tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12492284400888052252024-03-13T13:55:00.249+00:00Melos PressWilliam Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-55168502660773984362023-10-24T11:54:00.002+01:002023-10-24T11:54:47.034+01:00<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">New Autumn Titles</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHLzIsXhfnK2zq2TV0VjaL36kB4R_lXGe-MeGmu5IQfKdA_P012Wb_VbjcWTk6WlGTAhPcTXdnMCsb0sv21v1dqNWdPhk7LpDh3WCPkOdFTGU31C0kzUe3LtJCD73Jx3zPPZc_Crlg5o1GTdykZ7QY2wrSqDYbumWxVhPZjuefh8ltiRxP7LCQOR2eBY/s2480/9781739489700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="1748" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHLzIsXhfnK2zq2TV0VjaL36kB4R_lXGe-MeGmu5IQfKdA_P012Wb_VbjcWTk6WlGTAhPcTXdnMCsb0sv21v1dqNWdPhk7LpDh3WCPkOdFTGU31C0kzUe3LtJCD73Jx3zPPZc_Crlg5o1GTdykZ7QY2wrSqDYbumWxVhPZjuefh8ltiRxP7LCQOR2eBY/s320/9781739489700.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span>Andrew McCulloch's poetry has appeared in </span>a wide range of journals including the <i>TLS</i>, <i>PN Review</i>, <i>Oxford Poetry</i>, <i>The English Review</i>, and <i>Agenda</i>. This is his sixth collection from Melos Press.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>'He writes of remembrance and love with heartfelt intelligence and wit. These poems are wonderfully made.'</i> Andrew McNeillie</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>'A poet of wide and adroit empathies, and considerable understated power.'</i> Ian Pople</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif3vxP5nfmhAXvPQonvPcbuf8rZ6DLNqfimVKU0iJv-OBIrvXRdd2pVx4XuAECWEx1BZVb5DWgMeV5SfP7yjaG2002UPkNl77wcOB6R-HOZ0zHM71nNSi-JWS4v4M68Q8A9tOWoeR2BldYkNxSFh9b1R3Anw-JlOcwXnn5-LzZMg56CULXEOnvXQ5qZ_0/s2480/9781739489731.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="1748" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif3vxP5nfmhAXvPQonvPcbuf8rZ6DLNqfimVKU0iJv-OBIrvXRdd2pVx4XuAECWEx1BZVb5DWgMeV5SfP7yjaG2002UPkNl77wcOB6R-HOZ0zHM71nNSi-JWS4v4M68Q8A9tOWoeR2BldYkNxSFh9b1R3Anw-JlOcwXnn5-LzZMg56CULXEOnvXQ5qZ_0/s320/9781739489731.jpg" width="226" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Michèle Roberts has published eleven collections of poetry. She is also the author of fifteen novels, three books of short stories. two memoirs and two plays. Her latest novel is <i>Cut Out</i> (Sandstone Press).</span></p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>'Brimming with delight, as full of colour as Matisse's cut-outs.' </i> Susie Boyt </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>'A strongly visual writer...Roberts can summon a landscape or domestic interior in a few vivid strokes and splashes of primary colour.'</i> Carol Rumens </span></p>William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-2021560460268662862023-09-16T13:01:00.002+01:002023-09-16T13:05:12.049+01:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3lvVVd-gPrr1va7mY46PeEU59oprtmkSJcoc0CaIYb1f1_A1Bwxm-Y9tUerg4Ktl9_1z9gBSQJ73NEHoX5-4S5YOw37-bPwWAvEp2fe9UNixytSdc1RQvbZh2LMxI-uJW1XBYLlh_6XiZkzENOZVZJdAnNXTdMxufA0aIB4tzi_pCkVj-M0q3OZgOtMA/s595/9781739489724.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="420" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3lvVVd-gPrr1va7mY46PeEU59oprtmkSJcoc0CaIYb1f1_A1Bwxm-Y9tUerg4Ktl9_1z9gBSQJ73NEHoX5-4S5YOw37-bPwWAvEp2fe9UNixytSdc1RQvbZh2LMxI-uJW1XBYLlh_6XiZkzENOZVZJdAnNXTdMxufA0aIB4tzi_pCkVj-M0q3OZgOtMA/s320/9781739489724.png" width="226" /></a></div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A new pamphlet from Nicholas Murray</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">following his recent full length collection</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>ELSEWHERE</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>'... a sure hand, whether with hard-edged</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>satire... or sense impressions that produce</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>place and event so vividly</i>.' David Harsent</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkHo3k_kXGgda55PmX0vS2clkDuPy7Cyvg7rdMAeIKgfKfpSlMDTU615SEqxfmtqlhRfc8nrgD5Vo5aGDYmwLxZ8iuGbM6I3EYbs-4VVzbljzcfKXWt8Vh2Q-GkD5z-7W19zsLa6KK7xDU6JNWr7CLRB1-xiksLtiqhngzk7ZgcsgCgONTE6lAJcDuQL8/s595/9781739489717.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="420" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkHo3k_kXGgda55PmX0vS2clkDuPy7Cyvg7rdMAeIKgfKfpSlMDTU615SEqxfmtqlhRfc8nrgD5Vo5aGDYmwLxZ8iuGbM6I3EYbs-4VVzbljzcfKXWt8Vh2Q-GkD5z-7W19zsLa6KK7xDU6JNWr7CLRB1-xiksLtiqhngzk7ZgcsgCgONTE6lAJcDuQL8/s320/9781739489717.png" width="226" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Paul O'Prey's second pamphlet is a superb series of interlinked</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">poems that <i>'take the reader through time and space, the natural</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>and supernatural... Paul O'Prey unsettlingly parallels with today</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>the "flat-circle earth" and its dangerous edges, where even </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>"gravity seems suddenly uncertain"</i>'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Patricia McCarthy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-80492953387791108262022-07-11T15:16:00.005+01:002022-07-11T15:21:13.805+01:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1HSgqjq-zZWr_6pvqfrYDmp4vo_zKIKN48GT9R4UKwBdo_QLNJ4L2SIiuKqaa3sCzxCeS5NXZWB03TOIQAiukgPyX9Y3a07BBE9Bbj6UMgjGyOvX0KTOfQIafGOxEvKA0-hvpPeR54C4XWA4YXZaUESE80MnS4qJVzIwzz4xIsGR4Ne-lc-nFWGxK/s1169/9781838170196.