JULY - DECEMBER 2017 BOOKS FOR INDEPENDENT THINKERS
INPRESS BOOKS
DEAR READER...
Welcome to the July – December 2017 Inpress catalogue. I can guarantee you will be swept away by the quality and diversity of publishing included in these pages. Each title is easily identified as Fiction, Non Fiction or Poetry and listed by month, with a full order form at the back of the catalogue should you wish to send your order straight back to us or to NBNi. It’s been a busy year at Inpress HQ, we have been successful in our application for continued Arts Council England funding, and (subject to agreed plans) we have confirmed funding until 2022 as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO). This is wonderful news for us and means we can continue our work supporting 45+ independent publishers and grow our position in the world of independent publishing and book sales. The Poetry Book Society continues to thrive and we are looking at ways of working with the book trade and other literature organisations to ensure we maximise the reach and use of our brilliant poetry selections and reviews. Inside these pages you’ll find staff picks, books of the month, publisher interviews and a wealth of brilliant new and established voices covering an array of genres. We welcome a new publisher to the fold, Charco Press, who are based in Edinburgh publishing South American fiction in translation – we look forward to working with them as they launch this summer.
Never content to sit still, this is our most digitally interactive catalogue yet. All titles included are available to order online at www.inpressbooks.co.uk/pages/bookshops .These orders will be sent direct to our distributor, so take your time, browse, enjoy the blurbs and order online at the same time, then you can sit back (does any bookseller ever actually manage that?!) and wait for the books to be delivered. If you have any questions or queries on the books, our publishers or promotion of any of these titles and authors, please don’t hesitate to be in touch on email or by phone or even stop by the office, we do love to hear from you.
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DEAD INK BOOKS
Dead Ink is a small, ambitious and experimental literary publisher based in Liverpool.
Supported by Arts Council England, their focus is on developing the careers of new and emerging authors. Their mission is to bring the most challenging and experimental new writing out from the underground and present it to our audience in the most beautiful way possible.
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Every Fox is a Rabid Fox Another Justified Sinner Harry Gallon Sophie Hopesmith
Samhain is a young, angry and bewildered squatter living in an abandoned hotel in the North of England. One day he receives a message, his father a man he never knew was an undercover policeman infitrating the Green movement of the 80s. Guest is a story of disillusionment, protest and, eventually, redemption.
Robert didn’t mean to kill his brother. But he did insist on driving to their uncle’s funeral. Consumed by guilt, Robert refuses to show emotion. Every Fox is a Rabid Fox reflects on issues of class, mental illness and how the unhappiness, depression and toxic-masculinity of older generations is passed down to their children.
It’s the eve of the recession, but who cares? For commodity trader Marcus, life is good. So what if he’s a fantasist? So what if he wills his college sweetheart to death? So what if it’s all falling apart? This isn’t a crisis. Until it is. Another Justified Sinner is a literary black comedy about the fall and rise and fall of Marcus, a slipper sinner. How difficult is it to change?
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BURNING EYE BOOKS
Entrepreneur, editor and poetry activist Clive Birnie founded Burning Eye Books, a publisher specialising in spoken-word artists, in 2012. Inpress intern Katie Cruci spoke to him to find out what inspires him... Is poetry just for reading? Burning Eye’s position on this is clear given that we champion slam-stand-up-performance-spoken-word-poetry, but some poetry is arguably better left on the page, or even on the shelf. Do you have a favourite book or poem? Not a single poem or a single book. At Roane Head by Robin Robertson, Severn Song by Philip Gross, House by Sally Baker, Cholera by Kona Macphee and The Computer Expert’s Penis by Kirsten Irving are poems I find myself going back to and book wise: Divining For Starters by Carrie Etter, Nigh No Place by Jen Hadfield, A Pint for the Ghost by Helen Mort, and 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere are played on repeat. What got you into publishing? There was a hole that needed filling. No one was publishing the poets who were working the live circuit. A circuit that was and continues to be thriving and growing. I would see poets perform to audiences of 100 people at venues and festivals around the country and no one seemed to see the potential. Then I read an interview with Felix Dennis where he laughed about selling more books on one night at a theatre than the Bookseller had reported as the total sales for a particular TS Eliot winner. That became the model. Help poets working the live circuit sell their work. Five years on 3/4 of our sales are made at events and gigs. I think we are 50% publisher 50% merchandise supplier. What do you think people need to be writing about now? Everything. It is good to be political if you want to be and good not to be if you don’t. There is room for everything. We work with writers who explore mental health or 21st Century feminism for instance but we also work with comedic poets who are primarily entertainers. Our list has a strong political bias because we aim to reflect the contemporary world and the contemporary live scene and that tends to be a forum for the exchange and expression of ideas. What sort of work would you like to see more of in the future? Like all editors I like to be surprised by a voice I haven’t heard before. That statement is tired but true. It is a easy to sound like the crowd and hard to stand out. We get avalanches of submissions that could all have been written by the same poets. Same subjects, same tone, same tricks zzzzzzzzz. Similarly we get bundles of work that looks like the writers all went to the same workshops. You have to strive to absorb the learning and learn from what is going on around you and then make your own shoes. We first and foremost look for good writing before we look at the standing of that poet on the live scene. We look for people who we think will still be putting out good work in 5, 10, 15 years. Poets with the mindset of an artist and an eye on a direction of travel, an arc, a seam that needs digging, a groove, some depth.
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LES FUGITIVES
Les Fugitives publishes short, new writing by award-winning francophone female authors previously unavailable in English or in the UK.
Travelling, wandering, deserting, running away... Les Fugitives are about stories of people who don’t fit in; stories raising old and new questions about gender and identity; stories about strangers, about almost-love, and about solidarity: today and in the second half of the last century.
Suite for Barbara Loden Nathalie Léger
Eve out of Her Ruins Ananda Devi
Winner of the 2016 Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation from French.
With brutal honesty and poetic urgency, Ananda Devi relates the tale of four young Mauritians trapped in their country’s endless cycle of fear and violence: Eve, whose body is her only weapon and source of power; Savita, Eve’s best friend, the only one who loves Eve without self-interest, who has plans to leave but will not go alone; Saadiq, gifted would-be poet, inspired by Rimbaud, in love with Eve; Clelio, belligerent rebel, waiting without hope for his brother to send for him from France.
First published in France in 2012 to critical and popular acclaim, this is the first book about the remarkable American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden. Loden’s 1970 film Wanda is a masterpiece of early cinéma vérité, an anti-Bonnie-and-Clyde road movie about a young woman, adrift in rust-belt Pennsylvania in the early 1960s, who embarks on a crime spree with a small-time crook. Price: £10.00 ISBN: 9780993009303
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SNOW BOOKS
Snowbooks started in a spare room in Hackney in April 2003 and soon moved to a couple of rented desks in a business incubator on Old Street - before it was cool. Katie Cruci asked publisher Emma Barnes the secret of her success... Have you always worked in publishing? Nope. I was a graduate trainee then buyer at B&Q and Superdrug, then a management consultant at Deloitte. Obviously that was all awful, but I learned a lot about improving businesses. I started Snowbooks with my best friend when we’d reached breaking point with the banality and pointlessness of doing things such as saving global corporations 4% of their paper buying budget. What makes a manuscript stand out to you? An absence of the usual blockers: a pedestrian start, clunky dialogue, hackneyed or strange phrases, dull characterisation. Anything else is, by definition, different, and of interest. Tell us about your name - why Snowbooks? The blank sheet of paper at the start of any project is like a pristine snowy landscape -- full of silent promise. Plus no one else had nabbed the iconic symmetrical snowflake colophon. How has the publishing industry changed in London since you started Snowbooks in 2003? The great, and tragic, truth is that it’s hardly changed at all. What will always be at its heart is story. Tales and writing are not going anywhere. However, we’ve been slow as an industry to find new ways to share those stories with readers. But whilst I remain frustrated at the pace of change in our industry, it has also afforded me a lot of opportunities, so I shouldn’t grumble. What part does technology play for you in publishing? I’ve always been interested in the business of publishing, and, early on, I wanted to build a sustainable, efficient business. That inevitably led down the path of understanding how data should be managed. Early on we built rudimentary databases and tools to help us manage the daily drudge, so that we could focus on the creative effort. That snowballed, if you’ll excuse the pun, into an entire sister company. Nowadays I run both Snowbooks and Bibliocloud, the bibliographic metadata publishing management app that won the FutureBook Best Innovation award and the IPG Services to Independent Publishers award. Do you read more poetry or prose? 90% of my reading is technical programming books, though when I read poetry I always think I should read more. My current favourite is Harold Monro’s Overheard on a Salt Marsh, which me and my 8 year old son recite with relish, plus the most recent Clive James collection which is particularly poignant. “Quiet Passenger” had me in tears the other day.
LIBERTIES Victoria Bean Victoria Bean’s second collection is about trouble – those who cause it, those who are looking for it, and those who have found it. It’s a social document and a forensic study of a criminal justice system where the action always seems to take place out of the corner of your eye. It’s a portrait in verse of the modern city from Gin Lane to Smack City, drawing on the found-poetry of graffiti, tattoos, court-statements and London phone-box ‘tart-cards’. Liberties is a book about the nameless, the blameless and the shameless, about needs and wants, desperate truths and unbelievable lies, about the good, the bad and the fine line we all walk between them; about liberties taken and liberties lost.
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SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780993454790 PB | 64PP | 1 FEBRUARY 2017
WRITING MOTHERHOOD Carolyn Jess-Cooke (ed.) Debates and debacles surrounding the issue of motherhood have hounded women’s writing for decades, and despite advances in feminism, equality, maternity leave and childcare, we are still asking female writers with children how they find time to write. Through a unique combination of interviews, poems, and essays by established writers, Writing Motherhood interrogates contemporary representations of motherhood in media and literature, queries why so many novels dealing with serious women’s issues are packaged in pink covers with wellies and tea cups, and portrays the exquisite moments of motherhood as often enriching artistic practice rather than hindering it. Features contributions by Sharon Olds, Hollie McNish, Carol Ann Duffy, Sinead Morrissey, Rebecca Goss and many others.
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SEREN | £12.99 | 9781781723760 PB | 192PP | 23 MARCH 2017
THE SAD PART WAS Prabda Yoon Winner of a PEN Translates! grant. Selected as a ‘book to look out for in 2017’ by The Guardian and BuzzFeed Books. In these witty, postmodern stories, Prabda Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives offer an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life, exploring the bewildering disjunct and oft-hilarious contradictions of a modernity that is at odds with many traditional Thai ideas on relationships, family, school and work.
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TILTED AXIS PRESS | £8.99 | 9781911284062 PB | 192PP | 3 MARCH 2017
2017 BESTSELLERS
THE DEBUTANTE Leonora Carrington A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man’s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a woman makes love to a boar underneath a mountain of cats; a chicken is roasted with the brains and livers of thrushes, truffles, crushed sweet almonds, rose conserve and drops of divine liqueur; two noble sisters wonder whether anybody can be ‘a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense’; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans. In this first complete edition of Leonora Carrington’s short stories, written throughout her life from her early years in Surrealist Paris to her late period in Dirty War-era Mexico City, the world is by turns subversive, funny, sly, wise and disarming.
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SILVER PRESS | £9.99 | 9780995716216 PB | 168PP | 6 APRIL 2017
AT HAJJ Amaan Hyder At Hajj is a book of yearning and of pulling away, of things handed down and newly made. Its central sequence plunges the reader into the heat and dust of the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. For Amaan Hyder, the religious experience is a human one. These extraordinary, vivid prose poems capture the dreamlike journeys of unnamed pilgrims – from a woman lost in the crowd to an old man seeking refuge in the desert. Moving across forms and continents, At Hajj grapples with the weight of tradition. What must we inherit and what do we reject? Can a figure stand in two places at once? In poems of intense memory, Hyder charts a search for belonging through the everyday pleasures of food, family and friendship. A dragonfly. A midnight feast. An ill-fitting coat. Composed in a disarming lyric that almost seems to fragment at the touch, At Hajj introduces a distinctive, compassionate new voice in British poetry.
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PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £9.99 | 9781908058447 PB | 66PP | 1 JUNE 2017
BLUE SELF-PORTRAIT Noémi Lefebvre “For a comparatively short novel, Blue Self-Portrait yokes together an extraordinary profusion of ideas.” Eimear McBride, Guardian The inner monologue of a woman haunted by German composer Arnold Schoenberg’s portrait, further to a complex romantic encounter with an American-German pianist composer in Berlin. As the irresistible, impossible narrator flies home she unpicks her social failures while the pianist reaches towards a musical self- portrait with all the resonance of Schoenberg’s passionate, chilling blue. A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, Blue Self- Portrait unfolds among Berlin’s cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore. In Blue Self-Portrait Noémi Lefebvre shows how music continues to work on and through us, addressing past trauma while reaching for possible futures.
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LES FUGITIVES | £10.99 | 9780993009327 PB | 160PP | 15 JUNE 2017
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BLACK TEETH AND A BRILLIANT SMILE Adelle Stripe Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is a novel inspired by the life and work of the Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. Best known for her classic black comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Dunbar wrote three plays before dying at a tragically young age. This new literary portrayal features a cast of real and imagined characters set against the backdrop of the infamous Buttershaw estate during the Thatcher era. A bittersweet tale of the north / south divide, it reveals how a shy teenage girl defied the circumstances into which she was born and went on to become one of her generation’s greatest dramatists. Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is a poignant piece of kitchen sink noir that tells Dunbar’s compelling story in print for the very first time. Adelle Stripe’s writing has been described as ‘a genuine breath of fresh air’. Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is her keenly anticipated debut novel.
WRECKING BALL PRESS | £12.00 | 9781903110560 PB | 182PP | 1 JULY 2017
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THE WAY THINGS ARE: A COLLECTION OF POEMS AND STORIES Peter Gordon Williams An eclectic collection of poems and short stories based on themes from Greek mythology to Black Holes: they deal with injustice, transience, loss and death. Drawing on inspiration from the work of Shakespeare, Browning, Jung and Euripides, Peter Gordon Williams takes us on a journey of discovery.
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Y’LOLFA | £7.99 | 9781784614447 PB | 1 JULY 2017
THE VOICE OF WATER Cevat Çapan Cevat Çapan’s poetry manages to sound ancient and traditional while being firmly rooted in today’s world; it is both thoroughly Turkish and at the same time European – and beyond that, part of a greater world literature. Many of his poems are personal, and in this book he looks back at times past, remembering friends and family and places that have touched his life for ever. The natural world is ever-present, especially the sea which moves restlessly, powerfully, relentlessly throughout, and the lucidity and simple beauty of these poems in Ruth Christie’s exquisite translation remain with you long after you have put this book down.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £9.99 | 9781910345672 PB | 112PP | 1 JULY
THE SONG WEIGHER Egill Skallagrímsson & Ian Crockatt (trans.) Egill Skallagrímsson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth- to thirteenth-century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill’s saga details his life-story as well as those of his immediate predecessors, from whom he inherited his massive build, his early baldness (Skalla in his name means ‘bald’) and his exceptional ugliness. An arch enemy of Eríkr Blooðax, he was a notoriously difficult man and, as many of the poems demonstrate, was lethal when crossed. But he also made poems which show he was capable of concern for others, as well as romantic love. Physical, direct, inventive, even transformative, Egill’s poetry conjures up a territory far beyond the normal scope of language, something that only the finest poets achieve.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £10.99 | 9781910345917 PB | 1 JULY 2017
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THE NAMELESS PLACES Richard Lambert A hotel with mysterious guests, a city where the moon wanders, an abandoned seaside pavilion, are some of the places visited in this, Richard Lambert’s second collection. Structured around a movement from city to sea and always alert to the emotional resonance of landscape, The Nameless Places dwells on those spaces that lie at the edge of our lives and vision, and that seem somewhere between reality and dream. The collection culminates in a sequence that follows a journey made along the course of a river from its source to its mouth. Here, an English landscape’s margins are investigated - suburb, waste ground, marsh, and estuary beach. In poems that are formally various (rondeau, villanelle and sonnet) and conjuring an atmosphere of melancholy, The Nameless Places explores forgotten and neglected spaces - both of the mind and of our physical world.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £9.99 | 9781911469001 PB | 1 JULY 2017
SPOON REBELLION Matt Black The title poem Spoon Rebellion celebrates the impulse to rise up and find small but significant freedoms, for spoons to dance and be set free, to write a way through and beyond the legacy of our parents. In this collection we see the wish to stop work, to go for a walk, to enjoy fresh air and swimming, amongst glimpses of small towns in Brexit Britain. Comic, sharp-eyed and reflective, seventeenth century herbal medicine attempts to heal the country, elegy-hymns are sung to Sheffield’s famous now-no-longer cooling towers and the Erewash Canal. Moments of satire, moments of sadness and righteous anger as Shakespeare receives evaluation forms, as precarious plate spinners from Bulgaria visit Clay Cross, Derbyshire, these poems combine warmth, looking sideways, and illuminating and commemorating what happens when you don’t want to work, or when industry and work are gone.
