NEW WINTER TITLES 2025

 

 

New Autumn Titles

Andrew McCulloch's poetry has appeared in a wide range of journals including the TLS, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, The English Review, and Agenda. This is his sixth collection from Melos Press.

'He writes of remembrance and love with heartfelt intelligence and wit. These poems are wonderfully made.' Andrew McNeillie

'A poet of wide and adroit empathies, and considerable understated power.'  Ian Pople

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 Cut Out (Sandstone Press).

'Brimming with delight, as full of colour as Matisse's cut-outs.'  Susie Boyt 

'A strongly visual writer...Roberts can summon a landscape or domestic interior in a few vivid strokes and splashes of primary colour.' Carol Rumens 

A new pamphlet from Nicholas Murray

following his recent full length collection

ELSEWHERE.

'... a sure hand, whether with hard-edged

satire... or sense impressions that produce

place and event so vividly.' David Harsent

 

Paul O'Prey's second pamphlet is a superb series of interlinked

poems that 'take the reader through time and space, the natural

and supernatural... Paul O'Prey unsettlingly parallels with today

the "flat-circle earth" and its dangerous edges, where even 

"gravity seems suddenly uncertain"'

Patricia McCarthy

A Major New Collection

Nicholas Murray has published                   

two full collections of poetry, several             

pamphlets, and poems in many                  

journals: ELSEWHERE is the first                   

volume that gathers together the                        

best of his work.

Publication date of this 188 page book 

is the 28th of July 2022, but pre-publication 

post-free copies can be ordered now.

           

Praise for Nicholas Murray's City Lights 

by Michèle Roberts: 'The poems have 

an emotional intelligence, a wit, 

I greatly admire.'

A new collection of poems by Ian Harrow for Autumn 2021

Make-Believer

Praise for Ian Harrow's work: 

"an exceptional spontaneity, going straight in to the unexpectedly true." Hugo Williams

"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." Bernard O'Donoghue

Make-Believer can be ordered, post free, from the Add to Cart Button at top right.

Melos Press are delighted to announce the publication of four new pamphlets:

Dig by Alison Fell

"Fine, spare yet fluent poems... Her bleak blowy landscapes are assured and beautiful.

And she can be red-blooded, exuberant." Judith Kazantzis

The Wedding in Marseilles by Michèle Roberts

 "Roberts can summon a landscape or domestic interior in a few vivid strokes and splashes

of primary colour." Carol Rumens

After by Andrew McCulloch

Praise for Gradual (Melos, 2017) "These beautiful translations, awe-filled and rapturous,

command an easy, natural flow which finds its counterpart in McCulloch's own poems:

both voices are musical and full of wonder." Rachel Nadas

City Lights by Nicholas Murray

Praise for Of earth, water, air and fire "...a real treat...an elemental menagerie in which the poet's own delight through verbal magic becomes ours."

All four are now available and can be ordered (post free) from the Add to Cart button, Titles 2020-2021 on the right

A new pamphlet from poet, author and editor, Paul O'Prey.

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...

David Harsent wrote of it that '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.' 

Buy now, post free, from Paypal button TITLES 2020-2021 on top right-hand of page

Three New Pamphlets for Autumn 2020

Melos Press are very pleased to announce the publication on September 9th

of three exciting new collections of poems:

 

All are now available and can be ordered, post free, from the menu New Titles 2020-2021 at the top right of this page.

We are delighted to announce the publication of 

The Yellow Wheelbarrow by Nicholas Murray

This is his second full collection (the first was ACAPULCO,

published in 2012) and the occasion will be marked by a 
launch on December 3rd in London.

(Copies of both collections can be ordered post free by choosing on the Buy button on the right.)

NEW PAMPHLETS

Melos are very pleased to announce the publication of new pamphlets of poetry for the autumn of 2019:

Fifteen Beads, 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: A magnificent writer.

The Lincolnshire Rising, by Andrew McCulloch, is a successor volume to his much acclaimed collection, Gradual. It combines original poems and some more of the translations for which this poet has been widely praised. Rachel Hadas wrote: These beautiful translations...command an easy, natural flow which find its counterpart in McCulloch's own poems: both voices are musical and full of wonder.

And, just to remind you of The Quiet Life, by Ian Harrow, published earlier this year and gaining excellent reviews.

(All of these books can be ordered post free by choosing titles on the Buy now button, second down on the right.)

A new edition of Nicholas Murray's

Of earth, water, air and fire

has just been published by Melos Press.

Christopher Reid wrote that it is

'a real treat... an elemental menagerie in which the poet's own delight through verbal magic becomes ours.'

We are very pleased to be publishing Ian Harrow's latest collection of poems, THE QUIET LIFE.

“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, because they have what one of the

poems calls ‘the taste of truth’. When they are

painful, it is because reality is painful.”

Bernard O’Donoghue

The book will be launched on March 27th, but it is available now, post free. (See link, Buy Now, opposite.)

Black and Blue 

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.

Praise for Black and Blue:

David Morley: Cathy Galvin's sequence moves brilliantly...with drama, immediacy and power.

David Almond: ...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.

Huffington Post: A perfectly formed masterclass in poetic risk-taking

The new edition of Black and Blue can be ordered direct, post free, from the pay button opposite 

TWO NEW PAMPHLETS:

The Museum of Truth, by Nicholas Murray

From The Evidence, by Ian Pople

will be launched, together with  Gradual by Andrew McCulloch, at The Music Room, 
49 Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3HZ
on Wednesday, February 14th, from 6.30-8.30

All three collections can now be ordered, post free, using the top button opposite.

A DOG'S BREXIT is the new political satire by Nicholas Murray, a caustic look at the Brexiteers and the rise of far right populism.

Now available to buy, post free, using the button opposite

Read The Huffington Post's article about Cathy Galvin's  

ROUGH TRANSLATION 

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diriye-osman/diriye-osman-on-the-sensu_b_13325698.html

Rough Translation is a new collection by Cathy Galvin that explores through legend and memory, the natural world and personal emotion, the poet's roots in Ireland and their echoes in present day life in England. It is a worthy successor to Black and Blue, called by the Huffington Post, 'a perfectly formed masterclass in poetic risk-taking...'

Available now, post free, on the PayPal menu opposite

 

The Death of Wisdom Smith, Prince of Gypsies

is a new pamphlet by David Morley that will be launched in London in September.

A compelling sequence of poems narrates the death and funeral of Wisdom Smith, Prince of Gypsies (and friend of the poet, John Clare). A fusion of English and Romani brings to wonderful life the events, the feasting and mourning, of April 1839, when gypsies from all over the country converged on Rutland for the funeral of their Prince. 

'He holds our world up to a language mostly kept secret; the refraction of the familiar is dizzying and often moving.' Les Murray

Earlier this year, David Morley won both the prestigious Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry and a Cholmondley Award for Poetry.

The new pamphlet can be ordered now, post free, by selecting it on the buy menu opposite.

               Nicholas Murray, Jo Dixon and A.C. Bevan

                 launching their collections on May 4th, at

               The Music Room, 49 Great Ormond Street.

                 

New pamphlets from Melos Press:

THE ENCYLOPAEDIST

by A.C.Bevan

A WOMAN IN THE QUEUE

by Jo Dixon

THE MIGRANT SHIP

by Nicholas Murray

All three pamphlets are available to order now, post free, from the menu on the Buy Now button