We are excited to announce the publication of four new pamphlets of writing:

Kathmandu by Andrew Shaw
Bomb by Samuel Reid
From Stone to Clay to Butter by Lily Petch
A Raven on a Writing Desk by Julie Hogg.

We’ll be launching the pamphlets at the Poetry Society’s Free Verse Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair on 20 April at St Columba’s Church, London.

Here’s a little bit about the authors:

Julie Hogg is a poet from the North Yorkshire Coast. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including Abridged, Butcher’s Dog, Honest Ulsterman, Magma, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Poetry Birmingham, Poetry Bus, Popshot and StepAway magazine. Her writing has featured in anthologies by Dunlin Press, Litmus and Seren, and her debut pamphlet is Majuba Road.

Lily Petch is a visual artist currently in her final undergraduate year at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her practice ruminates upon the capacity writing has to outlive the human form, implying inscription to remain as the last marker of personal essence. She is informed contextually by the history of language systems, particularly the shift from proto-sumerian pictograph to codified signs of logo syllabic cuneiform. This research takes material form in her practice through book-centric installations, wax cylinder sound recording, photography, bookbinding and poetry.

Samuel Reid is a short fiction and poetry writer who lives and works on the South Downs in Sussex. An alumni of the MMU Creative Writing MA programme, Samuel founded the prose and poetry biannual Field in 2019 and is currently completing his debut collection of short stories Barely Alive Clive.

Andrew Shaw has several published books and pamphlets of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Often writing under pseudonyms, he has won numerous literary awards. He worked as an arts and culture writer, poetry tutor, and as poet-in residence at the Swan Theatre, Worcester. He has completed extended solitary retreat in a cave in Ladakh. His artwork has appeared in galleries in the USA, Europe and Asia. Andrew is a founding member of The Silent Academy – a conceptual art press.

The pamphlets have been printed by Anglia Print, the UK’s first B Corp certified printing company.

We’re not going to attempt to summarise the breadth of the writing in this post, other than to say we consider them all experimental in their way and that they contain some of the best and most original writing we have seen for some time.

For a peek into the pamphlets, and to buy copies, head to our shop.