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A Twist in the Stairs by Steve Griffiths
978-1-8382303-5-7.
Steve Griffiths was born and raised in Anglesey.
He has published eight collections of poems, most recently Weathereye: Selected Poems (2019) as well as a pamphlet, Updrafts, (2020). He is one of a hundred twentieth-century Welsh poets writing in English featured in The Library of Wales’ Poetry 1900-2000 (2007). His poems have appeared in many anthologies, including the NHS anthology These Are the Hands.
“A subtle and deeply intelligent writer who can address human concerns like the intimate recall of childhood or the challenges of middle age without sentimentality; he can move between abstract thought and concrete particularities with such ease that sometimes the join is invisible.” – Philip Gross
The poems of A Twist in the Stairs respond to a time of political, psychological and climate crisis, criss-crossing and interrogating threads of optimism, certainty and error, wonder, defeat, resignation – and resilience
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The North Wind by Michele Hutchison
978-1-8382303-7-1
Michele Hutchison was born near Birmingham and grew up in Lincolnshire. She is a literary translator and writer based in Amsterdam. In 2020 she was co-winner of the International Booker Prize with Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and also won the Vondel Translation Prize. This is her first collection.
“Her lines are like diary notes, deceptively plain, as they open a window on a life. Emotional intensity is conveyed by understatement. This is a quiet voice, that says things as they are, so that when something is described – hurt or happiness, loneliness or sensual intensity – you feel with her. The poems
lodge in your mind and stay there – economy of phrasing is the technique.” – Donald Gardner
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At First Light by William Palmer
978-1-8382303-6-4
William Palmer’s book of poems, The Island Rescue, was awarded the First Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers’ Festival in 2006. His work has appeared in many journals including The Dark Horse, London Magazine, New Walk, Poetry Review, Rialto, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is also the author of six novels and a collection of short stories.
His latest work is In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers, published in 2021.
Rack Press has published two earlier pamphlets, An Instruction from Madame S. and
The Paradise Commissionaire, and a full-length collection of poems The Water Steps in 2017.
Praise for The Paradise Commissionaire:
“These shapely, profound poems...It is hard not to love a poetry whose rhythms seem to finger the pulse of the world outside and the beat of its time.” – Alison Brackenbury
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The Rough Guide to Ilkeston by Tuesday Shannon
978-1-8382303-8-8.
Tuesday Shannon grew up, and still lives, in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. She has a Midlands4Cities-funded PhD from Nottingham Trent University, on poetry and the post-industrial north of England.
This is her first collection.
“In this, her moving first pamphlet, Tuesday Shannon invites us to see the universal in the particular and to perceive the shared experiences of joy and grief through a language which is at once inventive and precise. Her preoccupation with place and identity makes for a telling undercurrent to this impressive debut from a young poet with a clear, distinctive voice.” – Ian Parks
“Tuesday Shannon’s often tender, always multifaceted poems belong to a long tradition, but approach and leave it at angles that are entirely her own.” – Rory Waterman
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