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Spring & Summer CATALOGUE2021 Contents 3 Spring & Summer Selection 4 Featured Title When I Think of My Body as a Horse by Wendy Pratt 6 Featured Title Talking to Stanley on the Telephone by Michael Schmidt 9 The PB Bookshelf The AQI by David Tait 10 The North 11 New Poets List Ugly Bird by Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith Have a nice weekend I think you’re interesting by Lucy Holt Aunty Uncle Poems by Gboyega Odubanjo Takeaway by Georgie Woodhead 14 Forthcoming Titles 15 Subject Codes Pamphlet | 9781912196418 | £6 Black Mascara (Waterproof) eBook | 9781912196517 | £4.50 Published 1st Feb 2021 Rosalind Easton 34pp Black Mascara (Waterproof) is a glamorous and lively debut exploring Rosalind Easton grew up in Salisbury and relationships, popular culture, and the enduring power of teenage memories. now lives in South East London, where she works as an English teacher. After a first degree at Exeter University, she trained as Full of wicked invention. – Imtiaz Dharker a dance teacher and spent several years Love and the possibilities of love and intimacy are examined and celebrated teaching tap, modern and ballet before completing her PGCE at Bristol and MA at and quotidian adventures like bra fittings and running mascara are given the Goldsmiths. She has recently completed her power of myth. – Ian McMillan PhD thesis on Sarah Waters. Black Mascara (Waterproof) is her first collection. Witty, sexy poems that strut across the page – Natalie Whittaker Pamphlet | 9781912196425 | £6 In Your Absence eBook | 9781912196524 | £4.50 Published 1st Feb 2021 Jill Penny 36pp In Your Absence is a response to a year of bereavement, a murder and a trial, Jill Penny is from a touring theatre and estrangements, departures and insights. Troubled by ghosts, these poems arts background She is a now time served are ultimately a gift to anyone stranded in the whiteout of loss. member of the programming and hosting team at The Ted Hughes Arvon Centre, Lumb Bank in West Yorkshire. She lives just below A searingly accurate enactment of a traumatic incident and loss. the Pennine Way in the hills above Hebden – Imtiaz Dharker Bridge, and is studying for an M.A. in Creative Writing at MMU. She is a lifelong reader and Death, love, loss and an urgent need to take note of these things before their writer and has been published in The North, associations pass gave a burning ‘carpe diem’ tone to the pieces.. @thepoetrykit, various anthologies and The – Ian McMillan Guardian. Powerful and original, heralding the arrival of a poet to watch. – Anjum Malik 3 Featured Title When I Think of My Body as a Horse Wendy Pratt When I Think of My Body as a Horse is about trauma, recovery and Book | 9781912196401 | £9.95 eBook | 9781912196500 | £6.95 the powerful, animal instincts embedded in the act of creating Published 1stMarch 2021 | 78pp a family. These poems explore motherhood and body identity within the context of baby loss, when there is no ‘rainbow baby’ Wendy Pratt is an award winning to add closure to the narrative. poet, author and workshop facilitator living on the North Yorkshire coast. Through cycles of pregnancy and grief, there is an animal momentum She is the author of four collections to the poems that gives the whole sequence its sustained power. of poetry and is widely published in magazines and journals. –Imtiaz Dharker These are powerful, heartbreaking but ultimately transcendent poems about loss, grieving and recovery. There are many tropes of writing about loss but this poet skilfully and gloriously avoided them all, which is no mean feat. – Ian McMillan These are spine-tingling, heart-stopping, life-affirming poems. – Helen Mort Visceral experiences acutely observed. These poems hiss with animal motility. – Michael Stewart Heart-breaking and life-affirming, threaded through with love, con- cerned with survival and held together by powerful and startling im- agery. –Kim Moore 4 Pamphlet | 9781912196432 | £6 The Last Dinosaur in Doncaster eBook | 9781912196531 | £4.50 Published 1st Feb 2021 Sarah Wimbush 36pp The Last Dinosaur in Doncaster is an exuberant journey down the ginnels of Sarah Wimbush is a winner of both the Yorkshire; from The Miners’ Strike and its ramifications, to men who should Mslexia Poetry Competition (2016) and the have been astronauts and no-nonsense women who get stuff done. These Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition (2019). Her debut pamphlet Bloodlines (Seren) poems celebrate the importance of belonging, in all its gritty splendour. explores her Gypsy/Traveller heritage. In 2019 she received a Northern Writers’ Award A vivid love poem to the changing landscape of South Yorkshire and its and second prize in the Ledbury Poetry residents. – Imtiaz Dharker Competition. She comes from Doncaster and currently lives in Leeds. These poems say new things about old subjects like The Miners’ Strike and growing up. There is a powerful