Inpress Catalogue July-September 2018 by Inpress Ltd

INPRESS BOOKS

JULY - SEPTEMBER 2018 BOOKS FOR INDEPENDENT THINKERS

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ABOUT INPRESS Established in 2002, Inpress are an Arts Council funded sales & marketing agency who work with independent publishers to help their books reach a wider audience.

Based in Newcastle upon Tyne we work with over 40 brilliant small presses and as such are a one stop shop for booksellers and book-lovers alike who are looking for something a little bit different. Our diverse and innovative publishers produce around 300 books a year on a range of subjects so whatever your niche, we have something for you. Our quarterly catalogue showcases work by all publishers, big and small and our in house sales team and local reps are always happy to talk our list in more depth, so please get in touch!

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TRANSLATED FICTION

While we at Inpress proudly embrace our reputation as poetry specialists, over the past few years we’ve been working hard to pull together a brilliant list of publishers who publish groundbreaking translated fiction.

Tilted Axis Press, Charco Press, Istros Books and many more have all joined the Inpress family and our backlist grows stronger and more eclectic every day, with writers from all over the world finding new readers in a new language. Below you’ll find six of our favourite new and forthcoming titles, and there’s lots more to come. If you’d like to learn more about the full list please get in touch.

The President’s Room Ricardo Romero 9781999722722 Charco Press

Gaudeamus Mircea Eliade 9781908236340 Istros Books

Ukulele Jam Alen Mešković 9781781723425 Seren

The Devils’ Dance Hamid Ismailov 9781911284130 Tilted Axis Press

Eve out of Her Ruins Ananda Devi 9780993009341 Les Fugitives

The Earthen Gate Jia Pingwa 9781912436026 Valley Press

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INDIE NON-FICTION

Independent publishing is a broad church, where everyone can find their niche, take a look at some of the diverse non-fiction titles available covering everything from vegan cooking to the Wu-Tang Clan.

Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class Nathan Connolly (ed) In 21st century Britain, what does it mean to be working class? Now available in paperback, this bestselling anthology has been making waves since it was first published and continues to ask questions. Dead Ink Books 9781911585374 | £9.99

The Occasional Vegan Sarah Philpott

I Was Britpopped: The A-Z Jenny Natasha & Tom Boniface-Webb

Here are 70 simple, tasty and fun recipes, which will appeal to newcomers and long-time vegans alike and keep them well-fed and healthy. Popular blogger Sarah Philpott’s recipes are accompanied by the story of her journey to becoming a vegan.

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.

Seren 9781781724316 | £12.99

Valley Press 9781908853929 | £15.99

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America’s New Public Enemy No. 1 Cyrus Bozorgmehr Take a kid with a dream. A legendary hip hop group. 6 years of secret recordings. A casing worthy of a king. A single artifact. Hallowed establishment institutions. An iconoclastic auction house. The world’s foremost museum of modern art. A bidding war. Endless crises of conscience. An angry mob. A furious beef. A sale. A villain of Lex Luthor-like proportions. Bill Murray. The FBI. The internet gone wild. £12.99 | 9781909762657 | Jacaranda Books

VISITING THE MINOTAUR Claire Williamson Claire Williamson has written a vivid collection of poems: Visiting the Minotaur, full of artful reflections, refractions and re-workings of incidents that reveal a fraught childhood and adolescence, a family riddled with dark secrets and tragedy, and her ensuing quest to escape this legacy and create a happier household for her own family. Each poem fashions its own wordscape of love and loss. Sometimes the author borrows from classic mythology. The image of the minotaur, the beast in the labyrinth, recurs and helps the poet come to terms with and exorcise the violence she experienced as a child. Other useful analogies are found in cubist paintings or etchings, such as the Picasso that inspired the title poem. There are well-observed poems about the physical aspects of motherhood that add to the literature of that genre. The poems are not without considerable humour, delicate ironies, tender observations and just plain fun.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724439 PB | 72PP | 30 APRIL 2018 | POETRY

FISH SOUP Margarita García Robayo Uncomfortable family situations, unfortunate health conditions, people on the brink of survival – this is what each story in this collection captures, every ripple and every echo that travels from one person to another. With narrative ease and a seductive pull, Margarita García Robayo reminds us that sometimes intimate struggles are as fragile as they are political, and there is nothing but time that keeps us going. Longing to get out of the coastal village where she lives, an ambitious girl thinks up the best plan for escape: becoming a flight attendant. In her cynical and sad voice and a dark, dirty city, we find the other side of the happy Caribbean. In this context, another American dream is lived and relationships start to fumble and bring claustrophobia. It’s a habitat that naturalizes petty violence and where the accepted code is competition and necessity. A story that ponders the destiny of its characters in the middle of catastrophes that can be real, self-provoked or the result of an intelligent strategy.

CHARCO PRESS | £9.99 | 9781999859305 PB | 200PP | 21 MAY 2018 | FICTION

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.

PENNED IN THE MARGINS | £14.99 | 9781908058454 PB | 200PP | 25 MAY 2018 | TRAVEL / THEATRE

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TALKING TO WOMEN Nell Dunn With an introduction from Ali Smith. In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. Novelist Edna O’Brien remembers being ‘very frightened’ of having her nipples touched. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty says she got married to the ‘first man I could talk very freely to’. Kathy Collier, who Dunn worked with in a Battersea sweet factory, confesses that she had thought about suicide. After more than forty years out of print, Talking to Women is still as sparkling, honest, profound, funny and wise as when it was first published. With a new afterword by Nell Dunn. “Nell Dunn has always specialised in listening to women talking. To do this successfully means a delicate sense of time and place, and she is an artist in both. Penelope Fitzgerald

SILVER PRESS | £10.99 | 9780995716216 PB | 170PP | 29 MAY 2018 | WOMEN’S STUDIES

SWARM OF DUST Evald Flisar “A world without truth would be an immensely sad place,” states the magistrate in the murder trial of local boy, Janek. A young man with serious mental issues, Janek weaves a ‘chestnut crown’ from the leaves of a supposedly sacred tree in an attempt to rid himself of the demons of the past through a pagan ceremony. The crown is later found on the body of the farmer Geder - stabbed to death with a bread knife. Through a series of flashbacks during the subsequent interrogations, we learn of Janek’s story: from the perversion of his relationship with his mother, to the frustrations of his love affair with Daria and his inability to complete his studies or free himself from the ghosts which haunt him. A Swarm of Dust is widely considered to be one of Evald Flisar’s finest works of fiction, questioning the very notion of objective truth and subverting the norms of Judeo-Christian morality.

ISTROS BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781908236371 PB | 190PP | 25 JUNE 2018 | FICTION

THE NEGLIGENTS Kate Smith A tragic yet humorous coming-of-age story, The Negligents plots the flailing friendship between Polina and Grace and their troubled families. The fascinating intricacies of their lives are seen from multiple viewpoints as an interwoven series of scenes unfold, but who is telling the truth and who has secrets yet to reveal? As a former lawyer, author Kate Smith is fascinated by legal constructs, turning them upside down and inside out to shed light on the messy business of being alive. In this, her debut novel, she uses the framework of a legal negligence claim to explore the nature of friendship, of family loyalty and how a simple act of carelessness can have deeply toxic consequences.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781908853592 PB | 288PP | 4 JUNE 2018 | FICTION

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FONDUE A. K. Blakemore “[A] dazzling and immensely readable collection.” Andrew McMillan ‘never say / the best of summer’s gone’, the poem asks, a plea for permanence that sustains throughout Fondue, the second collection by A. K. Blakemore. In these louche, candid poems, bearing the marks of Mary Ruefle, Emily Dickinson and The Smiths, the inner life prowls, smoking a cigarette, as the fantasies of sex and violence allowed to play out in the subjugations that have long been the poet’s concerns. Here they are exposed, interrogated and attacked with a fierce melancholy. These lines understand their power to manipulate: ‘this is a poem about my mouth / intended to draw attention / to my mouth’, the title poem instructs. This is what I like; this is what I don’t like – ‘i want you / like a scorpion down my shirt’ – there is a plaintive charisma in the ability to ask for the things a body needs. And for all of Blakemore’s defiance, the savagery and storm, this world holds a prismatic, surprising beauty, the beauty of rain-washed streets, of comedown mornings, of the potential for tenderness in the brutality of love and play. The poet who can strike so fiercely at the times when ‘truth is just a sharp thing you stand on in the night’ can also conclude ‘but god i love the world. the things you do’. Tigerish, impetuous, quick-witted and never self pitying, Fondue reaffirms Blakemore’s place on the barricades.

OFFORD ROAD BOOKS | £10.00 | 9781999930431 PB | 5 JULY 2018

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THE WORLD SPEAKING BACK... Ágnes Lehóczky and Zoë Skoulding (ed.) An anthology of original contemporary poetry celebrating Denise Riley’s 70th Bithday. Features work by Sophie Collins, Emily Berry & other prize-winning poets.

The World Speaking Back... To Denise Riley is a transnational and transgenerational poetry anthology to celebrate the work, contribution, and influence of one of our major poets and foremost philosophers, Denise Riley. It includes work from ninety-four authors; each gifting an individual contribution inspired by Riley’s work in some form, be it in the fields of art history, political philosophy, poetics or creative writing; all are offered in tribute to the different spaces and ways in which Riley’s work opens new possibilities for its readers. Contributions from George Szirtes, Katy Evans-Bush, Emily Critchley, Amaan Hyder, Tiffany Atkinson, Sam Buchan-Watts, Vahni Capildeo, John Clegg, Carrie Etter, Deryn Rees-Jones, Sarah Hesketh, Emily Berry, Sophie Collins & many more.

BOILER HOUSE PRESS | £12.99 | 9781911343394 PB | 200PP | 2 JULY 2018

THE LONELY FUNERAL F Starik and Maarten Inghels • •

An anthology of poetry and prose from The Lonely Funeral Project, set up to commemorate the lives of people who die alone. A moving and poignant work that speaks to contemporary concerns about loneliness and isolation.

Every year, a large number of people living alone in our towns and cities are found dead. Sometimes, they are not discovered for weeks or months, and it is often hard to ascertain who they are. Their funerals are held without relatives or friends; the only people in attendance are the pall-beares, the cemetery management and the funeral director. F Starik, deeply moved by the desolation of these solitary funerals, initiated ‘The Lonely Funeral’ project and along with Maarten Inghels worked to establish a network of poets who would write a poem for the deceased person based on research into their life and read it out at their funeral as an affirmation of their existence. This anthology contains a selection of prose and poems about 31of these ‘forgotten lives’.

ARC PUBLICATIONS | £11.99 | 9781910345528 PB | 224PP | 2 JULY 2018

A SELF HELP GUIDE TO BEING IN LOVE WITH JEREMY CORBYN Jess Green • •

Second collection from the author of Burning Books (9781909136625). She is a performance poet and playwright who has performed at Glastonbury, Latitude, Bestival and the Edinburgh Fringe

When Jess Green joined the Labour Party at university she doubled the number of members who met weekly in the Liverpool Philarmonic pub. Since then she’s stuck by them through the downfall of Tony Blair, the disappointment of Gordon Brown and the monolith of Ed Miliband. After a decade of keeping her membership card firmly at the back of her wallet she’s suddenly, like most frustrated lefty activists, fallen head over heels in love with Jeremy Corbyn and his raw Communist sex appeal. Jess Green’s second collection is full of fast paced, dry witted poems from the point of view of a late twenties poet who’s beginning to regret her teenage ambition of becoming a full time impoverished artist.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570479 PB | 2 JULY 2018

THE SPACE BETWEEN US Neil Elder • •

A highly accomplished and utterly distinctive debut collection. . Builds on Elder’s award-winning pamphlet Codes of Conduct (ISBN: 9781910836064).

The attention to detail, pressure of observation and imaginative images in Neil Elder’s work combine with a quiet power to deliver a collection that simmers with satire, but never cynicism. Elder holds up a mirror to contemporary society, to how we relate, to the way things are beneath the surface, but his gaze is ultimately humane, even when rueful for what has been lost. Vivid, many layered, yet accessible. Neil Elder lives in Middlesex. He has had work published in a number of journals and magazines including The Rialto, Envoi and Acumen In 2014, Neil was shortlisted for the Frogmore Poetry Prize and also for the Wells Festival Poetry Prize. His debut pamphlet won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet prize in 2015.

