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Palewell Press and its authors believe in building a sustainable world that can support itself and all its peoples, in which they share equally and are protected from abuse and injustice.
Since 2016, an increasing number of our books are being written by or about refugees.
We publish work in several genres: long and short fiction, memoir and other non-fiction, anthologies, poetry collections and pamphlets. Some of our publications are also on Kindle.
To buy our books, click on the buttons below or order copies from Amazon, Waterstones and Foyles websites.
To search for books by subject and genre:
- Refugees, Human Rights, Third World issues
Resistance - Voices of Exiled Writers (poetry & prose anthology),
The World is for Everyone (creative writing anthology),
Algiers: The Poet's Garden (short story collection),
The Architect (treatise on gang-members' self-transformation),
Back to Babylon (collection of poetry and prose),
Testimony of Flight (collection of poetry and narratives),
Inside the Blue House (poetry pamphlet),
Tiger and Clay (memoir and poetry),
Three Days in Damascus (memoir),
Red Winds - a VSO in Tanzania (poetry and letters),
The Scent of my Skin (poetry collection),
Tutu's Rainbow World (poetry collection),
In Sadness and Solidarity (poetry anthology)
- Climate Change, Environment, Nature
Wildlife Bundle (2 paperbacks and a pamphlet),
Elemental (poetry collection),
Vanishings (poetry collection),
Those Other Fields (poetry pamphlet),
At the Storm's Edge (poetry collection),
The Soil Never Sleeps Edition 2 (expanded poetry collection),
Life Lessons (poetry collection),
Resting Place (poetry pamphlet),
Raft of Puffins - poems for Skomer Island (pamphlet),
An Ever River (poetry pamphlet),
The Physic Garden (poetry anthology),
The Cloud Singer (YA fantasy novel),
Water and Wonder (poetry anthology)
- Young Adult fiction
Fur Beneath the Skin (Diversity-themed YA historical novel),
The Cloud Singer (Climate-themed YA futuristic fantasy novel),
- Mental and Physical Health Issues
Feminist Bundle (2 pamphlets),
Can you hear the people sing? (Covid-19 anthology),
Fur Beneath the Skin (Diversity-themed YA novel),
Useless Now but Beautiful Still (psychological short stories),
Harpy (poetry and short story pamphlet),
Afternoon Music (poetry collection),
Arthur Talks (poetry collection),
Rented - poems on prostitution and dependency (pamphlet),
Night Work (poetry collection),
Supinely Sublimely (prose collection),
Playing with the Pieces (poetry collection),
In the Alyscamps (poetry collection)
- Social and Personal History
Painting the Sea (poetry pamphlet),
Grandmother's Patchwork (poetry collection),
Welling Up (poetry anthology),
Dandelion Child (poetry collection),
Tales from Two Cities (poetry pamphlet),
The Ghost of Franz Kafka (poetry collection),
Metamorphosis (poetry collection),
These we have Loved (poetry anthology),
Letterpress Poets (poetry anthology),
Travelling East by Road and Soul (poetry collection),
A Luminous Man (pamphlet poetry anthology)
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Fur Beneath the Skin
Fur Beneath the Skin is a YA diversity-themed historical novel that takes you to dark places but delivers you safely back - a breathtaking transformation of fact into fiction.
Rafe doesn’t know whether he is a werewolf or not. He knows only that he must get rid of his “wolf” - whatever it is - before it kills him and the girl he loves. On the run from superstitious fear and scientific curiosity,
he joins other “different ones” who help him. But only he can decide whether or not he is a werewolf…or something else. Diversity has always been with us. All that changes are the words used to describe it.
This is one of the few novels since Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot and The Possessed by a writer who knows from personal experience how a ‘fit’ of epilepsy can feel.
Fur Beneath the Skin will launch online in January 2021. You can order an advance copy for £10.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon.
