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