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'Shine' from Makeover by Laurie Bolger (@lauriebolger_) 💗✨
Some women hand down bits of cloth a decent teapot heart-shaped things
wartime irons so heavy they could hold open the door
I’ve been handed wedding rings and the force to hold
a whole house above my head —
Mum’s rings don’t fit now
says her hands are as knobbly
as the trees that lined the street she first held me in —
Mum lost her favourite colander in the pub kitchen
straining the sticky sweet pineapple to go with the cheese
on sticks —
So leave me the power in your hips
so when I think of you
I think of the sink as a lake you could dive in
and if I’m left that pie dish
I want it full of all the things they said about us
leave me the measurements of a kitchen, Mum
I want to live without weighing things —
Laurie is running a 'Writing & Resilience' workshop with us on the 21st May ~ read more: https://buff.ly/49IoHrw
You can buy Makeover here: https://buff.ly/3NcGLSr
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"You think you've heard stories like this before but, the truth is you haven't."
Watch Clare Pollard read the opening to The Untameables 🏰 - Out today!
https://buff.ly/3SbqoXU
See in the weekend with Malachi McIntosh reading the opening (very) short story from his debut collection Parables, Fables, Nightmares!
Order your copy today: https://ow.ly/GrSR50Q16IB
'The cartographer and I have had a tiff:
I don't appreciate his profession,
my slapdash approach to boundaries is troubling,
the distance the crow flies is not the same as walking.
But that's just fine because I
am more interested in flying than walking.' - Commissioning a Map, from ACCESSIONING 🏛️by Charlotte Wetton
Listening to poetry has just an extra bit of magic that you don't quite get when you're reading the words on the page. You need to be able to hear it to bring it fully to life...
Available in our webshop: https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/accessioning/
#theemmapress #accessioning #bookstagram #poetry
// TW: Baby Loss //
Watch the talented Rebecca Goss in this fantastic reading of an excerpt from her piece 'Other Mothers'.
"How does that conversation start? It doesn't ever start." - Goss's brilliant piece is just one part of allowing conversations about loss, grief, and the challenges of parenthood to finally start. Part of BLOOD & CORD 🩸edited by Abi Curtis.
Watch the full launch here: https://youtu.be/_MwUk0ENGBE
Available in our webshop: https://theemmapress.com/shop/prose/short-stories/blood-and-cord/
#theemmapress #bloodandcord #parenting #writersonparenthood #motherhood
Unbox a copy of ACCESSIONING 🏛️by Charlotte Wetton with us!
Pre-orders are now open! And don't forget to sign up for the FREE online launch on Friday, 23rd June.
Why pre-order?
✨When you pre-order through us, you'll get your copy BEFORE the publication date (so you'll be one of the first to read the book!)
✨Plus, the first 50 copies ONLY are printed by the talented team over at The Holodeck on buttery soft paper. These artisan copies will only last so long...
Pre-order: https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/accessioning/
RSVP for the launch: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X3cTmmiuQF25dUq5YU-CPA#/
#theemmapress #accessioning #bookstagram #asmr #poetrypamphlet
How BRILLIANT is this poem by Janine Bradbury? Part of BLOOD & CORD edited by Abi Curtis, listen to Janine's stunning poem 'Jellyfish' 🐠come to life in this short clip from our recent launch.
It was SUCH a pleasure to hear from so many brilliant readers at the BLOOD & CORD book launch! If you missed it, don't worry! The recording of the launch is available to watch now: https://youtu.be/_MwUk0ENGBE
Order a copy: https://theemmapress.com/shop/prose/short-stories/blood-and-cord/
#theemmapress #bloodandcord #parenting #motherhood #booklaunch #spokenpoetry
So much work went into our upcoming title Na Willa and the House in the Alley. Here's a little snippet of Cecillia Hidayat (the illustrator)'s handiwork. On April 28 we'll be celebrating the release and YOU are invited to meet everybody involved! 🌻
Signup and order your copy here: http://ow.ly/Ciza50NxbnV 🍊
♥ MORE love for Florentyna Leow and her debut #HowKyotoBreaksYourHeart featured by the lovely folks in the hilarious Spilled Milk Podcast hosted by writers/comedians Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton. 🥛
Hear the full feature in episode 583, available on their website and all main podcast platforms. 🎧
Get your copy now: http://ow.ly/vMiq50NrisJ ♥
Spring is here 🌼 and Spring is joy 🌼 and Spring is love 🌼 and so is Nasta’s We Are A Circus: the story of a rainbow family and their love and gratitude for the life they live together.
