Inpress Catalogue April - June 2018 by Inpress Ltd

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THE EMMA PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF LOVE Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright (ed.) In The Emma Press Anthology of Love, that familiar four-letter word takes on a world of meanings. Love is written across the sky for the whole world to see and whispered to a partner at the bus stop in the rain. Love is transcendent and love is everyday, found equally in steamy texts and shopping lists. The only reliable thing about it is that it’s never where you expected to find it. Sagasti Building on the success of 2015’s Mildly Erotic Verse, this book explores the diversity of modern romance. Often awkward, never perfect, romantic encounters and relationships are rooted in our own contemporary world of Tinder, Twitter and TV dinners. But they are also part of an enduring tradition, the cornerstone of our common humanity. In this book thirty fresh, diverse and original voices speak to what love means right here, right now, bridging the gap between Hollywood imagery and modern lived experience.

THE EMMA PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910139561 PB | 112PP | 25 JANUARY 2018 | POETRY ANTHOLOGY

FIREFLIES Luis Sagasti How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Luis Sagasti’s bold and original attempt to answer these questions. Taking an eclectic array of influences and personalities from modern history, he teases out events that at first glance seem random and insignificant and proceeds to weave them together masterfully, entertaining as he enlightens. Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Stanley Kubrick, Neil Armstrong, Wittgenstein, Glenn Miller and the Beatles; poets and authors, priests, astronauts and Russian sailors all make an appearance, and Sagasti finds common threads to bind their stories together. Using his unique, poetic and keenly observant style, Sagasti turns the accidents of history into a single, lyrical constellation, and for the reader it’s an extraordinary sight.

CHARCO PRESS | £8.99 | 9781999722746 PB | 96PP | 15 JANUARY 2018 | FICTION

PAMPER ME TO HELL AND BACK Hera Lindsay Bird Love, death, Bruce Willis, public urination, being a woman, love, The Nanny, love. This pamphlet of poetry by Hera Lindsay Bird is a startling departure from her bestselling debut Hera Lindsay Bird by defying convention and remaining exactly the same, only worse. This collection, which focuses on love, childish behaviours, 90’s celebrity references and being a woman is sure to confirm all your worst suspicions and prejudices. In a recent comments section on the Guardian, her work was described as “This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn’t abide by our community standards. Replies may also be deleted. For more detail see our FAQs,” and “This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn’t abide by our community standards. Replies may also be deleted. For more detail see our FAQs.”

THE POETRY BUSINESS | £7.50 | 9781910367841 PB | 32PP | 1 FEBRUARY 2018

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NATURAL PHENOMENA Meryl Pugh Poetry Book Society Spring Wildcard Choice. A city lies in ruins. Spires topple, planes fall. Rubble is broken by wildflower. Birdsong and chatter cut through. Discover the urban wild in Meryl Pugh’s debut collection. Join the poet as flaneuse wandering the city’s hidden spaces to encounter its flora and fauna; its many-voiced song. A book of witnessing and overhearing, Natural Phenomena asks where the beauty is in the city of plastic, wire and glass; holds a mirror up to the self and asks how we contend with loss and absence in a constantly bustling environment.

PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £9.99 | 9781908058508 PB | 74PP | POETRY

THE DEVIL’S DANCE Hamid Ismailov On New Years’ Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, he attempts to mentally reconstruct the novel he was writing at the time of his arrest – based on the tragic life of the Uzbek poet-queen Oyhon, married to three khans in succession, and living as Abdulla now does, with the threat of execution hanging over her. As he gets to know his cellmates, Abdulla discovers that the Great Game of Oyhon’s time, when English and Russian spies infiltrated the courts of Central Asia, has echoes in the 1930s present, but as his identification with his protagonist increases and past and present overlap it seems that Abdulla’s inability to tell fact from fiction will be his undoing. The Devils’ Dance brings to life the extraordinary culture of 19th century Turkestan, a world of lavish poetry recitals, brutal polo matches, and a cosmopolitan and culturally diverse Islam rarely described in western literature.

TILTED AXIS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911284130 PB | 3 MARCH 2018 | FICTION

UKULELE JAM Alen Meskovic Refugees are at the forefront of modern experience and in Ukulele Jam, which tells the story of Miki, a Croatian teenager, and his family escaping the Yugoslav war. Their life in a Croatian refugee camp is turned on its head when war breaks out between Croatia and Bosnia and friends face becoming enemies. Miki wants to emigrate to Sweden with his friends but his parents can’t face leaving their old life in Bosnia. Based on his own experiences, Alen Meskovic has written a novel by turns humorous and tragic. His novel is lively, poetic, raw, affecting and very funny, all the while depicting a European tragedy whose consequences are still with us today. Its subject and resonant style have made Ukulele Jam a European success. It has been translated into German, Croatian, Hungarian and Slovenian, and is being developed as a film in Germany, where it is also a long-running theatre production.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781723425 PB | 280PP | 19 MARCH 2018 | FICTION

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VISITING THE MINOTAUR Claire Williamson Claire Williamson has written a vivid collection of poems: Visiting the Minotaur, full of artful reflections, refractions and re-workings of incidents that reveal a fraught childhood and adolescence, a family riddled with dark secrets and tragedy, and her ensuing quest to escape this legacy and create a happier household for her own family. Each poem fashions its own wordscape of love and loss. Sometimes the author borrows from classic mythology. The image of the minotaur, the beast in the labyrinth, recurs and helps the poet come to terms with and exorcise the violence she experienced as a child. Other useful analogies are found in cubist paintings or etchings, such as the Picasso that inspired the title poem. The labyrinth is sometimes the screen of secrets that keep the author from discovering the facts of her identity (‘Red Herrings’), sometimes it is the Streets of Bristol where the young protagonist has run to escape her difficult family (‘Brizzle’), sometimes it is the formal strategies the author uses to convey her various themes, the stepped or broken lines, the fractured stanzas. There are well-observed poems about the physical aspects of motherhood that add to the literature of that genre. Women will concur with the paradox of ‘Breastfeeding’ where one side is agony and the other, bliss. The poems are not without considerable humour, delicate ironies, tender observations and just plain fun.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724439 PB | 72PP | 30 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

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NOW LEGWARMERS Pascal O’Loughlin “It’s a gem of a book.” Marian Keyes On a housing estate called ClonduffSiberia deep in the middle of nowhere really, the body of a horse named RottingDead lies buried in the garden of a house that no family has moved into yet. The body of this horse does not have the head attached but it does have a heart, and its heart is lonely and filled with longing.” John and his Mother, grieving for his Father, move to ClonduffSiberia. John meets Angela at a youth club disco and she introduces him to kissing, Bowie and cigarettes. Suddenly a girl goes missing and the answer seems to lie in the grown-up world of love and loss John is struggling to navigate. Pursued by vivid ghosts, anxious visions and ne’er-do-wells, John takes us with him as he finds himself in the wrong place.

HENNINGHAM FAMILY PRESS | £11.50 | 9781999797416 PB | 200PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | FICTION

THE BIRACIAL BUTTERFLY Lennox Benson This gloriously illustrated children’s book illuminates contemporary mixed race life from the point of view of a child. A much needed volume, The Biracial Butterfly shows the beauty and magic of identity, and celebrates the lives of interracial families today. Our young hero Skyler is a spunky and sensitive soul surfer, voyaging into the depths of his mind. He assembles the pieces of his cultural jigsaw together with musical rhymes and colourful imagery.

DOG HORN PUBLISHING | £9.99 | 9781907133558 PB | 32PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | CHILDREN’S FICTION

THE BENEFICIARIES Sarah Penny It is 1998. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission is trying to make sense of over 30 years of human rights violations. In London, Lally, a white South African émigré, goes to dinner with Pim, a long-forgotten childhood friend, and his English family. For Lally, adult existence has from choice remained transient, uprooted: a life of little consequence estranged from its own origins. But it is becoming clear that history will reach out, even to the inconsequential, and for Lally to seek out the truths of the child she must breach the hermetic safety of adult refuge. Moving between contemporary London and the rural South Africa of 20 years earlier, The Beneficiaries traces both the young woman’s search for knowledge and self in a society that disallows individuality and the older woman’s journey beyond apathy and disillusionment towards the renewal of vitality and hope. Exploring the shifting relationship between memory, forgetting and denial, South African author Sarah Penny explores the many versions of the truth that can ultimately lead to healing.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853936 PB | 256PP | 19 APRIL 2018 | FICTION

RAINBIRD Peter Mortimer Peter Mortimer’s new full-length play has its world premiere at The Exchange Theatre North Shields for a full week beginning Monday April 23rd 2018. Rainbird is based on the life of the North Shields artist Victor Noble Rainbird who before the First World War was seen as one of the most talented artists in the region and was the only northerner accepted for the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1911, where he won various awards and prizes. Rainbird’s war experiences badly marked him and he ended up ab alcoholic, selling his paintings for liquor in North Shields hostelries. He died in poverty and obscurity at the age of 48 and for 80 years was buried in a pauper’s grave in Preston Cemetery North Shields. Recent interest in his work raised more than £6,000 for a proper headstone and The Old Low Light, North Shields has staged two recent exhibitions of Rainbird’s work. This book contains the full text, rehearsal photos, cast list and a foreword by the author. The play its produced by the North Tyneside based Cloud Nine Theatre Company and directed by Neil Armstrong.

IRON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234171 PB | 72PP | 19 APRIL 2018 | DRAMA

BLACK DOGS AND THE COLOUR YELLOW Christine Barrow Listen carefully: a world within a world echoes in these short stories from Christine Barrow. Here the unmuffled pulse of Barbados beats. Barrow brings us scenes of family squabbles, bitterly unhappy housewives, superstitious salt-of-the-earth grandmothers, disillusioned scholars burning with subterranean desire, alongside young men brined and buttressed by the sea. Each story skillfully unmasks the lie of an ordinary life, or an ordinary island. These characters wrestle with the ghosts of the Panama Canal; they grow up motherless and rudderless, reaching across the Atlantic towards England, their navel strings planted deep in St. Lucy and Bridgetown. Barrow artfully arrests miniature details - a too-sharp crochet hook; a glinting pearl pendant; sea glass that sparkles in sunlight - and from these fragments and slivers she assembles potent realities. Her prose confronts the weight of plantocracy and its embedded privilege, in stories showing how Barbadian history seeps into the rum, rebellion and rhythm of contemporary life.