CINNAMON PRESS | £8.99 | 9781788640169 PB | 80PP | 2 JULY 2018

HEATHCLIFF ADRIFT Benjamin Myers • •

A new edition of the popular collection to mark Emily Bronte’s 200th birthday. Originally published in 2014, the collection met with critical acclaim - but was almost lost after a series of violent floods destroyed every copy.

1780. West Yorkshire. Cast out from the Earnshaw household where he has lived for nearly a decade, Heathcliff is left to fend for himself. Betrayed by his first love Catherine and now heartbroken and alone again, he takes to the upper moorlands of the Pennines and embarks upon a journey of survival... Heathcliff Adrift is a series of narrative poems that explore the imagined wanderings of this most enduring anti-hero of literature. The landscape is further brought to life in stunning photographs of the West Riding moorlands by Nick Small. Benjamin Myers is an award-winning writer. His thriller, Turning Blue (2016), was named Book of the Year 2016 by Loud&Quiet Magazine, and his recent novel, The Gallows Pole (2017) won the Roger Deakin Award.

MAYFLY PRESS | £7.99 | 9781911356080 PB | 37PP | 2 JULY 2018

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD Edward Denniston •

Latest collection from the author of The Scale Of Things (ISBN: 9781908836595).

A revered voice of South East Ireland for many years, Edward Denniston sings forth anew with visionary power and profound honesty. Here in For Crying Out Loud he gives us the youthful taking off of clothes, a sheltering from rain beneath dripping hawthorns; a life lived in close communion with the earth. He is a passionate reader of nature’s handbook. He has spent his entire career searching for the perfect kingfisher of elusive poetry, knowing that poems are as shy and rare as the private life of a riverbank. Here, Beckett-like, dissenting, clairvoyant with a reformation honesty, he has uncovered the most marvellous colours from beneath the ‘Sea fog’s voluminous greyghost.’ Originally from Longford town Edward Denniston has lived and worked in Waterford since 1980. He is a retired teacher of English and Drama.

SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781908836830 PB | 80PP | 2 JULY 2018

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ULTIMA ORA Dr. Thomas Kabdebo The latest work from the author of forty books in English and in Hungarian as well as forty translations. His awards include: the Middle Cross of Hungary, the József Attila Prize, the Arany János Prize, and the Füst Milán Prize.

Dr. Thomas Kabdebo was the 2017 poet laureate of Hungary. He is the author of fifty-nine books, and his novel Danubius Danubia is considered one of the best Hungarian novels of the 21st century. Among many honours, a Papal visit followed from the publication of his award-winning poem, Christ. He experienced first-hand the often cruel reality of life in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, and of the hardships (as well as the infinite possibilities) of life as a refugee. He worked for many years, until his retirement, as head librarian at Maynooth University.

SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781908836847 PB | 48PP | 2 JULY 2018

WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND? Gabriel Fitzmaurice • •

“The Irish A.A. Milne.” Declan Kiberd The Sunday Tribune “Full of real spontaneous fun.” Ted Hughes

This new edition of Will You Be My Friend? brings together over 100 of Gabriel Fitzmaurice’s best-loved poems chosen from his collections for children together with more than thirty new poems, including a selection of his poems in Irish. Enjoyed by both the young and the young at heart, the poems range from the silly to the serious, from the sad to the happy, from the naughty to the nice. Childhood, family, school, animals, the seasons and festivals of the year are all seen through the eyes of a child. Gabriel Fitzmaurice was born, in 1952, in the village of Moyvane, Co. Kerry where he still lives. He is author of more than fifty books, including collections of poetry in English and Irish as well as several collections of verse for children.

SALMON POETRY | £12.00 | 9781910669372 PB | 150PP | 2 JULY 2018

BRAGR Ross Cogan • •

Beautiful poetic interpretations of Norse myths that will interest all those with an interest in mythology. The green / eco-poetry theme will appeal to those engaged with environmental issues.

Ross Cogan is a poet deeply concerned with human history and the fate of our planet. His collection Bragr (Old Norse for ‘Poetry’), brings us the voice of the Skald or Bard who reinterprets tales from Norse mythology for our times. As precise and beautifully coloured as an illuminated manuscript, these poems are full of rich imagery and detail, packed with dramatic incident and conflict. Ross Cogan has published two collections, Stalin’s Desk (2005) and The Book I Never Wrote (2012). He is Creative Director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and an Associate Tutor at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724552 PB | 2 JULY 2018

KIERKEGAARD’S CUPBOARD Marianne Burton • • •

The eccentric life and work of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard inspires this vivid new collection of poetry by Marianne Burton. Her last collection, She Inserts the Key (9781781720387), was nominated for the Forward Prize. The collection is a fascinating and engaging way to learn about a philosopher.

Poet Marianne Burton has written a beautifully thoughtful, sharp and lively new book of poems inspired by the noted Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. The ‘cupboard’ of the title refers to a wooden cabinet that Kierkegaard had made in order to store his letters and reminiscences of his beloved Regine, who he met and fell in love with when she was a young woman. He declined to marry her, but she nevertheless occupied his thoughts and dreams throughout his life. Burton brilliantly captures the voice of Kierkegaard, his intellectual wit, his pointed ways with paradox, his depth of feeling and his compassionate, lively and sociable personality in this series of 14 line-poems.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724224 PB | 72PP | 2 JULY 2018

NO, ROBOT, NO! Jon Stone & Kirsten Irving (ed.) • •

A mixed media anthology combining a range of styles, including texts created by computer programs, forming a discussion of robots in popular culture. Interactive pages: creative prompts, challenges and instructions make the book a participatory experience and a customisable object.

The role of robots in our future is ever in flux. Originally envisaged as the perfect underclass, they threaten to emerge as our replacements, our conquerors, even a more durable extension of our selves. Let No, Robot, No be your trusty interactive guide to the coming revolution: a whirring, clanking trip into the uncanny valley. Human and automaton meet, mesh and clash in pages of fizzing lyricism and dizzying colour, exploring the poetics of AI, androids and digital sentience. The most important component is you: activate the book with your handprint. Hack its core programming with your own code. Be the ghost in the machine.

SIDEKICK BOOKS | £10.00 | 9781909560277 PB | PP | 2 JULY 2018

THE BORDER Miles Salter • •

“Presents the world through Salter-tinted glasses... a place lit by possibility, mapped by language.” Ian McMillan Back in print after three years of retirement.

A woman borrows her husband’s tongue, a man spends years in a stalled car, a teenage boy sees a crack divide his town... In his classic first collection, originally released in 2011 under a pen-name, Miles Salter guides readers through an increasingly-familiar dystopia of mind and city, with the accuracy, wit and heart that has always characterised his work. Miles Salter is a writer, musician and storyteller based in York. His first novel for teenagers, A Song For Nicky Moon, was shortlisted for the Times/Chicken House children’s writing award in 2010. He is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University, and is director of York Literature Festival.

VALLEY PRESS | £9.99 | 9781912436989 PB | 64PP | 6 JULY 2018

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New from the author of The Knowledge (ISBN: 9780993120114). “The Knowledge is a revelation.” Seán Street

Robert Peake’s second collection of poems urges us to find shelter as a storm is gathering and the forces of destruction threaten to rip through anything in their path. These are matters of life or death, and Cyclone urges us to consider what the ill wind may bring, and how we will survive it. Robert Peake is a British-American poet living near London. His debut collection The Knowledge was published by Nine Arches Press. His previous short collections include The Silence Teacher (Poetry Salzburg, 2013) and Human Shade (Lost Horse Press, 2011).

NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027447 PB | 72PP | 7 JULY 2018

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DANDY BOGAN Nick Ascroft •

Selections of new and old poems, tracing the development over a quarter of a century of a unique poetic talent.

Dandy Bogan brings one of New Zealand’s most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time. Nick Ascroft’s poems display a familiarity with the furthest reaches of the Scrabble dictionary, and even somewhat beyond. His logo-philia evinces a fascination not merely with language but with the workings of the human mind. Ranging across a dazzling variety of subject matter, Ascroft’s abiding interest and concern is what it means to be human. Who are we? How did we get here? And what the fuck do we do now? Nick Ascroft grew up in the south of New Zealand’s South Island. In addition to his three collections of poems published in New Zealand, Nick has published a science-fiction novel, As Long as Rain, Beet Box Books, 2018, as well as the definitive guide to playing 5-a-side football, How to Win at 5-a-Side, Bloomsbury, 2016.

BOATWHISTLE BOOKS | £10.00 | 9781911052036 PB | 96PP | 18 JULY 2018

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FOOTNOTES C. Perricone •

A collection of humourous and insightful work from poetry’s answer to David Sedaris.

Footnotes is a series of riffs and meditations on human life and culture, with a particular interest in the play of meaning and sound. These notes aspire towards the condition of poetry, running the gamut from the profane to the sacred, from the sublime to the ridiculous, and from the perfectly clear to the profoundly obscure. C. Perricone is the author of A Summer of Monkey Poems (1996), published by the Cummington Press. His articles and reviews have been published in philosophy journals, and his poetry has been published in literary journals. He lives in New Jersey, USA, among loved ones . . . and then there’s his pet bird, Charlie Parker.

BOATWHISTLE BOOKS | £10.00 | 9781911052029 PB | 144PP | 18 JULY 2018

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CYCLONE Robert Peake

HONEST Scott Tyrrell •

New from the author of Grown Up (ISBN: 9781906700768).

Honest features all of Scott Tyrrell’s warmth, wit and frank openness delivered with the bittersweet edge of a middle-aged creative who may be having a mid-life crisis or an existential revelation. With dad jokes and badgers. And buttons. Scott has been a poet and performer since the turn of the century. An award-winning comedian, creative director and multiple slam-winning pet (including the BBC Slam and UK Anti-Slam), he has performed his work at Glastonbury, the Edinburgh Fringe, the Prague Fringe, Kendal Calling, WOMAD, Larmer Tree and the Cheltenham Literature Festival. He has written for TV, Radio and performed for Radio 4, Radio 3’s the Verb, Sky Atlantic, ITV, BBC4 and BBC Arts. He lives in Newcastle with his wife, son, a goldfish, a one-eyed cat and a small fluffy dog.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570455 PB | 20 JULY 2018

THEIR LUNAR LANGUAGE Charlotte Eichler •

Debut pamphlet from a Leeds-based poet.

In Charlotte Eichler’s debut pamphlet, a young couple wonder whether family life would be easier if they were cuttlefish, and two girls try all they can to read the future. There are explorations of gendered violence and the silences within families: a daughter and her father communicate through moths, women pose in bikinis to advertise coffins, and a valkyrie leaves her husband. Ambivalent interactions with the natural world are woven throughout the book: a child discovers her power over creatures smaller than herself, and polar bears overrun an Alaskan town. Charlotte Eichler’s poetry has been published in a number of literary magazines and journals, including Agenda, The Rialto and The Interpreter’s House.

VALLEY PRESS | £6.99 | 9781908853981 PB | 36PP | 20 JULY 2018

HANDLING Jack Thacker • •

Debut poetry collection from Jack Thacker, 2017/18 poet in residence at Reading’s Museum of English Rural Life. The sights and sounds of farming life evocatively and brilliantly described.

The poems in Handling, Jack Thacker’s debut gathering, display an extraordinary gift for describing the sights and sounds of farming life through an exact and tactile evocation of daily work, implements and activities. Childhood memories and seasonal tasks, such as planting vegetables, shearing sheep, and ploughing fields, are handled in a language that is at once strange, familiar, and as rhythmically measured as it is inventive. Jack Thacker grew up on a farm in Herefordshire. He recently completed a PhD on contemporary poetry at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter. His poetry has been published in many print and online magazines and has been broadcast on Radio 4.

TWO RIVERS PRESS | £8.99 | 9781909747432 PB | 48 PP | 21 JULY 2018

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Latest collection from the author of Eggshell: A Decorator’s Notes (ISBN: 9781901677539). “They are some of the most distinctive poems it’s been my pleasure to read since Tony Harrison’s sonnets opened that elite form to working-class life.” Malcolm Povey

From Costa Rica to Japan, Somerset to Cumbria, and taking in Antarctica too, with oceans and islands as seen from a small boat, John Froy’s second collection draws its concerns from human vulnerability and ecological anxiety. Straightforward and direct, these poems take on loss, both personal and global, but they bring to it a joy in creation, as well as humour, gratitude, admiration and love. John Froy’s published works including a volume of poetry, Eggshell: A Decorator’s Notes, and a memoir The Art School Dance.