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Resistance - Voices of Exiled Writers
The Exiled Writers Ink anthology celebrating 20 years of their meetings and their work to support human rights around the globe. With a passion for justice,
Exiled Writers Ink enables refugee writers’ voices to be heard so insights can be gained, not only into the pain suffered by refugees, but also into the complexity
of the experiences of writers from diverse regions.
Resistance - Voices of Exiled Writers will launch online in December 2020. You can order an advance copy for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page.
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Can you hear the people sing?
Palewell Press's second anthology of poetry and prose brings together a global set of writers, sharing their experiences of Covid-19, lockdown, the pandemic, losing track of time, a reprieve for nature,
and their hopes for the future. This anthology shares worldwide responses to the pandemic, from Yan Li’s testament to suffering in China; through Joseph Kafala of Sierra Leone’s Center for Memory and Reparations;
Iranian-born Sholeh Wolpé in California; María Cristina Azcona, President of the International Forum for Literature and Culture of Peace in Latin America; Simon Lichman in Jerusalem, working for peace between
Israeli and Palestinian communities; many UK-based human rights advocates: Dima Mekdad, Hasan Kahya, Anna Maria Mickiewicz, Nasrin Parvaz, Aydin Mehmet Ali, Taffy Nyawanza, Meltem Arikan, Shanta Acharya; and
other wonderful writers.
Can you hear the people sing? will launch online in November 2020. You can order an advance copy for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page.
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Wildlife Bundle
Containing Vanishings, a poetry collection by Rebecca Gethin; Elemental, a poetry collection by Michael Tanner; and Raft of Puffins, a pamphlet poetry collection by Camilla Reeve.
Buying the two paperbacks and the pamphlet together will cost £19.00 plus postage, a saving of 20% on their individual costs.
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Feminist Bundle
Containing Harpy, a pamphlet collection of poetry and prose by Rachel Sambrooks; and Useless Now but Beautiful Still, a short story pamphlet collection by Rocio Rodriguez-Inniss.
Buying the two pamphlets together will cost £11.00 plus postage, a saving of 20% on their individual costs.
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Useless Now but Beautiful Still
This hard-hitting collection of feminist psychological short stories is by writer, actress and artist, Rocio Rodriguez-Inniss. The stories explore the role of women, the interface between mental and sexual health,
and how relationships and self-image are transformed by social pressures. While Rodriguez-Innis writes about the darkness she sees and hears around her, her work is always seeking the magic in both the ordinary
and the extraordinary.
Useless Now but Beautiful Still launched online in August 2020. You can order a copy for £6.90 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon.
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Elemental
The poems in Michael Tanner's powerful collection reveal his extensive knowledge of the natural world, in particular of the geology and ecology of his home territory.
They share his genuine delight in the landscape and all creatures within it. However, informing most of his work is his understanding of the uneasy relationship between Man and Nature.
A sense of menace lurks in the background, alongside a disgust for humanity’s careless attitude to Earth’s other inhabitants, expressed as “our obscene Anthropocene patch of concrete”.
Elemental launched online in July 2020. You can order a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon.
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Painting the Sea
Gillian Petrie's lifetime of service to cancer relief lends authenticity to poignant poems of love and loss, and the care of the disabled.
As in Metamorphosis, her first collection, Painting the Sea draws on irreverent memories of a war childhood,
and the joys of nature, friendship and love. The sea’s presence weaves through many of the poems “smelling of ozone sharpness /
sharper than a screw of seaweed.” An enthralling collection that will delight admirers of this distinguished poet and humanitarian.
Painting the Sea was published in July 2020. You can order a copy for £6.90 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon.
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Harpy
In a world where women are still arguably first valued on being pretty and palatable, Rachel Sambrooks' pamphlet, Harpy, gives us permission to show our "ugly" side, and
questions how we see female anger through a kind of re-writing of the mythical. The poems and short stories in Harpy crackle and seethe with the transformational magic of words, they speak of
powerlessness with a power that turns shame into something true and triumphant.
Harpy launched online in August 2020. You can order a copy for £6.90 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon.
