Three New Pamphlets from Rack Press

 We are very pleased to announce three new poetry pamphlets from Rack Press. They are released on 1 October but you can pre-order now here.

Crocodile 

by Mari Ellis Dunning

Crocodile explores domestic violence and coercive control through the eyes of victim, reptilian perpetrator and the justice system.

Mari Ellis Dunning is a poet and novelist. She lives near Aberystwyth. 

Her latest collection of poems, Pearl and Bone, was selected as Wales Arts Review’s Best of 2022. 

Her debut novel, Witsh, is out now with Honno.

“These poems don’t shy away from hard facts. These are scenes from a horror movie. These are scenes from the 1950s. These are scenes from the world we’re living in right now. These polyphonous poems are voices at a protest march, strong in their oneness, furiously, exhaustedly casting their spells and blessings.” Mslexia – praise for Pearl and Bone

Summers Are Other by Andrew Neilson

From the funerary rites for a pet hamster to a lament from Tang Dynasty China, Summers Are Other draws its inspiration from an eclectic range of sources. Throughout Andrew Neilson’s debut pamphlet, however, the poems are drawn from a sustained meditation on transience and the ties that bind us.

Andrew Neilson was born in Edinburgh and lives in London. 

He co-edits, with Kathryn Gray, the digital poetry journal, Bad Lilies.

“There is much to admire in Andrew Neilson’s poetry –  its sober aplomb, for example, its musical exactitude, and the humane steadiness of its gaze at love and

mortality. This is a very welcome sample. More, please.” – Sean O’Brien 

The Culture Man by Nicholas Murray

The Culture Man, a satire on cultural populism using a variant of the ‘Pushkin stanza’, is the fourth in a series of verse satires that began with Get Real! (2011) followed by Trench Feet and A Dog’s Brexit which was described by Andy Croft as “a funny, angry satire”. 

Nicholas Murray is a poet and literary biographer.  He has published three full poetry collections and more than a dozen poetry pamphlets. In 2015 he won the Basil Bunting Prize for poetry.