PEEPAL TRESS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234171 PB | 186PP | 19 APRIL 2018 | SHORT STORIES

GAUDEAMUS Mircea Eliade In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Mircea Eliade recounts the fictional version of his university years in late 1920’s Bucharest. Marked by a burgeoning desire to ‘suck out all the marrow of life’, the protagonist throws himself into his studies; engaging his professors and peers in philosophical discourse, becoming one of the founding members of the Student’s Union, and opening u p the attic refuge of his isolated teenage years as a hotspot for political debate and romantic exploration. Readers will recognize in these pages the joy of a life about to blossom, of the search for knowledge and the desire for true love. Already an accomplished writer as a young man, this follow-up to his Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent reveals a keen observer of human behavior, a seeker of truth and spiritual fulfillment whose path would eventually lead him to become the ultimate historian of 20th-century religions.

ISTROS BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781908236340 PB | 25 APRIL 2018 | FICTION

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I, IOLO Gareth Thomas A first-person retelling of the story of Iolo Morganwg – from his boyhood to the Glynogwr Gorsedd of 1798. Iolo Morganwg had many faces: stonemason, selftaught scholar, poet, hymnist, politician, patriot, revolutionary, druid, failed businessman, drug addict, campaigner for human rights and perpetrator of the greatest act of literary forgery in European history. We follow his adventurous quest to achieve fame for himself, respect for his culture, and freedom from oppression in a malevolent world. Based on the true story of one of the most colourful characters in Welsh and British history – admired by many as a hero who helped create the identity of modern Wales, and reviled by others as a conman and cheat.

Y’LOLFA | £9.99 | 9781784614515 PB | 30 APRIL 2018 | FICTION

MONSOON DIARIES Joseph Woods Between the birth of the poet’s daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diaries attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid-life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future. Monsoon Diaries strikes an often elegiac tone, betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age. But it also bears witness to a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy, finds the seeds of a new half-crown of sonnets in a single line of Catullus, and, in Driving to Delvin, a poem of 84 couplets, breaks out into a kind of road movie of spirited and sometimes random association, bringing all of the book’s many themes and ideas, its fears and hopes, together in a celebration of forward motion, of living itself.

DEDALUS PRESS | £10.50 | 9781910251355 PB | 80PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

DEPARTURE LOUNGE John Barnie Departure Lounge returns to the theme of mortality with characteristic insight and honesty. Concerned not only with how we characterise and cope with death, but with a sense of urgency for all that is being lost, culturally or ecologically, this is deeply intelligent collection. Accessible yet exacting; lyrical but without a wasted word, these poems unspool in single, unassailable sentences that ring with truth.

CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781788640091 PB | 76PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE Stephen Sawyer Stephen Sawyer’s remarkable first collection is a book about politics – public dreams, private desires and common fears. From a Merseyside housing estate in the 1960s via Pinochet and Thatcher to the Sheffield floods of 2007, these poems trace the sutures of power and resistance on the body and under the skin through the mediations of love, death, class, art and oppression. They raise questions about identity and belonging in a time of rapid structural and technological change, and celebrate the creativity and courage of individual and collective responses. There Will Be No Miracles Here is a book of passion and humour about people who live at the sharp edge.

SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999827601 PB | 96PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

THE MALVERN AVIATOR Richard Skinner In language that is both precise and strange, Richard Skinner’s poems tip certainties on their heads, making familiar objects in the world unfamiliar: a mountain is not what it seems, a skull contains a universe. Alongside this process of ‘making-strange’ lies a deep connection with sound, colour, temperature and scent that brings the poems fully to life. Questions of faith run through many of these poems, with subjects ranging from the Lollards and Buddhist Bardos to Saint Fabiola. There are personal poems too; a summer affair, family narratives about his grandmother’s difficult marriage and his mother’s time abroad as a young au pair. These poems engage with form – the cento, the cinquain, the unrhymed sonnet, cut-ups and free verse – in enigmatic, other-worldy ways that constantly surprise and please.

SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £4.99 | 9780995767584 PB | 28PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

PRECARIOUS Peter Raynard Peter Raynard’s debut collection Precarious takes questions of masculinity, class, mental health and work head on - issues that many people, especially men and boys, find difficult to address. Rosa Luxembourg, Orgreave, 11-plus failures, tic-tac men, a priest from central casting and a man who only eats sandwiches – it’s a book about precarious times, hard lessons and fragile lives, a defiant celebration of British working-class life and the people ‘who make the wheels go round’; provocative, funny, poignant and bloody angry.

SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995767591 PB | 96PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

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HOW LONG IS NOT LONG? Daphne Gloag Daphne Gloag writes remarkable poems of cosmic scale. Yet, taking complex concepts such as time and cosmology as her references leads not to dense inaccessibility, but to conversational meditations on the human condition. Essentially her work is about love; effective and moving pieces about loss, about how we go on loving in the face of mortality, about what time might mean when weighed against the power of human emotion. In this exquisite sequence the carefulness of the research shines out, but even brighter is the enduring nature of love.

CINNAMON PRESS | £5.99 | 9781788640244 PB | 32PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

BROKEN PEOPLE Katrine Solvaag Broken People is a tale of breaking and healing. In her debut collection Katrine Lynn Solvaag merges elements of page and performance poetry to explore how words can convey experiences, inspired by the rush of modern day life. The collection stands as a fractured mirror reflecting how the good and bad in life often comes hand-in-hand. Within are poems voicing her struggle with depression, attempts to keep in touch with her Norwegian roots, the loss of her grandfather to cancer, adventures with new friends, and the ecstasy of falling in love closely followed by the hurt caused when it all goes wrong.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570325 PB | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

NERD PUNK Henry Raby Comic books and cartoons. Protest and politics. Anarchism, Feminism and Nerdism. Henry Raby combines a fist-in-the air punk rage with an introspective world-building love for nerd culture. From the simple and playful world of toys and games through to revolutionary ideas, this collection is about growing up, friendship, home, resistance and rage.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9/99 | 9781911570318 PB | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

SUBURBAN Paul Cree Suburban is a collection of stories and poems by Paul Cree, charting his experiences from growing up in a Surrey satellite town on the London commuter belt to living in the Big Smoke itself. Themes covered include class, education, music, football, low aspiration, relationships and generally struggling to find one’s place in the world and simultaneously trying to make sense of it.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570301 PB | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

MOON MILK Rachel Bower Through pregnancy, birth and early childhood, Rachel Bower’s poetry takes us on an unsentimental journey from womb to world. Along the way, she explores the largely unmapped territories of loss, bewilderment, shame, transformation and betrayal, reclaiming the intimate histories, mythologies and wisdom our bodies share. This thought-provoking collection takes a frank, unflinching look at the joys and challenges of modern parenting, moving seamlessly between the mysterious, almost magical stages that make us what we are – people who create people.

VALLEY PRESS | £6.99 | 9781908853837 PB | 36PP | 5 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

TALES FROM THE LEAKING BOOT Matt Black In Tales from the Leaking Boot we ride four travel journals of wide-eyed, sharp and humorous haiku: through the streets of Austin, Texas; on a road trip through philosophy, cheese and the unlikely role of Mr Bean in Germany; into lemon groves, fish markets and Vodaphone ring-tones through Turkey; and finally to the Amusement Arcades and the shell-strewn beach, where Jonny Donut watches the horizon in Cleethorpes. Evocative, sometimes satirical, and occasionally hilarious, we look with a squint glance at landscape, people and the haiku form itself. These are the reflective haiku’s wild outlaw cousin, having fun and walking the wire.

IRON PRESS | £7.00 | 9780995457928 PB | 56PP | 10 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

This collection, prepared in honour of Ian McDonald’s 85th year, shows just why he has been one of the Caribbean’s best loved poets. Hailed as the ultimate Caribbean man, his life’s work, has included many critically acclaimed individual collections. Sustained by family and friends, warmly recorded in poems celebrating the rewards of domesticity, McDonald acknowledges a life that has been blessed in many respects, but his poems avoid any sense of comfortable self-satisfaction, written as they are with an acutely sensitive and self-reflexive awareness of inherited privilege as a white man in the Caribbean. With jewelled gifts for both description and narration, few Caribbean poets have portrayed more splendidly the natural beauties of the region or written more empathetically of the hidden gifts of character and achievement amongst the unremarked lives of the nation’s poorest and least acknowledged. His work ranges in focus on the smallest and nearest things – an ants’ nest, a flower – to humble speculations about human purpose in the context of the infinite. His poetry has taught generations of readers to see the world around them with fresh eyes.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £17.99 | 9781845234034 PB | 350PP | 10 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

A BOAT TO LESBOS Nouri al-Jarrah A Boat to Lesbos is a powerful and compelling epic poem, written while thousands of Syrian refugees were enduring frightening journeys across the Mediterranean before arriving on the small island. The poet visited the island during this time and documented what he saw. Set out like a Greek tragedy, it is a passionate and dramatic witness to the horrors and ravages suffered by Syrian families forced to flee their destroyed country, seen through the eye of history, the poetry of Sappho and the travels of Odysseus.

BANIPAL BOOKS | £9.99 | 9780995636941 PB | 112PP | 10 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

RIVERRAIN Robert Powell Riverrain is a new collection of poetry from veteran Canadian poet Robert Powell. Themes include his adopted hometown of York, the results of a lifetime’s obsession with rivers and all that flows with them.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912436019 PB | 96PP | 12 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

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COLLECTED POEMS Ian McDonald

CHOSEN HILL Sue Leigh It is often winter in Sue Leigh’s poems. The darkness is almost always weighed against a pale sun - the brightness to be found in nature, quiet, making. Or in a loved place where one can walk among old trees and listen to the wind. Leigh is a poet interested in the possibilities and limitations of language, in particular the relationship of sound to silence and how we may catch hold of the living moment. Whether she travels to Japan or walks in the fields near home, whether the time is now or the distant past, she inhabits a world that is both mysterious and familiar. How might we live in such a world, what matters in a life and what of ourselves do we leave behind?