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Vanishings
The title, Vanishings evokes not only the elusiveness of wild creatures in their habitats, under cover most of the time, but also their inexorable extinction,
evicted by human encroachment from their ancestral habitats. Rebecca Gethin lives on Dartmoor and conjures wild animals with an almost maternal empathy, tenderly observant and
knowledgeable of their habits and hiding places. Though she engages with themes of transience and fragility, each animal, be it the better-known hedgehog and cuckoo, or the less
familiar violet ground beetle and narrow-headed ant, is vividly present on the page. Rebecca's poems are complemented by Tom Harding's delightful illustrations.
Vanishings launched online in July 2020. You can order a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon.
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Afternoon Music
Afternoon Music is the second poetry collection from Tom Harding, author of Night Work and founder of Northampton Poetry Review. Tom's poems take the reader on an inner voyage of discovery.
He shares the unease many of us feel about the pace and sometimes pointless nature of office work and consumerism. With grace and filmic clarity, he reminds us of simple pleasures
like lying under a sunlit tree or by an open window and reconnecting to the universe. "Shadows cross the walls of my heart like the vacant bedrooms of the city at noon." Each poem
is illustrated with Tom's own exquisite drawings.
Afternoon Music launched online in May 2020. You can order it for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon.
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Those Other Fields
Those Other Fields is a poetry pamphlet by David Punter, Professor of English at Bristol University. These are poems of troubled times, of now: closely observed and shrewdly considered.
David Punter calls things out but is never strident. From Poland to Mongolia and back home again to Bristol, these are poems of place where 'the Union Jack's a shroud' and movement with 'dark faces rising on the swell'.
In potent images, David reveals the interconnections between our selfishness and greed, and the rising tides of climate change and pollution, the fleeing migrants.
Those Other Fields launched online in July 2020 and you can order the pamphlet for £6.90 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon.
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At the Storm's Edge
At the Storm's Edge is a debut collection by Frank McMahon, whose poems of love and fury revel in a keen sense of the natural world and a stark understanding of humanity's fragile place in the
broad sweep of history. Acutely observed and laced with arresting imagery, his writing is full of 'music arcing back to a vanishing world', in which the personal and the political are wound delicately
together and sing out from the page in potent harmony. Never sentimental nor didactic, McMahon is a poet who thinks deeply and respects his readers; a poet who tells the truth but tells it slant.
At the Storm's Edge launched in January 2020. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page, or from Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-30-9.
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The World is for Everyone
The writing in this anthology is by members of PAMOJA Women Together – a group of refugee, asylum-seeking and irregular migrant women from a wide range of countries,
faiths and backgrounds. PAMOJA means ‘together’ and ‘inclusive’ in Swahili. The World Is For Everyone is not a traditional anthology of writing. It represents the voices,
creative contributions and insights – written and spoken – of the PAMOJA Women Together Group, as these emerged through a series of cultural projects organized as part of the
Changing Wor(l)ds Project at Nottingham Trent University. This enchanting book is unique and very personal. As well as poems, stories and photographs,
there are recipes handed down from mother to daughter, carried right across the world and recreated in the UK as an evocation of their birthplaces. Listen and you will find
these women have vital things to say. They speak of courage needed, pain overcome, puzzlement, patience, struggle, rejection and the ultimate triumph of the spirit.
The World is for Everyone launched on International Women's Day, 8th March 2020. You can order the paperback for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page, or from Amazon ISBN 978-1-911587-27-9.
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Algiers: The Poet's Garden
Soleïman Adel Guémar worked as a freelance investigative journalist in Algeria from 1991 until 2002, when he claimed political asylum in the UK. These short stories
address the agonies of contemporary Algeria and the survival, despite everything, of dreams of a different world. Translated by Tom Cheesman, and first appearing in Local
Therapy by Hafan Books, 2013, they have a “fighter’s edge, a tough beauty.” - Lisa Appignanesi, Chair of the Royal Society of Literature.
