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Poetry in Aldeburgh
It’s time for Poetry in Aldeburgh 2016 – and we’re delighted to say that Dunlin Press authors Elaine Ewart, Pam Job, Antony Johae and Rosie Sandler will all be reading at the festival. Events take place across the weekend at the Jubilee Hall, Peter Pears Gallery and The Lookout. If you’re attending, make sure you […]
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Indie publishing and the joy of small things
Why? That’s the question. Why would anyone in their right minds set up an independent publishing house and run it from a little office in a little old fishing town in little old Essex, and then decide to publish a book that combines beautiful illustrations of migratory wading birds with descriptions of the geography and […]
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Est and The Migrant Waders – a closer look
The Migrant Waders and Est: Collected Reports from East Anglia are available in a selection of brilliant indie booksellers and on our very own retail site. The joy of a physical book is a wonderful thing. Dunlin Press believes in the beauty of books. We design our titles with care to showcase the writing and illustration in a […]
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#migrantwaders proof copies are here!
…oh yes they are, and they’re looking lovely. Big order now placed. They will be on sale from 21 April (yes, that’s the same day as our launch party at Church Street Tavern, Colchester). Love new books!
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Book launch: The Migrant Waders
We will be launching our second book, The Migrant Waders, at Church Street Tavern, Colchester, Essex, on Thursday 21 April, at 7pm. It’s a free event, so please do come and join us to help celebrate. The evening will include readings from contributing authors, discussion with Ella Johnston about the wonderful illustrations that appear throughout the […]
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Migrant waders, work in progress
Dunlin Press’s upcoming book The Migrant Waders will feature portraits of wading birds by Dunlin Press co-founder and illustrator Ella Johnston. Here, she describes the creative process: “The birds are deliberately painted without a landscape. It reflects that these waders migrate across many lands and do not recognise the borders that humans create and that we see on maps. […]
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Migrant Waders
It’s true that we first saw the dunlins at night, scurrying along the oozing mud of the Colne at Wivenhoe as the tide receded. Their shapes were indistinct, spectral, shades. Were they voles or vermin of some sort? They moved along the shore unlike any birds we had ever seen. Our eyes, adjusting to […]
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The year in review
2015 has been quite a year for Dunlin Press. In January, the manuscript of our first book, Est: Collected Reports from East Anglia was covered in proofing marks and being read, and re-read – mostly on trains between the north of Essex and London Liverpool Street station. The cover, meanwhile, was being colour-adjusted to deliver just […]
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This sky has plans for the future…
Is it autumn already? The Dunlins have been quiet, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy. Over the summer we accepted submissions for our next book, which will essentially be a collection about wading birds, shore birds – call them what you will – and migration. The book will feature some beautiful illustration from our very […]