TWO RIVERS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909747357 PB | 56PP | 21 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

NOMINY-DOMINY Lesley Saunders Nominy-Dominy, Lesley Saunders’ fourth collection, is an extended praise-song for the Greek and Latin literature she grew up with as a schoolgirl. These poems respond, in oblique and glancing ways, to the riches of these two cultures: brief glimpses into the dream-world of the Iliad and Odyssey, vignettes of an estranged Roman Britain, and windows onto the mediaeval Latin lyric. Three long poems – contemplating ‘The Uses of Greek’, imagining the poet Sappho living out her life on the island of Inishbofin, and celebrating ‘The Farness of Latin’ – mark transitions between thematic clusters of shorter pieces. Nominy-Dominy, with its vivid enactment of how and why antiquity continues to shape us, will confirm what Michael Hulse, writing in The Poetry Review of her 2012 Cloud Camera, found to be a “most intelligent and thrilling book of poetry.”

TWO RIVERS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909747340 PB | 108PP | 21 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

OCEAN OF STATIC J.R. Carpenter From the late 15th century onwards a flurry of voyages were made into the North Atlantic in search of fish, the fabled Northwest Passage, and beyond into territories purely imaginary. Today this vast expanse is crisscrossed with ocean and wind currents, submarine cables and wireless signals, seabirds and passengers, static and cargo ships. In her long-awaited poetry debut, award-winning digital writer and artist J.R. Carpenter transforms the dense, fragmented archive of the North Atlantic into an astonishing sea of fresh new text. Cartographic and maritime vernaculars inflected with the syntax and grammar of ships logs and code languages splinter and pulse across the page. Haunting, politically charged and formally innovative, An Ocean of Static presents an ever-shifting array of variables. Amid global currents of melting sea ice and changing ocean currents, Carpenter charts the elusive passages of women and animals, of indigenous people and migrants, of strange noises and phantom islands.

PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £12.00 | 9781908058461 PB | 150PP | 24 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

Kate Foley is a much published and respected poet with many awards to her name. This, her 8th collection is made from meeting, migration and marriage: poems reflecting the journey of one poet and her wife, across linguistic and geographical boundaries - and with Brexit in the offing, it’s far from over yet.

ARACHNE PRESS | £8.99 | 9781909208537 PB | 48PP | 26 APRIL 2018

IN HER SHAMBLES Elizabeth Parker Spikey, provocative, declamatory, these energetic poems from Elizabeth Parker’s debut collection from Seren sweep the reader along through their narratives, quite literally so in ‘Rivers’ where friends and family members take on the various characteristics of different bodies of water. Parker likes to extend her symbols and metaphors beyond the short lyric. Her poems are often more than two pages, giving them a discursive, meditative feel that contrasts well with her lively verb-rich syntax. She is as good at observing a casual conversation as she is in delving deeply and more intensely into close relationships. Notable here are her ‘slant’ love poems as well as her poem about a father prone to ‘rescues’ from the “Barely-there weight of the pipistrelle/ he scooped from the outdoor loo” to his daughters “calling to him from their cities”. In Her Shambles is a delightful and distinctive debut from Elizabeth Parker.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724460 PB | 64PP | 30 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

PRIMERS VOLUME 3 Jane Commane & Hannah Lowe (ed) The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press are delighted to announce the arrival of Primers Volume 3, the third year of an annual scheme which creates a unique opportunity for talented poets to find publication and receive a programme of supportive feedback, mentoring and promotion. The scheme will select three poets whose work will feature together in the book, showcasing short debut collections of work. 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 Jane Commane (Nine Arches’ poetry editor), Hannah Lowe (poet) and the Poetry School, Primers 3 will nurture and support 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, and find audiences for their work. Following editing and mentoring with Hannah and Jane, the Primers Volume 3 collection will be published by Nine Arches Press, and a further series of live events will showcase the three chosen poets at festivals and shows around the country.

NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027409 PB | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY ANTHOLOGY

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GIFT OF RIVERS Kate Foley

KOLME | TRE Carita Nyström, Marko Hautala, & Ralf Andtbacka

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In this new anthology three Finnish writers (two writing in Finnish, one in Swedish) translate their own poetry to English. The work is acutely aware of, and responds to, the identity, language and heritage of Ostrobothnia, Finland, as well as the linguistic and emotional nuances of North England’s history. Imagine a north further than north, the fragmentation of lakes and archipelagos between memory and mythology, old Russia and new Europe, the certainty of landscape and the intricacy of machines, a place, a book, where light, dark and weather are the absolutes we navigate ourselves between.

THE POETRY BUSINESS | £7.95 | 9781912196067 PB | 36PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | POETRY ANTHOLOGY

IN TRANSIT Sarah Jackson & Tim Youngs (ed) Whether local or global, by foot or by ferry, we tend to look upon journeys in terms of departure and arrival. However much we enjoy or endure it, travel from one place to another is often understood simply as a means of getting from A to B. But what happens en route? How are our thoughts set in motion during these journeys? What is the relationship between our inner selves and our surroundings? How do we interact with or ignore our fellow passengers? How does the mode of travel affect our perception of the environment? Do journeys change or confirm us? Are we different beings while travelling? And what happens when we are forced to travel, or when we no choice but to stay put? In Transit is a collaboration between the award-winning Emma Press and the Centre for Travel Writing Studies at Nottingham Trent University.

THE EMMA PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910139943 PB | 96PP | 26 APRIL 2018 | POETRY ANTHOLOGY

TRY THE WILDERNESS FIRST Jonathan Miles Try the Wilderness First: Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel-y-Ffin is the story of artist Eric Gill’s artistic and religious community in the Black Mountains of Wales during the 1920s, told through the character and work of Gill himself and David Jones, two of Britain’s most significant twentieth century artists. In it Jonathan Miles offers a commentary on the radical Catholicism of Gill and on the community’s Arts and Crafts-style focus on the handmade at its base in a former monastery. Capel-y-ffin’s remoteness offered Gill time to develop his religious thinking but also to experiment with his sexuality. For Jones it offered escape from his wartime experiences and a cultural homecoming which resulted in a productive period of painting and engraving. The personality and practice of both men was to be marked indelibly by their time there and in this new edition of his book Jonathan Miles incorporates new images and new research into a page-turning and accessible narrative.

SEREN | £12.99 | 9781781724019 PB | 220PP | 2 APRIL 2018 | ART HISTORY

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Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) was a controversial author, most famous for his stories in My People, copies of which were publicly burned in Cardiff. Stylistically inventive, the stories unflinchingly (and unflatteringly) criticised Edwardian Welsh society. The Western Mail called it “the literature of the sewer”. English reviewers claimed it was “a book of great literary merit” and “a triumph of art”. The response defined the rest of Evans’s literary career. In Caradoc Evans: The Devil in Eden John Harris has written the definitive biography of Evans. He investigates what lay behind the writing and its impact on Wales and beyond. Evans is also revealed as a polemicist on issues like the rights of workers, the conduct of the Great War, and the status of women. As Harris argues, challenging convention was his life’s work. Extensively researched and brilliantly written, Caradoc Evans: The Devil in Eden is a revelatory and necessary insight into the man, his country and his times.

SEREN | £19.99 | 9781781724354 HB | 456PP | 16 APRIL 2018 | BIOGRAPHY

A COMING OF AGE Ros Franklin A Coming of Age is a celebration of the work of the first 18 years of the Eden Project Florilegium Society, fondly called the ‘Flori’ by its members. The Society was founded in 2000 to record plants in Cornwall and those held at The Eden Project in particular, which opened its gates to the public in the same year. There are over 140 paintings in the archives donated by 31 different artists, many of whom exhibit nationally and internationally and hold RHS Gold medals for their work. “Each artist donates their time and their paintings generously to The Archives and The Trustees of The Eden Project. In gratitude and in order to acknowledge their generosity, skill and talent, this book has been written and compiled to help bring their work to a wider audience and demonstrate the quality of botanical illustration held by the Trustees. I hope it inspires our current members (of which there are 22 actively painting) to continue to paint and document this inspirational collection of plants, and others to join. This is my gift to these very special people.” Ros Franklin, Chairman of the ‘Flori’.

TWO RIVERS PRESS | £24.99 | 9781909747364 HB | 120PP | 21 APRIL 2018

REAL CARDIFF: THE FLOURISHING CITY Peter Finch

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Discover more of Cardiff in this latest volume by Peter Finch, Real Cardiff: The Flourishing City. The Cardiffian continues his vigorous exploration of the obvious and the hidden vistas of the city, discovering new treasures and revisiting past haunts to find them drastically altered over just ten years. The pace of change has never been quicker, surpassing the booms of the city’s nineteenth century heyday, and the clearances and redevelopment of the 1960s and 1970s. Here are the last days of Dic Penderyn, the ornate Mahogany Room above Burger King, the battle for the Vulcan pub, the wedding at Charles Street Carnival, the inside track on Howell’s School, the Cross at Culver, the Great Heath, and the lure of Penylan Quarry, among so many other excursions. Jan Morris called Real Cardiff “one of the very best books about a city I have ever read”, and in this latest book Peter Finch has captured the essence of Cardiff again. Whether you are a Cardiffian or an outsider, this book continues the story of Cardiff, and of so many places.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724699 PB | 240PP | 23 APRIL 2018 | LOCAL HISTORY

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CARADOC EVANS: THE DEVIL IN EDEN John Harris

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THE ART OF WHITE ROSES Viviana Prado-Núñez Winner of the 2017 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. It is 1957 and in Cuba, a revolution is brewing. Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Adela in her quiet Havana suburb when two students in the street go missing, a cousin is caught up in the bombing of a luxury hotel and her parents’ marriage is in turmoil. The Art of White Roses is the passionate and poetic story of what it’s like to be a teenager when bad things happen and it’s not your fault.