“The short prose works in Algiers: The Poet's Garden bring us to Algeria's black decade of the 1990s. Here language is pared back to a pure economy of expression that
allows for the confrontation of madness and reason. The madness of a system that cloaks itself in the reason of law and a countering 'madness' of a utopian hope and vision –
the only recourse of those for whom reality has become unreal. In this collection Guemar sounds the depths of a society where justice, law and rules are hollowed out and where people
are forced not to dream yet do so, in order as to escape the darkness. Wise, uncompromising, and unsettling these stories explore brutalising limits and look beyond a dystopian present.”
- Patrick Crowley, University College Cork.
Algiers: The Poet's Garden launched in November 2019. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page, or from Amazon ISBN 978-1-911587-29-3.
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Grandmother's Patchwork
This is the first full poetry collection by Jane Sherwin, bringing together poems from Wordshare anthologies, self-published Chapbooks and new unpublished work.
Grandmother's Patchwork reflects the long life of a woman passionately committed to humanity, in particular the needs of refugees, political prisoners and the homeless. And through her nature poems,
Jane also voices deep anxiety about the damage modern technology causes the environment. Despite these concerns, she stays resolutely hopeful and the final poem reminds us of “the green world spinning in the
starry heavens, / the deep seas washing tides, draining rivers, / the cloud layer and the painted skies of dawn and sunset.” From the complex issues around Tahir Square to the plight of street children in India,
the compassionate anger in Jane’s poetry speaks truth to power. Today’s news coverage is so intense and distressing that we’re sometimes tempted to turn away and stop listening. But through poems like the ones in
this book we are encouraged to re-engage in the fight for a fairer, more sustainable world.
Grandmother's Patchwork launched in November 2019. You can order the paperback for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page, or from Amazon ISBN 978-1-911587-28-6.
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Welling Up
Welling Up is the first anthology composed of writing submitted to Palewell Press, with selection based on our core values of justice,
equality and sustainability. From Fortaleza de Sagres in Portugal where, “Out on the edge of Europe the great fort squats / brooding in the heat,” to generations
of forgotten women drawing water from a well in Africa, twenty-eight poets share compassion and anger on the problems facing marginalised and displaced people.
To achieve greater justice and equality we also need environmental sustainability and the fifth section looks at Global Warming. Ultimately, though, we can only
protect elements of our world that we’re able to describe effectively. Welling Up concludes with lyrical hymns to Nature and her “hidden streams /
where your heart / sits up, awake at last, / to pay attention.”
Welling Up launched in October 2019. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page, ISBN 978-1-911587-26-2 or from Amazon.
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Back to Babylon
Back to Babylon, the seventh collection from London-based poet and writer, Agnes Meadows, is based on her visits to Iraq for the Babylon International Festival of Arts & Culture in 2012, 2014 and 2016,
and the things she saw there. As well as poetry, Back to Babylon includes the Blog she wrote during her 2012 visit. From convivial jasmine-scented nights in the old city of Babil to the horror and grief at Al-Mawahil
with its mass grave of 13,000 disappeared Iraqis, her writing takes the reader ever closer to life in this troubled region.
Back to Babylon launched in October 2019. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page, ISBN 978-1-911587-20-0, or from Amazon.
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Dandelion Child
Many people in the poetry world were saddened by the death, last Christmas, of poet Frances White from Motor Neurone Disease. Dandelion Child is her second and posthumous collection, compiled with help from her
husband Stephen. Frances' many interests are revealed in this fine collection : the natural world, childhood, music, poetry, family and friends, religious faith, the wider world. Her achingly moving late poems underline
her ability to be bracingly honest. Readers will be drawn to her evocations of childhood in Mountain Mist, "We thought clouds were soft shape-shifters" and of adolescence in the title poem,
"a lull/before hot summers/the rush of freedom/music in the air/wild flowers in our hair/and then the longing/for red roses." Stephen will be donating proceeds from the sale of Dandelion Child
to MNDA (the Motor Neurone Disease Association).
Dandelion Child launched in October 2019. You can order the paperback for £9.00 (excluding postage) from this page, ISBN 978-1-911587-21-7, or from Amazon.
