Palewell Press Author Events
Launching "Starwise a few poems for the season of light" - 12/12/23 6-7 pm and 21/12/2023 3-5 pm
Ruth Hobson is a passionate advocate for homeless, dispossessed members of our society.
Her pamphlet, Starwise, is a natural successor to
Arthur Talks, which we published in 2019.
As Rowan Williams writes of the new work: "Ruth Hobson's poems move seamlessly between an almost timeless register directing us to enduring physical realities - sky, weather, birds,
landscape - and a sharp, compassionate specificity, the reality of contemporary displacement, anxiety and precariousness."
Starwise will launch as part of festive events at two venues - The Yellow Wood Cafe, Beeston, and Bromley House Library, Nottingham City Centre. You will need to book for both events:
Palewell's own One-Day Book Festival - Saturday 7th October in Richmond Library Annexe
Our Festival went extremely well. We'd like to thank our guests for coming, our authors for their vibrant readings and the writers who took part in our two panel discussions:
- "Sharing Refugee Stories" with Catherine Temma Davidson, Dr Anba Jawi MBE and Camilla Reeve
- "The Nature-Writer & Climate Change" with Alison Lock, Michael Tanner, Helen Boyles, Phil Burton and Camilla Reeve
And a very big thank-you to the people who helped Camilla organise the Festival:
Jenny Messer, Nick Alldridge, Grace Tannen, Jeremy Wallace and Simon Lichman.
It wouldn't have gone so smoothly without your help!
Book events in the coming months
- Autumn, Launch of Brother of the Bride, a non-fiction memoir by Joseph Kaifala about family relationships in Sierra Leone.
- Autumn, Jerusalem launch of Simon Lichman's The Punished Wound - poetry inspired by the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
- Autumn, London launch of Untagged - a poetry pamphlet by Philip Burton in support of a Sustainable Fashion Industry
- Autumn, London launch of Hyphenated Lives by T.K.Sebastian, a mixed-genre historical verse novel incorporating family stories, historical documents, archival photographs and scholarly research
on the tragic history of the Armenians in early 20th Century Turkey.
- Winter, Launch of Morning Light - the third and final part of Tom Harding's poetry trilogy that began with Night Work
and Afternoon Music.
Tom illustrates his books, which would make Morning Light or the combined trilogy a beautiful Christmas gift.
Details of these and other book events will appear here as soon as the dates are confirmed.
Previous Book Events
- The London launch of Simon Lichman's poignant poetry collection, The Punished Wound,
inspired by the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. was on Monday 11th September at the New North London Synagogue
Click on this link to order The Punished Wound from our website
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Exiled Lit Cafe for September with the face-to-face relaunch of Resistance - Voices of Exiled Writers
and a live reading from The Punished Wound by Simon Lichman was on Thursday September 14th at Kensington Central Library
Click on these links to order Resistance - Voices of Exiled Writers and
The Punished Wound from our website
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- The Leeds launch of The Punished Wound was on Sunday September 17th
Click on this link to order The Punished Wound from our website
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- The Leicester launch of The Truth at the End of the Night - poetry on the UK asylum process, was on Sunday 3rd September
Click on this link to order The Truth at the End of the Night from our website
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- The Lancashire launch of Untagged by Philip Burton - poetry in support of sustainable fashion, was on Saturday 12th August
Click on this link to order Untagged from our website
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- Our online launch of We Will Fly Higher by Parwana Amiri - poetry on Europe's response to refugees - was on Monday 14th August
Click on this link to order We Will Fly Higher from our website
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- The London launch of The Truth at the End of the Night by Malka Al-Haddad was at Exiled Lit Cafe in Farringdon on July 4th,
Click on this link to order The Truth at the End of the Night from our website.
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- Our face-to-face launch of From Sugarcane to Surrey- a Human Rights memoir by Jay Woogara, was in Guildford on April 28th 2023.
Click on this link to order From Sugarcane to Surrey from our website.
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- Our face-to-face launch of The Gingko Tree and Other Poems- a new poetry collection from Michael Baron, was in Kensington on March 20th 2023.
A video of the launch
will soon be available on YouTube
Click on this link to order The Gingko Tree and Other Poems from our website.
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Our face-to-face launch of What I tell myself at night- a new poetry collection from Camilla Reeve, was in Putney on December 15th 2022.
A video of the launch is available on YouTube
Click on this link to order What I tell myself at night from our website.
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Our face-to-face launch of Tipping Winter into Spring - a new poetry collection from Martin Johns, was in Towcester on Wednesday 28th September 2022.
Click on this link to order Tipping Winter into Spring from our website.
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Our face-to-face launch of A Different Land - a new poetry collection from Frank McMahon, was in Cirencester on Thursday 21st July 2022.
