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FRONT LINES War reporter Paul Watson is probably best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a dead American soldier being dragged from a downed Blackhawk helicopter through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993. Even in our desensitised, 24-hour-news world, it is an image too harrowing to print here. When Paul took the shot, he heard the dead man speak to him: “If you do this, I will own you forever.” The brutal, unflinching poems in War Reporter (CB Editions, September) emerge out of Paul’s correspondence and collaboration with American poet Dan O’Brien, with whom Paul shared his recordings, images and transcripts from war zones as far afield as the Balkans, Rwanda, Iraq and Afghanistan. Together they mark a searing new venture in the literature of modern war. For more on War Reporter, see page 17
Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best First Collection “Dan O’Brien goes to the root of troubling mysteries with a clear eye and a heart that is never less than full. I commend this work for its great originality, courage and humanity.” – Fergal Keane, BBC Foreign Correspondent “The complex, disquieting truth of war as both lure and destroyer binds together poet and journalist. The result is a memorable book.” – Anthony Feinstein, author of Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War
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“War Reporter is a book-length sequence of poems that anyone interested in the fate of American poetry should read, even must read.” – Jay Parini
CB Editions specialise in poetry and short fiction that “might otherwise fall through the cracks between the big publishers” (The Guardian). CBe also organise Free Verse, the annual Poetry Book Fair held in London in September (www.poetrybookfair.com).
Photos: Paul and Dan in Stanford, CA (above, left); Paul in the Sudan (centre) and Somalia (right).
The War Reporter Paul Watson Hears the Voice We ask them, Have you seen the American soldier? Someone says he saw him tied up in a wheelbarrow. I take a picture of children bouncing on a rotor blade in the smoldering wreckage of a Black Hawk. Has anyone seen the dead American soldier? The mob parts around me, I look down in the street. And I meet the man. When you take a picture the camera covers your face, you shut the rest of the world out, everything goes dim. And I hear a voice both in my head and out. If you do this, I will own you forever. I’m sorry but I have to. If you do this, I will own you. I’m sorry, I’m not trying to desecrate your memory. If you do this I will own you forever. I took his picture. While they were beating his body and cheering. Some spitting. Some kid wearing a chopper crewman’s goggles, face screwed up in rapturous glee while giving the dead man the finger. An old man’s raising his cane like a club and thudding it down against the dead flesh. Men holding the ropes that bind the dead man’s wrists are stretching his arms out over his head, rolling him back and forth in the hammering morning light. I’m standing outside myself. I’m watching someone else take these pictures. Wondering, You poor man. Who are you?
The Poet Hears the Voice In Princeton the leaves change like bells. Squirrels pass untouchable girls. Stalking the greens at night. Worth something. Running in lightning storms, peeling paint from balusters along the Victorian porch. Sipping vodka neat, cooking meat over charcoal. Watching the unified mind of the swallows come careering out of the twilight into our backyard maple tree. I tend to be solitary. Dinner parties, I prefer to stay away. This is you speaking though it might as well be me. I’ve spent my life with war reporters, and I’ll count myself foremost in this group: everyone’s a mess of insecurities, looking for self -esteem through risk. A hangar-sized Whole Foods beside a glinting field of Priuses, while you’re off in Kandahar or is it Baghdad, Paul? I’m sick of being lied to, so I simply take it as a challenge to find the truth. My father cursing me: There are things you do not know. My mother not turning her mausolean face to say goodbye. Picking up our lives at the end of summer, I swear I heard a demon hiss, Don’t leave us, please. If something’s risky and we probably shouldn’t do it I’ll say, Don’t worry about me, I’m already dead. The blind mob is calling, You poor man, who are you?
amuel Johnson famously used the great works of English literature – ‘the wells of English undefiled’ – to illuminate his 1755 Dictionary. In his latest novel, Johnson’s Dictionary (Peepal Tree Press, July), David Dabydeen returns us to the 18th-century, following on from the James Tait Black Prize-shortlisted success of A Harlot’s Progress. This time we travel from London to Demerara, British Guiana, a sultry place of sugar, slavery, and houses of ill repute. And in amongst all the lust and degradation, it is in his copy of Johnson’s Dictionary, and the illuminating power of words within, that young houseboy Francis may find his way out.
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For more on Johnson’s Dictionary, see page 15.
This is David Dabydeen’s seventh book with Peepal Tree, the UK’s home to the best in Caribbean and Black British writing. Our MD was treated to the local masala fish on her last visit to Leeds, a source of much jealousy back at Inpress Towers.
An exclusive extract from Johnson’s Dictionary, introduced by the author: “I wrote this novel as a tribute to my uncle who started off in a village school in the colony of British Guiana, without shoes or books, then won a scholarship to a bigger school, then eventually won a scholarship to Oxford, Pembroke College, Samuel Johnson’s college. I wanted the novel to explore how colonised and deprived people arrived at the English language and learnt how to use it, not to curse, but to express beauty and love and desire.”
was lucky thirteen when Dictionary arrived. Time passed slowly, one page at a time, at first light Dr Gladstone teaching me words. He made me sit at the table beside him, when before I had served his breakfast and stood in attendance behind his chair. Words were more delicious than food […] At first I listened intently as he read out the various meanings of words, but after a month or so I became selective, harbouring in my mind only those words which told of my mother. None of the As affected me. I became alert only when he arrived at beauty and declaimed from the book – “‘The best part of beauty is that which a picture cannot express.’ That’s Dr Johnson quoting Bacon, a notable philosopher and logician.” I immediately recalled in all its minute details the painting in my past massa’s sitting room, of his father, mother and aunt in their opulent setting. I had searched the painting for my mother, as I had latterly searched the sky for utterance, but found nothing.
Now Dr Gladstone was telling me that my mother’s very invisibility held meaning. That she was absent from memory and from record was a measure of her beauty. And there was another word which found my mother in the sightless spaces of a painting, at the very corners and sides where the frame covered over the canvas; or at the back, where the canvas was blank and therefore unexamined by human eyes. “Imagination: the power of forming ideal pictures; the power of representing things absent to one’s self,” it said in the Dictionary. Before, I used to daydream my mother, then scold myself for being unreal, but the Dictionary was telling me that she was beyond presence, beyond ordinary sight and recollection and record. I did not believe it. I wanted to, but in the end my box of coins and bills of sale, and the newspapers tallying goods, were definite articles not demanding of faith.
Quests, treasure, romance. Dragons and skulduggery. With JRR Tolkien and George RR Martin already household names – on both our bookshelves and our screens big and small – these days it seems we can’t get enough of all things medieval. The eleven stories in the Mabinogion come from two medieval Welsh manuscripts, with roots dating back many centuries earlier. Together they bring us Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and
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It’s 1976, and eight year-old Enid, would-be International Spy and Girl of Mystery, is sent on a mission: to do a recce on the Erbins, her distant cousins, who are rich and live in a mansion; but especially to spy on Geraint, who is a toff and quite stupid, and is just discovering girls and punk. During the hottest summer ever, Enid also discovers why ants do what they do, why people have holes in their necks, what boys keep under their beds, and that people die when you least expect it.
their own unique picture of the Island of Britain, full of enchantment and shapeshifting, conflict, love and betrayal. In October Trezza Azzopardi and Tishani Doshi become the latest to join Seren’s legion of authors reworking old-world myth for the modern day. We spoke to them about getting involved in the Mabinogion project, and taking trips back in time to bring one of Britain’s great works back to life.
Fountainville is a borderland town, whose livelihood depends upon a mysterious clinic where dozens of women are voluntarily confined. When Owain arrives from across the sea to explore the clinic, his involvement with the owner Begum, her mobster husband Kedar and their assistant Luna brings about an irreversible change for all. Gang wars, opium dreams and media wizardry are all woven around an alternative love story rising from the mythical waters of an ancient fountain.
The New Stories from the Mabinogion series began with Owen Sheers’ White Ravens in 2009 – relocating the action-packed tale of Branwen, Daughter of Llyr, to the Tower of London during World War II. For more on the latest in the series, see pages 29 and 31.
1. What most excited you about Seren’s Mabinogion project to begin with? TA. I relished the freedom to explore the story in any way I wanted. The original tale has a sense of oral rhythm in its repetition; one trial after another, each more fantastic or dangerous than the last. It’s easy to imagine the story being told by a parent or elder to a group of avid listeners: just when everything seems to be going smoothly, some other, greater danger appears on the horizon to reinvigorate the drama. I wanted to capture that narrative rhythm but with a combination of humour and pathos rather than battles and feasts. TD. I liked the idea that it had certain boundaries. The terror of a new work is always the limitless possibilities of the blank page. I like the novella form, and I’d never written one, so that was exciting too. I think most of all though, it was a way for me to make a connection with a latent part of my heritage… my Welshness, which I haven’t had much of a chance to explore, having grown up and lived most of my life in India. 2. Medieval myths and legends seem to be all the rage these days – what do you think it is that keeps us literally going back for more? TA. I think every new story is in some way an old story retold. What is exciting about a legend is that it has at its heart the promise of wisdom and certainty; a myth survives because it contains at its core a universal truth, shining a light on the dark shadows of humanity. I also think that there’s a sense – often misplaced – of nostalgia about the medieval myth. That life was simpler in those times, more romantic, uncomplicated. If only! TD. Stories have powers. And myths, because they’ve been around for so long have cumulative powers. They seem to me a perfect form for storytelling in today’s world where greed, power and devastation continue to manipulate the human condition. Retelling myths is important because they have the danger of becoming too precious, and entering the annals of ‘our culture’ – certainly in India, this is the case. As a friend of mine used to say, tradition and culture are fine, but every once in a while you have to dust them off and hold them up to the light to glean fresh meanings, fresh possibilities. 3. The Mabinogion is one of Wales’, and Britain’s, most important old texts. How did you set about reimagining it for modern readers, while still staying true to the original’s own powers? TA. For me, the power of ‘Geraint and Enid’ lies in the relationship between two people at odds with each other; and I knew from the outset that I wanted the story
to be told by Enid. In the original, she is portrayed as demure and long-suffering, but depending on how the story is delivered – an inflection of the voice here, a raised eyebrow there – she is witty and resourceful and has more insight than her husband. It was of great interest to me that she is ‘silenced’ by Geraint in the original tale, as this is an act or command which is rife in medieval folklore. I also wanted to explore how Enid makes herself heard, and there’s no better way, for me, than using the voice of a child: it is without guile, can often get away with saying things an adult might think twice about, and can be full of unintentional humour. In the original she’s also a great listener, so I wanted to make it a central part of her character: so, she imagines herself in training to become an international spy! TD. I work primarily with image, whether it’s poetry or prose. The Mabinogion was not a familiar text to me, and as a reader coming to it for the first time, I had to read ‘The Lady of the Fountain’ several times over several sittings until certain things permeated and stayed. I knew that I didn’t want to write a story set in the distant past or the far future. I wanted a story for these times. The starting point for me was an image of 24 maidens in the castle. That image coincided with a story I’d been reading about in the papers. I also knew my retelling would be female-centric, not least because the fountain is a fundamentally feminine symbol. Without giving too much away, the themes I wanted to explore were the idea of portents and symbols, the Matryoshka effect of the story within the story, visibility and invisibility, the body and sexuality, and the tensions between the insider and the outsider – all themes of the original text. 4. Do you have any favourite books in the Mabinogion series so far? TA. Niall Griffiths’s The Dreams of Max and Ronnie – I love the way it lures the reader in by the lofty tone of an ancient tale which then suddenly erupts into the vernacular: such breathtaking, joyous use of language. TD. I loved Owen Sheers’s White Ravens and Gwyneth Lewis’s The Meat Tree. 5. You’ve both been published by the big names in the book industry – what role do you think independent publishers have to play in enriching our literary landscapes? TA. They can be pioneers, and take risks where larger houses might play safe. They often break the waves rather than simply ride them. TD. I think the greatest contribution of independent houses, whether they are big or little, is that they help to maintain diversity in the industry. There is a worrying trend of homogeneity, and independent publishers are often the ones who take risks.
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In 2011, an accident at work left travel writer Steve Rudd with a fractured spine. Instead of laying up in front of all those personal injury ads, Steve took a plane to New York and set about bringing fresh eyes to the continent of North America. From Key West to Tijuana, New Orleans to Jasper, Fifty States of Being is a Greyhound bus pass in book form – an epic adventure in the tradition of Kerouac, Palin and Bryson – taking us across these lands of contrast, all skipping to different beats.
Courting fresh perspectives in Colorado!
Beat-writing on San Fran’s North Beach!
Steve Rudd (www.steverudd.co.uk)
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For more on Fifty States of Being, see page 39.
Lady with a baby coming through!
This year Scarborough’s Valley Press celebrates its fifth-year anniversary, and its 50th book, commemorating the occasion with a special retrospective anthology, VP50, published in October.
Rolling by rail into The Rockies!
Beauty and tranquillity collide in OK City!
Miami Vice morphs into Waterworld! Architectural seduction in New Orleans’ French Quarter!
J U LY Black Sand: New & Selected Poems
Footprints
The Harp in Wales
Edward Baugh
Peter Blackman edited by Chris Searle
Bruce Cardwell
First UK collection of major Caribbean poet, best known as editor of Derek Walcott
Selected works of one of the pioneers of Black-British poetry in post-war London
Edward Baugh has one of the most recognisable voices in Caribbean poetry, filled with poise and dry wit. Black Sand comprises poems selected from Baugh’s two previous collections, A Tale from the Rain Forest and It was the Singing, plus a collection’s worth of new poems. His subject matter ranges wide: race, history, sport, love and the consolations of natural beauty. He also casts a shrewd eye over modern Jamaica, a place of gated communities, religious enthusiasm, and a black majority still struggling with the wrongs of the past.
Peter Blackman was one of the early pioneers of Black-British poetry, yet his work has been unavailable for many years. Footprints contains four long poems, ‘My Song is for All Men’, ‘Stalingrad’, ‘Joseph’ and ‘London’, plus a short elegy to Claudia Jones, Blackman’s friend and founder of the Notting Hill Carnival.
“He does not disappoint.” The Poetry Archive Edward Baugh was born in Jamaica in 1936. Growing up in Port Antonio, he witnessed the unusual sight of his small hometown being taken over by Hollywood actor Errol Flynn, whose private yacht anchored in the bay. Edward edited Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems (2007); a monograph, Derek Walcott, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007, and reissued in 2012.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback»£8.99 978-1-845232-10-8 » 206x135mm 134pp » Poetry (DCF)
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This is a book about resistance, struggle and liberation, from Stalingrad to Korea to the Civil Rights Movement. Peter Blackman (1909-93) was a major figure in radical Caribbean politics and culture in post-war London. In 1980 Robert Wyatt recorded Blackman’s poem ‘Stalingrad’ on the B-side of Stalin wasn’t Stallin’, released as a single by Rough Trade. Chris Searle’s most recent books include Forward Groove: Jazz and the Real World from Louis Armstrong to Gilad Atzmon (Northway, 2008) and the poetry collection Lightning of Your Eyes (Smokestack, 2006).