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1169" data-original-width="762" height="411" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1HSgqjq-zZWr_6pvqfrYDmp4vo_zKIKN48GT9R4UKwBdo_QLNJ4L2SIiuKqaa3sCzxCeS5NXZWB03TOIQAiukgPyX9Y3a07BBE9Bbj6UMgjGyOvX0KTOfQIafGOxEvKA0-hvpPeR54C4XWA4YXZaUESE80MnS4qJVzIwzz4xIsGR4Ne-lc-nFWGxK/w279-h411/9781838170196.jpg" width="279" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><div><br /></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">A Major New Collection</span></h1><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nicholas Murray has published<span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">two full collections of poetry, several </span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">pamphlets, and poems in many </span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">journals: <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">ELSEWHERE</span></i><span> </span><span>is the first</span><span> </span> </span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">volume that gathers together the </span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">best of his work.</span></h2><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Publication date of this 188 page book </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">is the 28th of </span><span style="font-size: medium;">July 2022, </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>but pre-</span><span>publication </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>post-free copies can </span><span>be ordered now.</span></span></div><div><span> </span><span> </span> </div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Praise for Nicholas Murray's <i>City Lights </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">by Michèle Roberts: </span><i style="font-size: large;">'The poems have </i></div><div><i style="font-size: large;">an emotional intelligence, a wit, </i></div><div><i style="font-size: large;">I greatly admire.'</i></div><p></p>William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-22465508098232547872021-09-09T12:13:00.000+01:002021-09-09T12:13:50.021+01:00<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A new collection of poems by Ian Harrow for Autumn 2021</span></h2><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Make-Believer</i></span></h1><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Praise for Ian Harrow's work: </span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"<i>an exceptional spontaneity, going straight in to the unexpectedly true."</i> Hugo Williams</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>"Ian Harrow's poems of obsessive love and lost love are strange, stark, profound parables in brief, classic forms. They are not consolatory, but neither are they pessimistic... When they are painful, it is because reality is painful."</i> Bernard O'Donoghue</span></h3><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #45818e;">Make-Believer can be ordered, post free, from the Add to Cart Button at top right</span>.</div></div></div>William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-5182052754378927562021-08-20T16:35:00.021+01:002021-09-09T12:15:26.419+01:00<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Melos Press are delighted to announce the publication of four new pamphlets</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">:<br /></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i>Dig</i> by Alison Fell</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;">"Fine, spare yet fluent poems... Her bleak blowy landscapes are assured and beautiful.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal;">And she can be red-blooded, exuberant." <i>Judith Kazantzis</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i>The Wedding in Marseilles</i> by Michèle Roberts</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Roberts can summon a landscape or domestic interior in a few vivid strokes and splashes</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">of primary colour." <i>Carol Rumens</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><i>After</i> by Andrew McCulloch</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Praise for Gradual (Melos, 2017) "These beautiful translations, awe-filled and rapturous,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">command an easy, natural flow which finds its counterpart in McCulloch's own poems:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">both voices are musical and full of wonder." <i>Rachel Nadas</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>City Lights</i> by Nicholas Murray</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Praise for <i>Of earth, water, air and fire</i> "...a real treat...an elemental menagerie in which the poet's own delight through verbal magic becomes ours."