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Dear Bookseller and reader, Welcome to the Inpress catalogue January – June 2016. Our independent publishers and authors have been working tirelessly to create a brilliant selection of titles to keep you entertained and in business from this freezing January to the summer and beyond. I really hope you enjoy browsing and find plenty to interest and excite you within. This season we are presenting the titles as simply as possible split by poetry, fiction and nonfiction; in each section the books are listed chronologically. The innovation for this catalogue is the introduction of bar codes – ooooh! Retailers, just scan and order the book. Readers, just scan and decide which tax-paying retailer you’d like to purchase from – or head down to your local bookshop with the catalogue and ask them to order for you. We are hoping this will make everyone’s lives much easier so please do let us know if it’s a helpful feature. There are so many wonderful titles in these pages it’s really hard only picking a few! However I am told I must, so I recommend you check out our new publisher, Boatwhistle Press and their two January titles, Off the Beaten Track and The Golden Rule (a personal favourite). There are new collections from established poets such as Luke Wright, Claire Trevien, Judy Brown, Beverly Bie Brahic, Luke Kennard and many more. On the international side, a couple of really fascinating titles from Russia by our NYC press Ugly Duckling Presse, Written in the Dark and Letter to the Amazon, plus Eastern European greats from Istros, Byron and the Beauty deserves special mention plus Smokestack’s collection of Cuban poetry, Nothing Out of This World. Dead Ink are producing a beautiful debut hardback fiction with The Wave and When Lights are Bright featuring in this season. We have city guides to Glasgow and London’s South Bank as part of Seren’s Real… series, short stories from award winning Jo Mazelis and Michael Stewart and an abundance of fabulous fiction. Last, but in no means least, at the end of June is a brand new collection of Robert Graves war poetry, which will garner fabulous review coverage and is bound to be one of the big talked about poetry collections of the summer. But don’t take my word for it, please take a good look inside. We love to hear from booksellers and readers alike, so please do get in touch if you would like more information on any of these titles or any of the titles featured on our website. Yours, Sophie
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POETRY Off the Beaten Track: A Year in Haiku Hamish Ironside (ed.)
The Golden Rule: Collected Poems Ernest Noyes Brookings
The Parrot, The Horse and the Man Amarjit Chandan
Twelve months of haiku by twelve writers, illustrated by twelve artists.
A collection of the very best works from Ernest Noyes Brookings.
This illustrated collection of haiku is a unique collaborative project filled with distinctive voices.
During the last seven years of his life Ernest Noyes Brookings wrote nearly four hundred poems on a wide variety of subjects – from Frankenstein to Harry Truman, from broken hearts to kissing, from chairs to rockets – all arranged with his gentle mixture of faith and logic.
Amarjit Chandan was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1946, and lives and works in London. He has published seven collections of poetry and four books of essays in Punjabi and his poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines world-wide. He has edited and translated into Punjabi about thirty anthologies of Indian and world poetry and fiction by, among others, Brecht, Neruda, Ritsos, Hikmet, Cardenal, Martin Carter and John Berger.
The writers’ locations range across four continents and their haiku encompass graveyards and graupel, dandruff and dahlias, topiary elephants and wheezing cicadas. The twelve artists bring a similarly diverse set of approaches in providing original artwork based on the haiku for one of the months. The result is a book like no other, celebrating equally the quotidian and the transcendent, as each writer takes the reader off the beaten track into new ways of seeing. Boatwhistle Books • Paperback £12.00 • 9781911052012 • 185x120mm 224pp • 6 January 2016
The Golden Rule now presents his best work in a single volume. With a biographical memoir by David Greenberger (editor of The Duplex Planet, and also the man who first encouraged Brookings to write), photographs and facsimiles of handwritten poems, this book commemorates a truly distinctive and wonderfully enjoyable writer. Boatwhistle Books • Paperback £15.00 • 9781911052005 • 198x129mm
He was one of ten best British poets selected by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, on National Poetry Day in 2001, and he participated in the International Aldeburgh Poetry Festival the same year. He has received numerous literary awards for his work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Language Department of the Punjab Government, India in 2004.
240pp • 6 January 2016 Arc Publications • Paperback • £10.99 9781910345245 • 128pp 6 January 2016
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Man with Bombe Alaska Kate Behrens “A very haunting, emotionally fraught and entrancing collection.” Adam Piette Loosely memoir-shaped and peopled by those close to the poet, Kate Behrens’ second collection, Man with Bombe Alaska, travels between London, Turkey, Italy, Spain and the English countryside. The poems also map paths between states of mind and place or person, not to pin down experience with conclusions but for unexpected beauties, openings. Images are laden with metaphor but stand for themselves, at times with the kinds of heightened awareness arising from sudden shock. Behrens’ language explores points of convergence where abstractions that seem to transcend the world merge with finely wrought detail in ways that release deep affect.
Mildly Erotic Verse Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright (ed.) “Every poem in this collection is entirely genuine in its emotion... there is an unglossed reality to them that excites and gratifies; a real-world silliness, sex with the crusts left on.” Alex Campbell, Sabotage Reviews Eroticism isn’t just about sex: it’s about anticipation, desire, intimacy and romance. It can be wild, hilarious, beautiful, and it may be hard to define. Mildly Erotic Verse skips the mechanics and dives straight into the emotional core of sex, celebrating the diversity and eccentricity of human sexuality. The expanded second edition of the popular collection of poetry on eroticism and romance.
Until the Lions Karthika Naïr A new collection of poetry by Karthika Naïr, author of Bearings (Harper Collins 2009). Karthika Naïr’s epic poem ‘Until the Lions’ is conceived as an echo and a vivid and compelling retelling from a female perspective of its great Sanskrit forerunner, the Mahabharata. The title of this book comes from the African proverb, “until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” It is a companion piece to an upcoming production of the same name by choreographer Akram Khan and his dance company, premiering January 2016 in London. Arc Publications • Paperback • £12.99 9781910345078 • 215x138mm • 260pp
The Emma Press • Paperback • £10.00
29 January 2016
9781910139349 • 184x123mm • 96pp 14 January 2016
Two Rivers Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781909747142 • 210x135mm • 74pp 6 January 2016
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Leasungspell Bob Beagrie
Codes of Conduct Neil Elder
A narrative epic poem about a pre-Modern world.
Winner of the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2015.
657AD. Northumbria, one of the seven warring Anglo Saxon kingdoms, where Celtic Christianity, Roman Christianity, old pagan beliefs and magic clash.
This collection is entertaining throughout but, in particular, it starts with a sequence focused on a persona, ‘Henderson’, whose experiences of office work satirically depict this key aspect of contemporary life in a series of representatively farcical and selfdefeating episodes.
Oswin, a monk from the monastery of Herutea, is forced to make a treacherous journey across a volatile wilderness where faith, history, myth and folklore intertwine to form the threads of the Wyrd. Written in a powerful mix of Old English, modern English and northern dialect forms, Leasungspell is a tale of twisting digressions, dreamscapes and stories within stories.
This collection won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2015 and was also shortlisted for the Frogmore Poetry Prize and the Wells Festival Poetry Prize. Cinnamon Press • Pamphlet • £4.99 9781910836064 • A5 • 30pp 1 February 2016
Smokestack Books • Paperback • £8.99 9780993149054 • 197x127mm • 104pp 1 February 2016
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In the Scullery with John Keats Louise Warren “Her intense gaze, the wondering, the searching is emotionally experienced and existentially grounded within her. This is personal poetry. It’s rather good poetry.” Ken Champion, Write Out Loud A highly imaginative collection which juxtaposes historical periods by imagining Keats entering contemporary scenes and makes itself convincing with vivid images and flowing original rhythms. Louise Warren has been widely published in magazines and anthologies. Her first collection A Child’s Last Picture Book of the Zoo was published in 2012 and won the Cinnamon First Collection Prize. Cinnamon Press • Pamphlet • £4.99 9781910836095 • A5 • 24pp 1 February 2016
Blinking in the Light Louisa Adjoa Parker
Other Blackbirds Alex Josephy
Stations of the Boar Kevin Mills
A collection of confessional poetry by established poet Louisa Adjoa Parker.
New collection from awardwinning poet Alex Josephy.
A collection of poetry based around the life of Saint Cadoc.
Living in London and Italy, teaching and studying poetry all her life, and working as an NHS education adviser, Alex Josephy has become a well-established poet. Published widely in magazines and anthologies including The Rialto, Smiths Knoll, The Interpreter’s House and Domestic Cherry, this will be her first full collection of poetry. It is an intelligent and economical collection written in Josephy’s distinctive, direct, and subtly solemn poetic voice and is sure to repay more than one reading.
In invoking the life of Saint Cadoc, Kevin Mills, contributes an eloquent sequence of poetry to the ongoing poetic debate about national identity in Wales. Drawing upon the 11th century hagiography, The Life of Saint Cadoc, these poems insinuate the saint’s presence into modern Welsh landscapes and so interrogate how the presence of the past constructs a nearly hallucinatory sense of what it might mean to be Welsh.
Cinnamon Press • Pamphlet • £4.99
1 February 2016
Louisa Adjoa Parker’s poems, in starkly telling a story about a fraught pregnancy and the suicide of a man very close to the speaker’s family use powerful images and unadorned language to evoke a raw sense of contemporary life. Her poetry has appeared in a range of anthologies and magazines, including Envoi, The Forward Book of Poetry 2008, and Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets. She has previously been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and her first collection of poetry, Salt-sweat and tears, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2007.
Cinnamon Press • Pamphlet • £4.99 9781910836088 • A5 • 24pp
9781910836071 • A5 • 28pp 1 February 2016
Cinnamon Press • Pamphlet • £4.99 9781910836057 • A5 • 28pp 1 February 2016
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Late Love Poems Steve Griffiths A series of celebrations and meditations, poems of playfulness and tragedy, loss and recovery. A story of two young people who were together in the Seventies, went their separate ways, made their lives and had their families; and their coming together again in their mid-fifties. These poems carry a charged resonance between past and present, and inhabit a world where generosity is unexpectedly abundant, and is as playful as it is hard-earned. The project is supported by social media partners from the arts, libraries and other community networks to engage with a range of audiences, including a focus on people in second marriages and relationships. Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910836040 • 216x140mm • 66pp 1 February 2016
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Between Stations Andy Willoughby “Tough like meat. Not much gristle on these bones. Andy Willoughby is one of the meatiest poets I know, as loud on the page as on the stage.” – Kevin Cadwallender Poet Andy Willoughby finds himself transported on a mock epic, highoctane locomotive beat journey from his native post-industrial Teesside to deepest Siberia and back again. Between Stations ricochets between present and past with a raggletaggle bunch of Finnish fellow-travelling poets and the hallucinatory shades of Blake, Mayakovsky, Eisenstein and Mandelstam on a ramshackle quest for the Golden Woman of Khanty Mansiysk.
