Inpress July - September 2019 Catalogue

INPRESS BOOKS JULY - SEPTEMBER 2019

BOOKS FOR INDEPENDENT THINKERS

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PLEASE READ THIS LEAFLET CAREFULLY Karen Havelin “A burning triumph.” Paul Beatty, Man Booker Prize winning author of The Sellout.

Karen Havelin’s Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is a life told in reverse and a subversion of what we expect from stories of illness. Having been diagnosed with endometriosis in her twenties, we follow Laura Fjellstad in her struggle to live a normal life across New York, Paris and Oslo, fueled by her belief that to survive her chronic illness she must be completely self-reliant.

Flowing backwards from 2016 to 1995, we meet Laura’s younger selves: her healthier selves. Laura as a daughter, a figure skater, a lover, and a mother—finally leading a life her own teenage self would be in awe of.

To be devoured intensely in one sitting, Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is a remarkable debut novel with bracing emotional insights and piercing descriptions of pain that linger in one’s mind long after the last page. It is also a beguiling meditation on relationships, motherhood, sexuality, pain and the limitations of our own bodies.

DEAD INK BOOKS | £11.99 | 9781911585541 PB | 212PP | 30 MAY 2019 | FICTION

SELFIES Sylvie Weil and translated by Ros Schwartz “A beguiling series of vignettes, by turns wry, amusing and disturbing, inspired by self-portraits by women artists and reflecting on the images they provoke. An illuminating survey of the author’s various identities, in a fractured world, as mother, lover and writer.” Michèle Roberts Taking selfies is not the exclusive preserve of millennials.

In Selfies, Sylvie Weil gives a playful twist to the concept of self-representation: taking her cue from self-portraits by women artists, ranging from the 13th c. through the Renaissance to Frida Kahlo and Vivian Maier, Weil has written a memoir in pieces, that is yet unified. Each picture acts as a portal to a significant moment from Weil’s own life and sparks anecdotes tangentially touching on topical issues, from the Palestinian question to the pain of a mother witnessing her son’s psychotic breakdown, to the subtle manifestations of anti-Semitism, to ageism, genetics, and a Jewish dog...

LES FUGITIVES | £12.00 | 9781999331825 PB | 160PP | 25 JUNE 2019 | MEMOIR

EUROPA Han Kang and translated by Deborah Smith Inah has been having nightmares. Nightmares of fish bones, fractals, and a marriage that ended under some unnamed violence. Walking the night streets with a man she has known for years, whose feelings for her are bound up with his intense longing to live as a woman, the fragile bond of their relationship threatens to shatter. Internationally acclaimed author Han Kang directs her unflinching gaze on the painful complexities of damage and recovery, questioning what it is we want from ourselves and each other, and whether there are some things that are truly irreparable.

New from Strangers Press, the people who brought you Keshiki, comes their next exciting global collaboration Yeoyu – new writing from Korea, a series of eight exquisitely designed chapbooks showcasing some of the best writers writing in Korean today. The series features work from famous names such as Han Kang alongside relative newcomers to an English audience and was selected in collaboration with translation trailblazer and Man Booker International Prize winner, Deborah Smith.

UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT | £6.99 | 9781911343608 PB | 36PP | 6 MAY 2019 | FICTION

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TERMIN Henrik Nor-Hansen Kjetil Tuestad lives in the village of Hommersåk – an area of Norway transformed by the oil boom. Termin begins with a moment of violence and goes on to chart the movements of Tuestad’s lonely, fragmented and troubled life for over 20 years.

Against a backdrop of economic instability and flux in the labour market, our narrator details his existence in West Norway and the occasional occurrences of violence in the town with equal sobriety. His relationships are distant and fleeting, both private and professional. It’s a story of anonymity, using the kind of didactic analysis you’d find in a log or a journal - everything is nameless and bureaucratic to Tuestad. Nominated for the 2017 Nordic Council Literature Prize, Henrik Nor-Hansen’s novel deals with the loss of empathy and intimacy in the 21st century.

NORDISK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995485242 PB | 80PP | 23 MAY 2019 | FICTION

THE OLCINIUM TRILOGY Andrej Nikolaidis Olcinium, the Latin name for present-day Ulcinj, is one of the oldest settlements on the Adriatic coast and ruled in turn by the Illyrians, Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans, as well as being an important Venetian port and a centre for the slave trade. It was also home to Fra Dolcino, a medieval heretic who announced the return of the Messiah and Sabbatai Zevi, a Renaissance cabalist who maintained that he was the Messiah.

The Olcinium Trilogy brings together three of Nikolaidis’ short novels: The Son, The Coming and Till Kingdom Come, which together encompass an apocalyptic vision of this ancient town; where mystics have prophesized, regimes plotted against their citizenry and ordinary people resorted to crime and deceit in order to survive. Like his literary hero, Thomas Bernhard, Nikolaids’ prose is precise and bitingly funny and his protagonists hopeless misanthropes: from the local sleuth who sacrifices truth for the sake of telling his clients the stories they want to hear to the local reporter who discovers that his own past was concocted by Yugoslav secret services and enters a state of time-travelling paranoia.

ISTROS BOOKS | £11.99 | 9781912545995 PB | 330PP | 15 JUNE 2019 | FICTION

FEEBLEMINDED Ariana Harwicz and translated by Carolina Orloff & Annie McDermott In Feebleminded, Ariana Harwicz drags us to the most uncomfortable and fascinating aspects of love, need and dependency, by analysing the dynamics between a mother and her adult daughter, both searching through their own past and present as they try to give meaning to their lives and relationship.

Written in a wild stream of consciousness narration, and embedded in a current trend of elusive violence so ingrained in contemporary Latin American fiction. We follow the characters on a roller coaster ride of extreme emotions and critical self-examinations where everything – from a childhood without answers, to a desolate loveless present – has been buried.

Compared to Virgina Woolf and Sylvia Plath, Ariana Harwicz is one of the most radical figures in contemporary Argentinian literature. Her debut novel Die, My Love (9781999722784) was longlisted for Man Booker International 2018.

CHARCO PRESS | £9.99 | 9781916465602 PB | 117PP | 2 MAY 2019 | FICTION

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MUD Chris McCabe “Mud is fucked up. It’s unlike anything else. It’s amazing.” Sam Jordison Borak and Karissa must find a bubble of air buried in the mud, somewhere beneath Hampstead Heath, to end their relationship. On their descent into London’s Underworld they are followed by a film crew and its odious Director, documenting their quest as they scour 24 types of mud for an ending.

As they chance upon bones, bricks and talking moles, they must restrain themselves from throttling each other, and falling in love all over again.

Chris McCabe’s macabre version of Orpheus and Eurydice brings its themes into the present day. A contemporary re-tuning of the mythic ‘Father of Song’.

HENNINGHAM FAMILY PRESS | £12.99 | 9781999797430 PB | 30 APRIL 2019 | FICTION

SINGER IN THE NIGHT Olja Savicević Famous soap opera scriptwriter, Naranča, is slowly losing her memory and decides to embark on a road trip down memory lane (in a golden convertible) in search of her greatest love and ex-husband, an artist whose uncompromising artistic integrity is opposed to Naranča’s fickle life in the world of TV drama. It is the memory of a series of letters written over several weeks and hand-delivered to the inhabitants of the street where they lived, that cracks open the novel. The letters, triggered by a mysterious couple who make love loudly for hours in the middle of the night, keeping the neighbourhood awake, touch upon the nature of love, war, lust, nationalism, capitalism, and childhood, highlighting the paradox of the human condition through playful humour.

Singer in the Night is a rich, sensual novel which comments on communal perception, on how life is really lived. In its final message, the novel gives a playful warning about the consequences of choosing banality over true human connection.

ISTROS BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781912545971 PB | 160PP | 15 APRIL 2019 | FICTION

BATHWATER Vicky Foster Bathwater, the script of Vicky Foster’s BBC Radio 4 drama, has been published by Wrecking Ball Press. The book contains the full-length script, including material not aired in the radio version, and additional prose.

Bathwater is a gripping, ever-twisting, often moving, somewhat shocking and often agonising piece of work.

Vicky Foster said: “Bathwater is based on my real life experience of domestic abuse and the impact that violent crime has on families.”

Rather than a cathartic over-share, however, Foster goes way beyond writing what she knows in order to craft something that is simultaneously hard-hitting and poetic.

She has written a work of literary beauty, despite the harsh and uncomfortable subject matter, combining prose, poetry and dialogue.

This is as bold a line in the sand as a writer can make to announce their arrival.

WRECKING BALL PRESS | £10.00 | 9781903110652 PB | 10 APRIL 2019 | POETRY / DRAMA

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THE GOVERNESSES Anne Serre and translated by Mark Hutchinson In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children’s education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book’s “deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader.”

Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces English readers to the marvelous Anne Serre.

