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Saboteur Nomination Time!
The Saboteur Awards are back for 2014! Nominations are open as of now until the end of the month and can be made here.
Sabotage Reviews focuses on the indie side of literature and performance, and their awards celebrate the best of that.
Have you read an anthology, short story collection or poetry pamphlet that you really enjoyed in the past year, attended a live poetry event you loved, or know of an independent publisher who deserves celebration? Be sure to make your nominations here.
The Sabouteur Awards event will be at the Jericho Tavern on Walton Street, Oxford, OX2 6AE, from 1:30pm on May 31st. The performances and book fair are free: you can buy tickets for the awards evening event (6:30pm) here.
Brilliant Book fairs!
Join us in Birmingham:
- Birmingham Independent Book Fair 2014
Saturday April 12, 2014 from 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2HS
Browse, buy and discover new books, many of which are not available on the high street. This day-long event will feature independent publishers from the West Midlands and beyond, offering you the chance to buy books directly from the publishers, who will be on hand to answer questions and introduce you to new writing. From poetry pamphlets to prose fiction, graphic novels to science fiction and fantasy, a wide range of forms and genres will be represented.
The fair is free entry, just drop in, all are welcome!
Full information can be found here >
Hot off the Press
Debut New Poets collections
forthcoming from Nine Arches Press
in May & June 2014:
Read a selection of poems by Josh Ekroy here >
Josh Ekroy - Ways to Build a Roadblock
(May 2014, £8.99)
Josh Ekroy’s debut poetry collection explores the legacy of more than a decade of wars on terror, disastrous foreign policies and brutality. These are adroit and concise poems, observed from the standpoint of an unflinching bystander to the ‘shock and awe’ of early twenty-first century history.
Find out more here on our new website >
Richie McCaffery - Cairn
(June 2014, £8.99)
Richie McCaffery’s debut collection of poems, Cairn, begins in dedication and ends with ghosts – in between lie artefacts and antiquities: a police whistle, a tarnished silver spoon, a bookmark lodged in an old book. Soaring, short and melancholy, the poems form signposts in the landscape of life, lore and family, mementoes for the buried and the living.
Find out more here on our new website >
Mark Burnhope - Species
(June 2014, £8.99)
Mark Burnhope brings both wrath and wryness to bear on inequality, ignorance and prejudice, and balances force and anger with nature, sexuality and love. Political and theological ideas ferment and rise in these poems, which though often serious are also ripe with wit, adventurous in their form and distinctive in their energy and verbal vigour. Species is radical and acutely aware – a rare and brilliant mix that makes for essential and important poetry.
Find out more here on our new website >
Also forthcoming: The Midlands by Tony Williams
Publication date: 7th July 2014
ISBN: 978-0-9927589-3-6
Price: £8.99
The Midlands is the second collection by Tony Williams, following his much-acclaimed debut The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street in inimitable and lyrical style. Beginning in the Midlands themselves, with the ‘unfound grave of a Mercian king under wurzels, new housing and out-of-town Asdas’, his poems compose a tragi-comic paean to vanishing hinterlands and finely-tuned weirdness, to domestic relics and dog walks, to dust and phantoms. Williams’ absolute delight in word-play and tomfoolery belies a darker, stranger undertow between rhyme and reasoning. Strange forces are at work in the heartlands, where we find ourselves travellers in perpetual motion, stopping only to gather our disappointment at the OK Café on the A1 and wonder if our ‘boots might rise from the earth and pursue’ us...
Praise for Tony Williams:
“…from all our cultural loam and junk, Williams has made real magic.” —Frances Leviston, The Guardian
- We are also over the moon to announce that we have further debut poetry collections forthcoming in the autumn 2014 from:
Dorothy Lehane (view Dorothy's website here)
Bobby Parker (Read an interview with Bobby here)
Going Live!
Events, workshops & festivals
Maps & Legends - Poems to Find Your Way By
Much Wenlock Methodist Church, King Street, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, TF13 6BL
Sunday 27th April 2014, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm £8/£7
Find out more here
Celebrate five years of independent publishing at Nine Arches Press and take a poetry-pathway less travelled with national Canal Laureate and Maps and Legends anthology co-editor, Jo Bell, and Nine Arches poets Maria Taylor, Matt Merritt and Mario Petrucci.
Jo Bell is a former Glastonbury Poet in Residence and director of National Poetry Day – a post she recently left to become the UK’s first Canal Laureate. A boat-dweller and former archaeologist, she has been published in journals from Magma and Popshot to the Frogmore Papers, and appeared at festivals from Shambala to Cheltenham Literature Festival. Her most recent collection is Navigation.