</div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">All four are now available and can be ordered (post free) from the Add to Cart button, Titles 2020-2021 on the right</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-34150101961591743222021-04-22T16:21:00.015+01:002023-09-13T16:03:49.384+01:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaREEcr64fCDSxZanWlepSsO5JS8mt8PPJdvDjMOE_NKOggqJTJilawXPiOC_hqvG_lja8_nSgTDO6ag5zop3-X9PXixU-HULm94xDvj4zRwMNt8KA7728t9kwtomy2cfYbOUfdeOS8dr0vMMoH_QLRzfRKXbRMlnGB1NmKTQ6-86b2tgF7-Fjeyi5k8/s2388/Fleet%20front%20cover%203.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2388" data-original-width="1576" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaREEcr64fCDSxZanWlepSsO5JS8mt8PPJdvDjMOE_NKOggqJTJilawXPiOC_hqvG_lja8_nSgTDO6ag5zop3-X9PXixU-HULm94xDvj4zRwMNt8KA7728t9kwtomy2cfYbOUfdeOS8dr0vMMoH_QLRzfRKXbRMlnGB1NmKTQ6-86b2tgF7-Fjeyi5k8/s320/Fleet%20front%20cover%203.png" width="211" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">A new pamphlet from poet, author and editor, Paul O'Prey.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The poems mark the stages of a pilgrimage following the course of London's buried River Fleet, forced underground for most of its life and so said to be lost. But it is still there...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">David Harsent wrote of it that <i>'Paul O'Prey takes the reader on a darkly fascinating journey: a ghost-walk, in which the poet gives a deeply felt account of the Fleet's history, its myths, its old gods and its mysteries.' </i></span></p><p>Buy now, post free, from Paypal button TITLES 2020-2021 on top right-hand of page</p>William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-50560637437757655112020-09-04T16:35:00.002+01:002021-08-28T17:36:17.852+01:00<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Three New Pamphlets for Autumn 2020</span></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Melos Press are very pleased to announce the publication on September 9th</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">of three exciting new collections of poems:</span></h3><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uVdRT4pYJ3o/X1JcWOXgjyI/AAAAAAAAAJU/1tX8GiGHcsITjkRH61WHRXgKCTJk0dj5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s794/9781838170110.jpg" style="font-weight: 400; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="559" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uVdRT4pYJ3o/X1JcWOXgjyI/AAAAAAAAAJU/1tX8GiGHcsITjkRH61WHRXgKCTJk0dj5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/9781838170110.jpg" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="559" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8vbk_O_rmhI/X1Jb-RUUUmI/AAAAAAAAAJI/KGwD0cIqek8acKUXF_PL6ZDO0eQdI2k3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/9781838170127.jpg" /> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8TdAQ82g4bc/X1JdxKfUcfI/AAAAAAAAAJg/21PQjsBKv7sFuA5QQsoodTrZ7fqk_LlsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s794/9781838170103.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="559" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8TdAQ82g4bc/X1JdxKfUcfI/AAAAAAAAAJg/21PQjsBKv7sFuA5QQsoodTrZ7fqk_LlsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/9781838170103.jpg" /></a></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All are now available and can be ordered, post free, from the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">menu New Titles 2020-2021 at the top right of this page.</span></span></h2><div><br /></div>William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-84159757683304671312019-10-17T11:35:00.002+01:002019-10-17T11:44:51.701+01:00<h3>
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William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-32237336445500708722019-09-04T10:36:00.000+01:002019-10-17T11:41:48.075+01:00<h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Fifteen Beads, </i>by Michèle Roberts, comprises fifteen poems each composed of fifty words and interlinked to form a continuously flowing work of great lyrical beauty. As the late and much lamented Helen Dunmore wrote of Michèle Roberts: <i>A</i> <i>magnificent writer.</i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>The Lincolnshire Rising, </i>by Andrew McCulloch, is a successor volume to his much acclaimed collection, <i>Gradual. </i>It combines original poems and some more of the translations for which this poet has been widely praised. Rachel Hadas wrote: <i>These beautiful</i> <i>translations...command an easy, natural flow which find its counterpart in McCulloch's own poems: both voices are musical and full of wonder.</i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">And, just to remind you of <i>The Quiet Life</i>, by Ian Harrow, published earlier this year and gaining excellent reviews.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">(<i>All of these books can be ordered post free by choosing titles on the Buy now button, second down on the right.</i>)</span></h3>
