Inpress Catalogue - January-June 2012

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Iron Press [Cullercoats] Inpress Flambard Press [Newcastle] Smokestack [Middlesbrough]

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Peepal Tree [Leeds]

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Dedalus [Dublin] Salmon [Cliffs of Moher]

Cinnamon [Blaenau Ffestiniog]

Modern Poetry in Translation Waywiser [Oxford]

Egg Box The Rialto Elastic Press [Norwich]

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Acumen [Brixham]

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

The Best of Times Dickens at 200 The bicentenary of Charles Dickens, the most popular novelist in the English language, will be celebrated in many ways during 2012. Unique among these various tributes is A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens, an anthology of creative responses to his life, his writings, and his characters.

The poets gathered here – devoted themselves to making the language sing – have been particularly engaged by the evocative power of Dickens’ own words, to which they allude, which they recombine in their lines, and which they take as titles or epigraphs to their poems. The following examples from the book illustrate just some of the fascinating ways that the more than fifty poets anthologised here have found Dickens’ words an inspiration.

Paul Muldoon alights upon one of the most memorable of the many encounters between different human predicaments in the novels. His lateral leaps of imagination fuse together Pip’s bringing the escaped convict Magwitch a pie from the forge, with our contemporary politics of terrorism, fear, and revenge — and Muldoon’s is one of numerous poems that start from the pages of Great Expectations.

Meanwhile John Hegley zeros in on Dickens the performer, whose tour de force was the dramatic reading of Bill Sikes’ murder of Nancy, specially adapted for public recitation, from Oliver Twist. Taken together, the poems in this anthology, whose variety is itself a homage to the vast realm of Dickens’ creation, show the indelible mark it has left on the imaginations of poets two hundred years after his birth.

PROFILE

Peter Robinson, Editor

Two Rivers Press was founded in 1974 by artist Peter Hay and retains its focus on bold illustration and original design. Two Rivers specialises in publishing new writing from Reading and the Thames Valley and in producing new editions of classic texts with a regional connection.

At a Public Reading by Charles Dickens Tell us about Copperfield and Oliver And his wishing for the dishing out of more Let’s hear about the optimist Micawber And his persistent hopes of what lay up afore Do divulge of Mister Scrooge and poor Miss Havisham That disenchanted woman who set her world alight Tell us any of your stories that you fancy But please don’t tell us Nancy’s tale tonight Let your prose expose social conditions Where there should be improvement of the plight Tell us and impel us to correction To protection and to setting things aright Perhaps pick one of Pickwick’s papers Dingley Dell at Christmastime for instance But please don’t tell us Nancy’s tale tonight Don’t spill the beans of her and Bill Don’t put your public through the mill Mr Dickens as you will Yes, as you fancy, up until That twisting and that villain all contrite Let common sympathy prevail Leave us hearty, leave us hale And please don’t tell us Nancy’s tale tonight John Hegley Pip and Magwitch In an effort to distract his victim and throw the police off his scent, Anwar al-Awlaki had left a paperback of Great Expectations all bundled up with a printer-cartridge bomb. They found his fingerprints on the page – wouldn’t you know? – where Dickens, having put us all in a quandary on the great marshes of Kent, now sets us down with Pip and the leg-ironed convict, Abel Magwitch, Pip forever chained to Magwitch by dint of having brought him a pork pie and file in a little care-package.

For the moment he was the seven-year-old whose Christmas Eve was spent thinking up ways to outfox a neighbour, unshaven, the smell of a Polo Mint not quite masking his breath, his cigar twirling in its unopened sarcophagus like an Egyptian mummy, albeit one reluctant before the chance it would never come into its inheritance.

Paul Muldoon

For more on A Mutual Friend, see page 18.

The Gospel According to…

Owen Sheers The Gospel of Us is Owen Sheers’ reimagining of his own criticallyacclaimed 2011 National Theatre of Wales play The Passion of Port Talbot – the very modern retelling of the Crucifixion story described by the Observer as “one of the outstanding theatrical events not only of this year, but of the decade.”

The novel will be published in time for Easter, alongside a new film starring Michael Sheen and directed by David McKean (released 6th April).

We interviewed him to find out more about working on such an intriguing, multi-media project.

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For more on The Gospel of Us, see page 37.

For the last 30 years Seren has aimed to publish the best quality and most thought-provoking writing on offer. Many of Seren’s books and authors are shortlisted for – and win – major literary prizes including the Costa, Forward, T.S. Eliot and Ondaatje Prizes.

Michael Sheen starred in the stage play and will now star in the film; he also starred in Resistance. He clearly has a strong affinity with your work and with this story – what makes him so well suited to playing your characters?

He chose me for the Passion, not the other way round! He’s a great and intelligent actor though, someone who is well attuned to the wonder in the ordinary. What more could you ask for?

Like White Ravens, your novella in Seren’s New Stories from the Mabinogion series, The Gospel of Us is a modern re-imagining of a traditional myth. What attracted you to The Passion in the first place?

I was approached and commissioned by the National Theatre of Wales. They’d asked Michael Sheen what he would like to do in Wales: he chose to respond to the traditional Passion plays in Port Talbot, the ones he remembered as a child. So it began with me, Michael and Lucy Davies from NTW sitting in a room with just that idea. I was attracted by the multi-perspective nature of the Passion narrative as told in the four Gospels, by how the altering positions of witness changed the nature of the story. I also wanted to drill down into the essential human drama of the story. Lastly I realised that as storytellers we had a great combination of a narrative which most people didn’t actually know in detail, but which also had universal beats known to all.

How did you go about making a Christian myth relevant to contemporary readers and audiences?

The setting itself made the story contemporary.

But then it was about finding modern echoes to follow the landscape of the original story.

Jesus is called ‘rabbi’ in the Gospels, which means ‘teacher’. So our main character became a teacher, but one who is himself ‘taught’ across the arc of the story. It was about making connective links between the timeless drama of the story – about resistance, sacrifice, doubt – and the lived world of the setting. For example, Peter the ‘rock’ being the vouching club man (“the big friend of everyone, the go-to guy”) who falters when tested.

You have written a stage play, a screenplay and now a novelisation of The Gospel of Us: is this a labour of love for you and how have you enjoyed working across all of these formats?

The film is very much Dave McKean’s screen adaptation of my stage script. But I love how that original multi-perspective of the Gospels has been mirrored in all the ways the Passion has been told, on and offline. I loved writing the novella. To create a fictional character and set him off through the story of a play I’d written but not yet seen was exhilarating. Then to sit in a pub during the performance and watch people read a scene they were just part of, or had just watched live, was incredible.

As a writer with an international profile, but drawing much creative inspiration from your Welsh heritage, how important is it for you that plays, films and books continue to be made in Wales?

No writer should be confined or defined by national borders. But yes, Wales is hugely important to me. Wales is an old country rediscovering herself, and therefore young too.

Literature and drama and film should all be part of that old/young development. They are the stories by which we understand ourselves, and by which the world understands us.

And is there a tension in creating work which is inspired by a regional identity and yet also relevant to a much wider, national and international, audience?

Sometimes, but tension in the creative arts is good. And every good writer should be able to make the personal resonate in the universal.

2012 finds Jamaica celebrating its fiftieth anniversary of independence, the election of a woman-led government with a substantial mandate and reforming goals, and the incentive to look back and forwards. It will be an occasion for both jubilation and sober reflection, and nothing can do this better than imaginative writing.

Independent Thinking

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The fifty years have seen both triumph and desperation: Jamaican music in the 1970s and 80s transformed popular music around the world and gave the country a palpable sense of purpose.

But the years of independence have also seen worsening economic conditions for many of its people, the continuing flight of its citizens to Canada and the USA, politics that became tribal and violent, a murder rate of horrific proportions and a reputation for intolerance towards gays and lesbians.

Diana McCaulay’s first novel, Dog-heart, looked squarely at the existence of two Jamaicas: a predominantly lighter skinned middle-class and a black urban poor scratching a living continually on the edge of disaster. Her new novel Huracan takes a longer view on how Jamaica has come to be what it is.

For more on Huracan, see page 47.

Founded in 1985 and based in Leeds, Peepal Tree Press is the home of the best in Caribbean and Black British fiction, poetry, literary criticism, memoirs and historical studies. Their Caribbean Modern Classics series, restoring to print essential classic books from the 1950s and 60s, was launched in 2009.

Loosely based on the writer’s own family history, Huracan looks at three crucial periods of time in Jamaica’s history through the stories of the McCaulay family: young Zachary McCaulay comes from Scotland to work as a book-keeper on a sugar estate in 1786; the Baptist minister Reverend John McCaulay arrives from England to bring Christian faith and morality to a rural flock in 1886; and a century later, in 1986, Leigh McCaulay, a young white Jamaican woman, returns to her native land from the USA. None of these stories are history lessons – each is alive with the drama of relationships, vivid characters and personal change – but they ask unavoidable questions about race, class and culture and, in exploring what kind of a country Jamaica has been, wonder what it might become.

Jamaican Fiction Highlights Read further into Jamaica’s fascinating literary history with one of these Peepal Tree novels.

Bivouac by Kwame Dawes A young Kingston man is caught up in family conflict and intrigue over the true cause of his father’s death: medical negligence, or political assassination? This stunning novel presents a moving, poetic portrayal of a whole country, and one man, at a tipping point.

Until Judgement Comes by Opal Palmer Adisa Told by a village’s first inhabitant about the community that has grown up around her, these entertaining stories rework the island’s myths, legends and tall tales to examine the Jamaican male psyche and the greater truths of Jamaican life.

The Children of Sisyphus by Orlando Patterson

A Permanent Freedom by Curdella Forbes

Bursting with anger, ambition and poetry, this existential classic from 1964 – the story of scrapheap prostitute Dinah – shocked the world with its unwavering insight into the reality, and brutality, of ghetto life.

A Permanent Freedom weaves nine individual stories about love, sex, death and migration into a single compelling narrative filled with the human spirit’s capacity for courage, integrity and folly.

The Fullness of Everything by Patricia Powell This absorbing, sometimes painfully funny novel brings magical realism to the story of reunited brothers Winston and Septimus, as together they uncover their secret family history, and reawaken childhood traumas.

J A NU A R Y Ringers Bill Greenwell

Winter is Not My Country Marianne Jones

When Kafka Met Einstein James Knox Whittet

“A verbal magician… consistently charms us out of the every-day” – Carol Rumens.

“Exquisite poetry that switches the heart-light on” – Fiona Owen.

Author previously shortlisted for the Scotsman Book of the Year.

Winter is Not My Country builds on Marianne Jones’s skills as a humane and meticulous writer of lyric poetry, marrying the universal themes of language, ageing and impermanence with a deep rootedness in the Welsh landscape.

When Kafka Met Einstein is the first full collection from Scottish poet James Knox Whittet.

Ringers is the long-awaited second collection from Bill Greenwell, following the success of Impossible Objects. The themes include childhood memories, life-enhancing and life-inhibiting love affairs, depression and bereavement, as well as caustic commentary on the modern world. What unites Ringers is the freshness of vision, the startling turns of phrase, and the uniqueness of a voice that is incisive and assured, yet vulnerable and utterly authentic.

“Bill Greenwell does things with language you didn’t know were possible...”

Selima Hill Bill Greenwell was born in Sunderland in 1952. He is Staff Tutor for the Arts at the Open University in the North. He was the New Statesman’s weekly satirical poet from 1994 to 2002, and his work has featured in the Spectator. His first collection, Impossible Objects, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2006, and in 2004 he won the £5,000 Mail on Sunday Poetry Prize.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-47-9 216x140mm » 96pp Poetry (DCF) North-East

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“Throughout this collection of sharply focused poems, there is a sense of journeying – of pilgrimage... its quiet music with elegiac strains rendered sonorous... These poems pay repeated reading...”

Fiona Owen Marianne Jones was born shortly before the end of World War II and grew up on Anglesey, where she now lives. Her first collection, Too Blue for Logic (2009), and her first novella, Ring of Stones (2009), are both published by Cinnamon Press.

Elsewhere her work has appeared in the Honno biography anthologies Changing Times: Women’s Stories of the 50s and 60s (2010) and Even the Rain is Different (2005).

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-53-0 216x140mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) Wales

The poems combine the playful and the intellectual, moving easily between Nietzsche and the Teletubbies. Brought up on the island of Islay, some of Knox Whittet’s poetry is inspired by the landscapes and history of Scottish islands, while elsewhere he is at Newport Pagnell Service Station at 3am, or writing about Iris Murdoch’s Alzheimer’s, or about the little-known fact that Hitler attended the same school as Wittgenstein.

James Knox Whittet was born on Islay. His poems have won the George Crabbe Memorial Award three times. He has previously edited two acclaimed anthologies for Iron Press: 100 Island Poems of Great Britain and Ireland (2005) and Writers on Islands (2008); the latter was nominated by the Scotsman as one of the Books of the Year. He now lives in Norfolk.

Iron Press » Paperback £8.00 » 978-0-956572-52-3 210x148mm » 70pp Poetry (DCF) Scotland

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Journey Across Breath / Tragitto nel respiro Stephen Watts translated by Cristina Viti The sequel to 2009’s Mountain Language / Lingua di montagna.

Journey Across Breath is the second part of the sequence that began with Mountain language / Lingua di montagna, again rooted in the northern Italian mountain culture from which Stephen Watts’ grandfather migrated. Matters of landscape, memory, migration and mother tongue run throughout, melded together by Cristina Viti into truly ‘lived’ realities.

“He is among the most fine and subtle writers I know on the relations of landscape and mind…”

Robert Macfarlane Stephen Watts is a poet, editor and translator. He has twice won second prize in the National Poetry Competition. He edited Amarjit Chandan’s Sonata for Four Hands (2010) and has co-translated poetry

by A. N. Stencl (2007), Ziba Karbassi (2009), Adnan al-Sayegh (2009) and Meta Kušar (2010). He is currently completing a new edition of Mother Tongues (Bloodaxe, due 2012), which anthologises poets in the UK who write in languages other than English. He lives in Whitechapel.

