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Two Rivers Modern Poetry [Reading] in Translation Waywiser [Oxford] The Emma Press [Winnersh] Burning Eye Books [Bristol] Hogs Back Books [Guildford] Acumen [Brixham]

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MARTÍN ESPADA

“The Meaning of the Shovel is a book of poems about work, especially casual, lowpaid, manual work. People don’t work very much in contemporary British poetry, which is most usually about what we do when we are not at work. The narrow social basis of our literary culture routinely reduces work and working-class life to the melodrama of TV soaps and the comic caricatures of ASBO-land.

Martín Espada has previously published two books with Smokestack, Crucifixion in the Plaza des Armas (2008) and a selection of song-lyrics by Victor Jara, His Hands Were Gentle (2012). Martín is one of my favourite poets, whose work combines the rhetorical expansiveness of Whitman and the Latin American revolutionary tradition. He writes with an enviable conversational fluency that permits him to propose outrageously revolutionary ideas with such sweet reasonableness.”

PROFILE

Andy Croft, Smokestack Books

Smokestack Books aims to hold open a space for what is left of the English radical poetic tradition in the twenty-first century. Smokestack champions poets who are unfashionable, radical, left-field or working a long way from the metropolitan centres of cultural authority.

We asked Puerto Rican poet and academic Loretta Collins Klobah to ask Martín Espada a few questions about his latest book. Loretta’s most recent collection The Twelve Foot Neon Woman (Peepal Tree Press) was been shortlisted for the Best First Collection in the Forward Poetry Prize 2012.

LCK: Your new poetry collection gathers together several poems that focus in one way or another on the experience and meanings of work. Why has writing about work been important to you as a poet?

ME: William Faulkner wrote: “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” Faulkner was referring to the critical importance of work in our daily lives. So why don’t we read more poems about work? Why has mainstream poetry ignored the subject of work?

Writing about work - and thus, writing about class - is to write about power relationships as they really are, and so to write about how this system actually functions. There is a contrast between the official and unofficial story, between authorized language and unauthorized language. Poems about work tell dirty secrets. You write for those who do not know, and those who do. You bear witness. You make the invisible visible.

LCK: How has your own personal work history influenced your poetry?

ME: I was not in the business of collecting colorful anecdotes; when I took a job, I was always in need of a job.

Working was better than not working.

Since laborers are invisible in many eyes, valued only for what their hands can do, people say and do things in front of them which reveal true motivations, unspoken bigotries.

This invisibility has been a blessing for me. As a poet-spy, I not only saw and heard, but saw and heard differently from the people around me. As I pumped gas, no one was aware that I would write a poem about the intoxicated hearse driver who asked me directions. As I hosed down cages coated with monkey shit, no one could predict that I would write a poem called, ‘Do Not Put Dead Monkeys in the Freezer.’ The drunk I punched in the head as a bouncer, breaking my finger, certainly didn’t anticipate I would write a poem about him.

LCK: As a tenant lawyer, you advocated for clients. Can the poet speak for another or give voice to the allegedly voiceless? What does voicelessness of the subject mean in terms of the legal system versus the literary world?

ME: I am an advocate when I write poems speaking on behalf of those without an opportunity to be heard, for one of the curses of segregation and subordination by class is the imposition of silence. The poems seek to release a voice caught in the collective throat. Eduardo Galeano has written, “I write for those who cannot read me.” These are the human beings who, in the words of Wolfgang Binder, “run the risk of leaving this earth unrecorded.” To know that a cockroach may become embedded in a child’s ear is to accept responsibility for that knowledge, to communicate that knowledge for the sake of those who do not know, and those who do. How could I know what I know, and not tell what I know?

LCK: In this ‘poemario’ there are fewer Spanish phrases than usual for a recent Espada collection, but a glossary is included for monolingual readers. What does a writer gain from being multilingual? Are there tensions for you as you move between languages and cultures?

ME: I am a Puerto Rican born in New York, which is, in fact, the largest Puerto Rican city in the world, given that there are more Puerto Ricans in New York than in San Juan. This accident of birth explains why I write in English, though Spanish is a constant presence in the poems.

Sometimes Spanish provides the key word or phrase in a poem. Sometimes the Spanish makes a political point.

Sometimes Spanish provides the rhythm, the refrain, the crescendo of the poem. ‘Alabanza’ would be a good example of all these Spanish rhetorical devices at work at once, in the same poem, with the strategic use of a single word: the word for praise, applied to a doomed group of immigrant restaurant workers atop an office building on 9/11. I don’t know if there are fewer Spanish phrases in the collection than in others; I do know that, sometimes, less is more.

LCK: What is, for you, the relationship between ‘work’, the working-classes, immigrant experience, anti-colonial struggle and poetry-making?

ME: This sense of never quite being at home, of not truly belonging anywhere, produces a friction that sets off the sparks of poetry. If I am always at the margins, then I am by necessity the observer; if I am always on the outside, then I am by definition independent; if I am never anchored to one place, then I am free to wander; if I am never blinded by loyalty, then I am free to speak the truth as I see it.

For more on The Meaning of the Shovel see page 25

We are proud to say that this edition of the Inpress Catalogue contains not one, but two, new books from a rising star of the poetry world, Kelley Swain.

Born in Rhode Island in 1985 she is the author of Darwin’s Microscope (Flambard Press, 2009), Opera di Cera (Valley Press, 2014), editor of The Rules of Form: Sonnets and Slide Rules (Whipple Museum, 2012) and Pocket Horizon (with Don Paterson: Valley Press, 2013). She is a freelance writer and educator in poetry, science, and the Medical Humanities, currently working on a historical novel based on the life of the famous astronomer Caroline Herschel. She lives in London.

Despite her current prolific streak, we managed to catch up with her and ask a few questions.

KellEy Swain Opera di Cera or Atlantic?

I’m cheating to say both, of course, but they are so different.

It depends on what you’d like to read. Opera di Cera is a sustained narrative, written like a book of individual poems, but in fact telling a story through a series of monologues. It’s a whole dramatic piece, but also a book of poetry. Atlantic, on the other hand, whilst also a book of poetry and also themed, is more loosely interlinked, and much more personal – it’s what I call my first ‘regular’ collection of poetry, rather than a history-of-science themed work, like my first collection Darwin’s Microscope and like Opera.

Poetry or Prose?

So far, I’d say poetry. My novel, Double the Stars, took about seven years to write, and was an entirely different process from my poetry. It was a joy and a struggle, whereas the poetry rarely feels like a struggle. Whilst I feel the prose in the novel is poetic, the dialogue and narrative arc have taken a long time to work out, and in the meantime, I’ve written about two and a half books of poetry – so I’ll always call myself a poet first. It’ll be up to my readers to say which they prefer!

Science or Literature?

PROFILE

Science and Literature. I’ve been writing and teaching about the interplay of the two since 2007, and hope to continue along this path. It’s exhausting to continually have to say things like, ‘science and poetry may not seem to go together, but…’ because to me, they have always gone together. One inspires the other, and ‘a scientist’ has to be as creative and passionate as ‘an artist’. A person can often be both. Countless examples, from Nabokov, a novelist and lepidopterist, to Dannie Abse, a doctor and poet, break apart this false divide. This is probably

why I love working on subjects from the 1700s and 1800s, during the ‘Age of Wonder’ (that Richard Holmes writes so beautifully about) – before all of these fields were subject to false divisions.

Rhode Island or London?

Rhode Island, the Ocean State is the perfect place to visit on holiday, and my immediate family and family history are strongly rooted there, so I will always love it as home.

However, it’s a delight for London to be my other home now, and it’s where I can enjoy the literary and academic communities in which I thrive. There’s something endlessly romantic about living in London, England, for this New Englander.

Fact or Fantasy?

Fact is most often my starting point, but after a good dose of research, I usually allow myself to break into fantasy.

Opera di Cera, for example, began when I was intrigued by a reference in a paper presented at a conference, and led me to the historian Dr Anna Marker, who generously shared her research with me. After about a year in library archives, I began incorporating ideas from literature, including Pygmalion, Frankenstein, and Eugene Onegin – this is where passion took over from research, and why I couldn’t write the story as anything but poetry. Double the Stars is rooted in years of research on the Herschel family, with layers of imagination about what Caroline Herschel might really have been like, and the context in which she fit in Georgian and Regency society.

Valley Press, based in Scarborough, has been in operation for just five years but has published more than fifty books.

Apologia A drowned corpse is often rigid

You bring violence and myrrh,

Victim’s face is often livid

gifts of passion that lack

Blue be the nails and blue the lips

a middle name. We have

Jaw and joints are frequently stiff

travelled far. Coming home

Froth; water; blood; urine; fluid.

to this, our new, old island,

I am haunted by this image,

land of rain, of mist.

Her skin: my soul – both seem frigid.

Do I question why we do this?

Forgive, forgive.

To once have heard this voice ringing To think that she was once living!

That someone loved this face, these hips; I look upon one who is missed: Sighs, perfume, and laughter flinging – Forgive, forgive.

Taken from Opera di Cera For more on Opera di Cera see page 15

This rage of love born from unhappy time. Solitude, our catalyst. Why we need an arm’s-length, even when tangled as one. Why each overripe persimmon carries no surprise. How the holy incense intoxicates, then burns.

My exile has proven this: My body needs your love to live.

My hand, freedom, to write.

From Atlantic forthcoming May 2014 from Cinnamon Press For more on Atlantic see page 46

The lives of congenial American fly-fisherman Billy and his younger sister Alice meander alongside the Susquehanna River in this offbeat coming-of-age novel of death, madness, and fishing by debut author Karen Fielding.

American Sycamore PROFILE

What starts out as a frolic of losers and drifters along the American riverscape flows into something more sinister when twelve-year-old Billy Sycamore encounters a stranger in the woods, while Alice is left to deal with the fall-out. In the spirit of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America and idiosyncratic like a George Saunders story, American Sycamore is a funny and fractious narrative about growing up in a small town in northeast America, with not a lot to do, but a whole lot to worry about.

Let’s take a look inside…

Seren are international in authorship and readership though their roots remain in Wales (seren = star in Welsh) where they aim to prove that writers from a small country with an intricate culture have a worldwide relevance.

fabrication to impress Billy because Billy was most handsome: eyes the colour of river algae, and black lashes like the long, evening shadows in a mountain stream. His dusky blond hair grew into a wild curly haze. He had a smile that was infectious but uneven; when he turned fourteen he removed his braces with a wrench.

On his fifteenth birthday the twins gave Billy a lighter. Well-polished brass with a flintlock and tiny wheel.

Billy said they shoplifted it.

Billy Sycamore wore a vest with twenty-seven pockets. It was regulation khaki and he kept all sorts of things in there: a can of Pepsi, a .38 caliber pistol, his math homework. He had saved up a lot of birthday money to buy the gun.

The Terry twins, identical fairhaired sisters who would grow into the well-earned titles ‘Herpes I’ and ‘Herpes II’, liked to hang out by the river. They tried to seem adept at bait and tackle. They tried to seem knowledgeable about the fathead minnow and the rainbow smelt. They did all of this fishing

Billy liked the sisters and he liked the lighter. He said he’d keep it in one of his pockets should he ever have to face a firing squad.

There are no firing squads in south central Pennsylvania, so Billy and I used the lighter to set off firecrackers in the field behind our house instead.

A great whirl of flame, wheat, and scorched summer grass rose into the sky. The blowback caught the edge of his T-shirt forcing him to the ground to roll over the crickets and grasshoppers and wild strawberries beneath him. But he liked to spend the majority of his time fishing. Not because the twins sat either side of him – mostly without their clothes on – but because the waist-deep

waters of Yellow Breeches Creek and the cool, fast-flowing current tugged at his heart and fishing line.

Billy stood barefoot in the cold mountain stream. He’d dead-drift a white belly sculpin or dry-fly fish using woolly buggers. Now and then he used Wonder bread and Velveeta cheese. He did a lot of dry-fly fishing in late summer when the trout feed on the surface of the creek. He fished the upper end of the creek where the stream narrowed to twenty feet in places, until the river changed again. When it flowed eastward it widened and took a shot of cold water from Boiling Springs Lake.

For more on American Sycamore see page 30

Two Rivers Press T wo R i v e r s P r e s s c e l e b r at e s i t s 2 0 t h A n n i v e r s a ry i n 2 014 . The brainchild of Peter Hay (1951-2003), one of the town’s most creative champions, the press grew out of his delight in this under-loved town. ‘Pete believed in Reading, and his enthusiastic publication of local books can be seen as part of a quiet campaign that a number of us have been waging for years – to prove that the town exists, lives, happens, and is by no means to be confused with Anywhere.’ Adam Sowan.

In an exhibition at Reading Museum in 2004 to celebrate 10 years of Two Rivers, an accompanying book called Charms against Jackals explained the press’s origins: “There was at that time (1990) a battle royal in progress to save the riverside from road-builders. In the guise of local historian, I had produced a microhistory of the free place where Thames and Kennet meet, fuel for the fires of some public enquiry. Pete saw it as the basis of a book and transformed my humdrum prose into a thing of beauty: Where Two Rivers Meet. And so the press was born. The book, together with an army of rebels and residents who campaigned vigorously and effectively, wriggled through a maze of legal loopholes to ultimate victory: the Cross Town Route was one road that was never built.” Adam Stout

Two decades of publishing and over 100 titles since its inception, Two Rivers Press has been described as ‘one of the most characterful small presses in the country.’

A significant part of its work explores and celebrates local history and environment such as Bikes, Balls and Biscuitmen: Our sporting heritage, and All Change at Reading: The railway and the station 1840-2013. Bold illustration and striking design are important elements of its work, used to great effect in new editions of classic poems, especially ones with some Reading connection: for example, Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and in collections of contemporary poetry from resident poets such as Reading Poetry: an anthology edited by Peter Robinson.

The Press is strongly rooted in the local community and has close links with the University, Poets’ Café, Reading Museum and other local groups. Its contribution to Reading’s culture won for it a Pride of Reading award in 2008.

PROFILE

“Two Rivers Press says something about Reading that is unexpected. I love the detailing of their books; the artists and writers they work with have a very distinctive style. It is a real treat to have a Two Rivers Press book. They feel like little works of art in your hand.” Suzanne Stallard.

“In Reading gaol by Reading town / There is a pit of shame, / And in it lies a wretched man / Eaten by teeth of flame, / In a burning winding-sheet he lies, / And his grave has got no name.”

Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Reading’s own Publisher

E l e v e n Ro o m s

by C l a i r e Dy e r “There’s a clarity about Claire Dyer’s poems that makes them immediately attractive...” – Andrew Motion 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; and what death takes from us. Together the poems tell of an intimate quest for equilibrium in a world constantly tilting, but also a celebration of the journey and the adventures it brings.

Paperback | £7.95 | 9781901677911 210x135mm | 64pp | April 2013 Poetry (DCF)

C at J e o f f ry by C h r i s t o p h e r S m a rt “... the greatest English poet between Pope and Wordsworth.”

– Donald Davie Cat Jeoffry is a self-contained passage from Christopher Smart’s much longer work Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb), and one of the most famous pieces of poetry ever written about a cat. This new edition retains the original Peter Hay illustrations, using his rubber stamps and linocuts, and adds Tom Woodman’s informative commentary to place Cat Jeoffry in the context of Smart’s life and works.

Paperback | £7.95 | 9781901677744 216x138mm | 48pp | 28 b&w ill.

October 2011 | Poetry (DCF)

Believ ing in R e a di n g by Ada m S owa n Reading has many places of worship, serving a number of faiths. This book profiles the ten most interesting, both historically and architecturally, inside and out: including the three medieval parish churches; Greyfriars; Roman Catholic St James’s; and the Friends’ Meeting House, where prominent Quakers Huntley and Palmer are buried. Further chapters cover the rise of other faiths, some of which worship in former Christian buildings.

Together the book embraces a variety of architectural styles: medieval gothic, classical, Victorian neo-gothic and neo-Norman, Moorish-Byzantine and Islamic, plus the work of architects like Waterhouse, Bodley and Comper.

Paperback | £10.00 | 9781901677843 215x136mm | 82pp | 30 b&w ill.

October 2012 | Architecture / Religion (AMN / HRAC)

JANUARY My Stepmother Tried to Kill Me Thommie Gillow Chick-lit poetry from the single mum touted as the Helen Fielding of verse.

My Stepmother Tried to Kill Me is to poetry what Bridget Jones’s Diary is to fiction. Thommie Gillow tells the truth about modern womanhood.

Boyfriends are frequently disastrous, motherhood plays havoc with your body, your stepmother most probably does want to kill you and it is hard to know when you start to go grey in your thirties whether dying your hair is vain or an anti-feminist betrayal.

Thommie Gillow spent her early years in Bath where she discovered a love of poetry, but it was not until her family relocated to the North East that Thommie grew old enough to have her heart broken by many of the men who have influenced the poetry in this book. She lived and worked in several countries before settling down to become an English lecturer back in the South West. A single mum to one daughter, Thommie has a Masters in Creative Writing from Cardiff University and has twice been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize

Burning Eye Books » Paperback £10.00 » 9781909136250 » 129 x 198mm » 84pp » Poetry (DCF) JANUARY

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The Emmores Richard O’Brien A fascinating pamphlet of love poems all themed around the poet’s single object of desire.

In this beautifully illustrated collection, Richard O’Brien deploys every trick in the love poet’s book, resulting in an irresistible mix of tender odes, introspective sonnets, exuberant free verse and anthems of sexual persuasion. The poems plunge from ecstasy into melancholy from couplet to couplet, and the book as a whole stands as a defiant sally against the pressures of long-distance relationships. Loosely inspired by the Roman poet Ovid’s Amores.

Lincolnshire poet Richard O’Brien’s first pamphlet, your own devices, was published by tall-lighthouse press in 2011, as part of the Pilot series for British and Irish poets under 30. His work has since featured in Poetry London, the Erotic Review, The Salt Book of Younger Poets and The Best British Poetry 2013. His blog, The Scallop-Shell, is dedicated to the close reading of contemporary poetry and he recently performed his poems at the BBC Proms Lates. His second full pamphlet, A Bloody Mess, was published by Ink Lines (an imprint of Valley Press.)

The Emma Press » Paperback » £5.00 9780957459649 » 110x178mm » 36pp Poetry (DCF)

In Place of Fear II: A Socialist Programme for an Independent Scotland Jim Sillars A manifesto for an Independent Scotland.

Jim Sillars, then the MP for South Ayrshire came to prominence in 1976 when he split from the Labour Party and set up the Scottish Labour Party. Following the demise of his party in the early eighties, he joined the Scottish National Party and was instrumental in shifting the SNP to the left. In the nineties he became a political activist outside the parties, contributing ideas to the debate about devolution and then independence.

Free from political jargon and ideological posturing, he provides the pragmatic case for a different kind of Scotland. The title, In Place of Fear II, revives the title for Nye Bevan’s book, published in 1952 and considered “the most widely read socialist book” of the period.

Jim Sillars, born in 1937, followed his father into work on the railways before joining the Royal Navy. When he later joined the Fire Brigade, he started his political career. Active in the Fire Brigades Union and the Scottish Trade Union Congress, he became the Labour MP for South Ayrshire in 1970 and worked tirelessly for the establishment of a Scottish Assembly.

Vagabond Voices » Paperback » £4.95 9781908251305 » 198x130mm Politics and government (JP)

Opera di Cera Kelley Swain “Swain compels us to agree that history and science are actually much the richer for the intimately personal dimension we usually, mistakenly, suppress.”

Heidi Kunz Travel back to 18th century Florence, where the Museum of Physics and Natural History is creating its most famous waxwork, the anatomical Venus: a life-sized female figure who comes apart to reveal a foetus in the womb.

