Fair Acre Press

Well done to the students at Derwen College in Shropshire for understanding the principles of how to make an animation and making such lovely examples which you can see on Qube gallery website here! Thanks to lead artist Paul Kielty for running the amazing workshops! Nadia x

Hi everyone I am so delighted to announce the publication of a poetry pamphlet by STEPH MORRIS: Please don’t trample us; we are trying to grow! – click here to buy an advance copy And his zoom poetry launch on Thursday November 12th 7 to 8pm – with friends! (tba) Steph Morris achieves a fine […]

Hi there I have made a short video of the wonderful These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS anthology I was proud to publish on March 20th 2020. It has been featured on Radio 4’s Today programme, BBC Newsnight, and Good Morning Britain It is endorsed by Stephen Fry!! as well […]

In this series of you tube videos in which I read something from one of the books Fair Acre press has published I present FROM ROWAN RIDGE by Chris Kinsey Its a few minutes long You can buy the book here, or at any good bookshop! I agree with Fiona Sampson when she describes it […]

This book won the International Rubery Award for poetry You can buy it here Pamphlets also by Keith Chandler: The Grandpa Years – incredibly touching poems about being a grandpa  The Ballad of Kitty Cockroach – a young cockroach is read a bedtime story and is unlikely to sleep when she hears the environmental disasters […]

As we recently experienced the autumn equinox –  and the nights have started drawing in –  I don’t know about YOU, but I have started curling up on the sofa with a good book!! But before I did – I made this youtube video about Matthew Oates’ wonderful book Beyond Spring I apologise about the […]

If you missed John Mills’ launch of No Guiding Star or if you would like to see it again! Here it is – on youtube John was joined by special guests Helen Mort, James Sheard and Clare Shaw and an audience of 68 on 13th September 2020 Nadia x

Please join us on Sunday 13th September 2020 from 3pm to 4pm on zoom to celebrate the launch of John Mills’ pamphlet NO GUIDING STAR There is an audience of 50 already signed up – and wonderfully thanks to zoom – EVERYONE gets a VIP front seat! There will also be virtual vol-au-vents and a […]

Hi everyone last week was a busy one. I was on Northampton radio, interviewed for the Sunday Tribune and recorded for Spoken Label podcast by Andy N (I will share this when its aired in about a month) Mostly I was talking about The Word Bin With 75 episodes completed and more to come my […]

I have created a PATREON page for The Word Bin podcast and the other podcasts I am keen to start but can’t afford to give the time to. It is a special kind of crowdfunding page which allows people who are keen to support artists the opportunity to help them continue to create, thanks to […]