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David Almond comes home Before the fame and acclaim of Skellig and its prequel My Name is Nina, NorthEast author David Almond found regular support for his work at local independent publisher Iron Press. The press published two full collections of short fiction for adults: Sleepless Nights in 1985 and A Kind of Heaven in 1997. This February, to celebrate 40 years of Iron Press, Nesting collects the best of those two books, together with a pair of brand new tales from this “master storyteller” (The Independent).

“There is nobody quite like Almond writing in adults’ or children’s fiction today. A writer of visionary, Blakean intensity.”

The Times

PROFILE

For more information, see page 39.

Iron Press celebrates its 40th anniversary in the North-East coastal village of Cullercoats from May 15th to 19th 2013. The ‘Iron Age’ will feature many fine writers, but also musicians, conjurors, a snooker tournament, haiku written at sea, a poetry reading preceded by a road race, and a workshop in a fish and chip shop. Champion.

An exclusive extract from Nesting, introduced by the author: This is a section from the title story, ‘Nesting’. When I was a boy, lots of us went nesting, and had collections of birds’ eggs. We had rules about how you should behave, how many eggs you could take, when you could take them, how you must protect the birds, their nests, the trees. In the story, Stephen smashes all the rules. He and his mother are living through troubled times: factory closures, family stress, economic decline. Here, they look back to earlier days of joy and optimism. – David Almond

“… an he’d lean over, from where you’re sittin now, an he’d lay his whole hand flat across me belly – like this, look. Just to feel you. Just to feel the kickin of you. An he’d swear – you know, the way he did. Bugger, he’d say. Feel it growin, getting strong. He’d keep on askin, How big’s it, how big’s it now? An when he’d had a drink he’d come an lay his head on me and he’d whisper at you and whistle for you. He’d be that daft – like a kid that cannot wait. Howay, little’n, he’d say. Howay out an play wi’us. You never knew him, Stephen – not when he was young and full of everythin. I’ve got it all, he used to say, an, Me an you, love, we’ve got it all…”

Mornings were calm, comparatively lucid. When the sun shone and the blackbirds sang, she’d lift a table into the small back garden and they’d breakfast there, facing each other, their knees almost touching. Her words each time searched the same themes: the past, his father, the building of the estate and the factories. But her stories had never become tedious to him. Though he never met her eyes, and hardly spoke except to mutter yes or no when asked if he, too, remembered, he was alert to every word, bringing as it did some answer to his prompting of years ago: Tell me what it was like… “… it was spring when you were growin fastest. Felt some days like you were takin all the strength from me, an all I could do was lie an let him fuss round me. Days when I was stronger he’d take me out onto the waggonways an we’d walk an walk, right down past the tips an dumps. What a change there’d be down there, where you could lose yourself in the lanes an hedges. It was the silence of it all, when up here there was all day long the trucks an drills an engines.

An wi’the plans they had, seemed like it would go on always, like there’d be no stop to it, like the estates would just keep spreadin and spreadin… But it weren’t to be… Comin back, I’d have to hold him tight, let him take me weight. Take it easy, love, he’d say. An he’d let me stop an get me breath

while he climbed right into the hedges lookin for nests an shouting back about the eggs an little’ns he’d found. An many’s the time I came back here wi’a warm hedgesparrow’s egg in me hand or a chaffinch’s in me pocket…”

Her voice faded. Soon, he knew, it would deepen, she’d begin to search her other theme, of how it all went wrong.

She held him as he tried to move away.

David Almond will be appearing on Desert Island Discs in January 2013.

Kate Fox: Voice of the People My Mother as a Day of the Week My Mother is a Sunday counting ceiling roses, turning down the volume on the street. A Rubik’s Cube clicking slowly. She is a television of longing for dry stone walled fields and mahogany sideboards and china figurines in the back of the Mail on Sunday magazine.

She is a shut up sweet shop and the turning back from the queue for the tearoom.

I am the next day which, if it was left up to her, wouldn’t be a Monday.

PROFILE

For more information, see page 18.

Smokestack’s other plans this year include new books by Ian McMillan, Steve Ely, Mark Robinson, Gerda Stevenson, Jennifer Copley and Richard Skinner; the selected poems of Italian poet Rocco Scotellaro and Barbadian poet Peter Blackman; an anthology of poems from Greece about the Crisis; and Volume III of Martin Rowson’s epic The Limerickiad.

Whether it’s lighting up our airwaves on Radio 4, or tearing up the stage on tour, Kate Fox is never far from the snap and crackle of contemporary pop culture.

Fox Populi, published by Smokestack Books in February, is her first full-length collection – inspired by the day-to-day ramblings of everyday people, from callcentre staff to fellow comedians to Great North Run athletes. We spoke to her about poetry as nosy-parkery, comic relief and comfort for the soul.

There seems to be an element of eavesdropping involved in the research of the book... can you tell us a bit more about your approach? Are you naturally a nosy person?

You cut your teeth on the stage as a stand-up comedian.

How do you feel about being tagged a ‘poet-comedian’? Can the two disciplines co-exist?

I think I’m both naturally a nosy person and a person who has official license to be one: a journalist! I trained as a radio journalist after I graduated and worked as one for most of my twenties. I loved finding out what was going on behind the scenes in all sorts of settings and capturing people’s voices, and being a poet still gives me lots of permission to do that. Growing up in a family full of secrets might have helped my natural nosiness to come to full fruition too!

I think they co-exist really well sometimes when I’m on stage and able to draw on a comedic viewpoint and a poetic one.

They also tend to co-exist really well in residencies because the comedian bit tends to be seen as more accessible to people. However, I don’t think they co-exist that well in the wider worlds of poetry and comedy. I’m often seen as too much one thing and not enough the other in those contexts.

I’ve realised this year something that should have been obvious to me before: my natural kin are those other poetcomedians who move between the two worlds.

You’ve done residencies at all sorts of places, including the Chelsea Flower Show and The Great North Run – what role do you think the poet has to play at events like these?

To be a mixture of the participants’ voices and a voice that isn’t the official one of the event. One that can comment a little bit from left field or diagonally. Also to help give a sort of memory soundtrack of an event – but again not solely the official one, the participants or my own – a mixture.

The book gives regular people a poetic voice – how have your subjects responded to being immortalised in verse?

A few times, particularly with the Great North Run, people would say they had pinned one of my poems up somewhere they could see it, so I took that as a good sign. In fact, I can’t think of anything nicer to happen to one of my poems.

Other than that, they’re rarely attributable to individual people and I’m glad. Though Amnesty asked me to write a poem for Aung San Suu Kyi this year, and they had it printed up on a beautiful scroll and gave it to her. That was both an honour and a worry, since I’d read in a biography that she tends to be deluged with poems wherever she goes.

I almost thought, ‘just give her a nice scarf instead’!

Canada

Seizing Places ISBN 978-1-906570-12-5 Governor General’s Award winner

Iceland

Bloodhoof ISBN 978-1-908376-10-7 Winner of Icelandic Literature Prize

AROUND THE WORLD IN 12 COLLECTIONS After the success of theirVentures tour in 2012, we join Arc Publications for a celebration of the world’s best poetry in translation. All books now available.

Brazil

Silence River ISBN 978-1-906570-67-5 Published in Shearsman and MPT

TODMORDEN

ARC HQ

Russia

As I Said Switzerland

Days Full of Caves & Tigers

ISBN 978-1-904614-83-8 Close contemporary of Joseph Brodsky

Turkey ISBN 978-1-904614-82-1 Spans career of Italian- How Abraham Abandoned Me Swiss poet ISBN 978-1-906570-00-2 PBS Recommended Translation

Iran

Six Vowels & Twenty-Three Consonants

ISBN 978-1-906570-39-2 Co-edited by John Kinsella Burma

Where Africa meets the Arabian Peninsula

Bones Will Crow ISBN 978-1-906570-89-7 First ever anthology of Burmese poetry

The Parley Tree

ISBN 978-1-906570-61-3 Arab Spring interest, 12 countries featured Sri Lanka

In a Time of Burning ISBN 978-1-906570-32-3) Recent interest in Sri Lankan Civil War Singapore

When the Barbarians Arrive ISBN 978-1-906570-98-9 Appeared at London 2012’s Poetry Parnassus

New Zealand

Fast Talking PI ISBN 978-1-904614-35-7 Top 5 bestseller in NZ

BROOKLYN BOUND In 2013, our first American publisher joins the Inpress list. Cross the Pond with us and learn more about Brooklyn’s Ugly Duckling Presse.

Ugly Duckling Presse is a not-for-profit publisher whose mission is to produce beautifully-crafted artisanal and trade editions of new poetry, translation, experimental prose, performance texts and art-books.

PROFILE

With a volunteer editorial collective of artists and writers at its heart, UDP grew out of a 1990s zine into a Brooklyn-based small press that has published more than 200 titles to date, with an editorial office and letterpress workshop in the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus (pictured). UDP favours emerging, international and ‘forgotten’ writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides and periodicals often contain handmade elements that call attention to the labours and history of bookmaking.

One day on ‘vacation’ in New York, the illustrious chairman of our board came across a set of Ugly Duckling Presse titles in an indie bookstore. Once the rest of the Inpress team had set eyes on them, it wasn’t long before we were knocking on the door of the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn, eager to bring their wonderful array of art and poetry books closer to home.

We asked co-editor Anna Moschovakis to tell us more about the unique set-up at UDP, and plans for the future...

Ugly Duckling Presse books will be available in the UK for the first time in early 2013.

What was the impetus behind setting the company up?

UDP began as an informal collective of twenty-something writers and artists who were friends and collaborators and wanted to start a project together that would incorporate their overlapping interests in language, performance, art, the avant-garde, and the book. It grew slowly into its current state as a non-profit publishing company and though it now operates on a much larger and more official scale, it has retained much of its initial energy and amateur spirit.

How do you think indie publishers contribute to the publishing landscape in the US? Quite simply, there would be almost no ‘marginal’ or nonmainstream poetry published without the indie publishers, and even less marginal poetry in translation. The conversation around poetry and poetics that happens among poets, critics and readers — and, increasingly, in the academy — is dependent on the independents and has been for a long time. What is interesting now is that to a certain degree literary fiction is beginning to follow in poetry’s footsteps. In this economy, in which the large publishers can’t afford to take chances on ‘risky’, less-commercial work, independent houses become more attractive even to novelists who already have a track record with the major houses. They can sometimes get more support from a smaller place.

Transfer Fat by Aase Berg (Page 28)

The Drug of Art: Selected Poems by Ivan Blatný (Page 28)

Nets by Jen Bervin (Page 29)

Notes on Conceptualisms

by Robert Fitterman & Vanessa Place (Page 30)

On the Tracks of Wild Game by Tomaž Šalamun (Page 36)

Apart by Catherine Taylor (Page 37)

In what way do you expect the Presse will grow or change over the next few years?

We will be adding more online and digital editions, and we are considering adding a very focused fiction list to our existing series of poetry, translation, performance texts, and essays. We have always hosted a lot of events and readings, but we are now adding an educational component to our activities, with occasional seminars led by our authors. And, of course, the unexpected has a way of happening with an organisation as organic as ours is. So, we will see!

What is your best-selling title and what do you think is the key to its success?

Probably our single best-selling title is one of the first full-length books we published, Nets by Jen Bervin. It’s a very subtly designed book of erasures of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Because of its conceptual nature and its interaction with the Bard, the book gets taught a lot, which accounts for some of its success. But it is also a beautiful object, with no title or author printed on the cover, and no blurbs on the back, and that may account in part for its appeal to visual artists and to people who aren’t avid poetry readers but will take a chance on something unusual that perks their curiosity. We continue to be surprised, and to surprise ourselves — and that’s a big part of what keeps us going.

UDP Pamphlets also available online at www.inpressbooks.co.uk

Emergency Index 2011 edited

by Yelena Gluzman & Matvei Yankelevich (Page 38)

J A NU A RY Mexico

The Echoing Coastline

Gary Allen

Byron Beynon

Featured in landmark Salt anthology of Northern Irish poetry, The New North (2011)

Author has appeared at Edinburgh and Hay Festivals, and on BBC South-East Wales

A country of sun, sea and human struggle, Mexico runs like a vein of gold through this new collection from Gary Allen. It provides a constant link for poems on suffering, poverty and despair, as well as living in the moment and bursting out into love and passion.

Byron Beynon’s seventh eclectic and engaging collection explores the changing bond that binds humankind and the natural world. Thoughtful and observant, humane and cosmopolitan, the poems are concerned first with Wales, before looking beyond the valleys of home to a wider world.

“One of the most urgent and accurate writers now writing.”

Sebastian Barker “[The poems are] electrified when you least expect it by visceral epiphanies of love, sex, and death – like human memory itself.”

Martin Mooney

“Beynon writes strange, surprising poems. His landscapes are similarly intense, enjoying some memorable, original images…”

Stewart Brown

Gary Allen was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, where he now lives.

His eleven collections include Languages (Flambard, 2002), Iscariot’s Dream (Agenda Editions, 2008) and Ha, Ha (Lagan Press, 2011). A selection of his poems was published in the anthology The New North (Salt, 2011). He has also published a novel, Cillin (2005) and a collection of short stories, Introductions (2005).

Byron Beynon was born in Swansea and brought up in Carmarthenshire.

He has read his work at a number of venues in Wales, as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Hay Festival, Cork and the Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury, London. His work has appeared in the Independent, Planet, Agenda, Cyphers, Stand, Poetry Ireland and Poetry Wales. His recent publications include a pamphlet, Cuffs (2008), and the full collection Nocturne in Blue (2009). He also contributed to the Seren art-book Evan Walters: Moments of Vision (2011). He lives in Swansea.

Agenda Editions » Paperback » £10.00 978-1-908527-11-0 » 210x150mm 112pp » Poetry (DCF) N. Ireland

Agenda Editions » Paperback » £8.00 978-1-908527-12-7 » 210x150mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF) South Wales

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Count from Zero to One Hundred Alan Cunningham Experimental fiction set in some of the great cities of Europe, including London and Dublin Taking his cue from Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe’s Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!, Alan Cunningham’s debut novella is both beautiful and experimental – a powerful exploration of sexuality and the body.

Count from Zero to One Hundred is written as a series of prose fragments, fluctuating from conversation to philosophical reflection in an anxious staccato, as its narrator moves across some of the great cities of Europe – Berlin, London, Dublin, Budapest. There are traces of Beckett and Joyce in this moving meditation on the vulnerability of the body, and the power of language and imagination to transcend its limits.

Alan Cunningham is a writer from Northern Ireland. Currently based in London, he was born in Newry and has previously lived in Belfast, Dublin and Berlin. He has taught at the Node Centre for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, and at Queen Mary, University of London.