What I Learned From Johnny Bevan Luke Wright “A story of friendship, class and a really bad idea for a festival. Some of the most incisive writing you’ll see.” Exeunt Magazine An epic poem about class, set in a run-down town in Essex from the popular performance poet and bestselling author of Mondeo Man (Penned in the Margins). A worldweary Nick Burton remembers his life at university, and his friend, the whip-smart, mercurial Johnny Bevan who showed Nick a life away from the one his father led – but their friendship ends tragically. Penned in the Margins • Paperback £9.99 • 9781908058331 1 February 2016
Smokestack Books • Paperback • £7.99 9780993149061 • 197x127mm 1 February 2016
History David O’Hanlon “If David O’Hanlon had written this sentence, you’d have shed a tear by now.” Jenni Pascoe, JibbaJabba This is the first full-length collection by David O’ Hanlon, a talented new poetic voice. Precise, piercing language illuminates tales from actual, mythical and personal history – making all three seem immediate, contemporary and universal. Readers will hear how ‘four unacquainted deaf men published near-identical essays deconstructing the assumed importance of sound’, find new ways of reading the stories of Orpheus, Sisypus, Tantalus et al., and learn of a young man’s twelve-year struggle to paint an authentic picture of the sky. Valley Press • Paperback • £7.99 9781908853578 • 198x129mm 1 February 2016
Crowd Sensations Judy Brown
Scots Rock Carolyn Patricia Richardson
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
New collection from the poet, painter, maker of filmed poems and the odd piece of guerrilla poetry in the wilds of Dumfries and Galloway.
A poet whose work is inspired as much by thoughtful speculation and metaphysics as it is by personal experience and relationships, Judy Brown’s poems surprise and delight at every turn. Her skill at paradox is evident in poems of unsettling intimacy, such as ‘Poem In Which I Am Not Shortsighted’ alongside poems of uneasy domesticity such as ‘On The Last Evening We Watch Movies in Bed’. There is also some quiet, edgy humour in ‘Poem in the Voice of a Dead Cockroach’ and ‘Was this review helpful to you?’. Crowd Sensations is a wonderful follow-up to Brown’s Forward-prize nominated debut, Loudness.
Carolyn Richardon has been a Director of the Scottish Writers Centre and was long listed for the Ted Hughes Award for new work in 2015. Carolyn’s favourite stone is lapis lazuli, her favourite colour is fawn and her dream is to travel the world, meet interesting people and manifest a golden destiny full of joy for all humankind. Red Squirrel Press • Pamphlet • £6.00 9781910437278 • 28pp 13 February 2016
Seren • Paperback • £9.99 9781781723159 • 72pp 11 February 2016
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A Boat Called Annalise Lynne Hjelmgaard
Astérnoymes Claire Trévien
Jam Cliff Yates
Take a poetic journey in a sailboat across the Atlantic with Lynne Hjelmgaard’s latest collection.
A second poetry collection from poet and editor of Sabotage Reviews, Claire Trévien.
The latest collection of poetry from a previous winner of the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Poetry Business Competition.
The poet Lynne Hjelmgaard was born in New York and has lived in Denmark, Rome, Paris and London. Her collection, A Boat Called Annalise records the years she and her husband spent sailing on a boat to the Caribbean and back. The author beautifully evokes life at sea, the dream-like nature of the tropics, and the halcyon days of a marriage. Seren • Paperback • £9.99 9781781723135 • 64pp 26 February 2016
Astérnoymes is a real collision of ancient and modern, stone circles and windswept landscapes with internet culture. Claire Trévien was born in Brittany. Her pamphlet Low-Tide Lottery was published by Salt in 2011. Her first full collection of poetry was The Shipwrecked House (Penned in the Margins, 2013), which was longlisted for the Guardian’s First Book Award. “Images play on each other with a sense of decay and time passing. Isn’t all homesickness not for a place but for a past?” David Mills on The Shipwrecked House, The Sunday Times. Penned in the Margins • Paperback £9.99 • 9781908058348 1 March 2016
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A unique and illuminating poetry collection from Cliff Yates. He discusses themes of childhood, of love, and of his perspective on the world which the poet Ian McMillan calls ‘ultimately Yatesian’. Yates’ past collections include Henry’s Clock, winner of the Aldeburgh prize, and Selected Poems (Smith/Doorstop ebook). He wrote Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School during his time as Poetry Society poet-in-residence. He is a tutor for the Arvon Foundation and is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Aston University. Smith/Doorstop • Paperback • £9.95 9781910367551 • 80pp 1 March 2016
The Trouble With Compassion Kirsten Luckins A welcome collection from a popular and widely respected stalwart of the Spoken Word performance circuit. The Trouble With Compassion is a collection of Buddh-ish poems, all flavoured by the poet’s attempts to see herself and those around her through the lens of lovingkindness, even the really annoying ones. Even snails. A renowned performer, Kirsten’s poems project 21st Century Zen shot through with a cut of humour and an ability to cut through to the truth at the heart of our contradictory world. Burning Eye Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781909136687 • 133x203mm 1 March 2016
Let the Pig Out Chris Redmond Let the Pig Out is the first collection from Chris Redmond – spoken word poet and front man of Tongue Fu – one of the UK’s leading spoken word shows. It is a fusion of performance writing and page poems, mixing story forms with internal rhymes and rhythms, comic dialogue and sparser, more condensed imagery. Fox racing, fatherhood, rainbows and road kill are some of the topics candidly explored with a playful heart, a political head and a compulsion to explore the friction between cynicism and idealism. Burning Eye Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781909136694 • 133x203
What Were You Thinking? Julian Stannard “There’s an air of luxurious melancholy about these poems, a languid play of feelings and associations that sets them wholly against theuptight, earnest strain in British writing and that appeals to me warmly. They can be very funny, too.” Christopher Reid Julian Stannard is one of the very few mavericks in contemporary British poetry, a flâneur who observes the absurdity of life and brings this to the page with both heartbreak and humour. The poems in this new collection are grouped into three main sections: ‘Happiness’, ‘The Street of Perfect Love’ and ‘Dear Nosh’.
1 March 2016 CB editions • Paperback • £8.99 9781909585119 • 198x129mm • 106pp 1 March 2016
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The Wild Gods Marlene Engelund The fantastic debut pamphlet from Marlene Engelund. “Tonight, I’ll walk through that fire.” The Wild Gods is the debut pamphlet from Danish-born, London-based poet Malene Engelund. Meticulously constructed and honed over the last two years, these poems offer fresh approaches to works of art and their artists, owls and their feathers, horses and their bridles, where we all come from and where we are going… Valley Press • Paperback • £6.99 9781908853622 • 198x129mm 1 March 2016
The Self-Styled No-Child Cody Walker “Political, personal, this book is playful, pithy, outrageously out of style, an endearing treasure made by accident and pure will.” – Marianne Boruch, poet. The Self-Styled No-Child, Cody Walker’s second book of poems, offers an unlikely array of characters: Edward Lear, Mitt Romney, Amy Clampitt, and Andy Kaufman share the stage. Walker himself is ever-present, with his shrugs, his heartbreak, his “wayout rhymes”: ‘I’d like to write some lines about the snow, / but—I dunno, / the snow seems so / fleeting: / a flock of gulls, late for a meeting.’ Full of comic interruptions and grave forecasts, these poems surprise, delight, and terrify.
The Inevitable Gift Shop Will Eaves Written in a terrifically innovative style by novelist and poet Will Eaves. The Inevitable Gift Shop lassoes consciousness, memory, desire, literature, illness, flora and fauna, problems with tortoises and cable ties, and brings them back home in double file, as prose and poetry. Acclaimed for both his fiction (including three novels from Picador) and his poetry (including a collection from Carcanet), Will Eaves combines all his skills in a book whose form is inventive and whose content is wide-ranging, provocative and frequently very funny. CB editions • Paperback • £8.99 9781909585171 • 198x129mm • 142pp
Waywiser Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781904130703 • 74pp 15 March 2016
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Odd Evening Eric McHenry
Goose Fair Night Kathy Pimlott
Dissolve to LA James Trevelyan
The first full-length collection from Eric McHenry in ten years.
Beautiful poems which hint at tragedy and are laced with stoicism.
Gorgeous, tender poems themed around minor characters in wellknown action films, including Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Die Hard and Speed.
Eric McHenry brings fresh attention to his old obsessions – love, laughter, justice, transience, how humility ennobles, how time makes the familiar strange and how our scars make us beautiful. McHenry can dazzle with his technical dexterity, but his poems aren’t merely performances; in Odd Evening, music creates meaning and vice versa. If books of poetry have patron saints, Buster Keaton might be this one’s: a stoic, stonefaced every person who’s endlessly resourceful in the face of calamity.
Kathy Pimlott’s debut pamphlet features a sequence of poems about her grandmother Enid, tracking the formative experiences in her life from her beginnings as a housemaid at the turn of the century. The title refers to the Nottingham Goose Fair, a local institution which takes place annually in the first week of October. Goose Fair Night is a jewelled, jellied feast of a book, full of finelyobserved details about friendship, family and jam-making. The Emma Press • Paperback • £6.50
Waywiser Press • Paperback • £9.99
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Following a poetic tradition giving voice to literature’s under-written characters, James Trevelyan has trawled the action films of the 1980s-90s to give life where it was extinguished too early. What is it to be on the peripheries? What does it mean to die in a movie scene? Through this sequence of poems spoken in the voices of the forgotten, Trevelyan provides a humorous and tender exploration into morality, mortality and contemporary existence. The Emma Press • Paperback • £6.50 9781910139370 • 129x198mm • 36pp 17 March 2016
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Reward for Winter Di Slaney
Dance of the Equinox Floriana Ferro
Roma Bernard Saint
Ambitious yet wonderfully grounded, this unique collection will delight readers with its humour and insight.
The first UK publication of prizewinning Italian poet.
Past, present, and future meet in this book about imagination and history, accidents and architecture, faces and frescoes.