TWO RIVERS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909747388 PB | 68PP | 21 JULY 2018

NOBODY REPRESENTS ME Zeyar Lynn • •

Debut UK collection from a highly influential Burmese poet. He is one of the editors of the quarterly Poetry World.

This is the first UK publication of the celebrated Burmese poet Zeyar Lynn, translated by the author and ko ko thett, and offers readers a rich selection of Lynn’s cerebral, deadpan and bracing absurdist poetry. Besides his own work, Lynn has translated numerous Western poets into Burmese, including Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery and Charles Bernstein. Zeyar Lynn’s influence is widely felt among Burmese poets, and with Nobody Represents Me the power of Lynn’s experimentation will find an audience in the UK. Photo credit Alvin Pang.

CLINIC | £5.99 | 9781999992002 PB | 23 JULY 2018

RAMIFICATIONS Various Authors •

An innovative anthology with a contemporaty handmade aesthetic exploring notions of personhood.

“Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!” – Ovid Taking its cue from Ovid, this anthology-zine of new poetry is both directly and indirectly concerned with animal welfare and the nonhuman. Contributors include Vahni Capildeo, Kate Duckney, Caleb Klaces, Heather Phillipson, Sarah V Schweig and more. Original artwork by Tom Rees.

CLINIC | £5.99 | 9780993318283 PB | 23 JULY 2018

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SANDPAPER & SEAHORSES John Froy

THREADS Bhanu Kapil, Nisha Ramayya & Sandeep Parmar • •

An epistolic collection, where interwoven voices explore issues surrounding race. All profits of this publication will be donated to the Manuel Bravo Project, Leeds, a charity providing free legal aid to asylum seekers.

This creative-critical pamphlet is a shared experiment, combining poetry, personal correspondence, the lyric essay and scholarly research, and is co-written by three vital voices in experimental poetry. The pamphlet began life as an essay by Sandeep Parmar, written partly in dialogue with Bhanu Kapil, exploring the lyric self ‘as a way towards’, a ‘fluid, fluxive’ alternative for the racialised subject from the entrenched – and predominantly white – conventions of lyric poetry. Parmar offers ‘new coordinates of being’ in writing, which are then picked up and rewoven by Nisha Ramayya as she proposes a Tantric poetics, and Bhanu Kapil closes the sequences with a prose sonnet considering textiles, diasporic time, race and creative writing. The pamphlet explores subjects including Partition, The Odyssey and Dear White People.

CLINIC | £5.99 | 9780993318290 PB | 23 JULY 2018

THE DISAPPEARING ROOM Mara Bergman • •

Debut full collection from a prize-winning poet. Her collection The Tailor’s Three Sons and Other New York Poems (ISBN: 9781781722619) won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition.

In Mara Bergman’s first full collection, the poet travels from the tenements of New York City to the Sussex countryside, from childhood to motherhood, and beyond. Through a wide range of subjects – steelworkers and young apprentices, photographs, dolls in a local museum’s hidden collection – she writes with a keen sense of time and place. Here are poems about love, loss, friendship, family, fitting in and, ultimately, acceptance. They are infused with wonder and provide a fresh way of looking at the world. Mara Bergman’s poetry has been published widely here and abroad. Her poems have been awarded prizes in the Troubadour and Kent & Sussex Poetry Society competitions, among others.

ARC PUBICATIONS | £9.99 | 9781911469346 PB | 92PP | 27 JULY 2018

FLOWERS Ziba Karbassi • • •

Dense and revolutionary lyrical poetry from a writer considered by many to be the most accomplished Persian poet of her generation. .She has read widely across Europe and America. Translations by Stephen Watts have appeared in such journals as Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation.

One of the rising stars of Iranian poetry, Ziba Karbassi was born in 1974 in Tabriz, Iran. She left Iran in 1989 and now lives between London and Paris. She has published five volumes of poetry in Persian, all outside Iran, and continues to write prolifically. Her poetry tackles difficult themes with a mastery of craft and has received wide critical attention. She has been translated into several languages. She was recently voted as Director of the Association of Iranian Writers in Exile, and tours on a regular basis to present her work and participate in various events.

ARC PUBLICATIONS | £10.99 | 9781911469407 PB | 27 JULY 2018

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Latest collection from the author of Update on the Descent (ISBN: 9781852248338). “Ellen Hinsey has manifested a range of concern and a sensitivity to larger human issues which is the sine qua non of authentic poetry.” C.K. Williams

Ellen Hinsey’s work is concerned with history, ethics and democracy. Her firsthand accounts and analyses of the impact of the 2012 Russian presidential elections, the 2010 Polish presidential plane crash, Hungarian politics, Václav Havel’s ethical legacy and post-1989 German reconstruction have appeared widely in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry Review, Poetry and The Irish Times. She has published three books of poems: Update on the Descent (Bloodaxe Books, 2009), a 2007 National Poetry Series Finalist; The White Fire of Time (Wesleyan University Press, USA, 2002; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2003); and Cities of Memory (1996), winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award.

ARC PUBLICATIONS | £10.99 | 9781911469377 PB | 120PP | 27 JULY 2018

PASSPORT Richie McCaffery • •

New collection from the author of Cairn (ISBN: 9780992758912). “When you enter McCaffery’s world, objects are no longer inanimate, drawers are filled with stories, desks are cluttered with moments of grace.” William Letford

Passport - the second collection by Richie McCaffery, follows on from his acclaimed debut Cairn (Nine Arches Press, 2014), explores place and displacement, boundaries and borders. At the heart of these poems, McCaffery asks us to consider what belonging is, and how we find our place in life and in language. Richie McCaffery is the author of two poetry collections and two pamphlets, Spinning Plates (HappenStance Press, 2012) and Ballast Flint (Cromarty Arts Trust, 2013). His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The Dark Horse, Stand, The Rialto and The Best British Poetry 2012.

NINE ARCHES PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911027430 PB | 72PP | 27 JULY 2018

THE TRUE HEIGHT OF THE EAR Iain Galbraith • •

First book-length publication of original poems by Scottish poet and literary translator Iain Galbraith Has won several prizes for his translations, most recently the Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize in 2015.

In this masterful first book of original poems, Iain Galbraith explores how people’s actions and experiences shape not only their own lives but the world around them. Through his words Galbraith is able to to take us on an emotional journey through love, grief, hope and discontent. Iain Galbraith has edited five poetry anthologies and is highly respected as a translator of both literary works and poems, for which he has won multiple awards, such as the John Dryden Translation Prize in 2004 and the Stephen Spender Prize for Translation in 2014. His own poetry has been featured in publications such as The Edinburgh Review and The Times Literary Supplement.

ARC PUBLICATIONS | £10.99 | 9781911469292 PB | PP | 31 JULY 2018

POETRY

THE ILLEGAL AGE Ellen Hinsey

AUGUST KEY TITLE

HYDRA’S HEADS Nora Gomringer German poet Nora Gomringer is here translated into English for the first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford. There is no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kate Tempest is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is experimental while remaining accessible and in her ability to stride seamlessly from stage to page to film to literature festival. These are poems which defy categorisation - interweaving the best of page and spoken word poetry to create something entirely of her own. These are poems which laugh, howl, stamp their lines. They are candid, wry, compassionate. There are poems about the darker times of Germany’s modern history, reworkings of myths and fairy tales, and a 3-page-long ode to sex against a wall. Nora Gomringer is one of Germany’s best known and loved contemporary poets. In the early 2000s she was a prominent voice in Germany’s young slam scene, and her background in performance continues to inform her work. Her writing blurs the boundaries between performance and page poetry, as well as often intersecting with other art forms, from film to music and visual art. She has divided her working life between Germany and Scotland, and is now programme co-ordinator for StAnza, Scotland’s international poetry festival, as well as a freelance translator.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570448 PB | 1 AUGUST 2018

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The seventh collection from a prolific poet. Deals with the anxieties associated with middle age.

Fiona Sinclair’s new collection looks at some of the slow processes that shape and reshape our lives. In the first half she explores the slow burning fuse of love and desire in middle-age – new lovers and old habits, first dates and second chances. The second half of the book records the slow burning anxiety of living with the undiagnosed chronic balance disorder that eventually forced her to take early retirement – years of increasing disability, consultations, waiting-rooms and MRI scans, her worst fears filling her head full of ‘ambulance sirens’. Fiona Sinclair worked as an English teacher for twenty years. This is her seventh book. Her previous collections include Dirty Laundry, A Game of Hide and Seek, Wonderland, Ladies Who Lunch and A Talent for Hats.

SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999827649 PB | 64PP | 1 AUGUST 2018

BREAKFAST AT WETHERSPOONS Jim Greenhalf • •

Latest collection from the popular writer and journalist. Yorkshire interest.

Breakfast at Wetherspoons is a meditation on the idea that ‘Man is born free and everywhere he is in chainstores.’ It’s a book about freedom and necessity, mortality and time, Tolstoy, Diogenes and Jihadi John. It’s a book about poetry and comradeship, and old friends like Sebastian Barker, Barry MacSweeney and David Tipton. It’s a late flowering 40-year old love story. Jim Greenhalf was born in 1949 and grew up in East London. A news and feature writer for the Bradford Telegraph & Argus for almost forty years, he has written twelve books of poetry, including The Dog’s Not Laughing, The Unlikelihood of Intimacy in the Next Six Hours, In the Hinterland, Blue on Blue and The Man in the Mirror. He lives in Saltaire.

SMOKESTACK BOOKS | £7.99 | 9781999827632 PB | 92PP | 1 AUGUST 2018

AFTER THE FALL Brian Kirk • •

Latest collection from the critically acclaimed Irish poet and author Brian Kirk.. His poetry has been widely published and has been nominated for the Forward Prize and Pushcart Prize.

Brian Kirk’s poetry is a poetry of time and place. In poems of controlled passion and energy, he maps out his territory which, on the surface is domestic, but on closer examination reveals something much deeper. God, religion, family, and above all love as it is in its reality without any dressing or highflown nonsense. Brian Kirk is an award winning poet and short story writer from Clondalkin in Dublin. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2014 and 2015. He won the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award for Poetry in 2014, the Bailieborough Poetry Prize in 2015 and the Galway RCC Poetry Award in 2016.

SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781910669990 PB | 76PP | 6 AUGUST 2018

POETRY

SLOW BURNER Fiona Sinclair

CROSSING PLACES Nicki Griffin •

New from the author of Unbelonging (ISBN: 9781908836304).

As with all of Nicki Griffin’s poems a sense of place pervades this collection. Voices carry along rivers, a boat turns on its anchor, gardens flush with roses, borders are crossed. It is full of points of no return, of transformations: buildings that seemed solid and permanent, tumbling or being taken apart, the natural world in constant flux, death and its interminable aftermath. There is an understanding that chaos is never far away, but also the sense of the ties that bind us all and, finally, redemption and the possibility of resurrection. Nicki Griffin’s poetry has been published in a wide variety of journals and anthologies. Her debut collection, Unbelonging, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Shine/Strong Award 2014 for best debut collection. The Skipper & Her Mate (non-fiction) was published by New Island in 2013.

SALMON POETRY | 10.00 | 9781910669983 PB | 58PP | 6 AUGUST 2018

RANDOMER Colm Keegan • •

An thrilling new collection from one of Ireland’s finest contemporary poets. “You will return to this book again and again. Keegan is a romantic with nerve and bravery.” Elaine Feeney

Randomer, is a poetic tour de force. The reality of life stripped back to its bare fundamentals. Despite charting a life lived through austerity and the predations of political elites and bankers, Colm Keegan’s optimism – for his children, his family, and his community – never flags. Colm Keegan is a writer and poet from Dublin, Ireland. Since 2005, he has been shortlisted four times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, for both poetry and fiction and won the All Ireland Poetry Slam in 2010. His first book Don’t Go There (also with Salmon) was released to critical acclaim in 2012.

SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781912561025 PB | 74PP | 6 AUGUST 2018

SPIT & HISS Mike Watts • •

Down-to-earth, wholesome poetry that everyone can read and think, ‘I know that feeling’. Compelling and varied, Spit & Hiss covers all manner of sins in language both beautiful and harrowing.

