Archive | Not quite Pepys

    A bargain bundle for the nature lover ! We have some copies of each of these books on our shelves so email us at [email protected] and we will arrange a parcel to (one) address, UK only. Individually these would cost you over £50 but you can have 3 out of the four for […]

You may be looking for present ideas around this time of year…     How about MOONBIRD by Mario Petrucci? To show love to your loved one? Mario Petrucci has written some wonderful love poems – which will be published on Valentine’s Day in 2023 – but are available in a pamphlet now, from Fair […]

“These poems tell the truth about social care. They are drawn from the voices of people working in social care, and from the people they care for in Norfolk. They give life to the bravery, sacrifices, dedication and ordinary love that people showed during the COVID outbreaks in 2020-2021. These poems were commissioned as part […]

This work swells with the play of language, tone, and perfectly judged lines. Here are scamperings of humour, patient humanity and shadows stood about. Imagine two people went out to fly a kite in a high high wind from A to Z. Now open the book; see what they see. Helen Ivory An Oulipian Stevie […]

Perfection All we want to do is spend our days walking upside down on our hands across the lawn and round the lily pond. We brush the daisies with our perfect hair. Everything about us is perfect – our Aertex shirts, our Chilprufe underwear, our tiny shorts the colour of meringues.   The first poem […]

Living North magazine includes OFFCUMDENS in its LN faves in its 100th print magazine!!! You can also read about it online here where you will find three photos and poems too Living North say: Offcumdens is a beautiful collection of coupled poems and photographs, created through artistic collaboration between poet Emma Storr and photographer Bob […]

I am so delighted to say that OFFCUMDENS has been shortlisted in the collaborative work section of Saboteur Awards 2022 It is a book about YORKSHIRE – with photos and poems You can read more about the book here, so if you don’t know of it you will see photos, poems and reviews and endorsements […]

Khadija Rouf is donating all her royalties of sales of her poetry pamphlet House  Work  To Selma James’ Wages for Housework She has sold 51 copies since its publication on International Womens Day 22, and so I have just donated £51 on Khadija’s behalf Nadia x

Hi everyone I have just donated a further £9,611 to NHS Charities Together from sales around the world of the wonderful poetry anthology THESE ARE THE HANDS It is like a secret diary of every type of worker of the NHS. Written before the pandemic it gives patients, staff, students, potential NHS employees an insight […]

The cumulative power of this slender collection is profound and memorable. Read the full review here Buy the pamphlet here I am so proud to have published Martin Figura who has a heart of gold and the soul of a poet 🙂