Five years ago, Di Slaney left the rat-race and the inner city behind and bought a farm in the village of Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire, populating it with animals of all shapes and sizes. Her first collection Reward for Winter tells that story on three levels: a year in the life of a new smallholder, with all the challenges and triumphs that brings; the history of Bilsthorpe, from settlement by the Viking Bildur to the town’s rejuvenation on the arrival of coal mining in the 1920s; and also a complete biography of a single chicken living on the farm. Valley Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781908853639 • 198x129mm 17 March 2016
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Floriana Ferro’s first collection of poems, Danza di Equinozi won the Italian national literary prize Cardinal Branda Castiglioni in 2011. Published now in English in her own translation, Dance of the Equinox explores the idea of poetry as means of cultural and political emancipation. In particular, these poems locate the author’s sexual and political identity in a country still dominated by conservative and religious ideas about women and sexuality.
In Roma, Bernard Saint follows the shade of Marcus Aurelius through the elastic time zones of the Eternal City. There they encounter Gregory Corso, Chet Baker, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg; they walk down the catwalk, watch Reality TV and guide a rock-star into rehab. This is a book about a city where time never walks in a straight narrative line.
Smokestack Books • Paperback • £7.95
1 April 2016
Smokestack Books • Paperback • £7.95 9780993149078 • 197x127mm • 88pp
9780993149047 • 197x127mm • 112pp 1 April 2016
Swimming with Jellyfish Stuart Pickford New collection from the winner of the Eric Gregory Award. This second collection of poetry from Stuart Pickford is a tremendous follow-up to The Basics (Redbeck Press, 2001) which was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. His earnest poetic voice echoes throughout his work, highlighting the deeper meanings behind his direct and concise language style. He has twice been commended in the National Poetry Competition, the last time in 2012 for his poem ‘Swimming with Jellyfish’ which gives its name to the title of this collection. Smith/Doorstop • Paperback • £9.95 9781910367599 • 80pp 4 April 2016
Bearings Isobel Dixon “A poet confident in her mastery of her medium.” J M Coetzee In her fourth collection Isobel Dixon takes readers on a journey to far-flung and sometimes dark places. From Mumbai to Hiroshima, Egypt to Edinburgh, the West Bank and beyond, these poems are forays of discovery and resistance, of arrival and loss. In this wide-ranging collection Dixon explores form and subject, keeping a weather eye out for telling detail, with a sharp sense of the threat that these journeys, our wars and stories, and our very existence pose to the planet.
Staying Alive Laura Sims Laura Sims envisions the state of the world and of human existence before, during and after the forever-imminent apocalypse in her fourth poetry collection. In channelling and sampling works of apocalyptic fiction and non-fiction – The War of the Worlds, The World Without Us, How to Stay Alive in the Woods, and The Road, to name a few – the poems, along with a final essay, explore multiple world-endings and their possible outcomes, and pose answers to the questions: will we, how do we, and should we stay alive? Ugly Duckling Presse • Paperback
Nine Arches Press • Paperback • £9.99
£10.50 • 9781937027629 • 4 April 2016
9781911027027 • 80pp 4 April 2016
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Painting the Spiral Staircase Anne Caldwell A highly compelling new collection from a prolific touring poet. In her second full-length collection since Talking With The Dead, Anne Caldwell marries the knack for surprise and inventive imagery with precise observation and lucid turns of phrase. Beginning from quotidian moments: a hospital ward, a glass heart Christmas decoration, a writing retreat, Caldwell moves the reader into new landscapes, exterior and interior, with an assured grace that can nonetheless be unsettling. From short lyrical pieces to sequences, the human condition in all its delight and grief is revealed. Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £8.99
Strange Keys Ash Dickinson “Impressive wordplay” (The Times) from the popular author of Slinky Espadrilles (Burning Eye Books, 2012). Star Wars told in three minutes flat. Misogyny in rap, sexism at the Oscars. The running of the bullfinches. Scottish independence. Heckling Miley Cyrus. Midlife dating/midlife crisis. Syria and political satirists. Life through the lens of a food photographer. New persona after new persona. Tattoos and stalkers. Swindon is the new Disneyland. The last knockings of rock and roll. Video games and gun control. Love, art, death. And Britain’s foremost method poet... this can only be a new book from everyone’s favourite comic surrealist Ash Dickinson.
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I Can’t Sleep ‘Cause My Bed’s On Fire confronts a search for love against the stark, yet humanising backdrop of the psychiatric institution. Gutsy and honest, Emily Harrison’s poetry is simultaneously cynical and optimistic. In her verse she suggests that coming to terms with her mental health and falling in love are equally challenging, and depicts the consequences – both heartbreaking and hilarious – when the two collide.
Burning Eye Books • Paperback • £8.99
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An illuminating and timely collection about the challenges faced by a young woman struggling with her mental health.
Burning Eye Books • Paperback • £9.99
9781910836200 • 216x140mm • 80pp 4 April 2016
I Can’t Sleep ‘Cause My Bed’s On Fire Emily Harrison
Transhumance David Batten A collection of poetry examining the impact of humans on their surroundings. Transhumance follows a narrative arc that recognises that we are irrelevant in our minuteness and yet central to everything; without our interference things fall apart, yet sometimes our interference is what unravels things. Exploring how humanity is rooted in and linked to everywhere and everything, Batten brings a fresh voice and precise language to this reflective debut collection. Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910836170 • 216x140mm • 80pp 4 April 2016
Dr Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine Martin Figura Covering the latter half of the 20th Century, Martin Figura (poet and occasional mod), in Dr Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine blurs the edges of personal and collective memory to relationships and belonging against a familiar social, historical and political backdrop. Richard Nixon speaks at his own funeral, Jeremy Thorpe turns his downfall into an Edinburgh Fringe show at The Underbelly, Ted Heath is corralled into playing an out of tune piano in a voter’s cold front room, John Major attempts to return to the circus by applying for a ringmaster post and Margaret Thatcher leads her people on to the Raft of Medusa. Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910836187 • 216x140mm • 80pp 4 April 2016
Hashtag Poetry Project Clive Birnie An exploration of the hidden poetry on Twitter, first posted on Instagram and now collated in this unique collection. In the Hashtag Poetry Project Clive Birnie explores the hidden poetry of Twitter. Taking screen grabs of random collations of three or four tweets on an iPhone screen he then redacts and erases them using photo editing apps before applying his distinctive patterns of coloured dots inspired by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Clive seeks to test the limitations of the process to create a body of micro-poems that have a distinctive visual feel; are enigmatic and entertaining, have a vein of black humour and feature the occasional zombie or cake eating killer goat. Burning Eye Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781909136472 • 127x178mm 4 April 2016
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On A Turning Wing Paddy Bushe “The leading poet writing in both Irish and English.” Bernard O’Donoghue Explorations of music and landscape – indeed of the music of the landscape – lead one of Ireland’s most admired bilingual poets into a spirited defence of the arts in contemporary society and a sustained celebration of the natural world. Dedalus Press • Paperback • £10.00
Bye Bye Blackboard John Price
The Skin Diary Abegail Morley
A humorous look at the chaotic world of education by an author and former English teacher, fully illustrated by Susan M Coles.
Abegail Morley’s second poetry collection The Skin Diary follows up on her Forward Prize shortlisted debut, How to Pour Madness into a Teacup.
Bye Bye Blackboard draws on the author’s experience as both teacher and pupil. The main body of the book is a series of often comic poems describing the frustrations, idiocies, tensions and anomalies of being a part of the ludicrous necessity known as our education system.
9781910251140 • 140x216mm • 80pp 4 April 2016
IRON Press • Pamphlet • £5.00 9780993124532 • A5 • 32pp 7 April 2016
These poems explore loss in its many forms, with unwavering, fierce and astonishing brilliance. Here are imperfect hiding places, imaginary sisters and near-impossible burdens fill carrier bags and archives. New skins and old disguises are stitched together whilst stories come apart at the seams and The Skin Diary explores the fragility and strange windfalls of being alive; through tough times and thin ice, these poems are darkly wry, brimming with and alert with Morley’s sharp and lyrical lines. Nine Arches Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781911027041 • 80pp 9 April 2016
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Primers Vol. 1 Edited and chosen by Kathryn Maris with Jane Commane In 2015, The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press ran a nationwide scheme to find exciting new voices in poetry. After reading through hundreds of entries, and narrowing down the choices from longlist to shortlist, four previously unpublished poets, Geraldine Clarkson, Lucy Ingram, Maureen Cullen and Katie Griffiths emerged as the clear winners Primers Vol.1 now collects together these four selected poets, and the brilliant chemistry of their poems, a heady mix and a memorable trip – from war correspondents to social work, breath-taking natural landscapes to strange, unsettling tales – there’s much here to delight and quietly dazzle, and much to make the future of poetry bright.
Spelk Tom Kelly “His short, spare pieces speak in a direct, unfussy voice and Kelly continues to excel when he is fusing emotion and location.” Poetry Book Society Tom Kelly’s North-East of England is a spelk (splinter) that is always in him. In this collection he looks at children’s lives today and in the nineteenth century; his grandfather’s institutionalised childhood; Tyne shipyards and his family in the region where he feels caught in a net of the past. Tom Kelly is a poet and playwright who was born in Jarrow and now lives happily up the Tyne at Blaydon. This is his eighth collection and seventh published by Red Squirrel Press.
The Cat’s Whiskers Kathleen Kenny The latest collection from the prolific Tyneside poet and author. The subject range of Kathleen Kenny’s latest poetry collection includes amongst other things: pets, sex, time, and perspective. The main concern of these poems though is not with themes, but with the desire to seek beauty in the ordinary; for as Monaghan poet Patrick Kavanagh said: “To the poet, what is loved is worthy of love.” Red Squirrel Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910437339 • 68pp 14 April 2016
Red Squirrel Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910437261 • 64pp
Nine Arches Press • Paperback • £9.99
14 April 2016
9781911027034 • 92pp 14 April 2016
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Animal People Carol Rumens The latest collection from the curator of the Guardian’s much loved ‘Poem of the Week’ column. A new collection by the poet Carol Rumens is an eagerly awaited event. Animal People is inspired by what the author describes as, ‘the seasons of a sometimes Welsh and sometimes English year’. A lecturer at Bangor University, Rumens can dazzle with her descriptions of the Welsh countryside while also poking gentle fun at her status as ‘incomer’. Seren • Paperback • £9.99 9781781723180 • 72pp 14 April 2016
On the Cusp of Greatness Mark Waddell “Mark Waddell is a screaming fucking genius.” R.J. Ellory Irreverent, mostly funny and always surprising, On the Cusp of Greatness is Mark Waddell’s first collection of poetry; full of lively, spiky poems that seem to have just walked off the stage, accompanied by the author’s own (in his words) ‘hare-brained’ illustrations. Sticking two mischievous fingers up to power and the way things are supposed to be, Mark tackles space travel and sellotape with a single wave of his pen; blizzards and suicidal possums with another, whilst waving the flag for pleasure and all that is good in the world.