Opera di Cera combines Pygmalion myth and historical research to create a macabre romance that ends in triumph and tragedy. Immerse yourself in a sensual underworld of bodysnatching, dissection, bondage and greed, following the deformed porter, Cintio, on his rounds, while he collects body parts from the local orphanage and hospital for the wax workshop. If there is a niche for verse dramas aimed at those interested in medical history, this book is probably the only contender...

Kelley Swain was born in Rhode Island, 1985. She is the author of Darwin’s Microscope (Flambard Press), Atlantic (Cinnamon Press), editor of The Rules of Form: Sonnets and Slide Rules (Whipple Museum) and Pocket Horizon (Valley Press).

She is a freelance writer and educator in poetry, science, and the Medical Humanities. She lives in London. Find her on Twitter @thenakedmuse.

Valley Press » Paperback » £8.99 9781908853363 » 198x129mm » 72pp Poetry (DCF)

A Poetic Primer for Love and Seduction: Naso Was My Tutor ed. Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright A beautiful book which is a perfect Valentine’s Day gift.

An anthology of instructional poems by modern poets dispensing advice on love, seduction, relationships and heartbreak. Produced to look like an old-fashioned schoolbook, complete with diagrams, the Poetic Guide professes to help while offering a combination of stonecold wisdom and highly dubious romantic advice.

The strong concept coupled with the current vogue for revivals of Ovid’s work gives this both literary and popular appeal.

With poems from Jo Brandon, John Canfield, Jade Cuttle, Amy Key, Anja Konig, Cheryl Moskowitz, Abigail Parry, Rachel Piercey, Richard O’Brien, Christopher Reid, Jacqueline Saphra and Liane Strauss.

The Emma Press » Paperback » £10.00 » 9780957459632 184x123mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Minorities Not Minority 3: Poets From Friuli edited by Anna Bogaro The third in this unique series presents parallel texts in Friulian and English from an extensive range of poets.

The translation of the anthology Poets from Friuli is part of a larger and innovative project conceived by the translators to present, “Italian authors who do not speak/write/dream only in Italian but in regional languages, to reach the world in English.”

The Friulian poets featured in this anthology are part of a long and wellestablished tradition in the panorama of literature in dialect that continues today.

Spanning the late nineteenth century to contemporary writers and including poems by the renowned film-maker, Pasolini.

Anna Bogaro is a researcher, teacher, journalist and political activist. She has researched extensively in Italian minority languages and teaches the literature and history of Friulian at the University of Udine.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback » £8.99 9781909077133 » 216x140mm 112pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Thinking Once A Week

The Wolf Inside

Colin Stewart Jones

Donald Gardner

A unique and attractive collection of haikus from the artist Colin Stewart Jones.

“He is at his best on the darker side – poems of social comment, verging on satire, ruefully contemplating the life of the aging poet.”

Naomi Foyle

This beautiful miniature book mixes both traditional and 21st century haiku as the poet leads us through a year in his life, week by week through poems that span the natural world, the seasons, the trappings of city life and personal relationships. This is the latest in the Iron Press haiku series and as usual is printed on high quality textured paper and presented in the distinctive A7 format.

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

George Bernard Shaw Colin Stewart Jones is an artist first – then a writer. He paints with whatever materials he has to hand, mainly household paint and recycled materials. He sometimes makes sculptural assemblage pieces with discarded objects he finds in skips or on the street. Likewise, Colin takes what he finds from his daily life to produce short image-based poetry, utilising the haiku style.

Iron Press » Paperback » £5.00 9780957503229 » 105x74mm » 60pp Poetry (DCF)

Inner self and outer world are inextricable in these poems, while dreams become the new realism.

In one poem the narrator survives his own death and visits the office where he spent his days; in another the apparatus of literary criticism is directed away from the poetry and levelled at the poet instead. While the dominant mode of these poems is dark comedy, Gardner’s work also sometimes has a lyrical charm or displays a concern for the future of our prematurely aging planet.

“Be prepared for a bountiful ride – goodwill and sharp humour, sweetness and melancholy.”

Jane Draycott Donald Gardner has been writing poetry since 1963, giving readings in London, New York and Amsterdam.

He has lived out of England much of his life, moving to Holland in 1979, where he works as a freelance translator. Recent collections include How to Get the Most out of your Jet Lag (Ye Olde Font Shoppe) and The Glittering Sea (Hearing Eye.) At present he divides his time between Amsterdam and Kildare.

Hearing Eye » Paperback » £8.00 9781905082711 » 148x210mm » 60pp Poetry (DCF)

Grown Up

I Live I See

Scott Tyrrell

Vsevolod Nekrasov

The eagerly anticipated new collection from critically acclaimed, multi award winning Newcastle based performance poet, Scott Tyrrell.

I Live I See presents a comprehensive survey of the work of Vsevolod Nekrasov (1934-1999), the Soviet literary underground’s foremost minimalist.

“Scott’s poetry is as funny as the finest stand up comedy with razor sharp punch lines that hit in just the right places. But it also has heart. The full warmth of life and love are in this book and it is a guaranteed cheering up tonic for those who love poetry and those who think they don’t but just haven’t had the good fortune to encounter Scott’s clever, down to earth wit and word wonder. One of the best stand up poets in the country live, but even if you haven’t seen him perform (do), this book sings out from the page with a magical music all of it’s own.”

Kate Fox Originally from South Shields, Scott Tyrrell is a multiple national Poetry Slam winner and award-winning comedian. A founder member of the Poetry Vandals, he has performed his work in Europe, at Glastonbury, on BBC Radio 4, Sky Atlantic, ITV, on a bus, on a plane and Stratford East Tube Station during rush hour.

Red Squirrel Press » Paperback » £7.99 9781906700768 » 216x138mm » 68pp Poetry (DCF)

Exploring urban, rural, and purely linguistic environs with an economy of lyrical means and a dark sense of humour I Live I See is a testament to Nekrasov’s lifelong conviction that art can not only withstand, but undermine oppression. This is the first collection of Nekrasov’s work in English translation.

Vsevolod Nekrasov (1934-2009), a lifelong resident of Moscow, became active in the literary and artistic underground in the late 1950s. Nekrasov’s poetry, which is often characterized as minimalist, uses repetition and paranomasia to deconstruct and recontextualize his linguistic environment—he targets everything from stock Soviet political mottos to clichés people mutter to one another in everyday situations.

When not overtly political, his poems examine this same tension between ‘outward speech’ and ‘inward speech,’ that is, between the language we use when talking to others and talking to ourselves.

Ugly Duckling Presse » Paperback £12.00 » 9781933254982 » 576pp Poetry (DCF)

Watching My Hands At Work – A Festschrift for Adrian Frazier ed. Eva Bourke, Megan Buckley & Louis de Paor A collection to honour and celebrate the invaluable contribution Adrian Frazier has made to education and the arts in Galway.

It is now more than twelve years since Adrian Frazier arrived from the United States to teach in the English Department in NUI Galway at the height of a distinguished and varied career as a literary scholar whose fields of research and expertise lie in the area of nineteenth and twentieth century Irish prose, poetry, drama and cultural history.

This Festschrift, Watching My Hands at Work, consists of poems, short stories, essays and extracts from novels and plays written by graduates of the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies and the MA in Writing, by tutors teaching in the programs over the years and by practitioners of the art from inside and outside Ireland who came to speak of their own personal experiences of writing and publishing to the participants.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback » £12.00 9781908836540 » 215x140mm » 200pp Poetry (DCF) / Short Fiction (FYB)

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Zinger

Lit from Below

Alan Jude Moore

Terence Winch

zing ·er noun n. Informal 1. A witty, often caustic remark or comeback.

2. A sudden shock, revelation, or turn of events.

A unique collection of ten line poems.

From rows of umbrellas on an Italian beach to lines of commuters in the rain in Dublin, from the ghost of Apollinaire in the Moscow underground to a snow bound truck-stop in Pennsylvania, Alan Jude Moore’s fourth collection, is marked by a vision of the world as a cosmopolitan place and not just a globalized one. Zinger takes the reader through landscapes pockmarked by crisis and loss but ultimately resilient and alive with the hope people keep in each other.

Alan Jude Moore is from Dublin.

His work has been widely published in Ireland, UK and USA as well as in translation in French, Italian, Russian & Turkish. His three previous collections of poetry, Black State Cars (2004), Lost Republics (2008) and Strasbourg (2010) are also published

by Salmon Poetry.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback » £10.00 9781908836359 » 210x134mm » 98pp Poetry (DCF) JANUARY

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The writing of the poems in Lit from Below began in the early ’90s when Ray DiPalma, invited Terence Winch to contribute a chapbook to a series DiPalma was then publishing. Winch wrote ten ten-line poems, liked writing them, and kept at it long after the publication came out. Since then, many of the subsequent poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals. These poems became an on-going writing project.

Winch says that “the confines of a ten-line block make the poems feel like little word-houses in which many different approaches—from narrative, to surreal, to autotelic—may reside, alone or together. The structure also encouraged a definite economy, a terseness, which I think makes them more compact and faster than my fourdoor, luxury model poems.”

Terence Winch has published five earlier books of poems—Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor, Boy Drinkers, The Drift of Things, Irish Musicians/American Friends, which won an American Book Award, and The Great Indoors, which won the Columbia Book Award. He has also published a book of short stories called Contenders and numerous chapbooks.

His work has appeared in more than 30 anthologies, including The Oxford Book of American Poetry (2006).

Salmon Poetry » Paperback » £10.00 9781908836496 » 210x134mm 104pp » Poetry (DCF)

Over the Edge: The First Ten Years ed. Susan Millar DuMars In the 10 years of Over the Edge, Kevin and Susan have become sort of literary godparents to a host of Galway writers.

Over the past 10 years, Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins have established the Over the Edge readings not only as the main regular literary event in Galway but also as one of the leading venues in Ireland to hear new writers read their work.

The boon provided to emerging writers by this opportunity should not be underestimated. That many of the names in this anthology are instantly recognisable to anyone who has even a passing interest in contemporary Irish literature is testament to that.

“This anthology represents another milestone for Over the Edge and it probably won’t be the last. Along with everything else, they are to be applauded for their endeavour, perseverance and patience. The habitual hospitality that has greeted us all over the years, whether on cold Atlantic nights or sunny afternoons, battling the odours of obscure cheese in Sheridan’s or in the more serene environment of the City Museum, now awaits the next 10 years’ worth of poets, novelists and performers who venture west and Over the Edge.”

Alan Jude Moore

Salmon Poetry » Paperback » £12.00 9781908836533 » 215x140mm 150pp » Poetry (DCF) / Short Fiction (FYB)

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M.emoire

Alternative Beach Sports

The Absent Therapist

Augustus Young

Michelle Madsen

Will Eaves

‘Gertrude Stein was her own baby. And so am I. If you are nice to me, I’ll be quite good. Nice means giving in to me. Don’t be alarmed. My demands will be reasonable, in a baby sort of way. The main thing is no matter what I do, it must be taken for granted. Then we will be happy.’

Michelle Madsen is a shining example of a generation of young poets who have learnt their craft by performing live.

“Eaves succeeds triumphantly. Economy is essential, and he does economy with great style, establishing people and situations with cameo scenes and sharp dialogue.”

Penelope Lively.

This is how the poet Augustus Young was proposed to by his wife-to-be, Margaret McKinnon Morrison. It was, as Young says, “a marriage with a difference.” She was a red-headed Scottish Presbyterian with three Ph.Ds who never called herself Doctor and rode a huge motorbike.

The poems collected here show a flair for structure and technique that only serves to strengthen work written first and foremost with the microphone in mind. From wild romance to dark satire Michelle’s poetry contemplates love, lust, physics, politics, identity and gastronomic oddities.

In 2012, after forty years of marriage, Margaret died in the south of France in the town of Port Vendres where she had set up the Charles Rennie MacIntosh Association. M.emoire is a witty and touching memorial in prose and poetry to a remarkable woman.

Augustus Young was born in Cork, Ireland. He has numerous volumes of poetry and prose to his name and regularly features in periodicals and anthologies.

Menard Press » Paperback » £10.00 9781874320616 » 130x210mm » 60pp Memoir (BM)

If you only encountered her poetry on the page however, you would have no idea that the term “performance poet” could apply.

Michelle Madsen is a poet and business journalist. The founder and host of Hammer and Tongue London, part of the UK’s largest slam poetry network. Michelle has featured on stages as far afield as San Francisco, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Aarhus and performed at Latitude, the Secret Garden Party, Bestival and Glastonbury. In 2012 and 13 she took her successful poetry-panel show I’m Sorry I Haven’t Haiku to the Edinburgh Festival.

Burning Eye Books » Paperback » £8.99 9781909136212 » 129x198mm » 72pp Poetry (DCF)

“The Absent Therapist is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and meander.

These are gripping narratives, with intriguing shifts of register, but they are also technically experimental and daring. Each sentence is weighed, poised. The intelligence with which Will Eaves handles language is modest and rare. The absent therapist is the listening reader to whom this compelling book is a fabulous gift.”

Patricia Dunker.

“The Absent Therapist is a miniature but infinite novel, and unlike anything I’ve read before. It’s just achingly good.”

Luke Kennard.

Will Eaves is the author of three novels (most recently, This Is Paradise, Picador) and a collection of poetry (Sound Houses, Carcanet.) He was Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1995 to 2011, and now teaches at Warwick University.

CB Editions » Paperback » £8.99 9781909585003 » 198x129m » 122pp Fiction (FA)

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Love and Eskimo Snow Sarah Holt Love – noun, verb, loved, loving 1. a strong feeling of affection 2. a strong feeling of affection and sexual attraction for someone But that’s not Missy’s experience of love. For her, affection and passion play second fiddle to commitment and pledges. It’s not Elizabeth’s sense of the word, either. She’s got it pegged as intimacy and confidences. Then there’s Claire, for whom love is bed.

Things To Make and Break May-Lan Tan A motorcycle courier finds a cache of nude photos in her boyfriend’s desk. The daughter of East German emigrants encounters her doppelgänger, who has crossed another cultural divide. Twin brothers fall for the same girl. When a stripper receives an enigmatic proposal from a client, she accepts, ignorant of its terms.

Shadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory stories. The language is hypnotic, deadpan, intense; the sentences jewel-hard and sublime. This marks the debut of a stylish, exuberant new voice in modern fiction.

Extracts from this book were previously featured in ‘Zoetrope: AllStory’, Francis Ford Coppola’s quarterly magazine devoted to the best new short fiction and Gordon Lish, the American writer who first championed Raymond Carver, has tipped her for success.

May-Lan Tan grew up in Hong Kong, where her family had migrated from Indonesia. She spent her late teens in California and North Carolina, and returned to Hong Kong to work as a cartoonist, medical secretary, and artist’s model, before moving to London to study art at Goldsmiths.

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Brought together at Bea’s funeral, the mourners are asked to consider who she was, and what impact she had on their lives –inevitably turning thoughts back to love, with its fiery beginnings, stormy middles and rocky ends. But is it really possible to pick genuine, ‘true’ love out in an identity parade? Or is love a bit more like the Sami Eskimo concept of snow – summed up only in two hundred different words, and never falling the same way twice?

Sarah Holt was born in Wythenshawe, 1984, and grew up in Manchester. A former journalist for the Lincolnshire Echo, she now lives in Hertfordshire, concentrating on fiction and travel writing – the latter has taken her to more than thirty countries, and led to articles published in The Observer and The Guardian.

Valley Press » Paperback » £8.99 9781908853370 » 198x129mm 290pp » Fiction (FA)

The Held and the Lost Kristen Roberts Love poems from a more mature perspective. Instead of youthful headstrong passion, the love in these poems is more considered, tinged with sadness but deeper and more complex.

A moving collection of poems about love, marriage and family life.

Roberts is laid-back but precise as she sketches out sympathetic portraits of characters and relationships against the backdrop of swaying eucalypts, roses and occasional rain. These are love poems with their eyes wide open and scars defiantly on display, quietly optimistic but grounded in an acute understanding of the tragedies which people accumulate through life.

Roberts’ measured descriptions of enduring love present a refreshing alternative to the more usual freewheeling passion in love poems by younger poets, tempering the sadness with notes of beauty and transcendent joy.

Kristen Roberts is a poet from Melbourne who loves writing on the front porch while her children play in the garden. She has been featured in various magazines and won several awards. This is her first solo collection.

The Emma Press » Paperback » £5.00 9780957459687 » 110x178mm » 36pp Poetry (DCF)

The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood ed. Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright An anthology which celebrates and examines the depth and complexity of emotion surrounding motherhood.

The poets write with searing honesty about the incredible strength and capacity for self-sacrifice demanded by motherhood, writing as parents as well as in relation to their own parents. The darkest thoughts of exhausted mothers are sensitively portrayed, as poets expose the weight of responsibility behind the hallowed state of motherhood, and question the expectations society places on mothers.

This book gives voice to universal but usually silenced anxieties, showing mothers questioning their ability to raise their children correctly and sometimes struggling to connect with the creatures they have created.

Heart-breaking and uplifting in equal measure, this book is a stunning and varied portrait of modern motherhood.

The Emma Press » Paperback » £10.00 9780957459670 » 184x123mm » 96pp Poetry (DCF)

The Operator Valerie Laws “Gripping from the very first scene. A fresh and talented new voice in crime-writing.”

Ann Cleeves Someone’s killing surgeons, mutilating the bodies to mimic the victim’s specialism. Is ‘The Operator’ a serial killer or is there another agenda? Small but stroppy therapist and journalist Erica Bruce once more locks horns with brooding Detective Inspector Will Bennett in this darkly comic mystery examining doctors, their power and their limitations. After the bizarre murder of a client’s husband, Erica struggles to protect her from police suspicion while fighting her own battle to keep faith in her work.

Ultimately, she must discover who has the god complex, who is the sufferer, and who the sadist?

“A darkly intriguing debut.’”

Val McDermid on The Rotting Spot.

Valerie Laws is an awardwinning novelist, poet, performer and playwright; she has had eleven books published in various genres.

A mathematician and physicist, she has spent recent years researching the science of dying at pathology museums and brain institutes, for her poetry collection All That Lives, but this biomedical/pathology interest also informs her crime fiction, including her last novel, The Rotting Spot.

Red Squirrel Press » Paperback » £7.99 9781906700782 » 129x198mm » 400pp Crime Fiction (FF)

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Russian Drama: Four Young Female Voices translated by Lisa Hayden This collection of plays from Russia’s finest young female playwrights is both readable and stageable. They are certain to attract the attention of lovers and students of modern drama.

YAROSLAVA PULINOVICH was born in 1987 in Omsk (Siberia), currently lives in Yekaterinburg (the Urals). She has written more than 30 plays which have been widely staged in Russia and other countries. KSENIA STEPANYCHEVA was born in 1978 in the city of Saratov on the Volga, where she lives to this day. She is an economist by trade with some 20 prize-winning plays to her name. EKATERINA VASILYEVA was born in 1989 in the industrial town of Nizhny Tagil in the Urals.

In 2009 her play Out There, Beyond Lake Ladoga was a finalist in the Debut Prize competition and in 2011 she won Debut with a collection of her work. OLGA RIMSHA was born in 1988 lives in Novosibirsk (Siberia).

She has written a number of short novels and plays and her short novel Still Waters won the Debut Prize in 2010. She describes her writing style as “pessimistic optimism”.

Glas New Russian Writing » Paperback £8.99 » 9785717201254 » 135x216mm 200pp » Drama (DD)

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The Little Man

Yaroslavl Stories

Liza Alexandrova-Zorina

Anna Lavrinenko

A frightening vision of Russia by a young and talented author – revealing how the younger generation increasingly view their country.

The stories in the collection are concerned primarily with the difficult process of coming of age, slotting themselves effortlessly into a well-worn but timeless literary genre.

