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George Gömöri: Polishing October, £8.95 ISBN 978 1 904886 76 1

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 Toon Tellegen: About Love and About Nothing Else, translated by Judith Wilkinson, £8.95 ISBN  978 1 904886 79 2

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Hamish Whyte: A Bird in the Hand. £8.95 ISBN 978 1 904886 84 6

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Christopher Salvesen: The Long Gallery. £8.95 ISBN 978 1 904886 82 2

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Angela Kirby: Dirty Work.  £8.95  ISBN 978 1 904886 83 9 

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Caroline Price: Wishbone. £8.95  ISBN 978 1 904886 78 5

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Stan Smith:  Family Fortunes.  £8.95  ISBN  978 1 904886 75 4

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 William Scammell: Nightwatch: Selected Essays. £12.50  ISBN 978 1 904886 72 3

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Richard Kell: Taking A Break. £6.00  ISBN 978 1 904886 80 8

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Michael Murphy: Allotments. £5.00  ISBN 978 1 904886 81 5

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Peter Armstrong: Madame Noire. £5.00  ISBN 978 1 904886 74 7

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Alistair Elliot: The Real Poems. £8.95  ISBN 978 1 904886 71 6

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Kate Foley: The Silver Rembrandt. £8.95  ISBN 978 1 904886 73 0

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John Greening: Iceland Spar. £8.95  ISBN 978 1 904886 77 8

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 Derin Rees-Jones: Falls & Finds. £5.00  ISBN 978 1 904886 65 5

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Take Five 07: £8.95   ISBN 978 1904886 66 5

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May Ivemy:  Finding the Curve.  £8.95   ISBN 1 978 1 904886

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Malcolm Carson: Breccia.  £8.95  ISBN-13 978 1 904886 53 2

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Tom Pow: Transfusion.  £5.00  ISBN-13: 978 1904886 54 9

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Hugh McMillan: Strange Bamboo.  £8.95  ISBN-13 978 1 904886 51 8

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Jim Burns: Laying Something Down.  £11.85  ISBN-13 978 1 904886 49 5

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Elizabeth Burns:  The Lantern Bearers.  £8.95  ISBN-13 978 1 904886 50 1

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Paul McLoughlin:  Forgetting to Come In.  £8.95  ISBN 1 904886 52 5

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Angela Leighton: Sea Level.  £8.95  ISBN 978 1 904886 64 8

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John Gohorry: Imagining Magdenburg.  £8.95  ISBN 978 904886 56 3

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Michael Standen: Leaves at Midnight.  £8.95  ISBN  978 1 904886 59 4

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Glyn Hughes: Two Marriages.  £7.00  ISBN 978 904886 69 3

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Daniel Samoilovich: Driven by the Wind and Drenched to the Bone.  £8.95 

ISBN-13 978 1 904886 60 0

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Mairi MacInnes: CLEARANCES A memoir. £10.00  ISBN  978 904886 62 4

 

Miriam Van hee: Instead of Silence.   £8.95  ISBN-13 904886 45 7

ISBN-10 904886 45 0

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Edward Mackinnon: Killing Time in Arcadia. £8.95  ISBN-13: 978904886 38

ISBN-10: 1 904886 38 8

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Merryn Williams: The First Wife's Tale. ISBN-13 978 1 904886 46 4

ISBN-10 1 904886 46 9 £8.95

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Barbara Hardy: The Yellow Carpet.  ISBN-13 1 904886 37 2

ISBN-10 1 904886 37 X  £8.95

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Alexis Lykiard: Jean Rhys Afterwords. ISBN-13 978 904886 34 1

ISBN-10 1 904886 34 5 £8.95

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Michael Wilding: Wild Amazement. £7.95  ISBN-13 978 1 904886 35 8

ISBN-13 1 904886 35 3

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Peter Porter: Eighteen Poems. ISBN 1 904886 42 6 £5.00

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Robin Maunsell: The Night Sea At Aldeburgh. ISBN-13: 978 1 904886 40 2