PAPILLOTE PRESS | £7.99 | 9781999776824 PB | 192PP | 31 MAY 2018 | YOUNG ADULT FICTION

In the 1930s, Chiara emigrates from Italy to forge a new and better life in Wales. She works in an Italian café in a close-knit mining town in the Valleys, encountering religious bigotry, xenophobia and hardship as she and her Italian boss battle to make a success of their new life. But at the heart of their endeavour is a love triangle which threatens to destroy everything they have. Meanwhile present-day Welsh-Italian Frankie struggles to find the money and hope to hold her family together in the same Valleys community. With her husband letting her down at every turn, she faces tough decisions about exactly how far she’s prepared to go to keep the wolf from the door, and whether what she has is actually worth fighting for. Though they’re living in very different time periods and situations, the two women’s lives reveal unexpected connections and commonalities, not least of which is their strength and determination to face down whatever life throws at them and carve out something better for themselves and those they love.

Y’LOLFA | £8.99 | 9781784615239 PB | 320PP | 7 MAY 2018 | FICTION

EARTHEN GATE Jia Pingwa Constantly bickering with her shallow friend Brow, beginning correspondence courses she will never finish, helping sage-like Grandpa Cloud Forest with his mystical healing and stealthily avoiding matrimony with her less-than-impressive fiancé Old Ran, Plum’s life appears to be puttering along what seems like a tediously predictable path. But then the village home she cherishes comes under threat from big city capitalists and she finds herself thrust into a series of adventures with a mercurial rogue called Chivalry. Jia Pingwa’s The Earthen Gate was an instant bestseller in his native China and now looks set to make waves in its first-ever English translation. This raucous, and at times achingly poignant, tale combines earthy humour, ancient wisdom and thrilling action to highlight the impact of creeping urbanisation on traditional country folk.

VALLEY PRESS | £10.99 | 9781912436026 PB | 480PP | 7 MAY 2018

STARING BACK AT ME Tony Bianchi Tracing life from a childhood in an Italian-English family on Tyneside to becoming a Welsh-speaking freelance writer in Cardiff, Eisteddfod-winning author Tony Bianchi leads the reader through a series of increasingly bizarre vignettes. Each section is a free-standing short story but read together they form a ludic, untrustworthy autobiography where the rug of humdrum normality is constantly pulled from under our feet. Did Bianchi ever play football in a Cardiff park with notorious Serbian war-lord Arkan? Is the floor of his local pub a concrete realisation of an M.C. Escher painting? In England, Wales, and beyond, Bianchi introduces a series of extraordinary characters, from the devout, indulgence-collecting, organ-playing grandfather, to the plumber and Cumbrian nationalist Caedmon, or the piano-playing pharmacist with carpal tunnel syndrome. And there, constantly leading us from one potentially disastrous situation to another, is the author as anti-hero, always earnestly self-deprecating, always reinventing himself, always challenging our assumptions about identity, time and memory.

CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781788640107 PB | 220PP | 7 MAY 2018 | FICTION (SHORT STORIES)

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HEAR THE ECHO Rob Gittins

FISH SOUP Margarita García Robayo Uncomfortable family situations, unfortunate health conditions, people on the brink of survival – this is what each story in this collection captures, every ripple and every echo that travels from one person to another. With narrative ease and a seductive pull, Margarita García Robayo reminds us that sometimes intimate struggles are as fragile as they are political, and there is nothing but time that keeps us going. Longing to get out of the coastal village where she lives, an ambitious girl thinks up the best plan for escape: becoming a flight attendant. In her cynical and sad voice and a dark, dirty city, we find the other side of the happy Caribbean. In this context, another American dream is lived and relationships start to fumble and bring claustrophobia. It’s a habitat that naturalizes petty violence and where the accepted code is competition and necessity. A story that ponders the destiny of its characters in the middle of catastrophes that can be real, self-provoked or the result of an intelligent strategy.

CHARCO PRESS | £9.99 | 9781999859305 PB | 200PP | 21 MAY 2018 | FICTION

FLEETING SNOW Pavel Vilikovský Pavel Vilikovský’s novella Fleeting Snow (Letmý sneh, 2014), depicts the gradual loss of memory of the narrator’s wife. The narrator reminisces about his past life with his wife and muses on issues ranging from human nature and the soul to names and the phonetics of Slovak and indigenous American Indian languages, in an informal, humorous style whose lightness of touch belies the seriousness of his themes. The book’s title refers to its recurring central motif, an avalanche whose inexorable descent cannot be stopped once the critical mass of snow has begun to roll, echoing the unstoppable process of memory loss. Five themes or storylines, intertwined in passages of varying lengths, are labelled with letters of the alphabet and numbers in a playful allusion to scholarly works and musical compositions.

ISTROS BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781908236371 PB | 28 MAY 2018 | FICTION

HOME HOME Lisa Allen-Agostini

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A coming-of-age tale with a twist: a 14-year-old clinically depressed Trinidadian girl, who has attempted suicide, is banished by her mother to Canada to live with her aunt. She feels lonely in exile. Adding to this estrangement is the fact that her aunt is a lesbian - which is deemed shameful in Trinidad. But with the help of a boy and her Skyping best friend “back home” in Trinidad, she begins to accept her new family and her illness. Then her mother arrives and threatens to take her back to Trinidad. Where then is home?

PAPILLOTE PRESS | £6.99 | 9781999776831 PB | 31 MAY 2018 | YOUNG ADULT FICTION

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In The AQI, David Tait examines the world in four sections. The first looks at city life: the people within the city; the way people interact within cities; cultural differences; and the surrealness he has experienced whilst being a foreigner in China. These poems are seeking to make a connection, or seek an explanation of cultural differences and their complexities. The second section is all about the environment and air pollution. The Air Quality Index, or the AQI, is the measurement of particulate matter in the atmosphere. The AQI examines the effect that this has on day-to-day life, particularly during the winter. The third section relates to human rights, particularly LGBT rights, and the impact of a changing world. The final section tries to find some calm, and to integrate some sense of the pastoral (the world David Tait is from) into the city.

THE POETRY BUSINESS | £9.95 | 9781910367919 PB | 75PP | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

ORPHEUS Theo Dorgan In the two parallel sequences that make up this collection, Orpheus, the lyric singer of ancient Greece, is brought back to life twice: the original singer is returned to the world after being torn apart by maenads, and his spirit finds new voice in a singer-songwriter of the present moment. “One of the great keepers of the Grail of Irish poetry in the current era.” The Irish Times “Dorgan [does] things no contemporary British poet would risk.” Poetry Review

DEDALUS PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910251300 PB | 80PP | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

LIFTING THE LATCH Frank Dullaghan Finely honed, thoughtful and affecting, Frank Dullaghan’s accessible poetry is increasingly assured and poised. His language is clear and elegant, but the apparent simplicity contains a depth of experience that these these poems memorable. Digging deep into memory, but eschewing sentimentality, Frank Dullaghan’s poetry is insightful, poignant, but ultimately life-affirming. Excerpt from: ‘The Day of the Robin’ Dundalk 1966 I grew to understand it often rained inside my father’s head, that sometimes he went under, drowned. But that day he put out his hand and the robin came to him, a small flutter of surprise from the close bush.

CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781788640114 PB | 80PP | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

MAY

THE AQI David Tait

BROKEN COMPASS Carys Hannah How do you navigate your own path when you have no sense of direction? When did you stop believing in dragons? How would you react if you discovered portraits of your ex in an erotic art exhibition? Broken Compass is a collection of poems and vignettes accumulated over the past decade. Carys Hannah shares snapshots and stories about muddling through adulthood, complex relationships, mental health, social issues, education, and travel.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570349 PB | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

MY OTHER POEMS ARE FUNNIER Beryl the Feral This book is a homage to the valiant ones who reach their limit and then keep on stretching; to embrace their challenges, forgive their fears, own their imperfections, and Show-Up, in spite of it all… A tour through the treacherous terrain of Beryl the Feral’s mind; where self-esteem battles the sirens of shame and sabotage daily. Tipping her hat with cheerful accuracy at some intimate and awkward places along the way, Beryl brings keen observations of her own inner-dialogue and dysfunction, and gets her own back by exposing her neuroses as entertainment so we can all have a good laugh.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570363 PB | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

SPLIT Amani Saeed This book is split into two. One half is about what it means to be a constant other, perceived as both a foreigner and a westerner, a Muslim who is ‘not Muslim enough.’ The other half is about abuse and the aftermath: trauma, healing, and learning how to love differently. Both halves are about coming to terms with a patchwork self that is forever being split and stitched back together.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570387 PB | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

MAY

VERY FRIENDLY WEAPON James M’Kay The poems in Very Friendly Weapon run the course of an impossible year, the accumulation of several years’ explorations and discoveries: poet James M’Kay travels as far as Turkey and Tennessee while still struggling to leave Tyneside, developing interests in death, flying, and regular metre.Looking forward into the Great Uncertainty, and back through childhood and history into myth, they were written in between summer seasons working as a tour guide across Europe. All have been performed in spoken word venues across the UK as the scene rapidly expanded between 2011 and 2017. Some were featured in the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Show The Boy with the Moomin Tattoo (for PBH Free Fringe).

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570356 PB | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

DIRTY LAUNDRY Deborah Alma Deborah Alma’s debut Dirty Laundry, to be published in May 2018 by Nine Arches Press, is raucous, sexy and brilliantly honest - a rich mix of sharply observed, funny and often poignant poetry. Deborah Alma runs the world’s first and only mobile poetic first aid service from her base in Newtown, Powys. A mix of the serious, the therapeutic and the theatrical, the Emergency Poet offers consultations inside her vintage 1970s ambulance and prescribes poems as cures. She is also the editor of the anthologies The Emergency Poet: an Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology and The Everyday Poet: Poems to Live By (both Michael O’Mara Books Ltd). Her pamphlet True Tales of the Countryside was published by The Emma Press in 2015.

NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027416 PB | 72PP | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

SUNLIGHT John O’Donnell Formally adept and animated by an intimate, often humorous voice, the poems in Dubliner John O’Donnell’s three previous collections find their inspiration in subjects as diverse as history, art (not least religious art), a variety of sports, and family relationships. Throughout, O’Donnell’s imagination is alive and curious, “A gleam, this new idea in his head,” as he writes in ‘Volta’, his poem on Joyce’s famous Dublin cinema. Though modest in number, the new poems included here make up a deeply moving journey through the recent loss of a parent and the hopeful emergence into light again.

DEDALUS PRESS | £12.00 | 9781910251317 PB | 150PP | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

SELECTED POEMS Dennis Casling

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The selected poems of Dennis Casling. Dennis read English at Nottingham University and took and MA in Medieval Studies at Bristol. He worked as a schoolteacher, college lecturer and finally a consultant and trainer in the fields of Social Care, Education and the Arts. He was overall winner of the Poetry Business Competition (2000) for his collection, Endorphin Angels, which became a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2001. He continued to publish in poetry magazines, including The North, Rialto, Poetry London and Poetry Review until his death in 2016. “His poetry is a balance of different voices, full of verbal and imagistic delight.” Philip Gross

THE POETRY BUSINESS | £9.95 | 9781910367926 PB | 75PP | 7 MAY 2018 | POETRY

ERRATICS Cathy Bryant In the red corner: the muck, grit and harsh truths of life. In the blue corner: the beauty of the natural world and the vivid variety provided by imagination. Cathy Bryant is dancing about somewhere in between. To continue the boxing ring metaphor to a silly (but possibly accurate) degree, the other two corners are culture and experience, the canvas is time and the poet on the ropes of conscience. For Cathy is stuck as a misfit. Born in the south, she lives in the north. from a middle class home, she is working class by poverty and experience. She knows what it’s like to be homeless, and what it’s like to pick a dirty penny off the pavement and be happy to have it, and she also know the correct way to address a duchess, and whether to put the milk in first. She doesn’t fit in anywhere - except at poetry events, where you can’t know whether the person next to you is a convicted felon, a linguistics professor, or both.

ARACHNE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909208568 PB | 64PP | 17 MAY 2018 | POETRY

SOME CANNOT BE CAUGHT Liane Strauss & Anja Konig (ed.) Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of Beasts rustles and roars with the voices of animals and humans, co-existing on Earth with varying degrees of harmony. A scorpion appears in a shower; a deer jumps in front of a car. A swarm of snowfleas seethes through leaf litter; children bait a gorilla at the zoo. The poems in this anthology examine hierarchy, herds, power, and the price we pay for belonging.

THE EMMA PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910139882 PB | 80PP | 24 MAY 2018 | POETRY ANTHOLOGY

If you look up on a cloudy day, you’ll see a whole new surprising world above you the world of clouds! The Book of Clouds is an introduction to this world - and the guide you’ll want by your side to help you understand it. A mix of dreamy fantasy and scientific fact, this is the perfect gift for any child with their head stuck in the clouds - and for anyone who has ever wondered what’s up there in the skies above. This book is ideal for children to use as a starting point for their own imaginative creative play. It is full of playful poems, inspiring, anarchic illustrations, and guides to all of the different aspects of clouds that you could want to know about. With 25 poems and many full-page illustrations that use watercolour and collage, you won’t be able to pick The Book of Clouds up without wanting to immediately start making your own cloud diary. So The Book of Clouds comes with 9 pages for your own notes and sketches at the end - let it truly become YOUR book of clouds!

THE EMMA PRESS | £12.00 | 9781910139141 HB | 88PP | 3 MAY 2018 | CHILDREN’S POETRY

THE QUEEN OF SEAGULLS Ruta Briede Renata may not seem like your average hero. She’s an angry neighbour who complains about the people around her, steals food that has been left out for the birds, and yells if she ever hears music. But there is much more to her… what are the seagulls trying to tell her? And what does the accordionist’s mysterious song really mean? In order to find out the answers to these questions, Renata needs to learn about herself, and overcome her past mistakes. Everyone has secrets and problems. How do we overcome them and build a better life for us and those around us? Renata needs to work that out - and she’s going to take you along on her magical journey of self-discovery… The Queen of Seagulls is a contemporary, refreshing picture book, suitable for all ages, and illustrated with expressive, bold artwork that is full of personality. It is written and drawn by Ruta Briede, a leading illustrator and instructor at the Latvian Academy of Arts.

THE EMMA PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910139134 PB | 44PP | 3 MAY 2018 | CHILDREN’S FICTION

CONFLICT, WAR AND REVOLUTION: MY LIFE Alessandra Kozlowska

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Conflict, War and Revolution: My Life, the memoir of Baroness Alessandra Kozlowska (1892-1975), is a vivid retelling of her life from childhood to the end of the Second World War. It begins with her life of wealth and status in the Caucasus, where her father was in oil, and ends with internment as an alien in rural Italy, in Ospedaletto. In between she survived two revolutions in Russia and the subsequent civil war, her travels in central Europe during World War One, her life in Italy during the inter-war years, and her internment there, almost terminated by German forces. It is the story of her struggle to keep her family together through the huge and sometimes deadly changes of early twentieth century Europe.

SEREN | £12.99 | 9781781724491 HB | 240PP | 14 MAY 2018 | BIOGRAPHY

MAY

THE BOOK OF CLOUDS Juris Kronbergs

DON’T STOP THE CARNIVAL Kevin Le Gendre Don’t Stop the Carnival tells the story of Black British Music and the people who made it, from Tudor times to the mid ‘60s. Based on extensive research and many first-hand interviews, one of the great virtues of Kevin Le Gendre’s book is lack of London-centricity, its recognition that much important development took place in cities such as Manchester, Leeds and Bristol. As a noted reviewer of black music for the BBC, the Independent, Echoes and other journals, Le Gendre brings together both a sense of historical purpose and the ability to actually describe music in vivid and meaningful ways.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £19.99 | 9781845233617 PB | 320PP | 15 MAY 2018 | MUSIC

TWENTY THEATRES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE Amber Massie-Blomfield Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die is a love letter to British theatre. Join Amber Massie-Blomfield as she veers off the beaten track to discover the pasts and present of the UK’s most unique performance spaces. Taking in incredible locations, unusual histories and vital communities, this is a testament to thriving in unlikely circumstances, asking what theatre can teach us today about what it means to be together. In a journey informed by a lifelong passion, Massie-Blomfield visits Theatre Royal Bath, The Minack, The Rose, Tom Thumb Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Contact Theatre Manchester, Mull’s Comar, Battersea Arts Centre, The Theatre of Small Conveniences, Slunglow Hub, Morecambe Palace Gardens, Berkshire’s Watermill, Edinburgh’s Summerhall and the building-site of Chester’s new venue.

PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £12.00 | 9781908058454 PB | 200PP | 25 MAY 2018 | TRAVEL / THEATRE

TALKING TO WOMEN Nell Dunn With an introduction from Ali Smith. In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. Novelist Edna O’Brien remembers being ‘very frightened’ of having her nipples touched. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty says she got married to the ‘first man I could talk very freely to’. Kathy Collier, who Dunn worked with in a Battersea sweet factory, confesses that she had thought about suicide. After more than forty years out of print, Talking to Women is still as sparkling, honest, profound, funny and wise as when it was first published. With a new afterword by Nell Dunn. “Nell Dunn has always specialised in listening to women talking. To do this successfully means a delicate sense of time and place, and she is an artist in both. Penelope Fitzgerald

SILVER PRESS | £10.99 | 9780995716216 PB | 170PP | 29 MAY 2018 | WOMEN’S STUDIES

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SWARM OF DUST Evald Flisar “Evald Flisar, Slovene man of letters extraordinaire, undertakes fearless forays into the bizarre ways in which the mind works.” Eileen Battersby, Irish Times “Flisar has the rare ability as a writer to move the reader from laughter to disgust within the space of a single page.” A. M. Bakalar, Words Withough Borders “A world without truth would be an immensely sad place,” states the magistrate in the murder trial of local boy, Janek. A young man with serious mental issues, Janek weaves a ‘chestnut crown’ from the leaves of a supposedly sacred tree in an attempt to rid himself of the demons of the past through a pagan ceremony. The crown is later found on the body of the farmer Geder - stabbed to death with a bread knife. Through a series of flashbacks during the subsequent interrogations, we learn of Janek’s story: from the perversion of his relationship with his mother, to the frustrations of his love affair with Daria and his inability to complete his studies or free himself from the ghosts which haunt him. A Swarm of Dust is widely considered to be one of Evald Flisar’s finest works of fiction, questioning the very notion of objective truth and subverting the norms of Judeo-Christian morality.

ISTROS BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781908236371 PB | 190PP | 25 JUNE 2018 | FICTION

THE NEGLIGENTS Kate Smith A tragic yet humorous coming-of-age story, The Negligents plots the flailing friendship between Polina and Grace and their troubled families. The fascinating intricacies of their lives are seen from multiple viewpoints as an interwoven series of scenes unfold, but who is telling the truth and who has secrets yet to reveal? As a former lawyer, author Kate Smith is fascinated by legal constructs, turning them upside down and inside out to shed light on the messy business of being alive. In this, her debut novel, she uses the framework of a legal negligence claim to explore the nature of friendship, of family loyalty and how a simple act of carelessness can have deeply toxic consequences.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853592 PB | 288PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | FICTION

NEVERLAND Jonathan Green

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The next great adventure book from bestselling gaming author Jonathan Green, author of Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland. Jonathan is a writer of speculative fiction, with more than sixty books to his name. Well known for his contributions to the Fighting Fantasy range of adventure gamebooks, he has also written fiction for such diverse properties as Doctor Who, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Moshi Monsters, LEGO and Judge Dredd. He is the creator of the Pax Britannia series for Abaddon Books and has written eight novels set within this steampunk universe, featuring the debonair dandy adventurer Ulysses Quicksilver. He is also the author of an increasing number of non-fiction titles, including the award-winning YOU ARE THE HERO – A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks.

SNOWBOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911390404 PB | 72PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | FICTION (FANTASY)

THE CINNAMON PREVIEW OF SHORT FICTION

Adam Craig (ed.) A new annual from Cinnamon Press, the Review of Short Fiction looks at world of short-form fiction in the round, including prize winning stories, commentary and reviews.

CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781788640152 PB | 175PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | FICTION (SHORT STORIES)

Introverted and emotionally aloof, Sian can’t remember what her ex-husband had been talking about, but not wanting to do as he said, she did exactly what he’d cautioned against instead. From Cardiff to Saint Vay - a four-house hamlet tucked away in a forgotten corner of ancient France - Sian gives up her stable home and job in Wales to begin a new life in a borrowed cottage, because the internet told her to. Undressing Stone is a mysterious tale flirting with the gothic as it interweaves Sian’s conversations with her psychiatrist with her newly reclusive life in France. There she meets Clotilde — a strange and enigmatic sculptor who likes to work in the nude. And Sian takes with her a secret she has told no-one — not even her psychiatrist. Will her encounters with Clotilde encourage her to admit a truth she has avoided for years? And what are the consequences for Sian if she does? In a narrative that moves between caustic observation and the richly sensual, this is a novel that challenges many of our assumptions about modern life and celebrates the unconventional.

CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781788640145 PB | 260PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | FICTION

THE REMAINS OF THE DEAD Michelle Angharad Pashley Her career blocked by the sexist Superintendent Marshall, Detective Sergeant Madeline Driscoll transfers out of her usual manor of Peckham for a less intense beat in Northallerton. Life might be less exciting but at least she’ll get her promotion. But, on her first day, Inspector Driscoll has a child abduction case drop in her lap. Madeline throws herself into the investigation, knowing time is against her in the search for Lilly Green, all of two months old. Yet nothing makes sense: Lilly was abducted from her home, not a public space, and by a woman posing as a child development officer. What would drive someone to take such risks? Then there’s Olivia, friend of the family and hiding secrets about her own baby - but what secrets? And come to that, what can Madeline make of a husky six-foot ex-copper in a pink nylon wig and floral dress, or the slick and annoying reporter, Guy Richards, who might be on to something or might be nothing more than a pain in the neck? Questions pile up. The hunt grows more frantic as hours pass into days. It seems there’s no hope of finding Lilly or her abductor...

CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781788640336 PB | 250PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | FICTION

KITCH Anthony Joseph The poet and musician Anthony Joseph met and spoke to Lord Kitchener just once, in 1984, when he found the calypso icon standing alone for a moment in the heat of Port of Spain’s Queen’s Park Savannah, one Carnival Monday afternoon. It was a pivotal meeting in which the great calypsonian outlined his musical vision, an event which forms a moving epilogue to Kitch, Joseph’s unique biography of the Grandmaster. Kitch represents the first biographical study of Aldwyn Roberts, according to calypso lore, christened Lord Kitchener, because of his stature and enthusiasm for the art form. Utilising an innovative, polyvocal style which combines life-writing with poetic prose, the narrative alternates between first person anecdotes by Kitchener’s fellow calypsonians, musicians, lovers and rivals, and lyrically rich fictionalised passages. By focussing equally on Kitchener’s music as on his hitherto undocumented private and political life, Joseph gets to the heart of the man behind the music and the myth, reaching behind the sobriquet, to present a holistic portrait of the calypso icon.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £10.99 | 9781845234195 PB | 296PP | 21 JUNE 2018 | FICTION

JUNE

UNDRESSING STONE Hazel Manuel

WOLFTALKER Ghillian Potts The third and final book in the Brook Storyteller Series. Brook is sent by the storytellers to right a wrong, and in the process takes on an apprentice, Cricket. Far more important to her is her ‘cousin’ Drinks-the-wind, a Wilder wolf. Together the three of them discover a plot that puts all their friends, and even the Overlord, in danger.

ARACHNE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909208490 PB | 192PP | 7 JUNE 2018 | CHILDREN’S FICTION

MILKED Thommie Gillow & Hannah Teasdale Thommie Gillow and Hannah Teasdale have had very different experiences of motherhood but like many parents have found solace through sharing. Their collaborative collection Milked explores all aspects of motherhood, from the good, the bad, the smelly, the desperate and all-consuming nature of the role to dealing with older children who have learnt which buttons to press. A brave and honest look at periods, miscarriages, pregnancies, abortions, postnatal depression and a mother’s love, this book is separated into four sections, pre-conception, miscarriage, pregnancy, birth and the ensuing parenthood. It draws on their own lives and the lives of those around them, and owes much to every bump they have ever known. Milked is for anyone who has ever thought about being a parent: whether successfully, unsuccessfully or with absolute horror at the very idea. It may make you cry or laugh or sing – whatever you do, Hannah and Thommie won’t mind, they’ll blame hormones.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570271 PB | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

CHOKEY Rosy Carrick “Clever, funny, quarrelsome, querulous, astonishing!”

Sabotage Reviews

Poems for revelling in passion and perversity, for the inspection of violence and pain, for tampering with truth, for always getting your fingers wet, for making lame pigs everywhere powerful.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570394 PB | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

Sakura is the debut collection from performance poet Myriam San Marco. It delves unapologetically into life, love and losses of a woman trying to grasp sense out of thin air. With stark and brutally gorgeous imagery, Sakura is a bruise to the heart for any reader.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570417 PB | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

SOME THINGS Panya Banjoko Some Things is a collection of poems shaped by a diverse range of influences, including politics,gender, race, class and the many layers in-between. An adversary of oppression and discrimination worldwide and a critic of the current political landscape, Panya Banjoko’s poems speak candidly about the world we live in, highlighting the many different roles of those who hold power and how they use it, including personal and global relationships.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570424 PB | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

OSTEOLOGY Lizzie Hawkins

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Osteology is a candid examination that reveals the workings and hairline fractures of every day life. From haemoglobins to the Yorkshire hills, this collection celebrates the magic of reality, revealing how intricately we are linked to the places we inhabit: the lines that separate our bodies from landscape, memory, and each other are nothing more than a shadow on the sand left by the changing tide. Bringing us back again and again to places and moments that demand to be remembered, and that we might call home, Osteology speaks to an ancient pastoral tradition with without nostalgia, pretension or illusion.

THE POETRY BUSINESS | £5.00 | 9781912196081 PB | 38PP | 4 JUNE 2018

JUNE

SAKURA Myriam San Marco

TYPHOID SEASON Sarah Fletcher

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Typhoid Season simmers with sustained tension, articulating a world where power relationships are in constant flux and even-footing is never guaranteed. This collection interrogates the diseased body politic, going further than Fletcher’s debut Kissing Angles, to push themes of control and dominance to their philosophical and linguistic heights. Ambitious in its scope and unrelenting in its gaze, Typhoid Season finds abjection in unlikely places and forces the reader to place themselves in relation to their violent vision.

THE POETRY BUSINESS | £5.00 | 9781912196098 PB | 32PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

STEALING SHADOW Stefan Kielbasiwiecz

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Stealing Shadow is a diverse and multifaceted collection, from poems that both reside in and reinvent childhood, to work that indulges in political satire, nonsense, sexuality, multilingualism and experiments in utopian ideals. With references ranging from Ginsberg, Miller, and Tarkovsky, Stealing Shadow is full of unconventional premises, surprising moments, and a passion for discovery that veers from seriousness to play.

THE POETRY BUSINESS | £5.00 | 9781912196104 PB | 38PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

WAX Ian Burnette

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With an informed awareness of its own intertextuality - from American gunslingers and the Blues to the landscape of the Midwest - Wax wanders through the concrete and the abstract, language and idea, the patterned and the primordial. At once urgent and ecstatic, and always politically engaged, Ian Burnette’s intricate collection is, above all, a celebration of the infinite ways that humans reform their world.

THE POETRY BUSINESS | £5.00 | 9781912196074 PB | 32PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

Exploring how humanity is rooted in and linked to everywhere and everything, David Batten has brought a fresh voice and precise language to his reflective but ultimately hopeful debut Transhumance. In Untergang, he moves from the open, cosmic, affirming tone to a sequence that is internally reflective - darker, almost claustrophobic. Whereas his first collection ended on the plateau, in the light, anticipating summer, Untergang starts indoors in the dark of a power cut in the depth of winter and finishes inside the writer’s ribcage, where it is even darker. This is not a world without hope, but it is one that urgently needs to wake, to face the dark and change it. Increasingly confident, Batten uses his distinctive, lyrical voice as a call to reflect on what might really matter in life.

CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781788640138 PB | 70PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

BETTER THAN PARADISE Will Holloway Will Holloway’s long-awaited first collection Better than Paradise is a book about science, history and art, about cockroaches, giant turtles and frogs in knickers. It is a meditation on the disaster movie of History - from Gilgamesh and Donald Trump via Mao Zedong’s little-known stint on the Northern club circuit, to extraordinary rendition, imperial wars of intervention and lines of homeless refugees. Better than Paradise is an epic re-imagining of exotic landscapes and ominous histories shot through with wit and anger, a powerful, politically engaged and playful account of our ‘whole green world, irrational and sweet’.

SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999827625 PB | 64PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

ROAR! Martin Hayes Martin Hayes’ new collection is a roar of frustrated rage and pain at the way we live and work in the twenty-first century. It’s a book about eleven-hour shifts, sick days, lay-offs, computer systems crashing and the joy of Friday afternoons. Dermot, Stacey, Shaq, Big Bri, Dexter the old-timer, Antoine, Mohammed, Jim the Letch and Harry the head supervisor work for Phoenix Express couriers, located somewhere ‘between Stockholm Street and Syndrome Way’, making money for other people and trying to make themselves heard above the roar of an economic system that ‘has us in its mouth and is shaking us about in its teeth’.

SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999827618 PB | 280PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

JUNE

UNTERGANG David Batten

COMMODORE Jacqueline Waters Commodore, Jacqueline Waters’ third poetry collection, is a book about care, both the two-way street of it and the hierarchy created by it. Or it’s about coming very close to your subject, intent on discerning shades of sentiment, full of nostalgia for things you didn’t really enjoy when they happened, concerned care might be an exploitable weakness, even as its cultivation becomes the only way to attract the mercy you will inevitably require...

