Fiona Larkin Wins National Poetry Competition

 

Congratulations to Fiona Larkin for winning the National Poetry Competition. We said this morning we had just three left of her 2020 debut pamphlet. They have now all gone! Thank you everyone who ordered.

New Poems from John Fuller

 

New Poems from John Fuller 

The latest Broadside from Rack Press 

presents a group of new poems by John Fuller:

 Rack Press Broadside No 3: How Many Children?

John Fuller is a poet and novelist. His latest collection of poems is Asleep & Awake (Chatto and Windus, 2020) and his latest prose work is a novel for children, Up and Down the Chimney (Shoestring Press, 2021). 

He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

John Fuller’s is the third in a series of Broadsides launched earlier this year. Previous titles include 

No 1: River Run: for the Wye in Hard Times by Nicholas Murray 

No 2: Kaleidoscope: Images from a Disordered World by John Barnie

PLEASE ORDER FROM THE DROP-DOWN MENU TO THE RIGHT OF THIS PAGE

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A New Broadside from John Barnie

The latest in the Rack Press Broadside series is now available to order.  Kaleidoscope: Images from a Disordered World by John Barnie is a montage of the violent disruptive world we live in today, watched on our screens as we pour ourselves a glass. 

John is a leading Welsh poet and environmentalist. A former editor of the magazine Planet, his collection of essays The King of Ashes won a Welsh Arts Council prize for literature. 

John is appearing at the Knighton Literary Festival on 11th October 2024.

New Rack Press Poets event with Sage Dance at Bloomsbury Festival 19th October 2024

 RACK PRESS AND SAGE DANCE COMPANY 

AT BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL

Sage Dance Company and Rack Press Poetry 

are presenting, at the Bloomsbury Festival in October, their latest collaboration: 

LIFE LINES 

a cabaret of dance, poetry and live music 

exploring aspects of the festival theme, Human.Kind.

Sage Dance Company is a contemporary dance company for people of 55 yrs plus. 

Rack Press Poetry is an independent small poetry press based in Wales.

Building on the success of many previous events they have created separately for Bloomsbury Festival and last year’s first joint venture, they have again joined forces with professional musicians, fellow dancers and poets to create a relaxing, entertaining and thought-provoking hour.

This year’s poets are  Michèle Roberts and Nicholas Murray 

each working with Sage choreographers.

The event will be on 19th October at

Conway Hall

25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

between 12.30 and 1.30

Book using this link

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Michèle Roberts is an award-winning poet and novelist who has also produced art and written for the theatre and TV.

Nicholas Murray’s most recent poetry collection is 

River Run: For the Wye In Hard Times (Rack Press, 2024)

New Series of Poetry Broadsides Launched 23 April

  

                            LAUNCH OF A NEW SERIES OF POETRY BROADSIDES 

Rack Broadside No 1: 

River Run: for the Wye in Hard Times 

by Nicholas Murray

Published 23 April 2024

The first in a projected series of engaged poetry broadsides from Rack Press 

presents a group of poems inspired by the current state of the River Wye.

Rack Broadsides can be ordered online here 

Available now to pre-order from quick and easy Square link

at £3 each 

plus £1 postage and packing per order 

in protective all board envelope

 

Rack Poets Reading at Lumen 9 April 2024

We are pleased to invite you to a reading at Lumen in Bloomsbury  by four Rack poets: Róisín Tierney, Stephen Capus, Martina Evans, and William Palmer at 6.30 for 7 on Tuesday 9th April. 

Refreshments available

If you would like to order any of the poets’ work you can do so below.

We hope to see you there.

International Women’s Day