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Hi everyone! Well, Liz Lefroy’s wonderful pamphlet GREAT MASTER/small boy is well and truly launched! Along with some more local poets at Shrewsbury Poetry night, Jonathan Edwards, Philip Gross and Andrew McMillan joined Liz in celebrating the launch of her new pamphlet! You can read all about the pamphlet here – it is about searching […]

Fair Acre Press and Liz Lefroy are launching her new poetry pamphlet GREAT MASTER / small boy on Thursday 1st July 7.30 – 9.00pm by Zoom. We do hope you can join us to celebrate. In the words of Andrew McMillan, these are … ‘Perfectly tuned poems which show us that a love of music […]

Orbis has a new review of Steve Griffiths’ poetry pamphlet Updrafts in its newest issue: Orbis #196: The poems are lean but rich in imagery: metaphor, assonance, and words chosen for their onomatopoeiac effect… The poet’s appreciation of Nature is a pulse… personal and elemental are inextricably intertwined. This is just an excerpt from the full […]

I am a little bit flabbergasted by the following excerpts from a review of Woods River Road by John Sewell Not because I don’t agree with it.. far from it.. I am just so happy to read a review that really gets a poet – and explains the book to a soon-to-be-reader if you have […]

How wonderful to read this glowing report of Fan-peckled by Sphinx/HappenStance! It is hard to choose a line from it – you can read the full review here But – “Katy Alston’s gorgeous illustrations combine with Jean Atkin’s well-tuned ear to recreate a bygone age I can’t help but yearn for as I read the […]

Happy Birth Day to this wonderful pamphlet!!! Endorsed by John Suchet and Andrew McMillan and already one wonderful review in its cot  – this touching beautifully written pamphlet about Beethoven, and a Mum and her son is well worth the read! More about it if you click here Nadia x

Thank you so much to Jonathan Taylor at everybody’s reviewing, and Elizabeth Chell the reviewer for a wonderful, thoughtful, insightful review of Liz Lefroy’s new pamphlet – due out on June 4th 2021 “Liz Lefroy’s pamphlet of poetry is innovative, beautifully composed and is as unique as Beethoven himself.” To read the full review click […]

You can now watch our zoom event of the launch of Carl Tomlinson’s poetry pamphlet CHANGING PLACES on youtube! Click here to go directly to the video or search “Fair Acre Press Carl Tomlinson youtube” and you will find it It includes the wonderful writers Helen Mort, Alan Buckley and Charles Foster! Nadia x

Greg Freeman at Write Out Loud has written a review of Rescue from the Dark by Paul Francis! He says “Paul Francis has employed skill, empathy and imagination in channelling his anger at the newspaper reports he reads daily into poetry of reason and resonance.” You can read the full review here You can read […]

Please join us for this free zoom event on May 16th 6pm to 7pm! Carl Tomlinson’s poetry pamphlet Changing Places is already The Countryman’s magazine’s recommended reading And Lancashire Life magazine are running a TRIPLE page spread about him and his pamphlet in their June Issue! Carl and I are so delighted that Helen Mort, […]