Our final video for Arachneversary, Jennifer A McGowan talks about her poetry collection With Paper for Feet – covering Shakespeare, myth and fairytales, 16th century witchcraft and much more, with readings.
Our penultimate video for the Arachneversary. This is quite long, as all five writers contributed both thoughts and/or readings. We enjoyed it so much we’re thinking of doing it regularly. Featuring Joan Taylor-Rowan, Cassandra Passarelli, Katy Darby, Helen Morris and Sarah James.
Five by Five was one of our books celebrating the centenary of some women in the UK finally getting the vote. There’s nothing about voting in it, just women going about their (extr)ordinary lives.
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Vindication is an anthology with a difference, only six poets, with between six and ten poems each. In this video, celebrating eight years of Arachne Press, all but one of the poets get together to talk poetry, women and many other things. Complete with readings. We enjoyed outselves so much we are thinking of doing this regularly!
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Nearing the end of our month of celebrations for the Arachneversary, our eighth anniversary, and a longer than average interview, with Liam Hogan. Liam talks about his collection Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed, and his prodigeous output, and his rejection rate! This was carried out over the phone, so we’ve added some footage from the book trailer and so on to add to the entertainment value, and finish up with a reading by Liam from Mechanical, one of the fantasy stories in HENG, that leans into steampunk, just a little, illustrated by Cherry Potts.
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Getting towards the end of our month long celebration of all things Arachne with a video about our first ever poetry book, The Other Side of Sleep, an anthology of long narrative poems.
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Continuing our Arachneversary videos, Liberty Tales, which celebrated the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, starting as an event, but too good to leave it at that, so we made a book too, and toured it across the South of England from Essex to Bath. So lots of archive video of readings!
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and if you do so before the end of August (hurry along!) with the code ARACHNEVERSARY you get a discount!
Another of our arachneversary videos.
November 2018 marked the centenary of the end of WW1 and the armistice. We decided that was an excellent reason for a book – An Outbreak of Peace
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During August, you can get a discount if you apply the code ARACHNEVERSARY at the checkout.
Editor Cherry Potts talks about Departures, an anthology of short fiction and poetry, and the events that inspired it – The Story Sessions, the live literature event that ran for three years. Complete with archive footage from the story sessions, and video from the launch of the book.
This book is available from our Webshop,
and you can get a discount throughout August if you add the code ARACHNEVERSARY at the checkout.
Author Cherry Potts talks about and reads from her lesbian fantasy epic, The Dowry Blade.
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Throughout August, this book is discounted with code ARACHNEVERSARY.
Poet Cathy Bryant talks about her collection Erratics, poetry in general and coping with prejudice based on disability (some bad language, you have been warned!)
You can buy the book from our webshop, and if you buy it during August using the code ARACHNVERSARY you get a discount!