“Mike Watts’ poems are fascinating realistic portraits and stories from his always interesting life. He has a fine eye for detail and ear for dialogue, a flair for biting ironic humour and gripping tough narratives that are fun to read and fill of brilliant insights. Behind all this one senses a human soul sympathetic to us all suffering, perplexed humans, and a true survivor.” Fred Voss Mike Watts is an ordinary man with an extraordinary talent. Internationally known, he has had three previous poetry collections published: Coming to a Street Near You, Day and Night in the Damaged Goods Factory, and Jawbreaker. He is currently writing a novel.

WRECKING BALL PRESS | £10.00 | 9781903110577 PB | 116PP | 21 AUGUST 2018

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A debut poetry collection from a prominent disabled activist.. The author was named in the Power 100 of Britain’s most influential disabled people and her memoir was published by Unbound.

Come Home Alive is Penny Pepper’s debut poetry collection. It reflects a diversity of thought and emotion, resonating with her signature combination of compassion, wit and protest. This collection gathers together some of her most successful live pieces including the protest of London Bus, the anthemic Cripplegate Town, and the spit of outrage in Special. Penny’s work has been described as euphoric melancholic, reflected in poems such as Sonnet for Blues and Rain. Penny Pepper is a writer, poet and established rights activist. Her life as a published poet began in the punk era of fanzines and evolved into songwriting and flourished within the early radical disability arts scene. This is her first collection.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570486 PB | 25 AUGUST 2018

KNOWING THIS HAS CHANGED MY ENDING Alex MacDonald • •

Debut collection from a popular young poet. Alex has had his poetry published in The Quietus, Clinic II and English PEN and was shortlisted for the Poetry School Pamphlet Competition.

Knowing This Has Changed My Ending is an approach to and mastering of a specific domestic. The poems stand by windows, obsessed by and yet strangely insulated from the world through the glass – a world in which objects cluster together for warmth, for the friendship they need as proof against life lived in the exposed and raw places. Alex MacDonald lives and works in London. He received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2016. His work has been published in the Best British Poetry 2015, Poetry London, and the Rialto.

OFFORD ROAD BOOKS | £5.00 | 9781999930448 PB | 24PP | 30 AUGUST 2018

SUPPORT, SUPPORT Helen Charman •

A debut of great power from a bold and radical new voice.

Support, support is a house in which lovers are made up with the bed in the morning, where house keys are mooned over, plates left out, where the radio delivers a longed-for voice. A house is both a desire for and a fear of domesticity, an ‘ordeal’ and an ‘ideal’ as much as is another’s body and their presence, and here the promise of shelter is subverted by gaps and damage, by cruelty and betrayal. Here, the taxi cab is safer than the house, than the ironically named Care Home, than the party you leave in tears, than the bed you lie awake in, than the womb, than the closeness you ‘did not invite’. In order to build, you must dismantle, these poems say; ‘In order to make the music it seems / I must break so many things.’ Helen Charman’s poetry has been published in The White Review, para·text, Blackbox Manifold, Hotel and Datableed, and is forthcoming in New Poetries VII (Carcanet, 2018). This is her first pamphlet.

OFFORD ROAD BOOKS | £5.00 | 9781999930455 PB | 24PP | 30 AUGUST 2018

POETRY

COME HOME ALIVE Penny Pepper

CRYING FOR NO REASON Kim Kyung Ju translated by Jake Levine •

Kim Kyung Ju’s first book of poetry, I Am A Season That Does Not Exist In This World, sold over ten thousand copies and is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed books of poetry published in South Korea

Crying for No Reason, translated by Jake Levine, is a surreal journey through the mind of a poet who merges dark comedy with raw emotion. It is clinic’s first full pamphlet in translation. Book design and front cover by Sean Roy Parker. Kim Kyung Ju is a Seoul-based poet, dramatist and performance artist. His plays have been produced abroad in several countries and his poetry and essays are widely anthologized in South Korea. He has written and translated over a dozen books of poetry, essays, and plays, and has been the recipient of many prizes and awards, including the Korean government’s Today’s Young Artist Prize and the Kim Su-yong Contemporary Poetry Award.

CLINIC | £5.99 | 9780993318276 PB | 31 AUGUST 2017

SONNETS Noelle Kocot •

First UK publication of the critically-acclaimed American author of seven collections of poetry.

Noelle Kocot’s Sonnets skillfully plays with the formal qualities that house her poems. These 23 poems bound deliriously between subjects, showing a range, dexterity and linguistic genius that is second to none. Noelle Kocot has published seven collections of poetry with Wave Books, including Phantom Pains of Madness (May 2016), Soul in Space (2013), The Bigger World (2011), and a book of translations of Tristan Corbière’s poetry, Poet by Default (2011). Her poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry in 2001, 2012, and 2013. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry, the American Poetry Review, and a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. She is the current Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough, New Jersey.

CLINIC | £5.99 | 9780993318269 PB | 31 AUGUST 2017

WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY PRIZE 2014 SEPTEMBER KEY TITLE

GEN Jonathan Edwards Gen is the eagerly awaited second collection by Jonathan Edwards, whose debut, My Family and Other Superheroes, won the Costa Prize for Poetry in 2015. This accessible and critically acclaimed young poet has beaten off ‘second collection syndrome’ with a book of sharp yet beautifully warm and humane poems. The title refers to people of Edwards’ generation and his recognition of the preoccupations that he shares of this age-group. There are several terrific love poems and poems of romantic yearning, which reflect this. In addition, Edwards further mines his family for writing which is at once intimate, generous and wry. ‘Harry Houdini on Newport Bridge, 1905’ relates an anecdote where his grandfather, aged 15, makes mischief in the watching crowd. And ‘My Father Crashes a Car, 1965’ is a similarly warm and slightly surreal retrieval of a memory from his father. Several of the poems in Gen have already won prizes, and the book must be a contender for more shortlists. Whatever the prize judges think, the poetry reading public will again warm to this poet.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724736 PB | 64PP | 24 SEPTEMBER 2018

FOR THE LOVE OF IT David Constantine • •

Pamphlet from a well-known poet an scholar. This collection provides a short and easy way of getting into his work.

A young woman carries her cello on the metro; a man keeps a daily appointment to talk with his dead wife; the landscapes of Wales, the north of England and the Isles of Scilly. For The Love of It is grounded in the rich fullness of life, while each poem delicately encourages a way of seeing that presents the everyday as anything but mundane. David Constantine has published a dozen volumes of poetry (most recently Elder, 2014); two novels, Davies (1985) and The Life-Writer (2015); and five collections of short stories. He is an editor and translator of Hölderlin, Goethe, Kleist and Brecht. For his stories he won the BBC National and the Frank O’ Connor International Awards (2010, 2013).

SMITH | DOORSTOP | £5.00 | 9781910367872 PB | 32PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2018

JAM AND JERUSALEM Yvonne Green •

Latest collection from the prize-winning poet.

Yvonne Green’s latest collection extends the urgent and compelling territory of her earlier, award-winning books. Politically engaged, many of the poems consider the human cost of war, while others deal equally intensely both with ideas and with domestic and city landscapes. A final section furthers the translations from Russian she began in 2011 with her PBS Recommended title, After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin. Yvonne Green, born 1957 in London to a multi-lingual Asian family, practised law, and then published her first collection, Boukhara, winner of the 2007 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. Her fourth, Honoured, was Winter 2015 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

SMITH | DOORSTOP | £9.95 | 9781910367957 PB | 125PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2018

BATTALION Jon Stone & Kirsten Irving • • • •

Multi-disciplinary bat-themed anthology. released at the end of summer, during mating season, when bats are at their busiest and likely to be featured on nature programmes. Interactive pages: creative prompts, challenges and instructions make the book a participatory experience and a customisable object. Multiple writers with a range of styles, alongside a large number of illustrations, diagrams and visual art.

The bat is a liminal thing - our only flying mammal, a dusk dweller and symbol of death and otherness in many cultures. They are also expressive, bizarre, tricksterish, and strangely beautiful - able to hunt and manoeuvre in the dark with consummate skill, moving at the speed of a camera shutter. Battalion is your alternative encyclopedia battanica - a live, writhy cave colony of facts, findings and sonic experiments from a fission-fusion of writers. Add your own inky skitterings to the mix, bring it out on your evening flit. Take after its denizens: open your mouth and listen to the sky.

SIDEKICK BOOKS | £10.00 | 9781909560000 PB | 2 SEPTEMBER 2018

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The collected works of a distinguished Spanish poet, author, editor and scholar.

“It’s possible things are not / as we wished them to be,” José Manuel Cardona writes in Birnam Wood, a superb account of his travels around the world in the service of poetry. Exploring the consequences of the fact that “Only man is capable of destroying/ what he never created/ and he along believes belong to him,” he creates a rival system of belief, which depends upon his vivid imagery, sophisticated ear, and wisdom borne of experience, all of which his daughter, Hélène, a gifted poet in her own right, has gracefully preserved in her translations. This selection of his poems, spanning the length of an illustrious career, are everything we might wish them to be. José Manuel Cardona is a poet, writer and translator from Ibiza, Spain.

SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781912561186 PB | 94PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

DEAR ANGEL OF DEATH Simone White •

Simone White is a bold and exciting new poetic voice based in Brooklyn, New York.

Half poems, half prose, Dear Angel of Death braids intimate and public thinking about forms of togetherness. Is one woman a mother, a person in an artworld, a “black”? What imaginary and real spirits are her guides? The title essay proposes disinvestment in the idea of the Music as the highest form of what blackness “is” and 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. Simone White is the author of House Envy of All of the World (Factory School, 2010), the chapbook Dolly (Q Ave Press, curated by Ross Gay, with the paintings of Kim Thomas).

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £12.00 | 9781937027674 PB | 160PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

STOPGAP GRACE Neil McCarthy • •

“These dynamic and surprising poems challenge and delight at every turn. No survival kit is complete without a little grace like this.” Brendan Constantine “Like a love letter to the world on the eve of its destruction.” Stephen Murray

Neil McCarthy grew up in West Cork in the eighties watching MacGyver and launching himself from trees on zip wires fashioned from old clothes lines. His sense of adventure followed him into his twenties when he graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and began travelling and writing poetry soon after. He has so far featured as a guest speaker in literary festivals, conferences, fringe festivals etc. in Australia, the US, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Austria to name a few. In this time his poems have also appeared in dozens of international journals and anthologies, in print and online, and have additionally been translated and published in Romania, Serbia, and Hungary. He now lives in Vienna where he teaches English and still climbs the odd tree whenever the chance presents itself.

SALMON POETRY | £10.00 | 9781912561070 PB | 74PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

POETRY

BIRNAM WOOD José Manuel Cardona

LETTERS SO THAT HAPPINESS Arnaldo Calveyra •

The first of the works of a prestigious Argentinian poet to be translated and published in English.

Argentine poet Arnaldo Calveyra’s first book of poetry, Letters So That Happiness, tells the story of the author’s one-way journey as a young man from his home in the northern pampas to Buenos Aires in 1950. It was the first leg of a journey that would end in exile. In this gentle, diffuse text in which time and place radiate and recede and spring up many and green, Letters strikingly anticipates the collusive forces that would shape the rest of his life — dissolution and preservation. The author of over 25 works of literature and theater, Arnaldo Calveyra was the recipient of numerous honors in his lifetime including France’s highest award for contributions to the arts Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1999.

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £10.00 | 9781946433053 PB | 64PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

MOSS & SILVER Jure Detela • •

The first book of Jure Detela’s poems to appear in English. This bilingual edition includes an introduction by Slovenian poet and critic Iztok Osojnik and a translator’s afterword by Raymond Miller.

Jure Detela, poet, activist, and mystic, was a key figure in the vibrant avant-garde movement that defined Slovenian culture in the 1980s. The forty-four poems of Moss & Silver anticipate the radical environmentalism and animal rights activism of the 21st century while engaging in a passionate dialogue with wide array of poets from William Wordsworth to Kobayashi Issa. He was a meticulous craftsman who employed a stunning variety of rhythms and stanzaic forms. Jure Detela was a true renaissance man: as a thinker, he was in many ways far ahead of his time, anticipating Derrida, Žižek, and others in his environmental activism; as a poet, he was widely read, and conducted an ongoing dialogue in his verse with an astounding array of poets from many different traditions.

