{"title":"Smith Doorstop Pamphlets","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eENTER THE DISCOUNT CODE 'PAMPHLET' AT THE CHECK-OUT FOR £5 OFF 3 TITLES. \u003c\/h1\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-half-mile-high-club","title":"The half-mile-high club","description":"\u003cb\u003eA winner in the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition 2007.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Deakin is a freelance writer whose articles and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMslexia, the Observer, The Times Educational Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and more recently as a poet in numerous magazines. Her first collection, \u003ci\u003eWithout a dog\u003c\/i\u003e, is due soon from Graft. She lives near Huddersfield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Sharp and knowing, these poems dance before the reader in their exuberance and sudden dark. 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This is a delightful debut, full of poems worth many rereadings.\" \u003cbr\u003eRoddy Lumsden\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmma Danes\u003c\/strong\u003e has won the Hamish Canham Prize and the Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition. Her poems have been published in anthologies and magazines, including \u003cem\u003eThe Best British Poetry 2011\u003c\/em\u003e (Salt), \u003cem\u003eSylvia is Missing\u003c\/em\u003e (Flarestack), \u003cem\u003eBuzz\u003c\/em\u003e (Templar), \u003cem\u003eMagma\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry News\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Wales\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSmiths Knoll \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe North\u003c\/em\u003e. Emma won the Hamish Canham Prize (2011), and the Poetry Society Stanza  Poetry Competition (2007), and was Showcase Poet in a 2013 edition of  \u003cem\u003eMagma\u003c\/em\u003e. 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