Flatpack & Other Poems James McGonigal This is the first full collection from a Scottish poet who defies easy characterisation. Lavinia Greenlaw found in James McGonigal’s prizewinning pamphlet, Cloud Pibroch, “unsettling poems of sustained acuity and grace, deeply rooted in the poet’s own landscape of the Scottish lowlands.” Flatpack extends that landscape towards Ireland and America while retaining a local focus on the beauty of the strangeness of being alive. Assembled in reverse chronology, it reaches across sixty years of life and more, opening in December in heaven and ending in Cumbernauld New Town under spring rain.
Valley Press • Paperback • £7.99 9781908853646 • 198x129mm • 72pp
Red Squirrel Press • Paperback • £8.99
14 April 2016
9781910437308 • 68pp 14 April 2016
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Inside His Time Machine John McManus
Speak from Here to There Kwame Dawes & John Kinsella
An evocative and richly human first collection of haiku by award winning poet John McManus.
A poetic conversation between two of literature’s strongest voices.
Themes of loss, fear, violence, isolation and family are repeatedly explored within the narrative of John McManus’s work, but along with these often deeply personal explorations, his poems also explore social issues, such as religion, war, poverty and disability.
For six months during 2015, two poets known for their capacity to create lyric responses to the complex realities around them exchanged poems that were in constant dialogue even as they remained wholly defined and shaped by the details of their own private and public lives.
The language displayed throughout the collection is clean and precise, but it also shows off John’s gift for linguistic musicality. IRON Press • Paperback • £6.00 9780993124556 • 178x111mm • 56pp 14 April 2016
Kwame Dawes’ base was flat prairieland of Lincoln, Nebraska, a mid-American landscape in which he, a black man, felt at once alien and curiously committed to the challenges of finding “home”; and John Kinsella’s base was in the wide open violently beautiful landscape of western Australia, his home ground, thick with memory and heavy with the language of ecological change, political ineptitude and artistic defiance. E-mail was the bridge.
The Way the Crocodile Taught Me Katrina Naomi The eagerly-awaited second collection by this lively and popular poet. With warmth, flair and a certain ferocious wit, Katrina Naomi tears into her subject matter: a childhood fraught with dislocation and violence but also redeemed by more tender memories of a sister and a kindly, although at times comically obtuse, grandmother. The Way the Crocodile Taught Me will delight people who know Naomi’s work and undoubtedly win new fans for her courageous and unabashedly entertaining poems. Seren • Paperback • £9.99 9781781723319 • 72pp 18 April 2016
Peepal Tree Press • Papaback • £9.99 9781845233198 • 132pp 18 April 2016
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Trouble Alison Winch
Mackerel Salad Ben Rogers
A witty and often lightly comic pamphlet of poetry exploring relationships: familial, sexual, and spousal.
A poetry pamphlet contemplating ideas of place.
In Trouble, Alison Winch explores and examines what it’s like to care for, long for, and leave, and takes the reader in and out of the smells and textures of gardens, gambling dens and medieval pilgrimages, moving between grief and lust and humour. The pamphlet features a sequence inspired by the character of Alisoun from ‘The Miller’s Tale’ in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, as well as a sequence set on the couch of an 18th century marriage counsellor. With an introduction by respected poet Jacqueline Saphra.
In Mackerel Salad, Ben Rogers considers maps and journeys: the physical, the psychological and those somewhere in between. The poems themselves wander from the wide unknown of outer space to a tiny Australian hostel; from a suburban house party to a gallery in New York. Under Rogers’ intense gaze, everyday objects (spoons, salads) become magical, while already-mysterious items (jellyfish, ringroads) become positively arcane. With an introduction by respected poet Tamar Yoseloff.
9781910139394 • 129x198mm • 36pp 21 April 2016
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Poems recalling her long life, collected together by a poet in her late 90s. Mairi MacInnes published her first book of poetry, Splinters: TwentySix Poems in 1953. More than sixty years later, Two Rivers Press has brought together a selection from her poetry of seven decades and added to it a gathering of poems written since the appearance of her most recent collection in 2007. Amazing Memories of Childhood etc. showcases a representative range of her poetry. The vividness of her rhythmically vital work once again reminds us what a fine poet she is and has been for such a long time.
The Emma Press • Paperback • £6.50 9781910139417 • 129x198mm • 36pp
The Emma Press • Paperback • £6.50
Amazing Memories of Childhood Etc. Mairi Macinnes
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Two Rivers Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781909747159 • 210x135mm • 84pp 30 April 2016
Kingdom Power Glory Nigel Pantling
Baby Patricia Debney
Written in the Dark Polina Barskova
A powerful book of poetry by a former soldier who served in Northern Ireland.
An honest and moving appraisal of the difficulties of maternal relationships.
Nigel Pantling was a soldier in Northern Ireland during the early years of ‘The Troubles’, private secretary to Ministers in the Home Office during the most turbulent year of the Thatcher Government, and a merchant banker in the 90’s when privatisations and mergers and acquisitions were rampant. This collection of poetry draws on the danger, the absurdity and the human frailty that he has seen at first hand and is an insightful and unique look at a turbulent time in our recent history.
Looking back at a dysfunctional childhood and a mother who lived a life always on the verge of destruction, the narrator of this sequence of prose poems wonders how, when there are so many reasons not to, love still exists even in the worst of circumstances.
A collection of poems written in 1942 by a group of writers during the most severe winter of the Nazi Seige of Leningrad.
Smith/Doorstop • Paperback • £9.95 9781910367605 • 102pp 1 May 2016
By poet and writer Patricia Debney, Baby is a searing, deeply disturbing work, filled with pain and anger, and yet, ultimately, it affirms the old adage that blood is thicker than water. Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £4.99 9780993168239 • A5 • 30pp
Intended to diverge from the state-sanctioned, heroic “Blockade” poetry of the time, the poems in this collection here show the Siege individual (blokadnik) as a weak and desperate incarnation of Job. These poets wrote in situ about the famine disease, madness, cannibalism, and prostitution around them—subjects so tabooed at the time that they would never think of publishing. Polina Barskova, a Russianlanguage poet and scholar of the Siege, edited this volume from archival materials.
1 May 2016 Ugly Duckling Presse • Paperback £11.75 • 9781937027575 • 1 May 2016
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Equinox Sheila Wild
Bird Sisters Julia Webb
The Fire-Eater’s Lover Sophia Blackwell
A wealth of life experience and an intuitive poetic flair comes together in this debut novel.
Julia Webb’s Bird Sisters is a surreal journey through sisterhood and the world of the family via the natural world.
The latest collection from popular London-based host and performance poet.
In this long-awaited debut collection Sheila Wild matches perfect craft with piercing observation. The language is elegant, delicate, but the effect is powerful. Exquisite images and a considered tone are brought to bear on loss, grief and indignity whilst precise and compassionate observation of the natural world is used to great effect. Mature, balanced and humane, this is an astounding debut from a poet who previously spent 27 years working for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and campaigning for equal pay and age issues.
In exploring the ways in which both adults and children are casually cruel to one another – often within a mythological framework, Julia Webb blurs the boundaries between fairy tale and real. These families are terrifying in their complexity and dysfunction yet utterly compelling and convincing and with dark undercurrents of humour that ensure they are never bleak. Nine Arches Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781911027058 • 80pp 1 May 2016
Sophia Blackwell’s new collection, The Fire-Eater’s Lover, is about performance of all kinds. Whether it’s the rituals of seduction, the trials and triumphs of squeezing into a red vintage dress or the adrenaline of putting a microphone to your lips, these poems are filled with the joy of performing. The Fire-Eater’s Lover conjures together scraps of everything from classic blues songs to job rejection letters, marriage proposals and medical questionnaires, and whips them into a circus of illicit sex, love lost and found, bittersweet goodbyes and moments of illumination.
Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910836231 • 216x140mm • 80pp
Burning Eye Books • Paperback • £9.99
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Boys Sally Jenkinson A debut collection that wrestles with heartbreak, grief, sexual exploration, casual relationships and day to day observations. Boys is a tender, raw, celebratory and unflinching collection of poems with a socio-political undercurrent from a poet who is staking a claim to be an important and distinctive poetic-voice of her generation. In the first section Sally Jenkinson explores her Doncaster childhood with poems full of the boisterous warmth of growing up with noisy boys. The brother who was closest to Sally in age died when she was eighteen, and this inevitably haunts this part of the book. In the second section Sally examines the relationships (romantic, sexual, social) that young women navigate in adulthood.
Voices from Stone and Bronze Caroline Davies A moving, honest and never sentimental collection that gives a voice to London’s many war memorials. In her second poetry collection Caroline Davies turns her attention to the War Memorials of London. Voices from Stone and Bronze brings to life those who fought and died and those who survived, including some of the sculptors who had themselves come through trench warfare to a changed world. Meticulously researched and deeply humane, these narrative poems apply a lyrical sensibility without sentimentalism; a deeply affective collection.
Spacecraft John McCullough Spacecraft navigates the white space of the page and the distance between people. Margins, edges and coastlines abound in John McCullough’s tender, humorous explorations of contemporary life and love. Encompassing everything from lichen to lava lamps, and from the etymology of words to Brighton’s gay scene, Spacecraft is a humane and spellbinding collection from the winner of the 2012 Polari first Book Prize. Penned in the Margins • Paperback £9.99 • 9781908058362 • 1 May 2016
Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910836248 • 216x140mm • 96pp 1 May 2016
Burning Eye Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781909136731 • 133x203mm 1 May 2016
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Between So Many Words Ric Hool “If it’s the authentic voice of a poet you want, then here it is.” Chris Torrance Ric Hool has published seven collections of poetry. His work is featured in anthologies, poetry magazines & journals in Europe, USA & UK. His poetic themes are the psychological and geographical impact of place and space on the human experience. Water is a totem, poured from place to place and from experience to experience: an agent of informing. Red Squirrel Press • Paperback
Three Symphonies Tony Conran In the latest of his series of symphonies, Conran explores life, love, theology, creation, creativity and even historical themes using a wide range of poetic and imaginative techniques. The three symphonies in this collection complement and contrast with each other and show a poet still at the height of his imaginative power. The imagery draws on science, religion, family life, work, the poetic and creative experience; displaying humour, wonder and compassion for the human predicament.
