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Anthony Nanson
Apr 30, 20193 min read
Helen Moore’s new book The Mother Country
Helen Moore’s third major collection of poems, The Mother Country, is published by Awen on 1 May 2019. Helen is a poet of passion, power,...
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Anthony Nanson
Jan 4, 20191 min read
Oxford launch of The Tragicall History of Campbell McCluskie
7.00–8.45 p.m. 48–51 Broad Street, Oxford OX1. Free admission. The book is adorned with stunning cover art by the printmaker Andy...
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Anthony Nanson
Dec 2, 20183 min read
Translating Nicolas Kurtovitch
by Anthony Nanson I first read Forêt, terre et tabac, and another of Nicolas’ collections, Totem, about three years ago, in the course of...
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Anthony Nanson
Nov 25, 20182 min read
Book Launch in Stroud: Lindsay Clarke and Nicolas Kurtovitch
by Anthony Nanson Green Man Dreaming: Reflections on Imagination, Myth, and Memory is a definitive gathering of Lindsay Clarke’s...
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Anthony Nanson
Oct 26, 20182 min read
Kevan Manwaring and Bardic Poetry
by Anthony Nanson The scale of Kevan’s output of poetry of this kind is prodigious, ranging from individual lyrics to ambitious epics....
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Anthony Nanson
Aug 20, 20183 min read
Silver Branch book launch 19 August 2018
On 19 August 2018 we gathered in the Ale House in Stroud to celebrate two things: the launch of Awen’s newest title, Silver Branch:...
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Anthony Nanson
May 9, 20181 min read
Mysteries – Stories and Poems of Faerie by Chrissy Derbyshire
Chrissy Derbyshire is a master of style – lyrical and accessible, archly ironic, and yet at the same time charged with the sensual...
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Anthony Nanson
Apr 18, 20182 min read
Pilgrimage by Jay Ramsay
Jay will be reading from the book at Hawkwood College, Stroud, on 20 April as part of an event with Andrew Harvey on the theme of sacred...
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Anthony Nanson
Nov 2, 20172 min read
New Book by Jeremy Hooker about Poetry, Nature, and Place
Ditch Vision is a book of essays on poetry, nature, and place that extends Jeremy Hooker’s thinking on subjects that, as a distinguished...
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Anthony Nanson
Oct 17, 20171 min read
Karola Renard’s The Firekeeper’s Daughter
By Anthony Nanson So the twelve stories in The Firekeeper’s Daughter are threaded together by this theme, even though each story involves...
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Anthony Nanson
Aug 26, 20172 min read
The Windsmith Elegy – Steampunk and Bardic Fantasy
By Anthony Nanson compelling case for regarding as steampunk (among other things). Indeed, back in 2012 Kevan promoted the previous...
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Anthony Nanson
Jun 27, 20172 min read
Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils
by Anthony Nanson Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils is rather more than a collection of poems. It will have a particular interest,...
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Anthony Nanson
Apr 4, 20171 min read
Different Continents
by Gabriel Bradford Millar On Thursday 9 March @ Star Anise in Stroud a roomful of poetry aficionados were treated to a double book...
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Anthony Nanson
Mar 23, 20172 min read
Pilgrim Station
I am grateful to Anthony Nanson for inviting me to contribute a few lines on my poetry collection, Pilgrim Station, recently brought out...
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Anthony Nanson
Mar 2, 20171 min read
Alchemy with Jay Ramsay
Alchemy is best known as the age-old science of turning base metal into gold. But it is much more: essentially, it is a path of...
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Anthony Nanson
Dec 15, 20161 min read
New releases from Awen
In a verse sequence that swoops between wit and ancient wisdom, between the mystical and the mischievous, award-winning novelist Lindsay...
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Anthony Nanson
Nov 26, 20162 min read
On the Cover: A Drink with Hermes?
By Kirsty Hartsiotis Fittingly, this image is from a kylix, an ancient Greek wine cup, the kind used at Greek symposia, parties where...
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Anthony Nanson
Nov 24, 20161 min read
Green Children and other English Folk Tales
The Anthology of English Folk Tales (The History Press) released on 1 November, Kirsty Hartsiotis has been blogging about some of the...
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Anthony Nanson
Nov 17, 20163 min read
The Story Behind the writing – The Journey to The Marsh
By Richard Selby The beginning was one afternoon, five years ago, I forget exactly what I was doing, it would be good to say I was...
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Anthony Nanson
Nov 3, 20161 min read
Diamond Cutters
Jay Ramsay (Soul of the Earth) has brought out a poetry collection with Tayen Lane Publishing. Diamond Cutters names the tradition of...
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