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SMITH | DOORSTOP | £5.00 | 9781910367759 PB | 1 JULY 2017
THE HOLLOW BONE Ian Marriott In this collection brimming, with pared down imagery and crystal sharp language, we are invited to become the hollow bone, the small vessel with space for insight and reflection. Steeped in the natural world and sensitive to how each body interfaces with the world, Ian Marriott’s debut moves us from the quotidian to the mysterious found in the everyday and in the world’s wilderenesses. The poetry is alive with experiences of the forest, the mountains, the vastness of Antartica; the language meditative, spare and precise and the form follows breath — short lines that carry contemplative thought forward with fluid ease. Winner of the Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Award, adjudicated by outstanding eco-poet, Susan Richardson, The Hollow Bone is suffused with shamanic sensibilty that is communicated with elegance, from the title poem with it’s thoughfully hone sketches of birds alive and dead to the longer sequence of koan-like fragments in “Terra Infirma”, it takes the reader into an alternative space where there is fresh air.
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CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781910836682 PB | 68PP | 1 JULY 2017
GIN & TONIC Phoebe Stuckes Gin & Tonic is about the bittersweet experience of trying to grow up fast. The poems, written whilst living alone for the first time, are about drinking and pop music, trauma and love, glitter and girls.
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SMITH | DOORSTOP | £5.00 | 9781910367988 PB | 32PP | 1 JULY 2017
GAPS Jenny Danes Gaps speaks about the gaps between two different languages and cultures, and questions how successfully love can bridge these. It’s also about uncomfortable spaces: the distance between your desired self and your true self, between anxiety and reality, between your body and another person’s body.
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SMITH | DOORSTOP | £5.00 | 9781910367971 PB | 32PP | 1 JULY 2017
INCIDENTALS Anne Hine Incidentals deals with encounters, whether with things or objects, people, places or how we apprehend the natural this is a collection that threads together happenstances and meetings, how we perceive the other and where humanity resides. Buidling on previous publications, Incidentals develops Anne Hine’s reflective voice that is injected with gentle humour and pin-sharp observation.
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CINNAMON PRESS | £4.99 | 9781910836699 PB | 48PP | 1 JULY 217
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“There’s a sense of confidence in these poems that won’t let you rest. Each seems to tell you a secret and then make you complicit in it too.” Helen Mort
TAKE HAIR Rob Auton Take Hair is the third collection of writing and drawing from award winning writer and performer Rob Auton. Take Hair houses the ideas that Rob wants to exist. The ideas that came to him that he got enough from to want to record them and share them with others to see if they get anything from them too.
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570066 PB | 100PP | 1 JULY 2017
INSIDE THE SMILE Tamsin Hopkins Inside the Smile sees short-story author, Tamsin Hopkins, finding her voice as a wry, accomplished poet. In a debut pamphlet that punches way above its weight, Hopkins examines family relationships, the role of women, unusual landscape and surreal experience with a deft wit and scallop-sharp language.
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CINNAMON PRESS | £4.99 | 9781910836729 PB | 48PP | 1 JULY 2017
LETTING GO Josephine Balmer Josephine Balmer’s delicate yet powerful sequence traces the devastating impact of her mother’s sudden death. Employing Balmer’s characteristic blend of original poetry and classical versioning, Letting Go: Thirty Mourning Sonnets and two poems draws on a variety of sources and inspirations, from Virgil’s Georgics to Google’s Street View. Heartbreaking but ultimately healing, these poems re-enact the crushing pain – and final acceptance – of a bereavement that ‘feels like too little love. Or too much’.
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AGENDA EDITIONS | £10.00 | 9781908527295 PB | 1 JULY 2017
ASCENT TO OMAI Wilson Harris
As he climbs in search of his father, Victor both revisits his past relationship with him and replays his father’s trial, which also becomes his own, in a way that echoes the “Nighttown” episode of Ulysses, though unlike Bloom’s, Victor’s offences are not sexual, but represent blockages in the openness of his thinking. Victor’s search is for spiritual grace, for the compensations of love and the glimmerings of a true understanding of the world he exists in.
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PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £8.99 | 9781845233549 PB | 144PP | 3 JULY 2017
CURSE OF THE ASSASSIN S. P. Osborne & illustrated by Pirkka Harvala Curse of the Assassin is a choose your own adventure gamebook written and designed by S.P. Osborne, author of GA1, and takes you back to the familiar surrounds of Orlandes City where you pick up your life some time after the events in An Assassin in Orlandes. You’ve risen through society after dealing with Eltane and saving the city, and captured the affections of the Duke’s daughter along the way. But the mysterious death of a friend arouses your suspicions, and once again you find yourself at the heart of a conspiracy that takes you back to your home village and a meeting with the old adventuring party from your youth.
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SNOWBOOKS | £8.99 | 9781909679641 PB | 320PP | 3 JULY 2017
CATACOMBS OF THE UNDERCITY Andrew Wright & illustrated by Pirkka Harvala Captured by one of Orlandes City’s most infamous brotherhoods, the Red Hand Guild, you are thrown to the mercy of the subterranean world deep beneath the streets of the great capital. Wading through the sewers and other dark, menacing places, your goal is to reach Undercity, the City beneath the City! Only there can you find the help you need to escape this underground horror, and bring down the dark brotherhood from within. Gamebook Adventures is brought together through the efforts of passionate and avid gamebook enthusiasts. For readers of the Choose You Own Adventure, Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, Fabled Lands or Grail Quest series then Gamebook Adventures, or those who enjoy fantasy RPGs or adventure games.
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SNOWBOOKS | £8.99 | 9781909679665 PB | 320PP | 4 JULY 2017
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Wilson Harris’s ninth novel, first published in 1970, is a work of the most revolutionary and far-reaching kind of science or speculative fiction. In it time and space are truly elastic, so that events in recent time become part of remote geological time and the boundaries between events and remembering, individual persons and different locations are fluid and permeable. Victor is in search of his father, Adam, once a revolutionary worker who was sent to prison many years ago for burning down the factory he works in.
THE LOVELY DISCIPLINES Martyn Crucefix The Lovely Disciplines is the new poetry collection by renowned author Martyn Crucefix. Displaying his characteristic flair, craft and intelligence, Crucefix’s poems often begin with the visible, the tangible, the ordinary, yet through each act of attentiveness and the delicate fluidity of the language they re-discover the extraordinary in the everyday. The collection is full of elegantly crafted, intriguing poems. The ‘disciplines’ of the title turn out to encompass many of the manifestations of human love: of a child, a partner, of aging parents, of the world.
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SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781723890 PB | 72PP | 6 JULY 2017
MOUNTAIN STORIES Ye Guangquin China’s Qinling Mountains are as rich in legend as they are in wildlife. In these six tales from nationally bestselling author Ye Guangqin, tigers, pandas, monkeys and bears live alongside the region’s equally various human residents – some striving to ‘keep apace with the times’, others struggling to save their way of life from the onslaught of nationwide change. Both have much to learn from each other. Beautifully highlighting the absurdity of everyday human interactions, and the potential for tragedy when the lives of animals become entangled with ours, Mountain Stories is a stunning, enthralling collection that will transport international readers to a rarely-seen part of our world; the perfect introduction to a major new voice in world literature.
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VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853813 PB | 240PP | 6 JULY 2017
BEZDELKI Carol Rumens In Carol Rumens’s Bezdelki, small things like the English meaning of her Russian title help to shore up the memory of a life. These elegies for a late partner, written in memory of Yuri Drobyshev, explore the principle that death, even for atheists, isn’t purely loss. Instead, a kind of conversation between two people can be continued through willed acts of memory, whether by rooting through incidental artefacts found in a toolbox (‘defiant old metals, coupled/irrefutably and awkwardly for life’) or by revisiting works of Russian literature that both members of the couple admired. There is a tender goodbye in a hospital, but also the sensual matter of life: yoghurt spoons, stock cubes and duck paté. In Rumens’s pamphlet, translations and imitations of Osip Mandelstam share space with fragments of Egyptian mythology and ‘a wardrobe of old sweat-shirts’ to convey the powerful, and moving, impulse to ‘live with your death unburied at my core’.
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THE EMMA PRESS | £5.00 | 9781910139806 PB | 36PP | 6 JULY
SONGS MY ENEMY TAUGHT ME Joelle Taylor
Comprised of poetry, text messages, landays, letters and news flashes these are stories plucked from women’s lips across the globe and re-imagined by award-winning poet, playwright, and author Joelle Taylor. Some stories are her own. Others are yours.
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OUTSPOKEN PRESS | £10.00 | 9780993103896 PB | 10 JULY 2017
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, THEN A DRAWING, THEN MORE WORDS, ANOTHER DRAWING, AND SO ON, AND SO ON Dan Cockrill & Damien Weighill In The Beginning Was The Word, Then A Drawing, Then More Words, Another Drawing, And So On, And So On is a sequential chain that alternates from poet to illustrator, a creative game of ping pong that takes each artist on a path they would not have discovered on their own. Responding to each other’s original and sometimes witty thoughts, they explore the darkness and the light, ask ‘why are we doing this?’ and ‘where is all this leading?’ as they take us on a journey from the beginning of time and through unexplored space to find an unknown destination in an uncertain and peculiar world.
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570073 PB | 100PP | 10 JULY 2017
TERMS AND CONDITIONS Tania Hershman Tania Hershman’s debut poetry collection, Terms and Conditions, urges us to consider all the possibilities, and to read life’s small print before signing on the dotted line. These measured poems bring their stoical approach to the uncertain business of our daily lives – and ask us to consider what could happen if we were to bend or break the rules, step beyond the boundaries and challenge the narrative. In feats of imagination and leaps of probability, falling simply becomes flying, a baby sagely collects data, and even the evidence often leads us astray. In between this, Hershman’s precise poetry elegantly balances the known, unknown and unknowable matter of existence, love and happiness, weighing the atoms of each, finding just the exact words that will draw up the perfect contract of ideas.
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NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027225 PB | 80PP | 14 JULY 2017
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Songs My Enemy Taught Me is a collection of back alley poetry and flick knife tales detailing women’s struggle against sexual terrorism and colonisation. Songs of independence. Songs of survival. Songs of uprising.
THE HILL Angela France Angela France’s The Hill is a remarkable sequence of poems that leads us up the winding footpaths of Leckhampton Hill near Cheltenham. Under our feet are fossils and flora, bones and the relics of quarrying. France is masterful in capturing the sense of place and weaving the entrancing voices of the hill, its walkers and inhabitants, into the fabric of these formally adventurous poems that range from prose to ‘anglish’, richly worded and delighting in their shapes and sounds. Here, we encounter ghosts, foxes and ancient kings. We meet the protestors who, years before the Kinder Scout Trespassers, were standing up for their rambling rights and took the law into their own hands in 1902 when a landowner tried to enclose the hill they had walked for generations. And though history is never far from the surface, The Hill raises questions that are just as important today; who has the right to roam, whose land is it, anyway?
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NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027218 PB | 64PP | 14 JULY 2017
STORMS UNDER THE SKIN: 1927-1954 Henri Michaux (Jane Draycott trans.) A Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Poet and artist Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was one of the most original and influential figures of twentieth century French poetry, hailed by Allen Ginsberg as ‘master’ and ‘genius’ and by Borges as ‘without equal in the literature of our time’. In his vividly strange narratives Michaux creates a dream-like, mercurial world of wry invention unlike any other, idiosyncratic, resistant and philosophical. Often dramatic and incantatory in his poetics, he was also an extremely private person, shunning publicity, writing as he put it for all those ‘suffering from their imaginations.’ In Storms under the Skin Jane Draycott translates poems and prose-poems from Michaux’s volumes 1927-54, including extracts from his best-loved creations Plume and the haunting realm of Les Emanglons, alongside poems written on the eve of war in Europe and during the Occupation.
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TWO RIVERS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909747265 PB | 76PP | 15 JULY 2017
MADAME BILDUNGSROMAN’S OPTIMISTIC WORLDVIEW Nora Chassler In this collection of ‘fragments, pensées and table-talk’, Nora Chassler turns her attention to the great questions of contemporary life and literature, aided by a papier-mâché mannequin named Madame Bildungsroman. Together, they exclaim visions and visitations, proclamations and protestations, fierce one-liners and bittersweet memories; each offering a unique insight into the mind of one of our most original writers.
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VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853820 PB | 69PP | 20 JULY 2017
SHE GRRROWLS ANTHOLOGY Carmina Masoliver (ed.)
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570141 PB | 100PP | 23 JULY 2017
THE NOISY CLASSROOM Ieva Flamingo It isn’t easy being a kid, especially in the noisiest class in the school. Some days, you struggle with algebra, or too much homework. Sometimes, one of your fellow pupils just won’t SHUT UP. And sometimes, the hardest thing is just trying to fit in. Ieva Flamingo’s children’s poems capture the emotional highs and lows of childhood with a sharp, surreal eye and a touching sympathy. The Noisy Classroom is a friend of a book: the poems here understand the pressures faced by children, but they also take in stressed parents, overworked teachers who dream of holidays in Iceland, and the fairies who clean the school at the end of the day. Not to mention the headmaster: after all, he was young once too... The Noisy Classroom contains 40 poems and features bonus materials, including interviews with the author and the illustrator, and ideas for writing your own poems.
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THE EMMA PRESS | £8.50 | 9781910139820 PB | 96PP | 27 JULY 2017
GUEST SJ Bradley Samhain is a young, angry and bewildered squatter living in an abandoned hotel in the North of England. One day he receives a message: his father – a man he never knew – was an undercover policeman infiltrating the Green movement of the 80s. What’s more, he finds out that he too is now a father. As Sam leaves for Europe, he pursues freedom and flees from his responsibilities. Responsibility, however, is hard to escape. Guest is a story of disillusionment, protest and, eventually, redemption.
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DEAD INK | £9.99 | 9781911585053 PB | 200PP | 27 JULY 2017
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Since 2013, She Grrrowls has been bringing live shows of talented women in comedy, music, poetry (and everything in between) to stages across London. In this anthology, Carmina Masoliver - founder, poet and feminist - has selected and commissioned new work from ten poets who have featured at the event over the years.
LARKINLAND Jonathan Tulloch Arriving in 1950s Hull, Arthur Merryweather finds himself lodging with the landlady from hell, and falling in love with fellow librarian Niamh O’Leary. But just as their love threatens to bloom, the mystery of Mr Bleaney, the enigmatic insurance salesman who rented his room before him, threatens to pull the poet into disaster and cast him into the criminal hinterland of ‘fish town’, that sublimely banal Larkinland ‘beached on the mudflats at the end of the railway line, like a brick seal with a woodbine in its gob’.
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SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781723951 PB | 268PP | 27 JULY 2017
BLAST OFF! Carole Bromley Blast Off! is aimed at 7-10 year olds but lower secondary children will also enjoy the poems which are varied in subject matter (fairytales, funny poems and serious poems, poems about school and bugs and Christmas angels and pets and siblings, about moving house, space, football, friends, marbles, musical instruments and magnesium). There are riddles and clerihews and rhyming couplets, short poems, long poems and everything in between. Here you will find poems to curl up with on your own, poems to share at bedtime and poems crying out for audience participation and performance.
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THE POETRY BUSINESS | £10.00 | 9781910367766 PB | 60PP | 31 JULY 2017
IN THE FORESTS OF FREEDOM Lennox Honychurch The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island - Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica’s Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of resistance and ultimate defeat have been known - until now. Written by Dominica’s leading historian, In the Forests of Freedom is a stirring account of how a displaced and enslaved people fought to create a free and self-sufficient society. From the Africans who took refuge on the island in the 16th century, through the two brutal Maroon Wars in the last decades of slavery, to the building of a post-emancipation nation, In the Forests of Freedom takes the reader deep into the hinterland of the Dominica story.
