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Our two new pamphlets are by Elaine Ewart and Hilary Menos:
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ELAINE EWART,
THE PROFESSOR OF TRANSFORMATION
ISBN 978-1-9193077-1-8
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
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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Pamphlets listed below, A to Z. Please specify which pamphlet you'd like when ordering. There is an option to add an instructional note at checkout, or you can email us after ordering at [email protected] and let us know that way.
* 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
* Elaine Ewart, The Professor of Transformation (2026)
'Tender but unsentimental, underpinned by linguistic precision and bravura formal skill'
Sarah Doyle
* 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
* Mark Ford, The Morlocks: A Fantasia (2025)
'Undoubtedly his sharpest and most sinister work to date.'
Anthony Caleshu
*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
* Hilary Menos, Vox Wah-Wah (2026)
'These poems crackle and spit like chestnuts roasting'
Helena Nelson
* 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
* Sean O'Brien, À la Carte (2025)
'A love letter – at once plangent and exhilarating – to the past and to ‘England,
"England, with all of its failings".'
Katharine Towers
* D. A. Prince, Continuous Present (2025)
'Here is 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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