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At the beginning of 2014, Jo Bell launched the 52 project, a series of poetry prompts with one simple objective: write one poem a week, every week...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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A fresh new voice on the publishing scene, Harry Gallon's debut novel The Shapes of Dog's Eyes will be out at the end of this month. The novel is ...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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Yugoslavia, My Fatherland, published earlier in the year by Istros Books, received a rave review from Eileen Battersby in The Irish Times on Sat...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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A tremendous collection of poetry published posthumously by Valley Press this month. In his lifetime, writer and educator David Hughes submitted j...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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Available this month from Istros Books is Dry Season by Gabriela Babnik. In West Africa, the effects of harmata during dry season, a strong wind t...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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From Cinnamon Press this month comes The Disobedient Wife, a story of solidarity between two women by writer, artist, and social anthropologist An...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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“Greg Williamson can do anything. A 1,200-plus-line narrative poem? Child’s play. About a dog that filches another dog’s beloved hole, then return...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), most known for his poetry, is considered one of the most important Bohemian-Austrian writers from the 20th century...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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From Seren comes the fantastical debut novel Star-Shot by Mary-Ann Constantine. With Cardiff’s National Museum as the starting point (both as Cons...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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"In one of my last travels I got a volume of a poet of Pushkin's circle, though in many ways much better than Pushkin - his name was Baratynsky....
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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                    Emma Hammond, author of The Story of No from Penned in the Margins, recently wrote a piece on the poetry collection for the Penned in the Margins b...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
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Out this month is a thrilling debut novel on the GDR doping scandal, Dark Mermaids by Anne Lauppe-Dunbar, published by Seren. Set in 1990, a year ...
                  
                 
 
 
 
 
 
    
    
    
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