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On Friday we were the proud recipients of some lovely new books, including two short story titles that could well be your answer for what to get your Valentine for Valentine’s Day.

Have a look at Richard Bardsley’s Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love

and William Guy’s The I Love [...]

La Langoustine

La Langoustine Reading

Featuring: Jo Colley, Vincent De Souza, Frances Presley, Monique Roffey and Zo? Skoulding Saturday, February 2nd 7.30 p.m.

Poetry Caf? 22 Betterton Street Covent Garden WC2H 9BX tags: Jo?Colley , Vincent?De?Souza , Frances?Presley , Monique?Roffey , Zo??Skoulding [...]

Innovation = Salt

Shortlists unveiled for the 2008 Independent Publishing Awards

The Independent Publishers Guild and its partners The Bookseller and the London Book Fair are proud to reveal the shortlists for the 2008 Independent Publishing Awards. The nine lists showcase the very best of independent publishing in the UK. Six [...]

Tom Pow introduces viewers to the Crichton Institution and reads from his new poetry collection, Dear Alice: Narratives of Madness, which is based on the site.

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The Crack Magazine Book Of The Month

Strip Angela Readman, Salt Publishing, ?12.99

What it is to be a woman is fantastically unravelled and put together piece by piece in this wonderfully funny, sometimes saucy and utterly marvellous collection of poetry. From young girls desperate to grow up too fast, [...]

[R]eaders of Poetry in particular and poetry in general should be interested; if the diversity of work Don Share published as an editor of the Partisan Review , Literary Imagination , and the Harvard Review is any indication, Share?s hiring is bound to enliven the journal and broaden the variety of poets [...]

Consolation is hard to come by in Will Stone ‘s universe. His view of humanity, present as enfeebled victims or pitiless murderers, is grim, religion provides little in the way of solace … But there is real pleasure to be taken in Stone’s potent depictions of nature’s might. In the title poem, [...]

Yesterday we were off-line for almost the whole day to inclement weather. It rained and for some reason, often when it rains we lose our internet connection. I can’t work this out, but right now the sun is shining and I’m back in the virtual world without having to get wires changed. The trials [...]

Since it’s Saturday, we have a bit of a mish-mash blog for you, picking up on some of the things that have happened over the last few days that might be of some interest to you over the weekend when you’ve got a few minutes to spare.

First of all, some kitchen sink porn, [...]

Chris Holifield, MD of the Poetry Book Society and Writers’ Services reviews 101 Ways to Make Poems Sell :

Whether you?re a novice or a published poet, this book really does offer a lot of useful information. In effect it?s a self-help book for poets, providing 101 suggestions about how develop [...]