£10.00 • 9781910437315 • 100pp 1 May 2016
Hunting the Boar Beverley Bie Brahic “Brahic writes with singular, and non-sentimental, brilliance.” Ian Pople, Manchester Review Poised and intimately crafted, Beverley Bie Brahic’s poems flicker restlessly in their attention to everything – history, memories, food, sex – that is the present moment. Brahic is a prize-winning translator of Apollinaire, Yves Bonnefoy and and Francis Ponge. Her previous collection, White Sheets, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. “White Sheets is immensely readable, skilfully crafted and rich with ideas and feeling.” Katherine Stansfield, Magma
Agenda Editions • Paperback • £10.00 9781908527257 • 5 May 2016
CB editions • Paperback • £8.99 9781909585188 • 198x129mm • 72pp 5 May 2016
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The Further Adventures of the Lives of Saints Patrick Mackie Snippets of modern life presented by a fresh and uniquely modern voice. The river Rhine starts to flow through Gloucestershire. Someone reads Russian poetry as a general election approaches. The people who live on the sun turn out to be worried about the people down here on earth – including John Wayne, Osip Mandelstam, Simone Weil, Margaret Thatcher, and Amy Winehouse. Casting its lines across rainfall and motorways and the lives of the saints alike, mining a wild humour from the vastness of our cultural disarray, The Further Adventures of The Lives of The Saints gives a new account of what the modern lyric is capable of.
Camera Obscura Seán Street
He Tells the Story Peter Spafford
A fundamentally musical collection of poetry from a wellknown authority on British radio.
Emotional, accessible, warm and tender first collection of poetry from a well-known playwright.
Camera Obscura (meaning ‘dark room’ in Latin) is pierced by memory, real and imagined voices from the ancient and recent past and attempted communication across millennia and between species. Here a Schubert mass is remade as a poem, a sound recordist speaks from the battlefield of Towton and a Salisbury church builder bears witness to Magna Carta.
By day, Peter Spafford writes scripts for theatre, radio, musical theatre and opera. His poems are, out of necessity, creatures of the night; all the pieces in this collection dodged the searchlights and crept under the wire in the last five years.
“Street unearths loss, memory and redemption from English terrain like few other poets.” The Times Rockingham Press • Paperback • £9.99
They are drawn from family relationships, friendships, a love of language and from the varied settings of his work: in prisons, schools, museums, hospitals and on the streets. Most of them have a story at their heart; stories which can now be told.
9781904851653 • 210x148mm • 80pp 9 May 2016
Valley Press • Paperback • £7.99 9781908853660 • 198x129mm • 72pp 12 May 2016
CB editions • Paperback • £8.99 9781909585140 • 210x148mm • 86pp 5 May 2016
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Looking for Trouble Roque Dalton
Nothing Out of This World Katherine M. Hedeen (ed.)
The first collection of Roque Dalton’s poetry published in the UK.
A comprehensive collection of late 20th Century Cuban poetry with an introduction by poet Víctor Rodríguez Núñez.
An extraordinary poet of rebellion and humour, fierce militancy and painful tenderness, Roque Dalton’s (1935–1975) poetry has been widely published in Cuba, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia and the US. Looking for Trouble is the first time his work has been published in the UK. Dalton was a member of the Salvadorean Communist party and escaped imprisonment and death more than once before spending several years in exile in Mexico, Cuba and Czechoslovakia. During this time, he wrote and published his work and won the 1969 Casa de las Américas poetry prize. Smokestack Books • Paperback • £8.99 9780992958183 • 197x127mm • 150pp
Nothing Out of This World is an introduction in Spanish and English to the work of thirty-six poets from Cuba writing in the second half of the twentieth-century, including Heberto Padilla, Nancy Morejón, and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. The oldest poet here, Fina GarcíaMarruz, was born in 1923; the youngest, Damaris Calderón, in 1967. This collection is an extraordinary and heady mix, combining African and Spanish influences, realism and surrealism, colloquialism and baroque, experiment and commitment, a lucid and moving introduction to a collective poetic subject that defies all kinds of social oppression.
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The third in a series of anthologies based on the works of the Roman poet Ovid, this one takes inspiration from Ovid’s most famous work, the Metamorphoses. Urban Myths and Legends is a spirited and fully illustrated collection of poems by modern poets who have taken inspiration from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The poems tell stories about transformations – some inspired directly by the Metamorphoses and some completely new and of our time. Wings sprout, leaves fall and a traffic warden is rudely interrupted, as the poets channel Ovid’s mischief and whisper tales of just and unjust desserts. The Emma Press • Paperback • £10 9781910139240 • 184x123mm • 88pp
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Urban Myths and Legends Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright (ed.)
2 June 2016
Final Cut Saleem Peeradina
Chill Factor Gill Learner
A bold and brilliant new collection from a well-established and much-anthologised poet.
“The poems here fizz and crackle while exploring the vast range of humanity.” Poetry Book Society
Saleem Peeradina is one of the most important Indian poets writing in the English language. Final Cut, his fifth collection, finds his attention turning to new subjects – birds, their migration and intelligence; fruit, as it appears in memories, mythology and reality; objects (shaving brush, stapler, juicer, skillet) and ‘extraordinary ordinary’ people, all finding their voices and speaking up.
Chill Factor, Gill Learner’s second collection, resonates with her concerns for the state of the world, its political and environmental predicaments and problems.
Valley Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781908853684 • 198x129mm • 80pp 6 June 2016
Yet interwoven with those sustained themes are poems further responding to her interest in crafts and skills, as well as her love of music. Family and friends, both dead and alive, mingle with people from the world of literature and history to form uniquely peopled landscapes evoked in the vividly colloquial language we have come to expect from this poet.
Gardening with Deer Kathy Miles The latest collection from Forward Anthology poet Kathy Miles, Winner of the Welsh Poetry Competition 2014 and twice winner of the One Voice Monologue Competition. Gardening With Deer sees Kathy Miles continuing to surprise, delight and unsettle. Weaving together life and myth, light and dark, the poems are vivid and visceral, but never showy. The language is honed, beautifully controlled, exquisitely crafted so that the images resonate long after reading. Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910836262 • 216x140mm • 80pp 6 June 2016
Two Rivers Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781909747180 • 210x135mm • 64pp 6 June 2016
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A Whole Day Through From Waking Jacci Bulman A debut poetry collection about all the many kinds of love. Ambitious and positive, Jacci Bulman’s poems range over philosophical questions and connect to the unusual and the everyday using intimate experiences and images. From the loving and losing someone to drug abuse to working with courageous children in Vietnam, from wrestling with a close personal relationship to exploring the spiritual within us all this is poetry that connects. Bulman uses a lightness of touch even when exploring darkness, and her accessible style invites the reader in. Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £8.99 • 9781910836279 • 216x140mm • 80pp
Cain Luke Kennard
Panic Stef Mo
Cain is the long-awaited new collection from Next Generation Poet Luke Kennard.
A debut poetry collection from a popular and prolific performance poet.
In a series of poetic conversations, Cain - the first murderer - provides therapy sessions for the author, covering topics from zombies to interfaith dialogue. These poems are tricksy, hilarious and always utterly ingenious. In an anarchic reenergising of Genesis 4:9-13, Cain’s central sequence of 31 anagram poems demonstrates Kennard’s trademark surreal wit whilst also exploring the possibility of spiritual experience within an increasingly absurd universe.
The world is a confusing, terrifying, exciting, sexy, smelly place that makes simultaneously more and less sense the more time you spend in it. This collection of poems, poem-shaped rants, rant-shaped monologues, whimsical asides, imagined conversations, mutated anecdotes and existentially terrified howls at the moon is about as pure a manifestation of Stef Mo’s relationship with the world as you could hope to experience, short of piloting a miniaturised submarine directly into his brain.
Published in a beautifully designed hardback that recalls the Missal or prayer-book, Cain is a whip-smart and illuminating collection from one of British poetry’s brightest lights.
6 June 2016 Penned in the Margins • Paperback £9.99 • 9781908058355 • 6 June 2016
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Burning Eye Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781909136748 • 133x203mm 6 June 2016
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Laughter to Split Glass Steve Urwin “Steve’s poetry performances are filled with a frenetic, angry joyful energy…” Kate Fox Once again, the purveyor of provincial darkness draws on life lessons some would rather not have to experience beyond the confines of a poetry book. Although this collection bears much of his trademark grimness, Steve Urwin has created characters and monologues that intrigue and entertain with some lovely bleak humour brought to the fore. Think, “Victor Meldrew goes gothic metal punk with a bit of the beat generation for good measure” and you’re not far off the mark. Red Squirrel Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910437254 • 68pp
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Between The Curlew and The Crow Keith Parker
Thatcher’s Folly or the Bonus Canto George Jowett
The debut pamphlet from the much loved teacher and poet.
Fully-illustrated pamphlet of a long satirical poem.
Keith Parker has a backgound in teaching. His work reflects a deep interest in history, philosophy and politics. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing from Newcastle University. He has had work published in numerous magazines including Acumen, StepAway, The Open Mouse, and The Eildon Tree. He has read at numerous poetry venues across the north east of England. He is editor of the Facebook site ‘Poetry Talk’. This is his first pamphlet.
First inspired when writing his contribution in the long poem A Modern Don Juan: Cantos For These Times by Divers Hands (Five Leaves Publications, 2014), which imagines the picaresque adventures of a modern DJ as Don Juan, George Jowett wrote this second canto. This is a wonderfully satirical and often scabrous account of an imagined liaison between Margaret Thatcher and the DJ, culminating in the Brighton Tory Party Conference bombing.
Red Squirrel Press • Pamphlet • £6.00
Iron Press • Pamphlet • £5.00
9781910437322 • 28pp • 6 June 2016
9780993124570 • A5 • 32pp 16 June 2016
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Today the Birds Will Sing: Collected Poems Helen Burke
The Immigration Handbook Caroline Smith
War Poems Robert Graves
The latest collection of widelypublished and well-established poet Helen Burke.
The beautiful poems in this collection give us the heartbreakingly true stories inside today’s headlines.
Since the mid-1980s, Helen Burke’s poems have appeared in pamphlets, on greetings cards, on pieces of origami, on radio, on tape, on CD, on the side of stray dogs – and, more recently, as two collections from Valley Press.
