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

Praise for Melos poets

From Rory Waterman in the TLS, November 20th, 2015:

...one of the first crop from Melos is The Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Murray. The poems are often invigorated by all too human misprisions or incongruities: Brendan and his monks praying on their "small island" before "the whale lifts itself from seeming sleep"; intimations of romance in the fish market where "great crustaceans twitch" and "a salmon sleeps in a drift of ice".

Particularly impressive for its apparent simplicity, for the clarity and warmth of its voice, and for its abiding relevance and humanity, is Since by Ian Parks. In one poem, a euphoric paean to escape and to traditional England, a young man returns from a summer in a beach hut to the city and "the headlines I'd ignored". In another, the speaker recalls that his house was once the place where the bereaved registered the deaths of miners, "a drop of ink and scraping pen / reducing flesh and blood to dates and names". 

SINCE by IAN PARKS

THE SECRETS OF THE SEA by Nicholas Murray

Both collections can be ordered using the Buy Now Button.

£5.00 each, delivery post free.

Praise for Black and Blue, by Cathy Galvin:

The novelist David Almond writes,


"...the book is wonderful. So beautiful and moving. I feel so many connections between your work and mine - family, grief, childhood, angels, birds, the language and structures of Catholicism. The impulse to make sense of our catholic heritage and our childhoods, to deal with them honestly, to make a language that can work as art, to turn our family stories into things of beauty. Black and Blue is a gorgeous sacramental thing... 



BLACK and BLUE: a sequence of sonnets

Cathy Galvin's emotionally stunning first collection of poems

Cathy Galvin has roots in Coventry, West Yorkshire and

Connemara: she now lives in London. A journalist, her work has appeared

in many national and international journals.

She co-founded the Sunday Times-EFG Short Story Award

and is an associate editor of the Warwick Review.

She edited Red, the Waterstone's anthology of new writing

and is director and founder of the UK's leading promoter

of short fiction writing, The Word Factory.

Praise for Black and Blue:

"A crown of sonnets seems at first an intractable

and even intimidating prospect. When a writer

confidently inhabits its space, its spaces within

spaces, the crown becomes an arena of grace.

Cathy Galvin's Black and Blue is such a performance.

Her sequence moves brilliantly through and over

those spaces with drama, immediacy and power."

    

David Morley

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Voice of America

Very interesting and sensitive reading by Dennis Morton of some poems from Nicholas Murray's Of earth, water, air and fire on the US radio station KUSP in Santa Cruz. Here's the link: http://blogs.kusp.org/poetryshow/2014/01/22/selected-readings-and-recordings/