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The Architect
A radical social treatise about African American gangs in the 21st century. This book is more than just a blueprint for self-transformation and the reconstruction of gang culture. It is also a unique step-by-step
guideline that shows gang members themselves how to do it. Craig Ross and Steve Champion’s analysis builds upon – and expands – the work that Crips gang co-founder and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Stanley “Tookie” Williams was
committed to before his death. The Architect seeks to change the narrative about gang members by providing them with an independent and self-sustaining plan of action and empowerment. This book is the first of its kind.
The authors are two well-respected Crips emeritus from Los Angeles, who are now prominent in the criminal justice reform movement. They also reside on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Ross and Champion’s street and
prison experience enables them to offer in The Architect authentic, honest dialogue about the problems gang members face and the potential solutions to those problems. The Architect was written for gang members. But
anyone working for real community change should read The Architect. The triumph over violence requires extreme responsibility—not just from gang members, but from everyone.
The Architect launched in Los Angeles in September 2019 and a UK launch is being planned. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page (plus our Book of the Month 20% discount during October 2020),
or from Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-14-9.
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The Soil Never Sleeps - Edition Two
The Soil Never Sleeps - Edition Two by Adam Horovitz including a new section dedicated to Exmoor.
Adam Horovitz, also author of Turning and A Thousand Laurie Lees, was the Pasture-fed Livestock Association's poet in residence for a year, staying on four of their farms over four seasons.
The Soil Never Sleeps urges a better understanding of our interactions with the natural world and weaves the farmers' voices into the poems. Following the collection's success, Adam was commissioned to
spend time on two Exmoor farms. In this Second Edition, new poems address the farming challenges and beauty of Exmoor over two seasons, culminating with lambing.
Edition Two launched in August 2019. You can order the paperback for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-24-8.
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Testimony of Flight
Jane Spiro's extraordinary collection of poetry and narrative tells stories of forced migration and the consequences which impact years later. The book brings together historical moments and
stories from members of Jane's family—starting with her father who left Poland as a 16 year old on Kristallnacht. The content is further illuminated through years of conversations with other migrants and
survivors from zones of strife, famine, revolution and war.
Testimony of Flight launched in July 2019. You can order the paperback for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-17-0.
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Arthur Talks
In her debut poetry collection, Ruth Hobson writes passionately about homelessness, as experienced by people she met during many years at Nottingham's Emmanuel House Support Centre
- helping us see them as human individuals but also mythical figures. In poems like The Sword in the Stone, Ruth skillfully interweaves the legend of King Arthur with the lives of those at
the edges of urban, austerity Britain.
Arthur Talks launched in August 2019 at the Nottingham Poetry Festival. You can order the book for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-23-1.
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Life Lessons
Debut poetry collection by novelist Richard Aronowitz. He writes passionately about love and the natural world but his work also delves into the darker sides of recent history.
"Aronowitz’s Life Lessons is a book about coming into knowledge. Not so much from reading, but from living close to the natural world, to family and to history. Tied to a conviction
that “We are what we have always been”, these thoughtful, well-crafted poems evoke an English pastoral tradition almost as a birthright, except that today the poet escapes, not the
tensions of the Elizabethan Court, but the gargantuan features of an industrial economy." Richard's poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Troubadour International Poetry Prize.
Life Lessons launched in April 2019. You can order the book for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-18-7.
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Inside the Blue House
Debut poetry pamphlet by Sonia Jarema that deals with Ukraine's diaspora and its impact on her family. The work takes you to uncomfortable places that are lit with extraordinary imagery.
Myra Schneider writes: “In these immediate, tightly-controlled poems Sonia Jarema bears poignant testimony to the effects of war and persecution on ordinary people. Sadness and happiness, England and the Ukraine
are juxtaposed...Homecoming is a moving celebration of Jarema's first visit to her parents' country where she begins to learn about the past she has comes from. Inside the Blue House is a memorable debut.”
Inside the Blue House was published in April 2019. You can order the pamphlet for £6.90 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-16-3.
