May - December 2010. You are Her is one of four poetry books and four novels featured in New Writing North’s new campaign to encourage local people to read books by local writers. You can read samples of the books here and find out about the various events across the region.
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The place to go to find out about the art of renga and read contemporary examples of this ancient form.
A poetry press particularly well-known for their translations. A Balkan Exchange, published in 2007, includes work from four Bulgarian poets, Kristin Dimitrova, Georgi Gospodinov, Nadya Radulova and VBV, and Andy Croft, Linda France, W.N. Herbert and Mark Robinson.
A varied and thought-provoking selection of poems written by Buddhists, edited by Ajahn Sucitto and Ajahn Abhinando, two monks in the Theravadin tradition. Here you will find: practice-notes on the joys, struggles, humour and pain of the journey towards truth and freedom.
Writer, designer, curator and critic, Ellen Lupton shares her exciting work and ideas generously and wittily. Her approach to typography is particularly refreshing – respectful of tradition without being conservative.