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!
You can buy Vindication from our Webshop. If you want the august discount be quick! add ARACHNEVERSARY at the checkout.
To celebrate National Poetry Day, here are some more poems from the Vindication Launch on September 26th.
(you can buy the book direct from us, or from your favourite bookshop
Carrie Cohen reading Sarah Lawson‘s Driving up to Renfrew
Anne Macaulay reading the title poem, Vindication
Carrie Cohen reading Sarah James‘ Waking Woman
Elinor Brooks reads Consulto et Audacter
Adrienne Silcock reads Bees
It’s publication day, and here are some of the readings from last night’s launch at the Poetry Cafe
Adrienne Silcock reading Drought, Winter 1929
Carrie Cohen reading Sarah Lawson’s Leda
Anne Macaulay reading two flamenco inspired poems, Traje de Lunares and Palmas Return
Carrie Cohen reading Sarah James’ Ye Olde Tavern
Elinor Brooks What Country, Friends…
Today is International Women’s Day, in the centenary year of partial suffrage for women.
So an important day for women, but, you know, women are women every day, and there’s still plenty of work to be done, on all sorts of fronts, so celebrate and then roll up your sleeves…
Our small contribution is to do what we do anyway, but do more of it. We are publishing a number of books over the next nine months and most (not all) will be by women.
April
Kate Foley Poetry Collection: A Gift of Rivers
Kate is reading from the collection at Gay’s the Word on 5th April and we are investigating a launch in Amsterdam.
May
Cathy Bryant Poetry Collection: Erratics.
Cathy and Kate are taking part in a seminar on diversity and inclusivity in the poetry world at London Book Fair on 10th April at 17:30 at the ‘Poet’s Corner’
June
The final installment of The Naming of Brook Storyteller: Wolftalker arrives from Ghillian Potts.
Also in June we have the official launch of Dusk which will also kick off thinking about 2018’s Solstice Shorts festival, Dawn!
July Five by Five: 5 short stories each by Katy Darby, Joan Taylor-Rowan, Cassandra Passarelli, Sarah James, Helen Morris
August
We are teaming up with Liars’ League for our official #womensvote100 anthology, We/She featuring stories about women by women. Final line up yet to be finalised but expect stories from:
Carolyn Eden, Katy Darby, Elizabeth Hopkinson, Elisabeth Simon, Elizabeth Stott, Fiona Salter, Ilora Choudhury, J. A. Hopper, Arike Oke, Jennifer Rickard, Jenny Ramsay, Lucy Ribchester, Peng Shepherd, Rosalind Stopps, Joanne L. M. Williams, Swati Khurana, Uschi Gatward.
September
Vindication: an anthology of up to 10 poems each from
Sarah James, Sarah Lawson, Jill Sharp, Elinor Brooks, Adrienne Silcock and Anne Macaulay
November
We are commemorating the end of WWI with poetry and short story anthology An Outbreak of Peace.
We had a grand and lively audience and a beautiful day for our trip to Grange-over-Sands. Here are some recordings of poems read by poets at the event
If you would like to hear more from The Other Side of Sleep, head to the Oxfam Bookshop in Cheltenham this Saturday,25th April at 2:30 for a completely different collection of poets.
We’ve already posted some of the video from the London Launch of The Other Side of Sleep for Simon, Alwyn and Kate.
Here are snippets of the other performances from the evening.
Adrienne Silcock, Rhythms
Jeremy Dixon, In Retail (XXIII)
Sarah Lawson, Revenant
Anne Macaulay, I went to the market and I bought…
Lisa Rose reading Troy: Seven Voices on behalf Jennifer A McGowan