Hearing Eye » Paperback £8.00 » 978-1-905082-65-0 210x148mm » 72pp Poetry (DCF)

The Little Auto Apollinaire translated by Beverley Bie Brahic “A charming and gifted poet” – The Guardian.

Just as they were posting the mobilisation orders We understood my comrade and I That the little auto had driven us into a New Era And although we were both already grown men We had just been born So begins Apollinaire’s startling journey into the darkness of the First World War. Leaving behind the high life of avant-garde Paris, this is a very different kind of war poetry: exuberant, impatient and surreal – where artillery shells explode like champagne bottles. This bilingual edition also includes ‘Zone’, in the first English version since Samuel Beckett’s to match the original’s use of rhyme, and some other pre-war poems.

Guillaume Apollinaire settled in Paris in 1899, where he championed the likes of Picasso, Braque and Duchamp. He suffered a shrapnel head-wound in 1916, and died in Paris two years later. Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator. Her translation of selected poems by Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud (CB Editions, 2008) was a finalist for the Poetry Society’s 2009 Popescu Prize for Poetry.

CB Editions » Paperback » £7.99 » 978-0-956735-94-2 198x129mm » 146pp » Poetry (DCF)

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My Lord Buddha of Carraig Éanna Paddy Bushe “A significant and necessary voice in Irish poetry” – The Irish Times.

My Lord Buddha of Carraig Éanna is a new English-language collection from one of the best-known bilingual Irish poets, following To Ring With Silence: New & Selected Poems (2008). These poems see Bushe further exploring the mountains of distant Nepal and, closer to home, the geographical and literary landscape of west Kerry, where he has lived for many years. “... the voice adroit and confident, the poems strong, supple, sophisticated and articulate.”

Macdara Woods Paddy Bushe was born in Dublin in 1948. His previous collection, To Ring in Silence: New & Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2008), draws on all of his earlier books and translations. He was the recipient of the Oireachtas Prize for Poetry and the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award in 2006. He recently edited the anthology Voices at the World’s Edge: Irish Poets on Skellig Michael (Dedalus Press, 2010).

He lives in Co. Kerry.

Dedalus Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-906614-52-2 216x140mm » 92pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

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A Bloom of Stones: A Trilingual Anthology of Haitian Poems After the Earthquake edited by Kwame Dawes Edited by one of the Caribbean’s leading poets, with a global profile.

On 12th January 2010 an earthquake broke apart the city of Port au Prince and stretches of the Haitian landscape, killing almost 300,000 people, injuring 200,000 more and leaving 1.2 million people homeless.

Poet Kwame Dawes, during his four trips to Haiti over the ten months that followed, put out a call to Haitian poets for a response.

Here are poems – in French and Haitian Creole alongside their English translations – about the rupture of love, the shock of sudden disaster, the hunger for more beauty in the world, and the incomprehensible nature of our mortality.

Kwame Dawes is one of the foremost Caribbean poets of the post-Walcott generation. He recently won an Emmy for his contribution to www.LiveHopeLove.com, a website on the human face of HIV/ AIDS in Jamaica. His 2009 Peepal Tree collection Hope’s Hospice was inspired by the project.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £19.99 » 978-1-845231-92-7 206x135mm » 340pp Anthologies (DCQ)

The Land of Give and Take Tyler Farrell Second collection; follows 2008’s Tethered to the Earth.

In Tyler Farrell’s second collection of poems, a variety of characters appear as on a stage: teenagers and grandparents, priests and poets, the wise and the foolish. Shadowing many of the poems is a conflicted Catholicism, sometimes resentful of the Church’s claims, but recognising that, in the end, nothing else gives the same weight and meaning to this transient life.

There is morning and night to see through their eyes.

There are amusements to be told, invented, two historians that begin a game. (from ‘The Lives of the City, Long Forgotten’) Tyler Farrell was born in Illinois and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has published poems, essays and reviews, and a biographical essay for the late James Liddy’s Selected Poems (Arlen House, 2011). His first collection of poems, Tethered to the Earth, was published

by Salmon Poetry in 2008. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-95-6 210x134mm » 88pp Poetry (DCF)

The Time Office: New & Selected Poems Tom Kelly

The Hills Were Joyful Together Roger Mais

The German Lottery Miha Mazzini translated by Urška Zupanec

“These are vivid, compelling and often beautiful poems” – Poetry Book Society Bulletin.

Long acknowledged classic of Caribbean fiction, restored to print after almost 20 years.

New translated fiction from bestselling Slovenian author.

The Time Office brings together a selection of new poems and work from Tom Kelly’s five previous collections: The Wrong Jarrow (Smokestack, 2007), Dreamers in a Cold Climate (Red Squirrel, 2008), Love-Lines (Red Squirrel, 2009), Somewhere in Heaven (Red Squirrel, 2010) and History Talks (Red Squirrel, 2011). A proud son of the North East, his poetry is tied up with place and loss, with a faultless ear for the nuances of his native Tyneside, picking out those small, everyday details that sing.

Struggling to survive in Kingston, Surjue falls foul of the trickster figure Flitters. Arrested for robbery, he is sentenced to the appalling world of a Jamaican colonial prison. This is a stark, brutal novel, full of Mais’s prophetic rage and railing against imprisonment both inside and outside jail. And whilst the novel displays an unflinching, distressing realism, it is also a work of art, with a genuinely tragic vision.

“I think Tom Kelly is a unique poet.”

James Kirkup Tom Kelly was born in Jarrow and now lives further up the Tyne at Blaydon. He has had over a dozen plays and musicals staged at the Customs House in nearby South Shields. In addition to his poetry collections and numerous poetry pamphlets, he has had short stories published in magazines including Dream Catcher and Chimera, and on BBC Radio 4.

Red Squirrel Press » Paperback £6.99 » 978-1-906700-35-5 216x138mm » 162pp Poetry (DCF) North-East

Roger Mais (1905-1955) was born into an educated middle-class Jamaican family. Swept up in the 1938 riots, he became a committed activist and Jamaican nationalist. His 1944 critique of Churchill’s imperialist ideology, Now We Know, brought Mais to court and he was sentenced to six months in prison for sedition.

The Hills Were Joyful Together was originally published in 1951, followed by Brother Man in 1954 and Black Lightning in 1955. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Jamaica in 1978.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £12.99 » 978-1-845231-00-2 206x135mm » 320pp Fiction (FA)

A young postman in 1950s Yugoslavia delivers a letter to a woman quietly hanging out her washing... Soon he is involved in a lottery scheme devised by her husband – a scheme, he is persuaded, that will bring wealth and happiness to the town’s poorest and most deserving citizens. As it all goes wrong, Miha Mazzini constructs a political fable that is also a satire on youthful idealism, greed and misguided belief.

Miha Mazzini is a Slovenian writer and film-maker. Born in 1961, he is the author of 23 books. The Cartier Project (2005) was ex-Yugoslavia’s all-time bestselling novel and was made into a feature film. Guarding Hanna (2008) was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2004. His recent work features in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Vol. 4 (2011).

Urška Zupanec has translated Margaret Atwood, Simon Armitage and Craig Raine into her native Slovenian.

CB Editions » Paperback £7.99 » 978-0-956735-93-5 198x129mm » 158pp Fiction (FYT)

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Little Murders Everywhere Rebecca Morgan Frank

Daughters of Empire Lakshmi Persaud

Waking Dreams Donna Potts

Winner of Poetry Society of America Award in 2010.

“Powerful and poetic” – Time Out.

Debut collection from prominent US scholar and commentator.

Little Murders Everywhere is a chorus of elegies – one modern-day city dweller’s observations on a decaying world, filled with miscommunication and failed relationships. There are wry laments for lost loves, a series of sonnets for the everyday sins of gossip, bossiness and lying, and an overriding, ruthless devotion to beauty in decline.

“A poet as sure in craft as in historical vision, giving the reader the pleasure of this virtuoso reach, lyricism, control...”

Marilyn Hacker Rebecca Morgan Frank’s poems have appeared in the likes of Ploughshares and Best New Poets, and she is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award (2010). She was the 2005 Emerging Writer Fellow and the 2004 Nadya Eisenberg Poetry Fellow at the Writers’ Room of Boston.

She is co-founder and editor of the magazine Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction, and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-89-5 210x134mm » 88pp Poetry (DCF)

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Daughters of Empire is a sweeping saga bound by the themes of family, migration and culture clash.

It is a tale of two sisters: the richly comic Ishani, who stays in Trinidad with the family business, and soulsearching Amira, who emigrates to England. Amira wonders how she will raise three daughters away from home, and how a traditional Hindu upbringing will clash with the seductions of British individualism.

As she soon discovers, daughters of empire – even those with the very best educations – may never quite fit in, especially with those who see only colour.

Lakshmi Persaud was born in 1939 in Trinidad. She studied at Queen’s University, Belfast, and later at Reading University. She has lived mainly in the UK since the 1970s.

Her novels are Butterfly in the Wind (1990), Sastra (1993), For the Love of My Name (2000), all published by Peepal Tree, and Raise the Lanterns High (2004).

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £14.99 » 978-1-845231-87-3 206x135mm » 400pp Fiction (FA)

The inspiration for Waking Dreams came from a question from the poet’s young son: “is my life a dream, and someday I’ll wake up and be in the real world?” To dream can mean to strive for a very real and reachable ideal, but dreaming also finds us at our most unknowing and vulnerable.

From this starting point, these poems explore the nature of dreams amid the often surreal aspects of daily life, and the subtle interconnections between the two.

Donna Potts was born in Joplin, Missouri and now lives in Manhattan, Kansas, where she teaches at Kansas State University. She received a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award to the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1997-98, and returned there in 2004-05. She has contributed to the Blackwell’s Companion to the British and Irish Novel 19452000 (2006), and her critical study Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition is forthcoming.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-93-2 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF)

Hold Me to an Island: An Anthology of Writing about Caribbean Place edited by Kwame Dawes & Jeremy Poynting Landmark anthology featuring work of over 60 writers, including Kwame Dawes, Kamau Brathwaite and Austin C. Clarke.

This is an anthology bringing together poetry and prose chronicling the relationship between the Caribbean people and one of the most radically altered and ecologically threatened areas of the world in human history.

The contributors, around 80 in total, include Kamau Brathwaite, Austin C. Clarke, David Dabydeen, Kwame Dawes, Neville Dawes, Wilson Harris, Roger Mais, E. A. Markham, Edgar Mittelholzer, Lakshmi Persaud and Jan Shinebourne.

Kwame Dawes, in addition to being one of the Caribbean’s most prominent poets, is a respected critic and anthologist.

His recent anthologies include Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (Peepal Tree, 2010). Jeremy Poynting is the managing editor of Peepal Tree Press, and has written widely on the Caribbean.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £14.99 » 978-1-845231-63-7 206x135mm » 320pp Anthologies (DQ / DCQ)

Before You Leeanne Quinn Debut collection from Dublin poet chosen for 2008 Poetry Ireland Selections series.

The poems of Leeanne Quinn’s debut collection explore loss and memory, initially through the intimacies of a sibling relationship, later revisited from a distance. In turn, new experience becomes ‘the earth’s irreproachable / response to your absence’.

In the book’s second section, the letters of Elizabeth Bishop serve as reference and counterpoint to ‘this awful business of living’, in the knowledge that pain must out, and that life must go on.

Leeanne Quinn was born in Drogheda in 1978. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Trinity College, Dublin. In 2008 she was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, performing alongside the likes of Ailbhe Darcy, Joseph Horgan and Padraig O’Morain. Her poems have been published in a variety of magazines and journals, including The Shop and The Stinging Fly. She lives in Dublin.

Dedalus Press » Paperback £9.00 » 978-1-906614-48-5 216x140mm » 67pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Ian Crockatt “Not a poet, but the embodiment of poetry” – Maria Tsvetaeva.

Rainer Maria Rilke’s work spans the divide between the decadence of early 20th-century Europe and the modernist revolution that followed the First World War – always struggling to develop and reach beyond itself.

This selection brings together poems from throughout Rilke’s career, placing poems of similar themes close to one another, making bed-fellows of poems rarely seen together, and catching Rilke’s blend of crafted sensuality and spiritual searching.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) witnessed the radical new art emerging in Paris before the First World War, meeting Rodin, Picasso and Tolstoy and many other artistic giants of the time. Together with letters and his novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rilke’s poetry constitutes one of the great literary achievements of the 20th century.

Ian Crockatt is a Scottish poet. His Original Myths (1999) was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2000.

Arc Publications Hardback & Paperback £12.99 (hb) / £9.99 (pb) 978-1-906570-44-6 (hb) 978-1-906570-22-4 (pb) 216x138mm » 116pp Poetry (DCF)

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The Square Root of Beirut Omar Sabbagh “Incredibly bright, full of energy…

I warmly recommend him” – Fiona Sampson.

Family relationships, philosophy, love and life in the Lebanon are the recurring themes of this second collection from this rising star of British poetry, whose work is featured in the Forward Book of Poetry 2012.

“Bristling and unsentimental...”

Martin Crucefix

A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens edited by Peter Robinson Celebrates 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, with poems from John Hegley, Paul Muldoon and Sean O’Brien.

2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of our most enduringly and endearingly popular authors. This delightful anthology of new poetry from the likes of Sean O’Brien, John Hegley, Moniza Alvi, Carrie Etter and Philip Gross celebrates the great man, drawing on incidents from his own life and some of the best-known characters in the world of reading.

Edited by award-winning poet and translator Peter Robinson, the book includes contributions from over 50 poets, with an Introduction by Adrian Poole. The cover shows an image of the Mechanics Institute, Reading, opened by Dickens himself, now the Great Expectations Hotel.

Peter Robinson’s many books include Selected Poems (2003), The Look of Goodbye (2008) and the limited-edition English Nettles and Other Poems (Two Rivers, 2010). He recently edited Bernard Spencer: Complete Poetry (Bloodaxe, 2011), one of Dannie Abse’s top 10 20th-century poetry collections in the Guardian, and Reading Poetry: An Anthology (Two Rivers, 2011). He is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading.