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £14.00 | 9781937027940 PB | 144PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

CELOX AND THE CLOT Hafsah Bashir • •

An exploration of the human condition and the conflicts that arise within us. The poet is one of six recipients of Manchester International Festival’s Jerwood Fellowships 2017.

Hafsah Aneela Bashir’s debut poetry collection is charged with a fierce compulsion to reveal and explore raw and open wounds from the domestic to political settings. With searingly and sharply observed detail, her poetry not only documents the tragic harm that war inflicts upon people but also explores relationships which are under strain closer to our domestic lives.This assured and fearless voice wields words and constructs a maze of striking imagery to make readers stop and look again and again at what they had imagined was the familiar. Hafsah Aneela Bashir is a writer and performance poet. Co-director of the arts collective, Outside The Frame Arts, she is passionate about platforming voices outside of mainstream arts.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570509 PB | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018

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A new edition of Penny Boxall’s first collection, winner of the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, originally published by Eyewear.

“Penny Boxall runs a tight ship. Her poems are beautifully crafted. Reading her is to go on an interesting journey of exploration—stopping at fascinating places along the way. ” Jackie Kay “In this wide-ranging, generous and engaging collection Penny Boxall brings the past vividly and urgently back to life. She takes us on a wonderfully surprising journey from a taxidermist’s, via the Grand Tour, the Pitt Rivers museum, ice hockey, the Age of Steam, a penny-farthing, a balloon flight, to end up with a deafening beetle buried for years in her grandfather’s ear.” Michael Laskey Penny Boxall was born in 1987 and grew up in Aberdeenshire and Yorkshire. In 2014 she was commended in the Forward Prize. Her poetry has appeared in the Sunday Times, The Rialto and Mslexia.

VALLEY PRESS | £10.99 | 9781912436057 PB | 96PP | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018

WHO GOES THERE? Penny Boxall •

New collection by the award-winning poet Penny Boxall. accompanied by a reissue of her debut collection.

Halt! Who Goes There? Penny Boxall’s second collection throws light on the mysterious strangers we glimpse, and turns that same light on ourselves. From shadows lost to history to forgotten possessions and our own past identities, these poems consider questions of selfhood and the ways in which we can be peripheral in our own lives. “Whether surveying the past through a museum display case, counting hares’ ears or summoning a drowned mutineer, Penny Boxall takes us on a mysterious, often unsettling voyage of discovery. With a clear and humane eye, and love of ambivalence and curiosities, she shares her delight in unexpected emotional nuances.” Stewart Conn

VALLEY PRESS | £10.99 | 9781912436064 PB | 48PP | 7 SEPTEMBER 2018

A NEW BEGINNING Kwame Dawes & John Kinsella •

Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella continue their poetic dialogue that began with 2016 with their critically acclaimed collection Speak From Here to There (ISBN: 9781845233198).

When Speak from Here to There was published in 2016 it was, remarkably, doing something quite new. There are of course the conversations implied in the poems of Coleridge and Wordsworth, but no two poets had committed to, in the words of Will Harris, the almost daily “structure of call-and-response, each utterance is filtered through the other”. A New Beginning offers, as Karen McCarthy Wolf noted in her review of Speak from Here, the same “warmth and a reassurance... in the correspondence itself, between a black man almost but not quite marooned in the white of America’s Midwest, and a white man negotiating his own exile from the vast physical and historical dissonance of Western Australia”, but there is much that carries that initial dialogue to new depths of trust, self-exposure and intimacy, to the expression of new themes, concerns and investigations of poetic form.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £10.99 | 9781845234249 PB | 168PP | 13 SEPTEMBER 2018

POETRY

SHIP OF THE LINE Penny Boxall

WORK | LIFE | BALANCE Tony Walsh • •

The latest collection by Tony Walsh, the bestselling author of Sex & Love & Rock&Roll (ISBN: 9781909136168) and the Manchester poem ‘This is the Place’. He tours extensively and will be promoting the book with many events and appearances.

In this anticipated second collection, beloved Mancunian poet Tony Walsh constructs the deeply personal tangled amongst dark and powerful social and political tales. Tony Walsh has worked as a freelance writer and performance poet since 2004, and full-time since 2011. He adopted the professional name ‘Longfella’ for his height (almost 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m)). Walsh has performed widely around the UK and Europe, at festivals and workshops, and for the British Council.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570295 PB | 14 SEPTEBER 2018

SOAK Isadora Vibes •

Debut collection from a Bristol based performance poet.

soak is a collection of intimate and introspective observations, from the Bristol-based artist and poet, Isadora Vibes. A performance artist and theatre maker, soak is a body of work inspired by the liquidity of our existence. Surreal, sensual, seductive – soak captures an adult world of tender truth, accompanied by a stark yet magical realism. Confessional as it is reflective, soak is a captivating collection of brevity and bravura from one of Bristol’s most ethereal and engaging poets. Isadora Vibes is that rare combination of performer, artist, producer and poet: contemplative, charismatic and challenging. Her work reveals both the intimacy and depth we learn from a life spent trying.

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570516 PB | 15 SEPTEMBER 2018

VINDICATION: POEMS FROM SIX WOMEN Various Authors •

An anthology of six women poet’s, edited by Cherry Potts.

A showcase for poets Arachne Press have published singly in anthologies, giving a wider perspective on their writing. Featuring Sarah James, Sarah Lawson, Jill Sharp, Elinor Brooks, Adrienne Silcock and Anne Macaulay.

ARACHNE PRESS | £8.99 | 9781909208650 PB | 96PP | 20 SEPTEMBER 2018

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THE COUP CLOCK TICKS Brian Meeks First collection published in the UK of a well-respected Caribbean poet.

The poems in The Coup Clock Clicks were written between 1971 and 1988, reflecting the work of the then young political activist, poems challenging indifference, and mainly concerned to understand and, if possible, ameliorate the situation of others. It is also a personal memoir, shaped as autobiography. In reggae-conscious free verse in Jamaican patwa, these poems are fierce, sometimes witty jeremiads against economic and socio-cultural division, poverty, violence, and thwarted lives. Brian Meeks was born in Montreal, Canadaand grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. He has authored or edited eleven books on Caribbean political culture and thought, including Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory (1993 and 2000), Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: the Thought of Stuart Hall (2007), and Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory (2014).

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234256 PB | 72PP | 20 SEPTEMBER 2018

EVERYONE’S THE SMARTEST Contra • •

A collection of fantastical poems for children that cover the greatest topic of them all: school. Like a treasury of new Michael Rosen poems illustrated by Judith Kerr.

School can be hard, fun and strange – sometimes all at once. It’s full of your best friends, teachers and lots of kids you’ve never met, and every day reveals more stories and challenges… Everyone’s The Smartest is a collection that lets children see their own experiences reflected back at them, and tells strange new stories in familiar settings. Contra’s poems confront the school day with the matter-of-fact tone of children who know that the world is full of magic. Everyone’s The Smartest contains 60 poems on all aspects of school life, with playful illustrations on every page.

THE EMMA PRESS | £10.00 | 9781910139998 PB | 96PP | 20 SEPTEMBER 2018

ALIGHT Sophia Blackwell • •

New from the author of The Fire Eater’s Lover (ISBN: 9781909136724) “Searing, sexy and profound.” Laurie Penny

Alight, Sophia Blackwell’s third poetry collection, takes the reader from below-stairs blues bars and gay clubs, through Brighton, Edinburgh, Paris and outer space. The poems explore the histories that lovers bring with them and the migrations and crossings that have brought them to a new country of marriage, mortgages and finding a home. Moving in a dizzying dance from poems about girls in chain coffee shops and the sex lives of London foxes to hospital vaults, life-drawing classes, the altar and the confessional, these poems shine a fierce light into hidden corners of the world and the furthest reaches of the heart. Sophia Blackwell’s poetry has been anthologised by Bloodaxe, Nine Arches, Burning Eye and The Emma Press. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry- Into Temptation (2008) and The Fire Eater’s Lover (2016) and one novel, After My Own Heart (2012).

BURNING EYE BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781911570523 PB | 21 SEPTEMBER 2018

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THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US Renato Cisneros and translated by Fionn Petch This is a son’s search for his father. A familiar theme, but one that, across the generations, can occasionally unearth something rather powerful. In The Distance Between Us that son is Renato Cisneros, a talented writer and a well-known journalist, and that father is the former Army General Luis Federico ‘El Gaucho’ Cisneros, one of the most important figures in the recent history of Peru. Renato Cisneros digs into his own family history to understand and demystify the figure of ‘El Gaucho’: the controversial Secretary during the regime of Francisco Morales Bermúdez and, shortly after, the country’s Minister of War. In this book, the intimate perspective and the passage of time reveal the unknown truths about a man, a family and an entire country. Renato Cisneros (Lima, 1976) is a well-known figure in Peru, where he directed and presented various news programs on radio and TV. In 2015 he voluntarily stepped aside from TV to concentrate fully on his writing and he moved to live in Spain with his wife, where he intends to stay for many years. Having sold over 35,000 copies in Peru alone, La distancia que nos separa, is a huge bestseller and has been very highly praised by the Peruvian as well as international press.

CHARCO PRESS | £12.99 | 9781999859312 PB | 350PP | 25 JULY 2018

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Described as ‘among the most important writers of contemporary British horror’ by Ramsey Campbell First book in the series, Hell’s Ditch (IBSN: 9781909679696) got 100% five star reviews on Amazon.co.uk.

In the haunted desolation of post-nuclear Britain, the Catchman walks. Spawned from the nightmare of Project Tindalos, it doesn’t tire, stop, or die. It exists for one purpose only: to find and kill Helen Damnation, leader of the growing revolt against the tyrannical Reapers and their Commander, Tereus Winterborn. Simon Bestwick lives and writes in Liverpool and is described as “a well respected member of the horror community having published stand-out short stories with several acclaimed indie presses” by Solaris Books, who also publish his signature take on suburban horror with a fantasy twist including Redman’s Hill in 2016.

SNOWBOOKS | £8.99 | 9781911390503 PB | 458PP | 1 JULY 2018

BLACK DOGS AND THE COLOUR YELLOW Christine Barrow • •

Caribbean short stories that show how Barbadian history seeps into the rum, rebellion and rhythm of contemporary life. The author lived in Barbados for almost 50 years but now lives in Brighton.

Listen carefully: a world within a world echoes in these short stories from Christine Barrow. Here, the unmuffled pulse of Barbados beats. Barrow brings us scenes of family squabbles, bitterly unhappy housewives, superstitious salt-ofthe-earth grandmothers, disillusioned scholars burning with subterranean desire, alongside young men brined and buttressed by the sea. Each story skillfully unmasks the lie of an ordinary life, or an ordinary island: these characters wrestle with the ghosts of the Panama Canal; they grow up motherless and rudderless, reaching across the Atlantic towards England, their navel strings planted deep in St. Lucy and Bridgetown.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781845234171 PB | 186PP | 5 JULY 2018

DEATH REGISTER Dwight Thompson • •

Dwight Thompson takes the tradition of the coming-of-age novel and makes of it something both bold and new. Provides context to the Jamaican government’s recent declaration of a state of emergency in Montego Bay.

Set during the politically turbulent times of 90s Jamaica, Death Register is a challenging and moving coming of age story. It uncovers the extreme nature of Jamaican homophobia and explores its devastating effects on a group of high school boys in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Dwight Thompson is a Jamaican working in Japan as an English teacher. His work has appeared in the Montego Bay Western Mirror and Caribbean Writer, where he won the Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize. One of his stories was also short-listed for a prize in the 2012 Small Axe Literary Competition.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £10.99 | 9781845234072 PB | 256PP | 19 JULY 2018

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WOLF’S HILL Simon Bestwick

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NOW LEGWARMERS Pascal O’Loughlin “On a housing estate called ClonduffSiberia deep in the middle of nowhere really, the body of a horse named RottingDead lies buried in the garden of a house that no family has moved into yet. The body of this horse does not have the head attached but it does have a heart, and its heart is lonely and filled with longing.” John and his Mother, grieving for his Father, move to ClonduffSiberia. John meets Angela at a youth club disco and she introduces him to kissing, Bowie and cigarettes. Suddenly a girl goes missing and the answer seems to lie in the grown-up world of love and loss John is struggling to navigate. Pursued by vivid ghosts, anxious visions and ne’er-do-wells, John takes us with him as he finds himself, in the wrong place. “I wanted to reach into the book and tell him that eventually everything will be okay. His description of small town life is excruciatingly perfect, his attention to detail is exquisite. It’s a gem of a book.” Marian Keyes

HENNINGHAM FAMILY PRESS | £12.99 | 9781999797416 PB | 200PP | 1 AUGUST 2018

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Part One of The Relicant Chronicles.

