Archive | Not quite Pepys

I have just watched a new video by Emma Purshouse from I Once knew a poem who wore a hat – the award-winning children’s poetry book Fair Acre Press was lucky enough to publish! I was agog at every word – even though I know the iguana poem SO well – and laughed out loud […]

  Here is a new and glowing review of John Mill’s No Guiding Star And here is an excerpt. Thank you Benjamin Cassidy and Northern Soul Poetry for this review! “No guiding star might not be an instantly powerful phrase from a poetic standpoint but, from the off, you can understand why the title of John […]

Join Steph Morris on zoom – only eleven spaces! Steph’s recent Fair Acre Press pamphlet Please don’t trample us, we’re trying to grow! was warmly endorsed by Jaqueline Saphra, David Constantine, Tamar Yoseloff and Daljit Nagra! Now you can join him in two Saturday morning sessions (total cost £25) – exploring and writing Vegetation Verse!! […]

Join Helen Mort, Alan Buckley, and Charles Foster in celebrating the launch of Carl Tomlinson’s poetry pamphlet Changing Places! To book a free place for this event on Sunday 16th May 2021 6pm to 7pm click here CARL TOMLINSON ~ was born in Lancashire – where his father’s family had farmed for 150 years – and […]

Ian McMillan says of Fan-peckled: “This glorious book of poems and pictures by ⁦Jean Atkin and Katy Alston. Forgotten words given new life, which is one of the great functions of artistic endeavour” You can read other endorsements and about the book here

I am very excited to announce that Paul Francis has a new collection coming out with Fair Acre Press! And to celebrate this we are inviting you to a free zoom event on Sunday 25th April 2021 from 5pm to 6pm Stella Wulf, John Mills and Emma Purshouse will also be reading!! Book your tickets […]

Hi everyone Fan-peckled event is now on youtube – click here to go to it. It includes Jean Atkin and Katy Alston of Fan-peckled fame; plus ….     John Sewell     Carl Tomlinson and Steve Griffiths reading from their Fair Acre Press publications!   Over seventy of you joined us on the day […]

Roshni Beeharry is one of the poets in These Are The Hands and we have become friends over the past year. She is an amazing woman who has worked as rehab consultant and has learned to deal with her own personal story through writing So WRITING FOR WELL-BEING is something she really knows about! She […]

Helen Mort recommended Carl’s pamphlet to me – and I am so glad she did! The poetry is deceptively simple – but has such truth and depth to it. I love it. PLUS aswell as endorsements from Helen Mort and Di Slaney Carl has an amazing endorsement from Charles Foster who wrote one of my […]