Two Rivers Press » Paperback » £10.00 978-1-901677-78-2 » 210x135mm » 160pp Poetry (DCQ)

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“I recommend My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint to everyone who wants to read poetry emergent from the soul of the south, yet chiselled from a native English rock.”

Fuad Siniora, former Prime Minister of Lebanon Omar Sabbagh is a young Lebanese/British poet, with an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths and a PhD in English Literature from King’s College, London. His debut collection, My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2010. His poetry has been published in the likes of Banipal, the London Magazine, PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Stand. He currently lectures in Creative Writing in Beirut.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-54-7 216x140mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF)

Ismith Khan: The Man & His Work Roydon Salick

Thousands Flee California Wildflowers Scot Siegel

Biography and critical re-evaluation of celebrated Trinidadian author.

Poetic travelogue through the history of one of the world’s favourite places.

Trinidadian author Ismith Khan (1925-2002) is celebrated in this new critical study, which sheds invaluable and entertaining light on his life, his short stories and his three novels: the semi-autobiographical The Jumbie Bird (1961), The Obeah Man (1964) and The Crucifixion (1987). His literary accomplishments are given in-depth treatment, particularly his skill in representing the diversity of Trinidadian culture across language, generation, ethnicity and class. Clear and well-documented, the survey gives a persuasive case for the reevaluation of this great writer’s work.

Who hasn’t dreamed of living in, or at least visiting, California? The world’s eighth largest economy, a place of history and cultural tolerance – less a state than a state of mind.

“Khan’s ear for dialect and his ability to render it in print made his novels lasting successes.”

The New York Times Roydon Salick is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. He is the author of The Novels of Samuel Selvon: A Critical Study (2001).

Peepal Tree Press Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-845231-74-3 234x156mm » 128pp Biography / Lit. Studies (BGL / DSK)

Part elegy, part travelogue, Scot Siegel’s latest book uses California as a springboard to consider ‘the age we live in.’ ‘After the Summer of Love’ is a snapshot of Californian childhood in the late 1960s and 1970s, a time of war and social upheaval, while ‘Song of the California Wildfire’ considers the Californian dream in the 21st century.

Scot Siegel is a town-planning consultant from Oregon. His other books include Skeleton Says (2010) and Some Weather (2008), named one of Oregon’s 150 Outstanding Books of Poetry. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has received awards and commendations from Aesthetica and the Oregon State Poetry Association.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-94-9 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF)

A Room on the Hill Garth St. Omer Caribbean Modern Classics series; important St. Lucian contemporary of Derek Walcott.

After his friend Stephen commits suicide, John Lestrade runs away to ‘a room on the hill’. But when his friend Derek’s abandoned girlfriend is killed in a car crash, and then refused a proper burial by the Catholic church, Lestrade is moved out of exile, and into action.

Energetic and fiery in its rejection of the colonial straight-jacket, A Room on the Hill always retains some possibility of honest reflection and escape.

Garth St. Omer was born in St Lucia in 1931. During the early 1950s he was part of a group of artists in St Lucia including Roderick and Derek Walcott. His first publication, the novella Syrop, appeared in 1964, followed by the Faber publications of A Room on the Hill (1968), Shades of Grey (1968), Nor Any Country (1969) and J-, Black Bam and the Masqueraders in 1972. In 2001 he was honoured with the Saint Lucia Medal of Merit.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845230-93-7 206x135mm » 166pp Fiction (FA)

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A Taste for Hemlock Michèle Vassal Shortlisted for the Hennessy and Tribune Awards for New Irish Writing.

A Taste for Hemlock chronicles a journey of mysticism and transmutation for French poet Michèle Vassal. Born in France but drawn to the magic and potential of Hiberno-English after moving to Dublin in the late 1970s, this is her second English-language collection. Grounded in myths and storytelling, Michèle Vassal’s vision is uncompromising, incisive, and laden with a rich, painterly sensuality.

“Michèle Vassal has the rare gift of turning poetry into music. Each elegant, spare, melodic verse lingers in the mind like a beautiful song.”

Ferdia McAnna Michèle Vassal is French but her years in Ireland have given her an unconditional love for Irish Literature.

She started writing in English in the late nineties, going on to receive the Listowel Writers Week Poetry Prize for her debut collection Sandgames (Salmon Poetry, 2001). She currently lives in France.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-99-4 210x134mm » 74pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

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Echoes of a River: Poems of New Orleans and Beyond Gordon Walmsley Second Salmon Poetry collection; follows Touchstones (2008).

The great storm that was Hurricane Katrina brought poet Gordon Walmsley back to New Orleans. Here he explores the place of his birth and his childhood, delving into its complexities, and the realities of life so long hidden from view before the levees broke.

Gordon Walmsley grew up in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he studied German and Philosophy.

His most recent poetry collection is Touchstones (Salmon Poetry, 2008).

For the past number of years he has lived in Europe, drawn especially to Copenhagen, Berlin and the Nordic countries; he edited the 2003 Salmon Poetry anthology Fire and Ice: Nine Poets from Scandinavia and the North. He has translated poets from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany, and currently edits the Copenhagen Review.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-75-8 210x134mm » 70pp Poetry (DCF)

Future Blues Michael S. Begnal “Always intelligent, bristling with formal spice” – Mairéad Byrne.

Future Blues is both a progression from and a break with Michael S. Begnal’s previous collection, Ancestor Worship, described by the Irish Literary Supplement as “an attempt at reconstructing an obscured heritage.” While traces of this impulse inevitably recur, Future Blues hurtles forward, seeking out ‘new images and modes of being’, even as our collective future – death – looms.

“Future Blues, in its title, lashes Irish poetry past and future into alliance – a desperate, daring act... a poetry of anomalies, stitched across time and culture from Mongán to Laurence Sterne to Frank O’Hara to Ron Asheton…”

Mairéad Byrne Michael S. Begnal was born in 1966. His previous collections are Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry, 2007), Mercury, the Dime (2005) and The Lakes of Coma (2003). He was editor of the Galway-based magazine The Burning Bush as well as the book Honeysuckle, Honeyjuice: A Tribute to James Liddy (2006). He currently lives in Pittsburgh.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-90-1 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

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Both Steven Blyth

The Flying Trapeze Duncan Bush

Sixth collection from Northern Realist poet; contemporary of Ian McMillan, Jim Burns, Geoff Hattersley and Peter Sansom.

Sixth collection from well-known Welsh poet.

Both is a hymn to a 1970s childhood spent in Sunday-school, in playgrounds and in parks, to old girlfriends, parents, neighbours, uncles, great grandmas and aunts ‘three-million times removed’. It is also a book about masculinity, class, family Christmases and Corporate Strategy meetings.

Steven Blyth follows in the footsteps of fellow Northern Realists Jim Burns, Geoff Hattersley, Peter Sansom and Ian McMillan, explaining how – beneath its rows, resentments and worries – family life constantly reveals its peculiar sense of belonging and happiness.

Steven Blyth was born in 1968 in Bolton and now lives in Manchester.

He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1994. He has published five previous books of poetry, including The Gox (1996), Baddy (1997), So (2001) and Mr Right (2011). His short stories appear in the Comma Press anthology Hyphen (2003).

Smokestack Books Paperback » £7.95 978-0-956814-43-2 197x127mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) North-West

The Flying Trapeze is the sixth collection from Welsh poet Duncan Bush, one of the most significant voices of his generation. The poems are characteristically unsentimental, tough-minded and fiercely lyrical.

Largely inspired by his world travels, they range from the marginal, monochrome lives of ‘Avedon’s Drifters’ to the full-blooded colours of the tango in ‘A Blood Rose’, from his fine nature poems to the bitter political satire of ‘A Season in Sarajevo’ and ‘Lahore’.

“Duncan Bush creates a resilient dignity… against the obliterating rapids of history.”

Poetry Wales Duncan Bush is a poet, novelist, dramatist, translator and documentary writer. His poetry collections include Masks (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and the 1995 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year) and Midway (1998). He is the author of several novels, including The Genre of Silence. He has lived for many years in Luxembourg, and is co-editor of the Amsterdam Review.

Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-854115-72-0 216x138mm » 72pp Poetry (DCF) Wales

John Ormond: Collected Poems edited by Michael Collins Collected poems from one of the great 20th-century Welsh poets.

John Ormond (1923-1990) is one of the remarkable generation of poets born in south Wales in the early 1920s, including Dannie Abse and Leslie Norris. He was a friend of fellow Swansea writers Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins.

A significant number of his poems, many of them elegiac, probe his Welsh roots; others focus on aspects of the natural world.

“His eye for detail is immensely zestful, he is technically adept and varied, and is prepared to try a different, more ambitious manner, and can bring it off. A poet full of individuality.”

Alan Brownjohn Michael Collins is Professor of English at Georgetown University.

He served as Director of the Villa Le Balze, the University’s Study Center in Fiesole, Italy, which John Ormond visited numerous times and which resulted in his brilliant long poem, ‘Tuscan Cypresses’.

Seren » Paperback » £14.99 978-1-854115-21-8 216x138mm » 208pp Poetry (DCF) Wales

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Orpheus Ascending John Gibbens Previous Collected Poems described as “a magnificent book” by Michael Horovitz.

Orpheus Ascending tells the story of the singer who falls dangerously in love, of the beautiful woman who becomes all things to him, of the underworld king who claims her for his own, and how our hero goes through hell to find her.

Selected Poems John Fowles Celebrated author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Magus; no. 30 in the Times’ list of the 50 Greatest Writers Since 1945.

John Fowles (1926–2005) is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and important English writers of the second half of the 20th century. His poetry, though previously unpublished in the UK, formed an integral part of his writing life. This selection opens with three major sequences from the early part of his career: two of which draw on his time in Greece, while the third is closely related to his first novel, The Collector. The poems culminate in a sequence written in hospital towards the end of his life. With an Introduction by Cape poet Adam Thorpe.

John Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea. His first two novels The Collector (1963) and The Magus (1965) were both bestsellers, followed in 1969 by The French Lieutenant’s Woman, the film version of which (starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter) was nominated for five Oscars. His only book of poetry, simply called Poems, came out in the USA (but not in the UK) in 1973.

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Like Salman Rushdie, Nick Cave, Rilke, Cocteau and Tennessee Williams before him, John Gibbens recasts the Orpheus myth in contemporary terms: this time in an altered version of late 1980s London, where violent unrest meets government backlash, and where pastoral idyll becomes a refuge from the currents of history.

John Gibbens was born on the Wirral. He won an Eric Gregory Award at the age of 21. He was deputy editor of The Oldie in the 1990s, and has written a column about second-hand books for the Sunday Telegraph. His poems appear in The Captain’s Tower, a gathering of poems to mark Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday (Seren, 2011). He now lives in London.

Smokestack Books Paperback » £7.95 978-0-956814-45-6 197x127mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) London

Split Screen: Poetry Inspired by Film & Television edited by Andy Jackson

His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Víctor Jara edited by Martín Espada

Themes range from It’s a Wonderful Life and James Bond to Tom and Jerry and The Clangers.

First ever bilingual Selected of legendary Chilean songwriter.

With contributors including George Szirtes, Simon Barraclough, Annie Freud, W.N. Herbert, Kona Macphee and Tim Turnbull, Split Screen comprises over sixty poems on a list of topics drawn from TV and film: from Tom and Jerry to Jayne Mansfield, from The Clangers to James Bond.

The poems are presented in sections, interspersed with poems based on adverts acting as ‘commercial breaks’. These advert poems are selected from open submissions from around the UK, allowing new poetic voices to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with more established names.

Andy Jackson is from Manchester, but moved to Dundee twenty years ago. His poetry has been published in New Writing Scotland, Magma and Northwords Now. He won the National Galleries of Scotland Creative Writing competition in 2008.

His first collection, The Assassination Museum, was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2010, described

by Ian McMillan as “alive with possibility and excitement”.

Red Squirrel Press » Paperback £6.99 » 978-1-906700-60-7 216x138mm » 86pp Anthologies (DCQ)

His Hands Were Gentle brings together the best of Víctor Jara’s lyrics, from early songs like ‘El arado’ (‘The Plow’) to ‘Estadio Chile’ (‘In the Stadium’), written in the hours before his execution. They reveal Jara as an ardent political poet, an eloquent advocate for the peasantry, a socialist visionary and a poetic balladeer of the highest order.

“For me, Víctor was everything an activist-musician should be.”

Emma Thompson, actress and screenwriter “As long as we sing his songs, as long as his courage can inspire us to greater courage, Víctor Jara will never die.”

Pete Seeger, American folk-singer Víctor Jara (1932-73) was a legendary Chilean singer, songwriter, guitarist and theatre director. A leader of the New Song Movement, in the aftermath of the military coup of 1973, Jara was arrested, imprisoned and executed. Martín Espada has published more than fifteen books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including the poetry collection Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas (Smokestack, 2008).

Smokestack Books » Paperback £8.95 » 978-0-956814-41-8 197x127mm » 174pp Poetry / Music (DCF / AVH)

Nocturnes Will Kemp Highly Commended in the Poetry Society’s Stanza Poetry Competition 2011.

This debut collection is a fascinating exploration of all things night-time, from taking the dog out to revisiting Sleeping Beauty, from night as a time of loss, grief and endings to a time of recuperation, of moving back towards the light.

The poems are supported throughout

by Kemp’s lyrical sensibility, and tempered by flashes of wit and inventive humour.

Will Kemp studied at Cambridge and UEA, then travelled throughout Asia and South America before working as an environmental consultant in Holland, Canada and New Zealand. Since becoming runner-up in the 2006 Keats-Shelley Prize, he has had over fifty poems published, including in the Guardian and the recent Cinnamon Press anthologies Storm at Galesburg (2009) and Feeding the Cat (2011), and shortlisted in various national competitions.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-55-4 216x140mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire

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A Thorn in the Flesh: Selected Poems Eddie Linden

As I Said Lev Loseff translated by G. S. Smith

Close friend and contemporary of John Heath-Stubbs, Norman MacCaig and W.S. Graham.

New translated edition of one of the leading Russian poets of his generation.