Penned in the Margins » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-908058-08-9 216x138mm » 208pp » Fiction (FA) London & Ireland

Vandemonian Cliff Forshaw “An imagination like no other, transforming the world you thought you knew” – Jon Stallworthy Vandemonian is a detailed, impassioned poetic history of Van Dieman’s land, Tasmania. Poems in a variety of voices lay out the island’s early story, exploring the truths of colonisation. Forshaw blends historical fact, imagined events and contemporary reflection with religion, geography and the great unknown to produce a portrait of discovery, disenfranchisement and extinction.

“These are poems captained by a large intelligence and abundant lexical vigour, poems of voyage, exertion and discovery.”

Carol Rumens on Wake Cliff Forshaw now teaches at Hull University. A former winner of the Welsh Academi John Tripp Award, and Blue Nose Poet of the Year, his pamphlet Wake was joint-winner of the Flarestack Pamphlet Competition in 2009. His latest chapbook, Tiger (2011), about the Tasmanian Tiger, came out of his term as International Writer-in-Residence at Hobart.

Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £11.99 / £8.99 978-1-904614-72-2 (hb) / 978-1-904614-60-9 (pb) 216x138mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire / Australia

Newspaper Taxis: Poetry After the Beatles edited by Phil Bowen, Damian Furniss & David Woolley The UK’s leading poets celebrate 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ first No 1 50 years ago the Beatles transformed the face of music, youth and popular culture. In January 1963 their first single – ‘Love Me Do’ – was re-released and shot to number one, heralding the start of the Swinging Sixties, and Beatlemania. This book collects poems that respond both to the music and to the group’s influence on the way we lived then, and the way we live now.

Newspaper Taxis features a myriad of poets young and old: including Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Elaine Feinstein, Peter Finch, Adrian Henry, Philip Larkin, Roddy Lumsden, Lachlan MacKinnon, Roger McGough, Sheenagh Pugh, Jeremy Reed and Carol Rumens.

Together they bring new creative light to the story of the Fab Four, and their capacity to inspire new generations ever since.

Phil Bowen edited a previous Beatles anthology (Things We Said Today) in 1994 and (with his current co-editors) The Captain’s Tower, a poetry anthology celebrating Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday (Seren, 2011). Damian Furniss’ first collection, Chocolate Che, was published in 2010. David Woolley is a former director of the Dylan Thomas Festival.

Seren » Paperback » £9.99 » 978-1-781720-27-1 216x138mm » 96pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Caversham Court Gardens: A Heritage Guide Friends of Caversham Court Gardens Listed in English Heritage’s Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest Caversham Court is a public garden on the bank of the River Thames near Caversham Bridge, for over 500 years the site of a private house.

This richly illustrated and extensively researched guide to the garden and its plantings reveals glimpses of the lives of its owners against a backdrop of local and national events, as well as details of the architecture and landscaping of the house and garden.

The Friends of Caversham Court Gardens group was set up in 2008 to support and encourage the use of the gardens. Volunteer guides give talks, and offer tours of the gardens throughout the year. Members help run events, including an open air cinema, and work in the gardens. An open annual meeting features guest lecturers on history and gardening subjects.

Two Rivers Press » Paperback » £5.00 978-1-901677-86-7 » 200x200mm 60pp » Local History (WQH) Berkshire J A NU A RY

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Petroleum Venus Alexander Snegirev translated by Arch Tait Lionel Shriver meets Rain Man – English translation of novel nominated for Russian Booker Prize Fyodor is a successful young architect, but far from the ideal father. He’s constantly embarrassed by his 14 year-old son, Vanya, born with Down’s Syndrome, and always relying on others, mainly his own parents, for help. But when Vanya pulls a mystical painting from the wreckage of a fatal car crash, everything changes.

What Vanya doesn’t know is that the model for the painting, ‘Petroleum Venus’, is his own mother, who abandoned him at birth. This is the first of a series of extraordinary coincidences that lead both father and son on a journey towards love, responsibility and acceptance – but tragedy is never far away.

Alexander Snegirev was born in 1980 in Moscow. He won Russia’s prestigious Debut Prize for his collected stories, Russian Rhymes (2005). His short novel How We Bombed America won the Crown Prize of the Writers’ Union in 2007. In 2009 Petroleum Venus was shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize, nominated for the Russian Booker, and was on the bestsellers list on OZON.ru (the Russian equivalent of Amazon) for a year.

Glas New Russian Writing » Paperback £8.99 » 978-5-717200-96-7 200x125mm » 300pp » Fiction (FYT)

The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry Adam Wyeth Features analysis of poems by Seamus Heaney, Nuala Ni Dhomhnail and Paul Muldoon In this critical study, Adam Wyeth unravels the many rich and varied Celtic legends which run through contemporary Irish poetry. As well as the inner workings of poems by some of Ireland’s best-known writers, the reader will discover a wealth of Celtic culture – their gods, heroes and folklore.

The poets included are Eavan Boland, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Nuala Ni Dhomhnail, Bernard O’Donoghue, Paul Durcan, John Ennis, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Mary O’Malley, Paula Meehan, Patricia Monaghan, Paul Muldoon, Maurice Riordan, Leanne O’Sullivan and Matthew Sweeney.

“A gifted commentator/close reader; a hearer and heartener, to quote a phrase from Yeats.”

Seamus Heaney Adam Wyeth was born in Sussex in 1978. Silent Music (Salmon Poetry, 2011) was highly commended in the Forward Poetry Prize, and his work appears in The Forward Book of Poetry 2012, The Best of Irish Poetry 2010 and Landing Places (Dedalus Press, 2010). He lives in County Cork.

Agenda Editions » Paperback » £9.50 978-1-908527-10-3 » 210x150mm 96pp » Literary Studies (DSC) Rep. Ireland

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Six Catalan Poets

Harm’s Way

Oswald’s Book of Hours

edited by Pere Ballart translated by Anna Crowe

Conor Carville

Steve Ely

Winner of the 2007 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry

Historical, political and radical interest; poet regularly appears at events across Yorkshire

Continues acclaimed series of bilingual anthologies focusing on Europe’s ‘smaller’ languages Six Catalan Poets is the ninth in Arc’s New Voices from Europe and Beyond series of poetry in translation. It features the work of four Catalans, one Valencian and one Mallorcan – Josep Lluís Aguiló, Elies Barberà, Manuel Forcano, Gemma Gorga, Jordi Julià, Carles Torner – along with an introductory essay which sets the poets in the wider context of a culture perpetually overcoming adversity. The Catalan originals appear on facing pages alongside English translations by Anna Crowe.

Pere Ballart is Professor of Literary Theory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Anna Crowe was born in Plymouth, and now lives in St Andrews, where she was involved in establishing the StAnza Poetry Festival.

Two of her collections of translations of the Catalan poet Joan Margarit have been published by Bloodaxe Books: Tugs in the Fog (2006, a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation) and Strangely Happy (2011). She also co-edited the Scottish Poetry Library/ Carcanet anthology of Catalan poetry, Light Off Water (2007).

Arc Publications » Paperback £10.99 » 978-1-906570-60-6 234x156mm » 160pp » Poetry (DCQ) Spain / Scotland

Conor Carville’s first collection of poems moves back and forth in time, and across the world, to listen to accounts of harm and the means by which it has been resisted or overcome.

The poems probe how violence and abuse reverberate through history and memory, politics and psychology, be it through the voices of St Patrick’s sister Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Kandinsky, Walter Benjamin, an 18th-century mariner or a modern-day wheeliebin. Moving and incisive, the poems also combine memories of childhood and youth in Northern Ireland with reflections on the globalised present.

Conor Carville was born in Armagh City, and currently lectures at the University of Reading. His critical work on cultural theory and Irish writing, The Ends of Ireland: Criticism, History, Subjectivity, was published in 2012. In 1997 he won the Friends Provident Irish National Poetry Prize, and in 2007 the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. He lives in London.

Dedalus Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-906614-62-1 214x140mm » 70pp » Poetry (DCF) London & Reading / Ireland

Oswald, King of Northumbria from 635 to 642 AD, was a warrior, scholar, martyr and, most famously of all, main rival to George’s claim to be patron saint of England. Oswald’s Book of Hours is a series of elegies and eulogies for Oswald, written in the voices of an unlikely band of northern radicals, including union leader Arthur Scargill, hermit Richard Rolle, brigand John Nevison, Catholic rebel Robert Aske – and Oswald himself.

Brutal, provocative and thrillingly original, Oswald’s Book of Hours is a pocket history of northern subversion and exile, going back before the Industrial Revolution, before the Reformation, before England even existed.

Steve Ely lives in the West Riding of Yorkshire. A former head-teacher, his other works include the novel Ratmen (2012). A selection of poems from Oswald’s Book of Hours was published in The Stinging Fly, and will appear in a forthcoming Five Leaves anthology of Yorkshire poetry.

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Root: New Stories by North-East Writers edited by Kitty Fitzgerald Edited by Faber novelist and awardwinning short-story writer Root is a collection of short stories which re-affirm the North-East’s status as a vibrant area for new writing. The subjects of the 13 stories range from the domestic – family relationships, gardening, bullying, adoption and loss – to the plain bizarre: a circus bearded lady, a woman who morphs into Elvis, and an insight into what God wears to work.

Fox Populi Kate Fox Well-known BBC TV & Radio 4 poet, supported by national reading tour Fox Populi takes poetry on a hilarious, Creature Comforts-style journey through the crackly airwaves of contemporary culture. Radio-mic in hand, Kate Fox listens in on comedians and psychiatrists, Great North runners and nutters, and the staff of a call centre in modern-day Tynemouth. Herself a familiar voice on BBC TV and radio, this first full-length collection confirms Kate Fox’s position as one of the UK’s most popular poet-comedians.

“Funny, quirky and a wonderful writer.”

Sarah Millican, stand-up comedian Kate Fox was born in Bradford. She is the Poet in Residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live. She has also been the Poet in Residence for the BBC2 coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show, and for the Great North Run in 2011 and 2012. Her poems have been broadcast on the BBC2 Daily Politics show, BBC Online, Amnesty International and Radio 3’s The Verb with Ian McMillan. Her Edinburgh Festival show, Kate Fox News, toured the UK in 2010-11, and she has appeared at several other major festivals, including Latitude and Aldeburgh. Her poems recently appeared in The Iron Book of Humorous Verse (Iron Press, 2010). She lives in Thirsk.

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The writers showcased in Root include Amanda Baker, Fiona Cooper, Avril Joy and Rob Walton.

“A writer of stylistic daring who cuts her own furrow.”

The Scotsman on Kitty Fitzgerald Kitty Fitzgerald was born in Ireland, and now lives in Northumberland. Her latest novel is Pigtopia (Faber, 2006), a finalist in the Barnes & Noble Discover Awards in 2006. She has edited two anthologies of fiction for Iron Press: Iron Women: New Stories by Women (1990) and Biting Back: New Fiction from the North (2001).

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The Point of Inconvenience

Anything in Turquoise

The Vanity Rooms

A.F. Harrold

Wendy Klein

Peter Luther

“Profoundly moving, utterly uncompromising” – Helen Mort

Regular reader at London’s Troubadour and Reading’s Poets’ Café events

A.F. Harrold’s new collection is a sequence detailing the illness and death of his mother, but its tone is anything but elegiac. Addressed to the patient, both present and absent, the poems are frank, unflinching and honest. Together the poems explore the spaces where despair, boredom and exhaustion meet, and at their heart describe the difficulty of dying.

Wendy Klein takes us on a global journey across the Far East, the US and Scandinavia. The poems begin in Mongolia and the Gobi desert, Vietnam and Cambodia, witnessing ‘cultures in varying states of disrepair’ and the sense of ‘half a holocaust / under my feet’. We then move West, with poems on post-Katrina New Orleans, and Klein’s own troubled history growing up Jewish in California. Raw but filled with tenderness and humour, this collection rises out of a relentless hunger to explore.

Author hailed as the “Welsh Dan Brown” (Western Mail); promotional signing tour launching at Waterstones Cardiff

“He enters the territory between this world and whatever comes after it, writing so clearly and tenderly about death, memory and love...”

Catherine Smith A.F. Harrold was born in 1975. His books include the children’s novel Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Ran Away From The Circus (And Joined The Library) (Bloomsbury, 2012), and the Two Rivers Press poetry collections Logic and the Heart (2004), Postcards from the Hedgehog (2007) and Flood (2010). He lives in Reading.

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“Several continents run richly in Wendy Klein’s blood, and with her strongly cinematic imagination and energetic, delicate musicality she maps and sings them powerfully.”

Jane Draycott Wendy Klein came to the UK from California in 1971. Her work has been published in magazines like Mslexia, Magma and Smiths Knoll. Her first collection, Cuba in the Blood, was published by Cinnamon in 2009.

She lives in Reading.

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The Vanity Rooms is the third instalment in the Tristyn Honeyman series, following the Welsh minister on the trail of nefarious goings-on at the limits of the ordinary world. Following his battles with a Satanic secret societies in The Mourning Vessels (2008) and Precious Cargo (2010), Honeyman returns for another genre-hopping adventure.

A charitable foundation is offering lodgings for aspiring celebrities, in a building once occupied by a chapter of French Revolutionaries. One such applicant takes rooms hosted by a brilliant chess master, inheriting a mobile phone with mind-altering apps, and a bizarre chess set which is leading him, move by move, to an unimaginable destiny.

Peter Luther’s previous three novels – Dark Covenant (2008, 3rd ed.), The Mourning Vessels (2008) and Precious Cargo (2010) – are all published by Y Lolfa. Peter’s books have been acclaimed in the Big Issue, the Western Mail and Wales on Sunday, as well as on Times Online and BBC Radio Wales.

The Mourning Vessels is a previous Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month.

He lives in Cardiff.

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Nothing More Krystyna MiłobEdzka translated by Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese Contains English translations of Silesius Award-winning Polish poems The latest in Arc’s Visible Poets series, Nothing More showcases the work of Polish poet and Silesius Award-winner Krystyna Miłobędzka. Introduced by Robert Minhinnick.

The poems crystallise the relationships between people, from erotic encounters to the bond between mother and child.

Rooted in the earth and the body, they eschew politeness and refuse to hide the imperfections of the world. Each text reveals itself seemingly uncontrolled, an unspecified thought: a sentence broken off, a sudden mental leap, an ellipsis, a slip of the tongue.

Krystyna MiłobEdzka was born in Margonin, Poland, in 1932. The author of eleven books of poetry, her Collected Poems appeared in 2006 and 2010. She lives near Poznań. Elzbieta WójcikLeese’s translations of Polish poets like Krystyna Miłobędzka, Marzanna Kielar and Marcin Świetlicki have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. She has also translated the English works of Carol Ann Duffy into Polish. She lives in Copenhagen.

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The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann edited by Andre NAFFIS-SAHELY & Julian Stannard Contributors include Andrew Motion, Robin Robertson and Christopher Reid Michael Hofmann is an iconic figure for his generation. This collection of essays, poems and reflections, published to coincide with Hofmann’s new translations of Gottfried Benn, Impromptus (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013), celebrates the man and his work.