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PAPILLOTE PRESS | £9.99 | 9780993108662 PB | 120PP | 31 JULY 2017
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THE VALLEY PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF YORKSHIRE POETRY Miles Salter & Oz Hardwick (ed.) For this landmark anthology, Valley Press asked poets from the UK (and beyond) to consider their home county of Yorkshire. The resulting collection pays tribute to the traditions that have made Yorkshire a world-famous destination, but looks beyond ‘flat caps and whippets’ to celebrate a thoroughly modern county, whose inhabitants are as diverse as the rural and urban landscapes they call home. Featuring poems by: Amina Alyal, Bruce Barnes, Matt Black, Helen Boden, Pat Borthwick, Jo Brandon, Carole Bromley, Michael Brown, Anne Caldwell, Becky Cherriman, Neil Clarkson, David Coldwell, Oliver Comins, Joey Connolly, Julia Deakin, Janet Dean, Carol Ann Duffy, Ian Duhig, Antony Dunn, Mike Farren, Rachel J. Fenton, Kate Fox, Dave Gough, Cora Greenhill, Doreen Gurrey, Martyn Halsall, Mike Harding, Oz Hardwick, Ian Harrow, Yvie Holder, Andy Humphrey, Carol Rowntree Jones, Will Kemp, Pauline Kirk, Peter Knaggs, Gill Lambert, Patrick Lodge, Char March, Fokkina McDonnell, Andrew McMillan, Ian McMillan, Rob Miles, Pete Morgan, Helen Mort, Paul Munden, James Nash, Marie Naughton, Ian Parks, Stuart Pickford, Clare Pollard, Robert Powell, Wendy Pratt, Davina Prince, Lesley Quayle, Bethany Rivers, Miles Salter, Peter Sansom, Michael Shann, Jane Sharp, John Siddique, Hannah Stone, Matthew Hedley Stoppard, Nick Toczek, Fiona Ritchie Walker, Sarah Wallis and Mike Watts.
VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853738 PB | 112PP | 1 AUGUST 2017
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CITIZENS Ian Parks Possibly the only poet to have published poems in the TLS and the Morning Star on the same day, Ian Parks’ new collection is a book about the tensions between poetry and politics, the spoken and the unspoken, the public and the private. Accompanied by the ghosts of Ella Fitzgerald, Honeyboy Edwards and the Chartist Poets Ebenezer Elliott and Ernest Jones, Parks listens to ‘the language of the lost and dispossessed’ as he explores sites of painful historical memory – from Blackstone Edge, Cable Street, Burford and Orgreave to Wotton Bassett, Ellis Island and the killing fields of Ypres and Bapaume. Written from ‘the sharp edge of the north’, Citizens asks questions about class and identity – personal and collective, regional and national – about the responsibilities of the individual in the face of state oppression, and what it might mean to be a citizen rather than a subject.
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SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995563568 PB | 92PP | 1 AUGUST 2017
DUSK: NEW & SELECTED POEMS I.P. Taylor I.P. Taylor has been writing about the lost landscapes of the North for over forty years – old earthworks, ruined churches, derelict mine-workings, Neolithic barrows and deserted villages. Bringing together the best of this work in a single volume, Dusk is a book about enclosure, famine and deforestation, about bleak moorlands, sunken roads, nettles and cobwebs. Exploring between the pages of history, superstition, myth and the ‘threadbare cloak of folk tradition’, Taylor listens to the drovers, peat-cutters, ironstone miners, seasonal labourers, landless farmers and tramps in whose ‘hollow voice of loss’ he hears a renegade and still undefeated Albion, like a fox running from the ‘cleanshaven faces and privileged profiles’ of the Hunt, the Green Man still dancing in the trees.
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SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995563575 PB | 104PP | 1 AUGUST 2017
THE TATTOOIST’S CHAIR Karl Riordan Karl Riordan spent much of his late teens in a tattooist’s studio, fascinated by the declarations of love, badges of pride and intricate designs that reminded him of the Stilton legs of his grandfather, a miner tattooed by a working life spent underground. In his powerful debut collection, Riordan recalls and celebrates growing up in the South Yorkshire coalfield – holidays and haircuts, football pools and pool halls, Mackeson and Temazepam, Saturday night and Monday morning.
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SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995563582 PB | 72PP | 1 AUGUST 2017
Philip Fried’s Squaring the Circle is humorous and yet also mysterious in its evocation of esoteric physics and theology. The title poem presents a mystic/scientific quest for an impossible geometry as both a vaudevillian historical catastrophe and a way of understanding God. Throughout, Fried uses pastiche and the mashup of texts to explore historical moments and personal history. Behind its many forms and approaches, however, the book conveys the strong sense of a “persona”—the feeling, as Stanley Kunitz once said, that the poet has imagined a person who could write these poems.
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669747 PB | 88PP | 1 AUGUST 2017
CHRONOTOPIA Kate Fox These poems come from a variety of residencies and random thoughts over the past few years; from the Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run, from a Cheshire mill and a Muslim girl’s school in Bradford. From a homeless project, a newspaper column, two Radio 4 comedy series and a stand-up PhD. Mostly though they come from in between- where most writers and performers live. Between classes and places and genres and times.
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570097 PB | 100PP | 1 AUGUST 2017
LIVES OF THE DEAD Hanoch Levin Hanoch Levin’s poetry stands alone as a single volume in his collected works, which run to fifteen volumes of drama and prose. Levin’s poetic voice – mordant, witty, irreverent, erotic and highly satirical, yet also whimsical and delicate – is arresting, distinctive and unusual. When this volume was published in Israel, it proved to be enormously popular and went through three editions in its first year and has continued to be reprinted since. This bilingual edition makes his poetry available to an English-lanugage readership for the first time – to date Levin is best known in the UK as a playwright.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £9.99 | 9781908376640 PB | 1 AUGUST 2017
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SQUARING THE CIRCLE Philip Fried
GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU Frank Golden The visual arts have long been used by Frank Golden as co-ordinates for the generation of poetic narratives and sequences. gotta get a message to you continues this preoccupation with narrative, in this instance looking at characters at moments of crisis and transition. The book in six sections also looks at territories rent by war, and at the nature of place and habitude.
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669785 PB | 112PP | 1 AUGUST 2017
AQUANAUTS Jon Stone & Kirsten Irving (ed.) An epic collective ode to the underwater realm, from the rich broth of the garden pond to the immutable dark of the deep sea, plunging between lionfish, lanternfish, sharks and skates, monsters and manta rays, plankton and plesiosaurs. Aquanauts is a sumptuous, multi-tentacled, technicolour haul of visual poetry, a collaborative coral forest of lyrical diversity that takes the poetry anthology to new depths. Part poetry anthology part Wreck This Journal, this unusual new series will appeal both to poetry lovers, the unintiated and the curious.
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SIDEKICK BOOKS | £10.00 | 9781909560260 PB | 1 AUGUST 2017
SPIT AND HISS Mike Watts Spit and Hiss is the fourth collection by Hull born poet Mike Watts. As well as carrying Mike’s trademark brutal honesty and hardboiled insight, these poems betray a deeper and more lyrical maturity to Mike’s current way of looking at the world. From corrupt local councillors and lost weekend lovers to memories of youthful exuberance and present-tense mid-life panic, all life is here, in all its marvellous bare-arsed glory.
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WRECKING BALL PRESS | £10.00 | 9781903110577 PB | 1 AUGUST 2017
In 2011, the Trinidad government declared a state of emergency and an overnight curfew. The SoE, brought in to combat the crime and killings associated with the drugs trade, was meant to last 15 days but lasted four months. This is the background to these chronicles, but not their substance. They are an imaginative response to the undertones of those days. Taking place over 24 hours, Curfew Chronicles brings together, like a Joyce’s Ulysses in miniature, the lives of two dozen characters (including a father and son searching for each other) whose lives intersect in mostly fortuitous but sometimes quite deliberate ways. Each has a resonant backstory; each is caught at a moment of decision or revelation. As these characters criss-cross Trinidad, Jennifer Rahim builds an unforgettable world of people in a vividly realised landscape.
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CURFEW CHRONICLES Jennifer Rahim
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845233624 PB | 208PP | 8 AUGUST 2017
YOU SAD FEMINIST Megan Beech How do you feel empowered when depression leaves you powerless? How do you promote self-esteem when your internal critic always shouts the loudest? How do you change the world when you can’t get out of bed? In the second collection by the performance poet heralded by Laura Bates of Everyday Sexism as ‘one of the powerful voices of young feminism today’, Megan Beech chronicles her experiences as a young feminist dealing with mental illness.
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570103 PB | 100PP | 18 AUGUST 2017
ALSO BY THE SAME AUTHOR... WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE MARY BEARD What we said at the time: “Burning Eye seeks to break down some of the barriers that are put up between young poets and publishers to make it more accessible for poets to put work out early in their career. This chapbook from Megan Beech is the third example of Burning Eye working with a young poet in this way. Although still in her second year at University Megan has already caught attention with her infectious reeling wordplay, but, as is already evident in When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard, she is quickly moving on into more complex writing and is not afraid to grapple with political themes.” Well what do you know, looks like we were right...
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £6.99 | 9781909136267 PB | 48PP | 1 DECEMBER 2013
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KEY TITLE HOW TO BE A POET Jo Bell & Jane Commane How to be a Poet is the brainchild of poet Jo Bell and editor Jane Commane. As a natural follow-on to the 52 Project of 2014, this book aims to help poets taking the next step in developing, working and participating in the wider creative community as a writer. How to be a Poet combines practical advice and topical mini-essays that examine both the technical and creative dimensions of being a poet. It’s a no-nonsense manual where spanners are replaced with lots of ink, elbow grease and edits. At each step, plenty of questions are asked: what makes a poem tick over perfectly, how do we get it started when it stalls, and which warning lights should you never ignore?
NINE ARCHES PRESS | ÂŁ14.99 | 9781911027119 PB | 200PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
“Ireland’s accomplished political poet and satirists.” Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Times “I read this twice. Now, will make a coffee and read it again.” Gene Kerrigan, The Sunday Independent “Ireland’s best political poet.” Mike Jenkins, former editor of Poetry Wales “Brilliant satire.” Peter Tatchell “Kevin Higgins writes political poetry of the highest order, telling truth to power with Swiftian savagery and satirical humour.” Mike Quille, Culture Matters
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SONG OF SONGS 2.0 - NEW & SELECTED POEMS Kevin Higgins
SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669846 PB | 166PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
BAD NEWS GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS Edward O’Dwyer “These vigorous poems tackle the world head-on, questioning our perception of what is real and what is mere fabrication. In scenes snatched from personal relationships, from popular culture, the internet and religion, O’Dwyer displays a timeless creative sensibility expressed through a twenty-first century voice.” Eileen Sheehan “In Edward O’Dwyer’s second poetry collection, we find astute and betimes piercing images of love and loneliness, loss and finitude, as well as humour, tenderness, and satirical shafts against social follies and general daftness. Here I see a poet from a younger generation finding steady feet on the same road that poets have trod mightily in the past, the scenic route to epiphany.” Ciaran O’Driscoll
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669815 PB | 100PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
AFTER LOVE Dani Gill Every person is like a piece of gold. If you were a gold ring, a gold watch, a gold chain, you could say “I am a ring, a watch, a chain”, but these are temporary shapes. In truth, you are just gold – that is your essence, no matter how the shape changes. After Love explores identity, change and recovery after the end of a long-term relationship.
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669808 PB | 80PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
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POOL EPITAPHS & OTHER LOVE LETTERS Ágnes Lehóczky A new sequence of poems from Ágnes Lehóczky with a short poem by Denise Riley written by way of introduction. “Enter this book as into a pool: the waters are deep, revivifying, full of wonders, transformations, swirls of wild speculation, matter for dreaming and antimatter for spooky epitaph-emptinesses. Risk immersion, if you dare, in wells of language and of the heart. Enter the pool of language, memory, strange encounter, meet Celan, Sebald, Derrida, Bosch, Attila József, Vasari, and hosts of other artists of water and flows of mind. Meet your watery other, the swimmer within. And enjoy, with the same inky blocks on the page, a wonderful cultural history of the swimming pool, a liquid space for Ágnes Lehóczky’s exploration of her times, her encounters, her languages, in England, in Budapest, in the Europe of the spirit so soon to be abandoned.” Adam Piette
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BOILER HOUSE PRESS | £7.95 | 9781911343684 PB | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
LITERARY ACTIVISM Amit Chauduri (ed.) Literary Activism, activism that revisits and interrogates an idea of literature, emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where market pressures are effecting changes – on language, on the measuring of value, on the concept of influence – we might struggle to recognise. Taking in the roles of writer, critic, translator, academic and publisher, the essays in this volume follow no single line of enquiry. Rather, they offer the beginnings of an analysis of the literary world at a certain moment of globalization, while also questioning whether a literary world exists and, if it does, where its boundaries lie. Taken together, these essays initiate a series of conversations about who reads what and why, about the practice of writing and criticism at this particular contemporary moment, and about the activities and institutions that shape an understanding of what literature is and what it can do.
NONBOILER HOUSE PRESS | £20.00 | 9781911343684 FICTION PB | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017 THE MOON ON MY TONGUE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MAORI POETRY IN ENGLISH Ben Styles (ed.) From both revered established writers and exciting newer poets, the works in this new anthology offer a broad picture of Māori poetry in English. There are laments for koro (elders), hopes for mokopuna (grandchildren); celebrations of the land and anger at its abuse; retellings of myth and reclamations of history. Readers of this collection will witness the vitality & intensity of the Māori poetic voice.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £9.99 | 9781911469032 PB | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
Fergus McGonigal’s poetry often reflects the wildly manic exuberance of his performances. Ludicrous parents, pretentious idiots, the self-proclaimed zany brigade, and other fools: all receive a thorough dose of ’poetic justice’ in this volume. You’ll also find plenty of love poetry, a rich seam of surrealism, a dash of nonsense, and just the right amount of heavy stuff to balance it all out. Much of it rhymes, most of it scans, and all of it makes sense, so whatever you do: don’t tell The Poetry Police. After surveying the mess that everybody always seems to be in, himself included, Fergus McGonigal thought it was time for somebody to point out the glaringly obvious: Everyone is Now Unhappy. Except, of course, when they come across a poetry book like this one.
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EVERYONE IS NOW UNHAPPY Fergus McGonigal
BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570110 PB | 100PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
OCTOPUS MEDICINE Becci Louise An Octopus who dreams of stars, a self-important fisherman who gets what’s coming to him, and a misunderstood monster, Octopus Medicine is an invitation to adventure for the misfits, the lonely, the outsiders. These three verse stories call us down into another world--the world of the octopus--where days are dark, everything is out to eat you and nothing is really what it seems. Written for young and old alike, this is a collection to be read at bedtime, to be acted out on playgrounds, to be shared with grandparents. In its mysterious way, the octopus has much to teach us.
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TWO RIVERS PRESS | £8.99 | 9781909747302 PB | 48PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
GIRL WITHOUT SKIN Connie Ramsay-Bott Set in Michigan’s lower peninsula on Island Lake and the nearby town of Brighton, this novel covers a year from autumn of 1965 to autumn 1966. Giving voice to the residents around the lake, many of them young people, the reader learns the stories of Howard, Vincent, and Frieda. From an angry fourteen-year old growing up in a large single-parent family to a lonely eleven-year old from a broken home to a girl desperate to grow up. The loss of innocence, casual cruelty and political milieu, including the Viet Nam war press in on ordinary lives and the repercussions go on for years, despite the oblivious nature of some of the observers. From a drowning to the disappearance of a young girl, the characters reach out from the narrative, wanting to understand and be understood. Finely observed and written in deft, economic prose that gives voice to place as much as to vibrant authentic characters and community, Girl Without Skin is a poignant, sometimes unsettling debut novel from an accomplished new voice.
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CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781910836743 PB | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
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RISE Elaine Feeney “Feeney’s poems have a pounding physical presence yet they run away with the mind.” Mike McCormack “Elaine Feeney is the freshest, most engaging, and certainly the most provocative poet to come out of Ireland in the last decade... a very important Irish voice.” Fionnula Flanagan “Her poetry is a full-blooded assertion of womanhood with no holds barred and definitely no apology.” Des Kenny
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669839 PB | 110PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
BUBBLE WRAP Dean Parkin Welcome to Bubble Wrap, a snappy new collection of poems bursting with energy, imagination and charm. Alongside the epic word list of the title poem, where else will you find odes to everyday magic, three cans of spagnats, lies about trees, the sea and the moon, and the best thing about a sneeze? There’s a Haystack Noodle to make you feel brave, the horror of losing your shoes on the first day of school and the danger of picking your ball out of a brambly hedge. Discover umpteen alternative uses for your smart phone (without it leaving your hand) and many more unlikely celebrations in this exhilarating and inventive debut collection for young people of all ages.