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Resting Place
Martin Johns's poetry pamphlet collection Resting Place, was published in January 2019. S.A.Leavesley writes that, within Resting Place, "Historical backdrops, compositional
inspiration, imaginative flights of the honeybee...the wide-ranging four sections – New World, Old World, Mortality and Another Country – pulse like chambers of the heart. Alongside beauty, sharp edges are exposed:
the world's darker elements and the human body's personal, moving, fragilities. Ultimately though, each poem is a resting place: the words on the page and the space around them allow each image, rhythm and emotion
to sink in, then resonate, as if 'punctuated by the brilliant | echo of stars.'"
Resting Place was published in January 2019. You can order the pamphlet for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-13-2.
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Tales from Two Cities
Camilla Reeve is a storytelling poet sometimes using narrative poetry to share her experiences but also imagining stories of people she’s
only heard about or met in dreams. In August 2017, with other members of the She Grrrowls poets network, she featured at the Black Market Rooms
during the Edinburgh Free Fringe. This pamphlet contains the narrative poems Camilla performed in Edinburgh with a selection from her features and floor
spots at Loose Muse in Covent Garden, the Jazz Verse Jukebox in both Ronnie Scott’s and Hoxton Hall, Torrianos, Riverside Studios and other London venues.
Tales from Two Cities was published in 2018. You can order the pamphlet for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon,ISBN 978-1-911587-06-4.
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Metamorphosis
Thirty years a writer, Gillian Petrie has been an active member of Salisbury’s Kick Start Poets, Royal Holloway’s MA Course in Creative Writing, Palewell Poets,
and Letterpress Poets with whom she performed at the Troubadour. Compassion illuminates many of the poems, whether for patients in the psychiatric hospital of
which her father was medical director, a friend in an abusive marriage or a woman whose grandchild has just died. But she is also aware of the need to seize
life’s fleeting moments of joy: “know that love is for the taking / as the clock strikes midnight / and the lamp is sputtering.” Metamorphosis launched in May 2018 - with John Freeman writing
a celebratory poem about the launch.
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-01-9.
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Rented
Rented is a pamphlet by acclaimed Cornish feminist poet, Sue Johns, that takes a close look at prostitution and other dependencies.
Admirers of Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife will relish the many voices Johns conjures here. Sharp and unsentimental, always on the side of the underdog,
these are poems of wry observation, compassion and courage.
Rented was published in April 2018. You can order the pamphlet for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-08-8.
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An Ever River
An Ever River is a pamphlet of surreal Eco-poetry by David Russell, editor of Poetry Express Newsletter. In An Ever River, David voices important
environmental concerns about all types of environment: natural, artificial, human, urban, mental, emotional. Many of the poems speak up angrily on behalf of the
natural world and how its creatures suffer at the hands of humanity, yet David's writing also has a startled, questioning beauty.
An Ever River was published in April 2018. You can order the pamphlet for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-04-0.
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Red Winds - a VSO in Tanzania
Red Winds is the third collection from Irma Upex-Huggins, the others being Aloes and Brown Sugar 1991, and Charcoal Woman 1993.
The poems and prose in this collection were written as a result of the period Irma spent as a VSO volunteer in Tanzania - working with women's groups in remote villages.
They aim to reflect the rhythms and spirit of 'traditional' Tanzania through its harsh beauty, situations and vibrant colours. Irma was born on Antigua and she writes with a
Caribbean swing and slang. She will be donating her proceeds from sales of the book to VSO Tanzania to support its work with women.
Red Winds launched in April 2018. You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-07-1.
Or download the Kindle verion
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Night Work
Tom Harding's debut poetry collection, illustrated with his own beautiful drawings, looks at insomnia and loss following the end of relationships.
His poems conjure up the prevailing melancholy of being awake in the small hours. You tell yourself to go to sleep but thoughts crowd in.
It is comforting to know other people have felt the same desperate wakefulness.
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-02-6.
Or download the Kindle version.