“He is contemporary poetry’s most flitting and elusive ghost.”

David Wheatley Michael Hofmann was born in Germany in 1959. His translations include the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin (2009). 2008 saw the publication of his Faber Selected Poems and his CB Editions translation of his father Gert Hofmann’s novel Lichtenberg & The Little Flower Girl, a TLS International Book of the Year. He now lives in the US. André NAFFIS-SAHELY recently completed a doctorate on Michael Hofmann. His criticism appears in the TLS, the Independent and the Economist.

Julian Stannard’s most recent poetry collection is The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli (Salmon Poetry, 2011).

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Your Call Keeps Us Awake Rocco Scotellaro translated by Allen Prowle & Caroline Maldonado “Rocco Scotellaro is a great poet, wonderfully translated here” – John Berger, Booker Prize-winner Rocco Scotellaro (1923-53), the poet of Italian peasant life, never saw his work published, dying of a heart attack aged thirty. È Fatto Giorno (Day Break), published posthumously in 1954, was awarded the prestigious Viareggio and Pellegrino prizes. In 1986 Mondadori published a complete collection of Scotellaro’s poetry in Italian, from which this selection has been drawn and translated into English for the first time.

“These are excellent translations.

They give pleasure – they work – as English verse.”

David Constantine Rocco Scotellaro grew up in the impoverished south of Italy. At 23, he was elected mayor of his home town, Tricarico. Victim of a political vendetta, he was imprisoned on corruption charges, only acquitted after two months. He died near Naples in 1953.

Allen Prowle was awarded the 2007 Times/Stephen Spender prize for his translations of the Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci. Caroline Maldonado has translated from Spanish, French and Italian. Her first novel, Scent of the Orchid, was published in 2013.

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Washing the Dead Shelagh Weeks “Gripping, alive, persuasive” – Tessa Hadley Fierce, poignant and funny, Washing the Dead is a collection of interlinked short stories, where a minor character in one story becomes the main one in another.

A central theme throughout is the breakdown of the family unit: there are abortions, secrets and lies, selfdeceptions and moments of revelation.

“Gripping, alive and persuasive... The detail is telling and the story rich... everything’s interesting here.”

Tessa Hadley Shelagh Weeks currently lives in Cardiff, and works as a lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.

Up Close, her debut novel, was published

by Cinnamon Press in, while her story ‘Mint Sauce’ was the title short story of the Cinnamon anthology of the same name (2008).

Mondeo Man Luke Wright “One of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation” – Johann Hari, The Independent Explosive political satire and acerbic wit leap from stage to page in this hotly anticipated debut from Luke Wright. Mondeo Man celebrates and laments a country of disappearing pubs, celebrity anti-heroes, yummy mummies and leering tabloid paps. A small town chip-shop becomes the site of a heart-wrenching story of failed marriage; a televised manhunt enthralls an entire nation. Fast-paced and inventive, this is poetry at its most approachable, satirical and archetypally English.

“The best young performance poet around.”

The Observer Luke Wright was born in Hackney in 1982. His poetry stage shows include sold-out runs in London and Edinburgh. His latest UK tour is Your New Favourite Poet (2012-13). His first book, Who Writes This Crap?, co-written with Joel Stickley, was published by Penguin in 2008 (“An inspired piece of parody”, The Guardian), and the pair’s short film Crash! Bang! Wallow! won an award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

He lives in Suffolk, where he hosts Latitude Festival’s Poetry Arena, Europe’s largest single poetry event.

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M A RCH Minority not Minorities 2: Poets from Romagna edited by Giuseppe Bellosi Second in series of anthologies of Italian dialect poetry in translation This anthology profiles the vibrant literary traditions of the Romagna region of northern Italy, allowing ‘Italian authors who do not speak/write/dream only in Italian but in regional languages, to reach the world in English’.

Giuseppe Bellosi presents parallel texts in Romagnolo and English from nine poets: Nevio Spadoni, Giuseppe Bellosi and Giovanni Nadiani from the Ravenna plain; Laura Turci from the hill area of Forlì; Dolfo Nardini in the Cesena dialect; Fabio Molari a dialect of the Cesena hill area, similar to the Santarcangelo dialect of Annalisa Teodorani and Miro Gori from San Mauro. At the extreme south of Romagna is the Riccione dialect of Francesco Gabellini, which retains its distinctiveness from nearby Rimini to this day.

Giuseppe Bellosi is a journalist and researcher specialising in the study of dialects, dialectal literature and folk traditions. He has published several academic books in these areas, as well as several poetry collections in Italian.

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She Inserts the Key

The Sleep of Reason

Marianne Burton

Morri Creech

Winner of / placed in TLS, Edwin Morgan, Bridport, Cardiff International and Mslexia Poetry Competitions

Winner of the 2005 Anthony Hecht Prize and a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship

Marianne Burton’s debut is a sharply concise and compelling collection of voices. Poems of war are set against poems of the natural world; a glimpse of a soaring sparrowhawk is offset by an army cook lamenting the dead.

Elsewhere, unusual objects spring to life: a pair of shoes haunts a murderer’s moll, a cheese weeps for the calf whose milk it stole.

“Her work is full of surprising challenges and reconciliations – all of which bring rich rewards to the reader.”

Andrew Motion “Formally adept and inventive, linguistically charged and scrupulous, emotionally truthful and intelligent, Marianne Burton’s stylish poems demand and reward re-reading.”

Michael Laskey Marianne Burton’s poems appear in the likes of the TLS, The Rialto, The North, Poetry London and Poetry Wales.

Her pamphlet The Devils’ Cut was a Poetry Book Society Choice in 2007. She lives in London and the Welland Valley.

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American poet Morri Creech won the very first Anthony Hecht Prize with Field Knowledge in 2006. His follow-up, The Sleep of Reason, is a lyrical examination of liminal states of consciousness and experience – the shadowy terrain between sleep and waking, dream and nightmare, life and death, history and the present moment. From an unexpected take on Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ to a dark meditation on the perils of the sublime, the poems explore the anxieties, horrors and dreams that flash just beneath the surface of the waking mind.

“Morri Creech’s [previous collection] Field Knowledge has given me more pleasure than any book I have read in years.”

Frank Kermode Morri Creech was born in South Carolina in 1970. His previous collections are Paper Cathedrals (2001) and Field Knowledge (Waywiser, 2006), which was nominated for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Poet’s Prize. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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A Bloom of Stones: A Trilingual anthology of Haitian poems after the Earthquake edited by Kwame Dawes Ecological and humanitarian interest; edited by one of the Caribbean’s leading poets 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, Haitian Creole and English translation – about the rupture of love, the shock of sudden disaster, and the hunger for more beauty in the world.

Kwame Dawes is one of the foremost Caribbean poets of the post-Walcott generation. His awards include the Forward Prize for Best First Collection for Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree, 1994), and an Emmy for his contribution to www.LiveHopeLove.com, a website on the human face of HIV/AIDS in Jamaica. His 2009 Peepal Tree poetry collection Hope’s Hospice was inspired by the project.

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Human Form

Mortality Rate

Oliver Dixon

Andrew Elliott

Widely published in magazines, including The London Magazine and PN Review

Featured poet in Autumn 2012 issue of Poetry Review

Oliver Dixon’s debut poetry collection maps the city of London and its inhabitants: from starlings and plane trees to a Stockhausen-listening street cleaner. But Human Form is as much a reflection on an interior world on the cusp of change.

Andrew Elliott’s third collection, his first since 2009’s Lung Soup, is a journey through the hinterlands of 20th-century America and Germany. The poems are filled with cars, girls and movies – but also books, paintings, and spaceships.

Throughout, a single image can open out into an entire history (or future), in verse that continually engages and confounds the reader.

The book is a search for form, combining elegant lyrics with dense blocks of prose poetry and fractured texts. Dixon is a poet open to invention and re-invention: reflective yet lively, philosophical yet grounded – a brilliant observer of people, place and moments of uncertainty coalescing into meaning.

Oliver Dixon was born in Sussex and, aside from travels across Europe and Asia, has lived most of his adult life in London. He is a specialist teacher for students with learning disabilities. His poems and reviews have appeared in PN Review, The London Magazine, The Wolf, The Frogmore Papers and New Welsh Review. He lives in west London.

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“By turns darkly comic, unsettling and provoking, stalking the sometimes hazy line between invented and real worlds, Lung Soup is a tour de force.”

Ciaran Carson, Forward and TS Eliot Prize-winner Andrew Elliott was born in Limavady in 1961. One of the new generation of Northern Irish poets to emerge in the 1980s, his work features in The Great Book of Ireland (1991), an anthology of modern Irish art, which includes poetry by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, plus Samuel Beckett’s last hand-written poem. His previous poetry collections are The Creationists (1989) and Lung Soup (2009). He lives in Glasgow.

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A Handful of Water Rebecca Gethin Championed by Costa-shortlisted poet Greta Stoddart This second collection from Rebecca Gethin reinforces her status as an astute observer of the natural world. These inquisitive, tender poems bring new appreciation – to a sensual peach or an elusive otter – through their formal variety and verbal invention.

There are also powerful explorations of the interior life: whether of family, of First World War soldiers, or of the prisoners and their visitors encountered during the poet’s work in prisons.

“Gethin’s poems have a dark mineral atmosphere that is somehow never oppressive but offers a softness, and a light, a way out of the bleak.”

Greta Stoddart, Costa-shortlisted poet Rebecca Gethin won the Cinnamon Press Novel Writing Award for Liar Dice, published in 2011 and serialised on BBC Radio Devon in 2012. Her first poetry collection, River is the Plural of Rain, was published in 2009. She lives in Devon.

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A Twist of Lime Street: Selected Poems Eddie Gibbons Previously shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year (2011) A Twist of Lime Street brings together the poems of a writer whose work is humorous, acerbic, touching and always entertaining. The works move through ballads of the alleyways of his native Liverpool to observations on love, quantum physics and modern art, along with an extended elegy to his father.

“I was delighted by Eddie’s poems… from sad to happy, from downbeat to zappy, all one enriching tapestry.”

John Hegley “‘Portrait of Ana Dali’ is one of the best British poems of recent times – a masterpiece.”

Les Murray Eddie Gibbons was born in Liverpool.

His four full collections are Stations of the Heart (1999), The Republic of Ted (2003), Game On! (2006) and What They Say About You (2010), which was shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. He has previously appeared at StAnza, and his work was commended at the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2008. He now lives in Aberdeen.

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Dinner with Fish & Mirrors Ivana Milankova translated by James SutherlandSmith and Zorica Petrovic Arc Visible Poets translations of Serbian poems with strong anti-establishment appeal Ivana Milankova belongs to the first generation of poets from Central and Eastern Europe to be influenced by American anti-establishment poetry, including the Beat poets.

Her own work, as a result, captures and rails against Serbia’s rich historical and religious history. Hers is also an untiring effort to reach beyond the confines of the world towards mystical revelation, to communicate the incommunicable.

Ivana Milankova once translated the works of Allen Ginsberg on his tour of the former Yugoslavia, and subsequently worked with him in workshops in Colorado. She now works as an English teacher. James Sutherland-Smith was born in Aberdeen, and has lived in Serbia since 2002. His own collections include In the Country of Birds (2003) and Popeye in Belgrade (2008), both published by Carcanet.

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Here Raymond Ramcharitar Book-length poem by Trinidadian author compared to Nobel Prize-winner V.S. Naipaul Here is a book-length autobiographical poem in five parts, addressing the allencompassing themes of the Caribbean experience: history, migration, and domestic love. Guided by a single narrator, we are taken on an epic journey, beginning in Trinidad’s plains of Caroni, and including an overnight bus trip across Europe and a sojourn in Toronto, Canada. The sequence also features a moving account of a broken marriage, addressed to the narrator’s daughter.

“Walter Raleigh once sat in a veranda in Trinidad dreaming of finding gold...

If only he had Ramcharitar’s collection as his map.”

David Dabydeen, The Independent (on The Island Quintet) Raymond Ramcharitar is a writer and critic from Trinidad. A collection of poems, American Fall, was published

by Peepal Tree in 2007. His short-story collection The Island Quintet (Peepal Tree, 2009) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean & Canada) in 2010.

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The Scattering Jaki McCarrick Includes story ‘The Visit’, featured in Salt’s Best British Short Stories 2012 The 18 stories in The Scattering explore life on the Irish border, a fraught existence forever influenced by the Troubles. Gazing into the darker side of human nature, Jaki McCarrick examines the themes of dual identity and being locked between two states; the result is a uniquely Ulster take on the Gothic short story. Of the stories included: ‘The Visit’ won the 2010 Wasafiri Prize for new fiction; ‘The Congo’ was shortlisted for the 2009 Asham Award for short fiction; ‘Hellebores’ was shortlisted for the 2010 Fish Short Story Prize.

“Jaki McCarrick tells a chilling tale of death and despair.”

The Irish Emigrant on ‘The Scattering’ “An incredible piece of writing... I must, simply must, see more of her work.”

Alex Smith, The Frogmore Papers on ‘The Badminton Game’ Jaki McCarrick lives in Dundalk. In 2009 she was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series of emerging poets. Her first play, The Mushroom Pickers (2005), premiered in London in 2006 and in New York in 2009. In 2009 she won first prize in the Northern Ireland Spinetinglers Dark Fiction competition.

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This Time Tomorrow Matthew Thorburn Poet finalist for the Anthony Hecht Prize in 2007, 2009 and (for this book) in 2010

RS Thomas: Poems to Elsi edited by Damian Walford Davies Celebrates centenary of great Welsh poet’s birth (29th March 1913) This new centenary volume brings together 52 poems – 4 previously unpublished – by RS Thomas to his wife ‘Elsi’, the distinguished artist Mildred E Eldridge. The poems are accompanied by a Foreword by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

Together the poems reveal much of the changing (and challenging) dynamics of a complex yet vitally creative relationship. Tender and honest at one moment, ironic and accusatory the next, there are poems on marriage, cohabitation, family, anniversaries and bereavement – offering up a candid portrait of emotional intimacy, the painful process of ageing, and of loss.

RS Thomas was born in Cardiff. Ordained as an Anglican priest in 1936, life in the rural parishes of north Wales became the inspiration for much of his poetry; it was in his first post in Denbighshire that he met ‘Elsi’. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal in 1964, and nominated for the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature (won by Seamus Heaney). A Penguin Modern Classics Selected Poems was published in 2004, followed by Bloodaxe’s Collected Later Poems (2004) and Uncollected Poems (2013). He died in 2000.

Damian Walford Davies is Head of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. His latest poetry collection is Witch (2012). He is General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Literary History of Wales.

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In This Time Tomorrow, Matthew Thorburn searches for his own answers to some fundamental questions: Why do we travel? Why seek out new places and cultures, only to have to leave them?