A Thorn in the Flesh is the first collection of Eddie Linden’s work published since City of Razors in 1980. The poems rise out of his pacifism, his sexuality and his conflicts with the Catholic church.

There are tender poems around childhood and youth, and on desire and elusive love. In another vein, ‘Editor’, ‘To Robert Burns’ and ‘Hampstead by Night’ are the incisive diatribes of a semi-outsider on the poetry/culture scene.

These poems contemplate the poet’s native land of Russia, while at the same time casting a jaundiced eye on the alien culture of America, where he spent the final years of his life. Whether absorbed by the world of literature (particularly his fellow poets) or relating real-life experiences, Loseff conjures up a restless, frequently disturbing universe, full of complex imagery, rich literary allusion and formal experiment.

Eddie Linden was born in Northern Ireland in 1935. His difficult childhood in a Lanarkshire mining village is recorded in Who is Eddie Linden? by Sebastian Barker (1979). Linden is best known as the editor and founder (in 1969) of the literary magazine Aquarius. His only other collection of poems was City of Razors (1980). A tribute book, Eddie’s Own Aquarius (2005), features poems, recollections and drawings by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Bruce Kent, Clare Short and Craigie Aitchison.

Hearing Eye » Paperback £7.50 » 978-1-905082-63-6 210x148mm » 52pp Poetry (DCF) N. Ireland

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Lev Loseff was born in 1937, grew up in Leningrad and worked as a journalist in northern Sakhalin, and as a magazine editor and children’s playwright. He emigrated to America in 1976, where he later taught Russian literature at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He died in the USA in 2009. G.S. Smith was Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford from 1986 to 2003. He translated the bilingual anthology Contemporary Russian Poetry (1993), and worked in collaboration with Lev Loseff for many years.

Arc Publications Hardback & Paperback £13.99 (hb) / £10.99 (pb) 978-1-906570-11-8 (hb) 978-1-904614-83-8 (pb) 216x138mm » 160pp Poetry (DCF)

The Bells of Hope Roddy Lumsden “One of the best poets writing in English on the planet today” – Don Share.

The Bells of Hope is a series of fiftyone poems, all of them in a short form Lumsden has developed, in which metaphor and truth swirl in one short and three long lines.

Lyrical and curious, these poems, though stand-alone, collectively chart a time of change in the poet’s life, delighting in unusual words and tumbling images, in poems whose titles run from A to Z and back to A. Roddy Lumsden was born in St. Andrews. His first book Yeah Yeah Yeah (Bloodaxe, 2010) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second collection, The Book of Love, was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His most recent collections include Mischief Night (2004; Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Third Wish Wasted (2009) and Terrific Melancholy (2011), published by Bloodaxe. He also edited the Bloodaxe anthology Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets (2010).

Penned in the Margins Paperback » £9.95 978-1-908058-04-1 198x129mm » 48pp Poetry (DCF) London

The Book of Idiots Christopher Meredith Novelist acclaimed in the Guardian, the Independent, the Sunday Times and the New York Times.

The lives of Dean Lloyd and his friends play out against the backdrop of a brooding Welsh landscape, uncoiling memories of childhood games and adult misadventures.

But then a chance encounter in an oncology waiting room leads to the rekindling of an old flame; a seemingly innocent game leads to an untimely death; and a mysterious figure appears in a petrol station forecourt.

The Book of Idiots is a darkly comic, candid story of obsession and missed opportunity, with all the hallmarks of a modern Welsh tragedy.

Christopher Meredith is the author of Shifts (1988), Griffri (1991) and Sidereal Time (1998). He is also the author of three poetry collections and a book for children in English and Welsh. He is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan.

Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman John Morris Provocative new historical study, claiming ‘Jack’ was in fact a woman.

The Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 – brutal, bizarre and the first to whip up a storm of worldwide media attention – continue to exert a macabre hold on the imagination. What kind of person could have performed such horrific deeds, and how could they not have been caught by the huge police effort? Suspects have included the eminent Victorian doctor Sir William Gull, royal gynaecologist Sir John Williams and the painter Walter Sickert.

Conspiracy theories abound, involving Masonic, Jewish and other connections, and yet the Ripper’s identity remains a mystery.

But was Jack not a Jack at all? This provocative and compelling study claims that Jack was in fact a woman. But who could she be? The story of John Morris and his late father’s extensive research offers up many twists and turns, before they reach an all too plausible conclusion…

John Morris is a retired solicitor from Wales. He now works for the Carlyle Institute in Dublin, and lives in Co. Wicklow.

Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-854115-65-2 216x138mm » 220pp Fiction (FA) Wales

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Forms of Feeling: Poetry in Our Lives John Morgan Essays on the significance of poetry by winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Prize.

Poetry gives form to our feelings and helps us come to terms with them – facing a personal crisis, a poem can be the beginning of healing.

In Forms of Feeling, John Morgan investigates the role of poetry in the contemporary world, including where poems come from, the audience for poetry, and the ways in which poetry can offer a spiritual path in a secular time. He also discusses a variety of approaches to writing poems, and spells out the importance of place in a poet’s work, focusing on his experiences in moving from New York to Alaska.

John Morgan was born in New York City, and studied with Robert Lowell at Harvard. He has published four books of poetry, most recently Spear-Fishing on the Chatanika: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2010). His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, the American Poetry Review and the Paris Review.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-91-8 210x134mm » 150pp Lit. Studies (DSC)

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The Juno Charm Nuala Ní Chonchúir

From Here to Timbuktu Pauline Plummer

Shortlisted for the Strong Award for Best First Poetry Collection in 2008.

A modern-day reworking of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, set on the West African tourist trail.

Nuala Ní Chonchúir reveals herself, yet again, as a witty and energetic purveyor of the happiness that lies on the far side of the wall of common experience. Edged with resistance, there is also comedy: as she reinterprets Adam and Eve on the loose in the modern world, and shows scorn for some of our best-known weekend newspaper columns.

The fabled city of Timbuktu, once capital of the Songhay empire, is now just another impoverished town on the tourist trail. From Here to Timbuktu follows the fortunes of a group of tourists as they make their way across the Mali desert. Like Chaucer’s pilgrims, these travellers pass the time bickering, gossiping, flirting and falling out, eventually sharing the stories of their lives.

“Nuala Ni Chonchúir’s poetry... has gathered momentum at this stage in an already garlanded career, and the result is something of a force in full spate…”

Mary O’Donnell Nuala Ní Chonchúir was born in Dublin in 1970. Her collection Tattoo:Tatú (2007) was shortlisted for the 2008 Strong Award. Her pamphlet, Portrait of the Artist with a Red Car, won the 2009 Templar Poetry Pamphlet competition. Her literary prizes include RTÉ Radio’s Francis MacManus Award and the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and she has twice been nominated for a Hennessy Award. She lives in County Galway.

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Written in Chaucer’s rime royal, From Here to Timbuktu is a travelogue, a satire and a 4x4 journey across the desert plain.

Pauline Plummer was born in Liverpool, has taught in Poland and Sierra Leone and currently teaches at Northumbria University. Her previous poetry collections include Demon Straightening (2000), Bamako to Timbuktu (2003) and Bint (2011).

She has read her poems on BBC Radio 4, Tyne Tees TV and Poetry Ireland, and at the Sage Gateshead, the Troubadour Cafe and many other venues. She lives in North Shields.

Smokestack Books » Paperback £7.95 » 978-0-956814-44-9 197x127mm » 120pp Poetry (DCF) North-East

Relic Environments Trilogy Estill Pollock “Pollock consistently maintains a level of quality that is both intelligent and absorbing” – Stride.

This new publication brings together Estill Pollock’s Relic Environments trilogy of poetry collections: Relic Environments (2005), Available Light (2007) and Designs for Living (2008). The book also features a new introduction by the author, along with previously unavailable poems.

Journeying from 1940s Florida to Dublin’s Grafton Street, through the fragmented memories of a 9thcentury Chinese courtesan and the poetry of Chernobyl survivor Lyubov Sirota, the Relic Environments Trilogy is a sweeping exhibition of narrative poetry, tied to both the lessons and escapes provided by world mythology, and the danger zones of our own history.

Estill Pollock was born in rural Kentucky in 1950. His first poems were published in Poetry, receiving the George Dillon Memorial Prize.

He later settled in the UK, near the Essex coast. His work appears in The North, Poetry Review and Tears in the Fence; and Fields and Standing Waves (2004) was selected as a Poetry Society Pamphlet Choice.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £11.99 » 978-1-907090-46-2 216x140mm » 272pp Poetry (DCF) South-East

We Lit the Lamps Ourselves Andrea Potos Poems in response to the Brontës, Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson.

“Poets light but Lamps – / Themselves – go out –”, wrote Emily Dickinson, whose works – along with those of the Brontë sisters and Sylvia Plath – have inspired this new collection. ‘Dreamseeped hours’ put Potos on intimate terms with her subjects, while journeys to their homes offer relics of their history. The impressionistic poems that follow are haunted by lives long past, whose voices still ring clear and strong.

She said there’s a clarity in each word, like the chandelier that hung in your dining room as a childstars of blue-white and yellow-gold (from ‘Speaking of Poetry’) Andrea Potos is the author of three poetry collections, including Yaya’s Cloth (2007). Awards for her writing include the James Hearst Poetry Prize. Her poems appear widely in magazines, and in anthologies including Mothers & Daughters: A Poetry Celebration (2001). She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-92-5 210x134mm » 88pp Poetry (DCF)

New Day V.S. Reid Important figure in Jamaica’s cultural revolution, and literary contemporary of George Campbell and Roger Mais.

New Day is set in 1944, on the eve of universal adult suffrage in Jamaica, and the rise of nationalism which followed. The story alternates between the memories of John Campbell, an old man who recalls the years of drought, repression and rebellion that so tainted his native land, and the present of his grand-nephew Garth, a leader of the nationalist and trade union movement. The Campbell family are committed to peaceful, constitutional ways to progress; yet outbreaks of violence, past and present, are never far from view.

Victor Stafford Reid (1913-1987) was born in Kingston, Jamaica. His first novel, New Day (1949), was a landmark in Caribbean writing for its use of Jamaican nation-language as the language of fiction, and announced the Jamaican people’s urge to sweep away colonialism. He was awarded the Order of Jamaica in 1980, and the Norman Manley Award for Excellence in Literature in 1981.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £13.99 » 978-1-845230-90-6 206x135mm » 340pp Fiction (FA)

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The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays Rupert Roopnaraine Critical essays on politics, literature and the arts by one of the Caribbean’s most prominent commentators.

This collection of essays ranges across politics, literary pursuits, visual arts, social commentary, memoirs and tributes. They encompass Guyana, the wider Caribbean, including the US invasion of Grenada (which Roopnaraine witnessed first-hand), and the international socialist movement.

The title comes from a Martin Carter poem written in grief over the assassination of the scholar-politician and WPA leader Walter Rodney.

Essays on Martin Carter, Edgar Mittelholzer, AJ Seymour, Kyk-overAl, lexicographer Richard Allsop, and artists Philip Moore, Winston Strick, Ras Ishi, Ras Akyem and Stanley Greaves reveal once again that there are few Caribbean critics who write with such grace and insight.

Rupert Roopnaraine was born in 1943 in Georgetown, Guyana, and is one of the leading Caribbean intellectuals of his generation. His book Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves was published by Peepal Tree in 2003.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £16.99 » 978-1-845231-61-3 234x156mm » 260pp (10 b&w ill.)

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The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow Debut collection from multi-award winning American poet.

This collection plunges boldly into an unrelenting quest to make sense of a universe that is both beautiful and troubling.

These vibrant poems resonate with a spirited voice that is consistently lively, audaciously erotic and sensual, and crackling with energy. The result is a collection that is arresting, urgent and unfailingly celebratory.

Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow received her MA at the University of Illinois, specialising in Poetry. She is a recipient of the Willow Review Prize for Poetry, a Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, and an award from the Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition, selected by Robert Creeley, Diane Wakoski and Charles Wright. Her poems have also appeared in various anthologies, including Not A Muse: The Inner Lives of Women (2010).

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-96-3 210x134mm » 84pp Poetry (DCF)

The Heart of It Seni Seneviratne “These tender, moving poems weave a delicate web” – Jackie Kay. Personal heartbreak and public trauma come together in this haunting new collection from Seni Seneviratne. Her poems are both personal, enchanting lyrics of desire and political portrayals of life that has been marginalised, brutalised and lost.

Yet the sudden twists of anger and tragedy are cradled in compassion and transcendence, and the overall effect is both compelling and soothing, unswerving in its faith in the power of reconciliation and love.

Seni Seneviratne was born and raised in Leeds, of English and Sri Lankan heritage. Her debut collection, Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin, was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2007, and includes a poem Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prize. Her work was showcased in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten: New Poets from Spread the Word (2010). Her poem ‘Operation Cast Lead’ was shortlisted in the 2010 Arvon International Poetry Competition.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845231-90-3 206x135mm » 56pp Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire

Fair’s Fair Susan Utting

Liveaboard Emily Wall

The Art of Denis Williams Evelyn A. Williams

Winner of the 2010 Best Love Poem Prize in the Times.

Poems inspired by living aboard a sailboat on the West Coast of the US and Canada.

Illustrated artbook of acclaimed Black artist, championed by Salvador Dali and Henry Moore.

Four years on a 37-foot sailboat, cruising the Pacific coast of Canada and Alaska, gave Emily Wall the sustaining metaphors for Liveaboard.

She shows us the ‘absent-minded priest’ of a great blue heron, and a new life with ‘a few cleats tethering us to shore’. These are moments that both awaken - the rumble of a tugboat churning by – and haunt – a friend’s drowning, the small wake of her body.

Every nerve in our necks thrums down our spines until even our cramped hands begin to hum, threaten to break into pale sea stars, indigo blossoms.

Written by his daughter, The Art of Denis Williams is a long-overdue illustrated guide to the work of a man praised worldwide, including by the likes of Wyndham Lewis, Henry Moore and Salvador Dali.