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The Scent of my Skin
The Scent of my Skin is a debut poetry collection from Libyan feminist, Farrah Fray. The poems take an urgent look at the role of women, family relationships and
love across Libya, London and all the worlds the poet experiences.
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The Ghost of Franz Kafka
The Ghost of Franz Kafka is the latest poetry collection from Folkestone-bard and co-founder of Dodo Modern Poets, Patric Cunnane. Rooted in a deep sense of emotional
geography and history, and informed by political commitment, Patric Cunnane’s poems open new perspectives and provide unique insights.
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Tutu's Rainbow World - Selected Poems - March 2019 Book of the Month
Joseph Kaifala was born in Sierra Leone and is now a Human Rights lawyer in Washington, USA. But he remains inspired by the beauty of Africa,
by her poverty, conflicts and the suffering of her child soldiers. Dedicated to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this book will interest everyone concerned for Africa's future.
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9955351-8-3.
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The Physic Garden
Enchanting poetry anthology, edited by Adam Horovitz, that includes poems submitted to the Poetic Botanica page of the Ledbury Festival 2016 website about the healing plants
used over history as medicine, perfume and poison. Interspersed with the poems are illustrations of the Hellens Physic Garden and the healing plants that inspired the work.
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page (plus our Book of the Month 20% discount during December 2019) or Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9955351-4-5.
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These we have loved
Wordshare Poets' third poetry anthology, this time celebrating love in its many forms - love for friends, family and Creation. Amusing, touching poems -
would make a great birthday or Christmas present for somebody you care about.
You can order the pamphlet for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page (plus our Book of the Month 20% discount during December 2019) or Amazon. ISBN 978-0-9955351-5-2.
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Tiger and Clay - Syria Fragments
Moving collection of poetry and memoir by Rana Abdulfattah, a young Syrian woman writing in exile in Istanbul. In the collection, Rana
charts the destructive effects of never being permitted to go home, and takes the reader on her emotional journey towards a measure of peace
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Cloud Singer, book 1 of Reins of Power
Young adult futuristic fantasy by Camilla Reeve, published in 2014 on Kindle, now available in paperback.
In 2060, with the UK politically isolated and wracked by violent storms, join 15-year old Neligan Talent, reluctant weather-witch,
as she battles for survival against smugglers and corrupt isolationist politicians.
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-78697-613-0.
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Three Days in Damascus
Kim Schultz's memoir of an unexpected love affair in the middle of the refugee crisis - November 2016. Writer, actor and refugee advocate,
in 2009 Kim Schultz travelled to the Middle East as an artist/activist to meet with Iraqi refugees, forever changing her life.
Three Days in Damascus follows her 3-year fight for a chance at love with an Iraqi refugee whom she met for 3 days in Syria and was never supposed to fall in love with.
The memoir shares authentic Iraqi refugee stories, a whirlwind Middle Eastern romance and the consequently doomed, intercontinental relationship told through texts and emails -
all with civil war, revolution and an arranged marriage as the backdrop.
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Supinely Sublimely
Marion Michell's beautiful collection of textlings - carefully crafted and tightly focused prose - is illustrated with her own artwork - November 2016. The writing
in this prose collection surges off the page giving glimpses of a life bent out of shape by M.E. and P.O.T.S., debilitating
and little understood diseases. Her words sizzle with the suppressed energy of an adventurous spirit. Tom Shakespeare, Professor of Disability at Norwich writes:
"In the tradition of Fernando Pessoa and William Soutar, Marion Michell writes from her bed and takes us on journeys with language which leave us enriched.
Concision may be forced on her, but it generates memorable distillation of the experience of illness, which will be familiar to anyone who has endured a health problem."
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Playing with the Pieces
Nick Alldridge's first poetry collection charts his struggle against depression, dealing sensitively with the ups and downs in his search for recovery - 2016. Anyone
who has experienced mental health issues will know how "playing with the pieces" feels. Nick Alldridge’s poems explore everything from the raw
emotions of losing control "crawling...like moths through lighter fuel" to the simple honesty of "I am depressed." These poems are unafraid to talk about serious issues
and feelings and will hopefully encourage others to share their problems with family, friends and colleagues. This is a book that will comfort anyone who has experienced
mental problems themselves or in those they care about.
