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Our two new pamphlets are by Richie McCaffery and D. A. Prince:
D. A. PRINCE, CONTINUOUS PRESENT
ISBN 978-1-7392812-8-1
NWE 29.2
Is there such a thing as an ‘average moment’? If so, what might it contain? The varied immediacy of the natural world, perhaps, richly green; a conversation on a suburban bus or at the haidresser; or the monotony of the M1 in heavy traffic, where the relentless pressure from heavy lorries and their mission statements – Driven by Perfection, Optimal Solutions, Your Tomorrow Delivered Today – tower over you and your small car. While the continuity of time brings the past close to the present, just out of sight there are other worlds: the what-ifs, parallel lives and choices you might have made. These poems explore the textures of routine experience but also glimpse alternative dimensions within and beyond our daily lives.
Since 2008 D.A.Prince has published three collections with HappenStance Press. The second, Common Ground, won the East Midlands Book Award in 2015. The third, The Bigger Picture (2022), includes ‘The Window’, Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes anthology for 2020. Her poems have also made less conventional appearances: as bookmarks, on posters on the Longbenton Metro station in Newcastle, and even, handwritten, on biscuit wrappers as part of the Wrapper Rhymes installation at StAnza in 2020. Prince reviews contemporary poetry for London Grip, The Friday Poem and Orbis among other literary magazines.
'Her work is subtle and sensitive, but never sentimental. Here is a world of keen tenderness and humorous certainties.' - Alison Brackenbury
RICHIE McCAFFERY, SKAIL
ISBN 978-1-7392812-7-4
NWE 29.1
‘Skail’ is an old Scots word meaning a scattering or dispersal. The poems in this pamphlet take place in the aftermath of a pandemic, and in the dissolution of a long-term relationship. With ‘skail’ comes loss and confusion, but also the possibility of renewal.
Richie McCaffery is the author of a number of poetry pamphlets as well as three full collections: Cairn and Passport (both Nine Arches Press) and Summer / Break (Shoestring Press). He is a teacher, literary critic and scholar of Scottish literature, and the author of Scotland’s Harvest: Scottish Poetry and World War Two (Brill, 2023).
'A poet who is a master of holding back as well as knowing when to let loose. He is closer to Marvell than Donne but very much a metaphysical.' - Ian Stephen
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* Zayneb Allak - Keine Angst (2017)
'These are reflective, imaginative poems for our time'
Moniza Alvi
* Polly Atkin - With Invisible Rain (2018)
'At once deeply authentic and luminously metaphorical'
Sasha Dugdale
* Mike Barlow - Some Kind of Ghost (2018)
'Poems of a wonderful fluency and scope imbued with a sense of the mystery
that underlies all things'
John Killick
* Penny Boxall, The Curiosities (2023)
'Poems that mesh sound and sense with a sharp and knowing wit.'
Jonathan Davidson
* SOLD OUT! - Kate Bingham - Archway Sonnets (2020) - SOLD OUT!
'Poetry of empathy, celebration, shame and subtle doom'
Kathryn Maris
* Steve Ely - I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heauen (2019)
'These poems are blistering in their honesty [and] thread together a new
perspective on fatherhood, masculinity, redemption and guilt'
Kim Moore
* Rebecca Farmer - A Separate Appointment (2022)
'Poems that examine our physical and mortal neuroses but always with a wit and
knowingness that pierce any potential self-pity'
Greta Stoddart
*John Gallas - Aotearoa/angleland: 40+40 Tankas (2021)
'Why is that owl standing on a station platform in Angleland with a paper bag on
its head?'
Fleur Adcock
*John Greening - Europa's Flight (2019)
'Greening fills his crown of sonnets with astounding combinations and varieties of
subject. He confronts borders and that which cannot be confined by borders'
Martyn Crucefix
* Alan Jenkins - Tidemarks (2018)
'Jenkins stands out among his male peers with his uniquely compelling blend of
intense feeling and elegant style'
Carol Ann Duffy
* Lisa Kelly - From the IKEA Back Catalogue (2021)
'Delves into language'
Briony Bax
* Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ghalib: A Diary (2022)
'Each borrowed idiom has left its mark on his own.'
Peter D. McDonald
* Richie McCaffery, Skail (2025)
'There’s a keen intelligence at work here, a sureness of touch, a real mastery'
Alan Spence
* John Mole - A Different Key (2017)
'Grief is balanced by humour in a way that perfectly conveys the fluctuations of
the mourning process'
Carole Satyamurti
* Blake Morrison - Never the Right Time (2023)
'Lucid but luminous'
Andrew Motion
* D. A. Prince, Continuous Present (2025)
'a world of keen tenderness and humorous certainties'
Alison Brackenbury
* Graeme Richardson - Last of the Coalmine Choirboys (2024)
'By turns contemplative and disquieting. Punctuated by moments of intense
vitality.'
Julias Copus
* SOLD OUT! - Belinda Rimmer - Holding On (2021) - SOLD OUT!
'Take the reader inside the lives of the damaged but defiant'
David Clarke
* Declan Ryan - Fighters, Losers (2019)
'As memorable as all the haunted boxers who stalk these pages’
Donald McRae
* Derron Sandy, The Chaos (2023)
'These poems are the doctor’s notes of an afflicted people riddled by the distress of social place'
Arielle M. John
* Shannon T. Smith - Sandbound (2024)
'Skilfully manages to render the familiar fresh and new again and again. I am a real fan.'
Lorna Goodison
* N. S. Thompson - After War (2020)
'Succeeds in evoking a whole historical period'
Gregory Dowling
* William Thompson - After Clare (2022)
'Vividly rendering into language those charged moments where the rural
and urban, the traditional and contemporary, blur.'
Rebecca Watts
* SOLD OUT! - Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. Moniza Alvi and Veronika Krasnova - Bitter Berries (2018) - SOLD OUT!
'A significant contribution to Tsvetaeva’s oeuvre in English'
Tiffany Atkinson
* Polly Walshe - Silver Fold (2024)
'On close speaking terms with the ineffable'
Claudine Toutoungi
*Hugo Williams, The West Pier (2022)
'One of Britain’s most accomplished and distinctive poets.'
Kathryn Maris
* William Wootten, Looking for the Horsemen (2021)
'There is nothing, one feels, this poet could not have language do'
Jonathan Edwards
* Linda Stern Zisquit - From the Notebooks of Korah's Daughter (2019)
'Passionate, hectic, sacrilegious'
Rosanna Warren
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