ISBN-10: 1 904886 40 X  £7.95

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Roger Elkin: Rites Of Passing.  ISBN-13: 978 1 904886 43 3

ISBN-10: 1 904886 43 4   £8.95

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Robert Etty: Half a Fields Distance. ISBN-13: 978 1 904886 39 6

ISBN-10: 1 904886 39 6

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Lynne Wycherley:  North Flight. ISBN-13: 978 1 904886 30 3

ISBN-10: 1 904886 30 2  £8.95

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Nadine Brummer: Out of the Blue. ISBN_13: 978 1 904886 31 0

ISBN 10: 1 904886 31 0 £8.95

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Hubert Moore: The Hearing Room.    £8.95   ISBN  1  904886 33 4

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Peter Carpenter: Catch.  £8.95   ISBN  1  904886  32  7

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Richard Burns: In a Time of Drought.   £8.95   ISBN 1 904886 24 8

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Christopher Southgate: Easing The Gravity Field, poems of science and love. £8.95 ISBN 1 904886 29 9

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Peter Robinson: Ghost Characters.  £8.95  ISBN 1 904886 25 6

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Roger Elkin: Rites Of Passing.  ISBN-13: 978 1 904886 43 3

ISBN-10: 1 904886 43 4   £8.95

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Take Five 06:  £8.95   ISBN  1  904886  36  1

 

Matt Simpson:  In Deep.  £8.95   ISBN  1 904886 28 0

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Simon Curtis: Reading a River, new and selected poems. £8.95  ISBN 1 904886 26 4

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Glyn Hughes: Dancing out of the Dark Side. £8.95.  ISBN 1 904886 21 3

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Hugh Underhill: The War is Over. £7.99  ISBN 1 904886 22 1

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Carol Coates: The Goodbye Edition.  £8.95  ISBN 1  904886  18  3

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Angela Kirby: Mr Irresistible.  £8.95  ISBN  1 904886 19 1

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Derrick Buttress: My Life As A Minor Character   £8.95  ISBN 1 904886 16 7

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Arnold Rattenbury:  Mr Dick's Kite   £9.50  ISBN 1 904886 13 2

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Christine McNiell  The Outsider  £8.95  ISBN 904886 15 9

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Alan Dixon  The Ogling of Lady Luck  £8.95  ISBN 904886 12 4

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Barbara Daniels  The Cartographer Sleeps  £8.95  ISBN 1 904886 14 0

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Take Five 05  £8.95  ISBN 1 904886 17 5

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PAGING DOCTOR JAZZ  A Verse Anthology compiled and with an introduction by John Lucas.   £10.00                     ISBN 1 904886 08 6

PAGING DOCTOR JAZZ is the first anthology of poems about jazz to be published in the UK. Among the all-star line up are Kingsley Amis, Jim Burns, Barry Cole, John Cotton, Douglas Dunn, Roy Fisher, Michael Foley, Roger Garfitt, John Harvey, Richard Kell, Philip Larkin, Michael Longley, Adrian Mitchell, John Mole, Graham Mort, Sean O'Brien, Christopher Pilling, Neil Powell, Peter Scupham, James Simmons, Matt Simpson, George Szirtes, Gael Turnbull, John Wain and John Hartley Williams. And the subjects range from Louis Armstrong to Fats Waller, Albert Ayler to Ben Webster. Fifty-five poets in all, with over a hundred poems, celebrating the men and women who made and continue to make the music.

 

MAIRI MacINNES a tribute edited by Peter Robinson   £10.00  ISBN 904886 10 8  contents

TAKE FIVE 04

TAKE FIVE 04  is the second annual Shoestring Press anthology featuring work by poets.

This years contributors are Shanta Acharya, author of two collections, most recently Numbering Our Days' Illusions (Rockingham Press, 1995),  Clare Crossman, who has published widely in magazines and who is the author of several pamphlet collections, Landscapes, John Gohorry, who has published two collections with Peterloo Poets and, with Shoestring Press, a pamphlet collaboration with the artist Jone Delayahe, the award-winning poet and translator, Christopher Pilling, author of numerous collections, and John Weston, well-known for his contributions to poetry journals and this years winner of the Peterloo Poets Award.

