All kinds of loveliness and laughter experienced so far on the A Voice Coming From Then Tour. Here’s a quick snapshot from Brecon Carmarthen and Cardiff
Join Jeremy next Thursday 5.45 at Cardiff Library for more…
[There’s an annoying flicker on the Brecon video, I’ve cleaned it up as best I can, and set that part to B&W as it’s less trying, but it’s the sound that’s the joy in this so… you could always shut your eyes…]
Thanks to our lovely audiences, and our hosts, The Hours, Brecon; Waterstones, Carmarthen; and Waterstones, Cardiff.
We are celebrating our 10th anniversary by exploring our back catalogue and inviting you to do likewise with special offers on books celebrating their anniversaries in each month.
So for September we have a voucher, ARA10SEP, to get 50% off the following books, some of which are reduced already, so proper bargains!
London Lies
Mosaic of Air
Weird Lies
Vindication
London Lies our very first book and Liars’ League collaboration – stories about London, published 08/09/2012 here’s just one of the stories
Mosaic of Air short stories fantasy, history, science fiction, LGBT by Cherry Potts, published 26/09/2013
Weird Lies our third Liars’ League anthology science fiction, fantasy and the downright odd – also published 26/09/2013
Vindication poems from six women poets, published 27/09/2018 as part of our year of women celebration to mark the centenary of some women getting the vote (or regaining it, in some cases) in the UK.
All you need to do is use the code ARA10SEP at the check out when you buy any or all of these books – you can only use the code once, so we encourage you to buy in bulk!
We went the for the whole gamut of launches for A Pocketful of Chalk, outdoors, in a barn, in a museum and on line! Here’s the online version, a triumph of technology that took a lot of setting up – those downs are beautiful, but they interfere with Claire’s internet signal. A lot of testing and rearranging of kit was involved, and turning off of interfering phones etc, but it worked!
As we head towards a bank holiday weekend and you are perhaps thinking of a walk, here, somewhat delayed, are the poems from A Pocketful of Chalk that Claire Booker read en plein-air in Seven Sisters Country Park, above Cuckmere Haven, in perfect walking weather back at the end of July.
Towards Beachy Head
Dinosaur Boy
Hey Diddle Diddle
Long Man Dreaming
Mirabelles
On Beacon Hill
buy a copy of A Pocketful of Chalk from us Print eBook
We were absolutely thrilled to hear that A Voice Coming From Then by Jeremy Dixon had been shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, and so, in the spirit of non-competitive enthusiasm for poetry, we invited the publishers and poets of the other two books, Inhale/Exile by Abeer Ameer (Seren Books) and The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette by Angela Gardner (Shearsman) to join us for a celebratory showcase ahead of the winners announcement on 29th July.
Video by Dai Powell: Diana Powell, Sian Northey, Siôn Aled, Gareth Writer-Davies, Stephen Payne and clare e potter read under the trees of Brecon cathedral close, hosted by Leigh and Nicki of The Hours bookshop.
The book is back in stock available from our webshop and good bookshops everywhere
Videos from the online launch of Paper Crusade (also available as an eBook) in which poet Michelle Penn introduces us to the cast of characters in her reimagining of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Nowhere near the A470 of course, but such a prestigeous venue!
And such lovely people, Pedr ap Llwyd, the librarian (National Librarian, I suppose!), said
it was an amazing, warm, friendly, enriching event and the book is a treasure trove of excellent verse.
and then there was such a gorgeous view over the town and the sea!
view from the library
Our Next A470 event is Sunday 10th July 3:30pm, Gerddi’r Emporiwm, £5 part of Gŵyl Arall Festival, Caernafon. Editors Ness Owen & Sian Northey will be joined by Sion Aled, Sara Louise Wheeler, and Lowri Williams to read and talk about the book.
Intro from Cherry Potts
Ness Owen
Rae Howells (I am authorised to report that the patient survived)
Siôn Aled
Gareth Writer-Davies & Sandra Evans
Diana Powell
Pat Edwards and Siôn Aled
Sara Louise Wheeler
Rhys Owain Williams & Sian Northey
Sian Northey
at this point I realised I was running out of space on the camera, so things got a bit hairy…
Jeremy Dixon and Siôn Aled (sorry, I clipped the beginning)
Lowri Williams (Just in Welsh as the camera ground to a halt)
Did you hear the coverage on the book on Classic FM and on BBC6 Music?