These poems are full of desires and ambitions – some fulfilled, some thwarted, from learning to read to reaching the Moon, from shapeshifting to living without mirrors. The graveyard dead join in at the village pub, and a taxidermist’s labours come back to life.

“Utting animates life’s brittle edges and her poems carry unforced emotional weight.”

Moniza Alvi “Her poems are musical, magical and have a clarity which goes straight to the heart.”

Adrian Mitchell Susan Utting’s second collection, Houses Without Walls (Two Rivers Press, 2006), was featured in the Independent on Sunday, with a poem included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2007. Her awards include the Peterloo Prize, Cardiff International Prize and a Poetry Business Prize.

Susan is the founder of Reading’s Poets’ Café, and has read her poetry at arts festivals including Edinburgh, StAnza, Ledbury and Aldeburgh.

Two Rivers Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-901677-80-5 210x135mm » 56pp Poetry (DCF) South-East

(from ‘Saturday Morning’) Emily Wall now lives in Juneau, Alaska. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alaska Southeast. This is her second poetry collection, following Freshly Rooted (Salmon Poetry, 2007).

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-907056-97-0 210x134mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF)

In the 1940s, Denis Williams was the first Black artist to win critical acclaim in Britain and the first Black teacher at both the Central School of Art and Crafts and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His presence was of such significance to art in the postwar era that it was reserved by the Tate and featured in Time Magazine.

Evelyn A. Williams was born in London, and is a researcher, painter and writer. She co-edited Denis Williams: A Life in Works, New and Collected Essays (2010), with contributions from leading scholars, including a number of Williams’ contemporaries such as Wilson Harris and Stanley Greaves. She currently lives in Edinburgh.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £27.99 » 978-1-845231-93-4 297x210mm » 176pp (69 col., 80 b&w ill.)

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APRIL Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants: An Anthology of Persian Poetry from Rudaki to Langrood edited by Ali Alizadeh & John Kinsella The first English anthology to focus on the entire historical range of Persian poetry.

Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants is a ground-breaking new collection of poems presenting the wealth of poetic voices from one of the world’s most important literary cultures.

The book covers poetry from the early Middle Ages to the Modernists and Postmodernists of the 20th and 21st centuries. From lyrical odes to radically experimental free verse, no other culture in the world has produced such quantity and quality of mystical poetry and true spiritual vision as the Persian tradition.

Charmed Lives Mike Barlow

After Brock Paul Binding

Winner of the National Poetry Competition in 2006.

Four previous novels recently reissued by Faber Finds.

Whether drawing on direct or imaginary experience, works of art, literature or myth, these poems are about being vulnerable, getting by, and being at one with the world.

When eighteen year-old Nat Kempsey goes missing in the Berwyn mountains, his disappearance reveals a secret that his own father, Pete Kempsey, has kept for thirty-five years, drawn as he was to the same remote land, at the same age, by a phenomenon mysterious and unexplained. A cut-throat journalist is convinced something is awry with Nat’s story, and it soon becomes clear that the lives of both Nat and his father are running in disconcerting parallels…

“The poems bring in a wide field of reference, which deepens, adds layers of understanding and meaning.” – Gillian Clarke He will count his footsteps perhaps as he plods through the white world, lashes clagged with snow, imagination spinning his compass. He will remember himself as he once was, silent, alone in the wide world of possibility. (from ‘Through a Blizzard, A Man Walks’)

Ali Alizadeh has taught writing and literature at universities in Australia, China, Turkey and United Arab Emirates. He is the author of six books, including collections of poetry.

John Kinsella is the author of over thirty books. He is an editor and international editor of a number of literary journals and is also a literary critic and cultural commentator.

Mike Barlow has won first prizes in the Ledbury (2005) and National Poetry Competitions (2006). Living on the Difference (2004) won the Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition and was shortlisted for the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection. His 2008 pamphlet Amicable Numbers was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice.

He lives in Lancaster.

Arc Publications » Paperback £10.99 » 978-1-906570-57-6 234x156mm » 160pp Anthologies (DCQ)

Smith Doorstop » Paperback £9.95 » 978-1-906613-52-5 215x140mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) North-West

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After Brock is a story of infatuation, fraught relationships and dysfunctional families – exploring the boundaries between myth and reality, and humanity’s relationship with the natural world.

Paul Binding is a novelist, critic, poet and cultural historian. Four of his books have been reissued by Faber Finds: Lorca, My Cousin the Writer, The Still Moment: Eudora Welty and St Martin’s Ride. A regular reviewer for the Guardian, the Independent and the TLS, he lives in the Marches.

Seren » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-854115-68-3 216x138mm » 288pp Fiction (FA) Wales

Off the Beaten Track: Stories by Russian Hitchhikers Irina Bogatyreva, Tatiana Mazepina & Igor Savelyev Three short novels, all written by winners of the Debut Prize for young Russian authors.

This book by and about Russian hitchhikers will take the reader along the endless roads of Siberia, the Urals, the Altai, Central Russia and beyond.

Included are Irina Bogatyreva’s short novel Hitchhiking, Igor Savelyev’s Pale City, and Tatiana Mazepina’s Journey towards Paradise – all winners of the Debut Prize. These hitchhikers call themselves “the last generation of free travellers”; Jack Kerouac is their guru – only on the road do they ever feel really free.

“Today an unusually gifted generation is entering Russian literature...

Literature has not seen such an influx of energy in a long time.”

Olga Slavnikova Irina Bogatyreva was born in 1982 on the Volga. She has won several important literary awards, including the Debut Prize. Tatiana Mazepina was born in 1986. She won the Debut Prize for a travelogue about her Eastern travels. Igor Savelyev was born in 1983 in Bashkiria. He won the Debut Prize in 2004.

Glas » Paperback » £8.99 978-5-717200-92-9 200x125mm » 300pp Fiction (FYT)

Animal Magic: Poems on a Disappearing World Liz Brownlee Unique crossover of children’s poetry and facts and figures on the natural world.

A beetle disguised as a water-drop? A cat that lives in the desert and never drinks? A frog poisonous enough to kill just by touching it? This beautiful book all about the animal kingdom features playful and engaging poems on more than 40 animals, birds and insects, including some of the world’s most endangered species.

You’ll find everything from the panda to the bumble-bee, from the cave racer snake to the Madagascan robber moth – even something called a gastric brooding frog...

Perfect for both children and their parents, the poems are accompanied by wonderfully eye-catching illustrations by Rose Sanderson, along with fun facts on the animals and their amazing behaviour.

Liz Brownlee’s work has appeared in over sixty children’s poetry anthologies in the UK, including Read Me and Laugh (2005) and Space Poems (2006), both published by Macmillan.

Iron Press » Paperback » £10.00 » 978-0-956572-53-0 230x155mm » 96pp (12 b&w ill.)

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Lightning Beneath the Sea Grahame Davies Debut poetry collection in English from prominent Welsh-language author.

Lightning Beneath the Sea is a lively first collection of poems in English by Grahame Davies. Widely-known for his prize-winning Welsh-language poetry and fiction, he brings a native warmth, an intimate, conversational tone, and a raised political awareness to these poems about Cardiff and the Welsh experience. He observes other nations with the same keen, ironic eye, and is as concerned with character and the vagaries of relationships in everyday life.

“Poems which brilliantly describe Welsh life in the capital.”

Peter Finch “There’s a new world-view on our everyday lives here, overloaded with memorable images and phrases.”

Menna Elfyn Grahame Davies is a Welsh poet, novelist, editor and literary critic, whose accolades include the Wales Book of the Year. His books include the cultural studies The Chosen People (2002) and The Dragon and the Crescent (2010), the novel Everything Must Change (2007), and the psycho-geography Real Wrexham (2007), all published by Seren. He lives in Cardiff.

Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-854115-75-1 216x138mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) Wales

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What the Emperor Cannot Do: Tales and Legends of the Orient Vlas Doroshevich translated by Rowen Glie, Ronald Landau & John Dewey First English translation of early 20th-century classic by renowned Russian author and contemporary of Chekhov.

These Oriental fables by Russian great Vlas Doroshevich are unexpected, exciting, colourful and tremendously readable. Doroshevich could not stand tyranny in any form and used his tales to mock and accuse the rich and the powerful for their wickedness and hypocrisy.

Doroshevich’s works were often banned during Tsarist times and then finally banned completely under the Bolsheviks. This great Russian writer, a friend of Chekhov, is only now being resurrected from oblivion. This is the first English translation of his Tales.

Vlas Doroshevich (1864-1922) was a novelist, journalist, drama critic and short-story writer of world renown. During the 1880s he worked alongside the young Anton Chekhov.

His best-known works are The Way of the Cross, his 1915 account of the German invasion of Russia during the First World War, and Sakhalin: Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East.

Glas » Paperback » £8.99 978-5-717200-94-3 » 200x125mm » 200pp Fiction (FYT)

In Terra Pax edited by Rowan B Fortune New poetry and fiction anthology from Cinnamon Press.

In Terra Pax introduces new and emerging voices in short fiction and poetry. The entries include the award-winning title story ‘In Terra Pax’ by Paul Brownsey, a darkly comic and subversive look at stereotyping and prejudice.

There is also poetry by Cara Watson, together with a range of innovative and gripping poetry and fiction from Ben Parker, Elizabeth Griggs, new poet Ian McEwan, Lucy Durneen, Tricia Durdey and Eithne Nightingale.

Rowan B Fortune is assistant editor at Cinnamon Press. His own writing includes poetry, fiction, reviews and essays, and he also runs a YouTube channel featuring work on philosophy, aesthetics and literature, including a series of mixed media microfictions. He has an MA in Creative Writing from MMU and is working on a first novel.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-907090-56-1 216x140mm » 144pp Anthologies (DQ / DCQ)

Singing a Man to Death Matthew Francis Short-story collection from Faber poet; shortlisted for the Forward Prize (twice) and the Welsh Book of the Year Award.

Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Poetic Forms, Rules & Constraints edited by Tom Chivers A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Summer 2012.

Discover a strange new world of poetic form in this inspiring and inventive new anthology from Penned in the Margins.

Univocalisms, lippograms, cut-ups, anti-sonnets and other oddities are just some of the experiments on offer, along with poems as txts, tweets, suduko puzzles, directions, propositions and even football formations.

Contributors to this dynamic new project include Paul Muldoon, Christian Bök, Ruth Padel, Joe Dunthorne, Patience Agbabi, Toby Litt, Ian McMillan, Moniza Alvi, Glyn Maxwell, Inua Ellams and many more.

Tom Chivers is a writer and literary arts producer. He has edited the Penned in the Margins books Generation Txt (2006), City State: New London Poetry (2009) and Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry (2010). He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011. He was also co-Director of London Word Festival from 2008 until 2011, and was a recipient of a Breakthrough Award from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Penned in the Margins » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-908058-01-0 » 216x138mm » 192pp Anthologies (DCQ)

Innovative, engaging, layered with allusion and wit, these compelling tales stand together as a dazzling display of what the short story can achieve. From old England to the exotic lands of the South Pacific, from the early medieval to the contemporary, from naturalism to magic-realism, these stories showcase the talents of one of the UK’s standout writers.

“Singing a Man to Death… is notable for its range, sophistication and readability... A strong collection.”

Christopher Meredith Matthew Francis’s most recent poetry work, Mandeville (Faber, 2008), received great acclaim in the Observer and the Guardian. His other collections include Dragons (Faber, 2001), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the Welsh Book of the Year Award, and Blizzard (Faber, 1996), also shortlisted for the Forward and winner of the Southern Arts Prize. He is also the editor of W.S. Graham’s New Collected Poems (Faber, 2005).

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-907090-59-2 216x140mm » 160pp Fiction (FYB)

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Scan John Fraser Williams Recognised as a key emerging writer by Literature Wales in 2009.

John Fraser Williams is a poet who keeps ‘the oath: not to kill amazement’. The poetry in this debut collection balances awe and mystery with a keen sense of clarity and sharp focus. Able to push his work to the boundaries of language, Fraser Williams delights and unsettles: journeying from the landscape of home in north Wales to more interior places, bringing to light what is hidden and unsettling.

These are the maps of circumstance.

Through the metal gate, a beating hiss, that chill which brings transparency, you’ll visit continents, explore your archaeology of flesh, where forces ride, and time and chance collide. (from ‘Scan’) John Fraser Williams is widely published in magazines, including Poetry Wales and Planet. In 2009 he was recognised by Literature Wales as a key emerging writer and awarded a New Writer Bursary.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-58-5 216x140mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF) Wales

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The Shadow Owner’s Companion Eleanor Hooker Selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2011.

Eleanor Hooker’s debut collection of poems is a rich, distinctive and sometimes unsettling book. The book is full of a mystifying blend of warmth and otherness – of the comfort and strangeness of half-heard whispers on the other side of the door. The poems navigate this uncertain world, moving between the fear and wonder of childhood, and the quiet, surreal reflection of adult life.

Eleanor Hooker lives in North Tipperary. She has a BA from the Open University, an MA in Cultural History from the University of Northumbria, and an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. She was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series of public readings in 2011. Her poetry has been published in journals in Ireland and the UK, including Agenda, The Stinging Fly, The Shop and Crannóg. She is also a founding member of the Dromineer Literary Festival, on the shore of Lough Derg.

Dedalus Press » Paperback £9.00 » 978-1-906614-54-6 216x140mm » 70pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

Regeneration Meirion Jordan Modern reworking of Welsh medieval legends; follows success of Seren’s New Stories from the Mabinogion series.

Regeneration is Welsh poet Meirion Jordan’s take on the medieval manuscripts known today as the Red Book of Hergest and the White Book of Rhydderch. The collection is a full-bore re-imagining, inspired by the stories of the Mabinogi as well as Malory’s version of King Arthur’s tales. Drawing on these ‘half-recalled heroic landscapes’, Jordan captures the elusive essence of the characters, their strange adventures and mysterious passions.

The book’s inventive format – both sections presented ‘back to back’, with separate covers – echoes the division of the original manuscript into ‘Red’ and ‘White’ books.