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THE POETRY BUSINESS | £10.00 | 9781910367902 PB | 80PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
BINDWEED Mark Roper Book-ended by bird song, the poems in Mark Roper’s new collection play a series of variations on how we perceive and try to connect with the ‘more- than-human’ world. There are poems addressed to familiar companions such as the moon, or a shadow (“your dark matter / neither life nor soul”); poems that stem from travels abroad; and poems that respond to the miniature worlds, and larger implications, of exhibits in a number of museums. Throughout, Roper’s keynote alertness and subtlety of language frame and mirror his subject matter with consummate skill, allowing the reader to see, hear and sense the vital presences far beyond the margins of the page. The second half of the collection addresses a serious accident in the mountains, and its long aftermath — for which the poet’s startling attention to detail and commitment to his art and craft provides both cure and consolation.
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DEDALUS PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910251249 PB | 80PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
STAFF PICK ESSAYS ON THE WORKING CLASS BY THE WORKING CLASS
KNOW YOUR PLACE
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Dead Ink asked 22 working class writers to reflect on an aspect of the working class experience that was important to them. As the UK’s wealth gap widens and social mobility declines, Know Your Place gives a voice directly to those who are frequently ignored, deterred and sidelined. Funded on Kickstarter, this book reached its £7,000 funding goal in just one week. Featuring 22 brilliant writers who range from debut authors up to award-winning national names, this book covers a multitude of topics including sexuality, race, art, food, culture and holidays. Know Your Place is a necessary read that is as funny as it is heartbreaking, and as insightful as it is challenging. Featuring: Sylvia Arthur Gena-mour Barrett Cath Bore Kit De Waal Kate Fox Dominic Grace Ben Gwalchmai Wally Jiagoo Rym Kechacha Abondance Matanda Kath McKay Andrew McMillan Sam Mills Sian Norris Catherine O’Flynn Alexandros Plasatis Durre Shahwar Yvonne Singh Peter Sutton Lee Rourke Laura Waddell Rebecca Winson
DEAD INK BOOKS | £15.99 | 9781911585367 HB | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
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MEMORIAL TO THE FUTURE Volker Von Törne It is no coincidence that the poet Volker von Törne was, for many years, the Director of Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action for Atonement – Service for Peace), the German charitable organisation for education and reparation in countries throughout the world that have suffered under fascism and other oppressive regimes. His father had been a member of the SS in Germany in the Second World War, and as a consequence, his poetry is written from the perspective of someone who suffered, through no fault of his own, from terrible guilt after the war. This selection from von Törne’s collected poems is particularly significant in that it is a powerful and moving articulation of the psychological burden still carried by countless people today whose voices are not often heard, a burden which von Törne’s powerful, poignant and sometimes angry poetry helps us all the better to understand.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £10.99 | 9781910345641 PB | 112PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
INTRODUCTION X: THE POETRY BUSINESS BOOK OF NEW POETS In collaboration with The Writing Squad Edited by Suzannah Evans and Peter Sansom The Writing Squad present new work from their poets and alumni. Every two years the Writing Squad recruits writers between the ages of 16 and 21 and works with them to develop their writing through workshops and tutorials. These writers come from a range of backgrounds but whatever else they are up to, they are writing. Squad alumni include published poets and novelists, singers and sound artists, performance poets, journalists, radio producers, TV writers, filmmakers and playwrights.
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THE POETRY BUSINESS | £10.00 | 9781910367995 PB | 1 SEPTEMBER 2017
CITIZEN OF NOWHERE Emma Joliffe Citizen of Nowhere is the debut collection from Emma Joliffe. Emma Joliffe likes to tell stories, sometimes in others’ voices. She writes bittersweet poems with humour, hope and humanity. Emma has performed her work at gigs and festivals all over the country, winning slams, and appearing on channel 4’s Random Acts. Wherever she performs, from school assemblies to the upstairs of pubs, she always takes audiences on an emotional journey. A former teacher turned creative learning consultant, she is passionate about working with young people to help them find their voice and tell their stories. She lives with her partner by the sea and longs to own a dog.
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570134 PB | 100PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2017
In his fourth collection of poems, poet & physicist Iggy McGovern lets art and science intermingle in poems that range from the domestic to the ekphrastic, from the celebratory to the elaboratory. With trademark formality he runs his eye over an array of themes, some familiar, some less so, allowing for both conversation and collision: An epistolary paean to fellow Ulsterman Seamus Heaney borrows a Latin quotation from a letter by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton to William Wordsworth; the early history of the quantum revolution is mapped out in clerihew form, and Schrödinger’s cat takes up the position of tourguide in the famous box. The poet’s failure to write “a real love poem” and a childhood memory of near-accidental loss of eyesight are both, somehow, science’s fault. And through it all the eyes have it, narrowing, singing, weeping and (given the right conditions) dilating into Black Holes.
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THE EYES OF ISAAC NEWTON Iggy McGovern
DEDALUS PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910251270 PB | 80PP | 4 SEPTEMBER 2017
BAD KID CATULLUS Jon Stone & Kirsten Irving (ed.) How well do you know Gaius Valerius Catullus, Ancient Rome’s most notorious scandal-monger, filthsmith and lovelorn wretch? Impress your friends by having his muckiest quotes and most stinging jibes to hand at all times! In this customisable handbook, you’ll find him at his most sexy, tender, savage and scurrilous, translated in myriad ways by Sidekick Books’ many talented scribes. Catullus is seven genres; emoji Catullus; Catullus in Scots; poems sculpted into sex positions - and pages for you, the reader, to fill in, in your own obsene fashion. Part poetry anthology part Wreck This Journal, this unusual new series will appeal both to poetry lovers, the unintiated and the curious.
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SIDEKICK BOOKS | £10.00 | 9781909560253 PB | 4 SEPTEMBER 2017
THIS IS NOT A STUNT Cath Nichols In these poems, living with disability or being trans are not tragedies to overcome but ways of being, with their own humour, romance, stories and mundanity. Embracing the ordinary (‘We’re middle-aged, of course. Life rolls on’) and the remarkable, Cath Nichols revisits her childhood in New Zealand and her teenage years in Kent, before crossing several decades (and haircuts) on the gay scene in Manchester. At the heart of the collection is a sequence, ‘Bo(d)y-in-waiting’, a forthright and intimately observed narrative of Nichols’s partner as a trans teenager in an unwitting decade, thwarted and misunderstood at every turn by vacuous doctors and sceptical teachers. Readers will discover why ‘each body is an act of becoming’, and be left with a new appreciation of what makes us human.
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VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853868 PB | 80PP | 7 SEPTEMBER 2017
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THE LANGUAGE OF ELDORADO Mark McWatt Winner of the Guyana Prize, The Language of Eldorado has been long recognised as an outstanding work of Caribbean poetry. Its beauty lies in its ability to convey complex ideas through concrete images that work on the reader both sensually and intellectually. Its focus is the relationship between language, landscape and the history of human settlement in Guyana. The collection is dedicated to Wilson Harris whose challenging and paradigm-changing ideas on these matters deeply influenced Mark McWatt’s own thinking.
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PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £8.99 | 9781845234027 PB | 80PP | 12 SEPTEMBER 2017
SWIMS Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Swims is an inventive debut collection from Elizabeth-Jane Burnett. Taking the form of a long poem split into chapters, Swims documents wild swims in lakes, rivers and seas across the UK, starting and ending in Burnett’s home county, Devon. Interspersed with a sequence on the deteriorating health of her father, Swims cuts a path through Britain’s waterways investigating the lasting human effect on nature and nature’s unmistakable effect on us.
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PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £9.99 | 9781908058492 PB | 12 SEPTEMBER 2017
THE CLYDACH MURDERS: A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE John Morris The lives of the Power family were taken in 1999: a mother, her two daughters and their grandmother. But was an innocent man, Dai Morris, wrongfully convicted of this horrific crime? In The Clydach Murders: Miscarriage of Justice author and solicitor John Morris makes a forensic and shocking case that the police and the court got the wrong man.
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SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781723920 PB | 240PP | 14 SEPTEMBER 2017
Like an oil painting, Now You Can Look is a work built up of layers. The colourful subject of its narrative is a woman who takes one glance at what the early twentieth century has set out for her, and throws in her lot with art instead. On the surface, Julia Bird’s poems are beautifully textured, conjuring a life rich with ‘whispering pelts’ in theatre cloakrooms, a yellow kimono with its hem ‘like cut/ butter from an icebox’, and the intricacies of an artistic practice where ‘the fern’s already in the wood.’ The poems subtly evoke life’s peaks and crisis points, the complexities of work and marriage. Bird also playfully exploits the conventions of biography: fact and fiction blend, as the present work of recreation picks, magpie-like, from true-life tales. Covering dust-ups, heart-aches and hair-cuts, Now You Can Look communicates across the decades how women have attempted to make sense of it all by making art.
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NOW YOU CAN LOOK Julia Bird
THE EMMA PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910139844 PB | 36PP | 14 SEPTEMBER 2017
BIRMINGHAM JAZZ INCARNATION: OR, PLAYING THE CHANGES Simon Turner A man walks into a Birmingham bookshop, buys a volume of poetry, and steps out into the road, where a jazz musician seems momentarily to bring the whole city together. In the second poem in Playing the Changes, the same thing happens, only half the words are redacted. Then the experience is retold as a Petrarchan sonnet; a children’s skipping rhyme; an Acknowledgements page; a pastiche of Tristram Shandy... Drawing on the traditions of jazz improvisation and Oulipo, a literary movement where writing arises from extreme formal restriction, Playing the Changes sees Simon Turner decomposing and recomposing one of his own poems in a variety of forms and styles. The result is a hymn to the pleasures of music, reading, writing, and city life, humming with a joyous experimental energy.
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THE EMMA PRESS | £5.00 | 9781910139868 PB | 36PP | 14 SEPTEMBER 2017
LANDFILL John Wedgewood Clarke If the history of civilisation has been a journey away from our rubbish, John Wedgwood Clarke’s Landfill seeks to reverse that journey; to get us behind the chain-link fence of the dump and witness the sublime mess we’ve made of things. Clarke marvels at the ‘confessions of a people’, at archaeology in the making, with poems about old cookers, fridges, fluorescent tubes and heaps of plastic bottles. Out of their usual locations, these objects become strangely eloquent about the shape of our lives. Acknowledging that the beautiful view and decluttered house depend on the dump, Clarke responds here with neither cynicism nor sentiment; instead offering fresh perspective on a vital yet hidden part of our world.
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VALLEY PRESS | £10.99 | 9781908853844 PB | 96PP | 14 SEPTEMBER 2017
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PREY Toby Campion Prey talks us through a deeply personal yet undeniably relatable journey, through a turbulent adolescence into adulthood. Witty and refreshingly frank, Toby Campion’s poetry explores identity, class and sexuality from the back lanes of a Midlands city.
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570127 PB | 100PP | 15 SEPTEMBER 2017
THE CHICKEN SOUP MURDER Maria Donovan Michael had a nice life before the Bulls moved in next door, in the little town near the sea with its magic hills and the three pebble-dashed semis in a long arc. Three happy homes each with a long garden… Part crime fiction, part murder mystery, part meditation on grieving, friendship and family, Maria Donovan’s debut novel, The Chicken Soup Murder, is a coming-of-age story narrated with resilience and humour by Michael, whose cosy young life is threatened by bullying and blasted by visitations from the biggest bully of them all: Death. “A beautifully written novel, with characters to fall in love with.” Danny Wallace
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SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781723982 PB | 288PP | 15 SEPTEMBER 2017
SEALED Naomi Booth Timely and suspenseful, Sealed is a gripping modern fable on motherhood. A terrifying portrait of ordinary people under threat from their own bodies and from the world around them. With elements of speculative fiction and the macabre, this is also an unforgettable story about a mother’s fight to survive. 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.
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DEAD INK BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911585138 PB | 25 SEPTEMBER 2017
Twenty different cinemas have graced Reading’s streets over the years, many long forgotten and some of the earliest very short-lived. Picture Palace to Penny Plunge tells the story of the era of the single-screen cinema in Reading, from the travelling shows at the turn of the twentieth century, its heyday with the Vaudeville Electric Theatre in the 20s, through to today’s multiscreen entertainment ‘villages’ and outdoor screenings. It traces the technological developments and how they influenced the types of buildings, the numbers of seats, prices, programmes, refreshments and ownership. It describes each cinema, in the order of its opening, and includes appendices listing some of the films made in or near Reading, and some of the film actors and directors with Reading connections. Illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs and drawings, this book will bring back happy memories and is a unique record of Reading’s cinematic history.
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PICTURE PALACE TO PENNY PLUNGE: READING’S CINEMAS David Cliffe
TWO RIVERS PRESS | £12.00 | 9781909747319 PB |15 SEPTEMBER 2017
THE HOUSE OF GHOSTS AND MIRRORS Oz Hardwick Time behaves differently in The House of Ghosts and Mirrors. Generations pass each other – and themselves – in rooms that appear empty; adults occupy their childhood dreams and nightmares; stories enact themselves in portraits and postcards. Marbled with menace and mischief, with a humour as black as the cupboard under the stairs, these hard-won poems coalesce into a moving, unforgettable meditation on the passage of time; searching for certainties, and truths that are so much more than the sum of questionable facts.
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VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853851 PB | 72PP | 22 SEPTEMBER 2017
CENOTAPH SOUTH Chris McCabe Step through the iron gates of one of London’s most spectacular Victorian cemeteries on the hunt for the lost poets of Nunhead. Literary investigator Chris McCabe pushes back the tangled ivy and hacks his way through the poetic history of south-east London, revealing a map of artistic activity with Nunhead at its heart: from Barry MacSweeney in Dulwich to Robert Browning and William Blake in Peckham. Join McCabe on a journey back in time along underground rivers, through Elizabethan villages and urban woodland. Discover the surprising lives and lines of writers neglected amongst the moss-covered monuments of Nunhead Cemetery. But this is also a personal journey that highlights poetry’s force in overcoming trauma; McCabe’s exploration of Nunhead Cemetery is interwoven with diary entries that document his mother’s illness.In this latest instalment in an ambitious project to plot the dead poets of London’s great Victorian cemeteries - McCabe drills deep into the psyche of the city, and into his own past.
NONPENNED IN THE MARGINS | £9.99 | 9781908058577 FICTION PB | 360PP | 22 SEPTEMBER 2017
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PAISLEY Rakhshan Rizwan Rakhshan Rizwan’s debut collection simmers with a poised, driving anger. Drawing on the rich visual and material culture of her home region, Rizwan unpacks and offers critical comment on the vexed issues of class, linguistic and cultural identity – particularly for women – in the context of Pakistan and South Asia. She writes about the hypocrisy of the men who claim to worship women, the nuances of using Urdu or Hindi, and the many contradictions of the city of her birth, Lahore. As well as startling free verse, Rizwan’s many accomplished ghazals both explore and demonstrate her fascination with multilingualism, code-switching, displacement and belonging. The poems in Paisley are an unflinchingly feminist assault on received ideas about womanhood which present the reader with often-uncomfortable truths.
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THE EMMA PRESS | £6.50 | 9781910139783 PB | 36PP | 28 SEPTEMBER 2017
THESE DARKENING DAYS Benjamin Myers As autumn draws in, a series of unexplained vicious attacks occur in a small northern town renowned for being a bohemian backwater. As the national media descends, local journalist Roddy Mace attempts to tell the story, but finds the very nature of truth brought into question. He turns to disgraced detective James Brindle for help. When further attacks occur the shattered community becomes the focus of an accelerating media that favours immediacy over truth. Murder and myth collide in a folk-crime story about place, identity and the tangled lives of those who never leave.
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MAYFLY PRESS | £7.99 | 9781911356028 PB | 336PP | 29 SEPTEMBER 2017
WAR CHANGES EVERYTHING Melanie Hughes This is Nita’s Story. Born during the First World War, she is illegitimate. When her mother marries, she doesn’t get on with her stepfather. At grammar school she meets Yolanda who introduces her to the vibrant Italian community. The two young women become involved in the left-wing intellectual life of London in the 1930s. She meets Rikh, an activist in the India League. When war is declared, Rikh is seconded to bomber command and they marry in haste. While Rikh is away, she meets Lal, an Indian prince, and they have a whirlwind love affair. As the war engulfs the world, Rikh is posted back to India and Nita goes with him even though their marriage is unhappy…
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PATRICIAN PRESS | £9.00 | 9780995538658 PB | 200PP | 29 SEPTEMBER 2017
KEY TITLE ABANDON Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay A powerful novel from the author of Panty about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel. When she realises that her five year old son Roo has followed her, Ishwari struggles with her identity as a mother and the responsibilities that brings, versus the guilty knowledge that she cannot want her own child when his existence requires her to suppress her own dreams. Ishwari and Roo wander the streets at night, looking for a place to stay, until an elderly caretaker takes pity on them and offers them an empty room on the terrace of a guest house. Ishwari gets work as a caregiver to the handsome gentleman who lives next door, while Roo, who is lame, spends all day locked up in the room on the roof. Pulsating with raw energy, Abandon gives voice to the perpetual conflict between life and art.