Click on this link to order A Different Land from our website.
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Our face-to-face launch of The Life Dyslexic - a new poetry pamphlet from Philip Burton, was in Clitheroe on Thursday 25th June 2022.
A video of the launch is available on YouTube
Click on this link to order The Life Dyslexic from our website.
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Our online launch of Possibly a Pomegranate - poetry celebrating Womankind by Alwyn Marriage, was on Saturday 11th March 2022.
A video of the launch is available on YouTube
Click on this link to order Possibly a Pomegranate from our website.
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Our face-to-face launch of Federal Gods - poetry by Clare Saponia on the EU response to refugees in 2015 Berlin, was in London on Thursday 26th May 2022.
A video of the launch is available on YouTube
Click on this link to order Federal Gods from our website.
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Our online launch of Unfurling - poetry on Nature and Existence by Alison Lock, was on Sunday 6th March 2022.
A video of Alison reading some of the poems is on YouTube.
Click on this link to order Unfurling from our website.
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Our online launch of The Utopians of Tahrir Square - poems of witness and protest by young Iraqis, translated by Dr. Anba Jawi and Catherine Temma Davidson,
was on Thursday 27th January 2022. A video of the event will shortly be available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order The Utopians of Tahrir Square from our website.
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Our online launch of Butterfly of the Night - by Kurdish author, Haydar Karatas, translated into English by Caroline Stockford from the original Turkish manuscript Gece Kelebegi,
a true and utterly heartbreaking family history written through the eyes of Haydar's mother, was on Friday 1st October 2021. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order Butterfly of the Night from our website.
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Our online launch of Secret Love Letters - Poland 1982 - a prose and poetry memoir by Anna Maria and Tomasz Mickiewicz about their love story during Martial Law in Poland -
was on Thursday 22nd July 2021. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order Secret Love Letters - Poland 1982 from our website.
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Our online launch of Balancing the Elements - a poetry collection from Helen Boyles that explores movements in Nature and how humans relate to them -
was on Thursday 10th June 2021. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order Balancing the Elements from our website.
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Our online launch of From Glasgow to Damascus - David Forrest's short stories and poems inspired by the stories of Syrians living in Glasgow -
was on Wednesday 26th May 2021. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order From Glasgow to Damascus from our website.
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Our online launch of Fur Beneath the Skin - Christie Dickason's diversity-themed historical novel for Young Adults, with extracts read by well-known actress, Buffy Davis,
was on Thursday 6th May 2021. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order Fur Beneath the Skin from our website.
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Our online launch of Gaia Warnings - Philip Burton's fourth poetry collection about Nature, Global Warming and Species Extinction -
was on Thursday 8th April 2021. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order Gaia Warnings from our website.
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Our online launch of Grave Seas - Hussam Eddin Baramo's second poetry collection about the Syrian War, refugees, migration and the immigration process -
was on Thursday 18th March 2021. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order Grave Seas from our website.
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Our online launch of The Lock-Picker - Sue Proffitt's remarkable second poetry collection about living alongside her mother who was suffering from dementia -
was on Friday 26th February 2021. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order The Lock-Picker from our website.
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Our online launch of Resistance - Voices of Exiled Writers - the anthology celebrating 20 years of Exiled Writers Ink meetings and support for Human Rights -
was on Thursday 17th December 2020. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on this link to order Resistance - Voices of Exiled Writers from our website.
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Our online launch of Can You Hear The People Sing? - the Palewell Press anthology focusing on Covid-19 -
with readings by Yan Li, Rachel Sambrooks, Nasrin Parvaz, David Punter, Kate B Hall, Taffi Nyawanza, Helen Boyles and Shanta Acharya,
was on Monday 30th November 2020.
Click on this link to order Can You Hear The People Sing? from our website.
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The online launch of two significant feminist collections: Harpy, poetry and prose with mythological roots by Rachel Sambrooks,
and Useless Now but Beautiful Still, psychological short stories by Rocio Rodriguez-Inniss, was on August 20th 2020.
A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on these links to order Harpy by Rachel,
and Useless Now but Beautiful Still by Rocio.
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The online poetry launch of two major books of environmental poetry: Vanishings by Rebecca Gethin and Elemental by Michael Tanner
was on Thursday 30th July. A video of the event is available on YouTube.
Click on these links to order Vanishings by Rebecca, and Elemental by Michael.
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Our online poetry launch of At the Storm's Edge by Frank McMahon, Those Other Fields by David Punter, and Afternoon Music by Tom Harding
was on the 28th May 2020. You can listen to an audio recording on SoundCloud.
Click on these links to order At the Storm's Edge by Frank, Those Other Fields by David,
and Afternoon Music by Tom.
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