Interview with poet Joy Howard, author of Foraging, who also runs a small press, Grey Hen, so we wander off the point a bit. This is a phone conversation with added images, the sound isn’t great but we’ve included it for completeness. Only a couple of days left until the end of the Arachneversary celebrations!
You can buy Foraging from our webshop, but if you want that August discount, you need to get a move on, it expires 31st August at midnight. Use the code ARACHNEVERSARY at the checkout.
ALL our poetry books are now available as eBooks!
With the booktrade suffering, we wanted to make it as easy for you to get lovely things to read as possible, so we have worked very hard to get these in the vitual shops for you. Thanks to Inpress for organising conversions and uploading!
Find these gorgeous words as Kindles on Amazon
and ePub on Hive
In case you were wondering, all our fiction is already available as ebooks. We aren’t set up to sell them ourselves, yet. Working on it.
Anthologies The Other Side of Sleep, and Vindication: poems from six women poets
With Paper for Feet Jennifer A McGowan
A Gift of Rivers, and The Don’t Touch Garden, Kate Foley
Foraging , Joy Howard
Erratics, Cathy Bryant
In Retail, Jeremy Dixon
The Knotsman, Math Jones
Mamiaith, Ness Owen
Let out the Djinn, Jane Aldous
The Significance of a Dress, Emma Lee.
A lovely review of Joy Howard‘s collection on The Lake poetry website from Jayne Marek
who says (amongst other things)
Foraging finds sustenance in the relics of our personal and collective histories, whether droll, sobering, or sad. Howard’s confident insights show love and respect for “that same tide / which will come for all of us” (“Going Back”).
One of those reviews that reminds me all over again just why I published a book. (She even mentioned how much she likes the cover.)
cover design by Karen Keogh
The poems not caught on camera…
Joy Howard‘s Melangell and the Hare,
Olympus Inc and Living to Tell the Tale (explicit language warning!)
All these and more available in Foraging
and Zoe Brigley Thompson‘s Letter to Leda on Getting Married
all read by Cherry Potts
A modest celebration, but nonetheless, our own.
join us tonight at 7pm at Lewisham Library, Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LG where Jennifer A McGowan will read from her new collection With Paper for Feet, and Arachne owner, Cherry Potts will read from our other recent Poetry collection, Joy Howard’s Foraging.
here’s a glimpse of what’s on offer
Jennifer reading Phantom Pains in which past lives catch up
Joy reading Red Frock, Green Frock, celebrating the joys (and otherwise) of siblings.
Well, we try not to anyway, what’s a storm when you have books to launch? Our audience was a little diminished for the launch of Foraging and With Paper for Feet, announced by a flurry of text and emails saying that various modes of transport were curtailed, delayed or unavailable.
We had a good time nonetheless. Here’s a couple of videos from the launch at The Nightingale Room at Keats House Library.
Joy Howard reading A Perfect Hexagon from Foraging
and Jennifer A McGowan reading Icarus from With Paper for Feet
You can catch Jennifer reading from With Paper for Feet next on
Friday 03/03/2017 7.30
Albion Beatnik 34 Walton Street Oxford OX2 6AA
£2 on the door
Saturday 04/03/2017 2pm
North Kensington Library 108 Ladbroke Grove London W11 1PZ
free but please book via EventBrite
Today we publish two poetry books: With Paper for Feet by Jennifer A McGowan
and Foraging by Joy Howard
Available from excellent bookshops everywhere, and online from us and our lovely sales partners Inpress, and the usual suspects.
If you haven’t yet RSVPed for the launch party tonight, please do let us know if you are coming! Otherwise there may not be enough vino to go round, and that would be truly terrible.
We’ve already had a review for each book!
A lovely review from ‘evil cyclist’
We have all our forthcoming books loaded on NetGalley! They will only be there until the end of February so get a shuffle on.
if you are a professional reviewer/ book blogger you can down load a free copy to review here:
Happy Ending Not Guaranteed This is an uncorrected proof, Short Stories, dark and witty fantasy
Foraging poetry from Joy Howard
With Paper for Feet Poetry from Jennifer A McGowan
Also we have just taken delivery of the advance copies of With Paper for Feet, so established poetry magazines expect to hear from me…