LES FUGITIVES | £9.99 | 9780993009396 PB | 120PP | 2 APRIL 2019 | FICTION

THIS PARADISE: STORIES Ruby Cowling A family prepares for Assessment. Two brothers haggle over the legacy of their parents. A computer game designer aches with curious longings. Amidst it all, sisters, heroines, rebels, lunar moths and a not insignificant number of rabbits play out their lives under the strange grips of technology, governments, corporations and the capricious planets on which we all, in our different ways, just about manage to live.

This Paradise is a rare and beautiful collection of stories about people fleeing towards places or times or situations they hope might be better – trying to outrun their nature, to deny the undeniable. Written with an arresting eye for detail, a rich sense of compassion and a darkly comic understanding of the human psyche, the stories in this volume propose a series of haphazard questions, not least of which is: where do we run to when there’s nowhere left to run?

UEA PUBLISHING PROJECT | £12.99 | 9781911343554 PB | 160PP | 4 APRIL 2019 | FICTION

A BOOK OF SECRETS Kate Morrison A Book of Secrets is the story of a woman named Susan Charlewood living in Elizabethan England. Born in what is now Ghana, Susan is enslaved by the Portuguese but later rescued by British sailors, who bring her to England. Once in England, she is raised and educated in an English Catholic household.

When Susan comes of age, the family marry her off to an older Catholic man, John Charlewood. Charlewood runs a printing press and uses it to supply the Papist nobility with illegal Catholic texts and foment rebellion amongst the Catholic underclass. When Charlewood dies, Susan takes over the business and uses her new position to find out more about her origins.

A look at racial relationships on the eve of the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, A Book of Secrets is a revealing and compelling glimpse into a fraught time.

JACARANDA BOOKS | £16.99 | 9781909762695 HB | 324PP | 31 MAY 2019 | FICTION

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WATER SHALL REFUSE THEM Lucie McKnight Hardy “A coming of age story where the threat of violence shimmers like a heat haze.” Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney “Something strong, vivid and disquieting grows tall from Folk Horror soil in this novel.” Aliya Whiteley, author of The Arrival of Missives The heatwave of 1976. Following the accidental drowning of her sister, sixteen-year-old Nif and her family move to a small village on the Welsh borders to escape their grief. But rural seclusion doesn’t bring any relief. As her family unravels, Nif begins to put together her own form of witchcraft – collecting talismans from the sun-starved land. That is, until she meets Mally, a teen boy who takes a keen interest in her, and has his own secret rites to divulge.

Reminiscent of the suspense of Shirley Jackson and soaked in the folkhorror of English heritage, Water Shall Refuse Them is an atmospheric coming-of-age novel and a thrilling debut.

DEAD INK BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911585565 PB | 256PP | 4 JULY 2019

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THE BLOOD RED SUN Wu Kejing The first English translation of short stories by this celebrated Chinese author.

Set in the counties of the Western Plain, these bleak yet beautiful stories shed an incisive light on the extraordinary lives of colourful people. While closely observing the triumphs and tragedies of a cast of unforgettable characters, the ten stories that make up this important collection also bear witness to the evolution of rural China from the early days of the 20th century to the late 1980s, skillfully illustrating the often brutal battle between tradition and progress.

Wu Kejing was born in 1954 in Fufeng County, Baoji, Shaanxi Province. A prolific essayist, story-writer and calligrapher of note, he has served as Vice Chairman of the Shaanxi Writers Association and Chairman of the Xi’an Writers Association.

His novellas include Five Maidens of the River Wei, Five Flavours Crossroad and The Handcuffs with Blue Flowers (winner of the Lu Xun Prize). Wu Kejing’s novel The First Marriage was adapted for television to great acclaim in 2018.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912436170 PB | 214PP | 1 JULY 2019

CHALK TRACKS: STORIES FROM THE DOWNLANDS Gina Challen •

“Mesmerised and amazed me in equal measure.” Katy Darby

Lillian helps people to die. Ruth encounters an unsettling stranger on the towpath.

Kathy obsesses over a painting. Robyn puts her trust in a fox. Mags is a forager; he takes the things he wants.

Rooted in the landscape of the South Downs, where the chalk hills roll out to the sea, these brooding stories of haunted lives and fragile hopes explore the places where the familiar can become threatening.

Originally a Londoner, the Downlands stole Gina Challen’s heart when she moved to West Sussex in 1979. Her passionate interest in rural life and the chalklands continues to inspire her writing.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912436224 PB | 134PP | 1 JULY 2019

THE HOWL OF THE WOLF Hong Ke •

Selected as a cultural item of global significance as part of the ‘China Classics International’ scheme.

A man does battle with a wolf, two sworn brothers lock horns – literally – as they drink and brag the night away and an old man turns to his flame-bellied stove for comfort when facing a bitter winter alone.

These are just some of the fascinating folk who inhabit the magical stories of Hong Ke. Set in Xinjiang, the gateway between China and Middle Asia, The Howl of the Wolf paints a colourful picture of frontier life in all its earthy glory.

Hong Ke first came to public attention in 2000 when his breakthrough story ‘Blowing Smoke’ won the Lu Xun National Excellent Short Story Award and he was recognised as a Most Promising Newcomer by the Feng Mu Prize. He passed away in 2018 and his short stories and novellas were posthumously added to the prestigious China Classics International list as selected by the state.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912436163 PB | 236PP | 1 JULY 2019

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SEALED Naomi Booth • •

For fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood.

Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city. Above all, Alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban population. Surely their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their little family. But the mountains and their people hold a different kind of danger. With their relationship under intolerable pressure, violence erupts and Alice is faced with the unthinkable as she fights to protect her unborn child.

Naomi Booth is an award-winning writer and academic who lives and works in York. Her first work of fiction, The Lost Art of Sinking, was selected for New Writing North’s Read Regional campaign and won the Saboteur Award for Best Novella 2016. Sealed was described by The Guardian as “an accomplished, slow-burning meditation on motherhood, pregnancy and love.”

DEAD INK BOOKS | £8.99 | 9781911585602 PB | 210PP | 2 JULY 2019

THE WIND THAT LAYS WASTE Selva Almada and translated by Chris Andrews •

A sensational debut from a celebrated Argentinian writer.

Selva Almada’s exquisitely crafted debut, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a tactile experience of mountains, the sun, squat trees, broken cars, sweat-stained shirts, and destroyed lives. The Wind That Lays Waste is a philosophical, beautiful, and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable.

Compared to Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Sara Gallardo and Juan Carlos Onetti, Selva Almada (Entre Ríos, Argentina, 1973) is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectuals of the region. Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish. This is her first book to appear in English (being published in collaboration with Graywolf Press, US).

CHARCO PRESS | £9.99 | 9781916465633 PB | 140PP | 9 JULY 2019

THE NOWHERE MAN Kamala Markandaya • •

A story of racial violence on the streets of south east London in the 1960s.

The author’s backlist is published as part of the Penguin Modern Classics series.

Srinivas, an elderly Brahmin, has been living in a south London suburb for thirty years. After the death of his son, and later his wife, this lonely man is befriended by an Englishwoman in her sixties, whom he takes into his home. The two form a deep and abiding relationship. But the haven they have created for themselves proves to be a fragile one. Racist violence enters their world and Srinivas’s life changes irrevocably – as does his dream of England as a country of tolerance and equality.

Kamala Markandaya (1924 – 2004) was born in Mysore, India. She studied history at Madras University and later worked for a small progressive magazine before moving to London in 1948 in pursuit of a career in journalism. There she began writing her novels; Nectar in a Sieve, her first novel published in 1954, was in international best-seller.

HOPE ROAD | £10.99 | 9781908446992 PB | 384PP | 11 JULY 2019

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NIA Robert Minhinnick Evocative & beautifully written novel by multi-award winning author.

In a small Welsh coastal town a young woman is coming to terms with her past.

Nia has returned with her daughter to the place where she was attacked as a teenager. Through her story, and those of friends who have also returned from travelling the world, Nia gradually reveals – and makes sense of – what took place one evening on the nearby dunes, an ancient and mysterious place of history and nature. Page-turningly evocative, immersive and compelling, Nia is the lyrically told story of a young woman at odds with convention and finding new ways to live her life. Robert Minhinnick has written a beautiful novel in which realism and poetry collide and mingle.

Robert Minhinnick is the prize-winning author of two volumes of essays, seven volumes of poetry and a novel.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781725504 PB | 180PP | 15 JULY 2019

WILD WOMAN Marina Šur Puhlovski • •

The first English translation of the work of a celebrated Croatian author.

Awarded one of the most important literary awards in Croatia “The Best Unpublished Novel of the Year Award, 2018”.

Wild Woman is an anti-love story, set against a background of economic hardship.

Told through the undiluted language of thought and mania, the twists and turns of internal dialogue are brought alive by a narrator determined to find her true voice.

It is a warning against letting life slip through one’s fingers and a call for personal liberation and authenticity.

Marina Šur Puhlovski was born in Zagreb where she attended high school and graduated with a degree in comparative literature and philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She worked a journalist and a literary critic, before turning to writing exclusively prose. She has written stories, novels, travelogues, essays and literary diaries, and has been the recipient of several national awards for literature.