Smokestack Books » Paperback » £7.95 978-0-957172-28-9 » 197x127mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF) London
Musical history, accompanied by touring exhibition of photographs Bruce Cardwell’s latest book is a celebration of the harp in Wales, an instrument as symbolically key to a Welsh identity as the flag itself. Introduced by Catrin Finch, former Royal Harpist to the Prince of Wales, Cardwell provides a history of the harp in Wales: how it grew to prominence, its evolving role in Welsh culture, and the booming harp business today. The book also contains portraits of 36 contemporary Welsh harpists, including Elinor Bennett, Delyth Jenkins, Robin Huw Bowen, Twm Morys, Gwenan Gibbard, Harriet Earis and Llio Rhydderch. Bruce Cardwell is the author of Hoofpicks: Photographs of the Horse in Wales (Seren, 2009) and Noteworthy: Images of Music (Seren, 2011). He is also a practising folk musician, playing flute, violin and citrain. He lives in Aberystwyth.
Seren » Hardback » £29.99 978-1-781720-80-6 » 250x210mm 200pp (100+ col. ill.) » Music (AVRL) Wales
Soil Tim Cresswell “A distinctive, important new voice” – Jo Shapcott, Costa Award winner, 2011 Tim Cresswell’s poems delight in the collision of our urban and natural worlds. A fox climbs a London skyscraper; sandworts take root in abandoned mine shafts; geological time is glimpsed through the ‘crushed structures’ of the city. Redeploying the language of science and archaeology with surgical precision and innovative flair, Soil introduces a significant new poet of place, and our changing relationship to it. “If this poetry was a geological formation, it would be layered and folded, with scientific knowledge and a quick linguistic wit, with echoes of folk song, unsentimental ecological awareness, word games and a sharp but not unkind eye on the everyday – all this… fused by human warmth into a memorable voice.” Philip Gross, TS Eliot Prize-winner for The Water Table (2009) Tim Cresswell is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of four books on the role of space and mobility on cultural life.
Penned in the Margins » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-908058-15-7 216x138mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) London
Johnson’s Dictionary David Dabydeen “He shatters expectation” – Hilary Mantel, The Independent In his best novel since A Harlot’s Progress, David Dabydeen returns to the 18th century, this time for a historical adventure through London and the sugar-cane colony of Demerara, British Guiana. Again Dabydeen takes inspiration from the art of Hogarth and its dens of iniquity: we meet slaves, lowly women on the make, lustful overseers and pious Jews. But it is in his master’s copy of Johnson’s Dictionary that a young slave, Francis, finds the transformative power of words, and his own path to freedom. “Dabydeen has an imaginative mastery of the period, and can render it a hundred ways.” The Observer David Dabydeen was born in Guyana in 1957. He is only the second West Indian writer, following VS Naipaul, to be named a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His 1999 novel A Harlot’s Progress was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; his novels since include Disappearance (Peepal Tree, 2005) and Molly and the Muslim Stick (Macmillan, 2008). David is now Professor at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £9.99 » 978-1-845232-18-4 206x135mm » 224pp » Fiction (FA) West Midlands
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Edging the Estuary
Demons Walk Amongst Us
Peter Finch
Jonathan Hicks
Travel writing inspired by the Severn Estuary and some of the UK’s most picturesque coastline
Second novel in Oscendale crime fiction series set in WWI; follows The Dead of Mametz (2011)
Cardiffian author Peter Finch explores his heritage by walking the course of the Severn Estuary. Beginning in Wales, he then crosses over to England, taking in cultural differences with every step, looking at his homeland from abroad.
A war widow is found savagely murdered, her face burnt off in the bedroom of her middle-class home, and a cryptic note left at the scene. Demons Walk Amongst Us returns us to the world of military policeman Thomas Oscendale, now on leave in a South Wales sea port, still tormented by the horrors of the Western Front when he is asked to help the local police in their investigation, and foil the killer before he strikes again.
Rich in anecdote, the journey takes in villages and cities, power stations and fishermen, castles and caravans, leg-aching walks and deckchairs on the beach. The delights of Porthcawl, Barry and Weston-super-Mare, the tragedy at Lynmouth, the industry of Usk and Port Talbot and the fate of Cardiff, Newport and Swansea docks, the ancient trackways of Swansea Bay, and the Star Inn at Neath are just some of the many places which punctuate one epic walk along some of our most beautiful coastline. Peter Finch lives in Cardiff. He is Series Editor of Seren’s Real series of travel guides; his own recent books include Real Cardiff Three (2009) and Real Wales (2008).
Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-781720-84-4 » 208x135mm 240pp » Local History/Travel Writing (WQH/WTL) Wales & South West
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Like The Dead of Mametz before it, Demons Walk Amongst Us is a striking blend of crime fiction and World War I history. As well as the deadly chase, Oscendale must battle his own demons, and the devastating effects of war on the human spirit. Jonathan Hicks was born in Barry, South Wales in 1957. A head-teacher and military historian, he is also a member of the Crime Writers Association. The Dead of Mametz, set among the Welsh Division at the Battle of Mametz Wood in World War I, was published by Y Lolfa in 2011.
Y Lolfa » Paperback » £8.95 978-0-956012-59-3 » 215x140mm 330pp » Crime Fiction (FF) South Wales
Sic Transit Wagon & Other Stories Barbara Jenkins Debut full collection from winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2010 and 2011 The stories in Sic Transit Wagon bring together a rich, authentic tapestry of Trinidad life, from the 1940s to the present day. We move from the all-seeing naivety of a child narrator trying to make sense of the adult world, through the consciousness of the child-becomemother, to the mature perceptions of the older woman taking stock on all that has gone before. In the title story, the need to part with a beloved station wagon opens out into a moving yet humorous look at other kinds of loss. Barbara Jenkins was born in Trinidad. Her stories have won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean Region) in 2010 and 2011, for ‘Something for Nothing’ and ‘Head Not Made for Hat Alone’ respectively, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the Canute Brodhurst Prize for short fiction from the Caribbean Writer.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-845232-14-6 » 234x156mm 180pp » Fiction (FYB)
It’s No Good Kirill Medvedev edited by Keith Gessen “The most exciting phenomenon in Russian poetry” – Dmitry Vodennikov It’s No Good introduces one of Russia’s most exciting and unpredictable literary voices to UK audiences. The book includes selected poems from four collections, as well as his most significant essays on post-Soviet Russia: ‘My Fascism’, ‘Literature and Sincerity’, and ‘Dmitry Kuzmin, a Memoir’. This is Medvedev’s first book in English. “Part of the nightmare world that It’s No Good evokes is one that both Orwell and the members of Pussy Riot would understand. It’s a nightmare of euphemism and cant.” Dwight Garner, The New York Times Kirill Medvedev was born in Moscow in 1975, and is a prominent Russian poet, editor and activist. Keith Gessen emigrated from Russia to the US in 1981. He recently cotranslated Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s short-story collection There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby (Penguin Classics, 2009).
Ugly Duckling Presse » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-933254-94-4 210x146mm » 280pp » Poetry (DCF)
War Reporter Dan O’Brien Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mogadishu, 1993: Canadian war reporter Paul Watson is about to take the photograph, of a dead US soldier being hauled from his Blackhawk helicopter by an angry mob, that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Years later, American poet and playwright Dan O’Brien hears Paul discussing his experiences on the radio, and so begins the unusual correspondence and unlikely friendship that inspire the poems in War Reporter. “The subject of this book is war and the pity of war – distilled into very powerful poems... A distinguished achievement.” Andrew Motion “The book is superb, subtle, memorable, and of a piece. It sings and cries. It consoles. It is a gift to readers of poetry.” Jay Parini Dan O’Brien is an American playwright and poet. His play The Body of an American premiered in 2012. His poems have been widely published in magazines in both the UK and the US, including Poetry Review. He lives in Los Angeles.
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The Elephant Tests
Seduce
How I Learned to Sing
Matt Merritt
Desiree Reynolds
Mark Robinson
“Quick-witted poems, made of toughened glass and ground-down clocks” – Helen Ivory
Powerful first novel by Black-British writer, based in Sheffield
Appears in North by North-East anthology alongside Tony Harrison, Sean O’Brien and W.N. Herbert
Matt Merritt’s third collection of poems is a delightful study of natural history and travel, capturing with quiet wonder the transitory things that amaze and trouble us. Eco-poetry and exploration of language are met perfectly with myth and epiphany, in poems filled with grace, humour and gentle melancholy. “Insight, rueful humour and a perfectly tuned ear make Matt Merritt’s The Elephant Tests an exceptional collection, whose poems absorb and startle.” Alison Brackenbury Matt Merritt is a poet and wildlife journalist. His previous collections are hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica (Nine Arches, 2010), Troy Town (2008) and the pamphlet Making The Most Of The Light (2005). He appeared at the StAnza Poetry Festival in March 2011. He reviews poetry for the likes of Magma and Under the Radar. He lives near Leicester.
Nine Arches Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-0-957384-74-3 216x138mm » 92pp » Poetry (DCF) Leicestershire
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On a mythical island in the Caribbean, mourners gather for the funeral of Seduce, all with their own crosses to bear. While Seduce’s daughter Glory prays for her mother’s soul, there are those now glad that this “dutty filthy woman” will tempt the island’s husbands no longer. Her grandchildren, too, having grown up in a family full of conflict, strive to find something positive in Seduce’s life, and new directions in their own. And then there is Seduce’s old lover, Mikey, come to make his peace. In this remarkable and slyly funny debut novel, told in delicate patois prose, Desiree Reynolds has powerful things to say about race, class and the struggle between the sexes. Desiree Reynolds started writing in London as a freelance journalist for the Jamaica Gleaner and the Village Voice. Her other writing includes film scripts, poetry and short stories. A teacher, broadcaster and DJ, Desiree currently lives in Sheffield.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-845232-17-7 206x135mm » 184pp » Fiction (FA) Yorkshire
A senior job at the Arts Council meant that Mark Robinson did not send his poems out for over a decade, in case of potential conflicts of interest. Now he returns with a series of ambitious new poems, alongside the best of his work from the last 25 years. How I Learned to Sing is a book about the industrial and cultural transformation of the North of England, from the Miners Strike to the Big Society – a series of bewildered elegies for people, times and places. Mark Robinson was born in Preston in 1964. He spent ten years in senior management at Northern Arts and Arts Council England, including five years as Executive Director, North East. His previous books include Half A Mind (Flambard, 1998), and A Balkan Exchange: Near East North East (Arc, 2008). He lives in Stockton.
Smokestack Books » Paperback £8.95 » 978-0-957172-26-5 197x127mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF) North-East
AUGUST
If This Were Real
Scrimshaw
Gerda Stevenson
Jean Watkins
Appearing at Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2013
“These are poems with all their senses on alert” – Jane Draycott, Carcanet poet
If This Were Real is a kind of autobiography in verse: from the lost Eden of childhood, through the warmth of family life and the wild weather in her native Scotland, then on to intense snapshots of a wider, troubled world: Bosnia, Iraq, Syria.
Scrimshaw, Jean Watkins’ first collection, is named after the carvings made on whale tusks, bones or shells by 19th century sailors and brought home as souvenirs. In turn, her poems explore the creativity of artists and craftsmen throughout human history, as well as the natural world in all its benign or savage glory.
From Pentland rain to Sarajevo roses, these are poems that revel in the ‘spotlit lies, / floodlit truths, and shadowed ambiguities / in our retellings of the world’s old tales’. Gerda Stevenson is well-known for her work in theatre, radio, film and TV. A BAFTA Best Film Actress winner, she appeared in the Hollywood blockbuster Braveheart (1995), as well as many primetime TV dramas. Her poetry has appeared in the Scotsman and the Herald, as well as the Smokestack anthology A Rose Loupt Oot (2011). In January 2013 she read Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. She lives in the Scottish Borders.
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“Precise and subtle in their music, the narratives in Scrimshaw build a rich and delicate world of personal feeling and history through the most acute kind of observation.” Jane Draycott “The poems in Scrimshaw are never overplayed: their soft touch aches with absence; they sing with truth and fire.” Allison McVety Jean Watkins was born in West Yorkshire and now lives in Reading. Her poems have been published in the Sunday Telegraph, Mslexia, Magma and many anthologies. She regularly reads at Reading’s Poets’ Café.
Two Rivers Press » Paperback £7.95 » 978-1-901677-94-2 210x135mm » 56pp » Poetry (DCF) Reading
Interlocking Basins of a Globe: Essays on Derek Walcott edited by Jean Antoine-Dunne New critical study of winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, and 2011 TS Eliot Prize for White Egrets Interlocking Basins of a Globe is a fascinating new study of the first Caribbean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Derek Walcott. The essays range from critical discussion of Walcott’s earliest poetry in Twenty-Five Poems (1948) to his recent collections tackling the approach of old age: The Prodigal (Faber, 2006) and White Egrets (Faber, 2011). The reflections also extend beyond poetry, to include Walcott’s drama, rhetoric, essays and criticism. The contributors are: Patrick Anthony, Jean Antoine-Dunne, Edward Baugh, Rhonda Cobham Sander, Rachel Friedman, George B. Handley, Harold McDermott, Antonia McDonald, Kenneth Ramchand, Louis Regis and Gordon Rohlehr. Jean Antoine-Dunne is a Senior Lecturer in Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies. She is a former Newman Scholar in Film and Modern Literature at University College, Dublin, and one of the editors of the Journal of West Indian Literature.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback £17.99 » 978-1-845232-20-7 234x156mm » 224pp Literary Studies (DSC) South East
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The Governor’s Story: The Authorised Biography of Dame Hilda Bynoe Merle Collins Historical / postcolonial interest: story of the first Black woman governor in the Commonwealth In Grenada in 1968, Hilda Bynoe became the first woman – and black woman – to be appointed a governor anywhere in the Commonwealth. With nothing but white, male and British leaders before her, the governorship placed Bynoe at the heart of regional and international change, not to mention conflict. The Governor’s Story provides not just an insightful portrait of an exceptional woman, but the history of a new Caribbean middle class, many of whom emigrated to the UK in the 1940s and 1950s – itself a journey rarely described through a woman’s eyes. Merle Collins was born in 1950 in Aruba. Her novels are Angel, set during the US invasion of Grenada in 1983 (re-issued by Peepal Tree in 2010), and The Colour of Forgetting (Virago, 1985). Her short-story collection The Ladies are Upstairs was published by Peepal Tree in 2011. She teaches Caribbean Literature at the University of Maryland.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-845232-24-5 » 234x156mm 136pp » Biography (BGH)
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A Sixty-Watt Las Vegas
Kosmonaut Zero
Mike Di Placido
Richard Evans
“An outstanding first collection” – Peter Sansom
New space-race novel by “Manchester’s greatest science fiction writer” (Anthony H Wilson)
The title of Mike Di Placido’s first full-length poetry collection is an affectionate dig at his home-town of Scarborough. As well as observations on the town and its culture, past and present, the collection features cameos from various literary figures of note (Dickens faces up to Pizza Hut, TS Eliot shows up at a coffee bar), and gentle, affecting observations on life as a poet and a new uncle. “I can’t remember when I enjoyed a book of poems so much – possibly [Ted Hughes’s] Season Songs.” Keith Sagar on Theatre of Dreams Mike Di Placido lives near Scarborough. His debut pamphlet, Theatre of Dreams, was published by Smith/Doorstop in 2009, inspired by his magical trial with Manchester United as a professional footballer in the 1970s. His poems have been published in magazines like The Rialto and The North, and he featured in Carcanet’s National Poetry Day celebrations in 2012.