In this striking novel from a bold new Russian talent, a group of gangsters seizing control of a little town with the collusion of the corrupt local authorities, businessmen and police becomes a miniature portrayal of Russia as a whole. Defending his daughter, the protagonist Savely accidentally shoots the chief gangster and walks away in full view of a crowd.

Policemen are afraid to arrest him but are eager to deliver him into the gangsters’ hands; his querulous wife refuses to hide him and discloses his whereabouts to the new gang leader.

Savely is transformed from a nonentity to a people’s avenger but when a prize is offered for his head the townsmen rush to capture the new Robin Hood.

The book lays bare the author’s frustration at the perceived willingness of the Russian people to reject change in favour of putting up with a known and quantifiable evil.

Liza Alexandrova-Zorina was born in 1984 and grew up in a little town on Kola Peninsula beyond the Arctic Circle. She currently lives in Moscow.

She is a prolific journalist, famous blogger and public activist.

Glas New Russian Writing » Paperback £8.99 » 9785717201247 » 135x216mm 300pp » Fiction (FA)

They are about young people who see themselves as different – outcasts, oddballs, freaks – and who, one way or another, grow up.

One of Anna’s strengths is that she is able to write convincingly about this process, her characters are honest, earnest and eager, while at the same time melodramatic and naive: a reflection of a disaffected Russian youth. Through them we see the first generation to have unrestricted access to Western popular culture, primarily music, and Lavrinenko addresses directly the impact this changing cultural backdrop has had on contemporary Russia.

Anna Lavrinenko lives in Yaroslavl, Central Russia. A Law graduate she works as a company lawyer in Yaroslavl as well as taking an active part in the city’s cultural life, leading the largest reading groups there and reviewing books and films for the local press.

Her short stories and essays have been published in many of Russia’s well respected literary and art magazines.

Glas New Russian Writing » Paperback £8.99 » 9785717201261 » 135x216mm 200pp » Short Stories (FYB)

Imagined Sons Carrie Etter “These are poems of the utmost importance.”

“In Imagined Sons Carrie Etter reflects on the experience of a birthmother who gave up her son when she was seventeen. In a series of haunting, psalm-like prose poems of enormous courage and insight, she describes possible encounters with this son now in his late teens, expressing how ‘sometimes the melancholy arrives before the remembering’. This quite extraordinary book by a writer of great imagistic power and skill leaves a mark on the reader which is ineradicable.”

Bernard O’Donoghue Born in Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter has lived in California and the UK and is a poet, essayist, critic and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She is the author of a number of poetry books and pamphlets including The Tethers (Seren) which won a London Festival Fringe First Book Prize and she has edited the anthology Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman), Her poetry and criticism have appeared widely in the USA and the UK including Poetry Review, The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian.

Seren » Paperback » £9.99 9781781721513 » 216x138mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF)

My Family and Other Superheroes

To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill

Jonathan Edwards

Barney Norris

A post-industrial valleys upbringing reimagined through the prism of pop culture and surrealism.

The first study of one of the most significant voices of modern international theatre, and one of the most compelling and beautiful bodies of artistic work in the last fifty years.

My Family and Other Superheroes introduces a vibrant and unique new voice from Wales. The superheroes in question are a motley crew. Evel Knievel, Sophia Loren, Ian Rush, Marty McFly, a bicycling nun and a recalcitrant hippo – all leap from these pages and jostle for position, alongside valleys mams, dads and bamps, described with great warmth.

Other poems focus on the crammed terraces and abandoned high streets where a working class and Welsh nationalist politics is hammered out.

Jonathan Edwards was born and brought up in Crosskeys, south Wales.

His work has appeared in a wide range of magazines, including Poetry Review, The North, Poetry Wales and New Welsh Review. He has written speeches for the Welsh Assembly Government and journalism for The Big Issue Cymru, and currently works as an English teacher.

Seren » Paperback » £9.99 9781781721629 » 216x138mm » 64pp April 2014 » Poetry (DCF)

To Bodies Gone explores a career extraordinary in its consistency, which developed a clear framework of ideas in the early productions that reached extraordinary heights in Gill’s mature work. Norris’s principle theme is the aesthetic Gill introduced to theatre, and which has remained the bedrock of his work, in its various manifestations and developments across several decades. Analysing the phases of his career broadly chronologically, this study places Gill in the wider context of the theatre, providing a picture of British theatre in the second half of the twentieth century and contributing new insights to the study of theatre history.

Barney Norris is an award-winning playwright, poet and essayist. His plays are At First Sight (tour and Latitude Festival, 2011; winner of the Drama Association of Wales One Act Play Competition; published by the Drama Association of Wales) and Missing (Tristan Bates Theatre, 2012).

Seren » Paperback » £14.00 9781781721711 » 216x138mm » 260pp Drama (DD)

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Boogeyman Dawn

The Scale of Things

Concerned Attentions

Raina J. León

Edward DennisTon

Knute Skinner

“Raina León explores the space between some of our worst nightmares and the awakening of hope.” Evie Shockley

A long overdue first collection.

“Skinner does the lot: the sacred, the profane, the formal and the loose, and does them all wonderfully well.”

John W. Sexton, Poetry Ireland News

“Raina León has crafted an elegant, brooding, and playful peek-aroundthe-corner view of this often difficult existence through the eyes and thoughts of children, and those whose lives are affected by them – which is all of us. From the haunting dark of premature death to the transformative, ambivalent force of testosterone, Leon hears the proud, colloquial, melanin-informed line that distinguishes familiar and familial, that border that suggests we are all connected, and we are not. A narrative woven in the intimacy of despair as well as the proximity of hope, this is a stunning, imaginative collection.”

Quraysh Ali Lansana Raina J. León’s first collection of poetry, Canticle of Idols, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize (2006).

Boogeyman Dawn (2013) was a finalist for the Naomi Long Magdett Poetry Prize (May 2010).

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“These poems work their way up and down the scale of things, testing for size, for depth, for music. Walking a landscape is a favoured method of approach. Sometimes things are too large, they resist – “we searched for a way/out and down off the mountain.”

(Descent). At other times the calm of acceptance is met with – “Then I am, as you say/dear brother, diminished, and simply here,/in a scale of things I hardly understand.” (To The Bishop My Brother). Always the poet seeks to find his own way forward. There are many memorable poems about people, especially those concerning the poet’s father and mother.”

Mark Roper Originally from Longford town, Edward Denniston has lived and worked in Waterford since 1980, the city in which his Presbyterian ancestor lived and preached dissent in the early 18th century. Edward is a teacher of English and Drama. His publications are: The Point Of Singing; Eskimo Advice, an ebook; and Interacting – 60 Drama Scripts.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback » £10.00 9781908836595 » 210x134mm » 74pp Poetry (DCF)

Concerned Attentions is Knute Skinner’s first book of poetry since his collected edition, Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007, appeared from Salmon.

As his readers may expect, the new work exhibits his artful and often moving, unnerving, or humorous turns of phrase. Moreover, it displays the poet’s continuing fascination with the tenuous relationship between the quotidian and the otherworldly.

Knute Skinner was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but for fifty years has had a home in County Clare, where he now lives with his spouse Edna Faye Kiel.

His collected edition Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007, from Salmon, contained new work along with work taken from thirteen previous books. His collection The Other Shoe won the 2004-2005 Pavement Saw Chapbook Award. A limited edition of his poems, translated into Italian by Roberto Nassi, was published by Damocle Edizioni, Chioggia, Italy, in 2011. A memoir, Help Me to a Getaway, was published

by Salmon in March 2010.

Salmon Poetry » Paperback » £10.00 9781908836601 » 210x134mm » 76pp Poetry (DCF)

Yoke and Arrows

The Meaning of the Shovel

Rob Hindle

Martín Espada

In the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War, the radical poet and playwright Federico García Lorca was murdered in Granada by anti-Republican militia.

New collection by major Pulitzer-nominated US poet who will be touring UK in 2014.

During the early months of the war over twenty thousand Granadinos were killed by these execution squads.

Particularly vicious were the Black Squads, many of whom were members of the Fascist Falange. Their symbol was the yoke and arrows (el yugo y las flechas), the emblem of the fifteenthcentury Catholic monarchs Isabel and Fernando, who expelled the Moors and the Jews from Spain.

Yoke and Arrows tells the story of those few desperate weeks in 1936, following Lorca’s journey from Madrid and a life of celebration and creativity to his pre-dawn death in the mountains above Granada. It also contemplates the parallels between atrocities and acts of retribution across cultures and histories and asserts the responsibility of poetry to bear witness to violation and cruelty in our own violent age.

Rob Hindle was born in Rotherham and educated in Leeds and Newcastle.

In the early 1990s he lived and worked in Madrid. He now lives in Sheffield, where he works for the WEA.

Smokestack Books » Paperback » £8.95 9780957574755 » 197x127mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF)

The Meaning of the Shovel brings together, for the first time, all of Espada’s poems about work, including several previously unpublished poems.

It is a book about the emotional and often invisible landscape of labour, about ‘hard-handed men,’ ‘the rude Mechanicals: the tailor, the weaver, the tinker, the bellows-mender.’ The title poem, based on the poet’s experience of digging latrines in Nicaragua, embraces a vision of revolutionary change.

Martín Espada has worked as a bouncer, a primate caretaker, a doorto-door encyclopaedia salesman, a gas station attendant and a tenant lawyer.

As a poet, he acts as an advocate for the Latino community in the United States, particularly the immigrant working class, from farm workers sprayed with pesticides in the field to the kitchen staff who died in a restaurant at the top of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.

Smokestack Books » Paperback £8.95 9780957574748 » 197x127mm 102pp » Poetry (DCF)

If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry & Song edited by Pat Boran and Gerard Smyth A major verse anthology celebrating the city of Dublin, from Dedalus Press.

Editors Pat Boran and Gerard Smyth present a unique invitation to explore, street by street, one of the world’s most famous literary cities through the poems and songs it has inspired; in both English and Irish, by contemporary as well as historical writers.

A virtual tour of the city and environs, If Ever You Go features writing familiar and new by writers whose work adds up to a unique and intimate portrait.

Contributors include poets already synonymous with the city — Swift, Yeats, Joyce, Clarke, Kavanagh, Kinsella, Heaney, Kennelly, Boland, Bolger and Meehan among them — as well as a host of others who have made some part of it their own.

Street singers and balladeers rub shoulders with haiku and performance poets in an anthology that has its heart set on the very streets we live and work and play on. Ground breaking in its reach, celebratory in its outlook, If Ever You Go is a record of the connections and epiphanies, the missed chances and last buses that knit all of the streets outside our doors into a map of a city where poetry truly matters.

Dedalus Press » Paperback » £10.50 9781906614874 » 214x140 mm 330pp » Literary Anthologies (DCQ)

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A Shed for Wood

Poems

Looking For

Daniel Thomas Moran

Emile VerhaerEn

Claudia Jessop

“Profound and intelligible poetry. The cosmic grounded in the mundane.

Pointedly unpretentious and extraordinarily real.” Peter Quinn

Dubbed the ‘European Walt Whitman’ Emile Verhaeren is a great modern European poet who, until now, has been overlooked by the Anglophone world.

Looking For is the second collection of lucid narrative poetry from a poet whose senses are clearly open to the tiniest nuances of life lived in everyday objects and routines.

His poetry passed through a number of crucial stages acceding to extreme existential demands. To return to the poetry of Verhaeren now is to reappraise a master poet who consistently exhibits his sublime visionary gift as well as his all too contemporary human vulnerability in some of the most tender and beautiful love poems ever written.

Deceptively simple, the fine observation and careful recounting in these poems gives them a depth that can at times take on the mesmerising pulse of litany. The poetry is precise and accessible, but awakens layers of meaning articulated in the spaces between words. This is poetry at its finest.

“Moran’s is a distinctive American voice which deserves an attentive hearing.”

Elizabeth Heywood, Acumen Magazine In his seventh collection, A Shed for Wood, Moran comes home again, to Ireland, with all his accounts of life in the new world. His poems are a travelogue of oddly varied subjects and points of view; faces and places where he engages and acclaims the diverting particulars of living. He does it with poignancy and with wit, with tenderness and a peculiar perspective, and with a proud and well-earned American-Irish breed of wisdom.

Daniel Thomas Moran is a poet whose American sinews were birthed

by Irish forebears, and who arrives as a poet from an unlikely place. Trained as a scientist and ultimately as a Doctor of Dental Surgery he writes, not from pedagogy, but from his own nature; a sense of wonder at and worship for, the assorted reflections of existence.

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Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916) was one of the great European poets of the early twentieth century. Born and educated in Flanders, he then moved to Brussels where he soon became a pivotal link with the Symbolist movement in Paris. During his lifetime, Verhaeren’s admirers included some of the most celebrated names of the epoch – Rilke, Gide, Mallarmé, Valéry, Zweig and, further afield, Mayakovsky and Blok – and in England, his importance was acknowledged by leading writers and critics alike. During the First World War, he was a symbol of defiance towards German aggression, but after his untimely death in 1916 and those profound existential changes wrought by the staggering human cost of the war, interest in his work dwindled.

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CLAUDIA Jessop has had poems published in several magazines. She has been runner-up in the MsLexia Poetry Competition and shortlisted in the Second Light Network Poetry Competition. She lives in Hackney, where she has conducted research and recorded oral history interviews for a local history project, and runs a poetry workshop for children at a local primary school.

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Yoga

Standard Twin Fantasy

The Spanish-Italian Border

Tom Warner

Sam Riviere

Róisín Tierney

A new pamphlet of poems by 2010 Faber New Poet, Tom Warner, published as number 02 in Egg Box Publishing’s F.U.N.E.X. series.

A new pamphlet of poems from Forward Prize winning poet, Sam Riviere. Number 03 in Egg Box Publishing’s F.U.N.E.X. series.

“Róisín Tierney’s subjects may be the dark ones of human vulnerability and anguish, but the poems rest on solid and graceful foundations of precision, musicality and wit.” Alan Jenkins.

Tom Warner was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but now lives in Norwich. In 2009-2010, he was Poet in residence to Newark, Nottinghamshire, as part of the Poetry-on-Trent project, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. In preparation for the project, Tom paddled 170 miles down the length of the River Trent in an open canoe.

Tom also won an Eric Gregory Award in 2001, a Faber New Poets Award in 2010, the ink-sweat-and-tears Norfolk Prize in 2009 and 2010, the Escalator Prize in 2011 and the Plough Prize in 2011. A previous pamphlet of Tom’s poetry was published by Faber & Faber, in 2010.

Standard Twin Fantasy is the new pamphlet of poems by Sam Riviere, author of 81 Austerities (Faber & Faber, 2012), which won the Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.

We encounter in these pictures a vast, technical vocabulary. The girls’ faces indicate minds that seem oddly completed. We might fabricate a story of how their images appeared before us: this seduction begins, like all seductions, with a wound. Only the light is allowed to touch their forms, to draft their faces. To read them is to admit a sort of vacancy, a pain. In another room, a conversation moves money through the world, under captions of smoke. Among their angles, the distance of a look, a shoulder’s choice, this offered clavicle or wrist implies an entrance. Averted, their eyes identify a deficit. It is here that the genres begin. In these pictures you encounter those things you have denied yourself.

Sam Riviere was born in 1981 and studied at Norwich School of Art and Design, Royal Holloway, and UEA, Norwich. In 2005, he co-founded the anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives, now also published by Egg Box. He currently lives in Belfast.

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As the title suggests, this is a book that contorts the world we know, oddly fluid and yet grounded in subjects that range from rural Ireland to sub-maritime journeys to Spain, from unheard of languages to ghost dogs.

Through acute observations and litanies, there are echoes of song and chants that pull you innocently through to often shocking climaxes.

However, never lost underneath all these poems is a genuine celebration of life and its peculiarities.

It is available both paperback and limited edition hardback formats.

Róisín Tierney was born in Dublin in 1963 and moved to London in 1985 where she worked in many areas, from theatrical make-up artist to museum administrator. After several years teaching in Spain (Valladolid and Granada), and Ireland (Dublin) she is now settled in London. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies from Donut Press, Ondt & Gracehoper and Unfold Press.

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M A R CH THE Ghost in the Lobby

Ikhda, by Ikhda

Raspberries for the Ferry

Kevin Higgins

Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi

Andrew Wynn Owen

Praise for Kevin Higgins’s poetry:

Reading these unusual and arresting poems is like being simultaneously doused in freezing cold water and a rain of popping candy, wild roses and thorns.

A stunning pamphlet of poems grounded in the past and bubbling with modern verve.

“His contribution to the development of Irish satire is indisputable…

Higgins’ poems embody all of the cunning and deviousness of language as it has been manipulated by his many targets... it is clear that Kevin Higgins’ voice and the force of his poetic project are gaining in confidence and authority with each new collection.”

Philip Coleman “Comedy is part of his poetics, and what I especially like in his work is its swiftness of wit, its tone of buoyant contrarianism and jubilant disappointment” Eamonn Grennan, The Irish Times “It is a profound compliment to the quality of Kevin’s writing that you can disagree with the content and yet find yourself still reading on and appreciating the style. You’d have to say that he is one of the lead poets of his generation in Ireland at this stage.”

Clare Daly T.D. “Gil Scott Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised as re-told by Victor Meldrew” Phil Brown, Eyewear

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A mind-blowing collection of poems about love, life, and a long-overdue introduction to the unique worldview of Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi. Maharsi captures the intensity and wildness of love, sex, motherhood and family ties through her heady and sensual poems and character sketches. She flexes and chivvies the English language into hitherto undreamt-of places, dipping occasionally into French and Italian, and presents it all back to the reader in compelling, undeniably truthful nuggets, with exquisite tenderness and humanity.

Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi has worked in television, advertising and as a scriptwriter on a sitcom in Indonesia.

She performed her poetry for the first time in 2011, at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. She now lives in Naples, where she is enjoying her new role as mother to her little boy Corentin.

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Andrew Wynn Owen embraces a variety of formal structures and imbues everything with lively sensuality. Highlights of this collection include a paean to raspberries – ‘so sweet they force you into song / And fill your head with dreams of hedon / -istic gymnasts born in Sweden’ – and pair of poems inspired by the love letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. These are gorgeous, tart and juicy poems which revel in language and are sure to win an adoring readership.

Andrew Wynn Owen is reading for a BA in English at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is a former winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award (2008, 2009, 2010), the Ledbury Poetry Competition (2011), The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation (2011), and The Richard Selig Prize (2013). He is currently Secretary of the Oxford University Poetry Society.

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Lighthouses Allison McVety “Hymns translating to glory the everyday struggles of ordinary people.” Tribune In Lighthouses, Allison casts a light over the world, catching as she does, a man grafting in his shed; the new moon’s pull on a love affair; Emily Wilding Davison hiding on Census Night; a mother as a listening telescope and Amy Hopkins falling for a comet.

Virginia Woolf dips in and out, with her ‘charcoal stare,’ her diaries and essays. And there are quiet poems too: sat at bedsides when ghosts and love, like the keeper’s light, are never far away.

Allison McVety’s poems have appeared in The Times, the Guardian, The Forward Poems of the Decade anthology and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In 2011 she won the National Poetry competition and in 2013 was recorded at the South Bank Centre for Poetry Library’s 60th anniversary.

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No, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself.

Robert Fitterman Blurring the boundaries between collective articulation and personal space.

Robert Fitterman’s new book-length poem borrows its poetic form, loosely, from James Schuyler’s The Morning of the Poem, to orchestrate hundreds of found articulations of sadness and loneliness from blogs and online posts.

Robert Fitterman is the author of 14 books of poetry including Holocaust Museum (Counterpath, 2013, Veer 2012), now we are friends (Truck Books, 2010), Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books, 2009), war, the musical (Subpress, 2006), and Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Vanessa Place (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). He is the founder of Collective Task—a collective of over 30 international artists and writers who complete monthly “tasks” assigned by its members.