ISTROS BOOKS | £10.99 | 9781912545216 PB | 245PP | 15 JULY 2019

THE YOGINI Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay and translated by Arunava Sinha •

A hallucinatory and explosively sensual novel from the acclaimed author of Panty (9781911284000) and Abandon (9781911284116).

With her days split between a passionate marriage and a high-octane television studio job, Homi is a thoroughly modern young woman – until one day she is approached by a yogi in the street. This mysterious figure begins to follow her everywhere, visible only to Homi, who finds him both frightening and inexplicably arousing.

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is the author of Panty. She has published nine novels and over fifty short stories since her controversial debut Shankini. Also a newspaper columnist and film critic, Sangeeta has recently moved from Kolkata to London.

TILTED AXIS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911284277 PB | 25 JULY 2019

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THE BENEFICIARIES Sarah Penny It is 1998. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission is trying to make sense of over 30 years of human rights violations. In London, Lally, a white South African émigré, goes to dinner with Pim, a long-forgotten childhood friend, and his English family.

For Lally, adult existence has from choice remained transient, uprooted: a life of little consequence estranged from its own origins. But it is becoming clear that history will reach out, even to the inconsequential, and for Lally to seek out the truths of the child she must breach the hermetic safety of adult refuge.

Moving between contemporary London and the rural South Africa of 20 years earlier, The Beneficiaries traces both the young woman’s search for knowledge and self in a society that disallows individuality and the older woman’s journey beyond apathy and disillusionment towards the renewal of vitality and hope.

Exploring the shifting relationship between memory, forgetting and denial, South African author Sarah Penny explores the many versions of the truth that can ultimately lead to healing.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853936 PB | 256PP | 1 AUGUST 2019

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Foreword by the bestselling author Steven Savile.

Machines aren’t our friends. We were told they would bring freedom and leisure time, three day weeks and the like, but what they brought was redundancy, replacement, and the scrap heaps of life. How can you not look for horror in something capable of so much wholesale destruction of hope?

And that’s what’s waiting for you in here, the wholesale destruction of hope at the hands of twisted industrial landscapes, smoke stacks and gas towers and metal golems that have no souls, no spirits, and can so easily drape themselves in our skins and walk in our shoes, doing everything we can do, faster, and with ruthless efficiency, removing the need for us. That’s the world these stories live in, and it’s a bleak place.

SNOWBOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911390718 PB | 320PP | 1 AUGUST 2019

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Short stories from a Trinidadian writer living and writing in Brooklyn.

His previous collection, Sections of an Orange (9781845230746) was also published by Peepal Tree Press.

These are stories that repay close attention. Nimblett is a writer who listens for the background notes, who knows “people not easy, not even the people who look like you”, who knows “you would get fool if you believe simple is easy, or simple not important”. Whether set in rural Trinidad or urban New York, these stories will enhance Anton Nimblett’s reputation as one of the most generous and humane of observers of human life, male or female, gay or straight.

Anton Nimblett is a Trinidadian living and writing in Brooklyn. He has been published in Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters and in African Voices. His fiction is included in the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing From the Antilles, edited by Thomas Glave.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234423 PB | 142PP | 1 AUGUST 2019

THE GREEN BRIDGE Edited by John Davies •

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A new, revised edition of the classic Welsh short story anthology.

This anthology of Welsh short stories offers a chronological overview of the form in Wales during the last century. Twenty-five English-language writers provide one story each to produce an entertaining and varied anthology. Tales of horror, satire, humor, war, the aristocracy, love, madness, industry, the countryside, politics, and sport are all covered. The styles are varied, from the lyrical to the grittily realistic, as are the settings, from Wales in the early 20th century to contemporary South Africa.

Contributors include Dannie Abse, Glenda Beagan, Ron Berry, Duncan Bush, Brenda Chamberlain, Rhys Davies, Dorothy Edwards, Caradoc Evans, George Ewart Evans, Margiad Evans, Sian Evans, Geraint Goodwin, Nigel Heseltine, Richard Hughes, Emyr Humphreys, Glyn Jones, Gwyn Jones, Alun Lewis, Clare Morgan, Leslie Norris, Ifan Pughe, Alun Richards, Jaci Stephen, Dylan Thomas, and Gwyn Thomas.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9780907476948 PB | 288PP | 5 AUGUST 2019

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THE THREAD OF THE INFINITE: INDUSTRIAL HORROR ANTHOLOGY Edited by Dean Drinkel

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THIS TILTING WORLD Colette Fellous and translated by Sophie Lewis “The shattering of any sense of safety and order inflicts internal and external damage: random bits of past and present are flung about like masonry debris. Fellous mourns these dead people she does not know: ‘All as one now, shocked and silent.’ At the same time she begins to collect up scattered memory fragments, tries to re-compose the world and herself, to re-build structure. It cannot be a traditional one; a replica; this re-made literature has to embody the cracks and breakages of contemporary life. The sentences angle and flow around their subjects, cubist-style. We seem to be looking at a fluid mosaic; an almost abstract pattern in constant movement as the narrative loops back and forth, repeats vignettes of key experiences, seeing them afresh.” from the foreword by Michèle Roberts Sousse, 26 June 2015: on the night following the terrorist massacre of thirty-eight tourists on the Tunisian beach, a woman writes, facing the Mediterranean Sea. As she attempts to take stock, personal tragedies soon resurface — the deaths of a dear friend, a fellow writer who just weeks ago died at sea, having forsaken the work that had given his life meaning; and of another lifelong friend: her father, a quiet, seemingly simple man who had left all that he held dear in Tunisia, to emigrate to France. Both an adieu and a love letter to Colette Fellous’s motherland, This Tilting World closes a trilogy on the history of Tunisia’s Jewish community.

From Tunisia to Paris, to a Flaubertian village in Normandy, and with nods to Proust and Barthes, Fellous offers a multitude of colourful portraits, and sweeps readers onto a lyrical journey, giving a voice to those one rarely gets to hear, and to loved ones now silent.

LES FUGITIVES | £13.00 | 9781999331801 PB | 200PP | 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

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An anthology of science fiction writing.

With new writing from Luke Kennard, Abi Curtis, Caleb Klaces and a slew of new voices.

This eclectic collection of science fiction writing and visuals, originally curated by York St John University’s Terra Two online magazine, is ready to blast off on a mind-expanding journey through space, time and consciousness, asking key questions along the way about our society, spirituality and sustainability.

Through essays, drawings, poetry and fiction – including six new short stories exclusive to this anthology – an intrepid band of author adventurers have taken a giant leap into the unknown, to provide a survival guide for those of us curious enough to follow in their pioneering footsteps.

VALLEY PRESS | £15.99 | 9781912436194 PB | 352PP | 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

LOOP Brenda Lozano and translated by Annie McDermott •

A truly original reflection on love, relationships and solitude.

Loop is a love story narrated from the point of view of a woman who waits for her boyfriend Jonás to return from a trip to Spain. They met when she was recovering from an accident and he had just lost his mother. Soon after that, they were living together. She waits for him as a sort of contemporary Penelope who, instead of knitting only to unknit, she writes and erases her thoughts in a notebook: Proust, a dwarf, a swallow, a dreamy cat or David Bowie singing ‘Wild is the Wind’, make up some of the strands that are woven together in this tapestry of waiting.

Brenda Lozano is a fiction writer, essayist, and editor. In 2015, she was recognised by the Hay Festival, and the British Council as one of the most important authors coming out of Mexico, and in 2017 she was chosen by the Hay Festival as part of a list of the most outstanding new authors coming out of Latin America.

CHARCO PRESS | £10.99 | 9781916465640 PB | PP | 24 SEPTEMBER 2019

STRANGER AT THE GATE John Hearne •

A classic portrayal of the Caribbean upper-class which remains unrivalled, and pertinent.

Set in a colonial Caribbean country in the post-war years, Stranger at the Gate has the narrative drive of a Hemingway novel, the ominous sense of fate of classical Greek tragedy, a sensuous appreciation of a landscape, domestic interiors and food that draws on Hearne’s own Jamaica, and an acute, if indulgent, portrayal of the white and light-brown landed and commercial elite. Stranger at the Gate was originally published in 1956 by Faber and Faber, and is part of the Peepal Tree Caribbean Modern Classics series.

Jamaican author John Hearne was the author of six highly praised novels: Voices under the Window, The Faces of Love (The Eye of the Storm in the USA), Stranger at the Gate, The Autumn Equinox, Land of the Living and the Sure Salvation.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £12.99 | 9781845234546 PB | 276PP | 19 SEPTEMBER 2019

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SCIENCE FICTION FOR SURVIVAL: AN ARCHIVE FOR MARS Edited by Liesl King and Robert Edgar

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THE MECHANICS INSTITUTE REVIEW

The Mechanics’ Institute Review is Birkbeck, University of London’s annual anthology of short fiction by emerging and established writers from across the UK. The Mechanics’ champions the short story as an art form, promoting inclusivity, diversity and opportunity while publishing new work of the highest possible standard. They have been privileged to feature more than 40 guest authors over the years, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Evie Wyld via Zoe Gilbert, Jackie Kay, Rose Tremain and David Foster Wallace, to name but a prize-winning few.

