ALREADY PUBLISHED

Pighog's International Series
Surreal Man by Ciaran O'Driscoll

Pighog's Sussex Series
The Beach Generation by John O'Donoghue
Cloudfish by John McCullough
Dancing to Motown by Lorna Thorpe
Fast by Hugh Dunkerley
Girl in the Air by Ellen DeVries
Jackson by Brendan Cleary
The Nutter in the Shrubbery by John Davies
Requiem for a Typewriter by Moss Rich
Shedman by John Davies
A Solitary Pine Tree in Sussex by Tim Beech

Anthologies
Poetry South The Anthology

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WHOOSH! A QUEER WRITING SOUTH ANTHOLOGY

77pp     ISBN 978-1-906309-01-5    £6.99 plus £2 p&p 

Whoosh! is an anthology of work by nine new queer writers based in the South East.  Whoosh! appeared during this years Brighton and Hove Pride Festival, launched with an evening of readings from anthology contributors and other established queer writers from the region.

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THE PIGHOG POETRY BOX SET

The Ideal Present!

A collector’s edition of five poetry pamphlets from one of Britain’s most innovative small presses

Available Now!  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
The Beach Generation by John O'Donoghue

Girl in the Air by Ellen DeVries

Special Price £24.99 plus £4 P&P

Normally each book is £6 plus £2 p&p, so the box set gives a saving of £1 per booklet and £2 p&p!

For information on individual pamphlets see below.

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Tim Beech A SOLITARY PINE TREE IN SUSSEX

24pp     ISBN 0-9542443-5-4     £6.00 plus £2 p&p 


Poetry by a powerful voice in the tradition of Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill. Beech's keen observation of mammal, bird and landscape is crafted through a love of form and rhythm and is often used to frame questions about his unique spiritual quest.

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Brendan Cleary JACKSON

12pp    ISBN 0-9542443-2-X    2004    UK £6.00 plus £2 p&p 

A sequence of poems by Brendan Cleary.

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.

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John Davies SHEDMAN

80PP    ISBN 978-1-906309-01-5   £9.99 plus £2 p&p

'There's a wealth of poetry here - and by that I mean a sensibility that's been working quietly away as far from the limelight as it's possible to get without
being sequestered down a coalmine, 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

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Find out more about John Davies

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John Davies THE NUTTER IN THE SHRUBBERY

28pp   ISBN 978-1-906309-00-8    £6.00 plus £2 p&p

Pighog's first pamphlet 'The Nutter in the Shrubbery' by John Davies was a great success. it's been out of print for a while but now reissued in a new redesigned edition.

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.

Find out more about John Davies

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Ellen De Vries GIRL IN THE AIR

'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.

Her comprehension of our human longing for possibility and transformation is present everywhere in her poems, poignant and yet imbued with wit. Her language is sheer and confident.  See, for instance, her poem Arabic where a pomegranate is shown, beautifully, to exemplify the power and richness of language itself.'

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Hugh Dunkerley FAST

22PP   ISBN 978-1-906309-03-9   £6 plus 2 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.

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Maria Jastrzebska I'LL BE BACK BEFORE YOU KNOW IT

15PP   ISBN 978-1-906309-06-0

This collection with a backbone of prose poems is the second in Pighog's International Series but could just as well be the tenth in Pighog's Sussex Series as polish Poet Maria Jastrzebska is now based in Brighton.

'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.'
George Szirtes

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John McCullough CLOUDFISH

29PP  ISBN 0-9542443-7-0    £6 plus £2 p&p

‘ In these poems, pin-sharp insight is combined with surreal cameos of a
flouncy, eccentric city where anything could happen – even the clouds are
raiders ‘stealing in from the Downs’.
The backdrop is magnificent views of 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

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John O'Donoghue THE BEACH GENERATION

30PP  ISBN 978-1-906309-02-2   £6 plus £2 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

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Ciaran O'Driscoll SURREAL MAN
36pp    ISBN 0-9542443-8-9   £8.00 plus £2 p&p


Launched at Cuisle, the Limerick International Poetry Festival, Ireland, in 2006, this new 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.

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POETRY SOUTH The Anthology

94PP    ISBN 978-1-906309-04-6   £9.99 plus £2 p&p

Poetry South 2007 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.

Charles Simic considered that poetry ‘was the cats’ choir that sat beneath the window of the room in which the official view of history was being written’.

Sit down and listen. Sit down and wail.

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Moss Rich REQUIEM FOR A TYPEWRITER

24pp    ISBN 0-9542443-4-6    £6.00 plus £2 p&p 

A new collection celebrating Moss Rich, the doyen of Brighton's poetry scene now in his nineties, who has been writing poetry since the 1930s.

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.

”If print speaks as gently to your heart as blood flows softly

through your veins, you will understand why I stop to read, and

read again.”

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Lorna Thorpe DANCING to MOTOWN

24pp    ISBN 0-9542443-3-8    £6.00 plus £2 p&p 

Photographs by John Chapman

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.

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