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £12.50 | 9781937027919 PB | 88PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

HOW TO BE HELD Madison Godfrey To be held is to be embraced. Not only by the bodies or cities around you, but also by yourself. Maddie Godfrey’s poems are like a best friend standing behind you in the mirror, whispering truths you can’t yet speak by yourself. These poems are a lover’s hand finding yours in the dark. Although they articulate the heaviness of trauma, they are also fluent in the warmth of a well-lit room. How To Be Held reads like a manifesto to vulnerability. Maddie uses her own personal experiences to humanise topics such as body positivity, gender politics and self-preservation. Her words ache with an intimate familiarity, as if she is seated beside the reader on a couch or bar stool. These poems are strong in the softest way. Maddie’s first collection lingers like a diary entry which you cannot remember writing but still recognise yourself within. Even if these words do not teach you how to be held, they will embrace you.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570431 PB | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

WHAT ARE YOU AFTER? Josephine Corcoran

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Josephine Corcoran’s inventive and unflinching debut poetry collection asks us to consider what it is we’re really here for. Bold and unsentimental, her remarkable poems trace the lifelines of where we’ve been and where we’re going to, and they aren’t afraid to ask difficult questions of where we are now, either. Corcoran’s dexterity allows her to get under the skin of each poem, and to explore other lives with the same attentiveness and concision she brings to her own experiences. What Are You After is also fearlessly personal and political; these resolute poems celebrate outspoken women, working class and immigrant lives, and they refuse to look away from the harsh realities of inequality, austerity, and poverty. Throughout, the haunting texture of history, of long gone places and lost voices, is discernible just beneath the surface of the everyday present like a mirror’s delicate silvering. These poems are a rare gift; tender, incisive and real.

NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027423 PB | 72PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

The debut book from Cumbrian poet Kate Davis tells a personal narrative of the contraction of polio as a young girl, her subsequent disability and slow rehabilitation. A book of things known and not known, of untrustworthy ground and unsteady bodies, The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk finds comfort in the ancient limestone of her home county as she teaches herself to walk again along its hills and coastlines. Inspiring, funny and deeply personal, with this book Davis creates her own map to navigate the wild landscape, demonstrating a unique connection to the earth beneath us.

PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £9.99 | 9781908058515 PB | 100PP | 12 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

RICANTATIONS Loretta Collins Klobah Ricantations will reinforce the perception of Loretta Collins Klobah as superb poetic story-teller with a compassionate and radical womanist vision, alert to the multi-layered reality of Puerto Rican life, where shiny modernity gives way to spirit presences. There are absorbingly reflective poems on Velasquez’ paintings of an hyperphagic child, painted both naked and clothed, a stray horse that hangs around the poet’s property, homunculi in glass bottles in a teaching hospital, the keeper of a butterfly farm, a high-wire circus family, and the irony of Nathan Leopold (with Loeb, the perpetrator of a famously brutal crime in the USA) becoming the expert on Puerto Rican bird life. Poems begin from the most fantastic premises – a Che Guevera club in heaven with prizes for the coolest Che impersonator – then line by rich baroque line opens up her island’s secret heart, revealing a society under multiple pressures even before Hurricane Maria, about which the title poem offers a brilliantly hallucinatory picture.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234232 PB | 128PP | 14 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

KIERKEGAARD’S CUPBOARD Marianne Burton

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Poet Marianne Burton, whose first collection was nominated for the Forward Prize, has written a beautifully thoughtful, sharp and lively new book of poems inspired by the life of the noted Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. The ‘cupboard’ of the title refers to a wooden cabinet that Kierkegaard had made in order to store his letters and reminiscences of his beloved Regine, who he met and fell in love with when she was a young woman. He declined to marry her, but she nevertheless occupied his thoughts and dreams throughout his life. Dedicated to a life of the mind, he produced numerous books outlining his ideas of freedom, the religious life, man’s moral duties, as well as novels and essays. Burton brilliantly captures the voice of Kierkegaard, his intellectual wit, his pointed ways with paradox, his depth of feeling and his compassionate, lively and sociable personality in this series of 14 line-poems.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724224 PB | 72PP | 28 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

JUNE

THE GIRL WHO FORGETS HOW TO WALK Kate Davis

BRAGR Ross Cogan

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Ross Cogan is a poet deeply concerned with human history and the fate of our planet. His collection Bragr (Old Norse for ‘Poetry’), brings us the voice of the Skald or Bard who reinterprets tales from Norse mythology for our times. As precise and beautifully coloured as an illuminated manuscript, these poems are full of rich imagery and detail, packed with dramatic incident and conflict. Part One, ‘The Beginning’, infused with Norse creation myths, shows how the earth arrived from ‘onething’ in a stately procession, a process which includes hints of both glory and destruction. Also in this section are artful poems that focus on trees. Part Two, ‘Bestiary’ includes verses about toads, chickens, goats, rats, bees, ducks, seagulls, hares, and a swan. These are frequently compact and musical sonnets. Part Three, ‘Ragnarök’, is named after a final mythical battle, the ‘Twilight of the Gods’, and imagines the earth’s destruction by fire and flood. Wonderfully skillful, entertaining, imaginative and prescient, these are poems to read and revisit.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724552 PB | 29 JUNE 2018 | POETRY

DUSK Cherry Potts (ed.) The Solstice Shorts Festival celebrates the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year with time themed stories poems and songs. 2017 saw the festival go UK wide, with 12 sites taking part at DUSK, in a wave of words across the UK from Ellon in Aberdeenshire to Redruth in Cornwall. These are the chosen stories and poems from the festival. This is the perfect, atmospheric memento of one of the most imaginative, forward-thinking festivals in recent history: a nation’s length celebration of the dying of the light at the turning point of winter.

ARACHNE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909208544 PB | 128PP | 21 JUNE 2018 | MIXED ANTHOLOGY

WATCHED STRANGERS Agnes Lehoczky and J. T. Welsch (ed.) Arranged against surges in violent British nationalism and political panic around borders, and related/growing crises of culture and politics, this is an anthology to mark and celebrate the contribution of non-UK-born writers to this country’s poetry culture, published on the 2nd anniversary of the UK’s referendum on membership of the European Union.

BOILERHOUSE PRESS | £15.99 | 9781911343387 PB | 300PP | 23 JUNE 2018 | POETRY ANTHOLOGY

A Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer’s interrogative writing on love, art, time, mortality, Kansas City, and other impossible questions. This collection includes essays on Mary J. Blige, lambs, revolutions, Missy Elliot, the law, Colette, and some of the ways we can refuse a living death.

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £16.00 | 9781937027926 PB | 240PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | ESSAYS

ME AND MY CAMERA Malachi O’Doherty From his first fifteen-shilling model, complete with detachable flashbulb (‘a toy, if an incendiary one’), the camera and its uses have been a subject of fascination for Malachi O’Doherty. Associated with love and power, with presence and absence, the physical object of the camera provides a lens into histories both personal and social. Me and my Camera moves from the stiff poses of mid-century family portraits, through O’Doherty’s own experiences in journalism at the height of the Troubles, to the dynamics of candour and control in the modern selfie. Rich with sensory detail, this essay explores the complex relationships between photographers and their work; photographs and their beholders. It offers both a defence of the romantic love of landscape, and a celebration of the continuous, frequently surprising process of learning to create.

THE EMMA PRESS | £6.50 | 9781910139929 PB | 64PP | 21 JUNE 2018 | BIOGRAPHY

COWS, COBS AND CORNER SHOPS Megan Hayes This book tells us how the Welsh have, over the centuries, been of crucial importance in supplying milk to the population of London. Starting with the influence of the drovers who took their cattle from rural Wales to the city, this book moves on describe the establishment of many dairies and corner shops which, open all hours, provided fresh milk to the growing metropolis.

Y’LOLFA | £9.99 | 9781784615260 PB | 30 JUNE 2018 | LOCAL HISTORY

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A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE Anne Boyer

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THE HENNINGHAM FAMILY PRESS Henningham Family Press is a microbrewery for books. Their ingenious handmade editions can be found in the V&A, Tate and National Poetry Library, their Performance Publishing shows compress the creation of printed matter into hectic live events and now their Fiction brings to you authors who are reinventing the conventions of Modern writing.

THE LISTENING FOREST Sophie Herxheimer The Listening Forest was published as the culmination of a residency held by Sophie Herxheimer with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art in the East Midlands. Sophie as an inner-city Londoner was intrigued to swap her familiar streets for a remote cottage in an ancient woodland. Getting lost in tracts of forest in and around the town of Corby inspired a new sequence of poems as well as many drawings and collages. A selection of these appear alongside the bulk of the book’s content: stories collected and drawn live in ink, from members of the public in the area, about the ways we humans relate to nature and the woods. Please wander in. Make the path your own. £10.00 | 97809563166841 PB | POETRY

THE ERRONEOUS DISPOSITION OF THE PEOPLE An Anthology In 1646 Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia refuted the common errors of his day. Today, our insatiable appetite for facts fuels an entire entertainment industry. In The Erroneous Disposition of the People, five authors plunder Browne’s fascinating catalogue of extinct opinions, lampooning our tendency to exchange fact for factoid. See London’s City Road transformed into a ravaged coastline. Meet a gibbon with an appetite for smartphones. Einstein vs. Wittgenstein! Belisha Beacon vs. Pulsar! Atomic Clock vs. Atomic Bomb!

£9.99 | 9780956316653 PB | POETRY / FICTION

THE MAXIMUM WAGE Various Authors The Maximum Wage screenprint production line was manned by members of the public, culminating in Zines, ephemera, and a locally accepted currency; the Orwell. This microcosm of production and consumption provoked and informed debate, ideas that were encapsulated in this enduring glossy magazine about the serious business of employment. The result is this 72-page A4 full-colour glossy magazine splashed on every page with photos from the live show and packed with brand new art and articles on earning a living. “East London has become a prime example of the divide between the UK’s richest and poorest. It’s also where a group of artists are teaching people about income inequality.” Helen Amass, The Times Educational Supplement £3.50 | 23983531 PB | MAGAZINE

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QUIET FLOWS THE UNA Faruk Šehić Quiet Flows the Una is the story a man trying to overcome the personal trauma caused by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Through an induced trance, the main character of the novel takes the reader through three time periods: the hero’s childhood before the war, the battle lines during the war, and his attempt to continue with normal life in a post-conflict society. With the help of his memories, he uses his mind and strength to look for a way out of the maze in which he is confined, acting as both archivist and chronicler of the past roles that allow him the opportunity to rebuild everything again. Quiet Flows the Una is a book is dedicated to people who believe in the power and beauty of life in the face of death and mass destruction.