The theme of Issue 16 is Climate, not just in terms of meteorology and the environment but also social, political, financial - a whole range of creative interpretations.

Guest authors will include Jean McNeil and Richard Hamblyn, and the foreword will be by Julia Bell.

RRP: £10.00 ISBN: 9781999962227 Pub Date: 01/09/2019 FOR SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS PLEASE CONTACT REBECCA@INPRESSBOOKS.CO.UK.

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TIGRESS Jessica Mookherjee “Bold, fiery, truthful, they tell an original story with power.” Gillian Clarke Jessica Mookherjee, highly commended in the 2017 Forward Prizes, presents her second collection of poems, Tigress. Mixing myth, magic and migration, these poems explore the impact of choice upon our lives and concentrate their magnificent, kaleidoscopic imagination on the intricate and often fraught nature of childhood and family, selfhood and womanhood.

Fierce, often funny, always charged and revealing, Mookherjee’s acute attention to detail tracks lives lived between Bengal, Wales and London. In exploring the intense displacement and loss that marks the experience of migration, the poems move into territories of danger and safety, illness and heartbreak, and ultimately into self-discovery; a rich and sensual moonlit menagerie of bears, big cats, wolves, and ‘forest mothers’. At every step, Tigress is wildly inventive, elegant and utterly distinctive.

NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027720 HB | 80PP | 25 JULY 2019

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THE EQUILIBRIUM LINE David Wilson •

Sixty poems inspired by climbing.

“From Harrison’s Rocks to Everest, these poems put me back in the moment of being.” Doug Scott David Wilson lives in North Yorkshire. He has climbed extensively in the UK, Alps and further afield, at a standard best described as erratic. Paul Muldoon awarded him the 2015 Poets and Players Prize for his poem ‘Everest’. His debut poetry pamphlet Slope was published in 2016. Prior to writing poetry, David occasionally wrote fiction, both short stories and a novel praised by The Times as a ‘tour de force’.

SMITH | DOORSTOP | £9.95 | 9781912196746 PB | 80PP | 1 JULY 2019

LIONESS Chérie Taylor Battiste •

Covers topical issues: racism, sexism, and the societal shift in the way both are perceived (particularly with reference to the Windrush anniversary, #metoo movement).

What does ‘motherhood’ mean to someone who was taken from their mother?

What does ‘blackness’ mean to someone deprived of their culture? And how does someone reassemble themselves after being torn apart by racist and relationship abuse? Lioness brings together the broken pieces of a life lived always as ‘other’, celebrating the cracks and fissures in the same way that the Japanese art of kintsugi honours a damaged pot with gold lacquer, transforming its imperfections and fractures into strength, beauty and truth.

Chérie Taylor-Battiste was born in London in 1976. After graduating from SOAS University of London, she joined the BBC Radio Drama Company, gaining various parts on stage and screen. Finding herself a lone parent of two, as austerity hit, she returned to poetry, her first means of expression during her challenging childhood.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912436149 PB | 96PP | 1 JULY 2019

THAT’S NOT A FISHING BOAT IT’S A GIRAFFE: RESPONSES TO AUSTERITY Ian McMillan •

“World-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers.” Carol Ann Duffy

In this new pamphlet Ian McMillan looks around at almost ten years of cruel austerity and tries to make a bit of sense of it from his position in the outskirts of Barnsley. He’s dipped his grey hair in red ink and started to write and the things that appeared have surprised him with their bleakness, and what blurb writers call their wry humour.

Ian McMillan is a poet, journalist, playwright and broadcaster. He has had several volumes of poetry published for both adults and children. His journalism has appeared in Q magazine, Mojo magazine and has a weekly column in his local newspaper, The Barnsley Chronicle. Ian is poet-in-residence for his hometown football team, Barnsley FC, and presents The Verb for BBC Radio 3.

SMITH | DOORSTOP | £6.00 | 9781912196753 PB | 30PP | 1 JULY 2019

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“One of the best young poets around at the moment.” Roddy Lumsden

This is a book for people who like to gorge on language; a meal too big for people who hate to throw away their food. It is about life’s extremes – those times when you do things to excess, and those when you avoid doing anything at all. Sometimes political, sometimes sexual and always hungry, this visceral, arresting debut pamphlet marks the arrival of an unforgettable new ‘mouth’ in UK poetry.

Adham Smart is a writer and translator from London. He was three times a winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and has had writing in The Cadaverine Anthology (Cadaverine, 2009), Korsakoff’s Paper Chain (Sidekick Books, 2010) and The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt, 2011). He has contributed as a translator to the anthology Six Georgian Poets (Arc Publications, 2016). yes yes mouth is his first solo publication

VALLEY PRESS | £7.99 | 9781912436132 PB | 36PP | 1 JULY 2019

BLACKISH Tyrone Lewis • •

”When I think about poets who will make new people fall in love with spoken word, I think about Tyrone” @websterpoet/@SabotageReviews “Jedi grand master poet.” @SpitTheAtom

From family to relationships to race, we all have different factors which contribute to our overall identity. Blackish explores the complexity of identity, whether it be how one identifies themselves, or how their identity is perceived by others. Tyrone Lewis’s poetry explores the complexities of the different aspects that make up ones self, prompting others to think on what makes them them.

Tyrone Lewis was the first ever Roundhouse Poet and a Roundhouse Slam Champion (2010). He has been involved with a number of major national poetry events, including working with Apples and Snakes for Word Cup (2010), Shake The Dust (2012) and Shot From The Lip (2015). Tyrone has also been a Barbican Young Poet and was one of the founding members of the collective Burn After Reading.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570677 PB | 1 JULY 2019

HONEYFISH Lauren K. Alleyne •

New from the author of Difficult Fruit (ISBN: 9781845232276).

Honeyfish confronts life and death. The collection begins and ends with poems that memorialise and mourn the deaths of African Americans who have died at police hands, though to call them poems of protest would simplify their exploration of what life means in relation to death.

Lauren K. Alleyne hails from the twin island nation of Trinidad and Tobago.

Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction have been widely published in journals and anthologies, including The Atlantic, Ms.Muse, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Interviewing the Caribbean, The Crab Orchard Review, among many others. Her debut collection, Difficult Fruit, was published in February 2014 by Peepal Tree Press, and her second collection, Honeyfish, will be published in 2019.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234416 PB | 90PP | 4 JULY 2019

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YES YES MOUTH Adham Smart

POETRY OF THE HOLOCAUST Edited by Jean Boase-Beier and Marian de Vooght • •

Contains many poems that have never before been translated into English.

Features an introduction by Jean Boase-Beier, known for her seminal work on translating Holocaust poetry, explaining why it is necessary and what it involves.

This powerful, unique collection contains poems written not only by members of Jewish communities in Europe, but also poems by people who were targeted on other grounds. Some belonged to political or religious groups who openly opposed the Third Reich, or they were homosexual, or members of communities such as Sinti and Roma, or they were perceived by the Nazis as disabled.

The work in this anthology originates from across Europe, and has been translated from many different languages. Most translations are specifically for the anthology, or have not appeared elsewhere. This wide-ranging volume gives a sense of the variety of Holocaust victims, and their poetic responses to the Holocaust; from the haunting to the primal.

ARC PUBLICATIONS | £12.99 | 9781911469056 PB | 5 JULY 2019

A PORTABLE PARADISE Roger Robinson • •

Wide ranging and finely crafted poems from a master storyteller and popular performer.

Dub poetry with a thinkers edge in the vane of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean Binta Breeze.

These are finely crafted poems, but what first strikes the reader is Roger Robinson’s capacity to tell involving stories and capture the essence of a character in a few words. A Portable Paradise is a feast to be carried by lovers of poetry wherever they go.

Roger Robinson is a writer and performer who lives between London and Trinidad. His first full poetry collection, The Butterfly Hotel, was shortlisted for The OCM Bocas Poetry Prize. He has toured extensively with the British Council and is a co-founder of both Spoke Lab and the international writing collective Malika’s Kitchen.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234331 PB | 82PP | 8 JULY 2019

OUR MAN Jamie Thrasivoulou •

Shortlisted for the 2019 Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Performer.

This full collection of poems by underdog polemical poet Jamie Thrasivoulou is a no-holds-barred exploration of anthemic working-class narratives. Our Man spans themes of politics, drug addiction, gritty social observation, class-divide and identity.

Jamie Thrasivoulou is a writer, poet, lyricist, and educator from Derby. He has been published widely in zines, anthologies, journals, and websites including: Paper + Ink, Burning House Press, Glove, Low-Light Magazine, and Here Comes Everyone.