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9556770-3-8. Or download
the Kindle version.
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In the Alyscamps
Derek Summers's second poetry collection with an unashamed social and political commitment - 2016. A committed European, Derek Summers's poems reflect
his extensive, enthusiastic travels, from St Petersburg to Van Gogh's Haarlem, from Hornchurch to
St Honorat’s chapel in the Alyscamps at Arles. In this, his second collection, he pursues his fascination with the contrasts between English and French language and
culture. Fans of Derek's previous collection - Brevities - will be delighted to find that In the Alyscamps contains the same sincerity, honesty and compassion.
There is humour and lyricism in Derek's lines, and a luminous pictorial clarity. Finding consolations amid conflict – whether internal or external –
is difficult at the best of times. Sharing them eloquently is even more so.
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Poems of Water and Wonder
Poetry pamphlet anthology - on the theme of Water - from Wordshare Poets, 2nd expanded edition 2016 (1st edition 2012)
Water is a frequent source of inspiration for the Wordshare Poets. In Jane Sherwin’s writing, images of water often symbolise the human spirit in search of freedom
or spiritual fulfilment. Much of Jenny Messer's poetry is linked to Cornwall where, over history, the sea has shaped people’s lives.
Camilla Reeve is fascinated by the musical sounds and moods produced by water.
You can order the pamphlet for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon. ISBN 978-0-9556770-2-1.
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Raft of Puffins
Poetry pamphlet by Camilla Reeve about Skomer Island in Wales and illustrated with wildlife photographs, published in 2016. Over several years,
Camilla volunteered as an Assistant Warden on Skomer wildlife sanctuary off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
In this collection she celebrates the landscape of a natural nature reserve -
with its birds, moths, voles, flowers, Iron Age valleys and standing stones.
You can order the pamphlet for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page (plus our Book of the Month 20% discount during December 2019) or Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9556770-2-1.
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In Sadness and Solidarity
Poetry pamphlet anthology - on the theme of Human Rights - from Wordshare Poets, published in 2016. Wordshare Poets - Jane Sherwin, Jenny Messer and
Camilla Reeve - are all committed to Human Rights.
Keen to do more than just feel compassion for those caught up in the appalling refugee/asylum-seeking situation,
they're sharing their concerns through poetry.
You can order the pamphlet for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon. ISBN 978-0-9556770-1-4.
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The Letterpress Poets Anthology
First anthology of poems by the Letterpress Poets, published in 2015. Reviewer, Daljit Nagra, writes: "These poets offer a newness of approach and a
freshness of attitude...I hope you enjoy this anthology as much as I did!"
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-326-38531-6.
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Travelling East by Road and Soul
Second poetry collection by Camilla Reeve, published in 2009 by Flipped Eye and also available through Palewell Press. Following the lines of
longitude around the planet, from London through Kosovo, the Middle East, Africa, China and the Americas,
Camilla's poems look at how people's experiences differ depending on where they live.
You can order the paperback for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon. ISBN 978-1-905233-22-9.
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Travels of a Spider
Debut poetry collection by Camilla Reeve, published in 2006. This debut collection includes passionate poems on human rights,
war and the environment as well as other work - some funny, some lyrical - in praise of the natural world. Born in London, Camilla's poetry returns often to the
city's problems of homelessness, pollution, noise, and isolation within the crowd.
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A Luminous Man
Camilla Reeve and Gillian Petrie Hunter's beautiful pamphlet poetry collection celebrating the life of Muir Hunter, barrister, poet and human rights activist, who died in 2008.
Camilla attributes her passion for Human Rights to the example set by her father, Muir. A Luminous Man is a reprint of our 2013 edition as the previous print-run sold out.
You can order the pamphlet for £6.90 (excluding postage) from this page. ISBN 978-1-911587-56-9
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