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Only recently released and a delight to look at. It's full of lovely little lines and you can get it here: http://ow.ly/UuUC50Nrsz2
Book launch for "Milk Snake"
This is the booklaunch for our newest poetry pamphlet: "Milk Snake" by Toby Buckley. The event features a reading from Toby plus Q&A with our founding editor Emma Dai'an Wright.
You can order a copy of the pamphlet here: https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/milk-snake/
The book's blurb:
In Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees.
Book launch for "The Fabulanarchist Luxury Uprising" by Jack Houston
This is the booklaunch for our newest poetry pamphlet: "The Fabulanarchist Luxury Uprising" by Jack Houston. The event features a reading from Jack plus Q&A with our founding editor Emma Dai'an Wright.
You can order a copy of the pamphlet here: https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/the-fabulanarchist-luxury-uprising/
The book's blurb: Playful, formal, satirical and tender, the poems in The Fabulanarchist Luxury Uprising are wildly wide-ranging. Jack Houston whisks the reader through meditations on family life, the teachings of Lucretius, the sexual potential of Captain Barnacles, and dreams of a socialist utopia, managing to be both deeply weird and touching.
In his debut pamphlet, Houston draws out and scrutinises the mundanities of life, showing how they can form part of something much bigger. His poems aim to awaken the capacity for revolution within us all, even if it only gets us as far as the roundabout in the local playpark.
Big announcement for us! We are so proud to be part of Puffin Books #worldofstories initiative along with six other amazing indie publishers! 🌟
Libraries at 152 schools across the country will be receiving HUGE packages filled with amazing books and we're thrilled that some of ours will be amongst them 💚📚📖
Book launch for "The Fox's Wedding" by Rebecca Hurst
This is the booklaunch for our newest poetry pamphlet: "The Fox's Wedding" by Rebecca Hurst. The event features a reading from Rebecca, supported by fellow poet Siân Thomas and Mariah Whelan, and a Q&A between Rebecca and our founding editor Emma Dai'an Wright.
You can order a copy of the pamphlet here: https://theemmapress.com/shop/art-squares/the-foxs-wedding/
Rebecca Hurst’s debut pamphlet is woven through with fairy tales, folklore and landscape. She uses the natural world, family mythology and the theory of fairy tales to unpack, embroider, and explode traditional tales and tropes, exploring themes of voice, concealment, and transformation.
Prickling with magic and spells, the poems in The Fox’s Wedding lead us down a twisty path to find – what? A prince made of needles? A cursed box? A golden key? Take care and keep your wits about you; if you’re lucky you might just find your way home.
Guest poets:
Siân Thomas is poet in residence for Ashdown Forest in Sussex. Her pamphlet Ovid's Echo and collection Ashdown are both published by Paekakariki Press and her work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies. She teaches creative writing both online and in Sussex and Kent, and presents The Poetry Bath on Wildhart Radio.
Mariah Whelan is a poet and teacher. Her novel-in-sonnets the love i do to you won the AM Heath Prize and was an Oxford Poetry Library Book of the Month. Her writing has been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize, The Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize and Highly Commended in The Poetry Book Society Student Poetry Prize and The Artlyst and The Poetry Society Art to Poetry Award. She teaches at Homerton College, Cambridge and University College London. She is one of the co-founders and editors at bath magg.
The crow knows it... Today is launch day for THE FOX'S WEDDING! 🦊💚 This glorious book of poems by Rebecca Hurst, illustrated by Reena Makwana and printed in riso by The Holodeck. Read about it & register for the launch event (7pm tonight on Zoom): https://theemmapress.com/shop/art-squares/the-foxs-wedding/