Silhouette Press published his debut poetry collection The Best Of A Bad Situation in 2017. His live show is both engaging and energetic, and has seen him perform all over the UK including: Outspoken @The 100 Club, The London Poetry Book Fair, Verve Poetry Festival, The Everyman Theatre, and The Other Place (Royal Shakespeare venue). Jamie is also the Derby County Football Club official poet and the writer-in-residence at HMP Foston Hall.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570684 PB | 12 JULY 2019

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A debut collection from an emerging poet.

n his carefully meditated debut collection, James Peake explores the imagination’s material legacy – how our ideas have entered wood and stone, celluloid and skin, metal and glass, and become restless in the process.

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Reaction Time of Glass is a work of unusual clarity and coherence. Like the cityscapes it relishes, it is home to interiors – eerie or homely, dark as well as light, imaginative as much as factual – akin to those we’ve inherited and inside of which we perform our lives.

James Peake was educated at Bristol University and Trinity College, Dublin. He has worked in trade publishing for several years, including at Penguin Random House and Pan Macmillan as well as leading independents and literary agencies. He lives in London with his wife and son.

TWO RIVERS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909747517 PB | 64PP | 21 JULY 2019

TO THE OUTERMOST STARS Stein Mehren and translated by Agnes Langeland • •

The first volume of this iconic Norwegian poet’s work to be translated into English.

Highly respected Norwegian poet with over 50 publications.

Stein Mehren, Norwegian poet and playwright, writes in the language of the heart, weaving his themes and imagery into a kind of baroque music, in poems that swell and fall like symphonies. Writing about love and desire, and the despair that often attends them, he weaves together classical love stories and intimate expressions of love in daily life to create a tapestry of the strongest human emotions.

Stein Mehren (1935-2017) lived in Oslo, Norway. Within Scandinavia he is highly regarded as an outstanding poet and an accomplished essayist. The author of over forty works of poetry, Stein Mehren has aptly been called a poet of light, the stars, eternity and love. His deepest concerns are about man’s place in nature, life and death, and the storms of the heart. He has received countless awards for his work in Scandinavia, including the Norwegian Academy’s Literature Prize.

ARC PUBLICATIONS | £10.99 | 9781911469490 PB | 24 JULY 2019

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SUNBURST Raymond Tallis Raymond Tallis’ first two books of poems, Fathers and Sons and Between the Zones, were published by IRON Press 30 years ago. Since then Tallis has become a polymath, a philosopher, novelist and cultural critic with numerous acclaimed books under his belt. He makes regular appearances at Hay, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and other book festivals, and lectures widely.

Three decades on he returns to IRON Press and to poetry with this new collection which explores the seasons, age and youth, speech and silence, epiphanies of light and darkness. The author directs an unpeeled gaze on the magic of the moment, the joys and tragedy, the complexity and ironies, of a fundamentally mysterious world.

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A powerful and original study of guilt, denial, innocence and complicity.

Like the donkey in the Aesop fable, the US-Scottish writer Deborah Moffatt speaks a language ‘sharp and barbed’. She knows it is ‘better to eat thistles’ than ‘to survive in a nation born of vanity.’ And that those who close borders, soon turn against their own, ‘maddened by power, powered by madness.’

Drawing on Scottish and Irish Gaelic poetry and other literary and folk traditions, Eating Thistles transplants, transforms and re-imagines contemporary and historical events through Aesopian language, slipping between history, myth and memory – Syria, St Kilda, the Sudan, Latin American dictadura and the mass-executions by the SS of Soviet Jews, Roma and prisoners of war.

Deborah Moffatt was born in Vermont, USA. She worked for several years in Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico, and has lived in Scotland since 1984. Her first collection was Far From Home (2004).

SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999674298 PB | 102PP | 1 AUGUST 2019

MONEY IS A KIND OF POETRY Peter Donnelly •

The second collection from a young prize-winning poet.

Money is a Kind of Poetry is a meditation on contemporary alienation and the processes by which every new technological advance seems to increase our isolation from each other, and the more connected we are the less we appear to know ourselves. Donnelly looks at the symbolic value of money, the dead language of economists and bankers and its shiny promises and slippery meanings.

Accompanied by Dante, Rimbaud and Paul Muldoon, he shows us a contemporary and violent vision of Hell in which ‘exchange rates slip like tectonic plates’ and ‘the money is digesting itself ’.

Peter Donnelly was born in Dublin in 1988. He has degrees from the universities of Verona and Dublin. His first collection of poetry, Photons, was published by Appello Press in 2014. He works in publishing and as a translator.

SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999674281 PB | 102PP | 1 AUGUST 2019

TOTALLY CULTURED Dan Simpson • •

COVER COMING SOON

New from the author of Applied Mathematics (ISBN: 9781909136373).

Featuring pieces from four full-length solo shows, Totally Cultured is poetry at its most engaging and contemporary

From childhood innocence to Millennial angst – via the ballet, New Zealand, and outer space – Dan Simpson’s poetry jumps off the page in a high-energy riot of words. Whilst the familiar themes of science and technology are examined with the snappily-smart observations he’s known for, in this second collection Dan taps into a more personal and poignant voice.

Dan Simpson has had work commissioned by Southbank Centre, Free Word Centre, and Corinium Museum. He has been Poet-in-Residence at Waterloo Station for TfL, at Knole House for the National Trust, and Canterbury Roman Museum for the University of Kent. Dan creates pioneering work using crowdsourced and outdoor poetry for organisations such at the Royal Academy of Arts and the European Commission.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570288 PB | 5 AUGUST 2019

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THE WHIMSY OF DANK JU-JU Sascha Aurora Akhtar •

“A poet willing to transcend the liminal.” Anthony Joseph

The Whimsy of Dank Ju-Ju is a collection of colourful, energetic poems which revel in language. Using experimental forms and punctuation, with snippets of lines exploded across the page, Akhtar drags the reader into a world of magic, heat, life and... whimsy.

Sascha Aurora Akhtar originates from Pakistan, and was educated there and in the USA. Her debut poetry collection, The Grimoire of Grimalkin, was published in 2007 and greeted as “a contemporary masterpiece”, with The Guardian naming Akhtar one of the top twelve poets to watch. Her work is widely anthologised and has been translated into Armenian, Portuguese, Galician, Russian, Dutch and Polish. Her most recent poetry collection is 199 Japanese Names for Japanese Trees (Shearsman UK, 2016). .

THE EMMA PRESS | £6.50 | 9781912915279 PB | 36PP | 8 AUGUST 2019

MAMIAITH Ness Owen • •

A bilingual Welsh/English debut collection by a much anthologised poet.

Spare, needle sharp but threaded through with love of country, language, people, past and future, this profoundly political collection stitches us into a rich tapestry.

Ness Owen lives on Ynys Môn off the North Wales coast. This is her first collection, and is partly bilingual. The poems journey widely from family and motherhood, to politics, place and belonging: an underlying connection to the earth of Ness’ home, that feeds a longing/desire/determination to write in the Mamiaith (Mothertongue) that she speaks, but did not learn to write fluently. The interplay of languages and the shifts of meaning from one to the other feed the musicality of the poems.

Ness Owen’s work has appeared in various journals including Poetry Wales, Red Poets, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Fat Damsel and in anthologies published by Arachne Press, Three Drops Press, Here and Now project and Mother’s Milk Books.

ARACHNE PRESS | £8.99 | 9781909208773 PB | 48PP | 8 AUGUST 2019

THE GOLDFISH Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul and illustrated by Emma Wright •

Part of the beautifully illustrated Art Squares series from The Emma Press.

The Goldfish is a sumptuous, surreal exploration of femininity. The poet inhabits the voice of a goldfish through a series of linguistically experimental poems which plunge us into the glass bowl and invite us to gaze out.

Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul is an Indonesian poet currently based in Japan.

Her debut pamphlet, Ikhda by Ikhda, was published by the Emma Press in 2014. Her poems have been published in The Emma Press Anthology of Mildly Erotic Verse and The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood.

THE EMMA PRESS | £10.00 | 9781912915200 PB | 36PP | 8 AUGUST 2019

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AFTER THE FORMALITIES Anthony Anaxagorou After the Formalities explores ideas of division and dominance, incorporating history, science and philosophy alongside autobiographical narratives to examine how race, class and masculinity is shaped in contemporary Britain.

Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, After the Formalities is the breakthrough collection of poems by Anthony Anaxagorou, the dynamic writer, educator and literary activist described by The Independent as ‘a vastly accomplished, unconventional, selfless poet’.

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot award-winning poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and educator. His poetry and fiction has appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts, and has been published in The Poetry Review, The Feminist Review, Amnesty International’s Words That Burn and John Berger’s The Long White Thread of Words. He won the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Hospital Club’s H-100 Award for most influential people in writing and publishing.

He is writer in residence at schools in Harrow and Barnet and has lectured at universities including Oxford, Lancaster, Sheffield and Leeds. He has toured extensively both in Europe and Australia. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a poetry and live music night in London, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press.

PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £9.99 | 9781908058652 PB | 90PP | 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

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THE CAPRICES James Byrne •

COVER COMING SOON

New from the author of White Coins (ISBN: 9781908376473).

These poems were written to accompany the Los Caprichos images, originally published by Francisco Goya on February 6th, 1799. The images are part of the original ‘Prado’ manuscript, republished by Dover Publications in 1969.

James Byrne is the International Editor at Arc Publications, as well as being a poet, editor and translator. He founded The Wolf magazine in 2002, which he still edits, and co-edited Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Poets (Arc Publications, 2012). His recent poetry publications are White Coins (Arc Publications, 2015) and Everything Broken Up Dances (Tupelo, US, 2015). Blood/Sugar was published by Arc in November 2009 and his poems have been translated into various languages including Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, French and Serbian.

ARC PUBLICATIONS | £ | 9781911469858 PB | PP | 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

THE MALLARMÉ POEMS Matthew Jarvis •

A debut pamphlet from a highly respected literary critic and editor.

Subtle and delicately drawn poems inspired by the work of the great Symbolist writer, Stéphane Mallarmé.

Professor Matthew Jarvis has written two monographs on the English-language poetry of Wales – Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry (2008) and Ruth Bidgood (2012), both published by the University of Wales Press – as well as numerous essays and reviews. He is currently co-editor of the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English. He is Chair of the Poetry Wales Committee and co-Chair of the Association for Welsh Writing in English. He has recently edited a volume of essays, Devolutionary Readings: English-Language Poetry and Contemporary Wales, which is to be published by Peter Lang in 2017. He is the Anthony Dyson Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

CINNAMON PRESS | £4.99 | 9781788640671 PB | 20PP | 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

A SEEKING MIND: POETRY & PROSE FOR RUTH BIDGOOD Edited by Matthew Jarvis •

An anthology of poetry and prose inpired by Ruth Bidgood.

In A Seeking Mind, Matthew Jarvis brings together prose and poetry in tribute and inspired by the life and work of Ruth Bidgood, one of Wales’ most senior—and among the country’s most sensitive—living poets.

Collection analysis, recollection and creative reflections on Bidgood’s ongoing literary output, this is a remarkable tribute to an extraordinary individual and writer.

CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781788640633 PB | 175PP | 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

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New from the author of Bottle, a Poetry Book Society Pamplet Choice.

A warm and snouting thing dances delicately between the sizzle of nerves brought on by proximity to sex and the ambiguous stability of commitment and family.

These poems emphasise the physicality, not only of desire, but of the human and natural worlds which surround and shape it: springing ferns, ‘saddle-soap / and saddle-sores,’ and a vivid scene in which the speaker’s mother boils alive ‘two huge crabs, rough as roof-tiles’ on a holiday with her husband and his lover.

Ramona Herdman lives in Norwich and is a committee member for Café Writers.

Her pamphlet Bottle (HappenStance Press) was the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Spring 2018 and one of the Poetry School’s Books of the Year 2017. She won the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize in 2017. Her first collection, Come what you wished for, was published by Egg Box in in 2003.

THE EMMA PRESS | £6.50 | 9781912915293 PB | 36PP | 12 SEPTEMBER 2019

POSTCOLONIAL BANTER Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan •

Debut collection from this powerful and important young poet.

Postcolonial Banter is Suhaiymah Manzoo-Khan’s debut collection. It features some of her most well-known and widely performed poems as well as some never-seen-before material. Her words are a disruption of comfort, a call to action, a redistribution of knowledge and an outpouring of dissent. Whilst enraged and devastated by the world she finds herself in, in many ways it is also the mundane; hence, whilst political and complex in nature, her poetry is just the ‘banter’ of everyday life for her and others like her. Ranging from critiquing the function of the nation-state and rejecting secularist visions of identity, to reflecting on the difficulty of writing and penning responses to conversations she wishes she’d had; Suhaiymah’s debut collection is ready and raring to enter the world.

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is Muslim, an educator, writer and spoken-word poet.

She is fast becoming a leading voice interrogating narratives around race/ism, feminism, gender, Islamophobia, state violence and decoloniality in Britain.

VERVE POETRY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912565245 PB | 88PP | 19 SEPTEMBER 2019

DAD, REMEMBER YOU ARE DEAD Jacqueline Saphra • •

The much anticipated new collection from a T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poet.

“This is a very special and powerful poetry book.” David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award

Jacqueline Saphra will follow her critically acclaimed, T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted All My Mad Mothers (2017) with Dad, Remember You Are Dead, a sister volume to her previous collection, taking on the canon in an examination of fatherhood and daughterhood within a wider context.

Jacqueline Saphra is a poet and playwright. Her first collection, The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (flipped eye 2011) was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women (The Emma Press 2017) won The Saboteur Award for Best Collaborative Work. In 2017 A Bargain with the Light: Poems after Lee Miller was published by Hercules Editions and her collection from Nine Arches Press, All My Mad Mothers, was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot prize.

NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027737 PB | 80PP | 26 SEPTEMBER 2019

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A WARM AND SNOUTING THING Ramona Herdman

SOMETIMES ANGRY Spoz • •

Debut ‘proper’ collection from former Birmingham poet laureate.

“Spoz’s work has spikey hair, carries a megaphone and wears a f**k the system T-shirt.” Steven Camden AKA Polarbear

Spoz’s poetry in Sometimes Angry is bold and direct and packs a punch. His work oozes life as he mixes sometimes humour and sometimes anger to great effect. His words mean something and have nothing to hide. And they strive to find the way towards something better. Spoz is an incredible performer but his words deserve to be read and savoured and pondered upon. This collection contains both recent and more distant work from a poet who will touch a million hearts and minds.

Spoz also goes by the longer name of Giovanni Esposito. He is an award winning performance poet, singer / songwriter, film maker, playwright and is the poet-inresidence at Birmingham City FC. He has been seen on BBC and Central Television, has written for and been heard on BBC Radio Four, Radio Five Live, Radio West Midlands, Radio Coventry & Warwickshire and Capital Gold.

VERVE POETRY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912565269 PB | 88PP | 26 SEPTEMBER 2019

UNSPOKEN Evrah Rose •

Debut collection from a young poet taking her native Wales by storm!

Unspoken is the debut collection from a young woman who has exploded onto the spoken word scene. Her poems are about raising consciousness and fighting fights and mending broken personalities. She is on the side of the down-trodden, the abused, the over-looked, the little people. She is proud of the people she represents and the place she is from – her poem on the subject of her home town of Wrexham went viral this year. Evrah Rose looks unflinchingly at the heart of our problems and struggles. And this book captures that essence of a powerful, supportive and hugely effective social poet.

Evrah Rose is a Wrexham born and raised poet and spoken word performer. A self-aware and passionate activist, Evrah uses her own experience and the experiences of others to tell rhythmic and hard-hitting truths about child sexual abuse, addiction and gender inequality.

VERVE POETRY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912565252 PB | 78PP | 26 SEPTEMBER 2019

NOTES ON LONELINESS Daniel Cockrill •

New collection from the co-founder of cult spoken word night Bang Said the Gun.

During the process of writing this book, the author imagined he was a butterfly dancing to the slowest and sweetest song ever played on a piano, similar to the way raindrops fall from petals in gentle rain, or like an astronaut floating through Space, travelling about the speed of the boat on a Disney World ride, the one where you get to see all the places in the world in about 15 minutes, but instead of visiting well-known landmarks, he imagined himself visiting different planets and distant stars, trying to figure out where he fitted in. Here on Earth, Daniel Cockrill has a loving family, a good home life, lots of very good friends, he has everything he could possibly need and yet he still feels lonely. This book of poetry is an attempt to discover why.

Daniel Cockrill’s words have appeared in books, newspapers, magazines, on gallery walls and have been spoken out loud on stage, radio and television.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570738 PB | 30 SEPTEMBER 2019

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A warmly engaging collection of poetry that features moving elegies to both her late husband and the poet Dannie Abse.

A Second Whisper by Lynne Hjelmgaard is a thoughtful and sensitive collection of poems that reflect the changing identities of a woman: in motherhood, in widowhood, in friendship and grief. There are elegies to the loss of her mentor, the poet Dannie Abse, which are a tribute to their deep friendship. There are also poems to her late husband who died in 2006 and for their children and for relationships from the author’s past in New York City and Denmark. The poems are both elegiac and celebratory, they move and change tone as the author travels to the past and negotiates through the geography of grief and feelings of displacement in London and finally, opens to her new life in the present.

Lynne Hjelmgaard was born in New York City and lives in London. Her last book, A Boat Called Annalise, was also published by Seren.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781725542 PB | 72PP | 30 SEPTEMBER 2019

STATES OF THE BODY PRODUCED BY LOVE Nisha Ramayya •

Nisha Ramayya’s debut poetry collection takes readers on a modern mystical journey through love.