Long ago, Ritakhou was a flourishing empire filled with light, life, and magic. Then came the Schism. Now the kingdom is called Rimbaku and is a pale shadow of its former self, a land stripped of its glory and its power. Steven Savile’s latest books include Sherlock Holmes and the Murder at Sorrows Crown, published by Titan in September 2016, Parallel Lines a crime novel with the same publisher, and Glass Town, a mythic fantasy novel published by St Martin’s Press in April 2017. Aaron Rosenberg has written novels, short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books, ranging from mystery to speculative fiction to drama.

SNOWBOOKS | £8.99 | 9781911390558 PB | 532PP | 1 AUGUST 2018

THE EMPYREUS PROOF Bryan Wigmore • • •

Epic, page-turning fantasy from a well-connected and thoughtful author. Active member of SFF Chronicles, the science fiction and fantasy community. This marvellous work has been in progress for over six years, with constant feedback and support from the author’s online writing group.

Back on the mainland after defeating the magician Daroguerre, Orc and Cass search for a way to reverse Tashi’s horrific transformation. But the discovery of a mysterious set of transcripts sets them against Daroguerre’s former masters, the Kings Behind the World. To escape their reach, Orc and Cass must navigate the labyrinthine city of Bismark and reach Highcloud, whose monks might help expose and defeat the shadowy cabal. Bryan Wigmore lives in Chichester.

SNOWBOOKS | £8.99 | 9781911390527 PB | 520PP | 1 AUGUST 2018

DEDALUS Chris McCabe • •

“Parts of this book will remain with me, and pollute my reading of Hamlet and Ulysses, forever. I also add it to my personal library of Great Books About Dead Fathers.” Max Porter, Author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers Experimental fiction with real depth.

Friday 17th June 1904. Stephen Dedalus wakes up in a Dublin Martello tower, hungover but with winnings in the pocket of his borrowed trousers. Dedalus goes about his day. Settling scores and debts. Pursued by the ghosts of his mother, Hamlet, and now a man called Leopold Bloom who has woken up with plans for him. The young poet weaves hopes and ideas into burning wings of ambition. Can he elude death in the passages of books? Chris McCabe is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent of which is Speculatrix (Penned in the Margins). This is his first novel.

HENNINGHAM FAMILY PRESS | £12.99 | 9781999797423 PB | 200PP | 2 AUGUST 2018

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BONES OF EMPIRE Steven Savile & Aaron Rosenberg

FIVE BY FIVE: SHORT STORIES Various Authors •

An anthology celebrating the best short fiction published by Arachne Press in their popular series of themed collections.

Five By Five is showcase for authors Arachne Press has published previously in anthologies, giving a wider perspective on their writing. A tendency towards fantasy and magical realism, with Cassandra Passarelli’s (Liberty Tales) Guatemalan stories, and Katy Darby’s (London Lies, Stations, Shortest Day, Longest Night) sci-fi and historical stories alongside Joan Taylor Rowan’s (London Lies, Lover’s Lies, Stations) acid humour and modern desperation and Sarah James’ (Longest Day, Shortest Night) elliptical poet’s sensibility brought to flash fiction and Helen Morris’ (Liberty Tales, Solstice Shorts) ability to get to the heart of a story, and make you laugh out loud or weep inconsolably.

ARACHNE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909208612 PB | 160PP | 14 AUGUST 2018

OLDER BROTHER Daniel Mella and translated by Megan McDowell • •

Contemporary Uruguayan fiction in translation. A fascinating book that interweaves fiction with brotherhood and grief at the centre of family relations.

During the summer of 2014, on one of the stormiest days on record to hit the coast of Uruguay, 31-year old Alejandro, lifeguard and younger brother of our protagonist, dies after being hit by lightning. Combining memoir and fiction, this novel is the urgent exploration of the brotherly bond, and the effects that death has on our inner circles. An exploration that takes the author back into his past, and right into the centre of his obsessions. Daniel Mella (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1976) is one of the key figures of contemporary Uruguayan literature. At 21, he published Pogo (1997), his first novel, which would be followed by Derretimiento (1998), recently republished in Spain, Noviembre (2000) and the book of short stories Lava (2013), awarded the Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in Uruguay.

CHARCO PRESS | £12.99 | 9781999859343 PB | 150PP | 14 AUGUST 2018

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WE/SHE Various Authors •

An anthology of stories about women by women, collected at live events and readings across the world.

In Collaboration with Liars League, Arachne Press presets a celebration of the centenary of women in the UK getting the vote. Stories about women by women, which have been performed at one of Liars’ League’s events in London, Hong Kong, New York or Portland, Everything from fantasy and historical through magic realism to SF and humour. Edited by Cherry Potts & Katy Darby and featuring work from Liars’ League alumni Alleia Jones, Carolyn Eden, E P Henderson, Elizabeth Hopkinson, Elizabeth Simon, Elizabeth Stott, Fiona Salter, Ilona Choudhury, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, J A Hopper, Arike Oke, Jennifer Rickard, Jenny Ramsay, Lucy Ribchester, Rosalind Stopps & Joanne L. M. Williams.

ARACHNE PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909208629 PB | PP | 16 AUGUST 2018

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“A cracking good read. Highly recommended!” Melvin Burgess Winner of the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award

Karen’s dad is Muslim from Pakistan and her mother is white Christian, and Karen feels as if she doesn’t quite fit in . . . anywhere. So she’s made a choice: she’s switching sides. She’s going to convert to Islam to find her true identity. But Shamshad, her hijab-wearing school mate, isn’t making things easy for her. What’s her deal, anyway? Is Shamshad really any more proper than her? Set against a backdrop of seething Islamophobia, You’re Not Proper shines a light on issues of identity, religion, politics and class affecting young people today. Tariq Mehmood is an award-winning writer and film-maker. His books include Hand on the Sun and While There Is Light. Tariq teaches at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon, and lives in Beirut and Manchester, UK.

HOPEROAD | £7.00 | 9781908446688 PB | 190PP | 16 AUGUST 2018

A SIMPLE SCALE David Llewellyn • •

A thrilling mystery immersed in the politics of the 20th Century with strong LGBT themes. New from the author of Ibrahim & Reenie (ISBN: 9781781720813).

A piece of music starts a story which will range across Soviet Russia, McCarthyite Hollywood and post 9/11 New York, as the mystery of the lives of two gay composers is uncovered. Who wrote the music? How did the two composers’ lives come to cross? What pressures caused their actions? What are the consequences for those around them? Rich in detail and atmosphere, David Llewellyn explores the points at which the personal and the political meet. David Llewellyn is the author of three novels published by Seren. He has also written novelisations of the Torchwood and Dr Who series, scripts for the BBC and has had short stories published in a variety of outlets. A freelance writer, he lives in Cardiff.

SEREN | £9.99 | 9781781724705 PB | 248PP | 20 AUGUST 2018

THE LIFE OF ALMOST Anna Vaught • •

A comical, contemporary reworking of Great Expectations set in Wales. For fans of Mr Pip & Death Comes to Pemberley.

The Life of Almost is a dark comedy set in Wales and a spectral reworking of Dickens’s Great Expectations. Almost is a boy, brought up by his sister, Perfection. He is shrouded by bereavement and surrounded by the hauntings of his family’s undead. A cast of family and friends drawn from sea caves, the embalming table, the graveyard and the dark Clandestine House, which respires heavily and in which time has stopped. Like Dickens’ Pip, Almost sings into the sea and likes to tell stories. He is thwarted in love but understands - on the night he meets a ragged convict - that he has deep and commanding powers. Anna Vaught is a novelist, essayist, poet, editor and reviewer.

PATRICIAN PRESS | £9.00 | 9781999703028 PB | 188PP | 31 AUGUST 2018

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YOU’RE NOT PROPER Tariq Mehmood

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“The life of Louise Bourgeois is rendered in ellipsis, quick brush strokes, and a mix of associations of ideas and of sensations waltzing with chronology. An highly original, sensitive text.” Libération “Jean Frémon brings Louise Bourgeois close into a fascinating and moving proximity.” ArtPress “Jean Frémon is a wholly singular artist, a writer who lives in the radiant zone where poetry, philosophy and storytelling meet.” Paul Auster “Like all the most urgent poetry, it is “fragile and momentary, but momentarily invincible.” John Ashberry

NOW, NOW LOUISON Jean Frémon and translated by Cole Swensen It was only late in her life that Louise Bourgeois was recognized as one of the greatest artists of our time. The art world’s grande dame and its shamesless old lady, spinning personal history into works of profound strangeness, speaks out with her characteristic insolence and wit, through the words of a most discrete, masterful writer. A phosphorescent poem-inprose describing Bourgeois’s inner life as only one artist regarding another can. From her childhood in France to her exile and adult life in America, to her death, through the moods, barbs, resentments, reservations and back, at full speed. Jean Frémon is a French gallerist and writer. Since 1969, he has published numerous works of fiction, poems (a number of which have been translated by Lydia Davis), as well as essays on art, some of which have been translated into Spanish and into English, published in the USA. In 1985 he commissioned Louise Bourgeois’ first European exhibition, at the Lelong Gallery in Paris. Cole Swensen is an American translator, poet, editor, and a professor at Brown University, Rhode Island. A finalist for the National Book Award in 2004 and the recipient of a PEN USA Award for her translation of Frémon’s The Island of the Dead, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.

LES FUGITIVES | £12.00 | 9780993009389 PB | 100PP | 24 SEPTEMBER 2018

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Part of the new Eden Book Society series from Dead Ink. Cult-noir horror from popular contemporary authors.

Organ donation is in its infancy and Daisy Howard, who is giving a kidney to her aunt, is in the hands of a pioneering surgeon. After the operation, Daisy is desperate to get back to her family, yet the days go by and she remains in the hospital; meanwhile, an old friend keeps visiting with news of home, and Daisy becomes increasingly uneasy. Alison Moore’s first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards, winning the McKitterick Prize. Both The Lighthouse and her second novel, He Wants, were Observer Books of the Year, and a third novel, Death and the Seaside, is out now. Her fourth novel, Missing, will be published in May 2018.

DEAD INK BOOKS | £5.00 | 9781911585442 PB | 64PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2018

HOLT HOUSE L.G. Vey (Aliya Whiteley) • •

Part of the new Eden Book Society series from Dead Ink. Cult-noir horror from popular contemporary authors.

It’s a quiet house, sheltered, standing in a mass of tangled old trees called the Holtwood. Raymond watches it. He’s been watching it, through a gap in the fence at the bottom of the garden, for weeks. Thinking about the elderly owners, Mr and Mrs Latch, who took him in one night when he was a frightened boy caught up in an emergency. Mr Latch showed him something that was kept in a wardrobe in the spare room. He can’t remember what it was. He only knows how sick it made him feel. Raymond watches Holt House. He has to remember what he saw. He has to get inside. Aliya Whiteley is a novelist, short story writer and poet. She has been shortlisted for best novella in the Shirley Jackson, Sabotage and British Fantasy Society Awards. Her debut novel, The Loosening Skin, will be published by Unsung Stories in October 2018.

DEAD INK BOOKS | £5.00 | 9781911585428 PB | 64PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2018

JUDDERMAN D.A. Northwood (Gary Budden) • •

Part of the new Eden Book Society series from Dead Ink. Cult-noir horror from popular contemporary authors.

London, early-1970s. In a city plagued by football violence, Republican bombings, blackouts and virulent racism, a new urban myth is taking hold. Among the broken down estates, crumbling squats and failed projects of a dying metropolis, whispered sightings of a malevolent figure nicknamed the Judderman are spreading. A manifestation of the sick psyche of a city, or something else? Gary Budden is the co-director of Influx Press. His work has appeared in Structo, Elsewhere, Unthology, The Lonely Crowd, Gorse, Galley Beggar Press and many more. His novel Hollow Shores was published by Dead Ink last year.