Whether writing about Japan, China or Iceland, Thorburn brings his sharp eye and musical ear to the poet’s work: honouring with words the mysteries and wonders to be found in the landscapes we choose to wander.

“Saturated with colour and light...

Thorburn’s poems pay special attention to the clothing and adornments that change to fit life’s varied occasions.”

Publishers Weekly Matthew Thorburn is the author of two previous collections: Subject to Change (2004) and Every Possible Blue (2012), and a chapbook, Disappears in the Rain (2009). His poems have appeared widely in magazines including Poetry, the Paris Review and Ploughshares. He lives in New York City.

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Natural Chemistry Michelene Wandor Follows Poetry Book Society Recommendation Musica Transalpina (2006) Astonishingly musical in its delivery, Natural Chemistry ties together a truly epic range of material. From fairy tales to the Bible, Jerusalem to Hollywood, Cromwell to the Suffragettes, the reader is taken to iconic times and landmarks, to breathe in history’s echoes. Chance encounters and solitary confinements constantly push at what communication, language and, ultimately, poetry can do.

Michelene Wandor is a writer, broadcaster, theatre historian and musician. She has taught at the Guildhall School of Drama, the City Lit and London Metropolitan University, and at various universities abroad. Her recent books include the 2006 poetry collection Musica Transalpina (“a celebration of the process of creation” Time Out) and a history of Creative Writing, The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else (Macmillan, 2008). She lives in London.

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The Shipwrecked House Claire Trévien Co-organiser of Penning Perfumes poetry-and-perfumery events, featured in the Guardian and the FT in 2012 Anchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by young Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien. Trévien’s is a surreal vision, steeped in myth and music, in which everything is alive and – like the sea itself – constantly shifting form. Fishermen become owls; a woman turns into a snake, while another gives birth to a tree; a glow-worm might become a wasp or ‘a toy on standby’.

Struck through with brilliant, sometimes sinister imagery reminiscent of Pan’s Labyrinth or an Angela Carter novel, The Shipwrecked House is a lyrical and hallucinatory debut from a poet featured in Salt’s Best British Poetry 2012.

Claire Trévien was born in Brittany. A pamphlet, Low-Tide Lottery, was published in 2011, and her work appears in the recent anthologies Best British Poetry 2012 and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Cinnamon, 2012). She is the editor of Sabotage Reviews and the coorganiser of Penning Perfumes, a creative collaboration between poets and perfumers, featured in the Guardian and the FT. She is currently in the fourth year of a PhD at Warwick University.

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A PRIL Before I Croak

Transfer Fat

Anna Babiashkina translated by Muireann Maguire

Aase Berg translated by Johannes Goransson

Russian twist on Deborah Moggach’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Before I Croak is a comic novel from one of Russia’s most outstanding young novelists. Five middle-class women in their sixties arrive at a care home in suburban Moscow, keen to experience their ‘second youth’. One of them even has the heady dreams of writing the Great Russian Novel of her generation, only to discover more than she bargained for.

The story that follows is bursting with humour, mirth and wit, as the women gradually discover mutual friends and connections, solve longstanding riddles, and set the world to rights.

Anna Babiashkina was born in 1979 in a small town in Central Russia. She is chief editor of a women’s magazine with a circulation of 180,000. In 2011 Before I Croak won the Debut Prize and the Bestseller Prize for Best Urban Novel. Muireann Maguire is a Fellow in Russian Literature and Culture at Wadham College, Oxford.

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Introducing Brooklyn-based Ugly Duckling Presse, available in the UK for the very first time Transfer Fat (Forsla fett) was nominated for Sweden’s prestigious Augustpriset for Best Poetry Book in 2002.

The poems are a haunting amalgamation of language and science: of pregnancy, of whales, of electron microscopes – of the naturally and unnaturally grotesque, of things unforeseen. Johannes Göransson’s translation captures the seething instability of Berg’s bizarre compound nouns and linguistic contortions.

Aase Berg was born in Stockholm.

The author of eight books in Swedish, she was recently awarded the prestigious Aftonbladets Litteratur Pris.

Johannes Göransson is the co-editor of Action Books; in 2005, Action Books published Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg, which he translated from Swedish. His other translations include Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007).

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The Drug of Art: Selected Poems Ivan Blatný edited by Veronika Tuckerová Lost to the world for decades, Ivan Blatný was, according to the Czech Ministry of Culture, “one of the most significant Czech poets of the twentieth century.” Blatný fled Czechoslovakia after the Communist coup in 1948, spending the rest of his life in England.

This volume is the first major collection of Blatný’s work in English, spanning fifty years of his poetry.

Translated by Justin Quinn, Matthew Sweney and Alex Zucker, with a Foreword by Josef Skvorecky and an Afterword by Antonín Petruzelka.

“Here is the voice from a true underground.”

Johannes Göransson Ivan Blatný was born in Brno in 1919. He left Czechoslovakia in 1948 and came to London, spending the rest of his life in Suffolk and Essex.

He died in Clacton in 1991.

Veronika Tuckerová is a native of Prague and a specialist in Czech literature.

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Pepper Seed Malika Booker Poems featured in Bloodaxe anthologies Out of Bounds (2012) and Ten: New Poets (2010) These poems are shaped by the various places Malika Booker has come to know as home: Brooklyn, Brixton, Grenada, Trinidad and Guyana. One minute we’re in Grenada, the next at border control in Heathrow – all part of a larger story of diaspora and displacement.

Influenced by the likes of Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Sharon Olds and Toi Derricotte, Booker weaves a visceral, emotive patchwork of the dramas both of extraordinary world travel and ordinary domestic life.

Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage.

Her pamphlet Breadfruit (Flipped Eye, 2008) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her poems also appear in the Bloodaxe anthologies Out of Bounds: Black & Asian Poets (Bloodaxe, 2012), edited by Jackie Kay, and Ten: New Poets from Spread the Word (Bloodaxe, 2010), edited by Bernardine Evaristo and Daljit Nagra.

Malika was the first Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and regularly appears at events on the South Bank. She lives in south London.

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Nets Jen Bervin “Jen Bervin has reimagined Shakespeare as our true contemporary. Her little poems sing.” – Paul Auster A beautiful blend of classic poetry and contemporary art, Nets sees Jen Bervin rework the Shakespearean sonnets, stripping them bare and lifting out individual words to create entirely new pieces. The result is a unique take on the possibilities inherent in all poetry, and a unique gift for any follower of the Bard.

“Nets has the strange feel of verbal topography: the original sonnet text is a sort of plain that single, select words soar up from like jagged spires.”

Paul Collins, The Believer “Bervin’s text breaks the urns of the sonnets into their fragmented parts… rendering the ghostly whole wholly ghostly."

Philip Metres, Jacket Jen Bervin is a poet and visual artist. Her recent text/textile books include The Dickinson Composites (2010) and The Silver Book (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Her work appears in many special collections, including the British Library, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the J. Paul Getty Museum and at Yale and Stanford. She lives in Brooklyn.

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All the Souls

Eleven Rooms

Notes on Conceptualisms

Mary-Ann Constantine

Claire Dyer

New collection of ghost stories and mysteries; follows 2008’s The Breathing

Appearing at Cheltenham Poetry Festival, 20th-28th April 2013

Robert Fitterman & Vanessa Place

Drawing on the age-old appeal of folklore (and a good ghost story), this new collection of short fiction is centred on the act of collecting and recovering the past. As the rich, haunting stories unfold, there are dangerous obsessions with iconic, sacrosanct objects, and puzzling and poignant conversations with the other side.

Eleven Rooms, Claire Dyer’s first collection, explores moments in life at its most transient: a girl on the back of a boy’s motorbike, growing up too fast; the flex and flux of relationships; what death takes from us, and the adventures to be had along the way.

Then, in the central novella ‘The Collectors’, two doctors and a folklorist meet in northern Brittany in 1898, determined to prove that the scourge of leprosy still exists. But their search soon draws them into a dark, watchful landscape where superstition is rife.

“A triumphant collection.”

Western Mail (on The Breathing) Mary-Ann Constantine is a research fellow at Aberystwyth, specialising in Welsh and Breton Romanticism.

Her short stories have appeared in the New Welsh Review and Planet; her first collection, The Breathing, was published

by Planet in 2008.

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“There’s a clarity about Claire Dyer’s poems that makes them immediately attractive: their surfaces gleam and glitter. What makes them even more exceptional is the way this freshness connects to an underlying sense of the mystery and pathos of things – so that delight and sadness are always seen as inseparable. Which they are.”

Andrew Motion Claire Dyer’s poetry appears in the recent anthologies Sylvia is Missing (Flarestack Poets, 2012), Reading Poetry (Two Rivers, 2011) and Jericho & Other Stories and Poems (Cinnamon Press, 2012). As a Brickwork Poet, she has performed at venues around the UK. She now works in HR research in London, and lives in Reading.

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Pocket-sized introduction to new branch of literary theory and critical thinking What is conceptual writing, and how does it differ from conceptual art?

This petite, wallet-sized primer offers up a collection of notes, quotes and inquiries on conceptual writing – and its emerging place in the coalescing worlds of poetry, creativity and critical theory.

“Conceptual writing teaches us to write about the wrench, not the monkey.

Take Notes and get the idea...”

Christian Bök, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize Robert Fitterman is the author of ten books of poetry, as well as a host of essays and conceptual writing. He teaches at NYU. Vanessa Place is the co-director of Les Figues Press in California, described by critic Terry Castle as “an elegant vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily assured and ingenious sort.”

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The Book of Euclid

Beginnings

Unbelonging

edited by Rowan B Fortune

Daphne Gloag

Nicola Griffin

Latest in series of Cinnamon Press poetry and short fiction anthologies

Recent surge in interest in cosmology: Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Universe, Dara O’Briain’s Science Club on BBC Television

Winner of Galway’s Over the Edge New Poet of the Year Award in 2010

The Book of Euclid introduces new and emerging voices in short story and poetry.

On the one hand, Jonathan Carr’s ‘The Dead Skipper’ and Nicola Warwick’s ‘The Moon on a String of Pearls’ grasp the immediacy of children’s voices without condescension. On the other, the poems of Noel Williams are concerned not with rootedness, but with departure: in pieces like ‘Tying the kite’ and ‘Last trip to Tynemouth’. Along with Patrick Riordan’s title short story, this is a collection filled with interesting characters and humane humour.

Rowan B Fortune is assistant editor at Cinnamon Press. His own writing includes poetry, fiction, reviews and essays. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University, and is currently working on a novel.

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Daphne Gloag’s third collection is an extraordinary combination of scientific and spiritual exploration. Gloag looks back at her experiences – her loves, her travels, her reactions to art – and places them in the context of the cosmos, the star-stuff from which we are all made.

“Her poems are remarkable” John Latham, Carcanet poet Daphne Gloag was born in Cheshire.

Her two previous collections are Diversities of Silence (1995) and A Compression of Distances (Cinnamon Press, 2009). Her poems appear in magazines like Ambit, Envoi, Iota, Magma, New Poetry and Stand, as well as on BBC Radio 3 and Radio London.

Her awards include first prize in the 2001 Poetry on the Lake Competition in Orta, Italy (judged by A. Alvarez).

She was married to the late Peter Williamson, also a poet. She lives near London.

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Nicola Griffin’s debut collection is fuelled by a sense of displacement, both personal and public. She first considers her own struggles, and also those who find themselves lost in new countries, or within their own communities.

Then there is the increasingly yawning gap between those with power and those without: the impact on civil liberty, and the tension between human need and environmental damage.

Nicola Griffin was awarded a Arts Council Literature Bursary Award to complete her first poetry collection. Her poems appear in the likes of Orbis, the Sunday Tribune, The Stinging Fly and Crannóg. In 2010 she won the Over the Edge New Poet of the Year Award, and appeared at the Cúirt Literary Festival in 2011. She lives in East Clare.

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Selected Poems

Further Thoughts in a Garden

Selected Poems

Ric Hool

Rita Kelly

Thomas Krampf

Contributed to South Bank Centre’s Global Poetry System project in 2009

Sixth collection of poetry from bilingual poet published in both Irish and English

This Selected Poems draws on Ric Hool’s six previous collections, most recently The Bridge (2002), Voice from a Correspondent (2002) and No Nothing (2009), all published by the Collective Press. The overarching theme is the geographical and psychological impact of place on the human experience.

Throughout, water plays an integral role, poured from experience to experience with strikingly beautiful agency.

Rita Kelly’s sixth collection of poetry takes its cues from Andrew Marvell’s ‘Thoughts in a Garden’, and finds a poet winding herself towards a very different kind of Paradise.

“Probing, courageous, and open-hearted” – Margaret Gibson, National Book Award finalist

“The ordinary is made extraordinary here... it feels alive on the page.”

Alicia Stubbersfield

Rita Kelly was born in Galway. She has lived most of her life in south-east Ireland, with periods in New York, London and Germany. Her most recent collection is Travelling West (Arlen House, 2010). She has been the recipient of the Sean Ó Riordain Oireachtas Award, the Irish Times Poetry Award and a Patrick & Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship.

Ric Hool grew up in Cullercoats, Northumberland. In 2009 he was the Academi poet representative for the South Bank London Global Poetry System. His poetry has been published in magazines and journals across the UK, Europe and the US, including The Rialto and Tears in the Fence. He now teaches in Blaenau Gwent.

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Kelly’s work is constantly beset by the political problems and cultural ramifications of 21st-century life, never far from her thoughts even when she withdraws into happiness.

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For more than thirty-five years Thomas Krampf has plotted an ecstatic trajectory through life, using poetry to save himself from the agonies of fear, love and his own schizophrenia, to ‘step over the platform’s clashing teeth’ and embrace the beauty of a fractured world.

This Selected Poems includes his most famous work, ‘Subway Prayer’, along with the essay ‘Perfecting the Art of Falling’, which charts the on-going battle between creative vision and psychiatric intervention.

Thomas Krampf has published five books of poems, including Poems to My Wife and Other Women (Salmon Poetry, 2007) and Taking Time Out: Poems in Remembrance of Madness (Salmon Poetry, 2004). He has read his work across the US, including on National Public Radio in New York and Buffalo.

In 2001 he was awarded a teaching residency at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar, Ireland. He now lives in south-western New York.

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The Colour of Dawn

God Loves You

Marrowbone of Memory

Yanick Lahens translated by Alison Layland

Kathryn Maris

Jeri McCormick

Author previously published in the Guardian, Poetry London, MPT and Time Out

Historical interest: based on interviews and accounts of the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-52)

Increased news and cultural interest in Haiti since 2010 earthquake The latest in Seren’s Discoveries series of exceptional writing in translation, Yanick Lahens delivers a visceral and intense novel of revolutionary change in Haiti.

The Colour of Dawn follows the fortunes of three siblings over a single day in a poorer part of Port-au-Prince, where duty to family and desire for a better life clash with gunfire, racketeering and kidnapping. The result is an exquisitely poignant human story of a country where monstrosity wants to rule.