TILTED AXIS PRESS | ÂŁ9.99 | 9781911284116 PB | 6 OCTOBER 2017
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VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayavovsky ‘Never have I wanted to be understood so much as in this poem,’ said Mayakovsky of his 3,000 line epic Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Written immediately after the death of Lenin’s in 1924, it proudly and passionately sets the story of the Bolshevik leader’s life against the history of capitalism and the trajectory of Soviet communism. By turns declamatory, lyrical, journalistic and colloquial, the poem is an extraordinary record of the utopian excitement of the early years of the Revolution – as well a warning that Lenin should not become an icon. It was Mayakovsky’s most significant work; no other book of his was ever printed in such large numbers. A public reading of the poem at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1930 received a 20 minute standing ovation. After being out of print in English for over thirty years, Rosy Carrick’s new bi-lingual edition of the poem firmly re-establishes Mayakovsky’s reputation as one the most important political poets of the twentieth century.
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SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £11.99 | 9780995767515 PB | 180PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
COMPOSITION IN WHITE S. J. Litherland At the start of her ninth decade, S.J. Litherland traces the red threads running through her long life, back to a Warwickshire childhood spent in country lanes and air raid shelters, and before that the ghosts of the Levellers and Diggers, the 1848 ‘Springtime of the Nations’ and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, whose frail free spirit was famously celebrated in Malevich’s Composition in White. Her seventh collection is also a secret book of England, cricket and Morris dancing, Brummie aunts and Bohemian artists and the long shadow of the war years, a state of the nation archive of a life-long socialist. What seems essential is to keep the pages open, so what is lost, or on the verge of being lost, is not forgotten.
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SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995767508 PB | 108PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
ALICE IN WINTERLAND Julie Egdell Growing up in Whitley Bay, Julie Egdell never realised how much she had in common with Lewis Carroll’s Alice. But when she went to work in St Petersburg she discovered that she was the spitting image of the Russian version of Alice – not Tenniel’s blonde school-girl, but the dark haired ‘Alisa’ of Soviet illustrated children’s stories, sarcastic and cruel and very Russian. A new city, a new language and a new identity. What could possibly go wrong? Alice in Winterland is the story of a strange and subversive wonderland, of a worm who thinks he is a caterpillar and the Baba Yaga who became a witch. It’s a book about life in post-Soviet Russia, mad hatters, temptations and tears. It is a story of exile, heartbreak, loneliness and longing, about falling down a cultural and linguistic rabbit hole.
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SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995563599 PB | 54PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
We Need to Talk is a poetry collection on sexual violence, survivorship and solidarity. On gender-based violence and genuine social change. On things that are hushed and need to be spoken of with empathy - and fact-checking. Poet Agnes Török writes honestly and courageously about lived experience and statistical societal structure, inviting the reader to reflect and join in the conversation on how to end gender-based violence. With sections speaking directly to victims and survivors, and directly to friends and family of survivors, We Need To Talk is an empathic engagement with an experience shared by 1 in 3 women, 1 in 2 trans and non-binary people and, 1 in 5 men – sexual violence. We Need to Talk is a manifesto. A call to arms. A boiling down of statistics into the long-term effects on real people. And a roadmap for how we get out of this mess.
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WE NEED TO TALK Agnes Török
BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570189 PB | 100PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
DREAMPATHS OF A RUNWAY Louise C. Callaghan At the heart of her fourth collection, Louise C. Callaghan focuses on the last days of her dying mother,
Mother dying, is looking for signs.
And now she has gone beyond personality, no longer concerned with who we are…
“A quality of natural-seeming grace is perhaps the most affecting thing about Louise C. Callaghan’s poems. The grace of a river flowing smoothly into the past, its waters sunlit but containing dark and possibly disturbing depths.” Anne Haverty
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669891 PB | 84PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
FLIGHT PATHS OVER FINGLAS Rachael Hegarty “This powerful debut collection takes us back to ‘the hatchling, nestling, fledgling grounds’ of Finglas where Rachael Hegarty was born and reared. Portrait of a working class community, portrait of a dispossessed and politically betrayed community, portrait of a self-reliant, proud, and supportive community — ultimately it is a portrait made with love and gratitude, to family, to neighbours, to friends of her youth, feral and otherwise, to teachers and to her own students, by a sophisticated and knacky literary artist of the highest integrity. This is a joyous and clear eyed book that draws on and augments the song tradition of an artistically rich area of north Dublin, a lyric tradition that encompasses Bono and Dermot Bolger; it opens that tradition to the critique and edge of contemporary poetry practice, and to the winds of Japan, Boston, Walden Pond, Emily Dickinson’s Garden. Compassionate to the living and to the dead alike, this poet stakes her ground, as mother, as lover, as artist, as link in the eternal and marvellous chain of being.” Paula Meehan
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669938 PB | 92PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
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EVERYONE KNOWS I AM A HAUNTING Shivanee Ramlochan Shivanee Ramlochan’s poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heavily symbolic. Her poems reference the language and structural patterns of the genres of fantasy or speculative fiction, though with her own distinctive features, including the presence of such folkloric Trinidadian figures as the Duenne, those wandering lost spirits whose feet point backwards. In these poems, a woman is invariably the protagonist and Ramlochan is eloquent in her exploration of the ways in which gender has to be negotiated. They constantly challenge the stereotypes of the female. The female force that Ramlochan explores in her poems is creative and destructive, vulnerable and untameable. In poem after poem, the female assumes the elemental roles of both saviour and devil.
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PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £8.99 | 9781845233631 PB | 56PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
GHOSTLIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS Mark Granier “Mark Granier is a meditative observer, offering us moments of suffused, painterly stillness. In his work there is no undue clamour to be heard, no flashy flailing about in order to be noticed. This might seem to be diffidence, but I perceive it as integritas. He is resolutely detached, has wit, is visually acute, verbally precise, finely tuned and formally in control. Yet you can feel his keen mind at work.” Liam Ó Muirthile, from the introduction to Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669914 PB | 134PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
MAP AND ATLAS Joan McBreen Joan McBreen’s Map and Atlas comes to us from a confluence of two great rivers; two streams of thought, the one private, the other public. Her map-work has been achieved through observation and memory, through a restlessness in nature and clear-headed observations made through windows flung open. “Here is a poet widely travelled, from Omey to Wellington, but with the lens constantly looking inward: ‘The senses are not visionary/ and we ask neither more nor less/ of this earth in whose measure/ we are fixed.’ Map and Atlas is a work of great emotional clarity and honesty, a poetry at once intimate and universal, from a poet who goes from strength to strength with every year that passes.” Thomas McCarthy
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669822 PB | 70PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
Jeannine Pitas’s new translation of Marosa di Giorgio, one of Uruguay’s most famous poets, includes four book-length poems from the middle of her career: The History of Violets (1965); Magnolia (1968); The War of the Orchards (1971); and The Native Garden is in Flames (1975). Occupying the same childhood landscapes that may be familiar to English-language readers from the previously published volume The History of Violets (UDP, 2010), these serial prose poems explore memory, familial relationships, erotic desire, and war. Marosa di Giorgio uses the recurring setting of a garden as a stage for the ongoing encounter of nature and the supernatural. This is a bilingual edition, with cover art by Basil King.
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I REMEMBER NIGHTFALL Marosa de Georgio
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £18.00 | 9781937027599 PB | 320PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
THE PLAY OF WAVES Immanuel Mifsud The Play of Waves is a collection of poems written over the period of five years by Malta’s most distinguished poet, Immanuel Mifsud. It falls into six sections: the first consists of mainly lyrical poems; the second explores mental instability and the fluidity of the Self; the third is a sequence of travel poems; the fourth focuses on the dialectic of body-spirit; the fifth consists of poems about sex and sexuality; and the sixth and final section is a short cycle about Medusa. Throughout all six sections, the theme of ‘waiting’ runs as a leitmotiv – waiting at airports, at the psychiatric clinic, at railway stations, sex-workers waiting for clients, lonely people waiting for imaginary lovers. This is a powerful yet tender collection from a writer whose name may be familiar as winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011 but whose unique poetic voice is little-known outside Malta.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £10.99 | 9781908376671 PB | 136PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
THE WOUND John Kinsella John Kinsella was born in Perth, Western Australia. His mother was a poet and he began writing poetry as a child. He cites Judith Wright among his early influences. Before becoming a full-time writer, teacher and editor he worked in a variety of places, including laboratories, a fertiliser factory and on farms. He has published over thirty books and his many awards include The Grace Leven Poetry Prize and the John Bray Award for Poetry. Since 1998, he has been International Editor for Arc Publications, with whom he has published four collections, the first of which, The Undertow: New and Selected Poems (Arc, 1996), was his first UK edition. His second collection for Arc, The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony (1997) was followed in 1999 by Landbridge: An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, which he edited. Lightning Tree was published in 2003, and America in 2006. His most recent collections include The Hunt, Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems, The New Arcadia and Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £10.00 | 9781910345979 PB | 1 OCTOBER 2017
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LAUREATE’S CHOICE
The Laureate’s Choice is a new pamphlet publication project from The Poetry Business working in collaboration with the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Each year, four new poets will be selected by the Laureate as ‘ones to watch’, and pamphlet collections of their work will be published under the Poetry Business’ award-winning smith|doorstop imprint. A reading tour will be held to launch the four collections each year. Last year Mark Pajak, Geraldine Clarkson, Tom Sastry and Zeina Hashem Beck were chosen. The next selection will be released on the 1st of October 2017. Coming soon... Box Set | £20.00 9781912196012 Pamphlet 1 | £7.50 9781910367827 Pamphlet 2 | £7.50 9781910367834 Pamphlet 3 | £7.50 9781910367841 Pamphlet 4 | £7.50 9781910367858
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THE UEA ANTHOLOGIES
Each year the University of East Anglia publishes an anthology of work by students graduating from the MA in Creative Writing. Published in October and launched in Norwich (at the UEA Drama Studio) and in London (at the LRB Bookshop), the anthology is compiled, edited and designed by the students themselves and represents for many their first appearance in print. The first volume, Unthank, appeared in 1990 and featured an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury, with stories by all ten students on that year’s MA. Over the years the anthologies have been introduced by a number of other writers with a strong connection to UEA, including Ian McEwan, Rose Tremain, Adam Mars-Jones, Anne Enright, Andrew Motion, Michèle Roberts, George Szirtes, John Boyne, Louise Doughty, Andrew Miller, Joe Dunthorne and Anjali Joseph. The first drama scripts appeared in the 1994 anthology, Matrix, the first poems in the 1997 anthology, Catapult, and the first pieces of lifewriting in the 2004 anthology, Concertina. These days the anthology is published in five volumes, representing the four strands of the MA programme - Biography and Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry, Crime Fiction, Prose Fiction, and Scriptwriting.
Coming soon... UEA Poetry | Foreword by Sophie Robinson | 9781911343240 | £9.99 UEA Prose | Foreword by Naomi Wood | 978191134226 | £9.99 UEA Non-Fiction | Foreword by Katharine Norbury | 9781911343233 | £9.99 UEA Crime | Foreword by Denise Mina | 9781911343264 | £9.99 UEA Scriptwriting | Foreword by Molly Naylor | 9781911343257 | £9.99
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M Antony Rowland M is the third collection from Antony Rowland, Professor of Literary Studies in English at The University of Salford, whose work has been compared with poets as disparate as John Ashbery and Ezra Pound. Jeffrey Wainwright has described his poetry as “significant and powerful”, and nowhere is this more apparent than in M, an ode to Manchester in the present moment and to the world it finds itself in, awash with the movement of peoples, cultures, politics and words.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £9.99 | 9781911469162 PB | 1 OCTOBER 2017
WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE Russ Litten The debut short story collection from the author of Scream If You Want To Go Faster, Swear Down and Kingdom. This latest batch of tales are all centred in and around Hull in the year 2017 and feature a cast of citizens whose lives play out in the furthest edges of the penumbra of the City of Culture spotlight.
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WRECKING BALL PRESS | £10.00 | 9781903110584 PB | 1 OCTOBER 2017
LOWLY Alan Felsenthal Lowly is part invocation, part invitation. The poems in this debut collection consider death, rebirth, and love, while exploring the symbols that make life bearable. Here, ancient mythology and philosophy are examined through contemporary situations, brought forth by a voice that oscillates between humorous and plaintive tones—“I invent stories. Out of other stories. I can only repeat what I have heard. // A scruple is the enemy of a moment.” Lowly is a restorative work with rhythmic lines that will resonate with the reader long after the book is closed.
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UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £12.00 | 9781937027872 PB | 80PP | 1 OCTOBER 2017
In peace-agreement Ulster a mother rears her two daughters, as her husband is decommissioned from his violent paramilitary past. In Florida a septuagenarian runs a community refuge for women and the authorities have surrounded it as a threat to national security. In laboratories all over the world the human genome is being dissected and decoded. In Three Dreams in the Key of G three female voices, Mother, Crone and Creatrix, unknowingly influence each other’s fates as each battles to assert themselves and discover their voices in hostile environments.
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THREE DREAMS IN THE KEY OF G Marc Nash
DEAD INK BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911585176 PB | 1 OCTOBER 2017
MAN O’WAR Daniel Jones Jellyfisherman Dhiraj Om is struggling to make ends meet, so when a highly valuable pleasure robot called Naomi ends up adrift in his nightly North Sea catch, an opportunity to make some quick money presents itself. Trouble is, she’s highly illegal, and her owner, underworld kingpin Agarkka D’Souza, doesn’t take kindly to his things being stolen. What’s more, he will do anything to get her back. Man O’War is a taut science fiction thriller set in a London where cutting-edge companies vie for market space with cut-throat black market operations, and around the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, a wild frontier land on the Niger Delta where one of the world’s most powerful oil conglomerates is apparently under threat from dissident rebels.
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SNOWBOOKS | £8.99 | 9781911390305 PB | 461PP | 2 OCTOBER 2017
THE KIM’S GAME Stephanie Percival When Henry Bennett, (Hal), returns to his childhood home of Leverbridge he hopes that he will meet the love of his life, Lizzie, again: his childhood sweetheart who jilted him at the altar. Instead he finds that she has been pronounced dead after being missing for 10 years. Unable to put the past behind him, Hal is drawn into events he would prefer to forget, including the discovery of the remains of Alicia, who disappeared aged six when Hal was a ten-year-old. As Hal’s life unravels, it begins to resemble a ‘Kim’s Game’, a memory game in which items placed on a tray are removed one by one. What did happen to Lizzie? What are the dark secrets of the family at the Manor? What is lost and what remains? A gripping debut novel, part thriller and part character-study, The Kim’s Game is an utterly convincing read.
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CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781910836750 PB | 2 OCTOBER 2017
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BOXING FITNESS Ian Oliver The Best Boxing Fitness Book in the World! Whether you’re serious about boxing or just serious about getting in shape this book will help. The same methods that build speed, stamina and power in the ring have just as much to offer the fitness enthusiast or the beginner. Ian Oliver’s credentials are indisputable and his advice indispensable. Whether you’re young or old, male or female, experienced fighter or enthusiastic amateur, Boxing Fitness will get you in the best shape of your life.
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PROPHETS Kwame Dawes As 24-hour television, belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers, competes with dancehall, slackness and ganja for Jamaican minds, Clarice and Thalbot preach their own conflicting visions. Clarice has used her gifts to raise herself from the urban Jamaican ghetto. She basks in the adulation of her followers as they look to her for their personal salvation. Thalbot has fallen from comfort and security onto the streets. With his wild, matted hair and nakedness, he is a deranged voice in the wilderness. Whilst Clarice has her blue-eyed Jesus, Thalbot brandishes his blackness in the face of every passer-by. Clarice’s visions give her power; Thalbot is at the mercy of every wandering spirit. But when, under cover of darkness, Clarice ‘sins’ on the beach, Thalbot alone knows of her fall. He sets out to journey, like Jonah, to denounce the prophetess and warn the Ninevite city of its coming doom. An epic struggle begins...