As well as poems, TAKE FIVE 04 photographic work, eight lino-cuts by Jone Delayahe, and colour reproductions of six paintings by Kirsty Pilling.

 

Paul McLoughlin:  What Moves Moves   £5.00 ISBN 1 904886 05 1

"Paul McLoughlin exhibits an Irish exuberance for the absurd and the askew, illuminated by his unique and delightfully understated tone"

Anne Marie Fyfe

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Vernon Scannell;  Behind the Lines  £8.95

ISBN 1 904886 02 7

"These poems are very moving, or very funny or both, tough and tender, technically superb"

Times Literary Supplement

 

Alan Dent;  Who  £8.95

ISBN 1 904886 07 8

"Penetrating poetry and an exactitude of judgement that never falters"

Athanasios Triantafyllou  Editor Kadmos, Paris

 

Phillip Callow;  Pastoral  £8.95

ISBN 1 904886 06 X

"His poems are fresh, honest and alive - and not ashamed to be so"

Tribune

 

Richard Kell: Letters to Enid.  £6.50 ISBN 1 904886 04 3

"A sense of wonder as well as ... sceptical intelligence."

The Times Literary supplement.

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Nadine Brummer; Half Way to Madrid, Poetry Society Recommendation.  £7.50
ISBN 1 899549 70 6
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Angus Calder: The Colours of Grief  £7.50
ISBN 1 899549 79 "An honourable poet" Ambit

Ian Caws: Taro Fair  £7.50
ISBN 1 899549 80 3  "Packed with the intricacies of pleasurable thought" Acumen

T.F. Griffin: Kavita  £6.50
ISBN 1 899549 85

"A unique voice crying in the wilderness of contemporary poetry"  Dreamcatcher.

J.C. Hall: Long Shadows Poems 1938-2002,  £8.95
ISBN 1 899549 76 5 "Hall writes movingly and often wittily about childhood, love and loss. These
poems are the real thing." Sunday Telegraph
 

Graham Holdemess: Craeft   £7.95 
Poems From the Anglo-Saxon, Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
ISBN 1 899549 67 6.
"A volume with many fine qualities" English. (Please order from Central Books or any good bookshop).
 

Angela Leighton: A Cold Spell  £6.95
ISBN 1 899549 40 4. "Outstanding among the excellent", Anne Stevenson, Other Poetry.
 

Andre Mangeot: Natural Causes  £6.50
ISBN 1 899549 86 2. "Assured, strong, stylistically confident" The Frogmore Papers.
 

Andrew Sant: Islanders  £7.95
ISBN 1 899549

"an eye for the telling metaphor, a just sense of rhythm ... a lively gritty free-verse", Stride.

 

Peter Bennet: Noctua  £5.00 ISBN 1 904886 03 5

"An individual voice is present, unaffected, direct and conversational, but capable without the least sense of dislocation of rising to a note of restrained rhetorical power"

Vernon Scannell


 

Matt Simpson: Hugging the Shore Critical Essays  £8.95
ISBN: 1 899549 88 9

 

John Greening: The Home Key  £8.95 ISBN 1 899549 92 7

 'His most assured and wide-ranging volume yet... for its wit and its emotion, for its abundance of both things and ideas, I recommend it very warmly'' (Poetry Nottingham)  'This fascination with language ...coupled with the free-association writing that Greening often favours, at best makes reading his poetry an exhilarating experience.' (Envoi) 'His range is impressive, suiting form to theme and content with great assurance'  (Acumen)


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Stuart Henson: A Place Apart  £7.95 ISBN 1 899549 91 9
 

Mandy Coe: The Weight of Cows  £7.95 ISBN 1 899549 97 8 (May)
 

Sue Dymoke: The new Girls  £7.95 ISBN 1 904886 00 0 (May)

Kate Foley: Laughter From the Hive  £7.95 ISBN 1 904886 01 9 (May)

Derrick Buttress: Broxtowe Boy: A Memoir   £8.95 ISBN 1 899549 98 6

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