Valley Press » Paperback » £7.99 978-1-908853-26-4 » 198x129mm 54pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
Marina Mernova is a young KGB officer in 1960s Moscow, tasked with finding a missing scientist of high value to the Soviet space programme. She must navigate Russia at the height of the Space Race: a land of rockets and shortages, a Cold War utopia riddled with paranoia and visionary technology. And Marina must make the ultimate sacrifice to the cause, and be reborn as Kosmonaut Zero. “Great sci-fi.” The New Scientist Richard Evans was born in Manchester in 1964. His other sci-fi novels are Machine Nation (2002), Robophobia (2004) and Exilium (2008). He has been a guest on Radio 2’s The Arts Show, along with TV and radio appearances on the BBC. He has contributed features to a number of popular science magazines, including T3 and The Sky At Night. In 2011, he directed the Gagarin 50 exhibition at Manchester’s Waterside Arts Centre.
Valley Press » Paperback » £10.99 978-1-908853-24-0 » 198x129mm 312pp » Science Fiction (FL) Spain / Scotland
Two Plays: Couvade & A Pleasant Career Michael Gilkes Re-issue of two classics of Caribbean theatre, introduced by Kwame Dawes Couvade takes as its centre the Amerindian ritual of a man taking to his bed to ‘suffer’ the pains of his partner giving birth. But as his wife goes into labour, artist Lionel’s obsession with the Amerindian-style painting he is working on begins to unravel... A powerful dream-play on shamanism and the overwhelming forces of the past. A Pleasant Career is based around the life of Guyanese novelist, Edgar Mittelholzer. From early experiences in British Guiana, through a resolute determination to break into the London publishing world, to demons within that ended in a fiery suicide, this is a richly rewarding play of dramatic incident and psychological speculation. Michael Gilkes was born in Guyana in 1935. A distinguished critic, dramatist and film-maker, Couvade was first published by Cape in 1974. Michael won the Guyana Prize in 1992 for A Pleasant Career, and again in 2006 for The Last of the Redmen. He now lives in Bermuda.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-845231-89-7 » 206x135mm 152pp » Drama (DD)
Shark Wes Brown Crime novel with contemporary interest: Northern realism of David Peace meets literary stylings of Martin Amis Wes Brown’s debut novel draws us into the world of John Usher, an ex-soldier and violent deadbeat who returns from the Iraq War to find his boyhood home of Leeds forever changed. His is a community unravelled: by gang culture, ethnic tensions, hopelessness. Unable to sleep, his only consolation is drinking late into the night and playing pool alone. That is, until an encounter with a hard right activist leads him into a twisted relationship of deceit, cuckoldry and hate. “Wes Brown is one of the best young writers around at the moment. His story-telling skills are extraordinary…” Anthony Clavane “Here we have that rare artefact: a contemporary, regional, working class novel written with the ideas-based, language currency of the great transatlantic stylists: Updike, Bellow, DeLillo and Martin Amis.” Danny Broderick Wes Brown is a writer based in Leeds. He currently works as a Coordinator at the National Association of Writers in Education.
Valley Press » Paperback » £8.99 » 978-1-908853-23-3 198x129mm » 214pp » Fiction (FA/FF) Yorkshire
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Half-Life
All Over the Place: A Life
The Yellow Buoy
Michael Hulse
Ron Southerton
CK Stead
New collection from winner of the National and Bridport Poetry Prizes
Autobiography with North Yorkshire local societies interest
“CK Stead is challenging, fun, urbane and brilliant” – The Spectator
Half-Life is a riveting new collection that moves from the metropolises of Mexico City and New York to the sanctuary of the Peloponnese, a Staffordshire village and home. Together they explore the beauties to be found in art, nature and the church. Then, in an extended sequence, Death relates stories of her encounters with the world’s peoples and cultures.
All Over the Place: A Life is the autobiography of Ron Southerton – a life both ordinary and truly remarkable. Ron joined the army in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, serving in Tripoli, Libya and Aden. Later, as an engineer his escapades led him to Baghdad, Iraq. Ron then returned to the UK, finding success as a freelance translator.
“Compelling and moving” Poetry Review on The Secret History
Ron’s story is a mixture of laughter and sorrow, quiet days and more adventurous moments – including the day he confronted Robert Maxwell in his Oxford office, the day he rode on the footplate of the Mallard to King’s Cross at 99mph, and the day he found himself on the east side of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War.
The Yellow Buoy is CK Stead’s fifteenth collection of poetry, journeying from Croatia to Colombia, the Côte d’Azur to Karekare in his native New Zealand. Various literary figures drop in along the way, in person, dream or conversation: Catullus, Barry Humphries, Robert Creeley, Katherine Mansfield and many more. The Yellow Buoy also includes translated versions of poems by Eugenio Montale, Carlo Vita and Philippe Jaccottet.
Michael Hulse has won the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Poetry Prize (twice), as well as Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley Awards. His most recent publications are the poetry collection The Secret History (Arc, 2009) and a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Classics, 2009). He co-edited The New Poetry, the bestselling Bloodaxe anthology and GCSE set text (1993), and the Ebury anthology The 20th Century in Poetry (2011). He lives in Stafford.
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £11.99 / £8.99 978-1-908376-20-6 (hb) / 978-1-908376-19-0 (pb) 216x138mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Staffordshire
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Ron Southerton is a retired Chartered Engineer, living in Scarborough. His recent translations include works by the Swedish humourist Albert Engström.
Valley Press » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-908853-25-7 » 198x129mm 124pp » Autobiography (BGA) Yorkshire
CK Stead was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1932. Internationally acclaimed, he was awarded the CBE in 1986. His poetry and criticism have appeared in the London Review of Books and MPT, among others. His previous collections include Collected Poems 1951-2006 (Carcanet, 2009), while his recent novels include Mansfield (2005) and My Name was Judas (2007), both published by Vintage. One of only two writers to hold the Order of New Zealand, he lives in Auckland.
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £13.99 / £10.99 978-1-908376-15-2 (hb) / 978-1-908376-14-5 (pb) 216x138mm » 160pp » Poetry (DCF)
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Fox Talbot & The Reading Establishment Martin Andrews Story of the first town to produce books illustrated with photographs, recently featured on BBC Four The very first book in the world to be illustrated with photographs was produced in Reading between 1844 and 1846. In 1843, William Henry Fox Talbot set up the first commercial studios to mass-produce photographs from negatives and he chose the Berkshire town of Reading as its location. The Reading Establishment, as it became known, marks a pivotal moment in the development of photography. Told in a lively and engaging way, the story starts with a mystery. Who is the strange, foreign gentleman buying unusual substances in the chemist shops of Reading – a forger or a spy? Martin Andrews is a Lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He is a printing historian and has lectured on the subject widely in Britain and abroad.
Two Rivers Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-901677-98-0 216x138mm » 88pp (20 b&w ills.) Local History (WQH) Reading
Gimme Shelter Rob Gittins First in series of witness-protection crime novels by award-winning TV and radio writer What if – out of the blue – you witnessed a major crime? And what if your testimony could put one of the country’s most dangerous criminals behind bars? Would you do it? And if you do, who’s there to protect you? Ros Gilet, late 20s, is a Witness Protection Officer. Every day, she teaches others how to live a lie. But she is about to face her sternest test, pitted against one of the deadliest psychopaths imaginable, fighting to keep her latest witness safe. Uncompromising and breathlessly paced, Gimme Shelter is the first in a series of crime novels from one of the UK’s premier TV and radio writers. Rob Gittins is best known as a television and radio writer, with credits including Eastenders, Casualty, Heartbeat, The Bill, Emmerdale and The Story of Tracy Beaker. He has received awards from BAFTA and the Writers Guild, and has been a member of the Crime Writers’ Association since 2003. He lives in Carmarthen.
Y Lolfa » Paperback » £8.95 » 978-0-956012-58-6 » 215x140mm 300pp » Crime Fiction (FF) South Wales & London
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Judi Benson
Reaching Out & Other Stories and Poems
Mind, body and spirit interest: poems written during residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary
Latest taste-making anthology of short stories and poetry from Cinnamon Press
Hole in the Wall
Many of the poems here are hospitalbased – from the author’s two years as Writer in Residence at the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, working in oncology and palliative care. But just as many are about the Scottish countryside she called home, staggered speechless by sky and light. So too, some poems reflect grief for the loss of her beloved husband, the poet Ken Smith. “The relish with which the poems are made – the voice always clear in the ear – reveals a warm confiding humanity which will gain her many new readers.” Carol Ann Duffy on Call It Blue Judi Benson was born in California, and now lives in London’s East End. She co-edited the Bloodaxe anthology The Long Pale Corridor: Contemporary Poems of Bereavement (1996). Her previous collections include In the Pockets of Strangers (1993), Call It Blue (2000) and The Thin Places (2006), all published by Rockingham Press.
Rockingham Press » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-904851-50-9 210x140mm » 72pp » Poetry (DCF) London & Scotland
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edited by Rowan B Fortune
Reaching Out introduces new and emerging voices in both short stories and poetry. In fiction, Joanna Campbell’s ‘Aurora and the Book Trolley’ sees a stricken child using a medical dictionary to spin adults into fantasy worlds way outside their comfort zones. Meanwhile, Tyler Keevil’s story takes on a more literal ‘Reaching Out’: as a man driving down a mountainside picks up a young hitchhiker with some unusual cargo. Rowan B Fortune is assistant editor at Cinnamon Press. His other poetry and fiction anthologies as editor include In Terra Pax (2012), Jericho (2012) and The Book of Euclid (2013), all published by Cinnamon. He is currently studying for a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-907090-88-2 » 216x140mm 144pp » Anthologies (DCQ / FYB)
Donegal Haiku Francis Harvey Haiku inspired by the landscapes of County Donegal Francis Harvey’s poetry has long been firmly entrenched in the Donegal landscape of home. Moya Cannon has referred to him as “a Basho-like figure”, so it is perhaps fitting that his latest work is a sequence of haiku, inspired by his beloved Mount Errigal. Part delicate and elegiac, part impassioned and tough-minded, this new set of poems shows Harvey to be as attentive as ever, to both his physical surroundings and the philosophical journeys they inspire. Francis Harvey was born in Enniskillen in 1925. His previous collections include Making Space: New & Selected Poems (2001) and Collected Poems (2007), both published by Dedalus. Among his many prizes are The Irish Times/Yeats Summer School Prize and The Guardian/WWF Prize.
Dedalus Press » Paperback £9.50 » 978-1-906614-74-4 203x127mm » 90pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep & N. Ireland
I Know Their Footsteps
Ibrahim & Reenie
No Return Game
Tom Kelly
David Llewellyn
Tom Mathews
Seventh poetry collection from popular North-East author and dramatist
Third novel from one of Seren’s strongest-selling novelists
“Tom Mathews has been an institution in Dublin for 30 years” – The Irish Times
I Know Their Footsteps is Tom Kelly’s seventh poetry collection, this time telling the tale of his hometown of Jarrow. Featuring heavily is his family – father, mother and grandparents – all found desperately seeking love.
David Llewellyn’s latest novel is a tale of unlikely friendship, between two unlikelier travel companions, on the unlikeliest of journeys. Ibrahim is a young Muslim Londoner, walking, for many reasons, from Cardiff to London. On the way he meets Reenie, a 75 year-old Jewish woman who escaped to the East End on the Kindertransport. Complete with her whole life in a shopping trolley, plus pet cockatiel, Reenie is also walking the M4, and not for charity, either. As the pair share the trip across England and Wales, their paths stretch out in ways neither could have foreseen.
Long admired for his irreverent humour as a cartoonist, in 2009 Tom Mathews proved himself to be an inimitable presence in Irish poetry with the publication of his Dedalus Press debut The Owl and the Pussycat.
“Kelly continues to excel when he is fusing emotion and location, a wonderful alchemy that touches on a range of experiences common to us all.” Poetry Book Society Tom Kelly was born in Jarrow, Tyneside, and now lives in Blaydon. His six previous poetry collections include The Time Office: New and Selected Poems, published by Red Squirrel Press in 2012. He has had over a dozen plays staged at the Customs House in South Shields, while his short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Red Squirrel Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-906700-72-0 216x138mm » 68pp » Poetry (DCF) North-East
“A funny and disturbing view of a disaffected age.” Nicholas Cree, The Guardian on Eleven David Llewellyn was born in Pontypool. His previous Seren novels are Eleven (2006) and Everything Is Sinister (2008). He has also written two novels for BBC Books’ Doctor Who New Series Adventures, as well as a Torchwood spin-off. David now lives in Cardiff.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-781720-81-3 » 198x126mm 224pp » Fiction (FA) South Wales & London
His follow-up, No Return Game, takes its title from Samuel Beckett’s Murphy, and represents both a deepening and a darkening of Mathew’s artistic vision. Throughout, his passions for life and language prove guiding stars and constant companions, as he takes on the big questions of time and love, ageing and loss. Tom Mathews was born in Dublin in 1952. Best known as one of Ireland’s most popular cartoonists, his work appears weekly in the Irish Times and Sunday Independent. His debut poetry collection, The Owl and the Pussycat (Dedalus Press, 2009), was shortlisted for the inaugural Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize in 2010.
