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What were the interests and influences that first led you to start writing poetry, and how have these manifested themselves in your work? I came to writing poetry in my mid-twenties. Perhaps I should say I came back to writing poetry because I loved it as a child and remember tasting the sounds of Sylvia Plath's 'Mushrooms' on my tongue when we had to learn it for school. I knew I didn't understand it, but the 'feel' of it was quite different from anything I'd read aloud before. Later, though, I felt intimidated by poetry, or afraid to try it, unsure of what my voice might sound like. After completing an MA at Cardiff University, I was working in London, and not especially enjoying it...
The first collection from 2009 Gregory Award winner James Brookes, The
The Pighog Press Short Story Competition for Writers of Children's Fiction The winner will be announced by May 10th 2010. SEE YOUR TWITTERNELLE INCLUDED IN OUR SCROLLING HEADER. Send an English heroic couplet or a Ruba'i with a maximum of 140 characters to www.twitter.com/pighog. The heroic couplet has a fascinating history. Michael Drayton called it a 'gemell' or 'geminel'. (Does anyone know why?) Your Pighog micropoem will be a Twitternelle. The writers of the twitternelles we like best will receive a free Pighog pamphlet. TWITTER THEE! Pighog has launched its own Facebook Group - drop in and say hello. THE POET'S NOTEBOOK, TWEET BY TWEET In a unique initiative, Pighog is publishing The Poet's Notebook by Brendan Cleary as a series of free tweets. The Notebook is a superb guide to improving your poetry from one of To make sure you receive all the tweets, follow Pighog on Twitter now. PIGHOG IN THE NEWS 'There are, or maybe I've only just become aware of them, an increasing number of Small Presses producing work of high quality...Publications by Pighog... are increasingly elegant and sophisticated: I'm looking at Cloudfish by John McCullough, Fast by Hugh Dunkerley, and The Beach Generation by John O'Donoghue.' The Rialto, issue 64 Read more reviews of Pighog Press by clicking here. POETRY 'Pamphlet poetry, for me, is one of the most revolutionary and exciting forms of art. Not least, because it bypasses fashion and establishment and social clique and gives an opportunity to everyone who thinks they have something good to say through poetry to try. That equally on the receiving end, it transcends the values of class and culture and even education, to reach anyone who has an art and desire to be human.' Lady Marks Sarah Jackson's Pighog pamphlet Milk was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award for an outstanding work of poetry published in pamphlet form in the UK during 2008. Pighog's International Series Surreal Man by Ciaran O'Driscoll I'll be back before you know it by Maria Jastrzebska Pighog's Sussex Series Full collections Shedman by John Davies
Anthologies Whoosh! A Queer Writing South Anthology Box Sets The Pighog Sussex Series limited edition box set 36pp ISBN 0-9542443-8-9 £10.00 plus £3 p&p Launched at Cuisle, the Limerick International Poetry Festival, Ireland, in 2006, this wonderful collection demonstrates a master poet at work in a variety of forms, voices and moods. Paintings by Giorgio de Chirico and Rene Magritte provide a springboard for Ciaran O’Driscoll’s engagement with the theme of surrealism. Dark absurdities and contradictions, banalities and pretensions are exposed by O'Driscoll's characteristically cutting wit and here and there a beacon of hard-won hope lights a way. A wonderful eye for the absurd.... A strong nucleus of passion. Vincent Woods Writing in the West. We need such hard-won high spirits. John Montague
Ciaran O'Driscoll is a poet of the first order. Pearse Hutchinson The RTE Guide
I'LL BE BACK BEFORE YOU KNOW IT by Maria Jastrzebska Maria Jastrzebska was born in Warsaw in 1953 and came to England as a small child when her family escaped from Poland. She studied Developmental Psychology at Sussex University and lives in Brighton. 'I’ve always been concerned with borders and boundaries,' says Maria, 'between countries, cultures, languages, between social and sexual identities, health and illness.' George Szirtes has commented “Maria Jastrzebska’s poems open out like adventures in a dual land that is both here and elsewhere. The elsewhere is both place and history: the one gives life to the other, the place to the history, the elsewhere to the here, the fable to the reality. The mixture is rich and clear as alcoholic spirits.”
'Maria Jastrzebska’s stunning anthology shines out like the Star of Africa. Here is a rare collection not suffocated by propaganda, self-indulgence or plain bad writing – I’ll Be Back Before You Know It doesn’t just make the grade, it holds up a challenge to other modern poets.' Read the full Chroma review here
30PP ISBN 978-1-906309-02-2 £8 plus £3 p&p 'The Beach Generation celebrates the city of Brighton by saluting the poets who are helping to influence its savvy and stylish future. 'These are the men and women who move amongst the cognoscenti of the twittens, the midnight revellers in late night bars, the clubbers strolling along the strand, the early risers and late to bed of Brighton’s seaside cafés and briny pubs. The Beach Generation are small in number but they’re not slight. If you listen, you can hear them calling, like the ocean held inside a shell…' Bridget Whelan
28PP ISBN 0-9542443-7-0 £8 plus £3 p&p ‘In these poems, pin-sharp insight is combined with surreal cameos of a the sky and a sense of eavesdropping on the old gods hiding there. His writing is compelling and will do your spirit good.’ Jackie Wills
24pp ISBN 0-9542443-3-8 £8.00 plus £2 p&p Winner of the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice award for Autumn 2005. With an unflinching and wry candour, Thorpe wrestles with love, sex and the disenchantments of dating past forty. Her poems confront the difficult emotions of longing, loss and unfulfilled hope, always with a musical accompaniment.
