrillingly comprehensive, fully-illustrated catalogue of all photographic materials (negatives, prints, slides) left in the University of East Anglia’s photographic archives by W. G. Sebald at the time of his death in 2001; these have never been made public before in their entirety. Every care has been given to the quality of reproduction, layout, annotation and overall design to ensure maximum clarity for researchers and to make vivid Sebald’s working methods to the delight of enthusiasts across the globe. It is difficult to over-emphasize the importance of this collection for anyone interested in Sebald’s creative processes or the ways in which photography might serve fiction. It promises an inexhaustible treasure-trove of new discoveries and is a book unique in what it can newly reveal about this cherished, international author.
UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT | £35.00 | 9781911343660 PB | 160PP | 3 JUNE 2019
FAMILY BUSINESS: A MEMOIR Peter J. Conradi •
The memoir of the bestselling author of Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography (9780006531753) & A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson (9781408830925).
Peter J. Conradi’s memoir Family Business includes a cast of characters ranging from his European Jewish forebears who came to Britain in the Victorian era to influential novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose biography Conradi himself wrote. The arc of Conradi’s story travels, unusually, from the relative integration of his ancestors to his rebellion against this and his long association with Murdoch, another outsider in English society. Family Business is an enthralling book – a biographer’s autobiography – with numerous strands sensitively and thoughtfully explored, and including almost fifty previously unseen photographs.
SEREN | £20.00 | 9781781725016 HB | 264PP | 3 JUNE 2019
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A guide to the natural history of Reading.
There’s more to Reading than traffic, concrete and busy people. Wildlife flourishes amidst the urban hustle and with a couple of hundred open spaces, some ancient woodlands and two great rivers, Reading rewards the appreciative naturalist. Wander from town centre to suburbs exploring the parks and meadows, following the rivers and the wooded ridges, watching the seasons change. You’ll be surprised at what you find. Over 25 years Adrian Lawson chronicled the wildlife he encountered in his days working in the parks, walking his dogs in the woods and riding his bike around the town. This book takes us through the calendar year with a selection of articles from his long-running newspaper column, Rural Reading, plus some new and previously unpublished pieces. Accompanied by perceptive and very personal illustrations from Geoff Sawers, equally devoted to the natural history of Reading, this exquisite collection will open your eyes to the wild side of town.
TWO RIVERS PRESS | £8.99 | 9781909747500 PB | 78PP | 21 JUNE 2019
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Malcolm Summers •
A guide to Reading’s memorials.
The stories behind Reading’s memorials bring the people and events of Reading’s past to life. This book describes aspects of the town’s history by considering some of its – often not well known – plaques, statues and monuments. Even the better known memorials have secrets to yield in the tales of their origins. With descriptions of where the memorials can be found, along with photographs to help identification, the book reveals vivid glimpses of life in Victorian Reading, and reminds us of the physical, as well as social legacy, our forebears left behind them.
TWO RIVERS PRESS | £12.00 | 9781909747494 PB | 96PP | 21 JUNE 2019
THE LONGEST FAREWELL Nula Roberts • •
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The true story of Nula Roberts’ fight with her husband’s aggressive dementia. An uplifting story of a terrible adversity overcome by the goodness of humanity.
When Nula Robert’s husband James, an Irish documentary filmmaker, becomes forgetful they put it down to the stress of his work. But his behavior becomes more erratic and inexplicable, and he is eventually diagnosed as suffering from an early onset and aggressive form of dementia. Suddenly their lives change from comfortable middle-class creatives through unexplainable behaviour, the shock of diagnosis, coping with the ongoing illness, not coping with the illness, to the indignities of care home life. The Longest Farewell is a heartfelt yet inspiring account of dealing with dementia, and of unexpectedly finding a happy ending.
SEREN | £12.99 | 9781781725184 HB | 280PP | 30 JUNE 2019
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RURAL READING Adrian Lawson (illustrated by Geoff Sawers)
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WHITE HORSE Yan Ge A gripping psychological tale, enlivened by wickedly sharp insights into contemporary small-town life. Yun Yun lives in a small West China town with her widowed father, and an uncle, aunt and older cousin who live nearby. Then, her once-secure world falls apart. Through her eyes, we observe her cousin, Zhang Qing keen to dive into the excitements of adolescence but clashes with repressive parents. Ensuing tensions reveal that the relationships between the two families are founded on a terrible lie.