Dedalus Press » Paperback £9.50 » 978-1-906614-75-1 203x127mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
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Intermittent Beings
Island of Lightning
Thaw
Ian McEwen
Robert Minhinnick
Poet Highly Commended in the 2011 National Poetry Competition
Previous travel essay collections have twice won the Wales Book of the Year Award
Victor Rodriguez Nuñez translated by Katherine M Hedeen
Intermittent Beings is an innovative three-part collection. Everyday objects and sights are given new life: from Tai Chi performers who ‘stroke invisible objects / like desire or fear’ to electricity pylons bearing ‘the aching weight of power hung from each shoulder’.
The Island of Lightning is the latest collection of travel writing by Robert Minhinnick.
“Ian McEwen’s poems run across the page like figures in flight. There is real poetic invention here: technique and voice discovering new possibilities.” George Szirtes “Agile, precise language in waves, rising and falling, ever forming itself, a glassy, shimmery experimental music that savours instability.” Moniza Alvi Ian McEwen’s poems have appeared in the likes of Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Stand and Magma. His prize successes include a commendation in the 2011 National Poetry Competition. His pamphlet, The Stammering Man, was published by Templar in 2010. He lives in Bedford.
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In 23 essays Robert travels to Malta (the island of lightning), China, USA, Argentina, Iraq, Finland, Italy, Croatia, Lithuania and Brittany. All the while he is constantly returning to his native Wales, including a walk through Welsh history from Cardiff to the Rhondda valleys. Robert Minhinnick was shortlisted for the £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award in 2012. He has twice won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem (1999, 2003); his New Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in 2012. His novel Sea Holly was shortlisted for the 2008 Ondaatje Prize (Seren, 2007). His essay collections Watching the Fire-Eater (Seren, 1995) and To Babel and Back (Seren, 2005) both won Wales Book of the Year, and were followed by The Keys of Babylon (Seren, 2011). He lives in Porthcawl.
Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-781721-29-2 » 208x135mm 240pp » Travel Writing (WTL) Wales
Poetry in translation from one of Cuba’s most distinguished authors Thaw is a book-length sequence of short poems, all ten lines long. Like haiku, what begin as simple meditations on nature open out into larger reflections on human experience, emotion, and how the three interact in the everyday. Nuñez delights in symbols, allowing images to break out into intellectual puzzles and literary references – resulting in a sequence that is both shadowy and illuminating, tender and insistent, broad and deeply personal. Víctor Rodríguez Núñez has published 11 books of poetry, many of them recipients of literary awards worldwide. His poems appear in several magazines in the UK and the US, as well as the Arc collection The Infinite’s Ash (2008). He is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, Ohio. Katherine M Hedeen co-edits (with Núñez) the Earthworks Series of Latin American Poetry in Translation for Salt in the UK.
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £13.99 / £10.99 978-1-908376-04-6 (hb) / 978-1-908376-03-9 (pb) » 216x138mm 136pp » Poetry (DCF)
Pocket Horizon
Animals
Cello
edited by Don Paterson & Kelley Swain
Miles Salter
Seán Street
“Bleak and big-hearted poems with a wit that matches his eye for detail” – Luke Kennard on The Border
“Cello is, by some way, Seán Street’s most ambitious collection” – Jeremy Hooker
Includes poems and an Introduction by TS Eliot and Forward Prize-winner Don Paterson Pocket Horizon sees six UK poets working with Don Paterson to develop a new anthology inspired by the wonders of science and medicine, as showcased at London’s Wellcome Collection and Cambridge’s Whipple Museum. The poems are paired with original artwork by illustrator Cassie Herschel-Shorland. Don Paterson’s latest poetry collection is Rain (Faber, 2009). He teaches at the University of St Andrews. Lorraine Mariner was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Furniture (Picador, 2009). Malene Engelund’s poems appear in the 2012 Penned in the Margins anthology Where Rockets Burn Through. Sarah Westcott has been commended in the Mslexia Poetry Competition in 2008, 2010 and 2012. Mick Delap’s first collection, River Turning Tidal, won the Listowel Writers’ Week Award in 2002. Dominic McLoughlin won 2nd prize in the 2005 National Poetry Competition. Kelley Swain’s first collection is Darwin’s Microscope (Flambard, 2009). Richard Barnett was named a Templar Press Young Poet in 2006.
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A lion attends confession, a woman sleeps with a python, a giraffe walks into a bar… Miles Salter’s second poetry collection is a mixture of surreal comedy and piercing observation, taking inspiration from the natural world and the ‘most dangerous animal of all’, we humans. Consumer culture and the Big Society are also set for a poetic spearing, whether in the sci-fi dystopias of ‘The Queue’ or ‘A Warning’, or the more familiar urban settings of the poet’s first collection, The Border. Miles Salter is a writer and musician based in York. His first poetry collection (writing as Miles Cain), The Border, was published by Valley Press in 2011. His poems have appeared in magazines including The Rialto, Ambit, Orbis and South Bank Poetry. He has also written for several newspapers including the Guardian and the Independent. Miles is currently director of York Literature Festival.
Valley Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-908853-28-8 198x129mm » 78pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
Cello, Seán Street’s eighth collection, is a series of poetry sequences in memory of his friend, the composer Jonathan Harvey, who died in December 2012. Beginning with the stone circles and barrows of Avebury and ending with a sequence exploring the estuaries of the Thames and the Mersey, the poems explore landscapes that strike chords of memory, elegy and possibility. Together the poems travel from the pain of dissolution towards redemption and celebration, and a world ‘anointed with colour’. Seán Street is a writer, broadcaster and Emeritus Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University. His most recent collection is Time Between Tides: New & Selected Poems 19812009, published by Rockingham Press in 2009. He lives in Christchurch and Liverpool.
Rockingham Press » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-904851-49-3 210x140mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) London & Hampshire / Merseyside
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Ghost Pot
Woman’s Head as Jug
New & Selected Poems
John Wedgwood Clarke
Jackie Wills
Fergus Allen
“Clarke’s work is amongst the best to have emerged from new poets in this country over the past two or three years” – Simon Armitage
Author previously shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry
“Very subtle and marvellously wise” – William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart and Waiting for Sunrise
John Wedgwood Clarke’s first fulllength collection thrillingly evokes the seafront vistas of North Yorkshire. Opening with a lost lobster trap ‘crammed to the throat with bony shields’, the poems that follow flit between bays, briggs and frets, deftly portraying wildlife alongside halfglimpsed residents, their ‘yellow winter pub-talk clacking down wet steps’. “Ghost Pot is a masterpiece that rewards continual rereading.” Bernard O’Donoghue “An exhilarating sweep of elemental experience.” Penelope Shuttle John Wedgwood Clarke grew up in St Ives and now lives in Scarborough. His poems have recently appeared in the Guardian (Poem of the Week, December 2012) and Poetry Review. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize, and commended in the National Poetry Competition. His pamphlet Sea Swim was published by Valley Press in 2012, and championed by Carol Ann Duffy.
Valley Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-908853-27-1 198x129mm » 72pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
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Especially appealing to anyone interested in the visual arts, this new collection is the result of collaboration between poet Jackie Wills and painter Jane Fordham. The poems have a touch as deft as the seamstresses and other craftspeople who populate the book, before moving outwards into the worlds of mythology, folklore and the visceral routine of daily life. “She is at her best when most surprising, bringing flashes of the extraordinary to the everyday.” Christina Patterson, The Independent Jackie Wills’s most recent poetry collection is Commandments (Arc, 2007). Her first, Powder Tower (Arc, 1995), was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, while Party (2000) was acclaimed by Ruth Padel in the Independent on Sunday. She has been a Poet in Residence at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, and her work appears on a dress by designer Helen Storey and on a path in Farnham by potter Julian Belmonte. She lives in Brighton.
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £11.99 / £8.99 978-1-906570-84-2 (hb) / 978-1-906570-83-5 (pb) » 216x138mm 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Brighton
Fergus Allen published his first collection at the age of 72. Driven by “a remarkable energy” (John Greening in the TLS), he has continued – through four further volumes over two decades. This latest selection includes a substantial set of previously unpublished poems which, according to Christopher Reid, “summarises a body of work which is possibly unique in its late timing, but remarkable for much more than that.” “One of the most clear-eyed, fearless, nimble, inexhaustible and stimulating poets of our day.” Christopher Reid, Costa Book Award-winner for A Scattering Fergus Allen has published five previous poetry collections: The Brown Parrots of Providencia (1993), Who Goes There? (1996), Mrs Power Looks Over the Bay (1999), all published by Faber, Gas Light & Coke (Dedalus Press, 2006) and Before Troy (CB Editions, 2010). In 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He now lives in Berkshire.
CB Editions » Paperback £8.99 » 978-0-957326-66-8 198x129mm » 164pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland & Berkshire
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Dreaming My Animal Selves Hélène Cardona “A graceful skate across a liquid language, a voyage across subliminal waves” – Thomas McCarthy This bilingual edition explores the connections between two of Hélène Cardona’s native languages, English and French. International, mystical and other-worldly, they explore metaphysical experiences that shapeshift like her animal companions: ‘a colt flown through her window’, ‘a winged hare’, a woman who wakes in the belly of a whale. She also traces ‘patterns in dreams’ in the city where she was born, Paris, the child of a Greek mother and a Spanish father. “An intriguingly surreal journey through myth, legend, fantasy, and more...” Brian Turner Hélène Cardona is an American poet and actor. Her most recent poetry collection is The Astonished Universe (2006). She has also translated the poetry of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertrand and Jean-Claude Renard into English. Her acting credits include the films Chocolat, Happy Feet 2 and The Muppets.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-39-7 210x134mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
The Tip of My Tongue Trezza Azzopardi Author previously shortlisted for the Man Booker and James Tait Black Memorial Prizes The Tip of My Tongue is the latest in Seren’s New Stories from the Mabinogion series – contemporary novels reworking the tales of Welsh medieval myth. Featuring the likes of Owen Sheers and Cynan Jones, the series has sold over 5,500 copies to date, with Trezza Azzopardi and Tishani Doshi joining the list this October. When her mother dies, little Enid must stay with her posh relations, the Erbins, in their mansion. Enid finds herself having to rely on her native wit, and her mother’s advice, to survive Uncle Horace, Aunty Celia and, above all, their teenage son Geraint. Trezza Azzopardi was born in Cardiff. The Hiding Place (Picador, 2001) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The book was also adapted for Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. Her other Picador novels are Remember Me (2005), Winterton Blue (2008) and The Song House (2011). She lectures at UEA in Norwich.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 » 978-1-781721-05-6 » 198x128mm 192pp » Fiction (FA) Wales & Norwich
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Heimlich’s Manoeuvre
The Isle of Lewis Chessman
Paula Cunningham
Simon Currie
Shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Prize for Poetry in 2011
“Here is a poet… alive to what is hidden or unspoken, to life’s often sinister subtext” – Anna Crowe
This first full collection sees Paula Cunningham reflecting on her upbringing in Northern Ireland, while casting a clear eye on family history and friendships. Its memorable short sequences include ‘Fathom’, which centres on her father, alongside many varied shorter pieces, humorous, erotic and always surprising. “She has formal gifts in abundance… when her eye is on her native Ulster, magic and frightening things happen.” Paula Meehan Paula Cunningham was born in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Her pamphlet A Dog Called Chance was a winner in the 1999 Poetry Business Competition. In 2011 she won the Hippocrates Poetry Prize (NHS section) and was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Prize. Her work appears in the Bloodaxe anthology The New Irish Poets (2004). She has also written drama and short fiction; a short story appeared in the Faber Book of the Best New Irish Short Stories (2005). She now lives in Belfast.
Smith Doorstop » Paperback £9.95 » 978-1-906613-83-9 215x140mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF) Northern Ireland
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Honest, confiding and intelligent, these poems are rich in material and character: from callous medical students and pompous surgeons to scenes of war and post-war tragedy, compassionately observed. Fly-fishing, botany and archaeology sit alongside travel pieces and poems about Currie’s Scottish heritage, while central to the book are tender but unsentimental poems coming to terms with the loss of the poet’s wife. “Read him for accessibility, for wit, for the elegance of his imagery... this poetry is deeply mined, and comes clear and burnished to the surface.” Adrian Buckner Simon Currie was born in Leeds in 1938. He is a member of the Beehive Poets, Bradford, and of the Pennine Poets. His pamphlet Imagine a Forest was published by Smith Doorstop (2010). He lives in Lower Wharfedale.
The Cellophane Man: The Forgotten Investigation of the Lynette White Murder Judith Davies Follows success of Seren’s true-crime studies Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman (2012) and The Girl Who Lived on Air (2013) The term ‘cold case’ might have been invented for the murder of 20 year-old prostitute Lynette White, found stabbed and slashed 69 times in Butetown, South Wales in 1988. 11 years after the murder, the case is taken up by a proverbial odd couple of police detectives: Brent Parry (sporty son of a miner) and forensic scientist Angela Gallop (daughter of Oxford intellectuals). And when cellophane from a cigarette packet is found stored with White’s shoes, the pair have their breakthrough. The Cellophane Man takes in Lynette White’s life of violent men and drugs, change in Tiger Bay and the Cardiff docklands, the wrongful conviction of five local (black) men, a racist constabulary and rife police corruption. Judith Davies is a previous winner of the BT Daily Journalist of the Year Award in Wales. She has also worked on three six-part series of Post Mortem for Channel 5 and five six-part series of Crime Secrets for ITV Wales.
Smith Doorstop » Paperback » £9.95 978-1-906613-85-3 » 215x140mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF) West Yorkshire & Scotland
Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-781720-93-6 » 216x138mm 220pp » True Crime (BTC) South Wales
Enemies SJ Fowler Collaborative poetry project by rising star of London poetry scene This ground-breaking, multidisciplinary collection is the result of collaborations between SJ Fowler and over thirty artists, photographers and writers. Texts slip and fragment, finding new contexts alongside prints, paintings, diagrams, diary entries, email exchanges, Rorschach blots, YouTube clips and behind-the-scenes photographs at the British Museum. Enemies includes collaborations with: Emily Critchley, Alexander Kell, Ben Morris, David Kelly, Sarah Kelly, Patrick Coyle, Sian Williams, Anatol Knotek, David Berridge, David Kelly, Lone Eriksen, Frédéric Forte, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Claire Potter, Tim Atkins, Marcus Slease, Ryan Van Winkle, Tom Jenks, Chris McCabe, Monica Rinck, Deborah Pearson, Matteo Patocchi, Sam Riviere and Samantha Johnson. SJ Fowler has published four collections of poetry, most recently the limited-edition Recipes (2012). He has produced poetry, art installations and performance works for the Tate, the Voiceworks project and the London Sinfonietta. He is the poetry editor of 3:AM Magazine and an employee of the British Museum.
