Coming soon – publication date 28th March 2024 – but I will post out to you as soon as Selima has given the hard copy her blessing. I do hope you are all keeping well. I am (happily) back working full time, and have very little spare time for publishing at the moment. But who […]
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London Grip Review of Khadija Rouf’s “House Work”
Here is a review in London Grip, by the wonderful Pat Edwards in which she writes: Sensuous, honest writing about sexual encounters, childbirth and early motherhood… a totally honest way of confronting ‘house work’. Other reviews: I love this raging, angry, funny, and often beautiful and tender book. Many of us will recognise ourselves amongst […]
Nathalie Ab-Ezzi poetry book out!
In this remarkable debut the poet, whose own family were displaced from Lebanon, has achieved a work of empathy with women from other cultures and now living in the East End. It brings to life longed-for homelands and sings of loss as well as adjustment to Britain. It filled me with a desire to see […]
MARIO PETRUCCI INVITES YOU TO HIS OFFICIAL ZOOM LAUNCH: 27 March 7pm
MARIO PETRUCCI INVITES YOU TO HIS OFFICIAL LAUNCH: Please join me on Zoom for the official launch of Moonbird : love poems. ZOOM Mar 27, 2023 7:00 pm London – with Oxford Stanza “Inspired by Pablo Neruda and E. E. Cummings as much as by Rumi, Moonbird : love poems provides a courtship display of rare distinction, combining a compelling uniqueness of voice with insistent […]
PBS Review of Selima Hill’s pamphlet
This is a chilling reminder of climate catastrophe. Hill’s poems weigh heavy upon us, an urgent warning we can no longer ignore. Poetry Book Society review, Winter 2022 Selima Hill is one of our greatest living poets. She has always found new ways to speak the unspeakable. Each of these tiny poems somehow contains a […]
Charles Foster’s novel on longlist
Charles Foster’s novel “A little brown sea” has been longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, given annually for a book about Greece You can read more about his novel here It is also available in hardback Charles Foster is an extraordinary man and “Being a Beast” is my favourite nature-writing book ever. His novel […]
Selima Hill win’s King’s Medal for Poetry!
Along with so many people I am so delighted that Simon Armitage recommended Selima Hill for the first King’s Medal for Poetry I have been extraordinarily lucky to have been in snail-mail correspondence with Selima, since January 2021. I have kept every card and letter She is an extraordinary woman and an extraordinary poet […]
Love poems by Mario Petrucci
On 14th February – we publish a pamphlet of truly wonderful love poems by Mario Petrucci The poems are as sublime as the cover! You can read more about the pamphlet here, and also buy a copy You can see him read, at his official launch at Oxford Stanza on 27th March Nadia x
LUCKY DIP/ BARGAIN BASEMENT POETRY!!
These and more!!! Poetry Books and Pamphlets in a lucky dip and at a bargain price of : £12.50 for 2 – 3 pamphlets £15 for 3 – 1 book and 2 pamphlets £20 for 4 – 2 books and 2 pamphlets £25 for 5 – 2 books and 3 pamphlets P&P inclusive […]
The Young & the Old in poetry!!
Emma Purshouse and Catherine Pascall Moore’s award winning book of poetry is dyslexia friendly, has tips on how to perform poems and is full of life and laughs, wisdom and silliness and jokes and cute animals, read more about it and buy it here Keith Chandler, another award-winning poet has a […]