Meirion Jordan was born near Swansea. His first collection of poems, Moonrise, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and his pamphlet, Strangers Hall, was shortlisted for an East Anglia Book of the Year award.

His poems have appeared widely in national poetry magazines, including PN Review, Poetry Wales, the Rialto, Agenda and the TLS.

Seren » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-854115-55-3 216x138mm » 100pp Poetry (DCF) Wales

Poet to Poet: Edward Thomas’ Letters to Walter de la Mare edited by Judy Kendall Includes 315 previously unpublished letters from 1907 to 1916.

Tokens for the Foundlings edited by Tony Curtis Charity anthology with poems by Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy and Don Paterson, plus cover artwork by Tracey Emin and a foreword by Daisy Goodwin.

Seren presents an anthology of poetry about childhood, with royalties going to the Foundling Museum in London. The Museum, established by Thomas Coram in 1739 with the support of Hogarth and Handel, was both the first orphanage in Britain and the first public art gallery, with an on-going commitment to the arts and education today.

The book is divided into three sections: orphans and foundlings, infancy, and early childhood. Contributors include the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Don Paterson, Helen Dunmore, Michael Longley, Elaine Feinstein, Stephen Knight, Dannie Abse, Sheenagh Pugh, George Szirtes, Ruth Padel and David Harsent, all of whom have donated their work.

Following the recent success of Matthew Hollis’ biography Now All Roads Lead to France (shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Award), this book offers an incredible insight into the life and poetic workings of the great Anglo-Welsh writer Edward Thomas.

Gathered here is his correspondence with Walter de la Mare: 318 letters between 1906 and 1917, of which only three have previously been published. They include some beautiful natural descriptions along with moving personal revelations, and track Thomas’s progress from prose writer to fully-fledged poet.

Judy Kendall is the Programme Leader for English and Creative Writing at the University of Salford, and is an Edward Thomas specialist.

Her publications include Edward Thomas: The Origins of His Poetry (2012) and Edward Thomas’s Poets (2007). Her own poetry is published

by Cinnamon Press.

Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in 1946. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Heaven’s Gate (2001) and Crossing Over (2007), both published by Seren. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan.

Seren » Paperback » £12.99 » 978-1-854115-81-2 216x138mm » 180pp Anthologies (DCQ) London

Seren » Paperback £14.99 » 978-1-854115-80-5 216x138mm » 220pp Biography (DSC)

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Sense Arslan Khasavov translated by Arch Tait New Russian Writing from young Chechen author, writing in tradition of Tolstoy and Turgenev.

Sense showcases a young, courageous author from Chechnya writing in the best traditions of Tolstoy and Turgenev, offering his own intimate vision of a confused adolescent in a threatening and dangerous world. Arslan Khasavov shows the limits to which an indifferent, hypocritical society can push an idealistic, romanticallyminded, well-meaning young person.

“One is infected with the author’s energy and his passionate aspiration to get some sense into his life, to act, to live for the sake of something…”

Literary Russia Arslan Khasavov was born in 1988.

He won the Debut Prize in 2009.

His work appears in the 2010 Glas anthology Squaring the Circle. Arslan works for the BBC Russian Service, and lives in the city of Grozny.

Arch Tait is a recently retired Professor of Russian Literature, with many successful translations to his name, including books by Anna Politkovskaya and Ludmila Ulitskaya.

Glas » Paperback » £8.99 978-5-717200-93-6 200x125mm » 250pp Fiction (FYT)

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Timepiece Jan Lowe Shinebourne

The Chapels of Wales D. Huw Owen

New edition of the novel which won the 1987 Guyana Prize for Literature.

Follows success of T.J. Hughes’s Wales’s Best One Hundred Churches (2007).

When she takes up a job as a reporter in Georgetown, Guyana, Sandra Yansen must leave the close ties of family and village behind. The city she finds is riven by racial conflict and political turbulence.

The Chapels of Wales gathers together approximately 110 of these buildings, which played such a central role in the faith, culture and history of nineteenth- and twentiethcentury Wales. Owen journeys across Wales, and also ventures into the Welsh diaspora, taking in chapels in Liverpool, London, Oswetry, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Melbourne, Toronto, Gaiman in Patagonia and the Khasi Hills of north-east India.

Rich and beautifully written, Timepiece explores the tensions between personal and political integrity in a society where people ‘break up the ground under each other’s feet’. There is also sensitive reflection on the status of women, as Sandra is forced to find her way through the male-dominated world of the newspaper office, a far cry from the matriarchy and communal strength of home.

Jan Lowe Shinebourne was born in Guyana, and moved to London in 1970. She is the author of two other novels, The Last English Plantation (1999) and Chinese Women (2010), and a collection of short fiction, The Godmother and Other Stories (2004), all published by Peepal Tree. She now lives in Sussex.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-845231-97-2 206x135mm » 212pp Fiction (FA) South-East

Owen’s comprehensive survey records some of the buildings now being lost, and explores the life to be found within those which remain.

D. Huw Owen is a former keeper of Pictures and Maps at the National Library of Wales. He is an active member of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, and of Chapel – the Welsh Chapels Heritage Society, and is a trustee of the Welsh Religious Buildings Trust. His Welsh language survey of Welsh Chapels, Capeli Cymru, was published in 2005.

Seren » Paperback » £14.99 978-1-854115-54-6 216x138mm » 280pp (140 col. ill.) » Architecture (AMN) Wales

Days Full of Caves & Tigers Fabio Pusterla translated by Simon Knight Selected poems from one of Europe’s leading Italian-language poets.

This selection is drawn from six collections spanning Pusterla’s poetry career from 1985 to 2011. There is a spareness and austerity about his poetry – born of the age-old struggle with the harsh environment of the Swiss Alps. The natural world clearly matters a great deal to Pusterla, as does family life, and occasionally the veil of everyday reality is lifted to reveal moments of pure happiness and exuberance. With an Introduction

by Alan Brownjohn.

Fabio Pusterla was born in 1957.

For his work, widely translated, he has been awarded the Premio Montale (1986), the Schiller Prize (1986, 2000 and 2011), the Premio Dessì (2009) and the Premio Lionello Fiumi (2008, 2010), the Premio Prezzolini for translation (1994), the Premio Marazza (2009) and, in 2007, the Gottfried Keller Prize. He teaches Italian literature in Lugano. Simon Knight specialises in writers from Italian-speaking Switzerland and is currently translating Il fondo del sacco (1970) by Plinio Martini.

Arc Publications Hardback & Paperback £12.99 (hb) / £9.99 (pb) 978-1-906570-21-7 (hb) 978-1-904614-82-1 (pb) 216x138mm » 144pp Poetry (DCF)

The Gospel of Us Owen Sheers New novel from acclaimed author of Resistance (Faber, 2008).

In The Gospel of Us, Owen Sheers reimagines his National Theatre of Wales dramatisation of the three-day Passion, set in Port Talbot, and now a film starring Michael Sheen and directed by David McKean.

This is a Port Talbot in thrall to the sinister corporation ICU, which puts profit before people as it plunders the town’s resources.

Suddenly a stranger appears in the dunes, singing songs to the sea. This is just the start of three days of unearthly events in the town: events that see the Teacher soothe a suicide bomber, and the dead rise in an underpass.

“Sheers writes with dazzle and poetic economy.”

The Times Owen Sheers is the author of the novel Resistance (Faber, 2008), now a film starring Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough (2011). His other books include two Seren poetry collections, The Blue Book (2000) and Skirrid Hill (2006); the 2005 Welsh Book of the Year The Dust Diaries (Faber, 2005); and White Ravens, his entry in Seren’s New Stories from the Mabinogion series (2010).

Seren » Paperback » £8.99 » 978-1-854116-22-2 196x128mm » 200pp » Fiction (FA) Wales

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Enough Light to See the Dark Frank Dullaghan

Shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2010.

Championed by Sheenagh Pugh and George Szirtes.

Thanks for Nothing, Hippies is an essential poetry survival guide for anyone disaffected with the world we live in. It endures intolerable bus journeys in odd places, offers useful tips for surviving the modern workplace, and even provides wry judgment on several unsolved murders. That’s not to mention a myriad of novel methods to ruin perfectly good relationships along the way.

“Frank Dullaghan’s quietly spoken poems move between tenderness and terror with a humane warmth…

The language follows and embraces a wide range of affairs, touching on loved, known and dangerous things – the texture of experience – lightly, unfussily, with a lovely ear for the plain cadence that is, for most of us, the sweet-sad music of being alive.”

George Szirtes

This is a restless, darkly funny collection, one which never takes the trials of life too seriously.

Sarah Clancy hails from Galway, Ireland. In 2010 she was shortlisted for the Listowel Poetry Competition and the Patrick Kavanagh Award.

Her first collection, Stacey and the Mechanical Bull, was published in 2010. She won the Cuirt International Festival of Literature Grand Slam 2011, and she has appeared at events across Ireland and at the 2011 Vilenica Festival in Slovenia.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-01-4 210x134mm » 100pp Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

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Frank Dullaghan’s second collection is accomplished, wistful and poignant – with enough light to see not only the dark, but into the cracks between things, where hope and love live.

Frank Dullaghan was born in Dundalk, Ireland. He currently lives and works in the UAE. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan and is widely published in magazines, including Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales, the London Magazine, Poetry London and Poetry Review.

His debut collection, On the Back of the Wind, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2008.

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Clueless Dogs Rhian Edwards “Supremely crafted... inhabited by something far rarer, an unerring ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary” – Time Out. The poems in this collection recall imaginative escapes from a fraught childhood in Bridgend, through chronicles of teenage lust and student rivalries, to the damaged peers and tense situations of adult life. Full of verve, humour and spiky syntax, Rhian Edwards’ work has a winning, unflinching honesty and intensity that have quickly garnered many admirers.

“Rhian Edwards makes the language sing and dance. Join her campaign for the liberation of poetry from all that is dry, stuffy, insincere and boring…”

Christopher Reid Rhian Edwards was born in Bridgend. Her pamphlet Parade the Fib (2008) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poems have appeared in the TLS, Poetry Review, the Spectator, Poetry London, Poetry Wales and the London Magazine.

She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, Ledbury and Latitude Festivals, and recently won the 2011 John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award. Her poems have also been exhibited at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

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Whatever Sends the Music into Time: New & Selected Poems Leah Fritz Specially commended by Carol Ann Duffy at Poetry on the Lake in 2009.

In these poems Leah Fritz questions everything – her own life, human nature, politics, even the universe – with humour, fearlessness and love. This New & Selected includes poetry from four previous collections: From Cookie to Witch is an Old Story (1987), Somewhere en Route (1992), The Way to Go (1999) and Going, Going... (2007).

“These are the poems of a wideranging intelligence greedy for experience – but also offering us her own sharp and entertaining ‘criticism of life’.”

Alan Brownjohn “Leah Fritz’s poetry is always enjoyable for its intelligence, wit, satirical sting and freshness of wording.”

Christopher Middleton Leah Fritz was born in New York, and moved to London in 1985. As well as four collections published in the UK, her poems frequently appear in magazines like Acumen, PN Review, the London Magazine and Poetry Review.

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& Silk & Love & Flame Birhan Keskin translated by George Messo First translations of Turkish poet into English; introduced

by Amanda Dalton.

The Sin-Eater Thomas Lynch Follows short-story collection Apparition & Late Fictions (Cape, 2010), acclaimed in the Guardian, the Times and the Irish Times.

Birhan Keskin’s poetry is finelyhoned, powerful in its visuals, evocative and exact. Fluid and elusive, her poems explore the space between understanding and remembering, testimony and invention. This book selects work from six of Keskin’s books, including her prize-winning collection Ba, and George Messo’s outstanding translation enables us to appreciate to the full the work of this exceptional poet. Introduced by Bloodaxe poet and playwright Amanda Dalton.

Thomas Lynch’s fifth collection comprises two dozen, 24-line poems – a book of hours – on the life and times of Argyle, a sin-eater, the figure who historically appeared at Irish funerals to eat bread and drink a bowl of beer, and so consume the sins of the deceased.

Birhan Keskin was born in Kırklareli, Turkey, in 1963. Her first poems began to appear in 1984.

She has published seven collections of poetry in Turkish, including Ba, which won Turkey’s prestigious Golden Orange Award in 2005.

George Messo is a poet, translator, and editor. His translation of Ilhan Berk’s A Leaf About to Fall: Selected Poems (2006) was shortlisted for the Popescu European Translation Prize in 2006. His translations of Keskin’s poetry have already appeared in Shearsman.

Thomas Lynch is the author of four previous poetry collections. A book of stories, Apparition & Late Fictions, was published by Cape in 2010. His collection of essays The Undertaking (1998), about being a funeral director, won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A film of the book won an Emmy in 2007; and the BBC film of Learning Gravity (2008) was awarded the Michigan Prize by Michael Moore. He lives in Milford, Michigan.

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Set on the West Clare peninsula, where the author keeps an ancestral home, these poems explore the nature of religious experience, faith and doubt, communion and atonement.

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Libra Kevin Mills Praised by T.S. Eliot Prize-winner Philip Gross.

How Abraham Abandoned Me Bejan Matur translated by Ruth Christie & Celçuk Berilgen Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation, Spring 2012.

This collection covers the broad vision of mankind’s history with a story of an individual journey: a pilgrimage in south-western Anatolia. Filled with Islamic reference and imagery, Turkish poet Bejan Matur presents complex ideas about the immensity of time, space and the cosmos, with a simplicity of expression perfectly captured in Ruth Christie’s translation.

Bejan Matur has published four books of poetry, her first winning two major literary prizes. A translated selection of her poems, The Temple of a Patient God, was published by Arc in 2004. Matur’s poetry has been translated into seventeen different languages.

Ruth Christie was born in Scotland. Her recent translation of Poems of Oktay Rifat with Richard McKane (2007), was a runnerup in the Popescu Poetry Prize.

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“The extraordinary verbal richness and ambition of this book should not be mistaken for obscurity. Kevin Mills deals unapologetically in deep veins of learning, whether early astronomy or Mesopotamian myth, but his knowledge is always leavened with a curiosity and, frequently, a kind of impish delight... Any reader who is willing to play the game will come out feeling themselves acquainted not just with new knowledge but with a new attitude to knowledge; it will leave them wanting more. These poems reach out... The writing is witty and tender, delicate and tough.

