It’s save a spider day! Let’s celebrate being a saver not a squisher, and have a flash sale on our very own spider saving tome, No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book. Use the code SPIDERSAVE at the checkout to get 50% off our 8th anniversary anthology – Poems and stories that stick up for the small and not terribly attractive.
Here are some sillinesses we made to support the book
With thanks to our lovely friends Carrie, Chukwude and Greg
We’ve got a bit ahead of ourselves with launches this month, launching Jennifer A McGowan’s How to be a Tarot Card (or a Teenager) at Oxford Poetry Library last week,
and Anna Fodorova’s In the Blood at the Czech Embassy on Tuesday, with Jude Cook chairing and Lisa Rose reading the excerpts, but it is actual publication day TODAY – Congratulations both!
Thanks to Phoebe and team at the Oxford Poetry Library.
Thanks to Jude and Lisa, and the Janas at BCSA, the Czech Centre and Czech Embassy for hosting, and Lutyens and Rubinstein bookshop for handling the sales, and to Erik Weisenpacher for video and photo and audio recordings; it was a novel experience to just turn up, introduce and sit in the audience!
If you missed either or both, do not despair, as there is a joint launch 6.30 next Tuesday, 1st November, at Keats house, with readings by Carrie Cohen. You can get your free tickets from Eventbrite – there will be cake and soft drinks
A flash of inspiration in the winter dark… the 5th Solstice Shorts Festival, Noon, took place at noon, on 21st December 2018 in 5 towns across England Wales and Scotland.
Cherry Potts (and briefly, Jane Aldous) talk about the idea, the organisation and the stories poems and songs that sparked up the day.
You can buy the book from our Webshop
And throughout August, to celebrate our Eighth anniversary, if you add the code ARACHNEVERSARY at the checkout you’ll get a discount – or you can bulk buy the series with a bigger saving – check the special offers tag.
It’s here – weeks of planning, recording, editing, uploading (and a bit of cursing) and finally we have an online book launch for No Spider Harmed in The Making of This Book.
(You may not be able to hear it but thousands of spiders are twanging their webs and stamping their feet in celebration.)
You can buy the book from our website, (or a bookshop, but we see more of the money if you buy direct, and if I’m feeling generous, you might get a random badge too)
We are also having a sale (this book not included) Add ARACHNEVERSARY at checkout to get your discount and check out the special offers button too.
If you want an ebook your usual supplier will have it, We recommend Hive for ePub.
The file for the launch ended up being so HUGE I had to split it, so there is a brief interval and the other half is at 9.02pm* BST. Just time for a comfort break or to refill your glass.
*on here it’s 2 minutes later than on YouTube to give the file a chance to go live for the premiere, they have this really annoying countdown!)
First half features
introduction by head Arachnid, Cherry Potts with BSL translation by Marcel Hirshman.
Kate Foley– Spin
A. Katherine Black – Even People who’d been Accidentally Turned into Giant Murderous Mutant Spiders (extract)
Greg Page as Incy Wincy
Daniel Olivieri Revenge One JSTOR article at a time
Jackie Taylor – Goodbye Spider
Carrie Cohen as Ms Muffet
KT Wagner – Across the Void
Marcel Hirshman performing Jennifer Rood‘s Spider Queen, in BSL
cover design Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier used repeatedly! Dancing spider gif created from photo by Martha Nance
If you haven’t caught up with them elsewhere yet, here are the three delightful promo messages going the rounds for the launch of No Spider Harmed.
Ms Muffit (Carrie Cohen)
Incy Wincy (Greg Page)
and
Robert the Bruce (Math Jones)
We did try to get Anansi involved, but he’s not answering his emails.
Uploading the videos from Solstice Shorts 2019, Time & Tide continues.
Here is Halibut by Melissa Davies read at Greenwich by Carrie Cohen,
Many of the stories and poems were read at more than one of the venues, so there will be further opportunities to compare and contrast!
Limited edition illustrated book of the material available now only from our webshop or from our events .
We are videoing BSL translations of some of the material, and this will also be on the website in late March, to coincide with the launch of the bookshop version of the book on 21st March at The Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre in Greenwich. more details soon!
Uploading the videos from Solstice Shorts 2019, Time & Tide continues.
Here is The Sinking of Mrs Margaret Brown by Michelle Penn read at Greenwich by Carrie Cohen, with BSL interpretation by Paul Michaels.
Many of the stories and poems were read at more than one of the venues, so there will be further opportunities to compare and contrast!
Limited edition illustrated book of the material available now only from our webshop or from our events .
We are videoing BSL translations of some of the material, and this will also be on the website in late March, to coincide with the launch of the bookshop version of the book on 21st March at The Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre in Greenwich. more details soon!
Uploading the videos from Solstice Shorts 2019, Time & Tide, continues.
We made a point of curating the sea shanties against particular poems/ stories. The connection here is superstitions.
Poem Arrival by Valerie Bence, read by Carrie Cohen
with song Scarborough Street by Chip Wilson, sung by London Sea Shanty Collective
This song is part of LSSC’s new Shanty Opera, The Earl de Grey: a Hull Folk Opera you can be part of the audience on 22nd February atThe Mildmay Club, in Stoke Newington. Get your ticket here
Many of the stories and poems were read at more than one of the venues, so there will be an opportunity to compare and contrast readings.
Limited edition illustrated book of the material available now only from our webshop or from our events .
We are aiming to get BSL translations of some of the material, and this will also be on the website in about March, to coincide with the launch of the bookshop version of the book.
Uploading the videos from Solstice Shorts 2019, Time & Tide continues.
Here is The Fisherman’s Wife by Linda McMullen read at Greenwich by Carrie Cohen, with BSL interpretation by Paul Michaels; and (audio only) at Hastings read by Joan Taylor-Rowan
Many of the stories and poems were read at more than one of the venues, so there will be an opportunity to compare and contrast!
Limited edition illustrated book of the material available now only from our webshop or from our events .
We are aiming to get BSL translations of some of the material, and this will also be on the website in about March, to coincide with the launch of the bookshop version of the book.
We are starting uploading the videos from Solstice Shorts 2019, Time & Tide.
Here is Whe you Regret Wishing for Something More Thrilling, by Emma Lee read by Carrie Cohen, BSL interpretation by Paul Michaels.
and the same poem read at Oeiras, Portugal to compare and contrast!
Limited edition illustrated book of the material available now from our webshop or events only.
We are aiming to get BSL translations of some of the material, and this will also be on the website in about March, to coincide with the launch of the bookshop version of the book.