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Emergency Index ed. Yelena Gluzman & Sophie Cleary Emergency INDEX Volume 2 includes contributions from artists, poets, scholars, activists, advertisers, computer scientists, theatre ensembles and filmmakers presenting more than 300 performances made around the world in 2012.

“We’ve been seeing performance art materialize around us, but without feeling that there was a context for such ideas. Now, with Emergency INDEX, we get the sense of a magical secret shared among many artists.

Emergency INDEX is a profoundly important publication. It guides us to a new place.”

Robert Ashley The pages of Emergency INDEX are open to all who work with performance. In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today.

INDEX is a lens for seeing the field of contemporary performance from the ground up.

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Fen Dancing

The Girl Who Lived on Air

American Sycamore

William Bedford

Stephen Wade

Karen Fielding

William Bedford’s new collection begins with poems about his father’s 1920s childhood in a remote farming community in Lincolnshire, and ends with the Manhattan skyline and the literary world of Greenwich Village.

A fascinating new study into one of the strangest true stories in Welsh history.

Off-beat coming-of-age novel of death, madness and fishing.

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 in Carmarthenshire; 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.

The lives of congenial American fly-fisherman Billy and his younger sister Alice meander alongside the Susquehanna River in this offbeat coming-of-age novel of death, madness and fishing by debut author Karen Fielding.

‘I was trying to imagine a lifetime of eighty years’, Bedford says, ‘beginning in a world of pony and traps and penny farthings and ending with men walking on the moon’. A ritual ‘fen dancing’ is at the heart of the volume: an annual sheep-washing festival ending with a dance and home-brewed wine in which it was difficult to tell if the fen itself was dancing, or the villagers were performing a dance of that strange name.

William Bedford left school at fifteen to work on the east coast fish docks and fairgrounds and farms before moving with his family to a remote USAF base in north Lincolnshire. At nineteen, he left Lincolnshire, and spent ten years working as a Lloyds Broker in the City of London before turning to academic life and eventually becoming a fulltime writer. He is an award-winning poet, short-story writer, children’s and adult’s novelist.

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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.

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What starts out as a frolic of losers and drifters along the American riverscape flows into something more sinister when twelve-year-old Billy Sycamore encounters a stranger in the woods, while Alice is left to deal with the fall-out.

In the spirit of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America and idiosyncratic as a George Saunders story, American Sycamore is a funny and fractious narrative about growing up in a small town in northeast America, with not a lot to do, but a whole lot to worry about.

Karen Fielding lives in London and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Journalism from Boston University and an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmith’s College. Previously, Fielding’s poetry has appeared in literary journals Browse and Zinc.

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Fruit

Night Vision

Falling Into Place

Terry Cree

Kendel Hippolyte

Jane Routh

Fruit of the loins and fruit of the vine.

Poison fruit and the fruit of The Fall.

With his dexterity as a writer, Hippolyte speaks through and beyond tradition.

They all find their place in this first collection, which also draws together those liminal moments and landscapes, paintings and photographs that represent different modes of separation and change.

He writes in sonnet, triolet, villanelle and echo poem; in idiomatic dramatic monologues that capture the rhythms of Caribbean speech; in blues and rap poems; in free verse that draws upon the long-breath incantatory lines of Ginsberg and contracts in miniaturist forms as concise as graffiti.

This is a book about a small area of land and its wildlife, work and weathers over four decades.

The poems are beautifully accompanied by a sequence of finegrained pencil drawings by the author.

“Cree’s deft quatrains – aslant, folksy, philosophical, visionary – draw on American poetic tradition with an assurance that is rare in a British writer.”

Adrian Blamires Terry Cree is a writer and artist who lives in Hampshire. He has run a sculpture park, designed a number of gardens, organized poetry readings by many of the most significant names in post-war British poetry and has taught English and creative writing to countless numbers of young people and adults.

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While urbanisation expands and fragments his home of St. Lucia, Hippolyte draws upon all his verbal mastery and critical insight to examine a nation in flux. His vision is turned upon the people, the land and the culture, and a microcosm of the Caribbean in the 21st Century emerges. We, the reader, are reminded of the possibilities for renewal in the personal and everyday – away from the glare of the metropolis and the lures of global consumerism.

Born in St. Lucia in 1952, Kendel Hippolyte is a poet, playwright and director. He has published five books of poetry and has twice won the Minvielle & Chastanet Fine Arts Award for Literature and was awarded the St. Lucia Medal of Merit in 2000.

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At its heart is a month by month celebration of seasonal shifts – their feel, their smell, their mood. But the writing also has a wider sweep, deftly considering the place of the individual in the evolving story of land use.

A poet’s ear, a photographer’s eye and dirt under her fingernails make for richly textured lyrical writing, full of detail and insight, precise observation and considered recollection – all so lightly managed and with lovely flashes of humour, it is completely compelling and a joy to read.

Jane Routh has lived on the northern edge of the Forest of Bowland for forty years, and has been planting trees and keeping geese for half of that. She’s published three full poetry collections with Smith/Doorstop: Circumnavigation was shortlisted for a Forward First Collection Prize; Teach Yourself Mapmaking was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her most recent collection is The Gift of Boats.

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A Way of Falling Upwards

Out of Breath

Touching Distances

Ric Hool

Noel Williams

Anne Cluysenaar

Ric Hool is a poet of great generosity, both personally and in the scope of his writing.

Debut collection from a multi-award-winning poet.

This collection reflects that generous spirit in its variety and its subject matter. The great strength of this collection is a capacity to see through physical appearances even while observing them in immediate detail, allowing the reader’s imagination to expand their meaning.

In this lively and varied collection fleeting evocations of memory, romance and belonging are woven skilfully together by a mature voice with an intuitive respect for the power of language.

In this most engaging and transformative collection of diary poems, Anne Cluysenaar moves through two years of life, 2010 – 2012.

Ric is at his best when using simple straightforward language, which he can do to stunning effect, whether in his haiku-like short meditations (as in ‘Three Views of a Mountain’) or in longer descriptive pieces (such as the lovely ‘Summer’s Gift’).

Ric Hool has six collections of published poetry and has his work featured in poetry magazines & journals in Europe, USA & UK. Twenty years ago he initiated the poetry readings at the Hen & Chickens, which remains the hub of The Abergavenny Poetry Scene.

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There is a resonant recognition of change and the fragility of life in these sometimes poignant, always perfectly controlled pieces. This is precisely honed material from a poet long overdue for a debut collection.

Noel Williams has published poetry widely in magazines including Assent, Envoi, Dreamcatcher, Fourteen, The Frogmore Papers, Iota and twenty anthologies. He’s won the New Writer, Wasafiri, Elmet Yorkshire and Sentinel competitions, as well as Cinnamon’s own Poetry Award and has had three poems nominated for the Forward Prize. He is co-editor of Antiphon, Associate Editor of Orbis and writes reviews for The North and Sphinx.

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The passage of time is traced through the changing seasons from one frost bitten, wind-swept December to another. The wintery framework that encases this uniquely organic collection is a comfortable fit, given the questions posed throughout the collection about death and life’s transient nature.

From the outset, the poems display a keen sense of journeying – not so much literally travelling over distances, but, rather, journeying inwardly through past, present and imagined future experiences. The language is invitational: accessible for a wide readership, though always multilayered and rich in meaning.

Anne Cluysenaar was born in Belgium, the daughter of the BelgianScottish artist John Cluysenaar and his wife, the painter Sybil Fitzgerald Hewat and the family moved to Britain just before the outbreak of World War II. Amongst her titles are: as an editor, The Selected Poems of Henry Vaughan, and as a poet, Timeslips: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1997).

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Interrogating Water and other poems Philip Fried “In realms between and including the Almighty and actuarial tables, Fried speaks every language faithfully and eloquently.

Rejoice! Read!” Renée Ashley, The Literary Review Interrogating Water and other poems uses such varied forms and formats as the ballad, sonnet, villanelle, psalm, press release, checklist, obituary, and poll to summon the unmoored voices that proliferate in our wired world. These voices induce a shiver of disquiet as linguistic registers collide in unexpected ways. This compelling collection touches on issues such as gun control, the death penalty, national security and the state.

Philip Fried is a New York-based poet and editor of The Manhattan Review.

He has published five previous books of poetry, the most recent being Early/ Late: New and Selected Poems (Salmon, 2011).

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Nest

One Hour that Morning

Ed Madden

Lex Runciman

A book about home—the homes we leave and the homes we learn to make for ourselves.

“Elegiac, compassionate, movingly wise.”

The first nest we encounter in the book is a wasps’ nest, not a bird’s, for home in these complex and sometimes sonically dense poems is neither an easy nor sentimental thing. These are emphatically poems of place as well, from opening poems grounded in the fundamentalist culture of the rural South, through poems of travel and dislocation in Ireland and elsewhere, to a final section emphasizing the repurposed and reimagined—the old church pew at the foot of the bed.

Ultimately, this book is about the rituals and practices of home we carry with us, whether the formal vows of a wedding that is still unacknowledged by law, or the informal lore of gardening.

Born and raised in rural Arkansas, Ed Madden is the author of two books of poetry, Signals, which won the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, and Prodigal: Variations, as well as the chapbook, My Father’s House. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Los Angeles Review, and other journals, as well as in Best New Poets 2007 and The Book of Irish American Poetry (Notre Dame, 2007).

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“This splendid collection’s particulars fulfill the promise made in one poem’s title: encountering these poems, a reader will find that “no one goes unamazed.” No one.”

Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate “In One Hour That Morning we find the whole spectrum of ordinary tragedy and excruciatingly particularized joy, brought to us in a language like cold water over stones, all flourish replaced by clarity, all depiction a kind of painterly ekphrasis, a careful entrance, breath almost held, as though to preserve the momentariness that is the only possibility of perfection in this life.

Lex Runciman has given us a book that is wise and beautiful and that the years will not tarnish.”

Christopher Howell Born and raised in Portland, Lex Runciman’s collections include Starting from Anywhere, Luck, The Admirations, which won the Oregon Book Award, and Out of Town. His work has also appeared in several anthologies including, From Here We Speak, Portland Lights and O Poetry, O Poesia.

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The Notebook

The Illiterate

Agota Kristof

Agota Kristof

“A stunning, brutal and beautifully written and translated book.” George Szirtes

Unavailable in the UK for over twenty years.

Sent to a remote village for the duration of the war, two children devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to pain and sentiment. They steal, kill, blackmail and survive; others – the cobbler, the harelipped girl who craves love, the children’s parents – are sucked into war’s brutal maelstrom.

The Notebook distills the experience of Nazi occupation and Soviet ‘liberation’ during World War II into a stark fable of timeless relevance.

“The Notebook is a book through which I discovered what kind of a person I really want to be.”

Slavoj Žižek “Closing this chillingly unsentimental novel, I felt that it had contrived to say absolutely everything about the Second World War and its aftermath in Central Europe.”

The Sunday Times

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Agota Kristof ’s modern European classic The Notebook is re-issued by CB Editions alongside the first English translation of The Illiterate, Kristof ’s memoir of how she escaped from Hungary in 1956, was given refuge in Switzerland, and began to write The Notebook.

“This story of exile and loss, of how, for the refugee, the country in which she eventually settles, however kind and well-meaning its inhabitants, will always be a poor and inadequate substitute for the country of one’s birth, its language always an alien thing, however proficient she becomes in it – this is the story of so many people today that it is perhaps the story of our time, and Agota Kristof should perhaps be seen as our transnational bard.”

Gabriel Josipovici Agota Kristof, born in Csikvand, Hungary, in 1935, became an exile in French-speaking Switzerland in 1956. Working in a factory, she slowly learned the language of her adopted country. Her first novel, Le Grand Cahier (1986; The Notebook), was translated into more than 30 languages. She wrote plays as well as further novels. She died in 2011.

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Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht (translated by Tom Leonard) Major new translation of one of the greatest plays of the twentieth-century.

In this new translation of Brecht’s great 1939 anti-war play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard, the Thirty Years War becomes the War on Terror and Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking in the broad, bold Glaswegian dialect. It is a play about the language of politics and the politics of language.

Tom Leonard has woven into his translation the arguments about culture and society that have run as a thread through all his work for almost fifty years.

Tom Leonard’s many books include a fictional biography of James Thomson and a pioneering anthology of neglected nineteenth century Scottish poetry, Radical Renfrew. His Intimate Voices: Selected Works 1965-83 was banned from Central Region school libraries in the same year that it shared the Scottish Book of the Year Award. In 2010 his Outside the Narrative: Poems 1965-2009 was the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. A collection of his literary and political criticism was recently published as Definite Articles: Selected Prose 1973-2012.

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Sister Invention Judith Kazantzis In her first major collection for a decade, Judith Kazantzis proves herself again to be the constant sister of invention and imagination.

Meditating on the deaths of her parents and of her brother, and on the arrival of a new grandchild, she reconfigures Greek myth from a Feminist perspective to address today’s inequalities.

The poems range across the violent geography of Palestine and Iraq to the bright landscapes of the American Southwest, from the sensual utopia of ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ to the dark inner continents of bereavement and grief. Sister Invention combines irony and wit, dramatic brilliance and profound quiet in order to explore what it means to be a sister and a daughter, a mother and a grandmother.

Judith Kazantzis has published nine previous books of poetry, including Selected Poems 1977-1992, The Odysseus Poems and Just after Midnight. She is a recipient of the prestigious Cholmondeley Award.

Prayer to Imperfection Lucy English A significant retrospective of an English poet with an international reputation.

Unusually for a poet of her stature and with near on two decades of work to her name this is the first book of Lucy English’s poetry to be published.

Lucy’s poetry explores the complexities of modern life, and the way that we try to find comfort wherever we can. It explores life lived in urban spaces with many of her poems rooted in the landscape of Bristol, the city she has made her home. With influences as diverse as Wittgenstein and Andy Warhol, Lucy’s poetry is direct, uses everyday language in often complex ways and yet remains accessible and vibrant.

Lucy English was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in England.

She has published three novels but is also a renowned performance poet who has performed at international festivals including the Austin International Poetry Festival, and Wordfest, at Calgary in Canada. Her poetry has been widely published including in a number of anthologies. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

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A P R IL Above Sugar Hill

Carpet Burns

Linda Mannheim

Tom Hingley

Each of these stories is about people whose lives play out on those streets, streets no one from outside the neighbourhood is expected to visit.

“A cool as fuck memoir. A first-hand account of a fascinating era in British pop, conveyed with atmosphere and colour.”

Record Collector

Above Sugar Hill is a short story collection from novelist and New York native, Linda Mannheim. Sugar Hill is the bit of Manhattan between 145th Street and 155th street. It’s the place the best known residents of Harlem lived, including actor, singer and Civil Rights activist Paul Robeson, jazz legend Duke Ellington, and sociologist and historian W. E. B. Du Bois, but you won’t find it in any tourist guides.

Carpet Burns is Tom Hingley’s account of his life as lead singer of Inspiral Carpets, one of the big three bands of the Manchester movement who, along with The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, changed music for a generation. With popular anthems like ‘This Is How It Feels’ and ‘She Comes In The Fall’, Inspiral Carpets soon rose to be one of the most popular bands in the country. Tom’s own words provide an account of what it felt like to be in the eye of a pop hurricane and what happens when the hits end and the arguments kick in.

A Puerto Rican Independentista fends off the FBI while she looks after her friends’ children, a young girl spots Marilyn Monroe more than ten years after Monroe’s suicide, an operasinging housing activist goes missing, presumed to have been murdered.

Linda Mannheim is the author of novel Risk (Penguin) and Noir (Kindle Single.) Her short stories have appeared in Nimrod International Journal, The Gettysburg Review, New York Stories and New Contrast.

Influx Press » Paperback » £9.99 9780992765521 » 129x198mm 180pp » Short Stories (FYB)

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“An insight to many things in life and no mistake, this is thoroughly recommended.”

Scootering Magazine

The Pale Handbag of the Apocalypse Eileen Jones Iron Press is excited to introduce a distinctive new voice in female poetry.

Eileen Jones’ first full collection The Pale Handbag of the Apocalypse is technically accomplished and full of intelligent wit, skewering the absurdities of modern life and work with a highly distinctive and sometimes satirical or surreal humour.

The author previously edited The Iron Book of New Humorous Verse (October 2010). Eileen Jones’ pamphlet Connecting Flight was published in 2013 by Red Squirrel Press.

Eileen Jones lives in Wylam, Northumberland and is also a playwright. Her play Knives was chosen for production as part of the New Writing North Emerge project.

“Oh my God! Every band is the same.

I couldn’t put it down.”

Peter Hook “I loved this part of my life and this book was written in a way that took me back with such clarity that I felt I could close my eyes and reach out and touch it.”

Paul Croves

Route » Paperback » £9.99 9781901927597 » 198x129mm 280pp » Music (AVH)

IRON Press » Paperback » £7.00 9780957503212 » A5 » 64pp Poetry (DCF)

Inner Yardie: Three Plays

Mrs. B

Pepperpot

Patricia Cumper

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

ed. Peekash Press

Collected here are three plays written over four decades that take an unflinching look at life in postcolonial Jamaica.

Loosely inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

Features outstanding entries from the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, including the winning story, ‘The Whale House’ by Sharon Millar.

Cumper began writing plays when she was in her twenties. Reviews of her contribution to black theatre are included in publications by Oxford University Press, Heinemann and Collins.

Cumper’s plays have often been called ‘theatre of the people’. When she first moved to Britain, she struggled to have her work shown, but has since been commissioned by Carib Theatre Company, Talawa Theatre Company, The Royal Court, Blue Mountain Theatre, BBC Radio 4 and the World Service.

Patricia Cumper is an award winning playwright, producer, director, arts administrator and cultural leader. She was awarded an MBE for services to Black British theatre. She is a passionate advocate for the arts and is an experienced and highly articulate cultural commentator who has worked in radio for more than twenty years as a writer, contributor and presenter. Cumper’s radio adaptation of The Colour Purple won a silver Sony Award.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £9.99 9781845232320 » 135x206mm 196pp » Drama (DD)

This novel focuses on the life of an upper middle class family in modern day Trinidad. The island, independent since 1962, still struggles with its multiethnic and multicultural complexities, and is fraught with corruption and violence. The heroine, Mrs. B (Marie Elena Butcher), is fast approaching 50. In her mid-life she is forced to admit that neither Ruthie, her daughter, nor her marriage to Charles Butcher, has met her expectations of being both a mother and a wife.

Haunted by an affair with her husband’s best friend, above all Mrs. B knows that she has disappointed herself. Much like Flaubert’s heroine, Mrs. B’s life is based on longing for what can never be realised and by an inability to adapt to the pressures of her own bourgeois society.

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Literatures in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She has published various academic titles and her first collection of short stories was published in 2007.

She is the daughter of Saint Lucian poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £9.99 9781845232313 » 135x206mm 236pp » Fiction (FA)

In ‘The Whale House’, a woman recovers from a miscarriage whist wrestling with an old conflict and a long kept secret. Bush medicine, teenage sexuality, and difficult moral choices culminate in this uniquely Trinidadian story – one of marriage and the secrets we keep from the ones closest to us. In ‘A Good Friday’

by Peepal Tree Press author Barbara Jenkins, a mysterious woman enters a strange bar straight from church one Good Friday, where she meets a smooth operator bent on seduction.

Peekash Press is a collaboration between Peepal Tree Press in Europe and Akashic Books in North America.

The imprint is founded to unearth and champion homegrown talent in the Caribbean. European editions will be published by Peepal Tree Press, with North American editions published

by Akashic. The imprint is supported by the Commonwealth Writers Foundation.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £7.99 9781845232375 » 135x206mm 140pp » Short Stories (FYB)

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Difficult Fruit

Crisis

primitive cartography

Lauren K. Alleyne

ed. Dinos Siotis

Paul Summers

Difficult Fruit grapples with personal experience – with naming and claiming the ‘fruits’ of a specific journey into womanhood.

