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Stella Wulf is artist-in-residence at THE HIGH WINDOW You can read all about it if you click here You can buy A Spell in the Woods by Stella Wulf here Nadia x

Life and music merge in Liz Lefroy’s pamphlet, and the reader emerges enriched. SPHINX  Read full review here   To read other reviews or buy a copy please click here Nadia x

“This significant collection explores in poetry and pictures the 19th century idiom of Shropshire.” To read the full review please click here I must agree – it is a wonderful book that you will go back to again and again, and a gorgeous gift – if you would like to read more about it, or […]

  Paul Kielty, author of the cartoon book, Return of the Naive, that is endorsed by the great Hunt Emerson, has embarked on livening Oswestry town centre up! Here is a photo from the original article in the Oswestry Advertiser, outside THE GRIFFIN pub in Oswestry – which shows the first 3 sculptures, originally created […]

  I am absolutely delighted to be publishing a pamphlet by Fred D’Aguiar It is about a very good friend of Fred’s called Grace – who recently died But it is also about all friendships . You can read the first poem of this sequence in pamphlet form, and buy a copy by clicking here […]

Here is a review from Poetry Salzburg – about Steve Griffiths’ Updrafts pamphlet! “The tone in Steve Griffiths’ Updrafts has a tendency to the lyrical. However his powers of observation never allow that tendency to become soft-focused or sentimental.” Read more about the pamphlet, or buy a copy by clicking here Nadia x

You can read about, and buy Chris Kinsey’s collection “From Rowan Ridge” here Nadia x

I am so excited to be publishing Fred D’Aguiar in September. And very honoured that he has entrusted his poems about his close friend, Grace, to Fair Acre Press. Here is a recent tweet about one of the poems as a taster… André Naffis-Sahely (@anaffissahely) tweeted at 3:56 AM on Fri, Jul 16, 2021: Loved […]

Here is an extract from a wonderful Sphinx review by the great Helena Nelson of HappenStance on Carl Tomlinson’s poetry pamphlet CHANGING PLACES!   “Love of the land. A phrase so easy to say, almost a cliché. And yet it’s what Edward Thomas laid down his life for. There is a long, long tradition of […]

Northamptonshire Wellbeing Festival 2021 hosted a virtual event on These Are The Hands NHS poetry anthology last week 🙂 Here is the link You will see/ hear Katie Amiel and Deb Alma – the co-editors of the poetry anthology And Khadija Rouf who was the brain behind this event with Arabella Kurtz: both clinical psychologists […]