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PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £16.99 | 9781845234041 PB | 320PP | 2 OCTOBER 2017
NIGHT JOURNEY Nick Jones An inventive interplay between poetry and aquatints brings both to life in this limited edition pamphlet from surgeon and poet, Nick Jones. Our voracious appetite for travel has resulted in an ever-expanding lattice of tarmac across the earth’s surface. Shrouded in darkness this artificial environment envelops the solitary night driver. Its impersonal nature is the antithesis of the self yet, paradoxically, it is here that aspects of the self begin to unfold.
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CINNAMON PRESS | £5.99 | 9781910836811 PB | 2 OCTOBER 2017
Four emerging poets come together with a range of individual new voices from the Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Competition to produce this diverse and substantial anthology; expressive, sharp and layered with surprise and delight. From landscape to loss, from family dysfunction to extraordinarily powerful metaphor, In the Cinnamon Corners comforts and unsettles, encourages and challenges; an anthology that displays the powerful range and depth of accomplished new writing from writers to watch out for.
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IN THE CINNAMON CORNERS Jan Fortune (ed.)
CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781910836798 PB | 2 OCTOBER 2017
ONE FOR THE ROAD Helen Mort & Stuart Maconie (ed). This anthology will showcase a variety of new writing celebrating the British pub and everything that happens there: glass-half-full poems, early doors and last orders poems, it’s-your-round-next poems, poems so urgent they had to be scribbled on beer mats. As well as a poem, each writer featured in the book will also share their favourite pub with you – real or imagined, thriving or long-since shut. Stuart Maconie and Helen Mort will ferry you on your way with short prose pieces inspired by the theme – a literary bar-hop.
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THE POETRY BUSINESS | £10.00 | 9781910367629 PB | 2 OCTOBER 2017
WRISTWATCH Jay Whittaker Written from personal experience without a hint of sentimentality, Wristwatch charts a course through cancer treatment and recovery becoming a widow at 44; and taking on the social care system on behalf of elderly relatives. United by themes of transition and transformation, the beautifully realised sequences in Wristwatch are moving, spare and convincing.
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YOUR STAFF SILENCE PICK WILL NOT PROTECT YOU Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde’s luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement.
*** Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Also a celebrated poet, Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style, as evidenced by her constant presence on many Women’s Marches against Trump across the world. This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde’s work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published. FOREWORD BY RENI EDDO-LODGE.
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SILVER PRESS | £12.99 | 9780995716223 PB | 220PP | 2 OCTOBER 2017
Yvonne Brewster’s splendid retelling of the making of the Jamaica’s first professional theatre company, Barn Theatre, captures the phenomenon of youthful ambition, creative optimism and rollicking intellectual excitement that characterized the spirit of young people fired with the zeal of imagining a postcolonial self as distinct from a colonized self. For more almost forty years, Jamaica’s Barn Theatre was a crucial part of the development of a Caribbean theatre that extended beyond the Europhile elite. When it began in 1965, there were scarcely any plays written by Caribbean playwrights to perform. By its presence The Barn encouraged the work of dramatists such as Dennis Scott, Ashani Harrison and Carmen Tipling, and above all the work of Trevor Rhone.
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VAULTING AMBITION: JAMAICA’S BARN THEATRE 1966-2005 Yvonne Brewster
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845233600 PB | 128PP | 3 OCTOBER 2017
FORBIDDEN LIVES: LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER STORIES FROM WALES Norena Shopland Forbidden Lives explores and uncovers the hidden LGBT history of Wales through portraits of significant LGBT figures and the charting of key social and cultural moments in that history. Norena Shopland, a longstanding researcher and activist, has written an accessible and important first guide to the field which will be widely welcomed.
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SEREN | £12.99 | 9781781724101 PB | 248PP | 3 OCTOBER 2017
BONE OVATION Caroline Hardaker Bird, beast or man, we each have the same element at our core: bones. While our forms may change, the bones always remain – and in this thrilling debut, the poet celebrates their beauty and structure though folk tales, philosophy, day dreams and night terrors. Aided by a host of characters including a girl who fell in love with a mountain, a woman who can only ever look at you sideways, and a man made of bees, Caroline Hardaker creates a dozen unforgettable worlds entirely her own.
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VALLEY PRESS | £6.99 | 9781908853899 PB | 36PP | 5 OCTOBER 2017
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HERSELF ALONE IN ORANGE RAIN Tracey Iceton Kaylynne Ryan is a promising art student, used to fighting for her place in a world of men, but when a forgotten friend turns up she realises there is more than her own freedom at stake. Learning the truth about her Irish heritage, her grandfather who fought all his life for Ireland’s independence, her parents who gave their lives for the same cause, she finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of the Provisional IRA with its bombing campaigns, bloody violence, hunger strikes and patriotic sacrifice. She didn’t look for the Troubles, but they found her nonetheless, and now, whatever the cost, she must join the cause to help rid the Six Counties of the Brits. Herself Alone in Orange Rain tells the story of one young woman’s fight for freedom and independence, for her homeland and for herself.
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CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781910836767 PB | 9 OCTOBER 2017
PINCERS OF DEATH Toby Frost The empire of the ant-people is beginning to crumble. As the British Space Navy prepares to invade the Ghast homeworld, the Secret Service comes up with a daring plan – the assassination of Number One, the small and furious dictator of the Ghasts. Only one man has the qualities needed to take on a job this dangerous – Captain Isambard Smith. But Smith has problems of his own. Captured by the ruthless – and gormless – Criminarch of Radishia, Smith and his crew must survive the deadly sport of Hyperbowl, where itʼs not whether you win or lose that counts, but how you slay the game. Now Smith faces his toughest challenge yet. In order to civilise the galaxy, he will have to win a ball game, topple a dictator and organise a party for a four-year-old. All in a dayʼs work for a hero of the British Space Empire – although itʼs going to be a very busy day indeed.
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GIFTS THE MOLE GAVE ME Wendy Pratt Gifts the Mole Gave Me is an unearthing of life, a rediscovery of self after loss, and a search for the pleasurable, velvet touch of the mole’s dark journey. It is a hymn to the wild places; to the sea, the sky and the mind, in which anxieties and griefs flit and hover. The poems explore cycles of repetition, renewed attempts, vicious and virtuous circles – again and again, over and over, round and round. Things are tidal; ‘the pull of the moon in your blood’, the annual mark of a lost child’s birthday, the cyclical nature of a ‘madness’ worn around the neck like a locket. Mapping the veins and pathways of the body as surely as it does the dry stone walls and rural boundaries of the exterior, this is an accomplished and compelling collection which confirms its author’s place at the heart of UK poetry.
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VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853882 PB | 88PP | 12 OCTOBER 2017
On the cusp of womanhood, Daina Tabuna’s heroines are constantly confronted with the unexpected. Adult life seems just around the corner, but so are the kinds of surprise encounter which might change everything. Two siblings realise they’re too old to be playing with paper dolls and begin to re-examine their close relationship. A girl who dreads visiting her religious grandmother develops her own fixation with Jesus. And a disaffected young woman, bored of listlessly wandering the streets, stumbles into an awkward relationship with an office worker. The narrators of these three stories each try, in their own way, to make sense of how to behave in a world that doesn’t give any clear answers.
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THE SECRET BOX Daina Tabuna
THE EMMA PRESS | £6.50 | 9781910139905 PB | 64PP | 12 OCTOBER 2017
TRANSMISSIONS Elaine Cosgrove “A restless, probing imagination and strong, contemporary rhythms drive the poems in Sligo-born Elaine Cosgrove’s debut collection, with the poet’s wide range of interests matched only by the variety of her approach.” “A true apprentice to the vast tradition that has gone before, yet strikingly original, her craft is sharp and these brilliant poems are offered generously to strangers ‘stuck for conversation’. Cosgrove is one of the most important rising voices in Irish Poetry today.” Elaine Feeney
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DEDALUS PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910251256 PB | 80PP | 15 OCTOBER 2017
HYMN TO THE RECKLESS Erin Fornoff Hymn to the Reckless is the debut collection of Erin Fornoff, a native of the Appalachian Mountains resident in Dublin and a central figure in Ireland’s live poetry scene. Fornoff ’s reputation as one of the freshest, most invigorating on that scene is easily appreciated from this selection, but the assurance and maturity of her work narrative or lyrical - is as stiking on the page as on the stage.
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DEDALUS PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910251263 PB | 80PP | 15 OCTOBER 2017
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ON MAGNETISM Steven Matthews On Magnetism contains poems about loss and remembrance, about the relation of the Renaissance and the Classical worlds to our own, about locales within lives. They are about sounding the world, and about measuring our responses to it through its various musics. The poems in the book resonate out from the title sonnet sequence, a capricious tribute to Elizabethan ‘magnetism man’, William Gilbert. Their themes and language echo compellingly back and forth across its different occasions and inspirations.
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TWO RIVERS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909747326 PB | 15 OCTOBER 2017
REAL BARNSLEY Ian McMillan Join poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan as he looks into the past of his native Barnsley, exploring its history and recalling his own experiences of this particular patch of South Yorkshire. Barnsley – mentioned in the Domesday Book – developed incrementally into an important commercial and cultural centre, home to cinemas, theatres, civic life and Barnsley FC, McMillan’s beloved Tykes. McMillan’s Barnsley is nothing if not an eclectic mix, home to brass bands and the Barnsley Chop but the Arctic Monkeys, Saxon and Kate Rusby. It is also home to Michael Parkinson, Dicky Bird, sculptor Graham Ibbeson, Lord Halifax, Ebenezer Elliott, poet, and the highwayman Swift Nick. And plenty of colourful locals including McMillan himself: Real Barnsley is his shared story.
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SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724118 PB | 240PP | 16 OCTOBER 2017
THE OLD WEIRD ALBION Justin Hopper A captivating creative non-fiction debut, exploring landscape and Englishness across the South Downs. Through a series of psychogeographic encounters with the dark history of our open spaces and suburbs, American writer and artist Justin Hopper travels across the Sussex homeland of his ancestors in an attempt to reconnect with the land and himself.
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After giving a voice to both of Schrödinger’s pets (grumpy, and largely conceptual), Ian Stuart shows us a touching scene after spontaneous tears in Waterstones, addresses some body parts which are not what they once were, then visits the lives (and deaths) of Shakespeare’s greatest characters after the final curtain fell. Meanwhile, there are funerals and regrets, a doppelganger gives the author something to aspire to, and we hear stories from the homeless, the bus pass holders, and the unborn. Moving gracefully between humour and tragedy, this is a long-overdue introduction to an intriguing new voice in UK poetry.
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QUANTUM THEORY FOR CATS Ian Stuart
VALLEY PRESS | £6.99 | 9781908853905 PB | 36PP | 19 OCTOBER 2017
THE EMMA PRESS BOOK OF BEASTS Anja Konig & Liane Strauss (ed.) The Emma Press Book of Beasts rustles and roars with the voices of animals and humans, co-existing on Earth with varying degrees of harmony. A scorpion appears in a shower; a deer jumps in front of a car. A swarm of snowfleas seethes through leaf litter; children bait a gorilla at the zoo. The poems in this anthology examine hierarchy, herds, power, and the price we pay for belonging.
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THE EMMA PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910139882 PB | 80PP | 19 OCTOBER 2017
A WATCHFUL ASTRONOMY Paul Deaton Welsh-raised and Bristol-based, the poet Paul Deaton has produced a debut collection, A Watchful Astronomy, full of poems that are artfully formal, quietly precise, yet full of powerful emotion. Part of the popular ‘Spoke’ performance group and frequently published in The Spectator, amongst other places, Deaton’s star has been on the rise in recent years.
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SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724071 PB | 72PP | 30 OCTOBER 2017
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SAX BURGLAR BLUES Robert Walton Not so much a discovery as a re-discovery, Robert Walton’s new book of poems, Sax Burglar Blues, is his first full collection since winning a Welsh Arts Council Prize in the 70s. After a working life as a teacher, Walton has resurrected his artistic gifts, and years of experience give his work both a spiky mien and an artful complexity. Packed with memory, incident, observation, opinion, humour, outrage and elegy, this collection benefits hugely from the author’s years of experience. Subjects include: woodlice, jazz, teachers, grandparents, a canary who runs for President, Sisley’s lovely painting of the Gower, the iconoclastic poet John Tripp, a night bus named after Dusty Springfield, the beauty of an Ash tree in spring, a Dad who loves Cardiff City, the austere beauty of a Bristol church, the annoying closure of bookshops and much more!
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SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724088 PB | 64PP | 30 OCTOBER 2017
ATLANTIC DRIFT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY AND POETICS James Byrne & Robert Sheppard (ed.) Atlantic Drift is a major contribution to transatlantic poetry and poetics, publishing twenty four poets from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada. Partnering with Arc Publications for this anthology, Edge Hill University reveals its long history of teaching innovative poetry and poetics from both sides of the Atlantic, seeking to highlight new and existing writing and to define/redefine the discussion between poets from both sides of ‘the pond’. Atlantic Drift develops a dialogue between English-speaking traditions that haven’t always spoken enough to each other enough and publishes some of the most exceptional poetry and poetics written in the twenty-first century.
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ARC PUBLICATIONS | £14.99 | 9781911469193 PB | 31 OCTOBER 2017
HOLLOW SHORES Gary Budden Gary Budden’s debut collection blends the traditions of weird fiction and landscape writing in an interlinked set of stories from the emotional geographies of London, Kent, Finland and a place known as the Hollow Shore. The Hollow Shore is both fictional and real. It is a place where flowers undermine railway tracks, relationships decay and monsters lurk. It is the shoreline of a receeding, retreating England. This is where things fall apart, waste away and fade from memory. Finding horror and ecstasy in the mundane, Hollow Shores follows characters on the cusp of change in broken-down environments and the landscapes of the mind.
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DEAD INK BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911585251 PB | 31 OCTOBER 2017
KEY TITLE LISTENING TO A POGROM ON THE RADIO Michael Rosen ‘Poetry can stick up for the weak’ according to Michael Rosen, or it can ‘mock the mighty’; it can ‘glorify our rulers or it can dissect them. You choose.’ In these powerful new poems Rosen is clear about his own choices. Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio is a book about anti-Semitism, racism, Fascism and war, Trump, le Pen, and the Tory assaults on the NHS and education – the stupid and the sinister, the ridiculous and the revolting. In his first collection for grown-ups since Don’t Mention the Children (2015), Michael Rosen confirms his reputation as the heir to Jacques Prévert, Ivor Cutler and Adrian Mitchell. Few poets writing today can move so effortlessly between childishness and childlike seriousness, or dare to ask, like the child in Hans Christian Andersen’s story, why the silly emperor is not wearing any clothes.
SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £8.95 | 9780995767522 PB | 200PP | 1 NOVEMBER 2017
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TWENTY THEATRES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE Amber Massie-Blomfield Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die is a love letter to British theatre. Join Amber Massie-Blomfield as she veers off the beaten track to discover the pasts and present of the UK’s most unique performance spaces. Taking in incredible locations, unusual histories and vital communities, this is a testament to thriving in unlikely circumstances, asking what theatre can teach us today about what it means to be together. In a journey informed by a lifelong passion, Massie-Blomfield visits Theatre Royal Bath, The Minack, The Rose, Tom Thumb Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Contact Theatre Manchester, Mull’s Comar, Battersea Arts Centre, The Theatre of Small Conveniences, Slunglow Hub, Morecambe Palace Gardens, Berkshire’s Watermill, Edinburgh’s Summerhall and the building-site of Chester’s new venue.
NON- PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £12.00 | 9781908058454 FICTION PB | 200PP | POSTPONED UNTIL 2018 DEAR ANGEL OF DEATH Simone White
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A meandering and dead-serious meditation challenging the centrality of Black Music to black poetry and black critical theory, Dear Angel of Death proposes disinvestment in the idea of the Music as the highest form of what blackness “is.” This long essay includes many forms: philosophical divergence on the problem of folds for black life, a close reading of Nathaniel Mackey’s neverending novel From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, and an impassioned defense-cum-dismissal of contemporary hip hop’s convergence with capitalism.