Crisis brings together, in Greek and in English, thirty Greek poets including Dimitris Angelis, Elsa Korneti, Nektarios Lambropoulos and Kiki Dimoula, as they try to address the crisis in their country.

A book about living under strange stars and learning the language of sunlight.

This journey is one which includes coming to terms with violence and loss, celebrating love and connection, and standing witness in the world that shaped that journey. It is a collection of poems about coming into self-knowledge – of fighting for and winning personhood as a woman in the world.

Lauren K. Alleyne is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. Her writing has been awarded the 2003 Atlantic Monthly Student Poetry Prize, the Robert Chasen Graduate Poetry Prize at Cornell, and other awards, and her poems have been published in Black Arts Quarterly and The Caribbean Writer among other journals. She is co-editor of the anthology From the Heart of Brooklyn (Vivisphere, 9781587761423), and author of Dawn in the Kaatskills (Longshore Press, 9780000100757), a chapbook. She is currently assistant professor of English and poet-in-residence at the University of Dubuque

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £8.99 9781845232276 » 135x206mm » 72pp Poetry (DCF)

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For the last seven years Greece has been at the epicentre of a brutal economic, political and social crisis.

Recession, austerity, cuts to wages, pensions and public spending have led to political paralysis, general strikes, riots in Athens and the dramatic rise of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn.

Unemployment is now 27%, the highest in the EU. Youth unemployment is 60%. One in three households now live in poverty. In the last few years, the suicide rate has increased by more than 40%.

Dinos Siotis was born in Tinos, Greece, in 1944. He studied Law at Athens University and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. He has published twenty five books of poetry and fiction in English, French and Greek. His poems have been translated into ten languages. In 2007 he received in Athens the State Prize for Poetry for his book Autobiography of a Target.

Smokestack Books » Paperback » £9.95 9780957574731 » 197x127mm » 96pp Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

In 2011 the poet Paul Summers moved with his wife and their two young children from Tyneside to Queensland, Australia. Exchanging the cold Northeast for bougainvillea, kookaburras and cane toads, Summers started mapping the emotional geography of his new world.

Paul Summers was born in Blyth, Northumberland in 1967. A founding editor of the magazines Billy Liar and Liar Republic, he has written extensively for TV, film, radio and the theatre. Previous books include Cunawabi, The Rat’s Mirror, The Last Bus, Beer & Skittles, Vermeer’s Dark Parlour, Big Bella’s Dirty Cafe, Dreams Days Break Portfolio (with photographer David Gray), Three Men on the Metro (with Andy Croft and Bill Herbert) and union: new and selected poems.

Smokestack Books » Paperback £7.95 » 9780957574793 » 197x127mm 120pp » Poetry (DCF)

The Dead Snail Diaries

The Sunshine Kid

Joyriding the Storm

Jamie McGarry

Harry Baker

Vanessa Kisuule

A beguiling collection of observational poems and literary parodies which explore and celebrate snail culture, as told by a prematurely-crushed snail poet.

If you imagine a Venn diagram of fans of Jay-Z and fans of maths, Harry Baker was going for the niche crossover in the middle.

Vanessa Kisuule here collects the poetry that has made her a much loved performer on the live UK circuit.

When Harry Baker first started writing rap infused poetry he was advised to “write about what you know” so instead of writing about killing people, or driving fast cars (over people), he wrote about... mathematics. It is not all complex maths and algebra however but throughout Harry applies his mathematician’s mind to conjuring complex rhythms that have to be read out loud to be believed.

Vanessa combines warm humour with beautifully measured emotion and a sprinkling of bite. There is a depth and maturity to her work that is remarkable for such a young poet.

Jamie McGarry of Scarborough and Valley Press writes with infectious verve and his poems are frequently romantic and always very funny.

Several poems examine snailkind’s unhealthy adoration of slugs – the rebels without shells of the kitchen garden – and highlights include a thrilling travel account (‘A Snail of Two Cities’) and a poignant account of moving house (‘A Shell of My Former Self’). This book features a number of joyous homages to human poets including Robert Frost, John Betjeman, T.S. Eliot and Gervase Phinn.

Jamie McGarry founded small publishing operation Valley Press in 2008, which he continues to run to this day. Uncovering and translating the original ‘snail diary’ in 2009, Jamie made it his mission in life to honour the author’s memory, and spread the word of his literary prowess far and wide. A slow-moving, brown-hued creature, Jamie regularly enjoys a leafy salad, and has (on occasion) been known to come out of his shell.

The Emma Press » Paperback » £6.50 9780957459694 » 129x198mm » 96pp Poetry (DCF)

Harry Baker is London, UK, European and World Poetry Slam Champion, with two 5 Star Edinburgh fringe shows under his belt. He has performed internationally including in Chicago, New York, Munich, and Warsaw. Harry is currently studying for a Maths degree in term time and doing the festival circuit in summer.

Burning Eye Books » Paperback » £8.99 9781909136281 » 129x198mm » 84pp Poetry (DCF)

The most prevalent commendation from voters in the 2013 Saboteur awards was for her uncanny knack of expressing the inexpressible or as one voter put it, she has “the ability to articulate feelings previously considered ineffable; a skill as rare as it is wonderful”.

Vanessa Kisuule is a rising star of British poetry. She has won several slams including Farrago School’s Out Slam Champion 2010, Poetry Rivals 2011, Next Generation Slam 2012, and SLAMbassadors 2010. She has performed at Glastonbury, Lounge on the Farm, Secret Garden Party Wilderness and Shambala Festivals. In 2013 she was voted Best Performance Poet in Sabotage Reviews’ Saboteur Awards and the inaugural South West Poetry Awards.

Burning Eye Books » Paperback » £8.99 9781909136298 » 129x198mm » 72pp Poetry (DCF)

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Bachelor Pad

Whose Flesh is Flame, Whose Bone is Time

Stephen Kampa Poetic craft provides a vehicle for a transcendence that is part faith, part laughter.

Where Stephen Kampa’s awardwinning first book, Cracks in the Invisible, wrestled with silence (particularly the silence of God) and how to fill it, his second book addresses solitude. The poems here explore various permutations of intimacy and isolation in contemporary culture and juxtapose them with the difficult models of intimacy and fruitful solitude championed by earlier traditions.

Stephen Kampa was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1981 and grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida. His first book, Cracks in the Invisible, won the 2010 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and the 2011 Gold Medal in Poetry from the Florida Book Awards. His poems have also been awarded the Theodore Roethke Prize, first place in the River Styx International Poetry Contest, and two Pushcart nominations. He currently divides his time between teaching poetry at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL and working as a musician.

Waywiser Press » Paperback » £8.99 9781904130581 » 129x197mm 104pp » Poetry (DCF)

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V. Penelope Pelizzon From the coal country of Western Pennsylvania, to Camorra-ridden Naples, to the streets of Damascus before the outbreak of civil war.

The lyric poems in V. Penelope Pelizzon’s Whose Flesh is Flame, Whose Bone is Time (a finalist for the eighth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize) chart the complexities of national and intimate identity.

By turns playful, lamenting, sceptical, bawdy, and aggrieved, they find the human fingerprint below history’s erasures, ultimately praising the endurance of the soul “so ample that, if that is all there is,/ she makes a feast of thorns.”

Selected Poems Taja Kramberger This selection of poems from Taja Kramberger’s last three collections is a magnificent introduction to the poet’s work.

These narrative poems hold immense power and a fighting spirit that drives the long lines to right the balance of oppression and lost histories. Finding the political in the scurrying of ants and of wrinkles, the voice within these poems is low, insistent and persuasive. The collection jostles with people, famous and invisible, living out lives that all hold significance for the poet, and celebrate the power of every individual, whoever they are, making these ultimately uplifting and affirming poems.

V. Penelope Pelizzon was born in 1967 and grew up on a small farm near Boston, Massachusetts. Her first poetry collection, Nostos (2000) won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. A diplomat’s spouse, she has spent much of the past decade travelling between Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and her job as Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Taja Kramberger has published nine books of poetry, two books for children, one drama, translated eight books of literature. Her poems have appeared in many languages in various literary anthologies and reviews in Slovenia and abroad. Throughout her career she has participated at some 60 international poetry festivals, has been six times shortlisted for poetry awards, and in 2007 won the Award Veronika for the best book of 2006. She left Slovenia in October 2012 and now lives in Paris together with her husband Drago Rotar, the academic.

Waywiser Press » Paperback » £8.99 9781904130604 » 129x197mm 120pp » Poetry (DCF)

Arc Publications » Paperback » £10.99 9781908376077 » 215x138mm 160pp » Poetry (DCF)

Journey Planner & Other Stories and Poems ed. Rowan B Fortune Journey Planner introduces new and emerging voices in short story and poetry.

Claire Fisher’s award winning title story ‘Journey Planner: from wherever you are to Peckham’ is an innovative and wry take on every day anxiety in the city, relationships and life, whilst Zoe Gilbert’s ‘Sticks are for Fire’ is a dark, incantatory story full of folklore elements that create a sinister and disturbing atmosphere. Tracey Iceton’s ‘Slag’ plays on a title with multiple meanings to explore personal stress alongside industrial decay.

Heidi James-Dunbar carefully intertwines statement and metaphor in perfectly pitched lines and Rebecca Parfitt’s poised images shimmer with clarity, making the everyday world of relationships brim with unsettling surprise. Kathleen M Quinlan writes with vivid honesty combined with skilful control, whilst David Olsen’s resonant voice weaves lyrical, compressed narratives.

Rowan B Fortune is an editor at Cinnamon Press. His writing engages with several forms including poetry, fiction, reviews and essays.

Cinnamon Press » Paperback » £8.99 9781909077164 » 216x140mm 144pp » Poetry & Short Fiction (DCF / FYB)

Six Pounds Eight Ounces Rhian Elizabeth Hannah King is a liar, so everyone says. That means her stories of growing up in the Rhondda, as told in Six Pounds Eight Ounces, must be treated with caution.

Debut novelist Rhian Elizabeth opens Hannah’s notebook up on her own little world of crazy friends and crazy family, and a crazy school with crazy teachers who aren’t always what they seem. From dolls and sherbet lemons, to a bright student who drops out of school in favour of drink, drugs and glam rock up on an estate which feels like another planet, Hannah, it seems, has always been trouble.

Rhian Elizabeth is 24 and from the Rhondda. She has been developing this book over a number of years, starting it on a creative writing course with the University of Glamorgan. She is also working on a second book, which she says is not about growing up in the Rhondda.

Seren » Paperback » £8.99 » 9781781721407 » 208x135mm 300pp » Fiction (FA)

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The Land Before Yoghurt

Midnight, Dhaka

Alistair Robinson

MiR Mahfuz ALI

A collection of new poems by the New Writing North award winning poet Alistair Robinson.

An exceptional new voice in British Poetry.

It includes pieces from By Grand Central Station We Sat Down And Wept (Red Squirrel, 2010) and from the forthcoming Double Bill (Red Squirrel, 2013). His trademark humour permeates the collection, which brings together poems that have proved popular at his readings. The folklore of knees, budgerigars and tables are among the subjects tackled.

Alistair Robinson, who lives in South Shields, is a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Sunderland. His chapbook South Of Souter (Sand) was published in 2003.

The following year he won a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North. His collection Stereograms Of The Dead (Red Squirrel Press) was published in 2009. Alistair is the author of two books on theatre history and one on the history of Sunderland.

He also works as a musician. His jazz trio, the Bicycle Thieves, plays at venues all over the North East.

Red Squirrel Press » Paperback » £7.99 9781906700850 » 216x138mm » 68pp Poetry (DCF)

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A native of what is now Bangladesh, Mahfuz grew up during the difficult period of the early 1970’s when the region was struck, first by a devastating cyclone, then by a particularly vicious civil war. As a boy, Mahfuz witnessed atrocities and writes about them with a searing directness. Much more than this, his trauma becomes transformative, and his poetry the key to unlocking memories of a childhood that are rich in nuance, gorgeous in detail and evocative of a beautiful country. They celebrate the human capacity for love, survival and renewal.

Mir Mahfuz Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1958 and moved to the UK in the 1970s. He has worked as a model, a tandoori chef and as a dancer and actor. He is renowned for his extraordinary voice: a rich, throaty whisper brought about by a bullet in the throat fired by a Bangladeshi policeman trying to silence the singing of anthems during a public anti-war demonstration. He has given readings and performances at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as well on BBC Newsnight Review, Radio 4, and the World Service.

Seren » Paperback » £9.99 9781781721599 » 216x138mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF)

CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets ed. Simon Armitage, Joanna Gavins, Peter Sansom, Ann Sansom CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets is a stimulating and hugely enjoyable survey of where poetry is now (or will be very soon).

It features work by outstanding newcomers to the publishing scene alongside more established young writers such as Liz Berry, Andrew McMillan, David Tait and Tom Warner. Kim Moore (an Independent Book of the Year) and Helen Mort (T S Eliot Prize shortlist), appear alongside winners of the Poetry Business Competition and new poets from the Rialto and HappenStance presses.

Simon Armitage’s many collections include Seeing Stars (Faber.) He is Professor of Poetry at Sheffield University.

Joanna Gavins has published a number of books, including Reading the Absurd (Edinburgh, 2013).

Ann Sansom’s collections include In Praise of Men & Other People (Bloodaxe).

Peter Sansom’s books include Selected Poems (Carcanet) and Writing Poems (Bloodaxe).

The Poetry Business » Paperback £10.00 » 9781906613952 » 85pp Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Nothing’s Lost Ian House “Ian House’s vivid, substantial, detailpacked poems manage to restore the everyday world to its immediate presence while keeping it at a wary, thoughtful, sometimes rueful distance.” Conor Carville, Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Reading.

The poems in Nothing’s Lost, Ian House’s second full collection, range from Reading’s side streets to Moscow’s Metro by way of a murderous Victorian baby farmer, Gogol’s nose, and the Tardis outside an Oxford museum.

They are linked by a concern with relationship—between individuals, past and present, mind and world, certainty and doubt. Sometimes bleak, sometimes joyous, always inspired by experience’s detail and nuance, nothing is lost on them, a great deal gained.

Fox Talbot & the Reading Establishment Martin Andrews Story of the first town to produce books illustrated with photographs, recently featured on BBC Four.

The very first book in the world to be illustrated with photographs was produced in Reading between 1844 and 1846. In 1843, William Henry Fox Talbot set up the first commercial studios to mass-produce photographs from negatives and he chose the Berkshire town of Reading as its location. The Reading Establishment, as it became known, marks a pivotal moment in the development of photography. Told in a lively and engaging way, the story starts with a mystery. Who is the strange, foreign gentleman buying unusual substances in the chemist shops of Reading – is he a forger or a spy?

Ian House taught in England, the United States, Moscow, Budapest and Prague. His first collection, Cutting the Quick, was published by Two Rivers Press in 2005. He lives in Reading.

Martin Andrews is a Lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He is a printing historian and has lectured on the subject widely in Britain and abroad. He lives in Reading.

Two Rivers Press » £8.95 9781909747005 » 210x135mm » 60pp Poetry (DCF)

Two Rivers Press » Paperback » £10.00 9781901677980 » 216x138mm » 88pp (20 b&w ills.) » Local History (WQH)

The Reading Detectives Kerry Renshaw St Mary’s Butts? What kind of irreverent street name is that and where did it come from?

When did Reading last experience a fatal tornado? And where might you find Queen Victoria’s finger? The answers to these and other questions are waiting to be discovered but you’ll not find them on the internet. Instead, set out on foot on each of the four trails detailed in this book and find out all about Reading’s hidden history.

Kerry Renshaw grew up in London and studied history at Oxford. He has taught history for many years at different levels, in England and abroad.

The idea for this book comes from his fond memories of the News Chronicle I-Spy series, especially “I-spy the sights of London”, which showed him as a child how much hidden history is to be found on the streets of our towns and cities.

Two Rivers Press » Paperback » £6.99 9781909747029 » 170x124mm » 88pp Children’s Picture Book (YBC)

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The Hitting Game

Sounding Ground

Collected Poems

Graham Clifford

Vladimir Lucien

John Ormond

The first collection of poems by the Londonbased poet Graham Clifford.

Intelligent, musical, gritty in observation, graceful in method.

The essential collection of John Ormond’s works

The vibrancy of the poet’s voice and the immediacy of his claims upon our attention are clear. These are urban poems where nature appears like a strange intrusion: a flock of swallows ‘flick about dusk like black flames’.

These are poems full of unexpected dramas and fresh enchantments, they provoke as well as delight.

Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts. His poems are never overtly political, but there’s an oblique and often witty politics to be discovered by those who care to look.

His poems tell truths, creating and questioning their own mythologies.

This Collected Poems draws together all of Ormond’s work, including unpublished material. It includes an Introduction, notes and commentary of the poems re their geneses, backgrounds, allusions and meanings, and a bibliography of Ormond’s prose writing, films and writing about him. An index of titles and first lines completes this essential book.

“Each poem becomes a deft melding of wit, wistfulness and sometimes even woe. Despite ruined childhoods and abrasive families, the poems explore or hint toward more positive thoughts about the dignity of poverty, about resilience to loss, about how loss nourishes us by connecting us.”

Sphinx Graham Clifford was born in 1973 in Portsmouth and grew up in Wiltshire. He has been published in numerous literary magazines such as Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Magma, and London Magazine. He is an Assistant Head Teacher in East London.

Seren » Paperback » Paperback £9.99 » 9781781721650 » 216x138mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF)

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This is a collection that is alive with its conscious tensions both in subject matter and form. There’s a tension between the vision of ancestors, family and of the poet himself as being engaged in the business of acting in the world and building on the past, and a sharp awareness of the inescapability of age’s frailty, the decay of memory and of death.

Vladimir Lucien was born in St. Lucia. While attending St. Mary’s College Lucien stumbled upon his ‘first art’: acting, starring in a number of plays. After leaving school, Lucien took up a teaching job, which he resigned from to pursue acting in New York. When this proved discouraging, Lucien took up studies at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad where he began writing poetry seriously.

Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £8.99 9781845232399 » 135x206mm » 64pp Poetry (DCF)

John Ormond (1923-1990) is one of the remarkable generation of poets born in south Wales in the early 1920s which includes Dannie Abse and Leslie Norris. A journalist on Picture Post during its heyday in the 1940s, he was a friend of fellow Swansea writers Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins, both of whom were key influences on a poetry of consistently high standards. A significant number of his poems, many of them elegiac, probe his Welsh roots, demonstrating an abiding concern with family and locality. Others focus on particular aspects of the natural world, seeking to capture their elusive quiddities. Typically unsentimental, shapely and meticulously crafted, his are the poems of a sensibility which delights in explorations, probes complex themes and problematical areas of feeling, and refuses to settle for easy answers.

Seren » Paperback » £12.99 9781781721186 » 216x138mm Poetry (DCF)

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Commentary

The Cellophane Man

Ways to Build a Roadblock

Marcelle Sauvageot

Judith Davies

Josh Ekroy

Commentary is a narrative—hovering between the genres of memoir, theory, and fiction.

The term ‘cold case’ might have been invented for the murder of 20 year-old prostitute Lynette White, found stabbed and slashed 69 times in Butetown, South Wales in 1988.

A Debut New Poets collection from Nine Arches Press.

It tells of a dying woman whose abandonment by a lover precipitates a complex and moving investigation into suffering, solitude, friendship, and the nature of romantic and sexual love.

Sauvageot died of tuberculosis, after several stints in sanatoriums, at the age of 34. Commentaire was highly praised in its time by Paul Claudel, Paul Valéry, André Gide, Charles Du Bos, René Crevel and Clara Malraux.