22PP ISBN 978-1-906309-03-9 £8.00 plus £3 p&p You were sleeping when they found you, curled in a ditch, long summer grasses bending down to brush your senseless face. These poems of loss, sacrifice, love and renewal look at the strangeness of the world with a wide-eyed wonder. Using startlingly muscular, taught and vivid language, Fast cuts through the sentimental media-babble of today and offers instead a disturbingly clear, yet ultimately compassionate gaze. Whether tackling child murder, a biblical resurrection, a visit to a supermarket or the transit of Venus, Dunkerley re-makes the world so that his readers can see it anew.
22pp ISBN 0-9542443-9-7 £8.00 plus £3 p&p
'Ellen de Vries is a poet who explores crossroad areas in our lives, places where reality and beyond-reality meet. She often evokes an environment where threat is present, in relationships between parent and child, between lovers; but threat gentled by a lyric originality that surprises and involves the reader at a deep level. Penelope Shuttle
12pp ISBN 0-9542443-2-X 2004 UK £8.00 plus £3 p&p This special selection brings the shadowy character of Jackson to our attention - hovering on the edge of the ordinary, hidden in the everyday, skirting appetites and urges, losses and denials, all balanced in a conjuring of words. The Poet's Notebook by Brendan Cleary will be published via Twitter from June 1st
MILK by Sarah Jackson Beautifully crafted and highly original, the poetry of Milk is testament to Sarah Jackson's astonishing imagination and skill. 'It does my heart good to read poems like hers.' Brendan Cleary 'Sarah Jackson's poems are dark, strange stories, immaculately crafted. Surprising, dextrous, sometimes shocking, they compel the reader into uncertain territory. This is an assured first pamphlet from a cool and original new voice.' Polly Clark Milk is Sarah Jackson's debut pamphlet. It explores the space in between dreams and maps a dangerous reality that is only skin deep. Dark and often foreboding, these poems travel into an underworld where she unearths, between textures of childhood, sexuality and filial bonds, something of the abject lying in wait for us all.
28pp ISBN 978-1-906309-00-8 £8.00 plus £3 p&p
The original spiral bound edition with photographs by the poet is now a collector's item. The new edition with a new ISBN number has been designed to match the popular B5 format of the other Pighog pamphlets in the series.
24pp ISBN 0-9542443-4-6 £8.00 plus £3 p&p A new collection celebrating Moss Rich, the doyen of Brighton's poetry scene Satirical, funny, poignant and pointed, Moss directs his wit at subjects including the Orkneys and his Olivetti typewriter, devaluation and death, moths and mothers, and poets and poetry workshops. ”It print speaks as gently to your heart as blood flows softly
24pp ISBN 0-9542443-5-4 £8.00 plus £3 p&p
Tom Cunliffe's highly acclaimed debut collection challenges poetic convention and vibrates with an intensity of language and memorable imagery. 'These fresh, energetic poems relish risk and experimentation - often differing so much from each other that they offer no cosy certainties, about themselves, language, or the people, situations, ideas or worlds to which they allude.
The edges of his work are often jagged; his oddball, unpredictable, often bizarre characters offer us, as readers, the possiblity of U-turns, shifts and new angles. He takes himself to the edge, jumps - trusts that the net will appear. And it certainly does, although the journey down can be bumpy - and exhilarating.'
80PP ISBN 978-1-906309-01-5 £11.99 plus £3 p&p 'There's a wealth of poetry here - and by that I mean a sensibility that's been working quietly away... accumulating all the virtues a poet must seek - wisdom, emotional depth, and the patience to piece together, word by word, line by line, image by image, a poem like Clothes of Grey, which takes all of its givens - of genre, of form, of tradition - and through diligent focus twists them and makes all them completely darkly brilliantly brightly new.' John O'Donoghue
77pp ISBN 978-1-906309-01-5 £8.99 plus £3 p&p
94PP ISBN 978-1-906309-04-6 £11.99 plus £3 p&p Poetry South brings you the latest work from fifteen of the south’s liveliest writers. Rich in voice and tone it provides a vivid snapshot of the developing face of contemporary poetry across the region. Coming from both new and established writers this collection includes informative notes from the contributors giving an insight into their working methods and how particular poems have evolved. This collection passionately reveals that poetry remains a potent force on the southern arts scene, whilst providing a valuable document in promoting contemporary poetry to an ever wider audience.
The Ideal Present! Unique numbered collector’s editions of five poetry pamphlets from one of Britain’s most innovative small presses Now available - numbered box sets 030-040 include: A Solitary Pine Tree in Sussex by Tim Beech The Nutter in the Shrubbery by John Davies Cloudfish by John McCullough Girl in the Air by Ellen DeVries Special Price £30.00 plus £4 P&P Normally each book is £8 plus £3 p&p, so the box set gives a saving of £10 plus £3 p&p per booklet. For information on individual pamphlets see below.
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