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May 8, 2015
Friday Poem – Goodbye
Today it’s the 70th anniversary of VE Day, marking 70 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe.
May 7, 2015
Dear Mr Gove
A special political poetry broadcast from Kim Moore’s The Art of Falling. Don’t forget to vote in today’s general election. You can listen to Kim read Dear Mr Gove here. Dear Mr Gove dear Mr Gove today I taught the children not to sit like bags of sm…
May 1, 2015
Friday Poem – Street Scene
Today’s poem is from Anne-Marie Fyfe’s latest collection, House of Small Absences, due for release this month.
April 30, 2015
Revealing the Independent Publishers
Last week we put together some logos of six different independent publishers, some of them British and some of them not, to see if you could identify any of them by their logos alone.
April 24, 2015
Friday Poem – Finding a Fossil
Today’s poem is from John Ormond’s Collected Poems, edited by Rian Evans and introduced by Patrick McGuinness.
April 23, 2015
How Well Do You Know Your Independent Publishers?
When you go into a bookshop and see our signature star on one of the spines, we hope you immediately think of us and know that the book you’re about to pick up has been published by an independent publisher that prizes quality over quantity and indiv…
April 17, 2015
Friday Poem – A Psalm for the Scaffolders
Today’s poem is from Kim Moore’s debut collection, The Art of Falling. Check out our interview with Kim here. Kim Moore lives in Barrow, Cumbria. She has an MA from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poems have been published in the TLS, Poetry…
April 16, 2015
An Interview with Kim Moore
From wolves to trumpets to the working class, today we’re talking to Kim Moore about her debut collection, The Art of Falling.
April 10, 2015
Friday Poem – Edward Hopper on Long Island
Today’s poem is from Mara Bergman’s pamphlet The Tailor’s Three Sons & Other New York Poems, which won the 2014 Mslexia Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition!
April 9, 2015
Why Short Stories Are Worth Reading
In the publishing world, there’s one thing that’s almost always guaranteed: short stories don’t sell. But why?
April 3, 2015
Friday Poem – Corpus
Today’s poem comes from Damian Walford Davies’ latest collection, Judas.
April 2, 2015
Recommended Reads this Easter!
What better way to spend your Easter weekend than with a good book?