Penned in the Margins » Paperback £9.99 » 978-1-908058-13-3 216x138mm » 144pp » Poetry (DCF) London
Fountainville Tishani Doshi Author of Bloomsbury novel The Pleasure Seekers, longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2011 Bloomsbury novelist and Bloodaxe poet Tishani Doshi enters the fray for the tenth in Seren’s stunningly realised New Stories from the Mabinogion series. Fountainville is a strange, lonely town on the edge of everywhere. But the place has its own healing secrets, as revealed by Begum, the Lady of the Fountain, and her assistant Luna. Under their care the town flourishes. But when the mysterious Mr Knight arrives at their house of 24 women, everything begins to change. Tishani Doshi was born in Madras in 1975 to Welsh-Gujarati parents. She has written for the Guardian, the New York Times, Vogue and Elle. Her poetry collections are Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection (2006) and Everything Begins Elsewhere (Bloodaxe, 2012). Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers (Bloomsbury, 2011), was longlisted for the Orange Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary award.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 » 978-1-781721-08-7 » 198x128mm 192pp » Fiction (FA) Wales
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The Art School Dance: A Memoir John Froy Second part of Reading artist’s autobiography, set in the 1970s The Art School Dance is the second volume of John Froy’s memoir, following on from his childhood as captured in 70 Waterloo Road (2010). Here we’re taken from Italy to Reading University and Falmouth School of Art, chronicling the twists and turns of an art student in the 70s, a time of great experiment and change: the figurative/abstract divide in painting and sculpture, the new photography, film and Happenings; the freedom to hitch-hike around Europe, and to experiment with sex and drugs. Along the way, Froy becomes a volunteer archaeologist in Assisi and an osprey warden in Scotland, gets a London bedsit and dead-end job, and paints landscapes in a caravan through a Cornish winter. John Froy was born in 1953 and has lived in England, Japan and Costa Rica. He has also published a collection of poems, Eggshell: A Decorator’s Notes (Two Rivers, 2007). He lives in Reading.
Two Rivers Press » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-901677-95-9 210x135mm » 324pp (12pp of b&w ill.) » Memoir (BMF) Reading & Falmouth
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The Claims Office Dai George Poet features in Salt’s Best British Poetry 2013 anthology, also published in October The Claims Office is the debut collection from one of the rising young stars of British poetry. Dai George’s work is characterised by a mix of rebellious energy and unflinching satire: ‘nature’ poems that are often anti-nature; lively pieces about the metropolises of London and New York; skewed love poems like ‘Plans with the Unmet Wife’; poems about his native Wales that alternate between the edgy and the elegiac, forever refusing to conform. “Dai George seems to me to offer something new to Welsh, and to British poetry.” Roddy Lumsden “Lavish, well-executed... lyrics that seek to communicate directly with the reader.” Jane Holland, Poetry Society Dai George was born in Cardiff in 1986. His poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including the Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011) and Best British Poetry (Salt, 2013). He now lives in London.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-781720-90-5 » 216x138mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF) Wales & London
One Hundred Film Haiku: the reel thing Mick Haining ‘Guess the film’ collection; crossover gift appeal for movie quiz fans Iron Press’s latest haiku collection is also a teasing movie quiz, and a must for any film fan. One Hundred Film Haiku: The Reel Thing features a hundred well-known films from the last 50 years, distilling each one into pocket-sized three-line haiku. The title of each film is printed upside down in small type at the bottom of the page for the ultimate movie trivia challenge. They tackled a shark, / Bit off more than they could chew / In a too-small boat. Fleeing with the cash / She opts to take a shower – / It’s curtains for her. A little princess / Shows she needs help. It can’t be / A solo effort. Mick Haining was born in Moville, Co. Donegal. A playwright for schools, he also creates ‘disposable’ haikus, in the form of calendars, postcards, mousemats, etc. He now lives in North Yorkshire, and recently appeared at the 2013 Scarborough Literature Festival.
Iron Press » Paperback » £5.00 978-0-957503-20-5 » 148x105mm 64pp » Cinema / Poetry [APF / DCF]
Everything I Have Always Forgotten Owain Hughes Childhood memoir, growing up as part of celebrity / aristocratic Hughes family in 1940s-50s Everything I Have Always Forgotten is an idiosyncratic memoir of a Swallows and Amazons-style childhood in north Wales in the 1940s and 50s. Owain Hughes grew up in the family’s large but dilapidated house, son of eccentric novelist (and friend of Bertrand Russell) Richard Hughes and artist Frances Bazley. Under their ‘benign neglect’, Owain’s adventures include, aged just 12, a three-day hike through Snowdonia with a friend that ended with the pair marooned for two weeks on Bardsley Island off the north Welsh coast. Together the stories perfectly capture a period of post-war British life that looks back to Brideshead Revisited but also forward to kitchen-sink drama and angry young men. Owain Hughes was born in 1943 and educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford, after which he spent many years travelling, particularly in Africa and the Middle East. The author of two novels, he now lives in New York and Mexico.
Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-781720-99-8 » 216x138mm 200pp (16pp of b&w ill.) Memoir (BMA) North Wales
Lowland
An Anniversary of Flight
Will Kemp
Patrick Lodge
Second collection from poet shortlisted in Poetry Society’s Stanza in 2011
Travel poems set in the UK, Ireland, Europe and Australia
Lowland is a moving collection that begins and ends in the visually arresting lowlands of Holland.
Patrick Lodge was born in Wales, lives in Yorkshire and travels on an Irish passport. His new collection contains poems inspired by visits to many countries: retracing his Irish roots, working as a tea-boy; convict settlements in Australia; England’s only Holocaust memorial centre in Nottinghamshire; holidays in Italy, Greece and Spain.
We first feel for the awkward boy imagining himself as James Bond in the face of schoolyard bullies. Later, love blossoms, while loss and breakdown loom: ‘Just the dark of a storm, this swarm of black wings / over the standing corn; / and that dirt track though / its centre, leading nowhere’. Finally there is reprise, and a sense of life’s canvas being ‘both scattered / and as one’. Will Kemp studied at Cambridge and UEA before working in Canada, Holland and New Zealand. In 2006 he was runner-up in the Keats-Shelley Prize; in 2010 he won the Envoi International Poetry Prize. His first collection, Nocturnes, was published by Cinnamon in 2012. He now lives in North Yorkshire.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-94-3 216x140mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
The travel poems then open out into heartfelt reflections on growing up, family life and relationships – his own search for a ‘home’ that might be lived in in comfort and at ease. Patrick Lodge was a prize-winner in the 2009 Envoi International Competition. His work has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand, including Modern Poetry in Translation, The North and the Cinnamon Press anthology Feeding the Cat (2011).
Valley Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-908853-30-1 198x129mm » 72pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire & Ireland
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VP50 – Five Years, Fifty Books: The Best of Valley Press
As I Sit Quietly, I Begin to Smell Burning
edited by Jamie McGarry
Colin McGuire
Anthology celebrating five years of “the ever-enterprising Valley Press” (Yorkshire Post)
Poet recently invited to read at the National Library of Scotland and at StAnza 2013
Five years ago, 20-year-old literature student Jamie McGarry took his first faltering steps towards setting up a publishing house in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He called it Valley Press, and the rest is history – a history untold until now. For VP’s 50th book (published on the fifth anniversary of the first book), Jamie has collected the finest extracts from all 49 previous titles into this wide-ranging anthology of poetry, fiction, biography and trivia. Each chapter comes with its own brief introduction: anecdotes explaining how each book came into existence, and offering a fascinating insight into today’s publishing landscape. Jamie McGarry was born in Norwich in 1988, and grew up in North Wales and Yorkshire. Now based in Scarborough, he runs the independent publisher Valley Press. His own poetry collection, The Dead Snail Diaries, was published in 2011.
Valley Press » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-908853-50-9 » 207x135mm 250pp » Anthologies (DQ / DCQ) Yorkshire
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This new collection from Red Squirrel Press is a variety pack of poetry loosely based on the theme of Hell – Hell as both a place and a state of mind. It is also the long-awaited first full poetry collection from one of Scotland’s bestknown performance poets. “It is the brevity and succinctness in McGuire’s poems that make them readable. You can mull over their domestic insights, their wise old man’s tale observations; consume them snack size with a moment’s notice.” Jim Murdoch Colin McGuire was born in Glasgow, and is a performance poet. He has read widely across the UK, including at the StAnza Festival in 2013 and the BBC Slam in 2012. He appears regularly at various nights in Edinburgh and Glasgow, including the National Library of Scotland.
Red Squirrel Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-906700-74-4 216x138mm » 68pp » Poetry (DCF) Scotland
Saviours in this Little Space for Now: Poems for Emily Carr and Vincent van Gogh Stephanie McKenzie Museums & galleries interest: poems inspired by lives and art of Vincent van Gogh and Emily Carr Stephanie McKenzie’s third collection brings together two great artists – Emily Carr (1871-1945) and Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) – both infamously frustrated by societies that did not understand them. With skilful hand and uncompromising heart, McKenzie tackles the formidable project of discovering not just their paintings, but also connections in the lives of these extraordinary artists. “Each poem is as carefully crafted as Van Gogh’s sunflowers or Carr’s forests, inviting us into a revelatory communion.” Michelle Johnson, World Literature Today Stephanie McKenzie was born in British Columbia, but now lives on Canada’s east coast in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Her previous poetry collections are Cutting My Mother’s Hair (2006) and Grace Must Wander (2009), both published by Salmon Poetry. She teaches at Memorial University in Newfoundland.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback » £10.00 978-1-908836-44-1 » 210x134mm 84pp » Poetry (DCF)
Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophesies Kei Miller Literary essays and memoir by Caribbean author published by Carcanet and Macmillan Kei Miller’s essays emerge out of two life-changing moments: finding faith in his youth at his charismatic church, and then losing his religion. There are also stories about migration and leaving familiar places (Jamaica), and making connections with new ones (Glasgow), as well as lively stories about family, friendship, and nation. There are analytical pieces, too, on language and poetry, alongside essays on his own writing influences and rituals. Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. His short-story collection The Fear of Stones was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize in 2007, followed by the Phoenix novels The Same Earth (2009) and The Last Warner Woman (2011). His most recent poetry collection is A Light Song of Light (Carcanet, 2010); he is also editor of Carcanet’s New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology (2007). Kei currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-845232-28-3 » 234x156mm 160pp » Biography / Literary (BML / DSB) Scotland
At Maldon J.O. Morgan Third collection from Aldeburgh Prize-winning and Forward-shortlisted poet In early August 991, a ragtag army of Anglo-Saxons joined battle with a party of Viking raiders at Maldon on the coast of Essex. The encounter was recorded in an Old English long poem, partly lost to the ages. Applying a modern perspective to its heroic ideals, J.O. Morgan re-imagines that summer’s day on which some men fought, loyal to the end, and some men fled, fearing the battle was already lost. Like Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf before it, At Maldon reawakens the events of a thousand years ago with remarkable verve and precision. “Remarkable. A gem of a poem.” Simon Armitage on Natural Mechanical “It speaks to everyone, everywhere.” Andrew Motion on Natural Mechanical J.O. Morgan lives in Scotland. His previous books from CB Editions are Natural Mechanical (2009), which won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Long Cuts (2011).
CB Editions » Paperback » £8.99 » 978-0-957326-65-1 » 198x129mm 68pp » Poetry (DCF) Scotland & Essex
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Sanctuary
The Maeve: A Novel
Divining Venus
Patricia Monaghan
Mary O’Donnell
Mary Elizabeth Pope
Posthumous second collection from Irish-American poet, set in both Ireland and the US
New comic novel by winner of the Sunday Tribune’s Best New Irish Novel Award
New short stories about love and relationships, introducing American author to UK audiences
Following her death in November 2012, this new collection of poems captures the wondrously abundant and generous spirit of Irish-American author Patricia Monaghan. Here she sits at the table with us, whether it be in Ireland or the US, sharing the secrets of her heart with aching beauty, humility and joy. “What a gift this incomparable teacher, scholar, and poet has left us in this, her most powerful collection of poems.” Annie Finch “Sanctuary’s liturgical structure holds close for the reader an unsentimental communion with the ordinary, and an inherent awe.” Seamus Cashman Patricia Monaghan’’s previous poetry collection, Dancing with Chaos, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2002. Patricia died in November 2012.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-51-9 210x134mm » 88pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. & N. Ireland
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It’s 2007, and four women are poised on the brink of fame and fortune, all on the shortlist for the Queen Maeve Prize for Women’s Fiction. There’s Serena Maguire, trailing a handsome exec husband and charming children; the boyish but fierce Darcy Singleton; Deirdre Dronaun, the uncertain academic; and Earth Mother Babe Ni Mhurchú. But who will win the coveted prize? The Maeve is a bitingly satirical tale of women in the Celtic Tiger era, filled with comic, colourful characters, one of whose life will be changed forever, but not quite as she expected. Mary O’Donnell’s first novel, The Light-Makers, was named the Sunday Tribune’s Best New Irish Novel in 1992; her novels since include Virgin and the Boy (1996) and The Elysium Testament (1999), followed by the short-story collection Storm over Belfast (2008). Her awards include a Hennessy Literature Award and the Listowel Writers’ Week Fiction Award. She lives in Co. Kildare and teaches at NUI Maynooth.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-55-7 210x134mm » 220pp » Fiction (FA) Rep. & N. Ireland
From blind dates to back seats to a drinking game gone wrong, the short stories in Divining Venus are linked by a series of compelling characters all trying to discern something truthful about that thing called love. In ‘Reunion’, a divorced empty-nester faces up to the one who got away, while in ‘Junior Lifesaving’ a young woman is faced with a terrible choice to keep a relationship going. In ‘Say Goodbye to Hollywood’, a college graduate must choose between adolescence and adulthood when she finds herself falling for her boyfriend’s father. And in the title story, ‘Divining Venus’, a young girl turns to a ouija board in her search for answers her classmates, teachers and parents don’t have. Mary Elizabeth Pope hails from Michigan. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines across the US, and she was a finalist for the 2012 Autumn House Fiction Prize for Divining Venus. She lives in Boston.