This edition is translated by Christine Schwartz-Hartley (African Psycho) and Anna Moschovakis (The Jokers, The Possession), with a new introduction

by Jennifer Moxley. It also includes translations of a foreword and note by Charles du Bos and an essay by Jean Mouton, all from previous French editions of the book. Born in 1900, Marcelle Sauvageot was connected to the Surrealists by friendship, love, and artistic practice, but has been excluded from the dominant narrative about that movement until a reissue of her single book, Commentaire (initially retitled Laissez-Moi), was published in Paris in 2002, prompting a revival of interest in her work.

Ugly Duckling Presse » Paperback £10.00 » 9781937027100 » 128pp Fiction (FA)

11 years after the murder, the case is taken up by a proverbial odd couple of police detectives: Brent Parry (sporty son of a miner) and forensic scientist Angela Gallop (daughter of Oxford intellectuals). And when cellophane from a cigarette packet is found stored with White’s shoes, the pair have their breakthrough.

The Cellophane Man takes in Lynette White’s life of violent men and drugs, change in Tiger Bay and the Cardiff docklands, the wrongful conviction of five local (black) men, a racist constabulary and rife police corruption.

Judith Davies is a previous winner of the BT Daily Journalist of the Year Award in Wales. She has also worked on three six-part series of Post Mortem for Channel 5 and five six-part series of Crime Secrets for ITV Wales.

Seren » Paperback » £9.99 9781781720936 » 216x138mm 220pp » True Crime (BTC)

Josh Ekroy’s debut explores the legacy of more than a decade of wars on terror, disastrous foreign policies, extremism and brutality. These poems serve as a reminder that in the midst of the most technologically-advanced digital human age, we live in a constant state of global war. These are adroit and concise poems, observed from the standpoint of an unflinching witness to the ‘shock and awe’ of early twenty-first century history.

Revulsion at corrupt leaders and the absurdity of rotten institutions and systems fuels these poems with an illuminating satirical energy. Ekroy’s poetry is dynamic and refined, mindful of the blood and the ties of humanity that should bond us. It is a deeply humane poetry – whether documenting love and memory, or of lives dreamt beyond conflict, How to Build a Roadblock reminds us of our capacity for compassion and duty to challenge, stand up and speak out.

Nine Arches Press » Paperback » £8.99 9780992758905 » 216x138mm » 96pp Poetry (DCF)

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Atlantic Kelley Swain Atlantic is a work of startling clarity and precision.

Atlantic explores the ebb and flow of contrasts, shifting between Old England and New England, death and life, grief and lust. The poet moves from Rhode Island to London and time divides between two continents as she supports grandparents at the end of their lives, whilst making a place for herself in a new world.

What the Horses Heard Rebecca Gethin In 1912 a life of rearing horses on a Dartmoor farm is soon to be torn apart by war, and Orion, who has sworn an oath never to use a gun, finds himself refused exemption from military service and imprisoned. Meanwhile, his sister Cass, rejected by her fiancé’s family because of her brother’s conscientious objection, applies to work in a Remount Depot, from where horses are transported to the Front. Flouting convention and disguised as a soldier, Cass travels to France with two of the horses, where her experiences threaten to break her.

When peace returns, the threads of life are gradually taken up. Orion returns from a post-war work in Eastern Europe to signs of hope in Dartmoor, but for Cass, who has lost contact with Captain Meehan, the only person who can vouch for the truth of her story, the outlook is less secure and after so much trauma, will she ever be able to reconstruct a life?

Exquisitely observed, this highly charged and affecting novel takes us on an epic journey with larger than life characters and animals that experienced extraordinary brutality during a devastating war, along the way asserting the importance of individual stories against a backdrop of loss on an enormous scale. Humane, poignant and gripping, What the Horses Heard is must-read novel for the centenary of World War I.

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Kelley Swain was born in Rhode Island, 1985. She is the author of Darwin’s Microscope (Flambard Press, 2009), Opera di Cera ( Valley Press, 2014), editor of The Rules of Form: Sonnets and Slide Rules (Whipple Museum, 2012) and Pocket Horizon (with Don Paterson: Valley Press, 2013). She is a freelance writer and educator in poetry, science, and the Medical Humanities. She lives in London. Find her on Twitter @thenakedmuse.

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Romiosini Yiannis Ritsos

Captain Love and the Five Joaquins

The Emma Press Anthology of Fatherhood

The word romiosini (ρωμιοσύνη ) or ‘Greekness’ derives from the Byzantine idea that the Greeks are the true Romioi, the heirs of the Roman Empire.

John Clegg

ed. Rachel Piecey & Emma Wright

A fascinating story in verse, grippingly gruesome, about the man who inspired Zorro.

A fascinating insight into modern fatherhood, released to coincide with Father’s Day.

A true adventure story set in the vividly-evoked Old West and told through verse and prose poems. We follow the progress of the bounty hunter Harry Love, on his triumphant tour of California with the supposed head of horse-thief Joaquin Murrieta in a jar, and the Five Joaquins, a notorious gang of outlaws hard on Love’s tracks.

A companion piece to the motherhood anthology, offering a variety of perspectives on fatherhood. The book will contain reflections on the poets’ own fathers, their hypothetical children, the expectations placed on fathers in society, and fatherhood in myths and literature.

For hundreds of years under the Turkish occupation the flame of romiosini was kept alive in codes of honour, loyalty, bravery, love of the land, religious devotion and patriotism. For Yiannis Ritsos, the Greek Partisans of EAM/ELAS in the Second World War were the heroic heirs to the romiosini of the mountain klephtes, the medieval epic hero Digenis Akritas, and the revolutionaries who fought against the Turks in the 1820s. First published in 1954, Romiosini was later set to music

by Mikis Theodorakis.

Yiannis Ritsos (1909-1990) was one of most prolific European poets of the 20th century. The author of more than a hundred books of poems, plays, fiction, translations and essays, his work has been translated into over forty different languages. Because of his politics – Ritsos was a life-long member of the Greek Communist Party – the Metaxas dictatorship burned his books at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens in 1936.

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John Clegg was born in 1986 and works in a bookshop in London. His first collection, Antler, was published

by Salt in 2012. His poems have been featured in The Salt Book of Younger Poets, Best British Poetry 2012 and Best British Poetry 2013. In 2013 he received an Eric Gregory award.

“My father has few things to protect.

In our house where laughter flirts effortlessly with a history of loneliness, sometimes edifying each other, as two people stranded on an island may behave, the magnificent koi pond is his honour and glory. Cut in black marble, water unloosed over imposing shoulders of an obsidian wall, it seems, as I grow older, to be more perfect for my father’s affections than I can ever be, how virtuous its talent for turning the commonplace beautiful.”

An extract from Ornament. © Jerrold Yam http://jerroldyam.com/

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Essays on Life by Thomas Mitchell, Farmer Thomas Mitchell Coinciding with the centenary of the First World War, his intelligent voice from the past gives us an insight into how people thought before it, and what was lost.

Thomas Mitchell’s essays on how to live well were completed in 1913, and reflect a clear mind and a good education, but also confidence in the world and society that was about to be shattered. No doubt some thoughts he expressed would have been impossible to reaffirm five years later.

A well-educated man with a house full of books his background was very similar to that of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and although they undoubtedly had different politics, they would both have agreed on the importance of society.

Thomas Mitchell, born in 1870, was a tenant farmer at Mill of Ardo, a small settlement in North-East Scotland, and his family had leased the farm since 1791. Mitchell took over the lease in 1890 when his uncle died, and lived there with his mother and grandmother. He married Margaret Finnie late in life and had two children, William and Margaret. Thomas Mitchell died in 1950.

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Klaus

The Garden

Allan Massie

Magnus Florin

Klaus is a novella that recounts the last days of Klaus Mann’s life, while referring back to the trials of the Mann family (Klaus being Thomas Mann’s son) and Klaus’s own autobiographical novel, Mephisto, one of his better known works partly because it was banned in West Germany for decades.

The Swedish best-seller.

This unlocks his relationship with both his father and his former lover, Gustaf, who was a communist before collaborating with the Nazi regime and becoming one of its most celebrated actors. On his return to Germany after the war, Klaus was outraged to see that Gustaf had now switched seamlessly to the post-war regime, and was once more the darling of the theatre world.

Klaus, who had been isolated as both a homosexual and an anti-fascist, felt that Germans or rather those Germans in prominent positions were refusing to acknowledge their culpability. His isolation was now complete.

Allan Massie, one of Scotland’s foremost literary figures, has published twenty three works of fiction and nine of non-fiction, which include a string of highly successful historical novels.

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This novel is based on the life of Linnaeus, the eighteenth-century, Swedish enlightenment figure famous for his taxonomy or scientific classification still used in biology. It principally concerns the different ways Linnaeus and his gardener interpret the world around them. The gardener perceives plants for what they are in themselves and Linnaeus for what they are in relation to other things.

They never understand each other and the dialogues are wonderfully inconclusive.

At the time, a Swedish reviewer wrote, “… Magnus Florin has artfully concentrated and directed his material – he manages, as it were, to make the flower-king’s life and philosophy of nature fit into a window-box. … The Garden is probably not a potential bestseller, but it could easily become a minor classic.”

Magnus Florin, who was born in Uppsala in 1955, was first published in 1989. He has written poetry, short prose works and five novels. The Garden was published in 1995, the German version came out in 2013.

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Things Written Randomly In Doubt

Out of Silence: New and Selected Poems

Self Portrait With THE Happiness

Allan Cameron

John Harvey

David Tait

A work in three parts.

John Harvey has been a professional writer since 1975 and now has more than 100 published books to his credit.

The first full length collection from the winner of the Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition.

Principally known as a writer of crime fiction, the first of his Charlie Resnick novels, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the 100 most notable crime novels of the last century. His books have won major prizes in Great Britain, France and America, and in 2007 he was the proud recipient of the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing.

David Tait was born in Lancaster in 1985. He is General Editor for online youth magazine The Cadaverine, and is a member of Chapman & Scarecrow - a group that organises independent press festivals throughout the country. He is also currently House Poet for the Carol Ann Duffy & Friends Poetry Series at Manchester Royal Exchange.

Things Written starts with aphorisms in “How Not to Be a Ruminant”, shifts to essays in “Weights and Counterweights”, and concludes with poetry in “By the Metre”.

Some arguments appear in more than one section, and include nationalism, class, free will, religion, literature and the arts, but the theme of human relationships runs through the entire book, and is most closely examined with reference to the ideas of Martin Buber in a long essay entitled “Cats and Dogs, and Other Things We Cannot Understand”.

Allan Cameron was born in 1952 and grew up in Nigeria and Bangladesh. He has written two novels, The Golden Menagerie (Luath Press, 2004) and The Berlusconi Bonus (Luath Press 2005.) His non-fiction work, In Praise of the Garrulous (2008 and 2013), is an examination of the essentiality of language to human nature. His two collections of short stories, Can the Gods Cry? and On the Heroism of Mortals were published in 2011 and 2012.

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John Harvey has also written for television and radio and between 1977 and 1999 ran Slow Dancer Press, publishing work by such writers as Lucille Clifton, Sharon Olds and Carol Ann Duffy.

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He was a winner in the 2010 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition, chosen by Simon Armitage. His pamphlet, Love’s Loose Ends, was published by Smith / Doorstop in 2011.

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Sugar Hall

Hay: Landscape, Literature and the Town of Books

Tiffany Murray A great, chilling ghost story by a strong contemporary British author.

It’s Easter 1955, Lilia scrapes the ice from the inside of the windows, and the rust from the locks, but there are pasts that lurk with the moths in the folds of the drapes at Sugar Hall that she cannot reach.

Mouldering in the English border countryside the red gardens of Sugar Hall hold a secret, and as Britain waits for its last hanging, Lilia and her children must confront a history that has been buried but not forgotten.

Based on the stories of the Black Boy that surround Littledean Hall in the Forest of Dean, this is a superbly chilling ghost story from Tiffany Murray.

Tiffany Murray grew up in Wales.

Her first novel, Happy Accidents (2005), has drawn comparison with Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm.

Her second novel, Diamond Star Halo (2010), drew comparisons with Dodie Smith’s I Capture The Castle.

Both novels were shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and Guardian critics selected Diamond Star Halo as one of the best of their fiction books of the year, in 2010.

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Jim Saunders The border town of Hay-on-Wye is famous for two things: the annual Festival of Literature (now in its 31st year) and its stunning location.

Jim Saunders’ new book is a photographic record and words about Hay-on-Wye, its environs and people. Atmospheric and insightful photographs are interspersed with an informative written exploration of the town’s history and the stories and characters associated with it.

The result is a record of the relationship in which a landscape of great natural beauty shapes a people, and a people shape a very special place. The book is peppered with glorious images of the town and the surrounding countryside, and telling portraits of inhabitants and visitors.

Jim Saunders is a photographer based in Knighton. He regularly lectures about his photography, which has been published by Aurum, Chatto, Penguin, Thames & Hudson, BBC History, Heritage Magazine and the Countryside Council for Wales, as well as newspapers.

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Dry Stone WORK Brian Johnstone A grounded yet playful collection.

As well as the deep lineage of rural landscapes that populated previous collections, here Johnstone treats us to an extended trip to the circus, where the glitz and thrill of the big top and its stunts are peeled back to allow us into physical and emotional rigour that forms the show’s scaffold.

Elsewhere poems transport you more literally through film and TV history, around Europe and into the past, again balancing between illusion and the tension that supports it in the more mundane real world. Throughout, the tone and language also plays an ingenious balancing act between the structured, rhyming and informal.

This is a personal and expansive collection, honest and exploratory.

Born in Edinburgh in 1950, Brian Johnstone has lived in the Fife countryside since 1972. He has published two full collections and three pamphlets, as well as appearing in anthologies and other publications in Scotland, elsewhere in the UK and in Europe and the Americas. His poems have been translated into more than 10 different languages.

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Gangs of Shadow

Selected Poems

Michael O’Neill

KA˘ Rlis Ve˘rdin‚sˇ

Each moment is brimming with imagery of its past and future, so these poems bring out the mutability and movement that both blurs and pinpoints events.

Ka˘rlis Ve˘rdin‚š is one of the poets featured in Arc’s popular New Voices from Europe and Beyond anthology series.

There is a reaching for the unsayable throughout this collection, whether it is thinking about the future, people’s inner lives or the shadows of place, O’Neill is wholeheartedly engaged with the unfathomable nature of living.

To read these poems is to be part of his exuberance for the physical and visual experience of living, be that lying in a field, being with loved ones or watching the movement of light through a day.

His narrative poems are precise, focusing on what may otherwise be overlooked. Whether fable-like in tone, or ruminating on the familiar such as lying in bed, bathing, drinking water and chatting, Vērdiņš’s observation is sensual, often sexy. The erotic is as part of his experience as eating, perhaps the two are inseparable “beautiful as everything that enters your life”, just as the world tips into surprising angles, where emotions are upended and light fills every shadow.

Michael O’Neill was born in Aldershot in 1953, and in 1960 moved to Liverpool. He read English at Exeter College, Oxford. Since 1979 he has lectured at Durham University, where he is a Professor of English. He cofounded and co-edited Poetry Durham from 1982 to 1994. His critical studies include The All-Sustaining Air (OUP, 2007), an exploration of Romantic poetry’s influence on poets since 1900. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1983 for his poetry and a Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 1990. His first collection The Stripped Bed, was published by Collins Harvill in 1990 and in 2008, Arc published his second collection, Wheel, to critical acclaim.

Ka˘rlis Ve˘rdin‚š was born in 1979 in Riga. With an M.A. in Cultural Theory and a Ph.D. in Philology, Vērdiņš is the author of many academic papers and essays on literature, both Latvian and foreign, as well as a prolific literary critic. He has published four volumes of poetry, all to a great critical and popular acclaim and fetching top literary awards. Vērdiņš has also written librettos and song lyrics and has published translations of American Modernist poetry. His own poetry has been translated in many languages, including collections in Russian and Polish.

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On Water John O’Donnell Exploring the universal themes of exile, love, sex, death.

Irish poet John O’Donnell’s third collection is alive to the present and the past, the poems focused on the intimate particular: a mother’s panic on a beach; the stench of an industrial school; a slave-trader’s one good eye.

Armed with a lightness of touch, these poems are not afraid of the darker regions of our experiences John O’Donnell was born in 1960.

His work has been published in newspapers and journals in Ireland, the UK, the US and Australia, and has been broadcast on local and national radio. He won the Hennessy / Sunday Tribune New Irish Writing Award for Poetry in 1998, and in 2001 The Ireland Fund’s Listowel Writers’ Week Prizes for Best Individual Poem and Best Short Collection. Some Other Country, his first collection, appeared in 2002 and also in 2002 he won the SeaCat Irish National Poetry Prize.

His most recent collection of poems is Icarus Sees His Father Fly, published by Dedalus in 2004.

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Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems Paul Perry From a new generation of Irish Poets comes Paul Perry.

“A generous selection of the work of one of Ireland’s most admired younger poets. There’s an expansiveness of scope here, allowing for poems that emerge from the long view of history and others which re-work folk legend into parables for our times… Perry’s world is the compromised, chastened, technology-loving world we live in but he manages to convey that it is not reduced, flattened or less than it was. There’s no nostalgia here, instead a sometimes headlong sense of passionate engagement.” — from the Introduction by Siobhán Campbell Paul Perry was born in Dublin in 1972. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, TLS, Granta and The Best American Poetry 2000. He has been a Writer in Residence for Co. Longford, the University of Ulster, and Rathlin Island. His first book The Drowning of the Saints was published in 2003 to critical acclaim. This was followed in 2006 by The Orchid Keeper and in 2010 by The Last Falcon and Small Ordinance. He is Curator of the largest and longest running international poetry festival in Ireland, dlr Poety Now.

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Light at the End of the Tenner

Cutting Up The Economist

Andrew “MulletProof” Graves

Clive Birnie

Accomplished second collection from self-styled mod-poet

A quizzical re-cast of a dramatic period of ultra-recent history shot through with black humour.

In this follow up to his debut collection Citizen Kaned Andrew Graves weaves nostalgia for “second hand Saturday record shops” with the colour of contemporary multi-cultural urban Britain. Light at the End of the Tenner is a gritty, celebratory catalogue of worlds and people. Andrew takes us from his home town of Nottingham “riding revolution’s home / on steeds of / rusting Raleigh bikes” through the Space Race, stars of silent horror movies, Cathy Come Home and, as you would expect from a self-styled Mod poet, a number of poems that celebrate The Who, The Small Faces and other musical legends. This is a poet who knows how to speak of the world in his own voice.

“Like finding a great lost Roger McGough collection in a box in the loft.”

Jim Bob (Carter USM) Andrew “MulletProof” Graves is a writer, mod and performer who occasionally makes people laugh.

Featured on Radio 6 Music’s Cerys Matthews Show and BBC 4’s recent documentary Evidently John Cooper Clarke. Light at the End of the Tenner is his second collection.

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In Cutting Up The Economist Clive Birnie critiques the extraordinary post Lehman Bros. era in a sequence of montage poems composed using headlines from editions of The Economist newspaper published between 2009 and the spring of 2014. The format mirrors that of The Economist itself with sections devoted to Britain, Europe & the Euro crisis, the USA, China etc. The headlines are used intact and strung into narratives within strict confines ‒ only headlines about Britain are used in poems about Britain for instance ‒ or the contents pages of single issues are redacted to reveal hints and hidden truths about the political calamity of the age of austerity.

Entrepreneur, editor and poetry activist Clive Birnie has been cutting things up to make poems from them since 1994. Some of these have been published by The Delinquent and Streetcake and a fourteen poem sequence of thought fragments cut from overheard conversations and management seminars between 1994 and 1998 was published as a e-chapbook by Silkworms Ink in 2012.

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The Merchant of Feathers

The Way Home

Tanya Shirley

Millicent A. A. Graham

This second collection of poems confirms why Tanya Shirley is a rising star in the Caribbean poetry scene.