NON- UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £12.00 | 9781937027674 FICTION PB | 80PP | 1 NOVEMBER 2017 TIDES SHIFTING ACROSS MY SITTING ROOM FLOOR Anne Tannam “A profound and tender read that requires cups of tea, a sense of humour and a packet of tissues. At turns comforting and heart-breaking, the poems address life and death without sentimentality as the poet skillfully navigates relationships with loved ones, herself and the world around her with a conversational ease that left me stumped. There are few collections of poetry that have touched me so deeply.” Alvy Carragher
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SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669792 PB | 68PP | 1 NOVEMBER 2017
Paul Sutherland has been writing and publishing poetry since 1970, with ten collections to his name. This monumental new book includes all the significant pieces from that period, along with new and unpublished works, constituting a personal epic that spans four and a half decades of writing. The collection is in turn heartfelt, philosophical, and beautifully lyrical, as Sutherland lays bare for the reader his experiences and perspectives – at once particular and universal. Completely unique, this is an unflinching exploration of a life lived through language
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NEW AND SELECTED POEMS Paul Sutherland
VALLEY PRESS | £20.00 | 9781908853776 PB | 384PP | 1 NOVEMBER 2017
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These are suburban poems describing places we go to all the time. But they creep beneath the surface of reality and find a deeper truth, some colour beyond the monochrome. From supermarkets to trains and buses, libraries to pubs, and then further afield from the Amazon to the Arctic, this collection finds that one magic spark which unites us all. By turns laugh out loud funny and life affirming, celebratory and campaigning, this book shows that we all have more in common than we think. Cranked out of an old Olivetti typewriter, Zebra is a work of depth from the Professor of Whimsy, comedy spoken word artist Robert Garnham.
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570165 PB | 100PP | 1 NOVEMBER 2017
IT’S TIME Eamonn Lynskey Eamonn Lynskey’s poems live on the edge of things – people’s ordinary lives as much as global concerns – and like all edges they can be razor-sharp. His is a voice unafraid to speak about political urgencies but also well sourced in everyday language and available form. A thought-provoking, unsettling collection of questions rather than answers:
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… My sorrow for you, whale shark and hammerhead and sleek green swordfish suddenly dispossessed of your ancestral homelands. You, crayfish and damselfish, what will you do unhoused from all your fragile labyrinths of coral?
SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669860 PB | 68PP | 1 NOVEMBER 2017
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THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF EZRA MAAS Daniel James Compelling and suspenseful, The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas is the story of a journalist searching for the truth about a reclusive artist through 60 years of unreality. A chilling literary labyrinth, the book combines postmodern noir with pseudo-biography, letters, phone transcripts, emails and newspaper clippings. Ezra Maas is dead. The famously reclusive artist vanished without a trace seven years ago while working on his final masterpiece, but his body was never found. While the Maas Foundation prepares to announce his death, journalist Daniel James finds himself hired to write the untold story of the artist’s life. But this is no ordinary book. The deeper James delves into the myth, the more he is drawn into a nightmarish world of fractured identities and sinister doubles, where art and reality have become dangerously blurred…
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TRANSLATION AS TRANSHUMANCE Mireille Gansel Translated by Ros Schwartz, with a foreword by Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City. Winner of an English PEN Award 2017. One of the great contemporary French translators, Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything - including their native languages - to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, Gansel went to East Berlin to translate banned German poets; and to Hanoi under bombardment, to work on the first French anthology of Vietnamese poetry, helping to broadcast the poets’ defiance to the rest of the world. This half memoir, half philosophical treatise musing on translation’s potential for humanist engagement also serves as a fascinating account of wartime danger, hospitality and human kinship. “A subtle, moving, and at times sad testimony that talks of poetry, the dialogue with consciousness, commitment and values that are essential to literature and to life itself.” Marina Warner
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LES FUGITIVES | £10.00 | 9780993009334 PB | 128PP | 1 NOVEMBER 2017
MIDNIGHT LEGACY Melanie Hughes Nita’s story continues. She and Rikh arrive in Madras. Rikh’s squadron is based in Amballa, one of India’s oldest military bases and head of operations for the Combined Allied Forces. Rikh takes part in bombing raids on Burma. Bored and miserable, Nita has an affair with a young pilot. She leaves Rikh and goes to Lahore, ‘the Paris of the East’. She discovers she is pregnant when the Second World War ends and communal violence is building up all over India. After meeting up again briefly with Lal, an Indian Prince, Nita finally moves to Dehra Dun. In an orgy of violence, India at last achieves her independence. And Lal is torn between Nita and his family.
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PATRICIAN PRESS | £9.00 | 9780995538672 PB | 200PP | 1 NOVEMBER 2017
‘Against barbarity,’ wrote the celebrated Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (19422008) ‘poetry can resist only by cultivating an attachment to human fragility, like a blade of grass growing on a wall as armies march by.’ A Blade of Grass brings together, in English and in Arabic, new work by poets from the Occupied West Bank and Gaza, from the Palestinian diaspora and from within the disputed borders of Israel. Including poems by Maya Abu Alhayyat, Shahid NWA and Fady Joudah, it represents part of the flourishing cultural resistance of the Palestinian people to decades of displacement, occupation, exile and bombardment. Voices fresh and seasoned converse with history, sing to the land, and courageously nurture an attachment to human fragility. Written in hip-hop rhythms, free verse and in traditional forms, these poems bear witness both to catastrophe and to the powerful determination to survive it.
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A BLADE OF GRASS: NEW PALESTINIAN POETRY Naomi Foyle (ed.)
SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £8.95 | 9780995767539 PB | 100PP | 1 NOVEMBER 2017
I WAS BRITPOPPED: THE A-Z Jenny Natasha & Tom Boniface-Webb Britpop: it’s the only term that can accurately encompass the bright, bold sound and attitude that burst from the United Kingdom in the ’90s. Beginning with the release of Blur’s single ‘Popscene’ in 1992, peaking with Oasis’ triumphant outdoor live shows at Knebworth in 1996 and closing with Pulp’s come-down album This is Hardcore in 1998, this alternative rock subgenre grew to be one of Britain’s most impactful musical movements of the modern era. Here, in more than 500 light-hearted but meticulously researched entries, musicians and fans Jenny Natasha and Tom Boniface-Webb pay tribute to a brief but pivotal moment in musical history; turning the spotlight on key players like Liam Gallagher, Brett Anderson, Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn as well as unsung heroes who fought under the red, white and blue banner in the Britpop revolution.
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VALLEY PRESS | £15.99 | 9781908853929 PB | 416PP | 2 NOVEMBER 2017
INSTEAD OF GOODBYE John Powell Ward An extended eulogy that is as spare as it is beautiful, Instead of Goodbye sees established poet, John Powell Ward, exploring a new voice at the height of his writing powers. The material is elegant, poised, and utterly heart-breaking, yet never sentimental. After a lifetime with his wife Sarah, the sense of loss is visceral, yet the control of the material never wavers resulting in an exquisitely poised lyricism cannot fail to move.
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CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781910836828 PB | 80PP | 6 NOVEMBER 2017
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ADDENDUM TO A MIRACLE Mike White Winner of the twelfth annual Anthony Hecht Prize, Addendum to a Miracle was selected by judge Gjertrud Schnackenberg, who writes in her foreword to the book: “Mike White’s short poems, sometimes no more than a single sentence, repeatedly take on, for all their brevity, like an ant carrying a leaf, a large and looming question: how could the world possibly be as it is? After choosing his manuscript, and learning his name, I looked him up on the Internet, and found his description of his love for the poetry of Issa; immediately I saw the spiritual connection. Although Mike White does not write haiku, and he is not a nature poet, and his gods, present or absent, are not Issa’s, and although his voice is a thoroughly 21st century, western voice, the lines of his spiritual descent from Issa shine clearly. White’s poems, like Issa’s, are egoless, unknowing, and profoundly surprised. Like Issa’s works of “one-breath” world-making, his poems come into existence as bubbles, momentary worlds blown into being by the breath of comedy.”
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WAYWISER PRESS | £9.99 | 9781904130895 PB | 96PP | 6 NOVEMBER 2017
A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ANTHONY HECHT & WILLIAM L. MACDONALD Philip Hoy (ed.) Anthony Hecht and William L. MacDonald met for the first time in the fall of 1954, shortly after each had arrived in Rome, Hecht on a Guggenheim Fellowship, MacDonald on a Rome Fellowship at the American Academy. Hecht was 31 years old, and MacDonald 33; both were recently married, and both were on their way to making names for themselves. Hecht would become one of his era’s most accomplished poets, and MacDonald one its most accomplished architectural historians. Though neither man could have realized it at the time, this was to be the start of a friendship that would endure for the best part of four decades.
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JIGGERY-POKERY SEMICENTENNIAL Daniel Groves & Greg Williamson This splendid gathering is timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Anthony Hecht and John Hollander’s pathbreaking Jiggery-Pokery, and comes with an introduction by Willard Spiegelman, who writes: ‘Think of “light verse” not as mere triviality but as a special form of illumination. The double dactyl makes its own claims, and does its own work. It has grown over time ... The new double dactyls collected by Messrs. Groves and Williamson prove individually and collectively that having once “learned” the rules of the form, a poet may produced a learnèd work, a poem both “simple, sensuous, and passionate” (Milton’s desideratum), and containing both “simplicity and deep feeling” (T. S. Eliot’s). Feeling goes with, not against, wit and learning. These new poets have extended Hecht and Hollander’s original. One hopes that the old masters would have approved ... the new variations on the form, in the spirit in which they have been committed.
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WAYWISER PRESS | £9.99 | 9781904130888 PB | 96PP | 6 NOVEMBER 2017
For archaeologist Maxine ‘Max’ Falkland, life in early-50s London is difficult enough as she tries to move on from the death of her brother, an RAF pilot shot down over Korea. But, when she meets John Knox things get more complicated, before they get outright dangerous. Flying her light plane to Scotland, Max overhears whispered arguments in Russian coming from the next-door room and sees lights across the moors that appear to answer flashes from the sea. Add the mysterious malfunction of her plane and she has a lot to confide when she encounters the enigmatic Richard Ash, a local landowner and recluse. When Knox unexpectedly reappears and a dive goes disastrously wrong, Max must act fast as she finds herself in the middle of a Soviet military plot. An accomplished debut novel, Cold Crash is fast-paced with enthralling characters and perfect detail.
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NOVEMBER
COLD CRASH Jennifer Young
CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781910836774 PB | 242PP | 6 NOVEMBER 2017
RAINSONGS Sue Hubbard When newly widowed Martha Cassidy returns to Ireland to sort out her husband, Brendan’s affairs, she has no idea that the remote cottage in an abandoned village on the edge of the Atlantic will force her to confront other more traumatic memories. It is New Year 2007 and, as this far-flung region experiences the full effects of the Celtic Tiger, she finds herself drawn into a standoff between the entrepreneur Eugene Riorden and hill farmer, Paddy O’Connell; a conflict between a new, moneyed Ireland and the rhythms of an older way of life. Rainsongs is a novel about memory, faith and love; a story of sorrow and forgiveness; and a meditation on the fragile, improbable ways that history, landscape and unlikely intimacies can offer redemption.
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CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781910836736 PB | 242PP | 6 NOVEMBER 2017
FOREVER, NOW Helen Cadbury Helen Cadbury’s Forever, Now charts the lives of extraordinary, ordinary humans, including the poet herself; but also those she has lived among, worked with, observed on buses and trains or discovered in the archives. Sometimes those true beginnings spiral into fiction, sometimes they remain autobiographical, as they tell moving and universal stories of love and loss, grief and new beginnings. Emily Dickinson wrote that ‘forever is comprised of nows’. This collection will affirm the sense that ‘now’ is the only thing we truly have – and reveal it as something to be celebrated and acknowledged, not least in this remarkable book, which offers Helen’s devoted readership a chance to discover the full breadth of her compassion for characters and talent for telling their stories.
POETRY
VALLEY PRESS | £8.99 | 9781908853943 PB | 72PP | 9 NOVEMBER 2017
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DON’T STOP THE CARNIVAL Kevin Le Genre
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Don’t Stop the Carnival tells the story of Black British Music from Roman times to the mid 1960s. This is a story of empire, colonialism and then the new energies released by the movements for freedom and independence of the post second-world-war years; of the movements of peoples across borders; of the flow of music around the triangle that takes in Africa, the Caribbean, the USA and Great Britain; of temporary but highly influential visitors like Paul Robeson; and of the settlement of ex-colonial peoples who brought their music to Britain, and changed its forms and concerns in the new context. It is the story of institutions like the military that provided spaces for black musicians, but it is also the story of individuals like John Blanke, the black trumpeter in the court of Henry VIII, Ignatius Sancho the composer and friend of Laurence Sterne in the 18th century, early nineteenth century street performers such as Joseph Johnson and Billy Waters, child prodigies such as George Bridgewater and composers such as Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in the later 19th whose music is still played today. Above all, it is the story of those individuals who changed the face of British music in the post-war period, who collectively fertilized British jazz, popular music and street theatre in ways that continue to evolve in the present. This is the story of the Windrush generation who brought calypso and steelband to Britain’s streets, Caribbean jazz musicians such as Joe Harriot and Shake Keane, or escapees from apartheid South Africa, such as Chris McGregor and Dudu Pukwana who brought modernity and the sounds of Soweto to British jazz, and a later generation who gave ska and reggae distinctive British accents. Based on extensive research and many first-hand interviews, one of the great virtues of Kevin Le Gendre’s book is lack of London-centricity, its recognition that much important development took place in cities such as Manchester, Leeds and Bristol. As a noted reviewer of black music for the BBC, the Independent, Echoes and other journals, Le Gendre brings together both a sense of historical purpose and the ability to actually describe music in vivid and meaningful ways.
NONFICTION
PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £19.99 | 9781845233617 PB | 320PP | 14 NOVEMBER 2017
THE BEST POETRY BOOK IN THE WORLD Jenn Hart & Clive Birnie (ed.) The Best Poetry Book in the World is a collection of popular poems from published poets from the last five years. Celebrating Burning Eye’s 5th birthday, this anthology brings together all the anthems, the foot stompers, finger clickers, belly laughing crowd-pleasers under one cover. Prepare yourselves.
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BURNING EYE BOOKS | £12.99 | 9781911570158 PB | 150PP | 16 NOVEMBER 2017
Verse Matters harnesses the power of everyday stories, highlighting the strength and inspiration that comes from speaking out proudly in unsettled times. This anthology of poems and prose, edited by award-winning Sheffield-based writers Helen Mort and Rachel Bower, brings a diverse range of voices to the fore, from celebrated contemporary poets like Malika Booker, Liz Berry and Hollie McNish to first-time published writers from home and abroad. What brings them together is the extraordinary, ordinary tales they tell each other, and their determination to be heard.
POETRY
NOVEMBER
VERSE MATTERS Helen Mort & Rachel Bower (ed.)
VALLEY PRESS | £10.99 | 9781908853875 PB | 128PP | 16 NOVEMBER 2017
ME AND MY CAMERA Malachi O’Doherty From his first, fifteen-shilling model, complete with detachable flashbulb (‘a toy, if an incendiary one’), the camera and its uses have been a subject of fascination for Malachi O’Doherty. Associated with love and power, with presence and absence, the physical object of the camera provides a lens into histories both personal and social. Me and my Camera moves from the stiff poses of mid-century family portraits, through O’Doherty’s own experiences in journalism at the height of the Troubles, to the dynamics of candour and control in the modern selfie. Rich with sensory detail, this essay explores the complex relationships between photographers and their work; photographs and their beholders. It offers both a defence of the romantic love of landscape, and a celebration of the continuous, frequently surprising process of learning to create.
NONFICTION
THE EMMA PRESS | £6.50 | 9781910139929 PB | 64PP | 16 NOVEMBER 2017
THE LEOPARD’S REWARD Gerrard Loughran
AWAITING IMAGE
Why did Joe dodge his shift down the mine and what happened when his brother took his place? Can a computer get angry? Why did an encounter with an upturned glass so terrify a group of newsmen? Can new babies communicate without speaking? These and other intriguing questions are posed in Gerard Loughran’s short stories, written after years of foreign reporting and set in venues as far apart as Africa today and yesterday, France during World War One, ancient Tarsus, everyday Britain and outer space.
POETRY
IRON PRESS | £9.00 | 9780995457904 PB | 100PP | 23 NOVEMBER 2017
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THE STUDY CIRCLE Haroun Khan High up on the 17th floor of a South London council block, a study circle is being held. They’re studying the Koran and Ishaq has been attending for five years now, – but official interest in the group is building. With an EDL march in just a few days time, some of them think they might be under surveillance. Ishaq is secure in his identity as British and Muslim but, as papers discuss Asian sex gangs in the North and a European politician appears on television discussing a final solution, he wonders if Britain itself sees him the same way. When he runs into Shams, an old friend looking for work, Ishaq offers to help him out. And that’s all it takes to begin a chain reaction that will collide with extremism, nationalism, and MI5. Based upon Haroun Khan’s own experiences with extremism being brought up on a South London council estate, The Study Circle is a groundbreaking look into the state of modern Britain through the lives of urban Muslim youth.