Waywiser Press » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-904130-55-0 » 197x130mm 144pp » Fiction (FYB)
The World Shouldering I James Ragan American poet championed by Pulitzer Prize-winners CK Williams and Henry Taylor James Ragan has been praised by Henry Taylor as “a snake charmer whose words work real magic”. In his newest collection, Ragan hails the power of the imagination to shoulder the burdens of a beleaguered world. In response to a dangerous future, Ragan presents a gallery of marvels: poems of nature, love, jazz, and family, reassuring and buoyant, echoing the likes of Heaney, Rilke and Yeats. “Ragan dominates the art of image, the art of poetic line, and the art of poetic narration with insight that marks major poets.” Miroslav Holub, Nobel Prize nominee James Ragan is a poet and playwright. In 1985, he was one of three Americans, alongside Bob Dylan and Robert Bly, invited to perform at the First International Poetry Festival in Moscow. His most recent poetry collection is Too Long a Solitude (2009). He lives in California.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback » £10.00 978-1-908836-46-5 » 210x134mm 80pp » Poetry (DCF)
The Butterfly Hotel Roger Robinson Debut full collection from Black British poet with strong links to London arts scene Roger Robinson recently came to the attention of UK audiences in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten, hailed by Carol Ann Duffy as “a joyful and important moment in publishing”. The Butterfly Hotel is his first full collection, a telling document of the immigrant experience, from the 1980s to the present, and the realities of uprooted culture. Butterflies hold a symbolic importance throughout – fragile yet ideal, adapting to survive. Roger Robinson lives in London. His one-man shows, The Shadow Boxer, Letter from My Father’s Brother and Prohibition, all premiered at the British Festival of Visual Theatre at Battersea Arts Centre. He has received writing commissions from the National Trust, the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate. His poetry has appeared in the Flipped Eye pamphlets Suitcase (2005) and Suckle (2009), the latter winning the Peoples Book Prize, and in the 2010 Bloodaxe anthology Ten, edited by Bernardine Evaristo and Daljit Nagra.
Peepal Tree Press » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-845232-19-1 » 206x135mm » 72pp » Poetry (DCF) London
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Real Port Talbot
Stories of My Life
The Piano Player’s Son
Lynne Rees
Michael Schmidt
Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn
Latest in Seren’s popular Real series of local interest guides, with 5,000+ copies sold to date
Latest collection from poet and editor of Carcanet Press and PN Review
Mainstream appeal: novel with plot based around family secrets and unhappy marriages
Author Lynne Rees explores her hometown of Port Talbot, a place of heavy industry shoehorned into a narrow belt of flat land by the sea, a 21st-century throwback to coal-mining Rhondda. But while it may have been the brainchild of an old-fashioned coal baron, Port Talbot in fact has a more genteel past as a resort, and may have a ‘clean’ future as a centre of environmental research and practice. There is culture, too, thanks to the town’s other famous export: actors such as Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen. “A town of earthly and sometimes unearthly delights.” Michael Sheen, Hollywood actor (from Port Talbot) Lynne Rees was born in Port Talbot. Her other books include the poetry collection Learning How to Fall (2005) and the novel The Oven House (2004). She now lives near the North Downs in Kent.
Seren » Paperback » £9.99 978-1-781720-96-7 » 216x138mm 240pp (80 b&w ill.) » Local History (WQH) South Wales
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This new collection tells some bold stories. There is the Nativity of Christ, the Communion of Saints, a Resurrection that includes the skeleton of poor Yorick, and a life ever after in the celebrations of fiction. There are allegorical stories, too, about desire, lust, sex, love and life’s not-so-little frustrations. “Schmidt is always a stringent poet, never shy of painful truth.” Helen Dunmore, The Observer “His work offers pleasure, argument and a complex expression of feeling.” James Sutherland-Smith, Poetry Review Michael Schmidt is the editorial director of Carcanet Press and PN Review. His Selected Poems (1997), Resurrection of the Body (2006) and Collected Poems (2009) are all published by Smith Doorstop. His awards include a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and shortlistings for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the New York Times Book of the Year. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow.
Smith Doorstop » Paperback » £9.95 » 978-1-906613-84-6 » 215x140mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF) Manchester & Glasgow
Family is all-important to Isabel. Her parents have an idyllic marriage, and she has tried hard to make her own the same. But all pretence is shattered when her husband leaves her, soon followed by the death of her father. Then her mother confides in her: behind her parents’ apparently happy marriage was a secret kept for more than three decades. Staggered by the revelation, Isabel is desperate to tell her sister, Grace, and her brothers, Rick and George. But her mother makes her promise to stay silent, and ‘family-first’ Isabel is left torn, with a dangerous secret to tell. Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn was born in East London. Her first novel, Unravelling (2010), won the Chapter One Promotions Book Award and placed second in the International Rubery Book Award. A retired teacher, she lives in Worcestershire, where she teaches Creative Writing.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-907090-93-6 216x140mm » 256pp » Fiction (FA) Worcestershire
Almost Invisible Mark Strand Follows Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection Blizzard of One (2005) Published by Knopf in the US, this Waywiser Press edition brings Mark Strand’s unique brand of meditative, metaphysical prose poetry to a UK audience. Ethereal, melancholic and ironic, these poems return us to the power and beauty that won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2005 collection Blizzard of One. “The rueful poet of lonesomeness, nothingness, travels without arrivals, Strand is also sharply funny, foxily ribald, and teasingly surreal. There is beauty here, albeit fleeting and steeped in yearning…” Donna Seaman, Booklist Mark Strand was born in Canada in 1934. His 13 previous poetry collections include the Pulitzer Prizewinning Blizzard of One, published by Waywiser in 2005. In 1990 he was chosen as the US Poet Laureate. He has edited a number of anthologies, most recently 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century (Norton, 2005). He lives in New York City.
Fifty States of Being Steve Rudd Backpacker’s travel writing, set in the US, Canada and Mexico; author featured in the Guardian and Time Out After fracturing his spine in an accident at work, travel writer Steve Rudd does the one thing his doctor advises against most: he books a flight to New York, carefully shoulders his backpack, and begins his next epic adventure. Landing with little more than a bundle of dollar bills to his name, Steve sets out to cross the vast continent of North America, and explore those most peculiar of neighbours: the United States, Canada and Mexico. “A testosterone-fuelled Eat Pray Love with as much comedy as drama, and as much profundity as adventure... 2011’s most exhilarating journey of discovery.” Time Out on Pulse “If Jack Kerouac could read Steve Rudd’s writing, he would surely be grinning in his grave.” Travellers’ Digest on Pulse
Waywiser Press » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-904130-56-7 » 197x130mm 72pp » Poetry (DCF)
Steve Rudd was born in Hull in 1980. His first book of travel writing, Pulse, set in India, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, was published by Valley Press in 2011. He lives in East Yorkshire.
Valley Press » Paperback » £12.99 » 978-1-908853-32-5 198x129mm » 320pp » Travel Writing (WTL) Yorkshire
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Indoor Skydiving River Wolton “River Wolton is a poet to watch” – Moniza Alvi, Bloodaxe poet River Wolton’s second collection harnesses the momentum and the paradox of ‘indoor skydiving’ to ask searching questions about identity, mortality and exile. It addresses a wide range of subjects – from human trafficking to celebrity in the digital age – with humour, vitality and practical compassion. “She explores a palpable contemporary world, tilting it to view its planes and angles. She is alert to the experience of exile and displacement; ... her writing is rhythmic, confident, the details telling.” Moniza Alvi River Wolton grew up in London and lived in Sheffield for 20 years before moving to Derbyshire. Her previous Smith Doorstop publications are the pamphlet The Purpose of Your Visit (2008) and the full collection Leap (2010). A recent Derbyshire Poet Laureate, she is currently a Writer-inResidence with Writing East Midlands.
Smith Doorstop » Paperback £9.95 » 978-1-906613-88-4 215x140mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF) East Midlands
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The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry Adam Wyeth “A gifted commentator/close reader; a hearer and heartener, to quote a phrase from Yeats” – Seamus Heaney In this new critical study, Irish poet Adam Wyeth unravels the ‘hidden world’ of ancient Celtic legend that runs through much of his homeland’s contemporary poetry. Each chapter begins with a poem by one of Ireland’s leading poets, followed by sharp analysis of its Celtic references, and their continuing role in Ireland’s identity today. The poets included are Eavan Boland, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Nuala Ni Dhomhnail, Bernard O’Donoghue, Paul Durcan, John Ennis, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Mary O’Malley, Paula Meehan, Patricia Monaghan, Paul Muldoon, Maurice Riordan, Leanne O’Sullivan and Matthew Sweeney. Adam Wyeth was born in Sussex in 1978. Silent Music (Salmon Poetry, 2011) was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prize. His work appears in The Forward Book of Poetry 2012 (Faber, 2011), The Best of Irish Poetry 2010 and Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland (Dedalus Press, 2010). He lives in County Cork.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback » £12.00 978-1-908836-56-4 » 210x134mm 160pp » Literary Studies (DSC) Rep.& N. Ireland
Disturbance Ivy Alvarez Verse novel based on true story of a father’s massacring of his family Disturbance is a novel-in-verse, based on a true story, about a man who kills his wife, son and then himself, leaving a daughter as the family’s sole survivor. The story features poems in a kaleidoscope of voices: from the victims to the killer’s relatives to the police investigators touched by the tragedy. There is mystery and intrigue, too: this was a well-to-do, wellconnected family, suddenly torn apart by violence. This is a very dark book, but a courageous one, ultimately about evil and its presence in our everyday lives. Ivy Alvarez was born in the Philippines, and grew up in Tasmania. After spells in Scotland and Ireland, she moved to Wales in 2004 and became a British citizen in 2010. Her first collection, Mortal, was published in 2006. She recently appeared at the 2013 Oxford Literary Festival. She lives in Cardiff.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-781720-87-5 » 216x138mm 102pp » Poetry / True Crime (DCF / BTC)
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The Big Issue in the North: Award for Short Fiction 2013 edited by Nathan Connolly, Kevin Gopal & Jamie McGarry New writing anthology with proceeds going to homeless charity In 2013, The Big Issue in the North launches an Award for Short Fiction, aiming to raise the profile of promising new writers as well as funds for the homeless charity. The ten shortlisted entries feature in this new anthology, with the winner announced at a special event at the Manchester Literature Festival in October. At least 50% of income from the anthology will go straight to The Big Issue in the North Trust, a registered charity. Nathan Connolly is Service and Projects Coordinator for The Big Issue in The North. He is also a writer of fiction, drama and criticism, and lives in Manchester. Kevin Gopal is the editor of The Big Issue in the North, a weekly magazine sold by homeless people and others who have no means of earning an income in the North of England. Jamie McGarry runs the independent publisher Valley Press, based in Scarborough.
Valley Press » Paperback » £8.99 978-1-908853-34-9 » 198x129mm 105pp » Fiction (DQ / FYB) Manchester & The North
Maps & Legends: Poems to Find Your Way By edited by Jo Bell Contemporary poetry anthology edited by ex-director of National Poetry Day Poems – maps designed to get you lost, to discover magic in the everyday. Maps & Legends is a new anthology celebrating the best of Nine Arches Press over the past five years. Plotting points from urban backwaters to wild imagined spaces, editor Jo Bell guides us through those shadow places poetry inhabits, places that fall well and truly off the map. Featuring poems from Claire Crowther, David Morley , Luke Kennard, Matt Merritt, Maria Taylor, Angela France, Daniel Sluman, Alistair Noon, Tony Williams, David Hart and more. Jo Bell is the former director of National Poetry Day, and is now the UK’s Canal Laureate. She has been a Glastonbury Poet in Residence, and programmed the Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2011. She has also appeared on BBC Radio 2 and 4, and at the Hay and Cheltenham Festivals. Her own poems have been commended in the Wigtown Poetry Competition and the Hippocrates International Prize.
Nine Arches Press » Paperback » £10.99 » 978-0-957384-75-0 210x148mm » 200pp » Poetry (DCQ)
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Sisters
The Radio was Gospel
The Spaces Between
Jennifer Copley
Elaine Feeney
Seventh collection from poet previously featured in the Forward Prize Anthology
“She has set her own daring course, and follows it without flinching – steadfast, true and luminous” – Ellen Cranitch, RTÉ
Jorge Fondebrider translated by Richard Gwyn
Sisters is a book about family life, and about death in the family, inspired by a Victorian tradition in which the dead were photographed in ‘living’ poses. The first half of the book imagines the lives of two unknown ‘sisters’ photographed in death as though they were on holiday. The second half explores the nature of sisterhood, the predicaments that siblings face and the choices they have to make, in life and in death. Jennifer Copley has published six poetry collections, including Ice, winner of the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition (Smith Doorstop, 2002) and Beans in Snow (Smokestack, 2009). Her work has appeared in the Independent on Sunday, The Rialto and The North, as well as the Forward Prize Anthology 2008 and GCSE Poetry Unseen revision guides. Her work was commended in the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012. She lives in Barrow-in-Furness.
Smokestack Books » Paperback £7.99 » 978-0-957574-72-4 198x129mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) Cumbria
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The Radio was Gospel was born, like its author, amid the sights and sounds, quirks and traditions of County Galway. We visit places as close to home as the local church, Salthill and the Aran Islands, and as far afield as Spain, Venice and San Francisco, all the time moving between savage wit and startling beauty, and the contrast between the way things are and the way they should be. “Elaine Feeney’s poetry is gritty and gripping. At times poignant, at times hilarious, sometimes just downright naughty… A strong young political voice in Ireland today.” James Falconer Elaine Feeney has performed at various festivals in the UK and Ireland, including Cuírt and the Edinburgh Fringe. Her most recent poetry collection is Where’s Katie? (Salmon Poetry, 2010). Her poetry has been broadcast on RTÉ radio and TV, and published in magazines like The Shop and The Stinging Fly. She lives in Athenry.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-38-0 210x134mm » 96pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
Poetry in translation from one of Argentina’s foremost authors Jorge Fondebrider is one of the most brilliant poets of his generation in Argentina, ushering in a new breeze of modernity in the 1980s after the dark days of dictatorship. Here his distinctive tones are beautifully translated into English by Richard Gwyn, opening up a new aspect on the rich literary conversation between Europe and Latin America. “Fondebrider and Gwyn’s work undoubtedly makes a valuable and inspiring contribution to contemporary poetry in English.” Tiffany Atkinson Jorge Fondebrider was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. His four poetry collections are Elegías (1983), Imperio de la Luna (1987), Standards (1993) and Los últimos tres años (2006). Richard Gwyn has published several collections of poetry, two novels and a memoir, The Vagabond’s Breakfast (Y Lolfa, 2011). His translated works of Argentinian poet Joaquín Giannuzzi, A Complicated Mammal: Selected Poems, was published by CB Editions in 2012.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback » £7.99 978-1-909077-14-0 » 216x140mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF)
Cover Birds
Shy White Tiger
Robert Gillmor
Richard W Halperin
Follows hugely successful nature art-book Birds, Blocks & Stamps, three times reprinted
“Marvellously accomplished new-mint poems” – Macdara Woods
Cover Birds is a fully illustrated autobiography by renowned artist and respected ornithologist Robert Gillmor. Robert’s love of all things avian began in 1948, when he joined the Reading Ornithological Club (ROC) aged just 11. A few years later, he was introduced to lino-cutting by his school art teacher, and his prints of birdlife have been illustrating the Club’s report covers ever since. Illustrated with Robert’s artwork throughout, this is a beguiling account of one man’s development, over 60 years, as both artist and bird-lover. Robert Gillmor is the vice-president of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA), and has worked for the RSPB, British Ornithologists’ Union and the British Trust for Ornithology. In 2011 he was commissioned by Royal Mail to produce four special-edition series of stamps featuring British garden birds; the artwork was brought together in Birds, Blocks & Stamps (Two Rivers, 2011). He lives in Reading.