DEAD INK BOOKS | £5.00 | 9781911585466 PB | 64PP | 1 SEPTEMBER 2018

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A DEDICATED FRIEND Shirley Longford (Alison Moore)

A BOOK OF SECRETS Kate Morrison • •

An exciting new historical fiction writer for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir and Joanna Courtney. A look at racial relationships at the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, this is a revealing and compelling glimpse into a fraught time.

A Book of Secrets is the story of a woman named Susan Charlewood living in Elizabethan England. Born in what is now Ghana, Susan is enslaved by the Portuguese but later rescued by British sailors and brought to England. She is raised and educated in an English Catholic household and when Susan comes of age, married off to an older Catholic man who runs a printing press, using it to supply the Papist nobility with illegal Catholic texts and foment rebellion. When he dies, Susan takes over the business and uses her new position to find out more about her origins. Kate Morrison is a British debut novelist currently living in Bristol.

JACARANDA BOOKS | £16.99 | 9781909762695 HB | 324PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

PIZZA WITH JIMBOB & TWOFORKS Ashley Lloyd Smith • •

A riotous debut novel in the anti-tradition of William S. Burroughs & Hunter S. Thompson. Transgressive, bizarre, hilarious and suffused with delirious bad taste.

If only she’d told him about her hot date with the hot waiter. She didn’t and CC had no choice but to push his swinger wife off The Bridge - it’s only murder, right? But, as if the guilt, the dreams and the endless puking wasn’t bad enough, CC finds himself mixed up with the Skype Psychologist, Controversial Kate (the world’s first Gay, Irish Republican, Cross-Dressing Comedian), Beardy (who only wants to stop people jumping from The Bridge and fails miserably), the beautiful Nail Girl, and not to mention the cool, the mysterious and very, very frightening Danny. Ashley Lloyd Smith’s background is in theatre; writing, directing and acting. He has written over a hundred micro stories (seventy words or less) and performs these and his other writings around the Midlands.

CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911540021 PB | 160PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

CONVALESCENT CONVERSATIONS Laura Riding •

“An important force of the international avant-garde.” Paul Auster

Originally published under the pseudonym Madeleine Vara in 1936 by Laura Riding and Robert Graves’s Seizen Press, Convalescent Conversations is one of Riding’s least known works, and one of her most idiosyncratic. A novel unfolding almost entirely in dialogue form, Convalescent Conversations tells the story of Adam and Eleanor, two patients recovering from unknown maladies in a nondescript sanitarium. Laura Riding was a poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and publisher. While primarily known for the critical works that she co-authored with Robert Graves, Riding also left behind an incredibly powerful body of poetry and prose works. Famously rejecting poetry early in her career, she spent the last decades of her life co-writing a theoretical work on linguistics, Rational Meaning, with her husband Schuyler Jackson. She was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1991, the very same year she died.

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £14.00 | 9781937027858 PB | 144PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

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One of the earliest published works of one of Laura Riding.

A nearly impossible text to categorize - is it a collection of short stories, prose poems, manifestos or something else entirely? - Experts Are Puzzled is one of Laura Riding’s earliest and most intense examinations of poetry’s and language’s relationship to truth. In essayistic examinations such as the titular piece, “Introduction to a Book on Money,” and “An Address to America,” Riding seeks to articulate a higher, more poetic notion of truth and truth telling. As such, Experts Are Puzzled stands as an essential text for understanding why Riding came to reject poetry in the late 1930s. While excerpts and selections from Experts have been published before, most notably in Riding’s The Progress of Stories, the entirety of the collection has not appeared in print since its initial publication by Jonathan Cape in 1930.

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | £14.00 | 9781937027865 PB | 144PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

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JANE EVANS Christine Purkis • •

Based on a real unsung heroine from Welsh history. Full of fascinating, well-researched historical detail about nursing in the Crimea.

In the 1850s, a young woman runs away from her poverty-stricken life on a farm in the heart of rural Wales, to escape harsh treatment by her brothers and a forced marriage to a much older neighbour. Shipping out to the Crimea to assist in a hospital for injured soldiers she comes into direct contact with Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Betsi Cadwaladr in their mutual battle against inhuman conditions.. Will she survive the dangers and return home to Wales, and if she does, what reception will she find there? Christine Purkis has published children’s/young adult novels with Random House, including Paddlefeet, Sea Change and The Shuttered Room. This is her first adult novel. She lives in Bristol.

Y’LOLFA | £8.99 | 9781912631001 PB | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

A REMEDY FOR ALL THINGS Jan Fortune • •

A accessible, moving novel about identity and belonging. The follow-up to This is the End of the Story (ISBN: 9780993168277) and the second book in a trilogy.

Belief is Catherine’s gift, or it was once, growing up in the shadow of an extraordinary friendship amongst a cacophony of voices trying to tell her who to be. Now, in her thirties, Catherine knows what she has lost and what she has survived. Her professional life is on course and she has a new relationship with Simon, a writer who shares her imaginative and creative worlds. But when Catherine arrives in Budapest in winter 1993 to begin researching a novel based on the poet, Attila József, she starts dreaming the life of a young woman imprisoned after the 1956 Uprising. Jan Fortune’s previous publications include non-fiction titles in education and parenting; three novels and four poetry collections. She lives in the wild wet foothills of the Moelwyns in North Wales.

CINNAMON PRESS | £9.99 | 9781911540045 PB | 368PP | 3 SEPTEMBER 2018

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EXPERTS ARE PUZZLED Laura Riding

DE RIGHTEST PLACE Barbara Jenkins • •

Indira Gabriel, recently abandoned by her lover, embarks on a project to reinvigorate a dilapidated bar into something special. Like a Trinidadian Cheers, a rich cast of characters come together in this warm, funny, sexy, and bittersweet first novel.

In this brilliantly comic novel, Barbara Jenkins hears, like Sam Selvon, the melancholy behind “the kiff-kiff laughter”. At its heart is a dilapidated bar in Port of Spain, and a woman determined to resurrect the place. But first Indira Gabriel must overcome her grief over her abandonment by her partner, Solomon, gone to Canada with his steelband combo. Then there’s Bostic, Solomon’s boyhood friend, determined to preserve De Rightest Place as a mausoleum to his memory. Barbara Jenkins was born in Trinidad. Her debut short story collection, Sic Transit Wagon (Peepal Tree, 2013) was awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award.

PEEPAL TREE PRESS | £10.99 | 9781845234225 PB | 296PP | 6 SEPTEMBER 2018

MOVING PARTS Prabda Yoon and translated by Mui Poopoksakul • • •

New from the author of The Sad Part Was (ISBN: 9781911284062). More surreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. “Evocative, erudite, and often very funny stories of Bangkok life.” The Guardian

In these wry and unsettling stories, Prabda Yoon once again illuminates something of the strangeness of modern cultural life in Bangkok. Disarming the reader with surprising charm, intensity and delicious horror, he explores what it means to have a body, and to interact with those of others. The author of multiple story collections, novels and screenplays, Prabda Yoon is also a translator (of classics by Salinger and Nabokov), independent publisher (of books both originally written in and translated into Thai), graphic designer, and filmmaker.

TILTED AXIS PRESS | £8.99 | 9781911284185 PB | 6 SEPTEMBER 2018

DOPPELGÄNGER Daša Drndić •

New from the author of Trieste (ISBN: 978-1780878355) and Belladonna (9780857054319).

Doppelgänger consists of two stories that skillfully revisit the question of “doubles”, and how an individual is perpetually caught between their own beliefs and those imposed on them by society. ‘Arthur and Isabella’ is a story of the relationship between two elderly people who meet on New Year’s Eve - a romantic encounter which turns into a grotesque portrayal of the loneliness of old age. The second story ‘Pupi’ centres on the life of a man who ends up on the streets and associates only with street-sellers the rhinoceroses in the zoo. Together these tales crate the highly original atmosphere that Drndić is famous for in all her works. Daša Drndić is a distinguished Croatian novelist, playwright and literary critic, author of radio plays and documentaries.

ISTROS BOOKS | £9.99 | 9781912545131 PB | 126PP | 15 SEPTEMBER 2018

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SHE WROTE THE SONGS Patricia Hammond Parlour songs were the pop hits of the Victorian era – and some of the biggest hit-makers of the day were women. Barred from positions in universities, cathedrals and orchestras, this intimate, home-based musical genre was their only outlet. Sadly, their extraordinary contribution has largely been forgotten, overlooked by historians and marginalised in the timeline of music. Now, however, singer Patricia Hammond is putting the record – or, rather, the sheet music – straight, telling tuneful tales of political reform, personal empowerment and the unique role women played in a fascinating period of British musical history.

VALLEY PRESS | £15.99 | 9781908853585 PB | 128PP | 16 AUGUST 2018

THE GREENWOOD TREES: HISTORY, FOLKLORE AND VIRTUES OF BRITAIN’S TREES Christina Hart-Davis • • • •

A beautiful guide to the trees of Britain from the author of A Wild Plant Year (ISBN: 9781909747135). Fully illustrated with vibrant watercolours by the passionate and knowledgeable author. She has been commissioned several times to illustrate field guides, most notably the Collins Flower Guide.

Christina Hart-Davies is well known for her precise and accurate botanical watercolours, which feature in prestigious collections worldwide and have won many awards including four RHS Gold medals in the past. She has always championed the combining of art and science, looking at the natural world from different angles.

TWO RIVERS PRESS | £15.99 | 9781909747401 PB | 120PP | 21 SEPTEMBER 2018

READING ABBEY Peter Durrant & John Painter •

A beautifully produced guide to Reading Abbey, including a guided walking tour of the grounds.

Reading’s Abbey, founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, was huge, wealthy and important until Henry VIII’s dissolution in 1539, after which it declined over the years into the picturesque ruins that grace the north bank of the Kennet today. This history of the Abbey and the Abbey Quarter relates the motive behind its foundation, the relics that made it a famous destination for pilgrims from all over Europe, the part it played in royal and parliamentary life, the story of its downfall and its continuing influence on the geography and buildings of our town. With detailed descriptions of the Abbey buildings and their layout alongside features on monastic life and the Abbots, the book brings to life the role of the Abbey in the town both before and after its dissolution.

TWO RIVERS PRESS | £9.99 | 9781909747395 PB | 84PP | 21 SEPTEMBER 2018

Now we are going to make a colour family.

Choose one colour. Get some old magazines COLOUR EXPERIMENTS FOR and find lots of examples of your colour.

ARTISTS David Henningham •

FUTURE

Cut them all out.

A book of art activities and experiments for children to learn about colours.

Colour Experiments for Future Artists explains what colour is and how to use it to make Art. Beginning with sunlight, children will make a camera obscura to safely observe the Sun and use water to break light into a spectrum of colour.

ake a family people going est to darkest?

These “Colours 2 little people are Experiments and step by step activities reveal simple colour relationships. have friends” (complimentary colours), “colours have a family” (hue). The scale Canand you make 2 of the sam increases to our colour street (colour circle) and colour planet (tints shades). Children will learn to move colours up and down the street by mixing colours. different by The changing their book concludes with the amazing ways colour helps us explore distant worlds, and how Artists use colour to show us our world and what it could be. Try and make the jumps feel the same size, like HENNINGHAMmusical FAMILY PRESS | £12.95 | 9781999797447 notes.