Yanick Lahens lives in Haiti. The Colour of Dawn was first published as La couleur de l’aube (Sabine Wespieser, 2008), which won the Prix du Livre RFO and the Prix littéraire Richelieu de la Francophonie in 2009, along with the 2008 Prix Millepages 2008.

Alison Layland won the Translators’ House Wales/Oxfam Cymru 2010 Translation Challenge with a translation of one of Lahens’ short stories.

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In her second collection, Kathryn Maris brings her spirit of sly wit and artful parody to the words, themes and rhythms of the Bible. Beginning with a kaleidoscopic vision of the sins and sinners of the modern city, the poems explore the worlds of domestic discord, gossip and celebrity, anxiety and suicide.

They devil in subverting scripture in a variety of ways, from burlesque mockery to poignant reflection, all with an entirely contemporary edge.

“Quirky, stimulating and sparklingly intelligent” Carol Rumens Kathryn Maris was born in Long Island, New York. Her first collection, The Book of Jobs, was published in 2006.

Her poem ‘Darling, Would You Please Pick Up Those Books’ was a Guardian Poem of the Week, and a runnerup in the 2008 Troubadour Poetry Competition, judged by Jo Shapcott and Stephen Knight. She now lives in London.

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In Marrowbone of Memory, American poet Jeri McCormick continues her exploration of her ancestry, and their struggles on both sides of the Atlantic.

The poems draw on stories of the Great Famine as passed down through the generations: here are the imagined voices of a baker’s son, an undertaker, an orphaned girl, a workhouse guardian, a curate, along with other witnesses to the calamity.

Jeri McCormick lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Her books include When It Came Time (Salmon Poetry, 1998) and the Creative Writing guide Writers Have No Age (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2005).

Her work has also appeared in journals and magazines across the UK, Ireland and the US, and in various anthologies, including The Book of Irish American Poetry from the 18th Century to the Present (2007).

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Savage Solitude

The God Thing

Ad-liberation

Máighréad Medbh

Susan Millar DuMars

Sai Murray

Philosophical exploration of loneliness; poetry and Mind, Body, Spirit interest

Poet featured in The Best Irish Poetry in English (2010)

Savage Solitude is an unusual and challenging book, taking the reader on an unflinching journey through the experience of being alone. Intimate, empathetic and dramatic, this is not so much a study as a total immersion into the ‘happenings in the head of a reluctant loner’.

‘Hope hurts me, prickles / like blood returning’. In her third collection, Susan Millar DuMars writes with compassion and clarity about the terminal illness and death of a family member. The poems question and rage, and find unexpected moments of humour and buoyancy.

“A captivating performer, and a brilliant, thought-provoking, wordsmith” – Dorothea Smartt

Through quotations from a wide range of writers, poets and philosophers, the book contemplates an answer to the question, more pressing than ever in our hi-tech, interconnected world, of how to be alone – its absences, its horrors, and its possibilities.

DuMars looks for God in the stories of the Bible’s women; in the transcendent paintings of Matisse and the soulful images of Hopper; in the transience of cities, and the freedom and flow of the natural world.

Máighréad Medbh was born in Co. Limerick. A poet, her most recent collections are When the Air Inhales You (2009) and Twelve Beds for the Dreamer (2011). Her work also appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Orbis, The Stinging Fly and Southword, as well as in several anthologies, including Salmon: A Journey in Poetry (Salmon Poetry, 2007).

She lives in Swords, Co. Dublin.

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Susan Millar DuMars was born in Philadelphia, and now lives in Galway.

Her debut collection, Big Pink Umbrella, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2008, followed by Dreams for Breakfast in 2010. Her work also appears in the anthologies Landing Places (Dedalus Press, 2010) and The Best Irish Poetry in English (2010). She and her husband, the poet Kevin Higgins, have run the acclaimed Over the Edge readings series since 2003.

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Following in the committed political footsteps of the late, great Adrian Mitchell, and delighting in the kind of punk wordplay that brought fame to John Cooper Clarke, Sai Murray has built an enthusiastic audience for his dramatic poetry performances.

Challenging the status quo, his poems take on the age of consumerism (as befitting a reformed ad-man). He also delivers parodies of the language of the Red Tops, the clichés of our political rulers, the trivialisations of Facebook, and the burying of history in a Caribbean made fit for tourists.

“A truly original voice.”

Courttia Newland Sai Murray is a writer and artist of Bajan, Afrikan and Pomfretian heritage.

He previously worked in advertising: the first part of his debut novel, Kill Myself Now: The True Confessions of An Advertising Genius, was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2008. He lives in Pontefract.

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And Caret Bay Again: New & Selected Poems Velma Pollard Previously published in Longman’s Caribbean Writers series Velma Pollard has been an essential voice of Jamaica and the Caribbean ever since her first collection was published in 1988. And Caret Bay Again draws from four previous collections – Crown Point (1988), Shame Trees Don’t Grow Here (1993), The Best Philosophers I Know Can’t Read and Write (2004) and Leaving Traces (2008) – plus a substantial set of new poems. All are full of Velma Pollard’s hallmark maturity, reflection and quiet integrity in the face of personal and political tragedy.

“One of Jamaica’s and the Caribbean’s pre-eminent women poets... a mature poet completely at ease with her own voice.”

The Caribbean Review of Books Velma Pollard is a writer, researcher and educator from Jamaica. In addition to her poetry, her prose work appears in Considering Woman I & II, published

by Peepal Tree in 2010. Her novella Karl won the Casa de las Americas Prize in 1992 (Longman, 1994).

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The Last Hit Llwyd Owen “Wales’ answer to Irvine Welsh”; previous thriller acclaimed in the Guardian and Time Out The Last Hit is a gritty, gripping urban revenge story, set in a Welsh criminal underworld populated by assassins, drug dealers, kidnappers, prostitutes and pimps. The action centres on Al, a reluctant hitman bound to a life of killing until he can find the man who murdered his mother.

Praise for Faith Hope Love: “It made me laugh, it made me cry and I couldn't put it down.”

P Turner, Guardian Books “An absorbing fable... enjoyable and pacey” Time Out Llwyd Owen lives in Cardiff. An award-winning writer in Welsh, his own translation of his second novel, Faith Hope Love (Ffydd Gobaith Cariad) was acclaimed in the Guardian, Time Out and Publishers Weekly (Y Lolfa, 2nd ed., 2010).

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On the Tracks of Wild Game

The Green-go Turn of Telling

Irki

Tomaž Šalamun translated by Sonja Kravanja

Aimée Sands

Kadija Sesay

“Here is all of the heartbreak and gravity of being human...” – Bruce Weigl, Pulitzer-nominated poet

Multicultural / immigration interest; poems about growing up in UK foster care after leaving Sierra Leone

The Green-go Turn of Telling is a poetic excavation of self, of the shards of a once-broken soul. Each lyric poem is shaped by human wreckage, but also the rescuing force of female wildness. This theme is most clearly captured in the final love poems, which move through fracture and reluctance to recognition that ‘plain… hand-cranked’ love can restore human connection to the ‘scorned and lonely self ’.

‘Irki’ means ‘homeland’ in the Nubian language, a language and history fast becoming extinct, but these poems conjure up images of home as an imagined, remembered, still physical place, of the Sierra Leone Kadija Sesay left behind as a child.

Croatian poet Tomaž Šalamun wrote the works collected in On the Tracks of Wild Game (Po sledeh divjadi) in a time of deep personal crisis, during the politically repressive years of the 1970s.

This new translation returns our gaze to one of the most widely known and important poets of Eastern Europe.

“These are instinctive, sensory poems, poems of great power and surprise... [Šalamun] renews our familiar world again and again and again.”

Simon Armitage Tomaž Šalamun was born in Zagreb in 1941. His first collection, the critically-acclaimed Poker, was published when he was only 25. UK editions of his work include Homage to Hat & Uncle Guido and Eliot (1997) and Row (2005), both published by Arc. A multi-award winner, his books have been translated into 19 languages.

Sonja Kravanja is an award-winning translator of Slovenian poetry. She has also translated the work of Edvard Kocbek, Iztok Osojnik and Aleš Debeljak.

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“Sands manages to wrest words from the darkness that illuminate and console” Eva Bourke Aimée Sands’ poems have appeared in various magazines in Ireland and the US, as well as in Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry, 2010). She is the co-director of the Brookline Poetry Series, a Boston-area venue founded in 2001. Aimée is also an independent filmmaker and public radio and TV producer; her awards include an Emmy and a Peabody Award. She teaches in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Writing as a second-generation West African, Kadija recounts her arrival to the UK (with parents of different religions), and her experience of growing up Black against the racially divided background of Britain in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Kadija Sesay was born in Sierra Leone. Founder of the newspaper Calabash, SABLE LitMag and the SABLE LitFest, her work as an editor includes the anthologies IC3: the Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000), co-edited with Courttia Newland, and Red: An Anthology of Contemporary Black British Poetry (Peepal Tree, 2010), co-edited with Kwame Dawes. Her own poems have appeared in anthologies published by Canongate, Macmillan and Flipped Eye. She lives in London.

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The Offspring of the Moon

Apart

Snow Germans

John W Sexton

Catherine Taylor

Previous nominee for the Hennessy Literary Award and winner of the Listowel Poetry Prize

Part-poetry, part-memoir about the antiapartheid movement in South Africa

Dmitry Vachedin translated by Arch Tait

In his fifth collection, John W Sexton speaks to the deeply-rooted traditions of the Irish literary imagination: from the myths of pre-Christian times, through the Gothic horrors of Stoker and Le Fanu, to the early sci-fi romances of Fitz-James O’Brien and M.P. Shiel.

These are poems of the altered mind, the cosmic journey, the subversion of logic and science. Yet for all their absorbing forays into the visionary, each work remains anchored by a profound and often painful wisdom.

“A lively and inventive poet.”

Books Ireland John W Sexton is the author of four previous poetry collections: The Prince's Brief Career (1995), Shadows Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth, a book of haiku with translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock (2004), Vortex (2005), and Petit Mal (2009). His poem ‘The Green Owl’ won the Listowel Poetry Prize in 2007. He also created and wrote the RTE children's radio programme The Ivory Tower, which ran to over 100 episodes.

He lives in Co. Kerry.

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Apart grew out of Catherine Taylor’s memories of visiting her family in South Africa as a child and her later curiosity about her (white) mother’s involvement in early anti-apartheid women’s groups.

Mixing narrative prose, poems, social and political theory, and found texts culled from years of visiting South African archives and libraries, Apart navigates the difficult landscapes of history, shame, privilege and grief.

“Apart offers an intimate and sweeping look at the legacy of apartheid... edifying, original, and critically rigorous...”

Maggie Nelson Catherine Taylor is a writer and teacher. Her first book, Giving Birth: A Journey into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin, 2002), won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. As a producer, her documentary film The Exiles won an Emmy Award.

She teaches at Ithaca College, New York.

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Translated edition of novel nominated for the Russian Prize in 2010 Snow Germans is a highly topical novel about young people growing up trapped between two of Europe’s giants: Germany and Russia. It captures a disappearing world, that of Germans once encouraged to settle in the Russian countryside in the times of Peter the Great, whose identity and traditions have been stricken by the impact of two World Wars.

The Snow Germans are three of these Russo-Germans: now repatriated, they find themselves strangers in their own land, beset by fierce national enmity at every turn.

Dmitry Vachedin was born in 1982 in St Petersburg. At the age of 25 he won the Debut Prize for his short story ‘Shooter in the Azure Sky’. In 2010 his novel Snow Germans was nominated for the Russian Prize, a prize he won in 2012 for his short stories.

Arch Tait’s recent translations include Anna Politkovskaya’s Putin’s Russia (2004), winner of the inaugural English PEN Literature in Translation Prize in 2010, and the Glas novel Sense by Arslan Khasavov (2012).

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A PRIL Asylum Seekers

Emergency Index 2011

Borderlands

Cara Watson

edited by Matvei Yankelevich with Yelena Gluzman

Phil Cope

Shortlisted in 5th Annual Ted Walters International Poetry Competition 2011 Asylum Seekers is a debut collection arranged as a series of poetry sequences which examine the unease, dislocation and brokenness of everyday life.

In the opening sequence, ‘Asylum Seeker’, the protagonists are already on the margins even as they set out together in marriage. Then come the grim realities of ‘Home Visit’, in which the narrator is released from prison and adopts an unwanted child.

These unflinching episodes are then countered by the refuge of ‘Aunt Lillian’s Cornish Cottage’ and happy thoughts of ‘Journeys’ to Colliford Lake.

Cara Watson has lived in Cornwall for the past 25 years. Her poems have been published in various magazines, and in the Cinnamon Press anthology In Terra Pax (2012).

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Features 249 performance works from 27 countries

Follows successful tours for photography books Holy Wells: Wales and Holy Wells: Cornwall

Every year, Emergency Index invites a collection of artists and authors to document performances they made in the previous year. The only print publication of its kind, it offers a cutting-edge view of performance in theatre, dance, poetry, music, visual art, political activism, among many other disciplines.

Following his books on the sacred wells of Wales and Cornwall, Phil Cope journeys through the borderlands of England and Wales, from Cheshire to Monmouthshire, the Dee to the Severn.

His discoveries are recorded in striking, atmospheric photographs, accompanied by the remarkable histories of the wells, and the legends attached to them.

Matvei Yankelevich’s most recent books are the poetry collection Alpha Donut (2012) and the novella Boris by the Sea (2010). His translations of Soviet-era surrealist Daniil Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing (2009), received praise in the TLS, the Guardian and the New York Times. In the late 1990s, Matvei helped found Ugly Duckling Presse, where he is now a co-executive director. He lives in Brooklyn.

Yelena Gluzman is a performance artist, and editor of Ugly Duckling Presse’s Paperless Book Department.

She lives in Tokyo.

Ugly Duckling Presse » Paperback £18.00 » 978-1-937027-07-0 203x157mm » 560pp » Drama (DD)

Wronged suitors, magic horses, Dark Age battles, the reign of King Arthur, and innumerable decapitations feature among the vividly magical tales. The healing wells of the Christian saints then give way to the health spas of Victorian times, and the renewed intrigue in pagan culture in the 20th century.

Phil Cope is a photographer, writer and teacher. The designer of several major exhibitions and books, his recent books include a guide to the 2012 Olympics, Following the Flame (2011), and Holy Wells: Cornwall (Seren, 2011).

Seren » Hardback » £19.99 978-1-781720-60-8 » 244x222mm 240pp » Photography / Local History (AJB / WQH) Wales & Welsh Borders

Convoy Caroline Davies Historical interest: poems inspired by the convoys of World War II Caroline Davies’ debut collection was inspired by the experiences of her grandfather, James ‘Jim’ Honeybill, a merchant seaman in the Malta convoys of the Second World War. The poems dramatically document the Navy’s attempts to resupply the Mediterranean island, suffering severe losses at the hands of the German blockade.