Two Rivers Press » Paperback » £12.99 978-1-901677-96-6 » 200x200mm 60pp » Nature / Art (AGN / WNCB) Berkshire
Richard W Halperin’s follow-up to Anniversary draws inspiration from the visionary, matter-of-fact magic of some of the world’s great literary traditions: Irish, Russian, French, Jewish. Each poem is a portal into other stories: from Padraic Colum’s The King of Ireland’s Son to the Talmud to Sunset Boulevard. And looming large is the constant, powerful presence of the poet’s wife and mother. “Richard Halperin must have lodged for a time with the sea-charts in the map-room of one of Calvino’s Invisible Cities…” Macdara Woods Richard W Halperin worked for UNESCO until his retirement in 2005. Over 200 of his poems have since appeared in magazines like Poetry Review, Ambit, Planet, The Shop, Cyphers and The Stinging Fly (as a featured poet). His debut collection, Anniversary, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010. He has read his work throughout Ireland, including at the Guinness Book of Records marathon at Dublin’s Irish Writers’ Centre. He lives in Paris.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-34-2 210x134mm » 84pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
UEA Creative Writing Anthology 2013: Poetry edited by Nathan Hamilton & Rachel Hore “The authors would rather take a risk than play it safe. Good for them.” – Sean O’Brien Introduced by George Szirtes, this anthology brings together the work of 10 new poetry talents from the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing programme, now in its 50th year. “What emerges is not only a sense of exciting individual talents mining and developing their own gifts, but also a renewed conviction that the art of poetry is not just alive and well in Britain today, but ready to go out there and rattle a few cages.” John Burnside “A bold, diverse enjoyable selection of poems.” Sean O’Brien Nathan Hamilton is one of the UK’s leading young poetry editors. He recently edited the Bloodaxe anthology Dear World & Everyone In It (2013). Rachel Hore is the author of six novels published by Simon & Schuster, most recently The Silent Tide (2013) and The Glass Painter’s Daughter (2013).
Egg Box » Paperback » £9.99 978-0-957661-11-0 » 210x148mm 80pp » Poetry (DCQ) East Anglia
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UEA Creative Writing Anthology 2013: Prose Fiction edited by Nathan Hamilton & Rachel Hore UEA alumni include Ian McEwan, Tracy Chevalier, Andrew Miller and Kazuo Ishiguro With a foreword by UEA alumnus and novelist Joe Dunthorne (Submarine, Wild Abandon) and an introduction by Henry Sutton, this anthology showcases some thirty new names for the future. The world-renowned UEA programme’s alumni include Ian McEwan, Anne Enright, Tracy Chevalier, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Boyne, Kathryn Simmonds, Owen Sheers, Adam Foulds, Diana Evans, Deirdre Madden, Toby Litt, Anjali Joseph and Andrew Miller. “The UEA is a supportive community, a creative muse and a fertile ground – under clear East Anglian skies – to grow the best crop of new writers each year. Sample and enjoy this season’s produce.” Jeremy Page, author of Salt and The Wake
Egg Box » Paperback » £9.99 978-0-957661-10-3 » 210x148mm 176pp » Fiction (FYB) East Anglia
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UEA Creative Writing Anthology 2013: Scriptwriting edited by Nathan Hamilton & Rachel Hore Introduced by playwright and Guardian contributor Steve Waters Introduced by scriptwriter Steve Waters, here ten scripts for the stage and screen showcase a variety of techniques and styles, each demonstrating high standards of creativity, craft and application. Throughout the anthology, characters are not necessarily who they seem, events can turn in a beat, and revelations have ambiguous consequences. This collection interrogates the multiple ways we look at the world, and challenges us to question who we are in relation to it. Nathan Hamilton is one of the UK’s leading young poetry editors. He recently edited the Bloodaxe anthology Dear World & Everyone In It (2013). Rachel Hore is the author of six novels published by Simon & Schuster, most recently The Silent Tide (2013) and The Glass Painter’s Daughter (2013).
Egg Box » Paperback » £9.99 978-0-957661-12-7 » 210x148mm 112pp » Drama (DD / AP) East Anglia
UEA Creative Writing Anthology 2013: Non-Fiction edited by Nathan Hamilton & Rachel Hore Biography and creative non-fiction anthology: includes memoir, journalism and nature writing UEA’s Non-Fiction Programme is taught by Kathryn Hughes, the James Tait Black Prize-winning biographer and Guardian literary critic; William Fiennes, author of The Snow Geese (Picador, 2010); and Helen Smith, a recent winner of the Biographers’ Club Award. This branch of UEA’s Creative Writing programme broaches creative nonfiction of all kinds: including memoir, nature writing, reportage, sports biographies and food journalism. The course counts Granta author Mark Cocker among many successful alumni, and this new anthology introduces the next set of names to watch in this ever-growing field.
Egg Box » Paperback » £9.99 978-0-957661-13-4 » 210x148mm 80pp » Non-Fiction (BGL / DNF) East Anglia
Under a Holderness Sky
Beautiful Girls
Playing the Bones
Norah Hanson
Melissa Lee-Houghton
Dave Lordan
Follows 2011 debut Love Letters & Children’s Drawings, a Valley Press bestseller
“Beautiful Girls will survive as a testament to poetry’s force in overcoming” – Chris McCabe
Third collection from one of Ireland’s leading public poets
Norah Hanson’s second collection picks up where her 2011 debut, Love Letters & Children’s Drawings, left off: themes of memory, family, home and nature, peppered with notes of gentle satire and comment on some of the darker, more difficult areas of the modern world. “Norah manages – perhaps because this book distils a lifetime of writing – to bring before us the tragedy of the human condition, making it sound beautiful and worth living through.” Paul Sutherland “Intelligent, compassionate and humane... a treasure trove” Helen Burke Norah Hanson was born in Hull in 1937. Her poetry has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and commended in the Yorkshire Open. Her first collection, Love Letters & Children’s Drawings, was published by Valley Press in 2011.
Valley Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-908853-33-2 198x129mm » 65pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
“Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted. The reader has been invited to a sleepover at the asylum, a night in which five-year old girls drift alone through the wards, where the mentally unstable do sit-ups when nobody is watching and where heaven is a place between ‘the sky and the planets’ reserved for those with personality disorders. The book will be a home-to-home for sufferers and a journey through terrible night for those who’ve been fortunate enough to take the non-scenic route in life… Mental suffering is here shown in all its nocturnal and diurnal detail: the nurses, the drugs, the lack of sleep; the disconnect from the yearned-for true self.” Chris McCabe, the Southbank Centre’s Poetry Library Melissa Lee-Houghton was born in Wythenshawe, Manchester in 1982. Her first collection, A Body Made of You, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2011. She lives in Blackburn.
Penned in the Margins » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-908058-03-4 216x138mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) North West
In Playing the Bones, Dave Lordan once again blends literary innovation and political engagement with mesmerising results. Together these poems present a visionary telling of truths that the powers that be would rather keep hidden, but which are the poet’s duty to unfold. “Lordan’s poems are hard-hitting and edgy, yet at the same time lyrical and intimate…. With our culture poised at an historic cross roads, this is exactly the kind of writing we need.” Richard Boyd Barrett TD Dave Lordan is the first writer to win Ireland’s three national prizes for young poets: the Ireland Chair of Poetry (2011), the Strong Award (2008) and the Patrick Kavanagh Award (2005). His previous Salmon Poetry collections are The Boy in The Ring (2007) and Invitation to a Sacrifice (2010). His poems are regularly broadcast on Irish national radio, and he reviews for the flagship arts show Arena. He lives in Dublin.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-37-3 210x134mm » 90pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
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In Loco Parentis Pete Marshall “This is, quite simply, the best new collection of poetry I have seen in years” – Peter Finch Pete Marshall is a poet who has spent much of his life working with children in care. In Loco Parentis brings together the worlds of art and social work, daring to express the extremities of child cruelty and sexual abuse. Shocking and discomforting, the poems bring into the daylight the dark corners of human capability, piercing through the legalistic language with which we protect ourselves from an unerring truth. Pete Marshall was born in Liverpool in 1958. His most recent collection, Agog, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2011. Pete is a member of Academi’s Writers on Tour scheme, and lives on a traditional Welsh smallholding in the Conwy Valley.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-909077-15-7 216x140mm » 80pp » Poetry (DCF) South Wales
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The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man Ian McMillan & Tony Husband One of the UK’s best-loved poets and broadcasters, illustrated by one of its favourite cartoonists Ian McMillan and Tony Husband have worked together for many years, most recently on the comedy book Daft Yorkshire Fairy Tales (2012). Their latest collaboration tells the more sombre story – in six-line rhyming stanzas – of a young lad from a Yorkshire pit village who finds himself caught up in the horrors of the First World War. Surrounded by terrible slaughter, Walter records the things he sees around him with only a pencil and some paper. Ian McMillan presents The Verb on BBC Radio 3 every Friday night, and regularly appears on BBC Breakfast and BBC2’s Coast. His many books include the Smith Doorstop pamphlet Ah’ve Soiled Ma Breeks! (2012) and the verse autobiography Talking Myself Home (2008). Tony Husband, several times named Cartoonist of the Year, draws ‘The Yobs’ in Private Eye and has worked for the Times, the Oldie, the Spectator, Punch, among others.
Smokestack Books » Paperback » £7.99 978-0-957574-71-7 » 198x129mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF / WHC) Yorkshire
The Shared Surface Jane Monson Second collection from acclaimed expert in the art of prose poetry Jane Monson is one of the finest proponents of prose poetry the UK has to offer. Her first collection of prose poetry, Speaking Without Tongues, was a “sparkling, eye-opening debut” according to Helen Ivory (Cinnamon Press, 2010); she also edited Cinnamon’s acclaimed anthology of contemporary British prose poetry, This Line is Not for Turning (2011). The Shared Surface is her second full collection. “The richness and depth of Monson’s work... makes it an important contribution to the development of the prose poem.” Luke Kennard Jane Monson has been shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award, and commended by Poetry London and the New Writing Partnership. She lives in Cambridge
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £7.99 » 978-1-907090-95-0 216x140mm » 64pp » Poetry (DCF) Cambridgeshire
Night-Watch Man & Muse Mark A Murphy “A remarkable and considered book of poems” – David Morley Mark A Murphy’s debut collection is a book on the side of life, full of honesty, humour and invention. It begins with ‘Britain’, an elegy and eulogy for his home country that blurs the personal (his father’s love of Auden, and brass bands) and the political (the Miners’ Strike, the horror of Dresden). What follows is filled with emotional drive and a spiritual restlessness, edgily watching over some of our most poignant and philosophical questions. “It contains some of the liveliest modern love poems I have read, yet also some of the harshest selfexaminations.” David Morley “Here is a poet willing to take on demanding themes… A questioning and thoughtful collection.” Penelope Shuttle Mark A Murphy was born in 1969. His poems have been published in the likes of the Warwick Review, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Scotland and Poetry New Zealand. He lives in Huddersfield.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-57-1 210x134mm » 90pp » Poetry (DCF) Yorkshire
The Limerickiad: Volume III – Byron to Baudelaire Martin Rowson Third in series of humorous histories of English literature by popular broadsheet cartoonist. Every week since 2006, cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson has been making a fool of himself in the Independent on Sunday, reducing the work of some of the world’s best-loved writers to a series of filthy limericks. Following the success of the first two volumes of The Limerickiad (Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, John Donne to Jane Austen) Volume III lays waste to the literary greats of the 19th century. Time for Rowson to put the boot into the Brontёs, deface the complete works of Dickens, and even dedicate a limerick to the man who invented it, ‘a runcible fellow called Lear’. “A delightfully dirty digest of literature.” The Independent on Sunday Martin Rowson is an award-winning cartoonist whose work regularly appears in the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Mirror. His books include graphic adaptations of The Waste Land (Penguin, 1990), Tristram Shandy (Selfmadehero, 2010) and Gulliver’s Travels (Atlantic, 2012).
Smokestack Books » Paperback » £9.99 » 978-0-957574-70-0 198x129mm » 114pp » Humour / Poetry (WHC / DCF) London
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On Corkscrew Hill
Inside Voices, Outside Light
A Snow Goose & Other Tales
Stephen Murray
Sigurdur Pálsson translated by Martin Regal
Jim Perrin
“This is stunning poetry... a writer of extraordinary power” – Poetry Ireland Review On Corkscrew Hill chronicles a journey through the contemporary landscape of a nation on its knees. From the prospect of economic oblivion to mounting social problems and a decaying health system, from bankers to builders to the emasculated Irish male, Stephen Murray asks, in a place approaching a century of independence, what it really means to be Irish. “Extraordinarily powerful” The Irish Examiner Stephen Murray was born in Ireland in 1974, moving to London a year later. He grew up with his mother and sister in Erin Pizzey’s First Womens Refuge in Chiswick. As a teenager he was twice runner-up in the WH Smith Young Writer of the Year Awards. In 2005 he was crowned Cúirt Grand Slam Champion, and his first collection House of Bees was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. He lives in County Galway.
Salmon Poetry » Paperback £10.00 » 978-1-908836-52-6 210x134mm » 90pp » Poetry (DCF) Rep. Ireland
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Collects 30 years of selected poems from one of Iceland’s leading modern writers The latest in Arc’s Translation Series brings poems from Sigurdur Pálsson’s ten collections written between 1980 and 2008 to a UK audience. Swirling with imagery, they reveal a poet committed to unearthing the joy of living and its connections to the natural world. This is a thrilling sweep across Pálsson’s work: chronologies are upset, ideas run amok, views out onto the world close and open. SigurDur Pálsson was born in 1948 in Skinnastadur, Iceland. A writer, translator, professor and film producer, he won the Icelandic Literary Award in 2007, the same year he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2007 by the President of France. Martin Regal lives in Reykjavik and teaches at the University of Iceland. His translation of Gisli Sursson’s Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri was published by Penguin Classics in 2003.
