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Are you looking for a particular book? Tales from Two Cities, Metamorphosis, Rented, An Ever River, Red Winds, The Soil Never Sleeps, Night Work, The Scent of my Skin, The Ghost of Franz Kafka, Tutu's Rainbow World, The Physic Garden, These we have loved, Tiger and Clay, The Cloud Singer, Three Days in Damascus, Supinely Sublimely, Playing with the pieces, In the Alyscamps, Water and Wonder, Raft of Puffins, Sadness and Solidarity, Letterpress Poets Anthology, Travelling East by Road and Soul, Travels of a Spider

Tales from Two Cities

Camilla Reeve particularly likes writing narrative poetry, sometimes to share her personal 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 will be launched in September 2018. ISBN 978-1-911587-06-4. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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 was published in May 2018 - with John Freeman writing a celebratory poem about the launch. ISBN 978-1-911587-01-9. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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 a copy for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-08-8. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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 a copy for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-04-0. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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 was published in April 2018. You can order a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-07-1. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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The Soil Never Sleeps

The Soil Never Sleeps - poetry from the pasturelands of Britain is the latest collection from Adam Horovitz, author of Turning and A Thousand Laurie Lees. This new collection is driven by the need for all of us to gain a clearer understanding of our complex interactions with the natural world. As Philip Gross writes on the back cover, “Personal journal and public statement, lyric observation and prospectus for radical care of the land, this is life-writing in a fundamental sense. Like Ted Hughes’ Moortown or Sean Borodale’s Bee Journal, it is grounded in living the life, and doing the work, day by day, of a place. Unsentimental, many-angled, this is poetry to think with, not to lecture readers but "to open them / to the seeds of ideas" that the earth sorely needs.”
You can order a copy for £9.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-05-7. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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 a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-02-6. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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.
You can order a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-02-6. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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.
You can order a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon, ISBN 978-1-911587-00-2. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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Tutu's Rainbow World - Selected Poems

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 a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9955351-8-3. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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 a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9955351-4-5. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries
Contributor discount: Contributors to the anthology receive a free copy and can order further copies at a 10% discount (excluding postage) by emailing enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk

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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 buy a copy for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon. ISBN 978-0-9955351-5-2. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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
You can buy a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9955351-2-1. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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 £7.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-1-78697-613-0 or download the Kindle version ISBN 978-0-9556770-9-0 Cloud Singer on Kindle Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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.
You can order a copy for £10.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9955351-0-7 or download the Kindle version. ISBN 978-0-9955351-1-4. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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." 
You can order a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or from Amazon, ISBN 978-0-9556770-7-6 or download the Kindle version. ISBN 978-0-9556770-8-3. Please contact us at enquiries@palewellpress.co.uk if you have any delivery queries

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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 buy a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage). ISBN 978-0-9556770-3-8br>

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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 writes poems which 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.
You can buy a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage). ISBN 978-0-9556770-5-2

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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 buy a copy 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 buy a copy for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page 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 buy a copy for £6.00 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon. ISBN 978-0-9556770-1-4

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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 purchase a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage). 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 buy a copy 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.
You can buy a copy for £8.99 (excluding postage) from this page or Amazon. ISBN 978-095567-700-7

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