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Both of the two most recent New Walk pamphlets, by Hilary Menos and Elaine Ewart:
ELAINE EWART,
THE PROFESSOR OF TRANSFORMATION
ISBN 978-1-9193077-1-8
NWE 31.1
What might you have done differently
when the smell of cut grass filled your nostrils,
if you’d known she would be in your future?
Elaine Ewart examines the problematic connection between history and memory. Her poems often uncover interactions between modernity and the natural world, and focus on the gaps in intimate relationships that both define them and prevent their fulfillment. An embattled academic applies for an impossible job; an unyielding landscape resists investigation by an obsessed detective; ecological breakdown is defied by the stubbornness of blue tits.
'Tender but unsentimental, underpinned by linguistic precision and bravura formal skill, these imaginative poems sparkle with Ewart’s customary intelligence. Surely we all ‘must learn to see / strange new beauty in the lost security of the seasons.' - Sarah Doyle
After twenty years living and working in East Anglia, Elaine Ewart is now based in North Yorkshire. Her poems have been published recently in several journals including Atrium, The Rialto, and The Interpreter’s House. In 2025 she was shortlisted by New Writing North for a Northern Debut Award for Poetry. Her travel memoir, Heligoland, was published in 2025 by Muscaliet Press.
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HILARY MENOS,
VOX WAH-WAH
ISBN 978-1-9193077-2-5
NWE 31.2
When Hilary Menos got together with guitarist Andy Brodie she found herself sharing space with a 1967 Gretsch Double Anniversary, a 1962 Vox AC30 and an array of guitar pedals with names like Dr Scientist Reverberator, Nocturne Dyno Brain and Rozz Super Baby Flanger. Soon she could tell a Tele from a Strat and a humbucker from a P90, and in the eternal conversation about where rock’n’roll came from and who does it best, she got game! Frank Sinatra said rock’n’roll was ‘the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.’ Frank is between these covers, as are Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Karen Carpenter and Etta James, among others. But this is not just a celebration of rock’n’roll greats. Menos explores the
stories behind iconic moments in rock history, the impact of sound on the body and the joy of reckless abandon. The poems in Vox Wah-Wah suggest how to live, how to love and (with a bit of help from Elvis) how to leave this world.
Hilary Menos won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2010 with Berg (Seren, 2009) and is a two-time winner of The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition with Human Tissue (2020) and Extra Maths (2004). Her second collection is Red Devon (Seren, 2013) and her fourth pamphlet is Fear of Forks (HappenStance, 2022). She is editor of The Friday Poem.
'Vox Wah-Wah cuts a deep precise slice through the popular culture of its age with expertise, intelligence and humour and, finally, with tenderness for music fading into distance, the passing of time.' - Philip Gross
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