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £12.99 / £9.99 978-1-906570-59-0 (hb) / 978-1-906570-58-3 (pb) » 160pp Poetry (DCF)
“A lyrical intensity few poets could equal” – Blake Morrison, The Guardian (on West) This is the first full-length collection of short stories by travel writer and master of mountain literature Jim Perrin. Mystery, romanticism and tragedy abound in these four fictional tales, beginning with the title story, which reimagines the fated Franklin Expedition to the Arctic in 1845 as an eco-fable for our times. “He deserves to be recognised as the most singular, and the most outstanding, prose writer of presentday Wales.” M Wynn Thomas, New Welsh Review Jim Perrin is a rock climber and acclaimed travel writer, contributing to the Guardian (including its Country Diary), the Telegraph and several climbing magazines. He has twice won the Boardman Tasker Prize. His recent books include West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss (Atlantic, 2011), Snowdon (Gomer, 2012) and Shipton & Tilman: The Great Decade of Himalayan Exploration (Hutchinson, 2013). He lives in France but regularly returns to his beloved Wales.
Cinnamon Press » Paperback £8.99 » 978-1-907090-92-9 144pp » Fiction (FYB) Wales
Talking Vrouz Valérie Rouzeau translated by Susan Wicks Poet represented France at Poetry Parnassus as part of London 2012’s Cultural Olympiad In her follow-up to the criticallyacclaimed Cold Spring in Winter, Valérie Rouzeau presents a language that is a hybrid of liberty and constraint. There are omissions and contractions, colloquialisms and archaisms, alongside wordplay, child-speak, exploded cliché, and a heightened awareness of the poetic tradition. “This poet has found a truly authentic voice in what will doubtlessly be a glittering career this side of the Channel.” Poetry Review Valérie Rouzeau was born in 1967 in Burgundy. Her most recent collection, Cold Spring in Winter (Arc, 2009), was shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Prize, the world’s largest poetry prize. She lives in Saint-Ouen, near Paris. Susan Wicks also translated Cold Spring in Winter. She is the author of three Faber and three Bloodaxe poetry collections, most recently House of Tongues (2011), and has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot and Forward Prizes. She lives in Tunbridge Wells.
Arc Publications » Hardback & Paperback » £12.99 / £9.99 978-1-908376-17-6 (hb) / 978-1-908376-16-9 (pb) » 112pp Poetry (DCF)
THE VISITATIONS Kathryn Simmonds Previous collection won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award The Visitations is the follow-up to Kathryn Simmonds’ Forward Prize-winning debut, Sunday at the Skin Launderette. The poems are entertaining, amusing and accessible, but unafraid to bring in darker themes and worlds unseen. The tone shifts throughout between the elegiac and the sharply satirical, lit up with life’s moments of sudden illumination: a life coach finds an old passport, an infant teeters on the brink of speech. “This playful and knowing first collection is fuelled throughout by a strong sense of lyricism.” The Guardian on Sunday at the Skin Launderette “Quirky, witty, moving, Kathryn Simmonds’ gift is to find joy and beauty in unexpected places.” Jackie Kay Kathryn Simmonds’ first book of poems, Sunday at the Skin Launderette (Seren, 2008), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. She lives in London.
Seren » Paperback » £8.99 » 978-1-781721-16-2 » 216x138mm 64pp » Poetry (DCF) London
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Mission to Mars
Peatlands
The Light User Scheme
Igor Savelyev translated by Amanda Love Darragh
Pedro Serrano translated by Anna Crowe
Richard Skinner
‘Pussy Riot’ generation fiction from Russia In Russia in the late 2000s, young but unmotivated Pasha starts a new job at ARTavia, a luxury airline that makes one cast-iron guarantee to its VIP clients: its planes cannot crash. But when Pasha and his friends expose the truth about the ARTavia operation to the public, they place themselves in mortal danger. Igor Savelyev’s latest novella has powerful things to say about disillusionment and conspiracy in Putin’s Russia, and a world obsessed with the cult of corporate promise. Igor Savelyev was born in 1983 in Bashkiria. His short novel Pale City appears in the 2012 Glas anthology Off the Beaten Track: Stories by Russian Hitchhikers. In 2011 he appeared at the Southbank Centre at a British Council event on ‘The Russian Future’. He lives in Ufa in the Urals. Amanda Love Darragh’s other translations include Maria Galina’s Iramifications (Glas, 2008) and Andrey Kurkov’s The Milkman in the Night (2012) and The Gardener from Ochakov (2013), both published by Vintage. She lives in Richmond.
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“A gentle masterclass in word painting” – The Guardian Peatlands is the first bilingual single collection of Mexican poet Pedro Serrano’s work to be published in the UK. Introduced by WN Herbert, the poems are as linguistically thrilling as they are wide-ranging: with subjects as diverse as snakes and swallows, valleys and skyscrapers, weariness and love. Pedro Serrano is the author of six poetry collections published between 1986 and 2009. He also co-edited the 2000 anthology The Lamb Generation, which brought together translations of 30 contemporary British poets. His poems have appeared in the likes of MPT, The Rialto and Verse, and in 2007 he was awarded a Guggenheim Poetry Fellowship. He lives in Mexico City. Anna Crowe’s other translations include Joan Margarit’s collections Tugs in the Fog (2006) and Strangely Happy (2011), both published by Bloodaxe, and the Arc anthology Six Catalan Poets (2013). She lives in St Andrews.
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Debut poetry collection from Faber novelist and Director of Fiction at the Faber Academy Each poem in The Light User Scheme is a short, tight burst of narrative. They aim to capture what is going on around us, in full sight or glimpsed in periphery. What results is a subtly interwoven series of resonant images, oblique glances and condensed emotional intrigue, amid a knowing consideration of the poetry form. Richard Skinner is the author of three novels published by Faber: The Red Dancer (2002), The Velvet Gentleman (2008) and The Mirror (forthcoming). His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines including Staple, Brand and Magma. Having taught Life & Creative Writing for many years at Goldsmiths’ College, he is now Director of the Fiction Programme at the Faber Academy.
Smokestack Books » Paperback £7.99 » 978-0-957172-29-6 198x129mm » 94pp » Poetry (DCF) London
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While I Am Drawing Breath Rose Ausländer translated by Jean Boase-Beier & Anthony Vivas Holocaust-survival poetry by one of Eastern Europe’s finest post-war poets The experience of living in the Chernivtsi ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow in all Rose Ausländer’s poetry. The hardships of a life in hiding, the constant fear of Nazi terror and concentration camps are all harrowingly present, while other poems speak to the mother for whose sake she endured. After the war her later poetry brought her prizes and acclaim, establishing her extraordinary simplicity as a distinctive voice in German poetry. Rose Ausländer was born in Bucovina, on what is now the Romanian/Ukrainian border. Her first book of poems in German, The Rainbow, was published in Bucharest in 1939, with the majority of its print run destroyed during Nazi occupation. In the Chernivtsi ghetto she became friends with Paul Celan; the pair would meet again in Paris in 1957. Her second collection, Blind Summer, appeared in 1965. Rose died in Düsseldorf in 1988.
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Digital Monsoon Siddhartha Bose Second collection from writer named one of the Times’ ten rising stars of British poetry None of this is the city. All of it is you. In his follow-up to Kalagora, Siddhartha Bose imagines the poet as a 21st-century beatnik, a ravenous language-machine eating up the margins of the city. Dreams trigger extraordinary visions of an apocalyptic London; beat-boxers and graffiti writers as urban oracles; the ghosts of a multicultural city moving through banks and brothels, kebab shops and squat parties. Dispatches from the post-industrial landscapes of the North, and from the poet’s hometowns of Mumbai and Kolkata, complete this raw and uncompromisingly modern collection. Siddhartha Bose’s poetry has appeared in the Bloodaxe anthologies Voice Recognition (Bloodaxe, 2009) and Dear World and Everyone in It (Bloodaxe, 2013), and the HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India, 2012). His first book, Kalagora, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2010. His work has been featured on BBC Four and Radio 3. He is a Leverhulme Fellow in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, and lives in Hackney.
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Dancing in Odessa
Six Finnish Poets
Forms of Protest
Ilya Kaminsky
edited by Teemu Manninen
Hannah Silva
“This book is a breathtaking debut” – Jane Hirshfield, Bloodaxe poet
Latest entry in Arc’s New Voices from Europe and Beyond series (no. 11)
When Dancing in Odessa was published in the US in 2004, it caused quite a stir, winning the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award and Poetry’s $15,000 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Now this Arc edition brings Ilya Kaminsky’s surreal yet truthful poetry to audiences on this side of the Atlantic. Deaf since the age of four, Kaminsky’s is a musical, forceful depiction of his Russianemigrant family, drawing out his tightly-honed domestic settings with both humour and torment.
Six Finnish Poets continues Arc’s profiling of some of the ‘smaller’ languages of Europe and beyond, showcasing their beautiful and unusual literary stylings to audiences closer to home. Here six poets from Finland offer up a refreshing mix of narrative, cinematic and experimental devices, ranging from whimsy to sci-fi to punk. The poets featured are: Vesa Haapala, Janne Nummel, Matilda Södergran, Henriikka Tavi, Juhana Vähänen and Katariina Vuorinen.
Debut collection from “radical, political, courageous” new star of performance poetry (What’s on Stage)
“Ilya Kaminsky’s poems are sometimes deliriously happy and sometimes full of horror, but they are always immense in their ideas and their reach.” The Jerusalem Post Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa in the former USSR in 1977, and arrived in the United States in 1993 when his family was granted asylum by the US government. His Ecco Anthology of International Poetry was published by HarperCollins in 2010. He lives in San Diego.
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This is a bilingual edition, with the Finnish original and the English translation on facing pages. Translated by Lola Rogers, Emily Jeremiah and Ruth Urbom. Teemu Manninen is a poet and literary critic based in Tampere, Finland. His books include five poetry collections. He works as a producer for the Helsinki Poetics Conference, an editor for the poetry publisher Osuuskunta Poesia, and a poetry reviewer for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
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Forms of Protest collects together for the first time the work of Hannah Silva, a poet known for her fearless and wholly original vocal performances. These poems and experimental texts oscillate between sense and nonsense, meaning and music, deconstructing traditional discourse and always testing the limits of language to represent the lived world. Ranging in form from sound poems to collaged spam email, from monologues to lists of insults, and embracing subjects as diverse as war, sexuality and giant squid, Silva’s poetry is like nothing else on the contemporary poetry circuit. Hannah Silva has performed her work internationally and throughout the UK, including at Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe and on Radio 3. Her writing appears in the anthologies Adventures in Form (Penned in the Margins, 2012) and Dear World and Everyone In It (Bloodaxe, 2013). She lives in Plymouth.
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Newspaper Taxis: Poetry after the Beatles by Phil Bowen et al (eds)
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A Allen, Fergus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Almond, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Alvarez, Ivy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Andrews, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Antoine-Dunne, Jean . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ausländer, Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Azzopardi, Trezza . . . . . . . . . . 10, 29 B Baugh, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Beckett, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Bell, Jo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Benson, Judi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Berg, Aase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Blackman, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Boase-Beier, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Bose, Siddhartha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Bowen, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Brown, Wes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Burton, Marianne . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Byrne, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 C Cardona, Hélène . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Cardwell, Bruce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Carson, Liam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Collins, Merle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connolly, Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Conquest, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Copley, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Cresswell, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Crowe, Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Cunningham, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Cunningham, Paula . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Currie, Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 D Dabydeen, David . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 15 Davies, Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Dawes, Kwame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Di Placido, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Doroshevich, Vlas . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Doshi, Tishani . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 31 E Edwards, Rhian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Evans, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 F Feeney, Elaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Finch, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Fitterman, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Fitzgerald, Kitty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Fondebrider, Jorge . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Fortune, Rowan B . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Fowler, SJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Fowles, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Fox, Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Francis, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Froy, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Furniss, Damian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 G George, Dai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Gessen, Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Gibbons, Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Gilkes, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Gillmor, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Gittins, Rob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Gloag, Daphne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Gopal, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Gwyn, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 60 H Halperin, Richard W . . . . . . . . . . 43 Hamilton, Nathan . . . 43, 44, 59, 60 Hanson, Norah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Harvey, Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Hedeen, Katherine M . . . . . . . . . . 26 Hicks, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Holmes, Gaia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Hore, Rachel . . . . . . . . 43, 44, 59, 60 Howell, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 Hubbard, Sue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 Hughes, Owain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Hulse, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Husband, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 J Jenkins, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 K Kaminsky, Ilya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Kelly, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Kemp, Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 L Lee-Houghton, Melissa . . . . . . . . 45 Llewellyn, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Lodge, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Lordan, Dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Love Darragh, Amanda . . . . . . . . 50 Lynch, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 M Mais, Roger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 58 Manninen, Teemu . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Maris, Kathryn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Markson, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Marshall, Pete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Mathews, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 McCarrick, Jaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 McDermid, Val . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 McEwen, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 McEwen, Todd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 McGarry, Jamie . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 41 McGuinness, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . 59 McGuire, Colin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 McKenzie, Stephanie . . . . . . . . . . 34 McMillan, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Medvedev, Kirill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Menos, Hilary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Meredith, Christopher . . . . . . . . . 57 Merritt, Matt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Miller, Kei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Minhinnick, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Monaghan, Patricia . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Monson, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Morgan, J.O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Morris, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Morrison, Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Murphy, Mark A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Murray, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Murray, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 N Naffis-Sahely, André . . . . . . . . . . 60 Neubert, Candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Nuñez, Victor Rodriguez . . . . . . . 26 Nurkse, D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 O O’Brien, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 17 O’Donnell, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Obank, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Owen, Llwyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 P Pálsson, Sigurður . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Paterson, Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Perrin, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Petrucci, Mario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Place, Vanessa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Pope, Mary Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . 36 Poynting, Jeremy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Purvis, Meghan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 R Ragan, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Rees, Lynne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Regal, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Reynolds, Desiree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Rhydderch, Francesca . . . . . . . . . 59
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Robinson, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Robinson, Roger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Rouzeau, Valérie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Rowson, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Rudd, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 39
My house is a topsy turvey house. It has shifted, sunk and settled. Coins, beads and marbles roll downhill to skirting boards which provide entry for mice to take up residence in cold winter months. Norah Hanson, ‘My House’ [see page 45]
S Sabbagh, Omar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Šalamun, Tomaž . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Salter, Miles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Savelyev, Igor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Schmidt, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Searle, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Serrano, Pedro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Silva, Hannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Simmonds, Kathryn . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Skinner, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Snegirev, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Southerton, Ron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Stanberry-Flynn, Lindsay . . . . . . 38 Stannard, Julian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Stead, CK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Stevenson, Gerda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Stewart, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Strand, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Street, Seán . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Swain, Kelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 T Thett, Ko Ko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 V Vivas, Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 W Walcott, Derek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Watkins, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Wedgwood Clarke, John . . . . . . . 28 Wicks, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Wills, Jackie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Wolton, River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Woodburn, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Woolley, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Wright, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Wyeth, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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