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Barney Farmer is a writer and artist who writes about things for Viz, mostly about drunken bakers, and sometimes for Private Eye, but not about drunken bakers. Farmer also wrote a short film called Who is to Blame. He uses biros. DRUNKEN BAKER Barney Farmer “‘Drunken Bakers’ is like Samuel fucking Beckett or something. It’s horrible and really funny.” Alan Moore “Comedy drunks have been around since drinks first began, but few have been so utterly forlorn as the ‘Drunken Bakers.’ ” Steve Lowe (The Guardian) Characters born into the celebrated Viz comic strip, ‘Drunken Bakers’, are here for the first time immortalised in a book. A day in the life: the decline of the independent bakery, and the steeper decline of the independent bakers within it (cake and bargain booze included).A harsh reality displayed without apology, elbowing its way into our comfort zone bringing laughter and the smell of stale beer. WRECKING BALL PRESS | £14.00 | 9781903110546 HB | 160PP | 26 APRIL 2018

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How to order: Ordering from us is quick and easy. All of our magazines are available to purchase individually or by standing order, meaning you can take as many or as few as you like. If you have unsold copies of a magazine when a new issue is released, you can return to us the covers. If you want to change or cancel your standing order, you can do so at any time by contacting us on 0191 230 8104 or via email at enquiries@inpressbooks.co.uk Poetry Book Society Spring Bulletin 2018 This edition features the customary reviews of the PBS selected poetry books for this quarter, plus write-ups by the poets themselves. Their Choice is Who is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins, alongside recommendations Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar, Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power, The Long Take by Robin Robertson and Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan. Laurie Duggan’s Selected Poems also feature as the Special Commendation, along with Translation Choice Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku, translated by Ani Gjika, and Pamphlet Choice Bottle by Ramona Herdman. Kayo Chingonyi also provides his thoughts on Meryl Pugh’s Natural Phenomena as guest selector. The remainder of the Bulletin is packed with poetry excerpts, and eighteen short reviews of other upcoming titles! Price: £5.00

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Poetry Ireland Review Issue 123 Among the poets offering new work in the final Poetry Ireland Review of 2017 are Orla Martin, Catherine Phil MacCarthy, Harry Clifton, Erin Halliday, Alan Titley, and Nan Cohen, while the Featured Poet is Belfast sensation Stephen Sexton. The books reviewed in this issue include new titles from Michael O’Loughlin, the late John Montague, Biddy Jenkinson, Aifric Mac Aodha, Mark Roper, and Colette Bryce’s Selected Poems. Also included is editor Eavan Boland’s examination of the life and work of the late John Ashbery, and the reasons for his pre-eminence among American poets of his century; and an evocative tribute to the late Gerard Fanning from his friend Gerard Smyth. The artwork for PIR 123 comes from the SO Fine Art Editions gallery, and the issue concludes with nine intriguing questions for Michael Longley, posed by fellow Belfast poets Stephen Connolly and Stephen Sexton – followed, of course, by nine intriguing answers. Price: £10.00

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JACARANDA BOOKS Jacaranda Books are a fresh and exciting new independent publishing house based in London. They publish adult fiction and non-fiction, including illustrated books, which cross linguistic, racial, gender and cultural boundaries.

Through their authors and books, they seek to promote provocative, inspirational writing that shines a light on issues affecting ethnic minorities, women, and young people, and tackles contemporary social issues. At the heart of their publishing strategy is one core element - a love of outstanding, thought-provoking work. They believe that a wealth of unheard, under-represented voices exist globally and are ready to be discovered. It is their mission to create the space for those voices to be seen and heard by new readers.

Rest in Power, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin Five years after his tragic death, Travyon Martin has become a symbol of social justice activism, as has his hauntingly familiar image: the photo of a young man, wearing his favourite hoodie and gazing silently at the camera. But who was Trayvon Martin, before he became an icon? And how did one black child’s death become the match that lit a civil rights movement? Rest in Power, told through the compelling alternating narratives of his parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, answers those questions from the most intimate of sources. It’s the story of the beautiful and complex child they lost, the cruel unresponsiveness of the police and the hostility of the legal system, and the inspiring journey they took from grief and pain to power, and from tragedy and senselessness to meaning. PB | £12.99 | 9781909762572 | 11th February 2017

The Reactive, Masande Ntshanga In a city that has lost its shimmer, Lindanathi and his two friends Ruan and Cecelia sell illegal pharmaceuticals while chasing their next high. Lindanathi, deeply troubled by his hand in his brother’s death, has turned his back on his family, until a message from home reminds him of a promise he made years before. When a puzzling masked man enters their lives, Lindanathi is faced with a decision: continue his life in Cape Town, or return to his family and to all he has left behind. Rendered in lyrical, bright prose and set in a not-so-new South Africa, The Reactive is a poignant, life-affirming story about secrets, memories and the redemption that comes from facing what haunts us most. PB | £8.99 | 9781909762596 | 14th September 2017

Thinner than Skin, Uzma Aslam Khan “Smart, fierce, and poignant: perhaps the most exciting novel yet by this very talented writer.” Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Up in the glaciers of Northern Pakistan, a tragedy at a mountain lake entwines the fates of the two lovers with the people they encounter there: Miryam, a nomad, travelling with her family into the mountains to escape persecution, and Irfan, haunted by ghosts and hoping that the mountains may offer him a reprieve from his troubles. An expansive look at the intersection of cultures and what happens at those intersections, Thinner Than Skin is a powerful and moving read. HB | £16.99 | 9781909762671 | 5th April 2018

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clinic (est. New Cross, 2009) is a poetry press, producing pamphlets and an anthology series. Publications include White Hills by Chloe Stopa Hunt and Savage by Rebecca Tamás, both selected as London Review Bookshop poetry pamphlet of the year (in 2016 and 2017 respectively), and Can I Borrow a Feeling, an anthology of poetry and art inspired by the Simpsons.

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Can I Borrow a Feeling? An anthology of poetry and illustration inspired by The Simpsons Editors: Rachael Allen, Sam Buchan-Watts, Sean Roy Parker, Andrew Parkes ISBN: 9780993318207 | Price: £6.99 Original contributions by: Ellie Andrews, Dan Barrow, Crispin Best, Amy Blakemore, Harry Burke, Vahni Capildeo, Josh Checkley, Dan Clarke, Sophie Collins, Angela Dalinger, Sam Donsky, Lauren Doughty, Joe Dunthorne, Aisha Franz, Sam Grinberg, Grace Helmer, James Howard, Kirsten Irving, Holly Isemonger, Kevin Jackson, Katie Johnston, Paul Layzell, Megan Levad, Harriet Lee-Merrion, Charlene Man, Željka Maroševic, Alex MacDonald, Ella McLean, Charlotte Mei, Rebecca Perry, JJ Regan, Jonny Reid, Sam Riviere, Peter Rhodes, Jack Sachs, Jack Taylor, Sam Taylor, Olly Todd, Emily Toder, Jack Underwood, Mark Waldron, James Womack. Cover by Charlotte Mei.

Savage Rebecca Tamás In the thunder and night time it is just me and god. – ‘Joan of Arc’ 9780993318245 | £5.99 White Hills Chloe Stopa-Hunt 9780993318214 | £5.99

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THE SILENT STRIKER Pete Kalu “This is a book full to the brim with joy, heartache and passion for the beautiful game.” Melvin Burgess Marcus is a 14-year-old footballing genius who keeps getting into deep trouble at school. He is the best player by far in a tough, ethnically diverse inner-city area of London. The team gets tantalisingly close to Schools League and Cup glory. His Nigerian father is a wannabe soul singer with a day job as a postman, and his English mum cold-calls double glazing. The parents are at a loss what to do with their wayward son Marcus. Dealing with deafness, shifting friends, crazy parents and a ‘special measures’ school, Marcus will have to gather all the strength he can find – in others as well as within himself. Pete Kalu is a novelist, playwright and poet. He has won the BBC Playwrights Award, Voice/Jamaica Information Service Marcus Garvey Scholarship Award and the BBC’s Dangerous Comedy Prize. His other YA fiction includes Zombie Xl and Being Me and his adult titles: Lick Shot, Little Jack Horner, Professor X, Yard Dogs and Black Star Rising. He lives in Manchester, UK.

£7.00 | 9781908446695 PB | 200PP | 27 SEPTEMBER 2018

The Ghosts & Jamal, Bridget Blankley The Ghosts and Jamal is an intriguing story, touching on religion, terrorism and Nigeria’s internal conflicts, following a young orphan who is negotiating an unforgiving society. Waking up in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, 13-year-old Jamal tries to piece together what has happened whilst simultaneously trying to evade capture by the attackers. It soon becomes clear that he has been living in a separate outhouse from his family on account of the “bad spirits” or rather his epilepsy that plagues him. As he wanders around his family’s compound, he comes across red canisters leaking yellow gas, which he works out were the weapon that killed his family. With his family dead, he begins to search for his grandfather who he hardly knows; when his grandfather turns him away Jamal keeps walking. On the way he meets prejudice, exploitation and friendship, before finally discovering that it is people, not ghosts, that have killed his family, and they have plans to keep on killing.

PB | £8.99 | 9781908446633 | 23 March 2018

The Concubine & the Slave-Catcher: Stories from Around the World, Qaisra Shahraz Ranging widely across both historical periods and national boundaries, Qaisra Shahraz’s new collection of short stories speaks powerfully to the burning ethical issues of the twenty-first century. Ten powerful stories set on several continents and at different periods in history. A well-meaning Abolitionist learns the sordid and violent truth about slavery from her African servants in Boston USA. The sundering of India and Pakistan in the 1947 Partition is revealed when a Muslim boy is adopted by a Hindu family during the chaos of mass migration. A young university student finds her engagement broken off because her fiancé’s family disapproves of her Western attire. The horrors of the Holocaust are writ large in one pregnant woman’s experiences. With each unique story, Shahraz captures and enriches us with her wisdom and storytelling magic. PB | £9.99 | 9781908446619 | 16 March 2018

Sugar Sugar: Bitter-sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers, Lainy Malkani A fascinating web of honey-coloured threads linking Indian migrant workers, who first left the Sub-Continent more than a hundred and fifty years ago, and their descendants now living in contemporary Britain. Sugar Sugar: Bitter-sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers is a contemporary collection of short stories based on facts which reveals a rich and culturally diverse history behind India’s migrant workers and one of the most abundant and controversial commodities in the world. Inspired by historical documents between 1838 and 1917, and the living memories of the descendants of indentured workers, Sugar Sugarspans five continents, travelling through time uncovering inspiring tales of courage and resilience.

PB | £8.99 | 9781908446602 | 16 March 2018

INDEX Ascroft, Nick 11 Barrow, Christine 29 Bashir, Hafsah 24 Bergman, Mara 14 Bestwick, Simon 29 Blackwell, Sophia 27 Blakemore, A. K. 6 Boniface-Webb, Tom 3 Boxall, Penny 25 Bozorgmehr, Cyrus 3 Budden, Gary 35 Burton, Marianne 10 Calveyra, Arnaldo 24 Cardona, Jose Manuel 23 Charman, Helen 19 Cisneros, Renato 28 Connolly, Nathan 3 Constantine, David 22 Contra 27 Dawes, Kwame 25 Denniston, Edward 8 Detela, Jure 24 Devi, Ananda 2 Drndic, Dasa 38 Dunn, Nell 5 Durrant, Peter 40 Edwards, Jonathan 21 Eichler, Charlotte 12 Elder, Neil 8 Eliade, Mircea 2 Farmer, Barney 41 Fitzmaurice, Gabriel 9 Flisar, Evald 5 Fortune, Jan 37 Fremon, Jean 34 From, John 13 Galbraith, Iain 15 Garcia Robayo, Margarita 4 Gomringer, Nora 16 Green, Jess 7 Green, Yvonne 22 Greenhalf, Jim 17 Griffin, Nicki 18

Hammond, Patricia Hart-Davies, Christina Henningham, David Hinsey, Ellen Inghels, Maarten Irving, Kirsten Ismailov, Hamed Jenkins, Barbara Kabdebo, Thomas Kapi, Bhanu Karbassi, Ziba Keegan, Colm Kinsella, John Kirk, Brian Kocot, Noelle Kyung Ju, Kim Lehoczky, Agnes Llewellyn, David Lloyd Smith, Ashley Logan, Ross Lynn, Zeyar MacDonald, Alex Massie-Blomfield, Amber McCabe, Chris McCaffery, Richie McCarthy, Neil Meeks, Brian Mehmood, Tariq Mella, Daniel Meskovic, Alen Moore, Alison Morrison, Kate Myers, Benjamin Natasha, Jenny Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Loughlin, Pascal Painter, John Parmar, Sandeep Peake, Robert Pepper, Penny Perricone, C. Philpott, Sarah Pingwa, Jia Purkis, Christine Ramayya, Nisha

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Riding, Laura 36,37 Romero, Ricardo 2 Rosenberg, Aaron 31 Salter, Miles 10 Savile, Steven 31 Sinclair, Fiona 17 Skoulding, Zoe 7 Smith, Kate 5 Starik, F 7 Stone, Jon 10, 22 Thacker, Jack 12 Thompson, Dwight 29 Tyrrell, Scott 12 Vaught, Anna 33 Vibes, Isadora 26 Walsh, Tony 26 Watts, Mike 18 White, Simone 23 Whiteley, Aliya 35 Wigmore, Bryan 31 Williamson, Claire 4 Yoon, Prabda 38

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