Love is a many-headed snake in Nisha Ramayya’s debut poetry collection, twisting its way through devotion, sacrifice, and bliss. Seeking a way home, Ramayya discovers that homecoming - the impossible return - is a process of make-believe and magical thinking across Britain, India, and the infinite expanse.

Nisha Ramayya is a poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London. Her pamphlets Notes on Sanskrit (2015) and Correspondences (2016) are published by Oystercatcher Press. Threads, a creative-critical pamphlet co-authored with Sandeep Parmar and Bhanu Kapil, is published by clinic. She is a member of the ‘Race & Poetry & Poetics in the UK’ research group and the interdisciplinary practice-as-research group Generative Constraints.

IGNOTA BOOKS | £10.99 | 9781999675943 PB | 220PP | 30 SEPTEMBER 2019

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A SECOND WHISPER Lynne Hjelmgaard

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MY MOTHER LAUGHS Chantal Akerman And there were other girls who were odd ones too and that was how it was. We loved each other and that was that. I was 18 in May 1968 and it seemed as though my style was becoming popular and that everything was going back to normal if I dare use the word because I really don’t like the word normal. I prefer the word abnormal but only just, because in the word abnormal you can still hear the word normal and that’s a word I really don’t want to hear.

In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn’t talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life, she placed stills from her films. My Mother Laughs is both the distillation of the themes Akerman pursued throughout her creative life, and a version of the simplest and most complicated love story of all: that between a mother and a daughter.

Chantal Akerman was born in 1950 in Brussels to Natalia and Jacob, Polish jews who had survived Auschwitz. She wanted to become a filmmaker after seeing Godard’s Pierrot le Fou, and dropped out of film school after three months to make her first short film in 1968, Saute ma ville. She would go on to make over sixty films for the cinema, television and galleries, developing her own documentary-influenced visual language. She called her influential 1976 feature, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, ‘a film about space and time and ways of organising your life so that you have no free time, no time in which to succumb to anguish and thoughts of death.’ She was accompanying her last work, No Home Movie, an essay-film about her mother, to European film festivals when she was hospitalised for depression in 2015, and died by suicide soon after. She was 65.

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SILVER PRESS | £13.99 | 9780995716230 PB | 200PP | 23 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Award-winning poet Pete “the Temp” Bearder presents the unwritten history, science and skill of spoken word.

Stage Invasion answers some strangely unaddressed questions: How was the live art of spoken verse kicked out of the Kingdom of Poetry? What is the history of the art form? How does emotional contagion happen in live performance? What has spoken word got to do with hypnotism and ecstatic states? This groundbreaking book explores a thriving ecology of artistry, and how it can serve us for cultural, social and political renewal.

Pete the Temp is a poet, educator and musician. His work has been featured on BBC radio and TV and in 2009 he became the National Poetry Slam Champion.

Pete has toured theatres across England with his one man show Pete (the Temp) vs Climate Change. His book Numbered Boxes (9781909136908) was published by Burning Eye Books in 2016.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £10.00 | 9781999679255 PB | 8 JULY 2019

GATECRASHING EUROPE Kris Mole •

New edition of the travel classic, in which wise-cracking Kris Mole visits every capital city on mainland Europe, without handling or spending any money.

In 2007, Kris Mole flew one-way to Stockholm with a vow not to return home to England until he had visited every capital city in the mainland European Union. He set himself eight simple rules, most importantly A) that no money would be spent or handled during the journey, and B) no credit cards would be used either. Thus, the great Euro Freebie Challenge began: twenty-three cities to be visited, 6000 miles to be covered, without spending a single penny on the journey – to raise money, in fact, for Cancer Research UK. Kris Mole was born in London, 1983, and grew up in Brighton. He works as a freelance journalist and English teacher. He is officially banned from a small town just outside Rome, and played two seasons of semi-professional football in the Slovenian national league.

VALLEY PRESS | £12.99 | 9781912436248 PB | 464PP | 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

IGNOTA DIARY 2020 • •

A beautifully designed diary and week-to-view planner to curate your lifestyle for the coming year.

Accessible and clear guide to key spiritual holidays, astrological events and moon cycles to observe throughout the year.

The Ignota Diary is a tool for discovery in the practice of everyday life. This beautifully designed diary and week-to-view planner is filled with historically significant magical and sacred dates from around the world. Drawn from events such as the Buddha’s birthday, esoteric festivals and artistic and occult history, the diary touches on the lives of characters such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Jung, Simone Weil, Aleister Crowley, George Bataille, Timothy Leary, Hilma af Klint, Saint Hildegard of Bingen, William Blake and W.B. Yeats.

The diary provides full astrological navigation for 2020 with an overview of the year, a birthchart template and guides to moon magic, houses, planets and symbols. Key transits, retrogrades and lunar phases, noted throughout the planner, allow you to organise your life in alignment with the astrological weather, visible at a glance. .

IGNOTA | £12.99 | 9781999675967 PB | 180PP | 6 SEPTEMBER 2019

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STAGE INVASION Pete ‘The Temp’ Bearder

ATLAS OF AI Edited by Ben Vickers and Kenric McDowell •

Explores the meaning and impact of artificial intelligence with unprecedented depth and insight

Artificial intelligence is beginning to inhabit everything around us, from the mobile phone to the automobile: its integration into everyday services signals a profound societal shift enabling ever more new possibilities. As a result, we increasingly defer our decision-making to machines. Despite the sudden surge in AI’s adoption, its history is as curious as it is complex, drawing from many traditions and fields such as mathematics, linguistics, biology, philosophy and computer science.

The Atlas of AI bring together these diverse threads in a single volume that charts defining concepts of AI. Taking the reader on an exploratory adventure through the strange past, present and future of artificial intelligence, the Atlas of AI’s diverse range of international contributors narrate what we might imagine artificial intelligence to be in the future, whilst elucidating the myths that have shaped AI today.

IGNOTA | £19.99 | 9781999675950 PB | 220PP | 9 SEPTEMBER 2019

NO FAR SHORE Anne-Marie Fyfe •

COVER COMING SOON

A fascinating meditation on our relationship with coastlines and the sea.

No Far Shore is a rich exploration of various coastlines across England, Wales, Ireland, Canada and the US, in the form of travel writing, narrative non-fiction, memoir and poetry. In it poet Anne-Marie Fyfe visits the meeting place of land and sea, and takes in the maps, waves, lighthouses, islands, north, maps, journeys, boats and fishermen which mark this changing boundary.

She looks too at the work of a number of writers for whom the coast has been influential (and who in some cases have a surprising link to her hometown of Cushenden in Northern Ireland). They include Elizabeth Bishop, Herman Melville, Eavan Boland, Moira O’Neill, Robinson Jeffers, George Mackay Brown, C.P. Cavafy and Louis MacNeice. In addition, Fyfe also travels into her past, and that of her family, and charting her own relationship with a number of coasts and the way that they have shaped her life and those of others.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781725177 PB | 144PP | 23 SEPTEMBER 2019

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HINTERLAND

Hinterland is a new quarterly magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Each issue features a stellar line-up of writing talent from around the globe: stories by established, best-selling authors as well as a host of exciting new writers making their publishing debut.

Hinterland Issue 2 – Summer 2019

This issue features as its headline authors, a pilgrimage across Dartmoor by Richard Beard (winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018 for his memoir, The Day That Went Missing) and illustrator Dru Marland, George Szirtes (The Photographer at Sixteen) writes about his love for wrestling, and an interview with Costa Award-winning author Bart Van Es (The Cutout Girl), along with over a dozen new authors, flash fiction and regular features.

RRP: £10.00 ISBN: 9781911343868 Pub Date: 01/08/2019

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THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.

THE MARROW THIEVES Cherie Dimaline Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden— but what they don’t know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.

“Miigwans is a true hero; in him Dimaline creates a character of tremendous emotional depth and tenderness, connecting readers with the complexity and compassion of Indigenous people. A dystopian world that is all too real and that has much to say about our own.” Kirkus Reviews Cherie Dimaline is a Métis author and editor whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally. Her first book, Red Rooms, was published in 2007 and her novel The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy was released in 2013. In 2014, she was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and became the first Aboriginal Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Her book A Gentle Habit was published in August 2016.

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JACARANDA BOOKS | £8.99 | 9781913090012 PB | 260PP | 1 AUGUST 2019 | FICTION

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An international bestseller, the Spanish edition alone has sold 1.3 million copies.

Thirteen-year-old Juan’s summer is off to a terrible start. First, his parents separate.

Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito’s house for the entire holiday! Who wants to live with an oddball recluse who has zigzag eyebrows and lives inside a mysterious library? As Juan adjusts to his new life among dusty shelves, he notices something weird: the books move on their own! Uncle Tito lets his nephew in on a secret: Juan is a Princeps Reader, which means books respond magically to him, and he’s the only one who can find the elusive, never-before-read Wild Book. An unforgettable adventure story about books, libraries, and the power of reading.