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HOPEROAD | ÂŁ7.99 | 9781908446985 PB | 80PP | 25 APRIL 2019
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An anthology of poems for children about the fascinating world of dinosaurs. Includes the CLiPPA-award winning Kate Wakeling alongside a whole host of emerging and well-known children’s poets.
ROAR! Now I’ve got your attention, can I interest you in a book of poems about dinosaurs? Though they went extinct 65 million years ago, dinosaurs are still everywhere. They’re on TV, in classrooms and museum collections, but it might still be hard to believe that dinosaurs walked here once. The poets in this anthology bring dinosaurs out of their display cases and into your home. Dragons of the Prime is an anthology for children which tackles the big questions about these larger-than-life creatures. There are poems about dinosaurs in their Jurassic heyday, poems about new discoveries and the latest scientific knowledge, and poems about the history of how humans have imagined these amazing beasts. .
THE EMMA PRESS | £12.00 | 9781912915057 PB | 18 APRIL 2019
SUPER GUPPY Edward van de Vendel (translated by David Colmer) • •
This is a funny, contemporary collection of children’s poems about home life, that will appeal to curious children who questions how the world works. Suitable to be read with children aged 6+, and for children aged 8+ to read unaided.
Have you ever had a pet? Or have you ever stopped to look at all of the small things in your home that make up your life? From wet socks to being tucked into bed at night, and strongly featuring one inspiring guppy fish with real staying power - Super Guppy stays close to home, but it’s a home full of fun, jokes, and surprising adventure. These poems confront the growing pains that every child has to face with good humour and the message that we can learn from our mistakes.They come with a number of writing prompts to get children working on their own poems.
THE EMMA PRESS | £12.00 | 9781910139653 PB | 80PP | 16 MAY 2019
INSECT POEMS Edited by Isabel Galleymore & Fran Lock •
An anthology of wild and wonderful children’s poems which will educate and excite youngsters about the wonders of insects!
Can you imagine a world without bees? Have you ever thought about how dung beetles are awesome recyclers? Insects pollinate, recycle and are an important food source for many animals – they’re tiny but mighty superheroes of the animal kingdom. Isabel Galleymore is an award-winning writer and lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Her poems, which explore ecology and our human place within it, have been published in a number of magazines in the UK and US, whilst her first collection, Significant Other, is forthcoming from Carcanet in 2019. Fran Long is a primary science specialist teacher and fellow of the Primary Science Teaching Trust. She is passionate about fostering curiosity amongst children and is always looking for innovative ways to educate future generations and promote a love of science and the natural world.
THE EMMA PRESS | £10.00 | 9781912915118 PB | 96PP | 27 JUNE 2019
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DRAGONS OF THE PRIME Edited by Richard O’Brien
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HAVOC Tom Kristensen
LOVE/WAR Ebba Witt-Brattström
ZERO Gine Cornelia Pedersen
Copenhagen, 1930. There is a ring at the door of Ole Jastrau’s fifth floor apartment that will ignite a spark of restlessness within his soul, leading him into darkened velvet portiere-entranced bars and brightly glittering night clubs, from the mundane grind of literary criticism to the nocturnal otherworld of alcoholism and prostitution.
“I’m glad to have gotten it over with. And if I can help just one woman to see through this male dominant behaviour, it’s been worth every moment.” Ebba Witt-Brattström, interview with Åsa Asplid, Expressen.se, February 3rd 2016
Gine Cornelia Pedersen debuted with this explosive novel, which won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award. Compared, in its home country of Norway, with a ‘punk rock single’, the unique lyrical style and frank description of life with mental health problems have come together to create one of the most exciting works of fiction from Scandinavia in recent years.
Originally deemed a cynical, pessimistic and, above all, overly revealing - portrayal of life as a newspaperman upon its release in interwar Denmark, Havoc has since gone on to become a much loved modern classic in its home country, with its ‘longed for shipwrecks’ verse becoming one of the most oft quoted in the Danish language. Will Jastrau re-emerge into polite society, or sink to a place from where he will never resurface?
£12.00 | 9780995485204 PB | 6 OCTOBER 2016
So successful in its native Sweden that it has gone on to become both a play and an opera, Ebba Witt-Brattström’s debut novel, Love/War, was originally released in 2016, two years after her much publicised divorce from Swedish Academy chair, Horace Engdahl. A novel of fragments, it is laid out in the form of a hate-filled discourse between the two protagonists, She and He. Peppered with cultural references and in homage to Strindberg as well as Märta Tikkanen, this powerful work from one of the founding members of the Feminist Initiative is unlike anything in contemporary literature right now.