Beginning with the image of her mother as a child who has come to see her naval father as a stranger, the poems continue on to the voices of the men aboard the M.V. Ajax, fighting to get through against all odds, and making the greatest sacrifice of all. Skilfully incorporating a wealth of found material, recordings and interviews, this narrative poetry sequence captures a slice of history with visceral clarity.

Caroline Davies was born in Norfolk to Welsh parents. Her poem ‘At Sea’ won an Honorary Mention in the 2011 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition. Caroline works for the Open University and lives near Leighton Buzzard.

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Nesting David Almond “A master storyteller” – The Independent David Almond is now known around the world as the author of the novels Skellig, Kit’s Wilderness and The Savage. His first two books – Sleepless Nights (1985) and A Kind of Heaven (1997) – were published

by Iron Press, a selection of which appears in Nesting alongside two previously unpublished tales. The stories draw deeply from the Tyneside estate of Almond’s childhood, exploring the distinctive themes that would inform his later work, and displaying all the passion, rhythm, lyricism and drive for which he is acclaimed today.

“David Almond’s books are strange, unsettling wild things. They are, like all great literature, beyond classification.”

The Guardian David Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. His many awards include the Whitbread Children’s Book Award (twice), the Carnegie Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. My Name is Nina, the prequel to Skellig, was published by Hodder in 2010. His books have been translated into over 40 languages, and adapted for both stage and screen. He now lives in Northumberland; Nesting will be launched at the 40th birthday celebrations of Iron Press in Cullercoats, 15th-19th May 2013.

Iron Press » Paperback » £9.00 » 210x148mm » 200pp 978-0-956572-57-8 » Fiction (FYB) North East

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Groundswell: New & Selected Poems

An Artist’s Year in the Harris Garden

Patrick Deeley

Jenny Halstead

“Reflections of a gifted and gifting sense of wonder and curiosity” – Books Ireland

Paintings, sketches and local history of one of Reading’s most popular public spaces

Groundswell gathers a substantial set of new and unpublished poems together with selected works from Patrick Deeley’s five previous collections: Intimate Strangers (1986), Names For Love (1990), Turane: the Hidden Village (1995), Decoding Samara (2001) and The Bones of Creation (2008). The poems are marked by a muscular tension, a bracing and energising quality that continues through his latest work.

This new art-book charts Jenny Halstead’s time as Artist in Residence at the Harris Garden, a 12-acre public space set within the University of Reading.

“Patrick Deeley is one of those remarkable poets for whom the raw immensity of the rural will, one suspects, always hold the ultimate imaginative fascination” Fred Johnston, Books Ireland Patrick Deeley was born in Loughrea, Co. Galway. His five previous collections were all published by Dedalus Press. His poems have appeared in magazines like The Stinging Fly, The Shop and Contrary, and have been translated into French and Italian. He also writes fiction for younger readers; his novel The Lost Orchard won the Eilis Dillon Book of the Year Award in 2001. He now lives in Dublin.

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The paintings and sketches begin in the stillness of winter, unfurling through spring and summer and on to the contentment of autumn. They also capture the on-going renovation of the Garden, as well as the enthusiasm of its many volunteers.

The artworks are accompanied by a history of the Garden, for so long a secret oasis, full of surprises.

Jenny Halstead is a painter and illustrator. She studied Art and Design at the Sutton & Cheam School of Art, followed by a Guest Scholarship at the Royal Academy Schools in London.

She is a Fellow of the Medical Artists Association of GB, and lives in Reading.

Two Rivers Press » Paperback £12.50 » 978-1-901677-87-4 200x200mm » 64pp » Art (AFC) Reading

What Our Shoes Say About Us Gerard Hanberry Poems published in the Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review and on Dublin’s DART Gerard Hanberry’s fourth collection balances out the greed and violence of the world, and the inevitability of death, with the tenderness to be found in a loving relationship.

In the title poem, the discovery of the world’s oldest shoe is set against the backdrop of a prisoner’s execution in Utah, highlighting the fact that ‘not a lot has changed in five millennia’. It is just one of many lyrical reflections on life, on love, on loss – sometimes wry, always with a smile or loving gesture in an otherwise brittle world.

Gerard Hanberry’s three previous collections are Rough Night (2001), Something Like Lovers (2005) and At Grattan Road (Salmon Poetry, 2009).

His work has been featured on RTE Radio and Newstalk. He is also the author of More Lives than One (2011), a biography of seven generations of Oscar Wilde’s family. He was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2000, and won the Brendan Kennelly Poetry Award in 2004. He lives in Galway.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-32-8 210x134mm » 96pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

A Family Behind Glass

Murielle's Angel

The Rivalry of Flowers

Matthew Hedley Stoppard

Mary Howell

“He weaves the everyday into wonderfully unravelling works of art” – James Nash

Set on the El Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in northern Spain, which attracts over 200,000 pilgrims each year

Shani Rhys James edited by Edward Lucie-Smith & Francesca Rhydderch

Matthew Hedley Stoppard’s poetry has been compared to both Edward and Dylan Thomas, along with Simon Armitage and Paul Farley. A Family Behind Glass is set in a zone not unlike Farley’s Edgelands, sharply defining elements of both the urban and the pastoral.

The collection acts like a scrapbook of a 90s childhood: the rusting swing-sets, the Ladybird waistcoats. Stoppard’s attention then shifts to the here and now, and the realities of life as a father – “a double helix / that twists in both our blood” – presenting them, like the family behind glass, almost within touching distance.

Matthew Hedley Stoppard was born in Derbyshire in 1985. Widely published in magazines and anthologies, a recording of his poetry, Insect Eucharist and Other Poems, was released on vinyl in 2012. He now works as a journalist, and lives in Leeds.

Valley Press » Paperback £7.50 » 978-1-908853-20-2 198x129mm » 52pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire

The Camino de Santiago ranked only after Jerusalem and Rome in medieval times, thought to secure ‘points’ for entry into heaven for any pilgrim to cover its 500 miles. In her late forties, Rosemary Wallace is already uneasy about setting out: whether she will last the distance under the relentless sun, and whether she will fit in on the pilgrim trail.

What unfolds along the way is an extraordinary, cross-cultural group of stories that interweave, like the Canterbury Tales, with each step taken: an angry young man; an avuncular Spanish poet; a doctor accosted in the village of Casanova by a man who wants her to be his; and the enigmatic Murielle.

Mary Howell won the Cinnamon Press Novel Award for Murielle’s Angel.

Having lived for over twenty years in Manchester, she now lives in north Wales, where she recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Bangor.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-907090-83-7 216x140mm » 224pp » Fiction (FA) North Wales / Spain

“Arguably one of the most exciting and successful painters of her generation” – BBC Arts Wales Shani Rhys James is one of Wales’ leading painters, awarded an MBE for services to art in 2006. The Rivalry of Flowers is a collection of 25 new paintings, photographs and other works, to accompany a touring exhibition.

Her studies in flowers, wallpapers and domesticity are informed by ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 story about the plight of women in the home.

The paintings are accompanied by an interview with the artist by Francesca Rhydderch, and an art-history essay by Edward Lucie-Smith.

Edward Lucie-Smith is an internationally known art critic and historian. A number of his art books are used as standard texts; Movements in Art since 1945, first published in 1969, has been in print ever since.

Francesca Rhydderch is a freelance writer and literary editor, based in Aberystwyth. Her first novel, The Rice Paper Diaries, is published by Seren, also in May 2013.

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The Stern Wave

Rise

The Five Simple Machines

Noel King

Gill McEvoy

Todd McEwen

Includes poems published in the Spectator and The London Magazine

Championed by TS Eliot Prize-winner Philip Gross

Follows acclaimed Granta novel Who Sleeps with Katz

As the title suggests, this collection takes the environment as its central theme, alerting us to the flood waters to come. Quirky, at times sentimental and at times shocking, Noel King also casts his gaze over Irish peacekeepers in the Lebanon, a budding comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe, a Trinidadian teenager, a Cornish miner, even a housewife rejected by her Gaelic football-loving husband.

Rise celebrates Gill McEvoy’s extraordinary and fortunate survival of ovarian cancer. The poems move from an opening stalked by death, through days marked off between clinic appointments – ‘touching every day with careful fingers’ – to a highly-charged appreciation of life, and of grace.

“The machine,” says Saint-Exupéry, “does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” In Todd McEwen’s latest off-kilter novel, fine women are loved and lost, human error is not averted, and much is learned, of both a practical and a speculative nature.

You could call this a book about sex, and up to a point you’d be right.

Each of these poems, written over the past eight years, have been recognised with publication in literary journals: from Crannog, Southword and The Stinging Fly in Ireland, to the Spectator and The London Magazine in the UK. Noel King’s first collection, Prophesying the Past, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010 and twice reprinted. His poetry, stories and articles have been published in over thirty countries, from Poetry Ireland Review to California Quarterly to Bongos of the World in Japan. He regularly appears at reading events across Ireland, and lives in Tralee, Co. Kerry.

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“The poems… move lightly, accurately, staying no longer than they need to, finding what they need for life even on difficult ground. They are always ready, on the turning of a line, to rise and fly.”

Philip Gross, TS Eliot Prize-winner Gill McEvoy was born in London and now lives in Chester, where she organises a number of poetry events.

Her own poems have appeared widely in magazines, including Acumen, Agenda, The Frogmore Papers and The Shop. Her previous books are the pamphlets Uncertain Days and A Sampler, and the full collection The Plucking Shed (Cinnamon Press, 2010).

A 2012 Hawthornden Fellow, she lives in Chester.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-82-0 216x140mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) North West

“If you want… a linear plot, conflict followed by resolution, and all the other neat comforts that contemporary fiction is supposed to provide, then look elsewhere…

Instead [McEwen] offers ferocious wit, a stream of magnificent sentences, something to savour on every page, and a blissful knowledge of what really matters in life.”

The Guardian on Who Sleeps with Katz Todd McEwen was born in California in 1953. He worked in broadcasting, theatre and the rare book trade before settling in Scotland in 1981. His most recent novel, Who Sleeps with Katz, was published by Granta in 2003. He now teaches at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

CB Editions » Paperback £8.99 » 978-0-957326-63-7 198x129mm » 160pp » Fiction (FA) South East

Mysteries of the Home Paula Meehan Selection of acclaimed Carcanet poet’s earlier work Mysteries of the Home gathers together a selection of poems from Paula Meehan’s two seminal collections, The Man who was Marked by Winter (1991) and Pillow Talk (1994). Included here are some of her best-known and best-loved poems: ‘The Pattern’, ‘The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks’, ‘My Father Perceived as a Vision of St Francis’ and ‘The Wounded Child’.

“A transformative writing which seeks to turn the skin inside out and discover a different kind of heart.”

Kevan Johnson, TLS Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin, where she still lives. Her most recent collections – Dharmakaya (2000) and Painting Rain (2009) – are both published by Carcanet. Her work also appears in the Carcanet anthology Three Irish Poets (2003, alongside Mary O’Malley and Eavan Boland). She won the Denis Devlin Memorial Award in 2002. Music for Dogs, a collection of her radio plays, is also available from Dedalus Press (2008).

Dedalus Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-906614-70-6 214x140mm » 92pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

Beowulf translated by Meghan Purvis Winner of the 2011 Times Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is brought to life by American poet Meghan Purvis in a vigorous contemporary translation. Written across a range of poetic forms and voices, this rendering captures the thrust and gore of battle, the sinister fens and moorlands of Dark Age Denmark, and the treasures and glories of the mead-hall. But can the hero defeat his blood-thirsty foes, save the Geats from being wiped off the map, and claim his just rewards?

Combining faithful translation with innovative re-workings and poems from alternative viewpoints, Purvis has created an exciting new interpretation of Beowulf – full of verve and the bristle of language.

Meghan Purvis received her MA and PhD in Creative Writing from UEA. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Rialto, The Frogmore Papers, and Magma. She won the 2011 Times Stephen Spender Prize for an excerpt from her translation of Beowulf; another poem was commended. She lives in Cambridge.

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A Force That Takes Edward Ragg Previously published in Carcanet’s New Poetries IV anthology (2007)

The Rice Paper Diaries Francesca Rhydderch Prisoner-of-war fiction set in World War II Hong Kong and Wales When Hong Kong falls to the Japanese in 1941, Tommy and Elsa Jones and their baby Mari are separated from everything they know, including their Cantonese amah, Chan. The family must face the desperate conditions of a prisoner-of-war camp on the south side of Hong Kong Island, and a battle to keep hope alive in a place where even optimism can spill over into obsession.

We then re-join baby Mari, now six years old, on her way home to a village on the Welsh coast. Despite the promises of victory, camp life is all little Mari has ever known, and her new home is a cold, strange place, riddled with secrets.

Born in the North East, Edward Ragg now calls the Chinese capital Beijing home. The poems in A Force That Take emerge out of the compelling paradoxes to be found in everyday city life in China: the deep-rooted traditions amid the sprawling modernity, the ancient vine stocks on the cutting-edge architecture, ‘As if the sky was lit / With the nomenclature / Of the vivid’.

Thoughtful, honed and exact, the depths of Ragg’s ideas are underscored by the delicacy and the preciseness of his metaphorical language.

Edward Ragg was born in Stocktonon-Tees. His poems recently appeared in the anthologies Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Cinnamon Press, 2012), Jericho & Other Stories and Poems (Cinnamon Press, 2012) and New Poetries IV (Carcanet, 2007). He is now an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Together the story of Chan’s journey to Hong Kong, the Jones’ capture and Mari’s homecoming form a lyrical trilogy of war told from the edges.

Francesca Rhydderch is a freelance writer and literary editor based in Aberystwyth. She has worked as an editor at Planet (1998-2000), Gomer Press (2000-2002) and New Welsh Review (2002-2008), and her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio Wales. She was on the Englishlanguage judging panel for the Wales Book of the Year in 2011.

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The Painter’s House Jo Slade Nominated for the 2003 Prix Evelyn Encelot Ecriture Prize by the Maison des Ecrivains in Paris In 2010 poet and painter Jo Slade published a chapbook, The Artist's Room. In her latest full collection, she expands on this theme, exploring The Painter’s House in its entirety.

The poems trace identity through language and image, with an instinctive appreciation of those important yet transient details captured by our eyes and ears. There is the passing of time and the seasons, alongside reflections on loss, and a reminder of the value of intuition in a mysterious, often chaotic world.

Jo Slade is the author of four previous collections, including The Vigilant One (1994), nominated for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize, and City of Bridges (2005), both published

by Salmon Poetry. Her poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Romanian, Russian and Slovenian. She lives in Limerick.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-27-4 210x134mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

All Change at Reading: the Railway and the Station, 1840-2013

Visions and Voices: Conversations with Fourteen Caribbean Playwrights

Adam Sowan

Olivier H.P. Stephenson

Popularity of railway history (Great British Railway Journeys on BBC2)

Postcolonial interest; unique critical study of Caribbean theatre

Isambard Kingdom Brunel infamously gave Reading an inconvenient station with only a single platform; after four major rebuilds it now has 15. All Change at Reading documents 175 years of growth, and looks forward to the future of train travel to and from the town.