Caroline Smith’s book of poems, The Immigration Handbook, is a vividly detailed and deeply felt look at the lives of those she has tried to help over the years in her job as an Immigration Caseworker dealing with the Home Office.
Robert Graves’ war poems collected in one volume for the first time, including the unpublished collection, The Patchwork Flag.
This is a comprehensive and exhaustive treasury of Helen’s work, spanning more than 250 pages in a beautiful hardback edition. Filled with Helen’s truly unique illustrations and reams of notes explaining where all these poems came from, it’s no overstatement to say this is an unprecedented and unexpected treat that should entertain Helen’s fans, new and old, for the next few centuries at least.
As she helps lead often traumatised immigrants through the labyrinthine bureaucracies they must navigate to survive, she deals with lives fraught with violence and tragedy but also hears many stories of stoic resilience and humorous forbearance, of the kindness of others and of joy in the midst of sorrow. Seren • Paperback • £9.99 9781781723210 • 44pp • 30 June 2016
War Poems is single volume that draws together all Robert Graves’s poems about war, consisting of Graves’s first two major published volumes: Over the Brazier (1916) and Fairies and Fusiliers (1917), plus Goliath and David (1916), a collection subsequently absorbed into Fairies and Fusiliers, plus the unpublished The Patchwork Flag (1918). It also includes subsequent poems from the volume Country Sentiment onwards which consider the subject of war. With an introduction by Charles Mundye, giving biographical and historical context and locating Graves’s importance amongst the solider poets of World War One.
Valley Press • Hardback • £12.99 9781908853691 • 198x129mm • 256pp 23 June 2016
Seren • Hardback • £19.99 9781781723296 • 216x138mm • 260pp 30 June 2016
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Burning Books Jess Green
Limehaven Vicky Arthurs
Life Class Jo Reed
On the Tracks of Wild Game Tomaz Salamun
Burning Eye Books • PB • £9.99 9781909136625 • 100pp
Iron Press • PB • £8.00 9780993124525 • 68pp
Valley Press • PB • £7.99 9781908853493 • 52pp
Ugly Duckling Presse • PB £10.00 • 9781933254951 • 108pp
The Hard Word Box Sarah Hesketh
The Art of Falling Kim Moore
Ikhda, by Ikhda Ikhda Ayuning Marharsi
The Knowledge Robert Peake
Penned in the Margins • PB £9.99 • 9781908058225 • 87pp
Seren • PB • £9.99 9781781722374 • 72pp
The Emma Press • PB • £6.50 9780957459663 • 36pp
Nine Arches Press • PB • £9.99 9780993120114 • 80pp
Kissing Angles Sarah Fletcher
The Oranges of Revolution Clare Saponia
Cloud Camera Lesley Saunders
Dead Ink • PB • £5.00 9780957698574 • 32pp
Smokestack Books • PB • £7.95 9780992958138 • 164pp
Two Rivers Press • PB • £8.99 9781901677812 • 80pp
My Family and Other Superheroes Jonathan Edwards Seren • PB • £9.99 9781781721629 • 72pp
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Jack Robinson Jack Robinson
The Wave Lochlan Bloom
‘Silence’ and Other Stories Tim Turnbull
A new work of short fiction by Charles Boyle (ex-Faber poet, short stories from Salt).
A debut novel detailing the lives of three vastly different people whose lives become entangled in a search for answers to seemingly benign questions.
The collection ‘Silence’ and Other Stories consists of ten weird tales.
A book left on a café table, a waiter chasing after the customer to return it – so begins a series of riffs on the relationship between reader and writer, taking in biographies, shoplifting, launch parties, queues for the toilet at literary festivals, cover designs, endings, re-reading, dog-walking and bonfires. CB editions • Paperback • £5.00 9781909585195 • 180x120mm • 48pp 26 January
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Three intertwined narratives play out as the stories of μ, an isolated loner, DOWN, a depressed publisher, and David Bohm, a real-life quantum theoretician in post-war São Paulo, become entangled. The closer each of these trails leads to the dark centre of the world the more reality disintegrates. Dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense drag each of the characters struggling into an absurd, labyrinthine world of seemingly infinite regress.
In each story in this bold new collection it is difficult to say whether the underlying horror is caused by supernatural phenomena and events described, or by human cruelty, callousness, and outright evil. The settings range from rural North Yorkshire and its moors to the backstreets of North London; from 16th century France to a near-future New York. Some of the protagonists are dangerously delusional, others bewildered dupes, but all are threatened by implacable forces. The book is infused with a sense of menace and Turnbull’s trademark dry, bleak humour.
Dead Ink • Hardback • £14.00
Red Squirrel Press • Paperback • £6.99
9780957698567 • 220x140mm
9781910437346 • 72pp
29 January 2016
1 February 2016
The Dowry Blade Cherry Potts
When Lights are Bright Wes Brown
Mr Jolly Michael Stewart
A lesbian fantasy epic in the style of Game of Thrones.
Taking place over one day, Wes Brown tells the story of a journalist’s investigation of a schoolgirl’s disappearance.
The first collection of short stories from an award-winning novelist.
Nine years after her clan was almost obliterated and her sister disappeared, Brede, is unwillingly and unhappily living in the marshes. The sudden ending of a decade-long drought brings with it rumours that the rain was bought at the price of a King’s head and the Dowry Blade, the sword needed for such a sacrifice, is missing. The arrival of Tegan, a wounded mercenary, brings even more questions. After a series of discoveries and revelations about the Dowry Blade, Tegan and Brede begin their journey to the capital in search of Brede’s sister.
The English Defence League and anti-globalisation protesters are clashing in the streets. A schoolgirl is missing from a council estate and the parents are on the television. Contrarian journalist, James Oisin, is haunted by her face on the missing posters. He suspects the mother is behind it. James’ search for the missing schoolgirl leads him to confront the truth of his past, the white working class and the consequences of his contrarianism. For James, anonymity may be the most radical act of all.
25 February 2016
Last phone calls, alien abductions, murders and more are grounded in stories of struggling parents, baffled lovers and lost children (some of who may live permanently on the number 606 bus). However long you live, and however much you read, you’ll never come across another book quite like this. Valley Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781908853608 • 198x129mm
Arachne Press • Paperback • £15.99 9781909208209 • 234x156mm • 400pp
Each tale offers a unique, utterly compelling insight into the human condition, framed by a mindbendingly original concept that no other writer working today could – or indeed would – have concocted.
Dead Ink • Hardback • £14.00
25 February 2016
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Gone to Drift Diane McCaulay
Shore to Shore: River Stories Tamsin Hopkins
The story of a 12-year-old Jamaican boy, Lloyd, and his search for his beloved grandfather, Maas Conrad, a fisherman who is lost at sea.
A collection of short stories focused on rivers from across the world.
Suspecting that his grandfather has come to harm after witnessing an illegal capture of dolphins for the tourist trade, Lloyd goes on a quest to search for him. Told through a dual narrative shared with Maas Conrad himself, who, unknown to Lloyd, is alive and marooned on a rock. Diane MacCaulay’s Gone to Drift is an exciting adventure story about a boy confronted with difficult moral choices. Gone to Drift is built on McCaulay’s 2012 Regional Commonwealth prizewinning short story, The Dolphin Catchers (Granta Online).
From Peru to the Rhine, from the Yukatan peninsular to the Thames, across time and cultures, Tamsin Hopkins’ stories flow compellingly. Whether strange, tragic or shot through with humour and an eye for detail, the stories are united by a human sensibility and elegant, accessible prose. Rivers are old and most have a history, even a personal mythology that reflects a river’s personality, its influence on the major settlements along its journey to the sea.
Via Negativa: A Parable of Exile Omar Sabbagh Debut novella from a widely published poet and critic. Yusuf, a teacher, is an inveterate observer of his native Beirut, that “city of whores and city of dames”, watching its bustle from a bar stool. But when one of his most promising students shows him several unfinished stories, Yusuf finds his life’s drift is about to hit rough water. The first prose work by respected poet Omar Sabbagh, this stunning, miasmatic novella draws the reader deep into a world where what goes on inside a person’s head is more real and important than the world outside.
Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781910836163 • 198x127mm • 280pp 7 March 2016
Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £7.99 9780993168239 • 198x129mm • 92pp 7 March 2016
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Going for Broke Jo Howard
Green Dawn at St. Enda’s Tracey Iceton
Ritual 1969 Jo Mazelis
A young adult novel set in Manchester in the 1980s about first love and the struggles that come with it.
A young boy enrols at boarding school in Dublin during a time of revolution.
A new collection of stories from the author of Significance, winner of the 2015 Jerwood Prize for Fiction.
Manchester, 1987. Jess is sixteen years old and sick of her bossy dad, Cyril, and submissive mum, Doreen. When good-looking, charming 24 year-old Eddie starts to show an interest, Jess becomes swept up in his seemingly glamourous world of alcohol, crime and debt. What follows is a break-neck and brutal coming-of-age story as Jess struggles to make her new life work in the most difficult circumstances. Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781910836101 • 198x128mm • 280pp 7 March 2016
While William is learning Irish, playing hurling and losing himself in the legend of Cúchulainn, the issue of Irish Home Rule grows increasingly contentious. Sick of British oppression and empowered by the reawakening of Irish national consciousness, one group decide to fight for independence. Among them is William’s headmaster – Patrick Pearse. As soldiers of the Army of the Irish Republic, William and Pearse march on the Dublin General Post Office and into history. Green Dawn at St Enda’s commemorates the soldiers at the centenary of the Easter Rising and tells the story of one boy’s journey into adulthood as a nation struggles for freedom.
Jo Mazelis’ dark stories feature murder, the ghostly and the border between the natural and supernatural. Ranging across early twentieth-century France 1960s South Wales and contemporary Europe, her singular vision and unswerving recreation of characters caught in events and feelings they do not understand and cannot control gives the book focus. As ever her prose is poetic and lyrical and psychologically intense. Seren • Paperback • £8.99 9781781723050 • 16 March 2016
Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781909077997 • 197x128mm • 550pp 7 March 2016
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Quiet Flows the Una Faruk Šehic´
The Geranium Woman Hazel Manuel
LS6 Mario Crespo
The story of a man trying to overcome the personal trauma caused by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.
While grieving the death of her father, the Parisian CEO of a corporate events company questions the ethics of her world.
A unique take on life in Leeds by a brilliant new Spanish author.