£9.00 | 9780995485228 PB | 9 NOVEMBER 2017
I tell her I’ve stopped taking my pills I write that I’m still not well, that it’s making day-to-day life difficult That I often do things I regret, and that there’s some sort of membrane between what I want to do and whatever I end up doing That I really want to be an actor, but that it’s a dream that seems all too distant for the time being I tell her I use and abuse alcohol and drugs, and that I’ve got a death wish that sometimes becomes difficult to ignore That I don’t know who I am That I change my mind as frequently as I change my socks That I’m horrible to the people around me That my sex life is depraved
£9.00 | 9780995485235 PB | 31 JULY 2018
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Hinterland is a quarterly magazine from UEA Publishing Project showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Each issue features a stellar line-up of writing talent from around the globe: stories by established, best-selling authors as well as a host of exciting new writers making their publishing debut.
Hinterland Issue 1 – Spring 2018 This launch issue stars (among others) Costa Biography Award-winner Rebecca Stott (In the Days of Rain), celebrated journalist Ian Thomson (Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Dead Yard, Primo Levi), an interview with Damian Le Bas (The Stopping Places) a coming of age story by Michael Kineman, a journey across India by Saloni Prasad, photographer Helen James and a glimpse into the world of Tokyo’s Western hostesses by Susan K Burton (shortlisted for the 2018 Tony Lothian Prize). Pages: 244 Format: B-format paperback RRP: £10.00 ISBN: 9781911343851 Pub Date: 01/05/2019 FOR SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS PLEASE CONTACT REBECCA@INPRESSBOOKS.CO.UK.
INDEX Behrens, Kate 11 Bennett, Charles 7 Berenguer, Amanada 8 Bickerton, Derek 36 Borek, Ben 27 Brown, Jude 4 Cain, David 6 Caldwell, Anne 12 Campbell, Hazel D. 36 Carrick-Varty, Joe 22 Catling, Jo 40 Clarke, Jane 8 Clout, Thirza 15 Cohen, Grace 18 Commane, Jane 10 Connell, Sarah 26 Conradi, Peter J. 40 Considine, Chris 13 Cotterill, Emily 15 Cowling, Ruby 27 Davies, Gareth 30 Davies, Rosamund 36 Duffy, Carol Ann 14 Evans, Suzannah 11 Fane Saunders, Tristram 23 Farrell, Nathaniel 17 Fellous, Colette 33 Fisher, Catherine 11 Fitzgerald, Mark 23 Fuentes, Rodrigo 4 Galleymore, Isabel 43 Gatehouse, Victoria 15 Ge, Yan 42 Gerhardt, Maria 35 Gibbs, Jonathan 26 Gohorry, John 22 Goodman, Martin 5 Green, Andy 7 Halperin, Richard W. 13 Hamilton, Nathan 40 Hardwick, Oz 12 Harwicz, Ariana 30 Havelin, Karen 32 Herxheimer, Sophie 37
Hewitt, Seån Higgins, Rita Ann Hippolyte, Kendel Horta, Maria Teresa Humphreys, Ian Jeremy, Emma Johnston, Fred Jones, Math Kehoe, Patrick Kerninon, Julia King, Leilah Jane Larkin, Steve Lawrence, Faith Lawson, Adrian Lock, Fran Magrs, Paul Maharaj, V. J. Mc Ivor, Breanne McCabe, Chris McCullough, John McFadden, Bernice L. Moore, Kim Morra, Isabella Morrison, Kate Mort, Helen Nakamoto, Satoshi Nikolaidis, Andrej Nor-Hansen, Henrik Ntshanga, Masande Nwokoro, Rachel O’Brien, Richard Osman, Jena Pascoli, Giovanni Potts, Cherry Pugh, Sheenagh Rees-Jones, Deryn Rehal, Kim Roberts, Nula Robinson, Jane Robinson, Peter Rodriguez, Reina Maria Rohlehr, Gordon Rose-Innes, Henrietta Sastry, Tom
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Savicević, Olja Savile, Steven Scego, Igiaba Scott, Clive Šehić, Faruk Serre, Anne Strachan, Carole Summers, Malcolm Tamás, Rebecca Tantony, Rebecca Towsey, Lydia Underdown, David van de Vendel, Edward Warr, Nick Webb, Julia Winch, Alison Yassin, Warda Zamir, Ali
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