William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-54619857744432820212019-04-08T09:25:00.001+01:002019-04-08T09:54:12.308+01:00<h3>
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'a real treat... an elemental menagerie in which the poet's own delight through verbal magic becomes ours.'</i></span></h3>
William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-49728139193323687822019-03-05T18:06:00.003+00:002019-03-05T18:17:01.191+00:00<h2>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We are very pleased to be publishing Ian Harrow's latest collection of poems, THE QUIET LIFE.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: Perpetua, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Ian
Harrow’s poems of obsessive love and lost love</span></span></span></div>
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it is because reality is painful.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Perpetua, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Bernard
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William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-64338254373092994922018-08-17T10:00:00.000+01:002018-08-17T10:03:40.390+01:00<h2>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Black <span style="color: #666666;">and</span> Blue</span> </h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">We first published Cathy Galvin's collection in 2014. The first edition sold out rapidly and we are now publishing a new and revised edition.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>David Morley: </i>Cathy Galvin's sequence moves brilliantly...with drama, immediacy and power.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><i>David Almond: </i>...wonderful. So beautiful and moving: family, grief, childhood, angels, birds...The impulse to make sense of our heritage and our childhoods, to turn our family stories into things of beauty. Black and Blue is a gorgeous, sacramental thing.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><i>Huffington Post: </i>A perfectly formed masterclass in poetic risk-taking</span></h3>
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William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-87626389195804503382018-01-24T17:29:00.000+00:002018-01-24T17:38:40.247+00:00<h2>
TWO NEW PAMPHLETS:</h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i>The Museum of Truth</i>, by Nicholas Murray</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><i>From The Evidence</i>, by Ian Pople</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">49 Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3HZ</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">on Wednesday, February 14th, from 6.30-8.30</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All three collections can now be ordered, post free, using the top button opposite.</span></div>
William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-48644598771649750432017-03-20T14:47:00.002+00:002019-03-05T18:12:59.532+00:00<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">A DOG'S BREXIT</span> is the new political satire by Nicholas Murray, a caustic look at the Brexiteers and the rise of far right populism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Now available to buy, post free, using the button opposite</i></span><br />
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William Palmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04412012447771172943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1249228440088805225.post-75839538325303434762016-12-01T09:46:00.001+00:002016-12-01T09:47:28.642+00:00<h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Like an 'S' hook</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">we follow the crook</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">of your distinctive shape</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">from webbed feet to nape</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and that sexy tuft's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the sort of thing that Cruft's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">would reward in a poodle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">You're a child's doodle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "perpetua";">This poem, <em>Pelican,</em> is from Nicholas Murray's new collection of funny, enchanting and moving poems about animals. Some were read at this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival to great acclaim. <br />
Melos will be featuring the book and others at the Poetry Book Fair in September.<br />
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