Through his meditative prose, Faruk Šehic´ attempts to reconstruct the life of a veteran and a poet. His memories of the recent war and the killings are “dirty and disgusting”, while he views his present as humdrum and his identity incomplete. With the help of his memories, he acts as both archivist and a chronicler of the past, roles that allow him the opportunity to rebuild everything again. Istros Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781908236494 • 198x129mm • 170pp 21 March 2016
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Set in Paris and Mumbai, The Geranium Woman is a rare and timely glimpse into boardroom politics as seen through female eyes. With a successful business woman as the central character, issues of gender, personal autonomy, and corporate responsibility are all explored with a deft yet nuanced touch in this ambitious and thoughtprovoking novel.
Leeds the melting pot. A Spanish ham cutter, a Columbian chicken sexer, an Italian usher, a Cape Verdian actor, an Iraqi-Kurd ghost writer, and a widow of Leeds weave their way towards the Playhouse for The Death of Margaret Thatcher. Collage or cocktail the forces of neoliberalism, yin yang and the golden bough fling them together and tear them apart, the Leeds school has an explosive new voice, formed in Madrid.
Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £9.99
Dead Ink Books • Paperback • £8.00
9781910836118 • 198x127mm • 300pp
9780993401404 • 190x130mm • 200pp
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Of Soul Sincere B. Lloyd It is summer, 1928. When invited by her publisher to assist a well-respected MP write his memoirs, Julia is at first reluctant to concentrate on anything other than her next novel; however, circumstances (involving among other things unexpected plumbing) conspire to change her mind and she finds herself at once guest and employee at the great man’s rather bohemian household. Almost immediately she encounters memories from the past, of a rather unsettling nature...
The Day I Met Vini Reilly Jeremy Worman and Jan Fortune (ed.)
Diary of a Short Sighted Adolescent Mircea Eliade
A collection of ten award winning short stories from the Cinnamon Press Short Story Prize.
A seminal novel by one of Romania’s most respected writers and intellectuals.
Will Kemp’s ‘The Day I Met Vini Reilly’, the short story which gives its name to this collection, has a pop buzz feel from the outset as the male narrator, an infatuated fan, sets off to see a concert of his hero Vini Reilly, guitarist and leader of the Manchester band The Durutti Column, formed in 1978. Accompanied by nine other prizewinning short stories by rising stars in British fiction.
The short-sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works. The pupil protagonist is a poor student, who likes science and reads a lot of books, sometimes staying up all night to do so. At the age of 15, he decides to write a novel to demonstrate to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as all the other students, and is prepared to give up everything he holds dear for his art! The novel is written in a number of notebooks – the ‘diary’ of the title – but our myopic hero ultimately fails in 3 subjects and is too lazy to learn and has to repeat the school year.
Holland House • Paperback • £9.99 9781909374867 • 320pp 1 April 2016
Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781910836194 • 200pp 4 April 2016
Istros Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781908236210 • 4 April 2016
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No Certain Home Marlene Lee
The Orchid House Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Byron and the Beauty Muharem Bazdulj
From a tenant farm in Missouri, to the mines of Colorado, to the mountains of China—and into the files of the FBI.
A new edition of the Caribbean classic.
Based loosely on Byron’s biography and takes place during two weeks of October 1809, during his visit to the Balkans.
This is the true story of Agnes Smedley, an extraordinary woman who transcended personal hardship to become an international journalist. From the caves of Northwest China, where she was the only Westerner who lived with the leaders of the Chinese Red Army after their Long March, she described the Chinese Communist movement to the West. Despite personal loneliness and romantic and sexual disappointment, she earned the love and respect of those who knew her and understood that China would become an important player on the world stage. A novel about an American radical and an independent, passionate woman.
Intensely autobiographical, The Orchid House describes a colonial society in decay as seen through the loyal eyes of a white family’s childhood nurse, Lally. Three white sisters return to their Caribbean island home to find their family living in poverty and mental anguish. Each sister responds to the family’s plight in different ways — seeking change through romance or politics or money First published in 1953, The Orchid House was republished by Virago Press in 1982 for Virago Modern Classic. It was later filmed by Channel 4 for a four-part series (1991) with Diana Quick, Frances Barber and Elizabeth Hurley (now available as a DVD).
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Muharem Bazdulj marvellously combines facts with imagination, history and romance, resulting in an exceptionally beautiful work. Byron ends up experiencing and embodying the lyrical Balkan condition of unrequited love called sevdah, but his valiant behaviour also lands him in a regional folk song; this nod to changing cultural production in the Ottoman lands calls to mind the works of Ismail Kadare.
Papillote Press • Paperback • £8.99 9780993108624 • 197x130mm • 240pp
Holland House • Paperback
From coffee to customary law, from courtship rituals to the culture of conversation, Lord Byron navigates the invigorating culture of the Balkans in this novel with the help of his Muslim and Jewish guides.
30 April 2016
Istros Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781908236289 • B Format 2 May 2016
Entertaining Angels Petina Strohmer
The Language of Belonging Cristiane Lima Scott
The Storyteller Kate Armstrong
An ambitious and an engagingly dark story to tell.
When Cecilia is hired by Mrs. Woodard, she doesn’t expect to find a new life and her own past
With a claustrophobic intensity of vision, The Storyteller is a challenging, beautifully written novel of disconnect, insanity and reawakening.
Exploring the glamorous high society world of professional photography, Petina Strohmer takes a look at art, fashion, fetish, and, ultimately, love in the darkly captivating Entertaining Angels. From London to Aspen to the Caribbean, this novel follows a cast of captivating characters through the dazzle of society ‘dos’, the drama of the courtroom, and the despair of the psychiatric ward. Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781910836217 • B Format • 300pp 2 May 2016
Brazilian immigrant to the USA Cecilia is hired by the wealthy seventy-eight year old Elena Woodard to be her fulltime caregiver. Elena gives her journal with her history and her most intimate secrets to Cecilia to translate into English. Inspired by the older woman’s story of her life in Brazil, Cecilia tells how she fled Brazil with her mother, crosses the border from Mexico into the United States, and their struggles to survive in the new country as illegal immigrants. When Elena dies, a new future is created for Cecilia. A novel about sacrifice, friendship, love, and the yearning to belong. Holland House • Paperback • £9.99
A young woman regains consciousness. An elegant old lady degenerates into flailing madness. A beggar counts small change on Westminster Bridge. Hot summer afternoons transform into autumn and winter days and back to summer again. At first, Iris and Rachel are linked only by their illness, but as they heal they grow closer, and soon they are enmeshed in a relationship neither can escape. When Iris insists on writing Rachel’s biography the younger woman is unable to resist; but is her life being reported or created by her self-appointed storyteller?
9781910688021 • 5” x 8” • 268pp 2 May 2016
Holland House • Paperback • £9.99 9781910688069 • 5” x 8” • 260pp 6 June 2016
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Life Begins on a Friday Ioana Pârvulescu
The Truth in Masquerade Carole Strachan
Broken Leg Bestseller Saxon Pepperdine
A murder mystery, a tale of timetravel and a wonderful evocation of the “spirit” of fin de siècle.
An intriguing debut novel about opera, mystery, and the aftermath of a broken marriage.
Surreal, dazzling, a debut novel from a bold and unique author.
1897. A young man is found lying unconscious on the outskirts of Bucharest. No one knows who he is but everyone has a different theory about how he got there. The stories of the various characters unfold, each closely interwoven with the next, and outlining the features of what ultimately turns out to be the most important and most powerful character of all: the city of Bucharest itself.
The abrupt and unexpected ending of her marriage prompts the operatic Anna Maxwell to leave home and take on the lead role of the Governess in the spine-chilling opera ‘The Turn of the Screw’. But haunted by memories of her exhusband, Edwyn, and of another man who once loved her, Anna finds herself confronting the reasons her marriage unravelled, questioning what was true or illusory, all while facing the challenge of a demanding dramatic role; a part that has increasingly painful emotional resonances with her own life.
Istros Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781908236296 • 6 June 2016
Cinnamon Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781910836255 • B Format • 300pp 6 June 2016
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Broken Leg Bestseller is a short story which follows the author himself as he navigates a whirlwind of calamities with a broken leg in an attempt to recover the USB stick holding his soon- to-be best seller, which has been swallowed by a seagull. Collected here with three other stories, which may or may not have been the contents of the USB stick. Burning Eye Books • Paperback • £9.99 9781909136755 • 129x198mm 6 June 2016
Masque Bethany Pope
There is Nothing Strange Susan Pepper Robbins
A richly gothic retelling of the Phantom of the Opera, this is an absorbing, escapist read that opens up an old tale in a new way.
Some love falters, some fails, and some love finds a way to survive
A promising young singer is torn between two loves. One, her patron, is a rich vicomte, who offers her a life of luxury and light. The other, the mysterious Phantom of the Opera, is a dark enigma who offers to help her further her art. One is a man, the other a monster. This story is different from the one you think you know. Set in lushly painted 19th century Paris, this debut novel by Bethany W Pope plunges its protagonists to terrible depths. Love, lust, adventure, romance, and the monstrous nature of unfulfilled creativity await you here.
