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Chrissy Derbyshire is a master of style – lyrical and accessible, archly ironic, and yet at the same time charged with the sensual feyness of Faerie. The eight stories in Mysteries take tropes from myth and fairy tale and animate them, through the alembic of lived experience, with a potent contemporary spark. The ten poems also included in this collection do the same,  in a more focused epiphanic way. In the literary cosmos, Chrissy’s work fits somewhere between Tanith Lee, o

by Kirsty Hartsiotis When I first saw the cover image for Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils, that’s exactly what I thought we had. The coins on the cover are from the Hallaton Hoard, a massive collection of Iron Age and Roman coins found near Market Harborough in the East Midlands. How fitting, thought I, a coin hoard is the perfect cover for this collection of poems expanding out, glossing, inspired by medieval texts from all over Western Europe. So often, in early medi

by Anthony Nanson I’m delighted to announce that we’ve recreated the Awen website using more up-to-date software. It’s responsive now on mobile devices, you can order books directly from us via Paypal, and we’re making sure it has plenty of interesting information to advance the cause of ecobardic writing. The homepage and About page outline in brief Awen’s mission to promote quality writing that ‘engages with the world’ – a phrase intended to convey the idea of a reciprocal

Lorna Smithers, writing in 2016 for Gods and Radicals said “As I read through the pages from this year’s position of heightened crisis, I found the poems continued to resonate and feel important. Some do the essential work of critiquing the materialistic worldview of consumer capitalism responsible for our destruction of the earth.” You can read the whole review here – https://godsandradicals.org/2016/05/26/review-soul-of-the-earth/ Stardancer on Amazon says “like the eco-bar

On 9 March 2017, Lindsay Clarke will be reading some poems from his new book A Dance with Hermes, alongside writers Peter Please and Crysse Morrison and musicians Paul Darby and the Bookshop Band. This will be an Awen-laden event as Peter Please wrote the foreword for Writing the Land, the very first Awen book. The Bookshop Band includes Beth Porter, who has often performed separately with Awen author (and storyteller) Richard Selby. #LindsayClarke #poems

Soul Of The Earth is an anthology of Eco-spiritual poetry edited by Jay Ramsay and with an afterword by Anthony Nanson. A number of Awen authors were involved in this project, links to their individual poetry titles are included blow. The following poets contributed one or more pieces to the collection: Roselle Angwin Aidan Andrew Dunn Diana Durham Karen Eberhardt-Shelton Rose Flint Dawn Gorman Alyson Hallett Jeremy Hooker Adam Horovitz Charlotte Hussey (Glossing the Spoils)

I’m delighted to announce that Kevan Manwaring’s poetry collection The Immanent Moment is back in print in a new edition. This is the collection that Kevan regards as the best of all his many collections published to date. This third edition includes a number of new poems. I’d like to acknowledge the team effort behind the scenes to bring this book back into being: Kirsty Hartsiotis on design, Richard Selby on proofreading, Nimue Brown on blog, and yours truly on synthesiser