It consistently charms us out of the everyday...”

Philip Gross “Kevin Mills is a poet with an original vision – intense, playful, ironic, deeply serious.”

Jeremy Hooker Kevin Mills currently lectures at the University of Wales, Glamorgan, where he specialises in Shakespeare and the English Renaissance. His first poetry collection, Fool, was published

by Cinnamon Press in 2009.

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Silence River Antônio Moura translated by Stefan Tobler First English-language edition of contemporary Brazilian poet.

Antônio Moura’s third collection plays with both experimental and traditional poetic styles, giving it a powerful mythic reach and a bizarre, neo-Baroque flavour. Life in these poems appears as uncanny, mysterious, something to be faced by the individual. There is a tension between spiritual insight and the sordid realities of life, between the world of today and that of previous eras, between the wider picture and the intensely personal.

With an Introduction by David Treece, Professor in Brazilian Studies at Kings College, London.

Antônio Moura is considered to be among the strongest Brazilian poets writing today, and is one of the youngest poets to appear in Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain: 20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets (2004). Stefan Tobler’s poems and translations have appeared in many magazines, including Shearsman, Ambit and Poetry Wales.

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The Van Pool & Other Writings Keidrych Rhys edited by Charles Mundye The literary impresario who spotted the talents of Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves and R.S. Thomas.

Keidrych Rhys (1915-87) was one of Wales’s most influential writers in the 1940s and 50s: the result of his own poetry, his editorship of Wales magazine and his notorious attacks on the Bloomsbury Set. His circle of literary friends included Dylan Thomas, Glyn Jones, Vernon Watkins, Emyr Humphreys, Alun Lewis and R.S. Thomas; he was married, sometimes tempestuously, to the poet Lynette Roberts.

This book brings together Rhys’s only poetry collection, The Van Pool (Faber, 1942), and a variety of unpublished poems. To this Mundye adds selected prose writings, including the Forewords to Rhys’ influential Faber anthologies Poems from the Forces (1941) and Modern Welsh Poetry (1944), plus editorials from Wales and other articles, and radio scripts.

Charles Mundye is a Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. He has published a book on Ezra Pound, and edited the work of Laura Riding and Robert Graves in A Survey of Modernist Poetry (Carcanet, 2002).

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Merman Jean O’Brien Includes the winning poem in the 2010/11 Arvon International Poetry Award, judged by Carol Ann Duffy.

Merman, the fourth poetry collection

by Jean O’Brien, takes its title from the winning entry of the 2010/11 Arvon International Poetry Award.

From this lively and imaginative opening, the poems are always alert to the comic and the everyday, even when broaching the harder subjects of life, engaging with the prospects of illness and death with characteristic grace and candour.

“A wonderful poem.”

Carol Ann Duffy on ‘Merman’ Jean O’Brien is originally from Dublin, and now lives in the Irish Midlands. She has published three previous collections: The Shadow Keeper (Salmon, 1997), Dangerous Dresses (2005) and Lovely Legs (Salmon, 2009). She has an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. She facilitates writing classes for a wide variety of organisations, including the Irish Writers’ Centre and Dublin City Council. She has won the 2008 Fish International Poetry Award and the 2010/11 Arvon International Poetry Award.

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Jewel Peadar O’Donoghue Launching at the Cuirt International Festival of Literature in April 2012.

Jewel is a love song for life, at times unrequited but a love song nonetheless. The poems take on the good, the bad, but most of all the ugly aspects of modern life: from the degradation of unemployment to the indifference of the Catholic church.

This stunning debut includes poems of youth and romance, of war and death, all approached with the scathing humour of one man looking in on a troubled world through the bottom of a beer glass.

Peadar O’Donoghue is originally from Tipperary. He has had poems published in magazines like Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Magma, The Shop and The Burning Bush. He founded, runs and edits the magazine The Poetry Bus. He is also an accomplished photographer.

Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam edited by Todd Swift & Kim Lockwood Features poetry from Owen Sheers, Clare Pollard and Sophie Hannah.

Bringing together a comprehensive selection of the best young British poets, this is an anthology that is bursting with style, energy and breadth of appeal. The poetry comes courtesy of the likes of Owen Sheers, Sophie Hannah, Clare Pollard, Joanne Limburg, Rowyda Amin, Stefan Mohamed and Zoe Brigley.

Includes a foreword by prominent literary critic and anthologist David Lehman.

All profits will go to Oxfam, with a special launch event at the Southbank Poetry Library and a subsequent reading tour.

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Todd Swift was born in Montreal, Canada and has worked as a screen-writer, critic and poet. He has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. Since 2004 he has been Oxfam UK’s Poetin-Residence, and runs the London-based Oxfam Poetry Series.

He is also a core tutor with The Poetry School. His most recent collections are Seaway: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2008) and Mainstream Love Hotel (2009). He currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kingston upon Thames.

Kim Lockwood is currently studying writing at the University of Kingston upon Thames.

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White Walls Herbert Williams

The Other Side of Glass Gail Ashton

Different Kinds of Love Leland Bardwell

“One of Wales’ most celebrated and distinguished writers” – University of Wales Press.

Second Cinnamon collection; follows Ghost Songs (2007).

New collection of short stories from high-profile Irish writer.

Gail Ashton has always had the ability to conjure whole lives in a few lines. In her second collection, The Other Side of Glass, those conjuring abilities are joined by a new confidence and maturity as a poet to dazzling effect.

Leland Bardwell is one of the senior figures of Irish writing: a novelist, poet, playwright and short-story writer whose fiction has appeared on bestseller lists abroad and is accorded classic status at home. Bardwell’s keen-eyed, unflinching short stories were originally published in 1987, and deal with a range of topics of considerable relevance to readers in our own difficult times.

“Herbert Williams deals with uncomfortable topics such as cancer, death and war, yet never in a dark, brooding manner. His approach is almost invariably one with an edge of wit and an ability to view the wider picture. He’s able to be both simple and profound at the same time… he is assured, yet never sure of himself.

Full of candour and dark humour...

A remarkable poet.”

Mike Jenkins Herbert Williams is a highly respected poet, novelist, short story writer and dramatist. His first collection of poetry was published in 1965. His poems, short stories and plays have been broadcast by the BBC, HTV and Thames Television.

Eight of his poems feature in the ground-breaking anthology Poetry 1900-2000, edited by Meic Stephens (2007). A book on his work, Herbert Williams, appeared in the Writers of Wales series in 2010. He currently lives in Cardiff.

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“Precisely, writerly, packed with description and wit, Gail Ashton’s poems in this collection are assured and rich. Beautifully spaced, both on the page and in the mind, she insists on an engagement with words, whether an ice-skald riddle or a ditty on the em dash. Her ventures into prose poetry are exciting and intriguing and her command of the single line is admirable...”

Judy Kendall Gail Ashton is a freelance writer and editor. Her publications include six non-fiction books on poetry, and a biography of Geoffrey Chaucer. She has co-edited two poetry anthologies and edits a medieval literature series for Continuum. Her collection Ghost Songs was published by Cinnamon Press in 2007.

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Leland Bardwell was born in India, grew up in Leixlip, Co. Kildare and was educated in Dublin and London.

She has published five novels: Girl on a Bicycle (1977; published as an Irish Classic by Liberties Press in 2009), That London Winter (1981), The House (1984), There We Have Been (1989) and Mother to a Stranger (2002). A memoir, A Restless Life, was published in 2008. A co-editor of the long-running literary magazine Cyphers, Leland Bardwell is a member of Aosdána and lives in Co. Sligo.

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White Sheets Beverley Bie Brahic

Dante in the Laundrette Sean Burn

Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Modern twist on classical epic, set on Tyneside.

Brimming with light and wit and appetite, White Sheets is a book of clear-sighted affection in which neither grief nor love’s hard obligations can deflect from Beverley Bie Brahic’s delight in the pleasures of nature, art and the body.

Dante in the Laundrette is a study in extreme urban lyricism – a love-song from the Third Circle of Hell, where it is always raining. In the Third Circle, Lear is a council estate bully; Caedmon has been gender-reassigned and re-housed in a Newcastle tower block. Meanwhile Dante is sitting in the all-night launderette, contemplating the endless washing-cycles.

“This is a book of craft, music and a collected vision of life that provides pleasure on every page.”

Eavan Boland In Paris, night falls without haste; starlings flock to the oak. A neighbour appears on her porch, gives her white cloth a conjuror’s shake...

Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet and translator. A Canadian, she lives in Paris and Stanford, California. Her previous collection is Against Gravity (2005). Her translation of selected poems by Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud (CB Editions, 2008), was shortlisted for the 2009 Popescu Prize for European poetry in translation.

Her translation of Apollinaire’s The Little Auto was published by CB Editions in February 2012.

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Dante in the Laundrette is an early morning walk through hungover Northern streets, a vision of innocence and beauty framed by the gaze of the CCTV cameras and the drum ‘n’ bass soundtrack of rain.

Sean Burn is a writer, performer, playwright, painter, film-maker and disability arts activist. His previous books include a novel, MarginWalking (2007), three spoken-word CDs and three books of poetry, Edgecities, The Edge (both 2007) and Wings are Giving Out (2009).

He is currently Outside In artist-inresidence at the New Gallery Walsall.

He lives in Byker, Newcastle.

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Bones That Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets edited by James Byrne & Ko Ko Thett Launching at the Cultural Olympiad at the Southbank Centre.

Bones That Crow is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets in any language, and includes the work of Burmese poets in exile, in prison and undercover. The poets featured are Tin Moe (1933-2007), Thitsar Ni (b. 1946), Aung Cheimt (b.

1948), Ma Ei (b. 1948), Maung Chaw Nwe (1949-2002), Maung Pyiyt Min (b. 1953), Khin Aung Aye (b. 1956), Zeyar Lynn (b. 1958), Maung Thein Zaw (b. 1959), Moe Zaw (b. 1964), Moe Way (b. 1969), Ko Ko Thett (b.

1972), Eaindra (b. 1973), Pandora (b.

1974) and Maung Yu Py (b. 1981).

Introduced by Zeyar Lynn, with a Preface by Ruth Padel.

James Byrne’s second poetry collection, Blood/Sugar, was published by Arc Publications in 2009. Ko Ko Thett left Burma following detention for his role in the Rangoon student uprising in 1996. His first collection in English, The Burden of Being Bama, is forthcoming.

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Seizing: Places Hélène Dorion translated by Patrick McGuinness One of Canada’s leading poets and winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

Parnassus edited by David & Helen Constantine “My hunch is this will be the biggest poetry event ever...”

– Simon Armitage The Spring 2012 issue of MPT will be largely given over to a collaboration with Poetry Parnassus – the Southbank Centre’s celebration of the 2012 London Olympics, with a special launch event in June 2012.

Parnassus was a sacred site for the whole Greek world; Delphi, below that mountain, was ‘the navel of the earth’, and for the duration of the Olympics a truce was declared so that athletes could come and go safely. In this same spirit, poets from all participating countries will be invited to London and MPT will publish a selection of translations of their poems.

Poetry Parnassus marks the first time that so many poets from so many parts of the world have converged in one place; it is a monumental poetic happening. The issue will be enhanced with other translated poems, brief essays, anecdotes and images concerned, in whatever fashion, with the Games (ancient or modern) or with Parnassus, home of the Muses.

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Together with fiction, essays and livres d’artistes, Hélène Dorion’s poetry constitutes one of modern Québécois literature’s major achievements. Seizing: Places (Ravir: Les Lieux) was awarded the Prix Mallarmé in 2005, the first time that a Canadian had won this prestigious prize. Comprising five sequences, it is arguably Hélène Dorion’s most ambitious work to date. With an Introduction by Carcanet poet and Booker-longlisted novelist Patrick McGuinness.

Hélène Dorion was born in 1958 in Quebec City, and now lives in Montreal. She is the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and numerous other prizes, the most recent of which was the Prix Senghor in 2011. Patrick McGuinness is the author of two collections of poems, published by Carcanet, and the Man Booker Prize-longlisted and Costashortlisted novel The Last Hundred Days (Seren, 2011).

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Tea with the Taliban Owen Gallagher

Jolly Roger Keith Howden

Poetry on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A devilish take on the troubles of the modern world.

Owen Gallagher’s third collection of poems is a book about the warring tribes to which we all belong. This is a journey to dystopia: from the Gorbals in the 1950s to contemporary Palestine. The poems examine the loyalties of family and friendship, the sectarian and ideological loyalties of religion, class and politics.

‘Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name,’ sings the Devil in the Rolling Stones song. The Devil has had many names: Lucifer, Beelzebub, Old Nick. These days he likes to call himself Roger. Jolly Roger is an epic series of 12-line stanzas, written to accompany Hans Holbein’s 41 sixteenth-century woodcuts, The Dance of Death.

Along the way we meet Emma Goldman, Trotsky and Shelley, and are shown glimpses of a distant worker’s republic – where Robert Owen cocktails are served on the beach every evening, and parliamentary debates are conducted in verse.

Owen Gallagher was born in 1949 in Glasgow of Irish parents. He has published two previous collections of poetry, Sat Guru Snowman (2001) and A Good Enough Love (2012). Until recently he worked as a primaryschool teacher in Southall. He lives in London.

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All are brought low by Roger – he hides in speak-your-weight machines, NATO bombing missions, a bag of Semtex. Ribald, ironic and funny, he is a democrat, a Humanist and the enemy of humanity.

Keith Howden was born near Burnley in 1932. His two previous full collections are Marches of Familiar Landscape (1978) and Onkonkay (1984). He has also published two poetry-music collaborations with his son, the composer Matt Howden, The Matter of Britain (2009) and Barley Top (2011). He lives in Clitheroe, Lancashire.

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How to be a Grandfather: The Complete Edition and Other Poems Victor Hugo translated by Timothy Adès Complete edition of the great French author’s last book of poetry.