Juan Villoro is Mexico’s most prolific, prize-winning author, playwright, journalist, and screenwriter. His books have been translated into many languages.

HOPEROAD | £8.99 | 9781916467101 PB | 234PP | 19 SEPTEMBER 2019 | FICTION

POEMS THE WIND BLEW IN Karmelo C. Iribarren and translated by Lawrence Schimel • •

Children’s poetry translated from the Spanish, by a prolific and acclaimed author from the Basque region of Spain.

Suitable for children aged 6+.

Open this book carefully: as soon as you do, the wind is going to blow you through the city. You will see magical things. You will roam down empty streets, you will travel on the metro - but you’ll have time to wonder about the world around you, and to take notice of the night, the rain, and the sea.

These poems focus on the everyday, small things around us – and they breathe new life into everything that children see around them. A plastic bag dreams of becoming a cloud, raindrops go on holiday to the sea, and hats fill up with thoughts.

The book builds an immersive, tender world – and through its gentle sense of humour and striking images it teaches children to look closely at everything they come across.

THE EMMA PRESS | £10.99 | 9781912915316 PB | 96PP | 26 SEPTEMBER 2019 | POETRY

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THE WILD BOOK Juan Villoro

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NEW TO INPRESS

VERVE POETRY PRESS

Verve Poetry Press is a new press with a purpose, focusing intently on meeting a local need in its home city of Birmingham – a need for the vibrant poetry scene in Brum to find a way to present itself to the poetry world via publication.

Co-founded by Stuart Bartholomew and Amerah Saleh, with help and support from Cynthia Miller, it is publishing poets from all corners of the city - poets that represent the city’s varied and energetic qualities and can communicate its many poetic stories.

Added to this is, they have a colourful pamphlet series featuring poets who have previously performed at their sister festival, Verve Poetry Festival, and a debut performance poetry series, which sees them working with the brightest rising stars on the UK spoken word scene.

Like the festival that shares its name, Verve Poetry Press will continue to plough a furrow that needs to be ploughed, combining unknown and well known poets. They will be colourful and bold. They will be joyful, wide ranging and inclusive. They will make waves, and draw crowds. Just as you’d expect.

THIS DRESS HAS POCKETS Hannah Swingler The new face of Nationwide Poetry!

Hannah Swingler describes her incredible debut collection of fresh and original poetry best…’I struggle to throw things away. Used envelopes, mostly. This is not only my debut collection of poetry, it is my hoard, my memory bank, my adventure into the known.

‘This dress has pockets exudes the feeling of finding a dress that fits in a charity shop for only £4.50 and it has the functionality of pockets that are deep enough to carry unsent love letters and conkers and those memories that you wish you could binge watch, or tape over.

It is ethereal but memorable, surreal, but familiar, like a dream you weren’t able to keep hold of. It is what it means to remember, what it means to grow up storing your thoughts close to you, in pockets of dresses that make you look alright until you sit down in them. Now is your time to dance in it, now is the time to empty your pockets and spin.’

£9.99 | 9781912565115 PB | 40PP | 17 JANUARY 2019

ROOH Rupinder Kaur For Rupinder Kaur, writing, along with any other art form, should be azaad – free: free to express what the artist wants or needs to say, without any censorship. Rupinder is known for speaking her mind and this is reflected in her poems.

In Rooh, her debut poetry collection, she takes us on a poetic journey that transcends borders and arbitrary boundaries of subject and style. Her work straddles English and Punjabi culture – fusing words from Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu and English. Her poems look at love, religion, identity, politics, history, taboos, society – often questioning orthodox views, particularly around the roles that different genders are expected to adopt. Rooh has a grand scope, and stares unblinkingly at the world. It is a stunning first collection from this young, intelligent poet.

£9.99 | 9781912565085 PB | 90PP | 27 SEPTEMBER 2018

TWO LITTLE DUCKS Matt Abbott Matt Abbott was volunteering at the Calais Jungle refugee camp when his native Wakefield voted 66% Leave. Why did so many working-class communities like his support Brexit so strongly? How can the UK ignore a humanitarian crisis just 22 miles from Dover?

Matt’s one man poetry show, Two Little Ducks, is a powerful, personal and political spoken word show from one of UK poetry’s rising stars. He channels the human side of politics to look at national identity, preconceptions, class and anti-establishment anger. Poetic flair and storytelling, with a unique insight into the summer that changed everything.

To accompany the show, this book containing the full and final version of Two Little Ducks, along with a selection of the stand-alone poems. Together they form a collection that gives a full and inspiring taste of this poet’s pin-point way with words and great concern for common people – their complexity, their great unpredictability.

£9.99 | 9781912565061 PB | 108PP | 4 OCTOBER 2018

BESHARAM Nafeesa Hamid

BRAIN FUGUE Claire Trévien

TYPHOON ETIQUETTE Katrina Naomi

Besharam – Nafeesa Hamid’s glorious debut collection – asks many questions. When does a girl become a woman? When does her world allow her to become a woman? And what kind of woman should she be?

The answers aren’t readily forthcoming.

Brain Fugue is as inventive and playful as we’ve come to expect from this glorious poet: pulling as she does English poems from inside of a French mind, equally at home or estranged in England or France.

New from the author of Asteronymes (9781908058348).

This is a collection of poems inspired by a trip to Japan. And a wonderful group of poems they are, that at once depict Japan, its traditions, its customs with great enthusiasm but also a healthy dose of heart-onsleeve puzzlement.

£9.99 | 9781912565054 108PP | 20 SEPTEMBER 2018

£7.50 | 9781912565153 32PP | 14 FEBRUARY 2019

£7.50 | 9781912565207 36PP | 18 APRIL 2019

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ENVOI February, June & October

NAKED PUNCH One issue per year

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BRITTLE STAR Two issues per year

Latest Issue: 9780995636972

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UNDER THE RADAR March, August & December

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POETRY IRELAND REVIEW

The next issue of Poetry Ireland Review contains eight compelling responses from contemporary poets to a question suggested by Patrick Kavanagh almost sixty years ago: Do we value poets in Ireland? And are our poets today assured of a more respectful hearing than in Kavanagh’s time?

The books reviewed include first titles from the two newest Irish publishers, Turas Press and SurVision, along with recent collections from Damian Smyth, Ailbhe Darcy, and Ciaran Berry.

Also included is Gerald Dawe’s tribute to the late, great Richard Murphy, delivered at the Richard Murphy Memorial Service at Clifden, on 16 June 2018.

The issue features new poems from Vona Groarke, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Emma Must, Quinlan Cobbet, Paul Jeffcutt and Penelope Shuttle, along with Eavan Boland’s always inspirational editorial and a selection from the best of Irish visual art.

RRP: £10.00 ISBN: 9781902121758 FOR INFORMATION ON SUBSCRIPTIONS & STANDING ORDERS FOR BOOKSHOPS PLEASE CONTACT ENQUIRIES@INPRESSBOOKS.CO.UK.

INDEX Abbott, Matt

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Akerman, Chantal

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Akhtar, Sascha Aurora

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Alleyne, Lauren K.

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Almada, Selva

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Anaxagorou, Anthony

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Ayuning Maharsi Degoul, Ikhda Bandyopadhyay, Sangeeta 9 Bearder, Pete

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Booth, Naomi

8

Byrne, James

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Challen, Gina

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Cockrill, Daniel

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Cowling, Ruby

5

Dimaline, Cherie

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Donnelly, Peter

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Fellous, Colette

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Foster, Vicky

4

Fyfe, Anne-Marie

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Hamid, Nafeesa

35

Harwicz, Ariana

3

Havelin, Karen

2

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Hearne, John

13

Herdman, Ramona

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Hjelmgaard, Lynne

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Iribarren, Karmelo C.

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Jarvis, Matthew

24

Kang, Han

2

Kaur, Rupinder

35

Ke, Hong

7

Kejing, Wu

7

Lewis, Tyrone

17

Lozano, Brenda

13

Manzoor-Khan, Suhaiymah 25 Markandaya, Kamala

8

McCabe, Chris

4

McKnight Hardy, Lucie

6

McMillan, Ian

16

Mehren, Stein

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Minhinnick, Robert

9

Moffatt, Deborah

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Mole, Kris

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Mookherjee, Jessica

15

Morrison, Kate

5

Naomi, Katrina

35

Nikolaidis, Andrej

3

Nimblett, Anton

11

Nor-Hansen, Henrik

3

Owen, Ness

22

Peake, James

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Penny, Sarah

10

Puhlovski, Marina Šur

9

Ramayya, Nisha

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Robinson, Roger

18

Rose, Evrah

26

Saphra, Jacqueline

25

Savicević, Olja

4

Serre, Anne

5

Simpson, Dan

21

Smart, Adham

17

Spoz

26

Swingler, Hannah

34

Tallis, Raymond

20

Taylor Battiste, Chérie

16

Thrasivoulou, Jamie

18

Trévien, Claire

35

Villoro, Juan

33

Weil, Sylvie

2

Wilson, David

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