The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a major cultural revolution in Caribbean theatre. This new critical study comprises interviews with the key players in this first generation of postcolonial playwrights, few of whom are still alive today. The book touches on their experiences as struggling artists in the Caribbean, along with the changing perceptions of their work, and of the region as a whole.

Local historian Adam Sowan begins his journey in the ‘railway mania’ of the 1840s, moving through the ‘battle of the gauges’ and the fierce competition between the Great Western, South Western and South Eastern lines, as new branches and connections shot up and speeds increased. Today thoughts are turning further afield, with the possibility of direct links to Heathrow and even mainland Europe.

Adam Sowan’s previous books about Reading, all published by Two Rivers Press, include Believing in Reading: Its Places of Worship (2012), The Reading Quiz Book (2011) and A Much-Maligned Town: Opinions of Reading 1126-2008 (2008). He is an activist in Reading Civic Society.

Two Rivers Press » Paperback » £10.00 978-1-901677-92-8 » 216x140mm 150pp » Local History (WQH) Reading

The authors profiled in Visions and Voices are Derek Walcott, Errol Hill, Errol John, Michael Abbensetts, Trevor Rhone, Alwyn Bully, Roderick Walcott, Edgar White, Slade Hopkinson, Lennox Brown, Carmen Tipling, Dennis Scott, Stafford Ashani Harrison and Mustapha Matura. Introduced by Kwame Dawes.

Olivier Stephenson is a poet, playwright, screenwriter and journalist.

He is a founding member of the Caribbean American Repertory Theatre in New York City and Los Angeles. He lives in Miami.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £19.99 » 978-1-845231-73-6 234x156mm » 400pp Drama / Literary Studies (DSG)

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M AY Caribbean Poetics: Toward an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature Silvio Torres-Saillant Critical study of Caribbean writing over the last six decades Unique in crossing the cultural divides between the area’s Anglophone and non-English speaking communities, Caribbean Poetics features authors from the Dominican Republic, Barbados and Haiti. The anthology has now been expanded to include new criticism of three of the Caribbean’s most influential modern artists: Kamau Brathwaite, Pedro Mir and Rene Depestre.

“Discussions of Caribbean literary aesthetics have tended to focus on the writing of one of the main linguistic blocs of the region… Silvio TorresSaillant’s study is a welcome addition to work that considers commonalities across these blocs.”

John Thieme, World Literature Today Silvio Torres-Saillant is the senior editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (2005). He is also the author of An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (Macmillan, 2006). He teaches at Syracuse University, and lives in New York City.

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The Tin Man's Lover

A Screen of Brightness

Christian Ward

Meredith Andrea & Fiona Owen

Poet three-times shortlisted for the Bridport Prize

Unique collaborative poetry project inspired by landscapes of North Wales and the West Midlands

In this debut collection from one of the UK’s rising stars in poetry, Christian Ward walks a razor-wire between humour and drama – confident yet subtle, familiar yet enigmatic.

On show throughout is a keen interest in everyday objects: turnips complain how hard it is ‘being dull’, while a scarecrow looks on wistfully at ‘cigarette tips and roasting chestnuts’. Elsewhere, the Tin Man and his lover are recurring characters, joining a cast that includes ‘The Real Red Riding Hood’, Houdini’s sister, and the other Helen of Troy.

Christian Ward was born in 1980, and lives in London. His poetry has appeared in Magma, Poetry Wales, The Warwick Review, Iota and Poetry Review. He won the 2010 East Riding Open Poetry Competition, and was shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award in 2009, the Bridport Prize in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and the 2012 Jane Martin Poetry Prize.

Valley Press » Paperback £7.50 » 978-1-908853-21-9 198x129mm » 70pp » Poetry (DCF) London

A Screen of Brightness started with a chance meeting, and a collaborative experiment in open field poetry.

Gradually a set of poems emerged, reaching across the green spaces of Wales and West England – the miles of fields, waterways, motorways, industrial towns and farmsteads that separate Meredith Andrea’s Birmingham and Fiona Owen’s Anglesey. Together the poets find extraordinary moments in the midst of the daily grind: ‘Let us say it is gratuitous / that this much colour is given / to the mundane, to the moment’ (‘Fuschia’).

Meredith Andrea lives in Birmingham, and is the author of two chapbooks: Grasshopper Inscriptions (2006) and Organon (2012). She has coedited the Flarestack Poets imprint since 2008. Fiona Owen lives on Anglesey.

Her other collections include Imagining the Full Hundred (2003) and Going Gentle (2007), and the pamphlet O My Swan (2003). She runs writing events at the Ucheldre Centre in Holyhead.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-84-4 216x140mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Wales & West Midlands

Fellinesque

Utter

Miranda’s Shadow

Andrea Bianchi

Vahni Capildeo

Kitty Fitzgerald

Recent success of Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris; novella features some of the early 20th-century’s greatest artists

UK poet featured in the Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse and Bloodaxe’s Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets

New short-story collection from author of Faber novel Pigtopia

Andrea Bianchi’s debut novella has all the qualities of his poetry: the sense of surprise, the sharp, intelligent wit, and a narrative poised between the unsettling, the dazzlingly comic and the visionary.

Inspired by the films of Federico Fellini, in Fellinesque he explores the places where reality and imagination meet, all through the eyes of one man, his memories and his dreams.

Utter displays all the vibrancy, originality and experimentalism that have come to define Vahni Capildeo’s work.

So we meet Lorenzo and the world he creates, god-like, yet cannot always control. We also meet Kafka, visit the French Revolution via a bad production of one of Luigi Pirandello’s comedies, discuss literature with Zelda Fitzgerald. Full of allusion, ambiguity and deception, Fellinesque has all the sensibility of Italo Calvino and the philosophical depth of Andrés Neuman.

“A fascinating read” Harri Pritchard Jones Andrea Bianchi was born in 1960 in Turin, where he still lives. A Corridor of Rain, his first collection of poems in English, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2011.

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Together her insights break down the boundaries between past and present, between the Caribbean and the global elsewhere, between the experienced world and the world of books. Much of what she finds is unjust, cruel and corrupt, but she also retains a sensuous eye for beauty, and moments of humour, tenderness and community.

Vahni Capildeo was born in Trinidad, and has lived in the UK since 1991.

Her previous poetry collections are No Traveller Returns (2003), Person Animal Figure (2005), Undraining Sea (Egg Box, 2009) and Dark & Unaccustomed Words (Egg Box, 2010). Her prose appears in Iain Sinclair’s London: City of Disappearances (Penguin, 2006) and Jeanne Mason and Lisa Allen-Agostini’s Trinidad Noir (2008). She lives in Oxford.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845232-13-9 206x135mm » 78pp » Poetry (DCF) Oxford

Best known for her novels, Kitty Fitzgerald is also an accomplished short-story writer. Miranda’s Shadow, her debut full collection, brings together a series of provocative, richly conceived stories that share the same dark, fabulous drama that saw her novel Pigtopia garner such grand acclaim.

Just what is Alice Noonan’s secret? And who is the strange wino with the voice of an angel? And why does nobody go in or out of the Faulkners’ house? These are tales of temptation, suspicion and murder – from savage fairies to the photographer who saw too much.

Kitty Fitzgerald was born in Ireland. Her short story ‘The Bones of St Ignatius’ won the Notes from the Underground/Latitude Festival Short Story Competition in 2009. Her fourth novel, Pigtopia, was published by Faber in 2006, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. Four of her plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Northumberland.

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Lifting the Piano with One Hand Gaia Holmes Previously published in the Times and the Forward Book of Poetry Gaia Holmes’s work delves beneath the urban and the everyday, to reveal a strange and exotic other-life. Her much anticipated second collection champions the point of view of the survivor, celebrating the indomitability of the poetic spirit, whilst measuring loss still felt against the new-found strength of starting afresh.

“There’s something in these poems that… draws me in to reading after reading. A splendid collection that will grow on you.”

Ian McMillan “Sassy and streetwise, dark and blue, these are poems that are high on words; full of rich imaginings and dislocated love affairs… Read them.”

Amanda Dalton Gaia Holmes was born in Luddenden, West Yorkshire. Her first collection, Dr James Graham’s Celestial Bed, was published by Comma Press in 2006.

Her poem ‘Claustrophobia’ was Highly Commended in 2007 Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem, and ‘A homesick truckie In The Algarve’ was a featured poem in the Times in the same year. She lives in Halifax.

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Blue Room

Black Lightning

John Kavanagh

Roger Mais

Third collection from winner of the Listowel Writers’ Week Poetry Award

Return to print for final novel of influential Jamaican author and nationalist

The poems in Blue Room traverse the features and landscapes of John Kavanagh’s homeland, the West of Ireland.

Part of Peepal Tree’s Caribbean Modern Classics series, Black Lightning is the third and final novel by Roger Mais, originally published in 1955, the year of his death. Set in the Jamaican countryside, it follows the story of Jack, a sculptor and blacksmith who idolises the biblical Samson as a figure of man’s independence. Setting out to carve a tribute to Samson in mahogany, Jack is soon beset by the break-up of his marriage, and a lightning strike that leaves him blind. What follows is a heart-rending tale of humanity, of finding one’s way, and of friendship in adversity.

Throughout his work, Kavanagh is drawn into personal reflection on impending crises in our culture, ecology and environment, the signs of which are all around him. This fear for the future is balanced against the transcendent possibilities of, and insights gained from, being the father of two young boys.

John Kavanagh is from Sligo. His previous collections are Etchings (1991) and Half-Day Warriors (1999), both published by Salmon Poetry. He is also a playwright, with five plays produced to date in Ireland and the US. His audiobook The Life and Works of WB Yeats won the Talkies Award for Best Poetry in the UK in 2002.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-29-8 210x134mm » 76pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland

Roger Mais was born in Kingston, Jamaica. His 1944 critique of Churchill’s imperialist ideology, Now We Know, saw him sentenced to six months in prison for sedition. His other novels are The Hills Were Joyful Together (1951), brought back into print by Peepal Tree in 2012, and Brother Man (1954). He was posthumously awarded the Order of Jamaica in 1978.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-845231-01-9 234x156mm » 164pp » Fiction (FA)

Air Histories Christopher Meredith Previous collection longlisted for Wales Book of the Year Christopher Meredith’s latest collection is filled with gorgeous, original depictions of the landscape of Wales, especially the Black Mountains near the author’s home.

Beginning in the Stone Age and ending in the future, well-known forms appear alongside vigorous experiments, all touching on the various histories, and human fallibilities, that shape our present lives.

“The defining feature of Christopher Meredith’s poetry is an exquisite, almost painful precision. But there is also beauty and a bright, selfdeprecating wit.”

Sarah Crown, The Guardian Christopher Meredith was born in Tredegar. His most recent poetry collection, The Meaning of Flight (Seren, 2005), was longlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2006. His novels, all published by Seren, are Griffri (1995), Shifts (1997), Sidereal Time (1998) and The Book of Idiots (2012). His many prizes include an Eric Gregory Award.

A former steelworker and schoolteacher, he now teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, and lives in Brecon.

Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-781720-74-5 » 216x138mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF) Wales

Red Devon Hilary Menos Winner of the 2010 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for Berg In the late 1990s, Hilary Menos made the unusual move from Camden Town to a Devon farmhouse, two miles from the nearest village. Over the next ten years, together with her husband and three sons, she turned the hundred acres into an organic farm, complete with herd of pedigree Red Devon cows. Red Devon reveals her experiences as a ‘blow in’ from upcountry, moving into a tight-knit rural community, and witnessing first-hand the conflict between farming tradition and modern commerce.

“Menos creates small worlds packed tight, seamless, masterfully compressed. Her poems have wit, range and strength; they are contemporary, varied and highly imaginative.”

Ruth Padel Hilary Menos was born in Luton in 1964. Her first collection, Berg (Seren, 2009), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2010.

She has won or placed in the National, Bridport and Mslexia Poetry Competitions, while Wheelbarrow Farm won the Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition in 2010. Another pamphlet, Extra Maths, was published by Smith Doorstop in 2006. Her work has appeared in BBC Wildlife magazine, and she has read at events alongside Seamus Heaney and Dannie Abse.

Seren » Paperback » £8.99 » 978-1-781720-54-7 » 216x138mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF) South West

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IN REALITY: Selected Poems Jean Portante translated by Zoe Skoulding Includes the poem ‘L’étrange langue’, winner of the 2003 Prix Mallarmé Continuing Seren’s Discoveries series of exceptional writing in translation, this new collection brings the selected poems of Jean Portante to an Englishspeaking audience for the first time.

A Night in Brooklyn D. Nurkse Shortlisted for 2011 Forward Prize for previous CB Editions collection, Voices Over Water D. Nurkse’s new collection is a love letter to a remembered Brooklyn – a place full of tenements, tool factories, dark bars and wild gardens.

There are memories of serving truckers at the Arnold Grill, ‘topping off drafts with a paddle’, or the deaf white alley cat surviving winter out on the stoop. Offset against this New York locale are moments of elsewhere – travel, riddles in French, fragments of songs from Andalucía – all bound by an awareness of time slipping away.

“D. Nurkse is an American poet ... relatively unknown to British readers. With ... Voices Over Water that looks set to change.”

Ben Wilkinson, Times Literary Supplement “Delicate, dreamlike lyrics” Dai George, Poetry Review “Gems of gravid simplicity” The New Yorker D. Nurkse has published nine previous books of poetry, most recently Voices Over Water (CB Editions, 2011), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

CB Editions » Paperback » £8.99 » 978-0-957326-64-4 198x129mm » 92pp » Poetry (DCF)

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As a Francophone Luxembourger of Italian descent, Portante’s poetry is often concerned with European politics, language, and questions of identity. This dual-language edition collects work from the last 20 years, including the title poem from his Prix Mallarmé-winning ‘L’étrange langue’.

Jean Portante has written more than 20 books, including collections of poems, short stories, plays, screenplays and novels. He is a founding member of the European Academy of Poetry and a member of International PEN France.

He was awarded Luxembourg’s national literary prize, the Batty Weber Prize, in 2011. Zoe Skoulding is the editor of Poetry Wales, and author of the Seren collections The Mirror Trade (2004), Remains of a Future City (2008) and The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (2013).

Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-781720-65-3 » 208x135mm 140pp » Poetry (DCF)

Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories

Museum of Disappearing Sounds

Peter Robinson

Zoe Skoulding

Debut short-story collection from Carcanet and Shearsman poet and editor

Poems published in anthologies from Seren, Bloodaxe, Shearsman and Salt

Better known for his award-winning poetry, here Peter Robinson turns his vividly perceptive gaze to the art of the short story. And as the title suggests, it is a truly globe-trotting collection.