anger in the poems that doesn’t overwhelm them but fuels their articulacy. – Ian McMillan Pamphlet | 9781912196548 | £6.50 Judder Men eBook | 9781912196555 | £4.50 Published 1st April 2021 Ben Bransfield 36pp The men that judder in and out of view and thought in these clear but Ben Bransfield was born in Shropshire aslant poems are real and imagined, monsters and heroes, loved and reviled, and now lives in London. He read English fathered and childless, afraid and brave, dead and unborn, sinned against at Brasenose College, Oxford, received an MA from the Shakespeare Institute, and and sinning. The language of Judder Men is compressed, yet oddly lucid, graduated from the National Film and compelling us to find out what lies just beyond the safe places. Television School. Named a Poetry Society Teacher Trailblazer, Ben has taught in schools This sparkling debut pamphlet is full of energy, wit, and a rare freshness for over a decade and was selected by the Poetry School and Nine Arches Press for the of approach. Here is the poet as vivid (but never heavy) autobiographer, Primers mentoring scheme. He serves on the sharp-focused historian, partaker in life and engaged observer. board of the Stephen Spender Trust. – Keith Hutson 5 Featured Title Talking to Stanley on the Telephone Michael Schmidt Talking to Stanley on the Telephone rummages through the Book | 9781912196449 | £9.95 eBook | 9781912196456 | £6.95 desires, frustrations and waning faculties of old age. The stories Published 1st March 2021 | 64pp it tells add up to a vivacious celebration of life-spans and the darkening comedy of growing old. Michael Schmidt is the author of several books of poetry. Selected Age has not diminished Michael Schmidt’s boyish wonder at the world Poems (Smith|Doorstop) was a PBS but rather made his bemused questioning of the foibles of its fickle Special Commendation. He has folk all the merrier and more poignant. These are also poems of self- written Lives of the Poets, The Ancient Poets and The Novel: a Biography, and questioning, with Schmidt talking not just to Stanley Moss on the he has produced notable canonical phone at night but engaging with the past (himself as a boy) while and introductory anthologies. He is addressing himself in the present (still a boy at heart). They are wry, Editorial Director and Publisher at playful monologues puzzling over what can only be unpacked, or Carcanet Press and General Editor of PN Review. more often left equivocal, in the poem itself. Reading this book, we find ourselves in the stimulating company of a poet-conversationalist par excellence, listening to what might feel addressed to us while eavesdropping on what is clearly not. –Neil Astley 6 Paperback Book | 9781912196364 | £9.95 Like a Tree Cut Back Hardback Book | 9781912196937 | £12.95 eBook | 9781912196494 | £6.95 Michael McCarthy Published 1st April 2021 | 164pp Like a Tree Cut Back weaves a memoir of Michael McCarthy from his Michael McCarthy’s first poetry collection boyhood in rural Ireland – overshadowed by an accident that resulted in Birds’ Nests and Other Poems (Bradshaw Books, the death of his brother – to his journey towards priesthood and poetry. 2003) won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. At the Races (Smith|Doorstop, 2009) was the Interspersed throughout is a brief history of Carlow College, 19th century overall winner of the 2008 Book & Pamphlet Catholic Ireland’s answer to Trinity College, Dublin, and – as McCarthy Competition, chosen by Michael Longley, shows – a training ground for priests, apostles and rebels. Part history, part while The Healing Station (Smith|Doorstop, memoir and part meditation, this outstanding book of poetry and prose 2015) was selected as a Book of the Year by Hilary Mantel in the Guardian. His most confirms Michael McCarthy as a powerful storyteller and an acute observer recent collection, The Bright Room and other of the human condition. poems (Smith|Doorstop, 2019), brought together poems written over the last decade A masterpiece of the ordinary life – Shawna Lemay of his life. Michael worked as a priest in North Yorkshire where he died in July 2018. Pamphlet | 9781912196647 | £6.50 eBook | 9781912196821 | £4.50 o m FromNew words, new clothes a Borrowed Land Published 1st May 2021 Marked by trauma, From a Borrowed Land bears witness I discarded the words rst. to the Tamil experience during the Sri Lankan civil war. From the safety of ‘the borrowed land’, these poems And then,Shash for a while, mute silence. Trevett 36pp remember and grieve both historical and personal loss: loss I watched and learnt like a mynah bird. of lives, of a homeland, of a language, and of a way of life. அ became A Shash Trevett’s poetic voice is subtle yet echoes her From a Borrowed Land ஈ became E controlled anger when singing about attened tombstones Marked ஐ I changed by trauma, From a Borrowed Land bears witness to the Tamil Shash Trevett is a Tamil from Sri Lanka who to a short, sharp I.