DEAD INK | £9.99 | 9781911585336 PB | 4 DECEMBER 2017
Pike in a Carp Pond is a book about vision and resilience, imagination and the making of meaning. In her first full-length collection, Pnina Shinebourne re-imagines the lives of two major twentieth-century figures – the English painter Stanley Spencer, and the German Communist leader Rosa Luxemburg. While Spencer (1891-1959) found glimpses of heaven in the lives of Cookham villagers, soldiers in the trenches and shipyard workers on the Clyde, Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) spent her life trying to build a socialist society free from political, social and economic oppression. One was an artist, the other a politician, but Pnina Shinebourne argues that they were both revolutionaries who combined the literal and the visionary in their desire to articulate our aspirations for a better world.
POETRY
DECEMBER
PIKE IN A CARP POND Pnina Shinebourne
SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.95 | 9780995767553 PB | 64PP | 1 DECEMBER 2017
THE GREAT PLAN B Justyna Bargielska Justyna Bargielska is one of the most distinctive and original young poets writing in Polish today. She has published eight poetry collections, won the Rainer Maria Rilke poetry competition, and twice won the Gdynia Literary Prize. Gazeta Wyborcza recently predicted that she will be one of the favourites to win the Nobel Prize in 2040. Although her work has been translated into French, German, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Dutch, Russian and Czech, this is the first time that her poems have been collected in English. The Great Plan B introduces British readers to the work of a poet who examines, with forensic precision, the landscapes of quotidian existence, our disappointments and humiliations. Combining colloquial diction, philosophical enquiry and religious references, these poems are witty, tongue-in-cheek, both self-deprecating and macabre while death is increasingly present, implacable. You can never be entirely certain whether she is serious or joking.
POETRY
SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9780995767546 PB | 96PP | 1 DECEMBER 2017
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION Christopher Bigsby Writers in Conversation compiles Christopher Bigsby’s interviews with the world’s greatest writers from over a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre’s International Literary Festival at the University of East Anglia. These often candid, in-depth, witty and illuminating exchanges shine a light on the craft and profession of the working writer today; a must buy for any scholar or fan of any of these household names. Features interviews with Naomi Alderman, David Almond, Tash Aw, Vince Cable, Tracy Chevalier, Bernard Cornwell, Andrew Cowan, Richard Dawkins, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Fry, David Hare, Emma Healey, Charlie Higson, Eimear McBride, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Lawrence Norfolk, Paul Nurse, Jane Smiley, Rose Tremain, David Vann and Vendela Vida.
NONBOILERHOUSE PRESS | £15.99 | 9781911343134 FICTION PB | 416PP | 1 DECEMBER 2017
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WHISPERS OF BETTER THINGS: GREEN BELTS TO NATIONAL TRUST - HOW THE HILL FAMILY CHANGED OUR WORLD Duncan Mackay Whispers of Better Things is a quest to understand the origins of some of the campaigns in Victorian England for greater social and environmental justice. These movements created a legacy that still enriches our lives today. Without them we would not have the National Trust, Green Belts, ‘rights of air and exercise’, play grounds, public sanitation, or social housing. Without them, beauty would take even less precedence in public decision making than it does today. This book focuses on the Hill family, their forebears and associates who, by standing up and standing out in Victorian society, led the way to these better things. Some of these whispers require our attention today lest we lose them or fail to enhance and adapt them to our current and future needs.
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TWO RIVERS PRESS | £12.00 | 9781909747333 PB | 96PP | 1 DECEMBER 2017
SPELLBINDER Ghillian Potts Brook, now called Spellbinder, is working as Remembrancer to her friend Graycat, now known as Young Overlord Lady Quicksilver, when Storytellers start disappearing. Spellbinder is captured and forced to summon the Elder Dragons, but when she cannot control them, she must break her Storyteller vow and forfeit her most precious possession – her name. For ages 9 and up.
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ARACHNE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909208469 PB | 192PP | 7 DECEMBER 2017
PREVIOUSLY IN THE SERIES... BRAT On her twelfth birthday Brat’s father disappears. She waits, but he never comes back. When she goes looking she is laughed at, and her belongings stolen. Reduced to begging and determined to find out what has happened to him, she falls in with Gray and Baylock, whom she quickly discovers are outlaws, but there is far more to either of them than a falling out with the law, and Brat find that nothing is simple, nowhere is safe, and being reunited with her family is going to be difficult, and something she may decide must wait as more pressing tasks fall into her path.
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ARACHNE PRESS | £8.99 | 9781909208414 PB | 176PP | 6 JUNE 2016
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Poetry Ireland Review is a highly-regarded journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and visual artists The editor changes every five issues, and now it’s Eavan Boland’s turn to take the reigns... Issue 121
Eavan Boland’s first issue as editor of Poetry Ireland Review aims to encourage a conversation about poetry which is ‘noisy and fractious certainly.. but a conversation nevertheless that can be thrilling in its reach and commitment’. There are new poems from Thomas McCarthy, Jean Bleakney, Wendy Holborow, Paul Perry, Aifric Mac Aodha, and many others, while the issue also includes work from Brigit Pegeen Kelly, with an accompanying essay on the poet by Eavan Boland. Eavan Boland also offers an introduction to the work of poet Solmaz Sharif, while there are reviews of the latest books from Simon Armitage, Peter Sirr, Lo Kwa Mei-en, and Vona Groarke, among others. PIR 121 also includes Theo Dorgan’s elegiac tribute to his friend John Montague – a canonical poet, in contrast to the emerging poets Susannah Dickey, Conor Cleary and Majella Kelly, who contribute new work. Price: £10.00
ISBN: 9781902121697
Pub date: 9 May 2017
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Price: £10.00 ISBN: 9781902121673 Pub date: 30 November 2017
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WATERFALL OF STARS Rosanne Alexander
When Rosanne Alexander’s boyfriend Mike was offered the job of warden of Skomer, a small uninhabited island off the south west tip of Wales, they had just ten days to leave college, marry (a condition of employment) and gather their belongings and provisions for the trip to the island. This was the first of many challenges Rosanne and Mike faced during their ten years on the nature reserve, from coping with periods of isolation when they were the island’s only inhabitants, to dwindling food supplies during the winter when rough weather made provisioning from the mainland impossible. Thrown on their own resources they had also to deal with catastrophes like the devastation of the island’s seal colony following an oil spill. With great sensitivity, and humour, Rosanne Alexander relates their experiences on Skomer, including her observations of the island’s wildlife and landscape. It is an important breeding ground for many birds, and shearwaters, puffins and kittiwakes – and the seals – become a source of pleasure and companionship. With her lyrical evocation of the natural world and its enthusiastic and resourceful approach to the problems of island life, Alexander’s book will inspire and entertains anyone who has felt the need for escape.
£12.99 | 9781781723807 | HB | 360PP | 16 MAY 2017
DARK LAND, DARK SKIES Martin Griffiths In Dark Land, Dark Skies, astronomer Martin Griffiths subverts conventional astronomical thought by eschewing the classical naming of constellations and investigating Celtic naming. Ancient peoples around the world placed their own myths and legends in the heavens, though these have tended to become lost behind the dominant use of classical cultural stories to name stars. In many cases it is a result of a literary culture displacing an oral culture. Dark Land, Dark Skies is an informative guide to star-gazing which will be welcomed by the amateur and professional astronomer alike. The book includes fifty-two star charts covering the entire celestial year to aid identification of the changing constellations and 80 photographs of astronomically interesting objects, and Griffiths’ practical commentary is accompanied by his alternative, interpretation of the night sky.
£12.99 | 9781781723838 | HB | 264PP | 12 JUNE 2017
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INDEX Alexander, Rosanne Arthur, Sylvia Auton, Rob Balmer, Josephine Bandyopadhyay, Sangeeta Bargielska, Justyna Barnes, Emma Barrett, Gena-mour Bean, Victoria Beck, Zeina Hashem Beech, Megan Bell, Jo Bigsby, Christopher Bird, Julia Birnie, Clive Black, Matt Boland, Eavan Bonniface-Webb, Tom Booth, Naomi Bore, Cath Bower, Rachel Bradley, SJ Brewster, Yvonne Bromley, Carole Budden, Gary Burnett, Elizabeth-Jane Byrne, James Cadbury, Helen Callaghan, Louise C. Campion, Toby Çapan, Cevat Carrington, Leonora Chassler, Nora Chauduri, Amit Clarke, John Wedgewood Clarkson, Geraldine Cliffe, David Cockrill, Dan Cogsgrove, Elaine Commane, Jane Crockatt, Ian Crucefix, Martyn Danes, Jenny
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Dawes, Kwame de Georgio, Marosa De Waal, Kit Deaton, Paul Devi, Ananda Donovan, Maria Draycott, Jane Duffy, Carol Ann Eddo-Lodge, Reni Egdell, Julie Evans, Suzannah Feeney, Elaine Felsenthal, Alan Flamingo, Ieva Fornoff, Erin Fortune, Jan Fox, Kate Foyle, Naomi France, Angela Fried, Philip Frost, Toby Gallon, Harry Gansel, Mireille Garnham, Robert Gill, Dani Golden, Frank Grace, Dominic Granier, Mark Groves, Daniel Guangquin, Ye Gwalchmai, Ben Hardaker, Caroline Hardwick, Oz Hart, Jenn Harvala, Pirkka Hecht, Anthony Hegarty, Rachel Hershman, Tania Higgins, Kevin Hine, Anne Honychurch, Lennox Hopemsmith, Sophie Hopkins, Tamsin Hopper, Justin
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Hoy, Phillip 60 Hubbard, Sue 61 Hughes, Melanie 36,58 Hyder, Amaan 7 Iceton, Tracey 50 Irving, Kirsten 22,31 James, Daniel 58 Jess-Cooke, Carolyn 6 Jiagoo, Wally 29 Joliffe, Emma 30 Jones, Daniel 45 Jones, Nick 46 Kechacha, Rym 29 Khan, Haroun 64 Kinsella, John 41 Konig, Anja 53 Lambert, Richard 10 Le Genre, Kevin 62 Lefebvre, Noemi 7 Leger, Nathalie 4 Lehóczky, Ágnes 26 Levin, Hanoch 21 Liane, Strauss 53 Litherland, S.J. 38 Litten, Russ 44 Lorde, Audre 48 Loughran, Gerrard 63 Louise, Becci 27 Lynskey, Eamonn 57 MacDonald, William L. 60 Mackay, Duncan 66 Maconie, Stuart 47 Marriot, Ian 10 Masoliver, Carmina 17 Massie-Blomfield, Amber 56 Matanda, Abondance 29 Matthews, Steven 52 Mayavovsky, Vladimir Vladmirovich McBreen, Joan 40 McCabe, Chris 35 McGonigal, Fergus 27 McGovern, Iggy 31 McKay, Kath 29 McMillan, Andrew 29 McMillan, Ian 52 McWatt, Mark 32 Michaux, Henri 16 Mifsud, Immanuel 41 Mills, Sam 29 Mina, Denise 43 Morris, John 32
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Tรถrรถk, Agnes Tulloch, Jonathan Turner, Simon Von Tรถrne, Volker Waddell, Laura Walton, Robert Ward, John Powell Watts, Mike Weighill, Damien White, Mike White, Simone Whittaker, Jay Williams, Peter Gordon Williamson, Greg Wilson, Harris Winston, Rebecca Wood, Naomi Wright, Andrew Yoon, Prabda Young, Jennifer
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Another Justified Sinner | 9781911585015
Catacombs of the Undercity | 9781909679665
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Eve Out of Her Ruins | 9780993009341
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Songs My Enemy Taught Me | 9780993103896
The Sad Part Was | 9781911284062
In The Beginning Was the Word, Then A Drawing, Then More Words, Another Drawing, And So On, And So On | 9781911570073
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Blue Self-Portrait | 9780993009327
Storms Under the Skin: Selected Poems 19271954 | 9781909747265
[JULY] Black Teeth And A Brilliant Smile | 9781903110560
Madame Bildungsroman’s Optimistic Worldview | 9781908853820
The Way Things Are: A Collection of Poems and Stories | 9781784614447
She Grrrowls Anthology | 9781911570141
The Voice of Water | 9781910345672
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Spit and Hiss | 9781903110577
Cenotaph South | 9781908058577
Curfew Chronicles | 9781845233624
Paisley | 9781910139783
You Sad Feminist | 9781911570103
These Darkening Days | 9781911356028
When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard | 9781909136267
War Changes Everything | 9780995538658
[SEPTEMBER} How to Be A Poet | 9781911027119
[OCTOBER] Abandon | 9781911284116
Song of Songs 2.0: New & Selected Poems | 9781910669846
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | 9780995767515
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Pool Epitaphs & Other Love Letters | 9781911343684
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Literary Activism | 9781911343684
Dreampaths of a Runway | 9781910669891
The Moon on my Tongue: An Anthology of Maori Poetry In English | 9781911469032
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Everyone is Now Unhappy | 9781911570110
Everyone Knows I Am A Haunting | 9781845233631
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Ghostlight: New & Selected Poems | 9781910669914
Girl Without Skin | 9781910836743
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Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class | 9781911585367
Laureate’s Choice Box Set | 9781912196012
Memorial to the Future | 9781910345641
Laureate’s Choice 1 | 9781910367827
Introduction X: The Poetry Business Book of New Poets | 9781910367995
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Citizen of Nowhere | 9781911570134
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The Eyes of Isaac Newton | 9781910251270
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Bad Kid Catullus | 9781909560253
UEA Poetry Anthology | 9781911343240
This is Not a Stunt | 9781908853868
UEA Prose Anthology | 978191134226
The Language of Eldorado | 9781845234027
UEA Non-Fiction Anthology | 9781911343233
Swims | 9781908058492
UEA Crime Anthology | 9781911343264
The Clydach Murders: A Miscarriage of Justice | 9781781723920
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Birmingham Jazz Incarnation: or, Playing the Changes | 9781910139868
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Landfill | 9781908853844
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I Was Britpopped: The A-Z | 9781908853929
Night Journey | 9781910836811
Instead of Goodbye | 9781910836828
In the Cinnamon Corners | 9781910836798
Addendum to a Miracle | 9781904130895
One for the Road: An Anthology of Pubs and Poetry | 9781910367629
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Your Silence Will Not Protect You | 9780995716223
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Vaulting Ambition: Jamaica’s Barn Theatre 19662005 | 9781845233600
Rainsongs | 9781910836736
Forbidden Lives: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Stories from Wales | 9781781724101
Forever, Now | 9781908853943
Bone Ovation | 9781908853899
Don’t Stop the Carnival | 9781845233617
Herself Alone in the Orange In the Orange Rain | 9781910836767
The Best Poetry Book in the World | 9781911570158
Pincers of Death | 9781910183243
Verse Matters | 9781908853875
Gifts the Mole Gave Me | 9781908853882
Me and My Camera | 9781910139929
The Secret Box | 9781910139905
The Leopard’s Reward | 9780995457904
Transmissions | 9781910251256
[DECEMBER] The Study Circle | 9871911585336
Hymn to the Reckless | 9781910251263
Pike in a Carp Pond | 9780995767553
On Magnetism | 9781909747326
The Great Plan B | 9780995767546
Real Barnsley | 9781781724118
Writers in Conversation | 9781911343134
The Old Weird Albion | 9781908058379
Whispers of Better Things | 9781909747333
Quantum Theory of Cats | 9781908853905
Spellbinder | 9781909208469
The Emma Press Book of Beasts | 9781910139882
Brat | 9781909208414
A Watchful Astronomy | 9781781724071
Poetry Ireland Issue 121 | 9781902121697
Sax Burglar Blues | 9781781724088
Poetry Ireland Issue 122 | 9781902121659
Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics | 9781911469193
Poetry Ireland Issue 123 | 9781902121673
Hollow Shores | 9781911585251
Acumen
[NOVEMBER] Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio | 9780995767522
Agenda
Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die | 9781908058454
Banipal | 9780995636927
Dear Angel of Death | 9781937027674
Brittle Star
Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor | 9781910669792
Envoi
New and Selected Poems | 9781908853776
Naked Punch
Zebra | 9781911570165
The North
It’s Time | 9781910669860
Under the Radar
The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas | 9781911585299
Waterfall of Stars | 9781781723807
Translation as Transhumance | 9780993009334
Dark Land, Dark Skies | 9781781723838
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