In her new collection, Zoë Skoulding isolates the disappearing sounds in an ever noisier world, sounds that are ebbing away from both landscape and language itself. The results look closely into how ‘a sentence reverses itself between two pairs of eyes’, or ‘the distance drifted by a word shaken loose from border controls’.

We travel through the West of Ireland with a couple on the brink; we spy on the shadowy life of a Cold War warrior; we follow an Italian girl visiting her boyfriend in hospital. There is handto-hand fighting in a Soviet classroom, a girl’s suicide in Japan, and an investigation into a seemingly victimless crime.

Peter Robinson was born in Salford and grew up mainly in Liverpool. As a poet, he has won the Cheltenham Prize and the John Florio Prize; his books include Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2003) and The Returning Sky (Shearsman, 2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He is the editor of the Two Rivers Press anthologies A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens (2012) and Reading Poetry (2011). He teaches English and American Literature at the University of Reading.

Two Rivers Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-901677-93-5 210x135mm » 150pp » Fiction (FYB) Reading

Eery, uneasy and always teetering on the edge, the poems move between haunting interiors – including a fractured sonnet sequence on the coincidence of room numbers – to breathtaking natural vistas.

“Skoulding is bringing fresh ways of thinking, and of making poems, to Britain.”

Poetry London Zoë Skoulding’s previous collections include Remains of a Future City (2008) and The Mirror Trade (2004), both published by Seren. Her poems also appear in the anthologies Women’s Work (Seren, 2009), Identity Parade (Bloodaxe, 2010), Infinite Difference (Shearsman, 2010), The Ground Aslant (Shearsman, 2010) and Best British Poetry 2012 (Salt, 2012). She lives in north Wales, where she teaches at Bangor University and edits Poetry Wales magazine.

Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-781720-71-4 216x138mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF) North Wales

The Girl Who Lived on Air Stephen Wade Fascinating new study into one of the strangest true stories in Welsh history In 1869, Sarah Jacob caused a national furore as ‘the Welsh Fasting Girl’ – this was a girl who seemed to be living on air, having eaten nothing since her 12th birthday in mid-May. Sarah’s story was headline news; gifts and donations flooded the family home; nurses were sent from Guy’s Hospital. But after only a few weeks of medical supervision, Sarah died, and the shocking truth was revealed: that she had secretly been given food before the nurses arrived. Sarah’s parents were charged with murder, eventually convicted of manslaughter.

Was Sarah an anorexic at the centre of a lucrative scam, driven by a hungry media and her parents’ greed?

Examining the medical and legal issues surrounding Sarah’s case, Stephen Wade gives a haunting glimpse into the ways science, superstition and the cult of celebrity collided in the late 19th century.

Stephen Wade is the author of twenty books on crime and law in history, with a special interest in regional crime stories. He teaches History at the University of Hull.

Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-781720-68-4 » 216x138mm 180pp » True Life (BTP) Wales / Yorkshire

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Ma g az i n e s Acumen

Agenda

Banipal

January, May, September

April & September

March, June, November

“Well-produced and impressively wide-ranging” – Lawrence Sail www.acumen-poetry.co.uk

Published poets include Seamus Heaney, John Burnside & Brendan Kennelly www.agendapoetry.co.uk

Over 15 years of contemporary Arab authors in English translation www.banipal.co.uk

Envoi

The London Magazine

Poetry Wales

February, June, October

Six issues every year

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter

Now in its 54th year, published

by Cinnamon Press www.cinnamonpress.com/envoi

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“The London Magazine has remained eloquent, intelligent and engaging over three centuries” – Helen Dunmore

Former guest editors include Deryn Rees-Jones, Stephen Knight & Gwyneth Lewis

www.thelondonmagazine.org

www.poetrywales.co.uk

Ma g az i n e s

The North Published twice yearly “Excellent” – Carol Ann Duffy, The Guardian www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/north-menu

What’s new at MPT? 3 for 2 MPT will increase to three issues a year from Spring 2013.

The Rialto March, August, December “Truly gives poetry the time and space it deserves” – Simon Armitage www.therialto.co.uk

Each specially commissioned cover will feature a unique design by a contemporary artist. Issues will feature a special thread on one poetic culture or poet.

Look out for new translations of Toon Tellegen, Valerie Rouzeau and Elisa Biagini in 2013.

For the best of world poetry in the best translation www.mptmagazine.com

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POETRY Clueless Dogs

by Rhian Edwards

The Limerickiad II: Volume II – John Donne to Jane Austen

by Martin Rowson

Seren | Paperback | 72pp | £8.99 | 978-1-854115-73-7

Smokestack | Hardback | 124pp | £9.99 | 978-0-956814-49-4

[Shortlisted for 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection]

[Featured in the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday]

Above the Forests

by Ruth Bidgood

Adventures in Form

by Tom Chivers (ed)

Cinnamon | Paperback | 80pp £7.99 | 978-1-907090-66-0

Penned in the Margins Paperback | 192pp | £9.99 978-1-908058-01-0

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Animal Magic: Poems on a Disappearing World

by Liz Brownlee Iron | Paperback | 96pp £10.00 | 978-0-956572-53-0

Beyond the Sea

by Anne Fitzgerald Salmon | Paperback | 76pp £10.00 | 978-1-908836-20-5

POETRY

A Discoverie of Witches

by Blake Morrison

On This Side of the River: Selected Poems

by David Ferry

Smith Doorstop | Hardback | 84pp | £12.99 | 978-1-906613-60-0

Waywiser | Paperback | 248pp | £12.99 | 978-1-904130-52-9

[Previously published by Penguin, Faber, Granta & Vintage]

[Winner of 2012 National Book Award in the US]

Burying the Wren

by Deryn Rees-Jones Seren | Paperback | 72pp £8.99 | 978-1-854115-76-8

The Captain’s Tower: Poems for Bob Dylan at 70

by Phil Bowen et al (eds) Seren | Paperback | 132pp £9.99 | 978-1-854115-60-7

Collected Poems

by Macdara Woods

Mustard Tart as Lemon

by Ira Lightman

Dedalus | Paperback | 400pp £19.50 | 978-1-906614-64-5

Red Squirrel | Paperback 72pp | £6.99 978-1-906700-46-1

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POETRY Otherwhere

by Catherine Smith

Panther and Gazelle

by Paula Ludwig

Pro Eto – That’s What

by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Selected Poems

by John Fowles

Smith Doorstop | Paperback 64pp | £9.95 978-1-906613-76-1

Hearing Eye | Paperback 64pp | £8.50 978-1-905082-67-4

Arc | Hardback & Paperback 174 pages | £15.99 / £12.99 978-1-904614-31-9 (hb) 978-1-904614-31-9 (pb)

Flambard | Paperback 132pp | £12.00 978-1-906601-35-5

Some Things Matter: 63 Sonnets

by James Nash

The Songs of Man

by Mahmud Kianush

The Twelve Foot Neon Woman

by Loretta Collins Klobah

Valley | Paperback | 74pp £8.00 | 978-1-908853-04-2

Rockingham | Paperback 92pp | £9.99 978-1-904851-45-5

Peepal Tree | Paperback 102pp | £8.99 978-1-845231-84-2

UEA: 17 Poets 2012

by Nathan Hamilton, Rachel Hore (eds)

The Van Pool: Collected Poems

by Keidrych Rhys

Voices Over Water

by D. Nurkse

Seren | Paperback | 160pp £12.99 | 978-1-854115-82-9

CB Editions | Paperback 98pp | £7.99 978-0-956107-38-1

Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UK

by Russell Jones (ed)

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Penned in the Margins Paperback | 192pp | £9.99 978-1-908058-05-8

Egg Box | Paperback | 176pp £9.99 | 978-0-956928-94-8

White Sheets

by Beverley Bie Brahic CB Editions | Paperback 148pp | £7.99 978-0-956735-95-9

FICTION

Winston & Me

by Mark Woodburn

Girl in White

by Sue Hubbard

Valley | Paperback | 320pp | £12.00 | 978-1-908853-17-2

Cinnamon | Paperback | 270pp | £8.99 | 978-1-907090-68-4

[Historical novel set in World War I]

[Praised by Fay Weldon & John Berger]

Big Low Tide

by Candy Neubert

The Book of Idiots Christopher Meredith

Faith, Hope & Love

by Llwyd Owen

The Gospel of Us

by Owen Sheers

Seren | Paperback | 208pp £8.99 | 978-1-854115-83-6

Seren | Paperback | 220pp £8.99 | 978-1-854115-65-2

Y Lolfa | Paperback | 200pp £9.99 | 978-0-955527-27-2

Seren | Paperback | 200pp £8.99 | 978-1-854116-22-2

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FICTION Holophin

by Luke Kennard

The Last Hundred Days

by Patrick McGuinness

Penned in the Margins | Paperback | 112pp | £12.99 978-1-908058-06-5

[Man Booker Prize Longlist & Costa First Novel Shortlist 2011]

Seren | Paperback | 384pp | £8.99 | 978-1-854115-41-6

[“Fearless and hugely enjoyable”, The Telegraph]

The Hills Were Joyful Together

by Roger Mais Peepal Tree | Paperback 320pp | £12.99 978-1-845231-00-2

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Hold Me to an Island: An Anthology of Writing about Caribbean Place

by Kwame Dawes, Jeremy Poynting (eds) Peepal Tree | Paperback 320pp | £14.99 978-1-845231-63-7

Sardines & Oranges: Short Stories from North Africa

by Margaret Obank (ed) Banipal | Paperback | 222pp £8.99 | 978-0-954966-61-4

Stranded

by Val McDermid Flambard | Hardback & Paperback | 216pp £14.99 / £7.99 978-1-873226-74-2 (hb) 978-1-873226-74-2 (pb)

FICTION

This is Not a Novel

by David Markson

The Turing Test

by Chris Beckett

CB Editions | Paperback 174pp | £7.99 978-0-956107-33-6

Elastic | Paperback | 230pp £7.99 | 978-0-955318-18-4

UEA Creative Writing Anthology 2012

by Nathan Hamilton, Rachel Hore (eds) Egg Box | Paperback | 208pp £9.99 | 978-0-956928-93-1

What the Emperor Cannot Do: Tales & Legends of the Orient

by Vlas Doroshevich Glas | Paperback | 200pp £8.99 | 978-5-717200-94-3

New Stories from the Mabinogion (Seren)

Bird, Blood, Snow

See How They Run

The Prince’s Pen

The White Trail

9781854115898

9781854115904

9781854115522

9781854115515

The Meat Tree

The Dreams of Max and Ronnie

White Ravens

The Ninth Wave

9781854115232

9781854115027

9781854115034

9781854115140

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non-fiction Call Mother a Lonely Field

by Liam Carson

The Vagabond’s Breakfast

by Richard Gwyn

Seren | Paperback | 136pp | £8.99 | 978-1-854115-88-1

Y Lolfa | Paperback | 200pp | £9.99 | 978-0-956012-55-5

[Featured on Radio 4’s Midweek]

[Author of The Bookseller’s ‘novel of the year’ 2006]

Aspects of Heavyweight Boxing

by Ralph Oates

Gatecrashing Europe: Part One

by Kris Mole

Valley | Paperback | 180pp £9.50 | 978-1-908853-11-0

Valley | Paperback | 298pp £15.00 | 978-1-908853-16-5

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Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman

by John Morris

UEA Scriptwriting 2012

by Nathan Hamilton, Rachel Hore (eds)

Seren | Paperback | 220pp £9.99 | 978-1-854115-66-9

Egg Box | Paperback | 144pp £9.99 | 978-0-956928-95-5

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Fitzgerald, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Ludwig, Paula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Abse, Dannie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Fitzgerald, Kitty . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 47

Luther, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Allen, Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Fowles, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

M

Almond, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Forshaw, Cliff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Maguire, Muireann . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Andrea, Meredith . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Fortune, Rowan B . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Mais, Roger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 58

B

Fox, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Maldonado, Caroline . . . . . . . . . . 20

Babiashkina, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Furniss, Damian . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 55

Maris, Kathryn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Ballart, Pere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

G

Markson, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Beckett, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Gethin, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Mayakovsky, Vladimir . . . . . . . . . . 56

Bellosi, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Gibbons, Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

McCarrick, Jaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Berg, Aase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Gloag, Daphne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

McCormick, Jeri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Bervin, Jen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Gluzman, Yelena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

McDermid, Val . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Beynon, Byron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Göransson, Johannes . . . . . . . . . . . 28

McEvoy, Gill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Bianchi, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Griffin, Nicola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

McEwen, Todd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Bidgood, Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Griffiths, Niall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

McGuinness, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Blatný, Ivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Gwyn, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Medbh, Máighréad . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Booker, Malika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

H

Meehan, Paula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Bowen, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 55

Halstead, Jenny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Menos, Hilary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Brahic, Beverley Bie . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Hamilton, Nathan . . . . . . . 56, 59, 60

Meredith, Christopher . . . . . . 48, 57

Brownlee, Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Hanberry, Gerard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Milankova, Ivana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Burton, Marianne . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Harrold, AF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Millar DuMars, Susan . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Hedley Stoppard, Matthew . . . . . . 41

Miłobedzka, Krystyna . . . . . . . . . . 20

Capildeo, Vahni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Hofmann, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Mole, Kris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Carson, Liam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Hool, Ric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Morris, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Carville, Conor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Hore, Rachel . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 59, 60

Morrison, Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Chivers, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Howell, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Murray, Sai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Clare, Horatio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Hubbard, Sue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

N

Collins Klobah, Loretta . . . . . . . . . 56

J

Naffis-Sahely, André . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Constantine, Mary-Ann . . . . . . . . 30

James, Shani Rhys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Nash, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Cope, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Jones, Cynan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Neubert, Candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Creech, Morri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Jones, Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Nurkse, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 56

Crowe, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Jones, Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

O

Cunningham, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Jones, Russell Celyn . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Oates, Ralph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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Obank, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Dafydd, Fflur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Kavanagh, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Owen, Fiona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Davies, Caroline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Kelly, Rita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Owen, Llwyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 57

Dawes, Kwame . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 58

Kennard, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

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Deeley, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Kianush, Mahmud . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Petrovic, Zorica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Dixon, Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

King, Noel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Place, Vanessa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Doroshevich, Vlas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Klein, Wendy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Pollard, Velma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Dyer, Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Krampf, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Portante, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

E

Kravanja, Sonja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Poynting, Jeremy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Edwards, Rhian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

L

Prowle, Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Elliott, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Lahens, Yanick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Purvis, Meghan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Ely, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Layland, Alison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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Lewis, Gwyneth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Ragg, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Ferry, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Lightman, Ira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Ramcharitar, Raymond . . . . . . . . . 25

Fitterman, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Lucie-Smith, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Rees-Jones, Deryn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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