Victor Hugo remains France’s greatest poet. In the UK, he is known for his two famous novels; all the rest, including his vast output of wonderful poetry, is largely neglected. L’Art d’être grand-père (1877) was his last book of poetry, at a time when he had lost almost all his family except two little grandchildren. His musings on childhood, old age, politics, history, the natural and animal kingdoms, are poured into these poems with a torrential energy.

Appended are Hugo’s epic accounts of the great Napoleonic disasters: Moscow, Waterloo and St Helena.

“This is great poetry of childhood – but simultaneously, and not coincidentally, it is among the finest poetry of old age...”

Acumen Timothy Adès was born in 1941. His translations include Jean Cassou’s 33 Sonnets of the Resistance (Arc, 2002) and The Madness of Amadis (Agenda Editions, 2008). He is the recipient of the TLS Premio Valle-Inclán Prize and the John Dryden Prize.

Hearing Eye » Paperback £12.00 » 978-1-905082-66-7 210x148mm » 180pp Poetry (DCF)

Climbing Postcards Judy Kendall Third collection from poet and Carcanet anthologist.

Judy Kendall’s third collection pushes the boundaries of poetic form, all in response to the discipline of climbing.

Each poem takes us to places of beauty, danger and extremity, mirroring the climb in form and linguistic dexterity. Words search for safe resting places across the page, while poems for two voices work together like climbers roped together in acts of trust.

Judy Kendall spent many years living and working in southern Africa and Japan. She has edited a Carcanet anthology of Edward Thomas’s poems and related letters, Edward Thomas’s Poets (2007), and a collection of his letters to Walter de la Mare, Poet to Poet (Seren, 2012). Her debut poetry collection, The Drier The Brighter, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2007, followed by Joy Change in 2010.

She currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Salford.

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Huracan Diana McCaulay Publication commemorates 50-year anniversary of Jamaican independence.

At fifteen, following her parents’ divorce, Leigh McCaulay left Jamaica for New York City. Following her mother’s death fifteen years later, she returns to the island, in its 50th year of independence, to find her estranged father and the family secrets he holds. Back home, but white in a black country, she struggles to come to terms with her family’s part in the slave-trade.

Loosely based on the author’s own family history, Huracan explores how we navigate the inequalities and privileges we are born to and the possibilities for life, connectedness and social transformation in modern everyday life. But it is also the story of an island’s independence; of the people who came and those who were conquered; of crime and acts of mercy; of the search for place, love and redemption.

Diana McCaulay has lived in Jamaica her entire life. Her first novel, Dog-Heart, was the winner of a Jamaican National Literature award, longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC award and shortlisted for several other prizes in 2011; it was Peepal Tree’s bestselling title of 2010.

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Big Low Tide Candy Neubert

The Mind/Body Problem Katha Pollitt

Cloud Camera Lesley Saunders

Second Seren novel, set in the Channel Islands.

UK edition of the winner of the National Books Critics Circle Award.

“Splendidly compelling” – Philip Gross and Don Paterson.

Big Low Tide is set in a small community in the Channel Islands, where life rolls with the motion of the sea and everyone knows everybody else’s business.

Brenda, barmaid and single mum, struggles to cope with her two young sons. When their father receives news of Brenda’s decline, he decides to return to the island after a long absence. He finds her pregnant and living alone in his sister Elsa’s house, with Elsa nowhere to be seen. Then, on a wild and stormy night, youngest son Danny goes missing. Somewhere on this tiny island, a terrible secret lies waiting to be revealed.

Candy Neubert is the author of the novel Foreign Bodies (Seren, 2009).

Born in the Channel Islands, she lives in Devon. She has received numerous literary awards and prizes including the Bridport Prize, and her poetry has featured widely in magazines like the Rialto, Poetry Review, Poetry London and the TLS.

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The Mind/Body Problem is the UK edition of a prize-winning book of poetry by the renowned American poet and essayist, Katha Pollitt.

Politically and artfully subversive, she touches on such subjects as ‘Lives of the 19th Century Poetesses’, ‘Collectibles’ and ‘The Night Subway’. There are also poems devoted to revisionist tales from the Bible where female characters like ‘Martha’ and ‘Lot’s Wife’ get the last word. A mid-life perspective, bringing both wisdom and humour, confirms her place at the front rank of Modern American Poets.

“Again and again she finds a humansized crack of light and squeezes us through with her.”

Kay Ryan, former US Poet Laureate Katha Pollitt is an American poet, essayist, and a prominent columnist for The Nation. She has won many prizes and awards for her work, including the National Books Critics Circle Award for her first collection of poems, Antarctic Traveller, as well as for the American edition of this book.

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These new poems delve into an imagined world of science and technology: from the early twentiethcentury cloud camera of the title, to Herschel’s ‘comet sweeper’ telescope and Florence Nightingale’s diagram of hospital deaths. There are poems about the first balloon flight made by a woman, how Braille was invented, and the effects of laughing-gas and static electricity. Dream-like, the poems celebrate and lament our endless human fascination with ‘what the terrestrial body can stand, / at what point the mind turns itself inside out.’

Cloud Camera features poems commended in 2011 at the Cardiff International (‘Glass’), the Bridport (‘Lecture’) and the Mslexia (‘Ballomania’) Poetry Competitions.

Lesley Saunders is the author of several books and pamphlets, including Her Leafy Eye (Two Rivers, 2009). Her poems appear in magazines like the London Review of Books, Mslexia, the Rialto and Staple.

She was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 1999, and won the Manchester Poetry Prize in 2008. She lives in Slough.

Two Rivers Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-901677-81-2 210x135mm » 80pp Poetry (DCF) South-East

Witch Damian Walford Davies “Astonishing, knock-youbackwards work... startlingly different” – Jane Holland.

With the narrative pull of a novel and the vibrancy of a play for voices, Witch offers a thrilling portrait of a Suffolk village in the throes of the witchcraft hunts of the midseventeenth century. The poems in this collection are dark spells, compact and moving: seven sections, each of seven poems, each of seven couplets. Witch is a damning parable that chimes with the terror and anxieties of our own haunted age.

Responses to Suit of Lights (2009): “Astonishing, knock-you-backwards work... startlingly different.”

Jane Holland “A succession of well-observed, witty, sparely written poems, satisfyingly visceral, and unsentimental.”

Alice Kavounas, Poetry Review Damian Walford Davies was born in Aberystwyth in 1971. He is the author of two previous volumes of poetry: Whiteout (Parthian, 2006) and Suit of Lights (Seren, 2009), a Wales Literature Exchange Bookshelf Choice. He is Head of the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.

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A Child’s Last Picture Book of the Zoo Louise Warren New collection from poet well known on north London poetry circuit.

In this skilful, subtle and quietly disturbing debut collection, animals whose images are caught in spoons at the British Museum speak disquieting truths about life and loss.

Meanwhile, the zoo at night is a place of shadow, unease and open endings.

Warren unearths the strange voices of objects and surprises with images that twist and change; her ‘house’ unsettles us – it is a skirt pulled down over her knees, a knot of hair, a fingernail – it is both the place and the person that appears at the foot of the bed, ‘tall and thin’ and menacing.

Louise Warren is a poet and playwright. Her poems have been published in Agenda, Envoi, Orbis, Stand, Seam, Poetry Wales, the New Writer and the Rialto. She appeared in the Ver Poetry Prize Anthology 2008, and won the Cinnamon Press First Collection Prize in 2011.

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The Traveller’s Tree: Poets from French-speaking Africa and the Arab World translated by Patrick Williamson with Jan Lovelock Features poems from 12 countries in Africa and the Middle East.

Poetry is one of the major forms of expression in both Africa and the Arab World, and this anthology gives a glimpse of the most representative voices of the French-speaking countries of these two regions.

The Traveller’s Tree presents poems from Algeria (Mohammed Dib, Habib Tengour); Cameroon (Paul Dakeyo); Chad (Nimrod); Congo Brazzaville (Alain Mabanckou, Tchicaya U Tam Si); Democratic Republic of Congo (Kama Kamanda); Djibouti (A. Waberi); Ivory Coast (Tanella Boni); Lebanon (Venus Khoury-Ghata); Mauritius (Edouard Maunick, Khal Torabully); Morocco (Abdellatif Laâbi); Senegal (Babacar Sall, Lamine Sall) and Tunisia (Tahar Bekri, Chems Nadir, A Said).

Patrick Williamson is an English poet, born in Madrid in 1960. He now lives near Paris. His most recent poetry collection is Three Rivers / Trois Rivières (Harmattan, 2010).

He has translated, among others, selected works by Tunisian poet Tahar Bekri and Québécois poet Gilles Cyr.

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Adès, Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Dafydd, Fflur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Jara, Víctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Alben, Astrid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Davies, Grahame . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Jardim, Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Alizadeh, Ali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Dawes, Kwame . . . . 14, 17, 51, 52

Jones, Marianne . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Apollinaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Dawes, Neville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Jordan, Meirion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Ashton, Gail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Deane, John F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Denby, Joolz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

B Bardwell, Leland . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Barlow, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Barrow, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Beckett, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Dewey, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Dorion, Hélène . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Doroshevich, Vlas . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Dullaghan, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

K Kelly, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Kemp, Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Kendall, Judy . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 47 Keskin, Birhan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Khan, Ismith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Begnal, Michael S. . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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Khasavov, Arslan . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Bennet, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Edwards, Rhian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Kinsella, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Bennett, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Espada, Martín . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Knight, Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Berilgen, Celçuk . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Binding, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Blyth, Steven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Bogatyreva, Irina . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Boran, Pat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Bowen, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Boyce, Max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Brahic, Beverley Bie . . . . . . 13, 44 Bromley, Carole . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

F Farrell, Tyler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Knox Whittet, James . . . . . . . . . 12 Kramer, Lotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Fortune, Rowan B. . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Fowles, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Landau, Ronald . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Francis, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Laws, Valerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Frank, Rebecca Morgan . . . . . . 16

Lehóczky, Ágnes . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Fraser Williams, John . . . . . . . . 34

Lightman, Ira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Fritz, Leah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Linden, Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Lockwood, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Brown, Judy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Brown, Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Gaffield, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Brownlee, Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Gallagher, Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Burn, Sean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Garland, Nicholas . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Bush, Duncan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Gethin, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Bushe, Paddy . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 52

Gibbens, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Byrne, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Gillmor, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Glie, Rowan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Macdonald, Rowena . . . . . . . . . 54

Green, Yvonne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Mackay, Duncan . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Greenwell, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Mais, Roger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Gregson, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Markson, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Gwyn, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Matur, Bejan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

C Capildeo, Vahni . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Cassou, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Chaplin, Sid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Chivers, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 55

Loseff, Lev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Lovelock, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Lowe Shinebourne, Jan . . . . . . 36 Lumsden, Roddy . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Lynch, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Mazepina, Tatiana . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Christie, Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Clancy, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Hamilton, Nathan . . . . . . . . 52, 54

Clare, Horatio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Higgins, Beda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Collins, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Hooker, Eleanor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Collins, Merle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Hore, Rachel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 54

Conradi, Peter J. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Howden, Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Constantine, David . . . . . . . . . . 45

Hughes, Glyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Constantine, Helen . . . . . . . . . . 45

Hugo, Victor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Crespo, Ángel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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Critchley, Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Morgan, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Jackson, Andy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Crockatt, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Morris, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

James, Sian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Mort, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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Mazzini, Miha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 McCaulay, Diana . . . . . . . . . 47, 53 McDonald, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 McGuinness, Patrick . . . . . . 45, 53 McHenry, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Meredith, Christopher . . . . . . . . 25 Messo, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Mills, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Mortimer, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Schwartzberg Edlow, Cynthia . 28

Moura, Antônio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Seltzer, Gemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Mullineaux, Pete . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Seneviratne, Seni . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Mundye, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Sheers, Owen . . . . . . . . . 37, 52, 54

N Neubert, Candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Newland, Courttia . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Ní Chonchúir, Nuala . . . . . . . . . 26 Nicholson, Mavis . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Nurkse, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 O O’Brien, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 O’Donoghue, Peadar . . . . . . . . . 42 Ormond, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Owen, D. Huw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Siegel, Scot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Slavnikova, Olga . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Smart, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . 50 Smith, G.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 St. Omer, Garth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Summers, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Swift, Todd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 T Tagore, Rabindranath . . . . . . . . 52 Tait, Arch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Tobler, Stefan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Tranströmer, Tomas . . . . . . . . . . 50

Persaud, Lakshmi . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Plummer, Pauline . . . . . . . . . 26, 50

Vassal, Michèle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Pratt, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Pugh, Sheenagh . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Pusterla, Fabio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

W Walford Davies, Damian . . . . . . 49 Wall, Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Walmsley, Gordon . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Warren, Louise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Watts, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Wilde, Oscar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Quinn, Leeanne . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Wilkin, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

R Reid, V.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Rhys, Keidrych . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Rilke, Rainer Maria . . . . . . . . . . 17 Robinson, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

John Fowles, ‘Lunch at Jean Shrimpton’s’ [see page 22]

Utting, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Pollock, Estill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Poynting, Jeremy . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

dull duets of love we fear to end?

What trigons of the heart and nerves?

But nothing shows.

Underdown, David . . . . . . . . . . . 52

V

Potts, Donna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

only a traitor could pursue. Who knows what unmapped other worlds there are inside those

U

Pollitt, Katha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Potos, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

that sets them subtler than they seem and slowly fills the room with certain quidproquos

Thomas, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Parkes, Nii Ayikwei . . . . . . . . . . 54 Perova, Natasha . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

A marriage in them speaks to me, a rightness in the frame, a harmony of mood and pose

Thett, Ko Ko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

P Pears, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

… The fern and mirror in the sun sing something deep, most definitely not meant for prose.

Williams, Denis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Williams, Evelyn A. . . . . . . . . . . 29 Williams, Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Williamson, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . 49 Woods, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Robinson, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Z

Roopnaraine, Rupert . . . . . . . . . 28

Zupanec, Urška . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Rowson, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 S Sabbagh, Omar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Salick, Roydon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Saunders, Lesley . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Savelyev, Igor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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