A strange love triangle turns and twists and tangles as three people try to find their way with and through one another. Laura and Jeremy marry, and take their first hopeful – and desperate – steps together; but always there is Henry, bound to them both by love and guilt and a terrible accident years before. The story whirls like the wedding dance, until at last the music stops, and they find the truth beyond the old songs and ‘the chants of night’. With lyrical prose shot through with acerbic humour, and a hypnotic rhythm, Susan Pepper Robbins creates a story both disturbing and beautiful. Holland House • Paperback • £8.99
Seren • Paperback • £9.99
9781910688045 • 5” x 8” • 180pp
9781781723142 • 198x129mm • 188pp
16 June 2016
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F I C T I O N backlist The Lost Art of Sinking Naomi Booth
Significance Jo Mazelis
Farewell, Cowboy Olja SaviCˇeviC´
Sugar Hall Tiffany Murray
Penned in the Margins • PB £12.99 • 9781908058294 • 144pp
Seren • PB • £9.99 9781781721872 • 472pp
Istros Books • PB • £9.99 9781908236487 • 180pp
Seren • PB • £8.99 9781781722206 • 268pp
A Little Dust on the Eyes Minoli Salgado
Double the Stars Kelley Swain
Star-Shot Mary-Ann Constantine
Shark Wes Brown
Peepal Tree Press • PB • £9.99 9781845232405 • 196pp
Cinnamon Press • PB • £9.99 9781909077362 • 166pp
Seren • PB • £8.99 9781781722640 • 192pp
Valley Press • PB • £8.99 9781908853233 • 214pp
Things to Make and Break May-Lan Tan
Weird Lies Cherry Potts & Katy Darby
Millie and Bird Avril Joy
Closure Jacob Ross
CB Editions • PB 9781909585010 • £8.99 • 216pp
Arachne Press • 9781909208100 PB • £9.99 • 160pp
Peepal Tree Press • PB • £9.99 9781845232405 • 196pp
Peepal Tree Press • PB • £9.99 9781845232887 • 212pp
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Before and After Edith Morley The inspirational memoir of England’s first female professor, the early feminist and socialist. With a foreword by Mary Beard. Edith Morley tells of how the first female professor in England overcame the difficulties and prejudices she experienced in the traditionally male environment of Edwardian academia. An early feminist with a strong social conscience, she ‘fought… with courage… and passionate sincerity for human rights and freedom’. From the vividly described era of her late Victorian childhood, the early feminist movement, and, much later, the traumas endured by refugees fleeing Nazi Germany, this absorbing memoir brings alive a very different era but one foundational to the freedoms we enjoy today. Two Rivers Press • Paperback • £9.99 9781909747166 • 210x135mm • 144pp
About a Girl: A Reader’s Guide to Eimar McBride David Collard In late 2003 Eimear McBride started writing A Girl Is a Halfformed Thing, and finished it the following summer. In 2013, after almost a decade of rejection, it was published by a tiny Norwich-based press, Galley Beggar, and won the Goldsmiths Prize; in 2014 it won three other major prizes and was published in America, gathering superlative reviews along the way. From nowhere to near-universal acclaim – how did this happen? What does such an extraordinary reception for an uncompromisingly experimental and uncommercial novel signify? Written with the full cooperation of Eimear McBride, About a Girl is a comprehensive account of an unprecedented literary phenomenon that enlarges our understanding of both McBride’s novel and the contemporary literary scene.
Letter to the Amazon Marina Tsvetaeva An essay highlighting the truths of lesbian relationships from a renowned Russian and Soviet poet. Like many of Marina Tsvetaeva’s essays and poems, Letter to the Amazon is addressed to another writer, in this case Natalie Clifford Barney, a wealthy American expatriate in Paris. Though written in 1932, Tsvetaeva’s letter was in response to what Barney said about lesbian relationships and motherhood in her 1920 Pensées dune Amazone (Thoughts of an Amazon). Tsvetaeva uses her essay to explore her seemingly agonized feelings about Sophia Parnok, the Russian poet with whom she fell in love in 1914, when Tsvetaeva was twentytwo and Parnok thirty-one. Ugly Duckling Presse • Paperback £8.00 • 9781937027698 • 1 April 2016
7 March 2016 CB editions • Paperback • £12.00 9781909585065 • 210x135mm • 250pp 17 March 2016
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Real Glasgow Ian Spring An entertaining and insightful guide to this historic Scottish city. Revisiting his native city Ian Spring’s new book charts how it has changed over the last forty years. In it he visits the city’s landmarks, and also his personal landmarks, overlaying the current map of Glasgow with the map in his memory. Among the shipyards of Govan, the tombs of the Necropolis and the dark beauty of St Mungo’s cathedral, the cathedrals of Ibrox and Hampden Park, the disappearing tenements, the growing café culture and old fashioned pubs Spring recalls the vitality of past times and finds a new and different contemporary vitality. Seren • Paperback • £9.99 9781781723111 • 208x135mm • 240pp 21 April 2016
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Crude Love Kim Rosenfield & Steve Zultanski (eds.) A collection of literary essays debating the role of function and form in contemporary poetry. Crude Love is an intimate essay collection responding to recent changes in experimental and post-conceptual writing, with contributions from fifteen New York poets: Mónica de la Torre, Andrew Durbin, Rob Fitterman, Kristen Gallagher, Diana Hamilton, Josef Kaplan, Shiv Kotecha, Sophia Le Fraga, Trisha Low, Holly Melgard, Kim Rosenfield, Danny Snelson, Chris Sylvester, Joey Yearous-Algozin, and Steven Zultanski. By keeping it local, Crude Love avoids broad generalizations about the state of the art, and instead focuses on the innards of a regional poetic discourse in order to highlight a specific poetic conversation in flux. Ugly Duckling Presse • Paperback £11.00 • 9781937027711 • 1 May 2016
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The Veiled Vale Mike White Local history, folklore and ghost stories from the Vale of the White Horse and south Oxfordshire. The Vale of the White Horse and the beautiful countryside of South Oxfordshire is a landscape steeped in thousands of years of legends, history and mystery. Here are witches, monsters and ghosts; old legends and modern-day tales of strange encounters with the unknown. From the mildly curious to the frighteningly inexplicable, The Veiled Vale is a treasure trove of fabulous folklore and modern mysteries. Two Rivers Press • Paperback • £12.00 9781909747173 • 216x138mm • 250pp 2 May 2016
The Naked Muse Kelley Swain
Real South Bank Chris McCabe
A fascinating memoir about life as an artist’s model.
An endlessly fascinating look into a small slice of the capital that will appeal to locals, visitors and armchair travellers alike.
Kelley Swain’s The Naked Muse is a subtle, fascinating memoir about art – from the object’s point of view – as well as an extended meditation on travel, painting and what it means to see. Swain describes her first experience disrobing for a group of painters, modelling for international artists over the course of six years, and posing as four saints for the frieze of a chapel in Sicily. Inviting readers into the intensely personal world of life drawing, Swain brings out the light and shade; both on the canvas and within ourselves. Valley Press • Paperback • £8.99 9781908853677 • 198x129mm • 160pp 26 May 2016
Stretching along the Thames from Blackfiars Bridge in the east to Vauxhall Bridge in the west, and taking in Bermondsey, the Globe Theatre, the old Greater London Council, the London Eye, Lambeth Palace and the MI6 building, London’s South Bank has a long and varied history Poet Chris McCabe walks these few square miles and contemplates how it has evolved in history to the place today, and imagines the people around him brushing shoulders with historical figures like Dickens, Shakespeare, Dali, and Florence Nightingale. Full of insight and drawing on personal experiences, Real South Bank is a book rich in surprise associations. Seren • Paperback • £9.99 9781781723142 • 198x129mm • 240pp 21 June 2016
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NON-FICTION BACKLIST Marie Antoinette Melanie Clegg
Art, Survival, and So Forth Jules Smith
Burning Eye Books • PB • £9.99 9781909136656 • 284pp
Wrecking Ball Press • PB • £11.95 9781903110034 • 246pp
The Roots of Rock from Cardiff to Mississippi and Back Peter Finch
The Portable Creative Writing Workshop Pat Boran
Barf Manifesto Dodie Bellamy
Boy in the Mirror Tom Preston
Alun, Gweno and Freda John Pikoulis
Ugly Duckling Presse • PB • £6.00 UDP5 • 30pp
Valley Press • PB • £7.99 9781908853530 • 70pp
Seren • PB • £14.99 9781781722831 • 352pp
The Road to Zagora Richard Collins
The Illiterate Agota Kristof
Men Who Played the Game Mike Rees
Forgive the Language Katy Evans-Bush
Seren • PB • £9.99 9781781722596 • 220pp
CB Editions • PB • £7.99 9780957326620 • 58pp
Seren • HB • £17.99 9781781722862 • 320pp
Penned in the Margins • PB £10.99 • 9781908058324 • 200pp
Dedalus Press • PB • £11.00 9781906614775 • 218pp
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Seren • PB • £9.99 9781781722664 • 280pp
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B Barskova, Polina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Batten, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Bazdulj, Muharem . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Beagrie, Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Behrens, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Birnie, Clive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Blackwell, Sophie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Bloom, Lochlan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Brahic, Beverley Bie . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Brown, Judy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Brown, Wes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Bulman, Jacci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Burke, Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Bushe, Paddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
J Jenkinson, Sally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Josephy, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Jowett, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
C Caldwell, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Chandan, Amarjit . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Collard, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Commane, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Conran, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Crespo, Mario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 D Dalton, Roque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Davies, Caroline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Dawes, Kwame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Debney, Patricia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Dickinson, Ash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Dixon, Isobel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 E Eaves, Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Elder, Neil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Eliade, Mircea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Engelund, Marlene . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 F Ferro, Floriana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Figura, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Fortune, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 G Graves, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Griffiths, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 H Harrison, Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Hedeen, Katherine M . . . . . . . . . . 28 Hjelmgaard, Lynne . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Hool, Ric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Hopkins, Tamsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Howard, Jo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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K Kelly, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Kennard, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Kenny, Kathleen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Kinsella, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 L Leaner, Gill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Lee, Marlene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Lima Scott, Cristiane . . . . . . . . . . 41 Lloyd, Bustles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Luckins, Kirsten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 M Macinnes, Mairi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Mackie, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Manuel, Hazel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Maris, Kathryn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Mazelis, Jo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 McCabe Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 McCaulay, Diane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 McCullough, John . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 McGonigal, James . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 McHenry, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 McManus, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Miles, Kathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Millls, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Mo, Stef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Morley, Abegail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Morley, Edith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 N Nair, Karthika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Naomi, Katrina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Noyes Brookings, Ernest . . . . . . . . 4 O O’Hanlon, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 P Pantling, Nigel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Parker, Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Parvulescu, Ioana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Peeradina, Saleem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Pepper Robbins, Susan . . . . . . . . 43 Pepperdine, Saxon . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Pickford, Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Piercey, Rachel . . . . . . . . . . . “5, 28” Pimlott, Kathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Pope, Bethany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Potts, Cherry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Price, John “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 R Redmond, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Richardson, Carolyn Patricia . . . . 9 Robinson, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Rogers, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Rosenfield, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Rumens, Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 S Sabbagh, Omar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Saint, Bernard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Sehic, Faurk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Shand Allfrey, Phyllis . . . . . . . . . . 40 Sims, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Slaney, Di . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Smith, Caroline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Spafford, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Spring. Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Stannard, Julian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Stewart, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Strachan, Carole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Street, Sean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Strohmer, Petina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Swain, Kelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 T Trevelyan, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Trevien, Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Tsvetaeva, Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Turnbull, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 U Urwin, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 W Waddell, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Walker, Cody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Warren, Louise “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Webb, Julia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 White, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Wild, Sheila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Willoughby, Andy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Winch, Alison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Worman, Jeremy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Wright, Emma . . . . . . . . . . . .“5, 28” Wright, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Y Yates, Cliff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Z Zultanski, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
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