Millicent Graham focuses on memory and the idea of home, whilst questioning the very nature of “home” as both a physical and emotional space.

The stories she tells have their finger on the pulse of contemporary Jamaica in all its exuberance and brokenness.

She tells these stories with a winning mixture of acute observation, outrage, outrageousness, tenderness and understanding.

There is joy in the energy and delights of the body but also a keen awareness of ageing and the body’s derelictions.

If there is one overarching vision it is that love is “larger than the space we live in.”

Tanya Shirley was born and lives in Jamaica. Her work has appeared in Small Axe, The Caribbean Writer, and in New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology (ed. Kei Miller, Carcanet, 2007.) Her first collection She Who Sleeps With Bones was the 2009 Jamaican bestseller.

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There are comforts – the landscape, the vegetation, the food, the playground, the hand of parents, the romantic escapades – and there are the disquiets – the bullying, the violence, the fearfulness, the failure of memory, the losses.

In these very intimate poems, Millicent marks out a distinct poetic territory for herself with an immediately recognizable voice, an assured handling of language and image, and the sensation that she is adding to the corpus of Caribbean poetry in important ways.

Millicent A. A. Graham lives in Kingston, Jamaica. Her first collection, the damp in things was published June in 2009 by Peepal Tree Press. Her work has been published in So Much Things to Say: 100 Calabash Poets, The Jamaica Journal, Caribbean Writer, BIM, City Lighthouse, Callaloo and Bearing Witness II.

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Love it When You Come, hate it when you leave Sharon Leach Sharon Leech’s latest collection occupies new territory in Caribbean writing.

The characters of her stories are people struggling to find their place in the world, people wondering who they are. Jamaicans of course, but part of a global cultural world dominated

by American material and celebrity culture. Her characters – male and female – want love, self-respect and sometimes excitement, but the choices they make quite often offer them the opposite. They pay lip service to the pieties of family life, but the families in these stories are no less spaces of risk, vulnerability, abuse and self-serving interests.

Sharon Leach’s virtue as a writer is that she brings a cool, unsentimental eye to the follies, misjudgements and selfdeceptions of her characters without ever losing sight of their humanity or losing interest in their individual natures. She writes about the pursuit of sex, its joys, disappointments and degradations with a frankness little matched in existing Caribbean writing Sharon Leach is a Jamaican writer and essayist, born in Kingston. She is a columnist for the Jamaica Observer and is the editor of their literary arts supplement, Bookends.

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Mount London

Collected and New Poems

ed. Martin Kratz & Tom Chivers

William Oxley

Did you know that an invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital – and, at over 1,400 metres, it is Britain’s highest peak?

Poems that reflect people, places and the many ideas that have arisen from them; ideas springing from curiosity, from a lifelong search for meaning.

This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of Mount London by a hardened team of writers, poets and urban cartographers, each one scaling a smaller mountain within the city – from Crystal Palace (112m) to Primrose Hill (78m) – until the accumulative climb exceeds the height of Ben Nevis.

Collected and New Poems distils that lifelong search from twenty collections and numerous published but uncollected poems. Praised in the past by the likes of Robert Graves and Kathleen Raine, more recent critics have well summed-up his poetry.

The essays and stories in Mount London unpeel London’s history, geography and psychogeography, reimagining the city as mountainous terrain and exploring what it’s like to move through the urban landscape.

Ascents of London’s natural peaks are offset by expeditions to the artificial mountains of the city – the Shard (306m), the chimneys of Battersea Power Station (103m) – and the search for ‘ghost hills’ in the back streets of Whitechapel and Finsbury. With contributions by Iain Sinclair, Helen Mort, Joe Dunthorne, Sarah Butler, Inua Ellams, Bradley Garrett and many more, Mount London is a unique and visionary record of the vertical city.

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“The poet’s struggle for truth shines through all his poetry.”

Kathleen McPhilemy, Sofia “An observant eye, a sure grasp of poetic form, and a penchant for philosophical musings.”

James Harpur, Temenos Academy Review “William Oxley often accentuates the positive. A refreshing thing to do.”

Dannie Abse William Oxley was born in Lancashire but has spent most of his life in southern England, most recently in Torbay, where he was Poet in Residence during the Year of the Artist. He has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years but, like Coleridge, sees himself as a philosopher as much as a poet.

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Survivors: Hungarian Jewish Poets of the Holocaust edited and translated by Thomas Ország-Land Nazi, neo-fascist and xenophobic parties are on the violent march again across Europe.

In Greece the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn has almost 50 seats in parliament; in the Netherlands Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom recently adopted the old Dutch Nazi flag; in France Marine Le Pen’s Front National is currently running second in the opinion polls; the ‘radical nationalist’ Jobbik is now the third largest party in Hungary.

Between March 1944 and April 1945, half a million Hungarian Jews, Roma, homosexuals and political dissidents were transported to extermination camps, mostly in Poland and Austria.

Tens of thousands were enslaved in labour camps. Almost three-quarters of Hungary’s Jewish population perished. Survivors brings together, for the first time in Hungarian and English, poems about the Hungarian Holocaust by poets who either witnessed or foresaw the Holocaust.

Survivor is an anthology of poems about political barbarism. But it is also a book about life. These poets looked evil in the face, and dedicated their lives to warning humanity about Fascism.

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Slate Voices: Cwmorthin & The Islands of Netherlorn Jan Fortune & Mavis Gulliver Slate Voices is a collection in two voices exploring change in two extraordinary locations.

Observing the metamorphosis of both land and culture, this dual collection builds into a powerful psycho-geography of place and people in relation to the poets sifting through ruins and remnants. Once thriving industrial centres, characterized by harsh lives, premature death, and loss, Cwmorthin and the Islands of Netherlorn also thrummed with strong traditions, flourishing cultures and local language. Today Cwmorthin in North Wales and the Islands of Netherlorn off the coast of Scotland are rural havens.

Jan Fortune writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She is co-founder and editor of Cinnamon Press and lives in North Wales. She has worked as a teacher, priest, charity director and creative writing tutor.

Mavis Gulliver has had poems published in Envoi, Poetry Monthly, Purple Patch, Littoral, Iota, Poetry Scotland and several other small press publications. She lives on the Isle of Islay.

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The Book of the Needle

On the Bevel

Matthew Francis

Janice Moore Fuller

Deeply funny, but with serious themes, this is an accomplished, entertaining and outstanding novel.

Accessible lucid, and finely crafted.

“In 1660, with Charles II newly restored to the throne, Arise Evans, Welsh tailor, prophet and one-time best-selling author, sits down in his Blackfriars home to write a new book. But to his publisher’s dismay, it is not in the genre in which he has had success. Arise has, throughout the era of the Civil War and Commonwealth, been prophesying disaster if the monarchy is not restored; now it has been, he feels his prophesying days are over.

Arise, a real historical character from Merionethshire, came from that fascinating period when the world turned upside down, when kings and bishops were executed, women could become preachers and a tailor like Arise, asserting the gift of visions and prophecy, could meet and speak with the mighty of the land and be taken seriously by them. Readers will be informed, entertained and fascinated by him and his world.”

Sheenagh Pugh Best-known as a poet, Matthew Francis is also a novelist, short story writer and critic.

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This poetry concentrates on themes that draw the reader in – change, loss, relationships, memory and language.

It is a wonderfully subtle, nuanced, intelligent and humane collection of poems; a book that deals seriously with the limitations of communication, but also takes a positive stance in engaging with the reader, giving the collection gravitas whilst remaining comprehensible. This is poetry that intellectually engages and challenges the audience without distancing.

Janice Moore Fuller, a resident of North Carolina in the US, has published three poetry collections, including Séance from Iris Press, winner of the 2008 Oscar Arnold Young Award for the North Carolina poetry book of the year. Her plays and libretti, including a stage adaptation of Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying, have been produced in various US theatres as well as Estonia’s Polli Talu Centre and France’s Rendez-Vous Musique Nouvelle. A Professor of English at Catawba College, she has been a visiting professor at Harlaxton College in Lincolnshire and a frequent tutor at Tŷ Newydd.

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Do not disturb (the Dragon!)

E is for Egypt

F is for Football

David Guy, Menno Wittebrood & Patrick Schoenmaker

Charles C. Somerville

Ned Elliott & Charles C. Somerville

In the depths of a glistening pool, in a deep dark cave, in an old forest, we find a dragon, who just wants to be left to sleep.

But when her hideout is discovered and her home is destroyed she is not happy about it at all. The simple, understated style and dry humour of David Guy’s writing will appeal to adults as well as children, and, alongside the dragon lurks a subtle message about the environment.

David Guy is from Maldon in Essex.

His first two books The Saddest Bear Of All and Spiders Are Wonderful were self-published on the internet, and have been read by more than a million people so far. Do Not Disturb (The Dragon!) is his first book with Hogs Back Books.

Hogs Back Books » Paperback » £6.99 9781907432170 » 278x245mm » 32pp Children’s Picture Book (YBC)

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An alphabetical guide to its most bizarre and funny facts, that is as entertaining to adults as it is to children.

Why are we so fascinated by ancient Egypt? Is it because Egyptian treasures are rich and colourful? Is it because we can’t work out how pyramids were really built? Is it because of the mystical curses, which seem to inflict anyone who open up the tomb of a pharaoh?

Richly illustrated in colours that make Egyptian art so appealing, E is for Egypt feeds our fascination with this ancient civilisation.

Charles C. Somerville is a writer and cartoonist who lives in Potomac, near Washington DC. A former advertising agency executive, Charles has produced cartoons and illustrations for mobile apps, newspapers and magazines, greeting cards, and children’s books. His published works include The Lizard of Cupcake Lake; Scream Series & The REAL Da Vinci Code, I Went With You To School Today, and The Backyard General.

Hogs Back Books » Paperback » £5.99 9781907432156 » 216x245mm » 32pp Children’s Picture Book (YBC)

Filled with football facts and publishing to coincide with the World Cup. F is for Football is the latest book in Hogs Back Books’ ‘A is for Alphabet’ series and is packed with fascinating footballing facts, which describe everything from the origins of the game, the formalising of the rules (including the debate on whether kicking your opponent should be allowed) to the most remarkable events that have taken place on and off the pitch. This book will enable any child to become an expert in the beautiful game and with the World Cup in Rio this summer it’s sure to score with football fans everywhere. Back of the net!

Not much is known about Ned Elliott apart from his taste for white suits. The book is co-written and illustrated by Charles C. Somerville who also wrote E is for Egypt.

Hogs Back Books » Paperback » £5.99 9781907432163 » 216x245mm » 32pp Children’s Picture Book (YBC)

Settled Wanderers: The Poetry of Landless People ed. Sam Berkson In 2013 poet Sam Berkson (author of Life in Transit) was invited by the charity Olive Branch to visit the non-state Western Sahara as a poet in residence.

Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony between Morocco and Algeria is no longer politically recognised, having been swallowed up by Morocco in a border war following Franco’s death. The people of Western Sahara live at the Algerian border in the largest and longest running refugee camp in the world (250,000 people, living there for over 35 years). Poetry is a cultural tradition for these people that goes back millennia.

Sam Berkson collected poems from the greatest poets of the Western Sahara. We believe this is the first time the poetry of Western Sahara has been translated into English.

This poetry collection also features poems Sam wrote in English while in residence at the refugee camp and two essays from prominent academics about the struggle Western Saharans face for emancipation and selfrealisation.

Influx Press » Paperback » £9.99 9780992765545 » 129x198mm 170pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Six Estonian Poets ed. Doris Kareva Number 12 in the much praised bi-lingual New Voices from Europe and Beyond anthology series.

This collection provides a wonderful introduction to contemporary Estonian poetry. It features the work of six of Estonia’s most celebrated poets, including Jüri Üdi ja Juhan Viiding, Kauksi Ülle, Hasso Krull, Triin Soomets, Elo Viiding and Jürgen Rooste. These poets write from their oral tradition and folklore, explore new forms of poetry thought music and marginalia and note-making. This is a fascinating anthology of diverse voices, from ironic to sincere to humorous and many more subtle tones.

Doris Kareva was born in 1958 and has published fourteen collections of poetry and one collection of essays.

Her poems have been set to music in Dutch, Greek, Swedish, Belgian and English. Canadian and German choreographers have set her poetry to dance. The City Theatre in Tallinn has performed her poetry for a few seasons and in Thailand her texts were performed at the Bangkok Royal Opera Theatre. Her poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages including Greek, Thai, Hindi and Hebrew.

Arc Publications » Paperback » £10.99 9781906570972 » 215x138mm 150pp » Poetry Anthology (DCQ)

Life Wine from the Earth Grape Rob Auton Rob Auton follows the success of In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh with a deeper darker, richer collection of his trademark micro stories and poems from the other side.

Featuring work from the two Edinburgh shows that have earned him cult status and a growing army of fans, Life Wine from the Earth Grape explores the deeper meaning of the colour yellow, whether Lurpak is available in Heaven, what happens in a supermarket when the lights go out and how photographing food is the 21st Century equivalent of saying grace before a meal. You will never look at the world in the same way again once Rob Auton has taught you how to throw stones into the future.

Rob Auton is an expatriate Yorkshireman living in the alien environment of Walthamstow. He performs regularly all over the UK and is part of London’s Bang Said The Gun stand up poetry collective. He has taken two one man shows to the Edinburgh Fringe and hit the headlines in August 2013 when a throw away gag won the Dave Funniest Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe award. He is the future of British comic poetry. You heard it here first.

Burning Eye Books » Paperback £10.00 » 9781909136311 129x198mm » 108pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Species Mark Burnhope A Debut New Poets collection from Nine Arches Press.

In the Catacombs Chris McCabe A Summer among the dead poets of West Norwood Cemetery.

Opened in 1837 and inspired by the Père Lachaise in Paris, West Norwood became known as the Millionaire’s Cemetery. But within its opulent grounds there are twelve buried names whose currency is language: these are the dead poets of West Norwood. In the first instalment of a project to map the Magnificent Seven, Chris McCabe takes us off the main track of London writing and asks why the works of Hopkins, Tennyson and Browning are still read above those buried in this suburban enclave of South London.

Join McCabe on the hunt for a great lost poet, as he walks the winding Gothic paths of the Cemetery and makes an unexpected discovery underground in the catacombs. A startling and original work of literary detection, In the Catacombs is written across a range of forms – prose, Gothic fiction, criticism and poetry – and places West Norwood Cemetery and its dead poets back into the foreground of the London psyche.

Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His poetry collections are The Hutton Inquiry, Zeppelins and The Restructure.

Penned in the Margins » Hardback » £12.99 » 9781908058195 216x138mm » 150pp » Literary studies: poetry and poets (DSC)

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Mark Burnhope’s Species is a debut collection unafraid of being vital and bright and angry. These are poems that tackle the big issues yet do not neglect the small and precious things either. Burnhope brings both wrath and wryness to bear on inequality, ignorance and prejudice, and balances force and anger and with nature, sexuality and love. The exploration of identity and disability and ideas of ‘otherness’ inform the distinct approach of this collection; the body becomes the territory of both creation and conflict, language the interpreter of its losses, pains and beauty.

Political and theological ideas ferment and rise in these poems, which though often serious are also ripe with wit, adventurous in their form and distinctive in their energy and verbal vigour. Species is radical and acutely aware – a rare and brilliant mix that makes for essential and important poetry.

Mark Burnhope currently lives and writes in Bournemouth, Dorset with his partner, four stepchildren, two geckos and a greyhound. His work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications and his first chapbook, The Snowboy, was recently published by Salt.

Nine Arches Press » Paperback » £8.99 9780992758929 » 216x138mm » 96pp Poetry (DCF)

Cairn

Imagining Helen Thomas

Short Days, Long Shadows

Richie McCaffery

Deryn Rees-Jones

Sheenagh Pugh

A Debut New Poets collection from Nine Arches Press

Poet Deryn Rees-Jones and artist Charlotte Hodes have created a unique approach to the life of Helen Thomas, and through her to the women, and children, left behind by the fatalities of war.

Twelfth collection from popular, much anthologized prize-winning poet.

Richie McCaffery’s debut collection of poems, Cairn, begins in a dedication and ends with ghosts - in between lies hoards of artefacts and longforgotten antiquities; a police whistle, a tarnished silver spoon, the bookmark lodged in a boring book decades before that sings of a lost age. These poems find their stories in the overlooked places of everyday, and take utter delight in the unexpected image and turn of phrase. Soaring, often short and bitter-sweet, the poems form markers in the landscape of love, lore and family, making mementoes to the buried and the living.

Richie McCaffery (b. 1986) lives in Stirling. He is the author of two poetry pamphlets, Spinning Plates (HappenStance Press, 2012) and Ballast Flint (Cromarty Arts Trust, 2013). His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The Dark Horse, Stand, The Rialto and The Best British Poetry 2012.

Helen Thomas was widowed when her husband the war poet Edward Thomas was killed at the battle of Arras in 1917, and was left to bring up their three young children. On the centenary of the First World War Imagining Helen Thomas explores her loss, and the loss of all war widows, through poetry, prose and art.

The book is one aspect of a wider project on war and widowhood by Rees-Jones and Hodes commissioned by the Ledbury Poetry Festival, which includes poetry, art, animation, performance, creative writing and education.

Rees-Jones will broadcast about Helen Thomas on Radio 4 later in 2014.

Deryn Rees-Jones is a leading UK poet and academic. Seren has published her four poetry collections, most recently Burying the Wren (2011) which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and the poetry section of Wales Book of the Year.

In this, her twelfth collection, noted poet Sheenagh Pugh steps into a new, northern landscape, the Shetland Islands, and her poems are steeped in the wilder weathers and views of rugged coastlines, sweeping sea-vistas and the hardy historical characters who have inhabited these lands. A poet who considers ‘too accessible’ to be the best sort of compliment, Sheenagh Pugh’s work has as much to offer the general reader as it does to the specialist, who will admire her artful use of traditional forms.

Sheenagh Pugh is a poet, novelist, translator, critic, reviewer and considerable online presence. She has published nine collections of poetry and both a Selected and a Later Selected Poems. She has won many prizes including the Forward Prize for best single poem, the Bridport Prize, the PHRAS prize, the Cardiff International Poetry Prize (twice) and the British Comparative Literature Association’s Translations Prize.

Charlotte Hodes is a painter, ceramicist and collage maker on women’s subjects who has exhibited widely.

Nine Arches Press » Paperback » £8.99 9780992758912 » 216x138mm » 72pp Poetry (DCF)

Seren » Hardback » £14.99 9781781721728 » 216x138mm Poetry (DCF)

Seren » Paperback » £9.99 9781781721568 » 216x138mm Poetry (DCF)

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Love and Fallout

Boom!

Kathryn Simmonds

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich

A hugely entertaining novel from debut novelist and award-winning poet Kathryn Simmonds.

The poet has received Arts Council funding to take this book on a special ‘motherhoodthemed’ tour of literary festivals in 2014.

If you don’t want to see fear in a handful of dust, then look away now.

When the TV makeover people come to call, forty-something green campaigner Tessa is mortified at what they rake up, not only about her wardrobe but also her youthful stay at Greenham Common.

Boom! is Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s second collection of poetry. It opens with the trope of the ‘baby as a hand grenade’ lobbed into the middle of a woman’s life, scattering all. This book goes on to explore the many dilemmas of modern motherhood, taking to task the clichés of the ‘working’ vs. ‘non-working’ mother and deliberately unbalancing the ‘work/life balance’. From free-verse riffs on essential moments of joy and blame, to artful sonnets on the physical impact of childbirth, to meditative and discursive pieces on the way that love for a child suffuses your being, this book is chock-full of the terrors and wonders of parenthood. It is a brilliant contribution to the evolving archive of women’s experience in the 21st century.

