Litfest
Another lovely box of poetry books arrived in the Poetry Bookcase today from another new publisher.
Templar Poetry produce some beautifully bound and presented volumes and have some fine names on their list, including two of our local poets Mike Barlow and Jane Routh.
Along with the books came news also of the Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition 2010. Judged by Pat Winslow, the closing date is May 8th 2010.
Our lovely Poetry Bookcase is slowly growing its stock, and we have recently added new stock from 2 more independent poetry presses.
Seren Books, based in Bridgend, South Wales, has been publishing great poetry for over 25 years and aims “to give voice to outstanding writing in the English language from Wales”.
Flipped Eye publishing was founded in 2001 and is dedicated “to publishing great and affordable fiction and poetry”. Flipped Eye has won awards from the Poetry Book Society and was shortlisted for an Independent Publishers Guild Award in 2007.
Books from both publishers are now in stock at the Poetry Bookcase and are well worth a browse. Authors include Owen Sheers, Peter Finch, Carol Rumens (all Seren) and Ainsley Burrows, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Nii Ayikwei Parkes (Flipped Eye).
And if you haven’t discovered the Poetry Bookcase yet, now would be a good time to make that acquaintance.
Taking its name from the very lovely Grade II listed bookcase which stands in the Litfest office, the Litfest Poetry bookcase is now open to the public.
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes for some time now to get to this point, and we’re very excited about it, so do please come by, browse lots of poetry books you’d normally never find on the high street bookshelves, buy a volume (or two – one to keep, one to give!) and let us know what you think.
We feel it’s a rare treat to have somewhere to browse and buy small press poetry books, and the stock will continue to grow, so do come back regularly and check what’s new.
We’ll be sending out news from the Poetry Bookcase occasionally, so if you’re not already signed up to the Litfest mailing list you can do so from our homepage.
Bookcase Opening Times: Tuesday – Friday 11.30 am – 5.00 pm.
We can also order books in so if there’s something you’d really like, do please ask or email shopkeeper@litfest.org
The Crowd Without, Flax018, our most recent digital anthology, is now live and ready for download. http://tinyurl.com/mz7uo5
Packed with delicately written poetry, this anthology features new work by poets from around the North West, including Segun Lee-French, Polly Atkin, Ruth Allen, Chris Culshaw, Andrew McMillan and Jennifer Copley.
And it features a lovely bison on the cover, doesn’t get better than that.
Unless, you happen to be in or near Lancaster tonight at 7.30, in which case you can see the the lovely writers reading their work live, at the Auditorium at the Storey (formerly the Storey Institute). See you there.
cover for flax018
Martin Stannard "Faith"
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