£9.99 | 9781908236494 | PB | 200PP | FICTION

FAREWELL, COWBOY Olja Savicević Farewell, Cowboy is a tough yet poetic novel by one of Croatia’s best known writers. The story is rich in local colour and sentiment, following the main character, Dada, who returns to her home town on the Adriatic coast in order to unravel the mystery of her brother Daniel’s death. Daniel, although young, smart and popular, threw himself under a train in mysterious circumstances a few years earlier. In her search for clues, Dada meets an array of eccentric characters and succumbs to the charms of the young gigolo Angelo, who is a part of a film crew shooting a Western on the nearby ‘prairie’. Slowly and painfully she discovers all there is to know about her brother’s death, and how Angelo was caught up in it.

£9.99 | 9781908236395 | PB | 180PP | FICTION

THE GREAT WAR Aleksandar Gatalica The Great War is a novel that comprehensively and passionately narrates a number of stories covering the duration of World War One, starting with the year 1914 – the year that truly marked the beginning of the twentieth century. Following the destinies of over seventy characters, on all warring sides, Aleksandar Gatalica depicts the experiences of winners and losers, generals and opera singers, soldiers and spies; managing to grasp the atmosphere of the entire epoch, not only of these crucial four and a half bloody years, but also in the innocent decades that preceded the war, and the poisoned ones that followed. This is a book commendable in its breadth, its vision and its relevance to modern history.

£10.99 | 9781908236203 | PB | 416PP | FICTION

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INDEX al-Jarrah, Nouri 11 Allen-Agostini, Lisa 18 Alma, Deborah 21 Andtbacka, Ralf 14 Angharad Pashley, Michelle 27 Banjoko, Panya 29 Barnie, John 7 Barrow, Christine 6 Batten, David 31 Benson, Lennox 5 Bianchi, Tony 17 Black, Matt 10 Bower, Rachel 10 Boyer, Anne 35 Briede, Ruta 23 Bryant, Cathy 22 Burnette, Ian 30 Burton, Marianne 33 Carpenter, J.R. 12 Carrick, Rosy 28 Casling, Dennis 22 Cogan, Ross 34 Collins Klobah, Loretta 33 Commane, Jane 13 Corcoran, Josephine 32 Craig, Adam 26 Cree, Paul 10 Davis, Kate 33 Dorgon, Theo 19 Dullaghan, Frank 19 Dunn, Nell 24 Eliade, Mircea 6 Feral, Beryl the 20 Finch, Peter 15 Fletcher, Sarah 30 Flisar, Evald 25 Foley, Kate 13 Franklin, Ros 15 Garcia Robayo, Margarita 18 Gatalica, Aleksandar 37 Gillow, Thommie 28 Gittins, Rob 17 Gloag, Daphne 9

Godfrey, Madison 32 Green, Jonathan 26 Hannah, Carys 20 Harris, John 15 Hautala, Marko 14 Hawkins, Lizzie 29 Hayes, Martin 31 Hayes, Megan 35 Herxheimer, Sophie 36 Holloway, Will 31 Ismailov, Hamid 3 Jackson, Sarah 14 Joseph, Anthony 27 Kielbasiwiecz, Stefan 30 Konig, Anja 22 Kozlowska, Alessandra 23 Kronbergs, Juris 23 Le Gendre, Kevin 24 Lehoczky, Agnes 34 Leigh, Sue 12 Lindsay Bird, Hera 2 Lowe, Hannah 13 M’Kay, James 21 Manuel, Hazel 27 Massie-Blomfield, Amber 24 McDonald, Ian 11 Meskovic, Alen 3 Miles, Jonathan 14 Mortimer, Peter 6 Nystrom, Carlta 14 O’Doherty Malachi 35 O’Donnell, John 21 O’Loughlin Pascal 5 Parker, Elizabeth 13 Penny, Sarah 5 Piercey, Rachel 2 Pingwa, Jia 17 Potts, Cherry 34 Potts, Ghillian 28 Powell, Robert 11 Prado-Nunez, Viviana 16 Pugh, Meryl 3 Raby, Henry 9

Raynard, Peter 8 Saeed, Amani 20 Sagasti, Luis 2 San Marco, Myriam 29 Saunders, Lesley 12 Savicevic, Olja 37 Sawyer, Stephen 8 Sehic, Faruk 37 Skinner, Richard 8 Smith, Kate 26 Solvaag, Katrine 9 Strauss, Liane 22 Tait, David 19 Teasdale, Hannah 28 Thomas, Gareth 7 Vilikovsky, Pavel 18 Waters, Jacqueline 32 Welsch, J.T. 34 Williamson, Claire 4 Woods, Joseph 7 Wright, Emma 2 Youngs, Tim 14

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The Emma Press Anthology of Love | 9781910139561

Tales from the Leaking Boot | 9780995457928

Fireflies | 9781999722746

Collected Poems (Ian McDonald) | 9781845234034

Pamper Me to Hell and Back | 9781910367841

A Boat to Lesbos | 9780995636941

Natural Phenomena | 9781908058508

Riverrain | 9781912436019

The Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dance | 9781911284130

Chosen Hill | 9781909747357

Ukulele Jam | 9781781723425

Nominy-Dominy | 9781909747340

[APRIL] Visiting the Minotaur | 9781781724439

Ocean of Static | 9781908058461

Now Legwarmers | 9781999797416

Gift of Rivers | 9781909208537

The Biracial Butterfly | 9781907133558

In Her Shambles | 9781781724460

The Beneficiaries | 9781908853936

Primers Volume 3 | 9781911027409

Rainbird | 9781845234171

Kolme | Tre | 9781912196067

Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow | 9781845234171

In Transit | 9781910139943

Gaudeamus | 9781908236340

Try the Wilderness First | 9781781724019

I, Iolo | 9781784614515

Caradoc Evans: The Devil in Eden | 9781781724354

Monsoon Diaries | 9781910251355

A Coming of Age | 9781909747364

Departure Lounge | 9781788640091

Real Cardiff: The Flourishing City | 9781781724699

There Will Be No Miracles Here | 9781999827601

[MAY] The Art of White Roses | 9781999776824

The Malvern Aviator | 9780995767584

Hear the Echo | 9781784615239

Precarious | 9780995767591

Earthen Gate | 9781912436026

How Long is Not Long? | 9781788640244

Staring Back At Me | 9781788640107

Broken People | 9781911570325

Fish Soup | 9781999859305

Nerd Punk | 9781911570318

Fleeting Snow | 9781908236371

Suburban | 9781911570301

Home Home | 9781999776831

Moon Milk | 9781908853837

The AQI | 9781910367919

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Title Orpheus | 9781910251300

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Title Roar! | 9781999827618

Lifting the Latch | 9781788640114

Commodore | 9781937027919

Broken Compass | 9781911570349

How to be Held | 9781911570431

My Other Poems Are Funnier | 9781911570363

What Are You After? | 9781911027423

Split | 9781911570387

The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk | 9781908058515

Very Friendly Weapon | 9781911570356

Ricantations | 9781845234232

Dirty Laundry | 9781911027416

Kierkegaard’s Cupboard | 9781781724224

Sunlight | 9781910251317

Bragr | 9781781724552

Selected Poems (Dennis Casling) | 9781910367926

Dusk | 9781909208544

Erratics | 9781909208568

Watched Strangers | 9781911343387

Some Cannot Be Caught | 9781910139882

A Handbook of Disappointed Fate | 9781937027926

The Book of Clouds | 9781910139141

Me and My Camera | 9781910139929

The Queen of Seagulls | 9781910139134

Cows, Cobs & Corner Shops | 9781784615260

Conflict, War and Revolution: My Life | 9781781724491

[HFP] The Listening Forest | 97809563166841

Don’t Stop the Carnival | 9781845233617

The Erroneous Disposition of the People | 9780956316653

Twenty Theatres To See Before You Die | 9781908058454

The Maximum Wage | 23983531

Talking to Women | 9780995716216

[ISTROS] Quiet Flows the Una | 9781908236494

[JUNE] Swarm of Dust | 9781908236371

Farewell, Cowboy | 9781908236395

The Negligents | 9781908853592

The Great War | 9781908236203

Neverland | 9781911390404

[MAGAZINES] Acumen

The Cinnamon Preview of Short Fiction | 9781788640152

Agenda

Undressing Stone | 9781788640145

Banipal

The Remains of the Dead | 9781788640336

Brittle Star

Kitch | 9781845234195

Envoi

Wolftaker | 9781909208490

The North

Milked | 9781911570271

Poetry Ireland

Chokey | 9781911570394

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Nominy-Dominy â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Latin is for skulking in.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; When does a language come back from the dead? With the well of baby-bones under a bathhouse (the cleft palates and polydactylics, the anencephalics and intersexes, the still-borns and abortions); the verdict of dolus eventualis on the far side of a bathroom door; the alias and alibi, the hocus pocus and the M.O.? Or the priest-holes and wind-chimes, the shadow of an eagle on the hill- eld, paradise always already lost, ora pro nobis post cibum et hora somni? Yes, all these undead. Yet what does Latin know even now of the far north, bleached and sinless, its haecceitas and quiddity, its mosquitoes and wordless singing? Lully lullay and deo gracias bye bye. Meanwhile we practise our paternosters among the rose-trees like a form of tai chi, solvitur ambulando, the whole nominy-dominy. Cataloge cover artwork comes from Nominy-Dominy by Lesley Saunders. See page 12 for more details. Front cover design Sally Castle with artwork by Peter Hay. With thanks to Two Rivers Press.