Kathryn Simmonds was born in Hertfordshire and worked in children’s publishing before taking a creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia in 2002. Her collection Sunday at the Skin Launderette won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines and broadcast on Radio 4, and she has written an afternoon play for Radio 4 Poetry for Beginners. She published her second poetry collection, The Visitations, in 2013.

Seren » Paperback » £8.99 9781781721468 » 208x145mm Poetry (DCF)

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Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in 1978 to a musical family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is an awardwinning author of poems and novels for adults, as well as four non-fiction books in the areas of Shakespeare, cinema, and film sequels. Her first poetry collection, Inroads, won the Tyrone Guthrie Prize, an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, a Northern Promise Award, and was shortlisted for the New London Poetry Prize.

Seren » Paperback » £9.99 9781781721759 » 216x138mm Poetry (DCF)

Graham Fulton

How do we control the uncontrollable or reconcile the irreconcilable? Should we accept the world as it is or rebel against it? Whether we choose love or hate, make the law or break it, go mad or snatch brief moments of happiness, we all must cling to someone or something to complete the ‘me-shaped space’ of our lives. One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich is a book of poems about entropy and cruelty, ‘shrapnel heads’ and airport toilets, digestive biscuits and marmalade. It’s a 1970’s double album about trying to keep calm in a random and accelerating universe. A mercilessly bleak, blackly humorous contemporary Totentanz of shop lifters, bankers, looters, dead poets and men who can’t tie their own shoelaces.

Graham Fulton’s many books of poetry include Humouring the Iron Bar Man (1990), Knights of the Lower Floors (1994), Open Plan (2011), Full Scottish Breakfast (2011), Upside Down Heart (2012) and Reclaimed Land (2013). He lives in Scotland.

Smokestack Books » Paperback £7.95 9780992740917 » 197x127mm 106pp » Poetry (DCF)

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Publisher of translated novels, political polemics and unbridled rants, Vagabond Voices is both Scottish and fervently European in its aims. It is a fairly eclectic publisher, and its output is predominately literary. The polemical works tend towards the promotion of socialist and non-violent ideals, although always in a spirit of openness and tolerance. A fine edition to the more radical side of the Inpress family.

The Sins of the Father Allan Massie A Nazi war criminal’s son and a Holocaust survivor’s daughter decide to get married in the pleasant, middle-class conformity of sixties Argentina. When the two families come together, Becky’s blind father recognises the voice of the former SS officer, and sets off a chain of events that to various degrees damage everyone at that meeting.

Vagabond Voices » Paperback £12.95 » 9781908251022 320pp » Fiction (FA)

Of Jewish Race

The Convalescent

Redlegs

Renzo Modiano

Peter Gilmour

Chris Dolan

When the Fascist government collapses in Italy, Renzo Modiano is almost seven years old. The war is over, his mother tells him. Less than two hours later, the Modianos are fleeing the capital, having abandoned their dirty dishes on the tablecloth.

The Germans are coming.

Once a son and a brother, a husband and a father, gradually William Templeton is erased by drink.

Elspeth, a young Scottish actress, seduced by promises of fame and theatrical acclaim, leaves for Barbados. She is briefly fêted by the island community, but a storm destroys the theatre in which she is to star and she is obliged to take on a supposedly temporary and fairly ambiguous role at Lord Coak’s plantation.

Renzo’s story is a neglected fragment of the Holocaust.

He tells of the Jews who evaded the horrors of death camps and gas chambers, and had to strive day in, day out for survival in Nazi occupied Italy.

With Mrs McLehose, his malevolent landlady, he lives in self-imposed banishment, the two bound together by their endless thirst and shrunken prospects. Roused from his stupor by the death of a mother he now barely remembers he embraces sobriety and embarks upon the long convalescence that marks the passage of this remarkable novel.

Vagabond Voices » Paperback £8.95 » 9781908251138 198x130mm » 134pp Memoir (BM)

Vagabond Voices » Paperback £9.95 » 9781908251190 210x140mm » 224pp Fiction (FA)

Vagabond Voices » Paperback £9.95 » 9781908251077 224pp » Fiction (FA)

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Influx Press was formed in early 2011 by school friends Gary Budden and Kit Caless in a pub somewhere in Hackney. They focus on publishing ‘site-specific’ fiction and poetry and all of their publications are about place and our relationship to the spaces we live in. Influx are committed to publishing genuinely innovative books set in locations across the UK and beyond. Inpress is proud to introduce this exciting and individual new publisher.

Life in Transit Sam Berkson “Sam has the rare gift of being informed and intelligent without being condescending” Kate Tempest A new poetry collection from Sam Berkson that explores the experience of public transport in neoliberal Britain. All the poems are set on or around public transport. Whether it’s protesting the third runway at Heathrow, questioning Tannoy announcements in railway stations or celebrating the bicycle, Sam’s keen eye exposes the smoke and mirrors of public life, whilst he celebrates the human journey and the indomitable spirit of the traveller.

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Acquired for Development By…

Connecting Nothing With Something

ed. Kit Caless and Gary Budden

ed. Kit Caless and Gary Budden

An alternative, insightful and sometimes bizarre take on modern London life. Featuring work by Lee Rourke, Molly Naylor, Siddartha Bose, Gavin James Bower, Laura Oldfield Ford and many more.

An anthology exploring the conflicted and shifting landscape of the English coast. Featuring Salena Godden, Iain Aitch, Katrina Naomi, Dan Cockrill, Rowena Macdonald, Chimene Suleyman and many more.

Influx Press » Paperback £11.99 » 9780957169302 216x138mm » 288pp Poetry (DCF) / Short Fiction (FYB)

Influx Press » Paperback £9.99 » 9780957169364 216x138mm » 192pp Poetry (DCF) / Short Fiction (FYB)

Marshland Gareth E. Rees Marshland is a deep map of the East London marshes, a blend of local history, folklore and weird fiction, where nothing is quite as it seems.

Cocker spaniel by his side, Rees wanders the marshes of Hackney, Leyton and Walthamstow, avoiding his family and the pressures of life. He discovers a lost world of Victorian filter plants, ancient grazing lands, dead toy factories and tidal rivers on the edgelands of a rapidly changing city.

Influx Press » Paperback £11.99 » 9780957169395 216x138mm » 336pp Short Stories (FYB)

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Clive Birnie is dedicated to bringing performance poetry to the page with his beautifully designed, accessible, contemporary poetry. Sometimes hard-hitting, sometimes hilarious, his books translate brilliantly from the performed to the written word.

We are absolutely delighted to welcome them into the Inpress fold, adding a great variety and depth to our list and sitting brilliantly alongside and enhancing the work of the other Inpress publishers.

In Heaven the Onions Make You Laugh Rob Auton “Charming, eccentric and uplifting, Auton is a talent to watch.” The Independent With two hit Edinburgh Fringe shows under his belt, Bang Said The Gun’s Rob Auton delivers his debut collection of poems and stories. In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh captures the charming, kooky, sideways look at the ordinary and the extraordinary that have gained Rob’s live shows a cult following.

Burning Eye Books Paperback » £10.00 9781909136137 129x198mm » 108pp Poetry (DCF)

Bang Said The Gun: Mud Wrestling With Words Various An anthology of cutting edge verse from Britain’s number one stand-up poetry outfit.

“Bang Said The Gun is a vortex of energy and enthusiasm.”

Sir Andrew Motion

Burning Eye Books Paperback » £12.00 9781909136199 129x198mm » 144pp Poetry (DCF)

When I Grow Up I Want To Be Mary Beard Megan Beech Burning Eye seeks to break down some of the barriers that are put up between young poets and publishers to make it more accessible for poets to put work out early in their career. This chapbook from Megan Beech is the third example of Burning Eye working with a young poet in this way. Although still in her second year at University Megan has already caught attention with her infectious reeling wordplay, but, as is already evident in When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard, she is quickly moving on into more complex writing and is not afraid to grapple with political themes.

Blood Sisters Melanie Clegg The beautiful Comtesse de Saint-Valèry is dragged unwillingly from her Parisian home in the dead of night and her three young daughters are left to an uncertain fate at the hands of their father in a world that is teetering on the very edge of revolution.

As the horror and turmoil of the French Revolution unfolds, the three very different sisters struggle to survive the bloodshed.

Burning Eye Books Paperback » £7.99 9781909136151 » 264pp Fiction (FA)

Burning Eye Books » Paperback £6.99 » 9781909136267 138x216mm; 48pp; Poetry (DCF)

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A civil engineer and a medical journalist may seem an unlikely partnership to form a children’s book publishing company, but husband and wife team Tom and Karen Stevens, who launched Hogs Back Books in 2010, are undeterred by being ‘outsiders’. Their aim is to produce quality books for children to enjoy and treasure by matching great stories with fresh and original illustrations.

The company name is taken from the Hogs Back - a ridge of chalk that runs between Guildford and Farnham in Surrey. “Hogs Back” is thought to be derived from the ancient word “og” meaning “giant”. But rather than claiming to be a giant in publishing, the company has adopted a pig’s snout as its logo and the phrase, “a nose for a good book”.

Mr White

Where is my Bear?

Croc on the Rock

Yiting Lee

Darcy Coxall and Menno Wittebrood

Marion Clark and Tanya Fenton

Maybe being ordinary is what makes life so wonderful. Who needs colour?

Not Mr White!

Hogs Back Books » Paperback » £4.99 9781907432132 » 165x165mm » 32pp 2-5 Years » Children’s Picture Book (YBC)

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Are you scared of monsters? You won’t be after following the adventures of a young boy and his quest to find his lost bear.

Hogs Back Books » Paperback » £6.99 9781907432095 » 278x245mm » 32pp 3-6 Years » Children’s Picture Book (YBC)

A jaunty rhyming story about a crotchety croc who likes nothing better than to bask on his rock and chase the other animals away. But once he has splashed around all by himself, the croc realises that a world without friends is no fun at all and sharing the river is the best way to enjoy it.

Hogs Back Books » Paperback » £5.99 9781907432149 » 245x278mm » 24pp 3-6 Years » Children’s Picture Book (YBC)

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The Emma Press is an independent poetry publisher based in Winnersh, UK, and dedicated to producing beautiful, funny books. It was founded in 2012 by, Emma Wright, formerly of Orion Books. Her aim is to edit, design, illustrate, publicise, produce, sell and occasionally write books that excite her and that she wants to share with everyone else. She wants to publish the kind of writing that makes people laugh and cry and text extracts to their friends because it inspires such a strong response in them.

The Emma Press Anthology of Mildly Erotic Verse edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright

The Flower and the Plough Rachel Piercey

A beautiful anthology which celebrates modern eroticism in all its messy, sexy glory

The debut pamphlet by Rachel Piercey, 2008 winner of the prestigious Newdigate Prize, previously won by Oscar Wilde, James Fenton and Andrew Motion.

The Emma Press Anthology of Mildly Erotic Verse skips the mechanics and dives straight into the emotional core of sex.

We see lovers imagined as heroes and hares; describing what they want in jawdropping detail (or maybe with no words at all); meeting at swimming pools, sinking into baths and magic boxes. They wonder about lost knickers, worry about caravans, and – sometimes – find themselves transformed.

‘Piercey’s oscillations between lover’s ecstasy and love poet’s objectivity are so deft that her analytical lens becomes as much a fascination as the amorous perspective which it focuses. […] Wright’s drawings are exuberant throughout, by turns cartoonish and painterly, playful and simple in the manner of Quentin Blake.’ – Andrew Wynn Owen, the Oxonian Review.

Nineteen published and unpublished poets from across the world sketch portraits of intimacy, desire, romance and sex in twenty-three exquisite poems, accompanied by illustrations from Emma Wright. The book is edited by Emma Wright and Newdigate Prize-winning poet Rachel Piercey.

A charming collection of love poems by Rachel Piercey, containing her unique reflections on love, heartbreak and relationships. Romantic but never sentimental, Piercey brings her characteristic emotional and linguistic clarity to her treatment of this universal human experience and across the twelve poems builds up a nuanced study of love, passion, heartache and bitterness. The poems are illustrated with line drawings which complement the text and offers the reader a way into the poems via Wright’s personal response.

The Emma Press » Paperback » £9.99 » 9780957459625 129x198mm » 66pp » Poetry (DCF)

The Emma Press » Paperback » £4.99 » 9780957459601 110x178mm » 40pp » Poetry (DCF)

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POET R Y B A C K LI S T War Reporter

by Dan O’Brien CB Editions | Paperback | 130pp £8.99 | 9780957326675

Walter the Pencil Man

by Ian McMillan & Tony Husband Smokestack Books Paperback | 64pp | £7.99 9780957574717

The Visitations

by Kathryn Simmonds

She Inserts the Key

by Marianne Burton

Seren | Paperback £8.99 | 64pp | £8.99 9781781721162

Seren | Paperback | 64pp £8.99 | 9781781720387

Clueless Dogs

by Rhian Edwards

A Discoverie of Witches

by Blake Morrison

Mondeo Man

by Luke Wright

Fox Populi

by Kate Fox

Seren | Paperback | 72pp £8.99 | 9781854115737

Smith Doorstop | Hardback 84pp | £12.99 9781906613600

Penned in the Margins Paperback | 96pp | £9.99 9781908058096

Smokestack Books Paperback | 64pp | £7.99 9780957172258

Adventures in Form

by Tom Chivers (ed.)

Selected Poems

by John Fowles

Pocket Horizon

by Don Paterson (ed.)

Shipwrecked House

by Claire Trévien

Penned in the Margins Paperback | 192pp | £9.99 9781908058010

Flambard | Paperback | 132pp £12.00 | 9781906601355

Valley Press | Paperback | 54pp £7.99 | 9781908853295

Penned in the Margins Paperback | 80pp | £8.99 9781908058119

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Pepper Seed

by Malika Booker

The Tip of My Tongue

by Trezza Azzopardi

Nesting

by David Almond

Penned in the Margins Paperback | 80pp | £8.99 9781908058034

Peepal Tree Press Paperback | 84pp | £8.99 9781845232115

Seren | Paperback | 192pp £8.99 | 9781781721056

Iron Press | Paperback 200pp | £9.00 9780956572578

Heimlich’s Manoeuvre

by Paula Cunningham

Half-Life

by Michael Hulse

The Last Hundred Days

by Patrick McGuinness

Smith Doorstop Paperback | 64pp | £9.95 9781906613839

Arc Publications Paperback | 80pp | £8.99 9781908376190

Seren | Paperback | 384pp £8.99 | 9781854115416

Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman

by John Morris

The Turing Test

by Chris Beckett

Ibrahim and Reenie

by David Llewellyn

The Five Simple Machines

by Todd McEwen

A Snow Goose

by Jim Perrin

Elastic | Paperback | 230pp £7.99 | 9780955318184

Seren | Paperback | 224pp £8.99 | 9781781720813

CB Editions | Paperback 160pp | £8.99 9780957326637

Cinnamon Press Paperback | 144pp | £8.99 9781907090929

Seren | Paperback | 220pp £9.99 | 9781854115669

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Beautiful Girls

by Melissa Lee-Houghton

M A G A ZI N E S M A G A ZI N E S

Modern Poetry in Translation

The Rialto

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March, August, December

Acumen

Agenda

BANIPAL

January, May, September

April & September

March, June, November

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The London Magazine

UNDER THE RADAR

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A Alexandrova-Zorina, Liza . . . . . . 22 Ali, Mir Mahfuz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Alleyne, Lauren K. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Almond, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Andrews, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Armitage, Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Auton, Rob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 63 Ayuning Maharsi, Ikhda . . . . . . . 28 Azzopardi, Trezzo . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

E Eaves, Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Edwards, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Edwards, Rhian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Ekroy, Josh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Elizabeth, Rhian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Elliott, Ned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 English, Lucy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Espada, Martín . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7, 25 Etter, Carrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

B Baker, Harry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Beckett, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Bedford, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Beech, Megan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Berkson, Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 62 Birnie, Clive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Bogaro, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Booker, Malika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Boran, Pat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Bourke, Eva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Buckley, Megan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Budden, Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Burnhope, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Burton, Marianne . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

F Fenton, Tanya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Fielding, Karen . . . . . . . . . 10, 11, 30 Fitterman, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Florin, Magnus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Fortune, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Fortune, Rowan B. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Fowles, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Fox, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Francis, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Fried, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Fulton, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

C Caless, Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Cameron, Allan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chivers, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Clark, Marion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Cleary, Sophie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Clegg, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Clegg, Melanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Clifford, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Cluysenaar, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Collins Klobah, Loretta . . . . . . . 6, 7 Coxall, Darcy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Cree, Terry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Cumper, Patricia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Cunningham, Paula . . . . . . . . . . . 67 D Davies, Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 De Paor, Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Denniston, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Dolan, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Dyer, Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

G Gardner, Donald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Gavins, Joanna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Gethin, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Gillow, Thommie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Gilmour, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Gluzman, Yelena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Graham, Millicent A. A. . . . . . . . 53 Graves, Andrew “Mulletproof” . 52 Gulliver, Mavis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Guy, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 H Harvey, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Hayden, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Higgins, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Hindle, Rob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Hingley, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Hippolyte, Kendel . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Holt, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Hool, Ric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 House, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Hulse, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Husband, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

J Jess-Cooke, Carolyn . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Jessop, Claudia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Johnstone, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Jones, Eileen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 K Kampa, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Kareva, Doris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Kazantzis, Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Kisuule, Vanessa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Kramberger, Taja . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Kratz, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Kristof, Agota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 L Lavrinenko, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Laws, Valerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Leach, Sharon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Lee, Yiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Lee-Houghton, Melissa . . . . . . . . 67 León, Raina J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Leonard, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Llewellyn, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Lucien, Vladimir . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 M Madden, Ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Madsen, Michelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Mannheim, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Massie, Allan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 61 McCabe, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 McCaffery, Richie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 McEwen, Todd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 McGarry, Jamie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 McGuinness, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . 67 McMillan, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 McVety, Allison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Millar Dumas, Susan . . . . . . . . . . 18 Mitchell, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Modiano, Renzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Moore Fuller, Janice . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Moore, Alan Jude . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Moran, Daniel Thomas . . . . . . . . 26 Morris, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Morrison, Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Murray, Tiffany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 N Nekrasov, Vsevolod . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Norris, Barney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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O O’Donnell, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 O’Brien, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 O’Brien, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 O’Neill, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Ormond, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Ország-Land, Thomas . . . . . . . . . 54 Oxley, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 P Paterson, Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Peekash Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Pelizzon, V. Penelope . . . . . . . . . . 40 Perrin, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Perry, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Piercey, Rachel . . . . . . 15, 21, 47, 65 Pugh, Sheenagh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 R Rees, Gareth E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Rees-Jones, Deryn . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Renshaw, Kerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Ritsos, Yiannis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Riviere, Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Roberts, Kristen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Robinson, Alistair . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Routh, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Runciman, Lex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 S Sansom, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Sansom, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Saunders, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Sauvageot, Marcelle . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Schoenmaker, Patrick . . . . . . . . . 56 Shirley, Tanya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Sillars, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Simmonds, Kathryn . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Siotis, Dinos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Skinner, Knute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Smart, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Smyth, Gerard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Somerville, Charles C. . . . . . . . . . 56 Sowan, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Stewart Jones, Colin . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Summers, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Swain, Kelley . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9, 15, 46

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T Tait, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Tan, May-Lan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Tierney, Róisín . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Trevien, Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Tyrrell, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 V Vērdiņš, Kãrlis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Verhaeren, Emile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 W Wade, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Walcott Hackshaw, Elizabeth . . . 37 Warner, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Williams, Noel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Winch, Terence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Wittebrood, Menno . . . . . . . . 56, 64 Wright, Emma . . . . . . . 15, 21, 47, 65 Wright, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Wynn Owen, Andrew . . . . . . . . . 28 Y Young, Augustus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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