Matt Merritt is a poet and wildlife journalist from Leicester. His third collection, The Elephant Tests, is out now from Nine Arches, and previous publications include hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica (Nine Arches, 2010), Troy Town (Arrowhead, 2008), and Making The Most Of The Light (HappenStance, 2005). He blogs at: polyolbion.blogspot.co.uk
Maria Taylor is a Leicestershire-based poet. Her debut collection, Melanchrini, was published by Nine Arches Press in Summer 2012. Her writing has been published in The North, The Guardian, The TLS, Staple and others.
Mario Petrucci’s work is “vivid, generous and life-affirming” (Envoi). Through groundbreaking residencies, poetry films and a remarkable output of ecopoetry, his unique scientific sensibility has tirelessly illuminated the linguistic as well as emotive resonances of love and loss in the public and private domains. Whether exploring the tragedies of Chernobyl ( Heavy Water, 2004) or immersing himself in heart-rending invention ( i tulips, 2010), Petrucci aspires to “Poetry on a geological scale” ( Verse). His most recent collection is anima (Nine Arches Press).
Book your tickets in advance here
You may also like at Wenlock:
- Inspiration or Application? Writing Poems to a Brief
The Edge Arts Centre, Farley Road, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, TF13 6NB
Saturday 26th April 2014. 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm £8 / £7
With Jane Commane, Geraldine Clarkson, David Boyles, Philip Monks and Frieda Hughes. In 2013, the “Art in the Heart project” challenged writers to create original poetry inspired by works of art. The result is an anthology, Iris of A Peeping Eye. We hear a selection of poems and discuss the challenges of writing to a brief.
Further information and book here
Find out more about Wenlock Poetry Festival 2014 here
Workshop opportunities with Writing West Midlands:
- Short Course: Towards a Poetry Collection
13 May – 24 June (excl 27 May), 6 – 8pm
Writing West Midlands, Unit 204, Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham B9 4AA
As part of a six week course, Jane Commane (poet, tutor and editor at Nine Arches Press) will guide you through the process of curating and creating a collection of your poetry. Discover the different ways to get into print, find the right shape and form for your collection and right sort of publisher for you. Whether it’s a pamphlet, book collection or mini-epic, discover how best to refine, hone and polish your poems so they can shine and show your writing at its best. Also, get plenty of practical tips on how to build up your reputation and profile as a poet, how to submit your collection, and how to structure, order and develop your collection of poems. The course will also include short one-to-one feedback sessions on individual collections with the workshop tutor. Though the workshops won’t result in the actual publication of your collection, they will equip you with all the know-how, techniques and best practices to help you make the important first steps through what can seem a daunting process. Prepare to have a few myths about poetry publishing busted, develop your poetic confidence and brush up your editing skills!
£99 for all six sessions.
BOOKING: www.writingwestmidlands.org / 0121 245 4455
- Launch of 'Ways to Build a Roadblock' by Josh Ekroy
Wednesday 14th May 7.00pm onwards
The Betsey Trotwood 56 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3BL
With readings by Angela France and Josh Ekroy
Join us to celebrate the launch of Josh Ekroy's debut poetry collection, Ways to Build a Roadblock with readings from Josh and from Angela France.
FREE and all welcome.
Nine Arches Press and Crystal Clear Creators present:
Bi-monthly open mic at The Western, 70 Western Road, Leicester LE3 0GA
NEXT EVENT: Monday 19th May 2014 at 7.30pm.
With special guest writers Josh Ekroy and others TBC.
Open mic and poetry night - please sign up on the door for slots.
FREE ENTRY
Leicester Shindig! 2014 dates for your diary:
Monday 21st July
Monday 15th September
Monday 17th November
Nine Arches recommends...
Bluegate Poets Swindon
at Lower Shaw Farm
Thursday April 10th, 7.30pm
with Angela France
More details here
Poetry and Place
at The Hive, Worcester.
Friday April 11th:
Angela France reading with Martin Malone, Fiona Sampson, and David Caddy
More details on Facebook
Nine Arches Press are an independent publisher of poetry, based in the midlands; we believe in the power of great poetry and do everything we can to support live and written poetry that challenges and excites readers and audiences.
Nine Arches Press is also home to Under the Radar magazine, and co-organisers of Shindig Leicester and other live poetry events. We are now in our fifth year of independent publishing. Please support us in the best way you can – by buying our publications & supporting our events!
We are proud to be a member of Inpress.
Keep up to date with Nine Arches Press and our upcoming events via our website:
www.ninearchespress.com
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