UPDATED WEDNESDAY 17 APRIL 2024
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POETRY BOOKS
(NB Many of these books are available from the Wivenhoe Bookshop: at 23 High Street, Wivenhoe, Essex CO7 9BE. Tel. 01206 824050 and email wiven.book@zetnet.co.uk – also from Red Lion Books Colchester, Manningtree Arts Manningtree, and The Nose Bookshop Walton)
To order any of the Poems in Lockdown series (scroll down for details), email me at: peter@plusplus9.plus.com
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Sleeping Under Clouds by Sue Wallace-Shaddad & Sula Rubens. £10. Clayhanger Press.
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Jenna Plewes’ collection A lick of Loose Threads is in the Poetry Book Society winter selection 2023.
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The Vole Books Summer Anthology 2023 Washed With Noon contains the selected works of some 32 poets, from the VOLE Summer Competition 2023 judged by Richard Hawtry, and includes poems by Audrey Ardern-Jones, Stewart Francis, Dennis Tomlinson and Peter Kennedy. Edited by Janice Dempsey. Published by VOLE Books (2023).
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This is not a baguette verse by Simon Haines. Published by Rosewood Press (2023). Contact: simonhaines1@icloud.com
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Different Days, Different Desires, Vol IV of Poems in Lockdown, edited by Peter Kennedy, published by Watermelon Press, is currently available at the Wivenhoe Bookshop, at The Nose Bookshop Walton, or direct from peter@plusplus9.plus.com £10.00
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(June 2023) The Stitching Woman, selected poems by Sara Impey published by Tom Fenton, Coggeshall (2023) is available from the Wivenhoe Bookshop or from Red Lion Books, at £12.00
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(May 2023) ‘Full Fathom Folk / Songs and Poems by Adrian May‘ at £10.00 is now available from the Wivenhoe Bookshop
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(April 2023) Sue Wallace-Shaddad‘s new book Sleeping Under Clouds, a collaboration with Suffolk artist Sula Rubens, is published by Clayhanger Press
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Hans Sahl in translation is a collection of Hans Sahl‘s poems translated from the German by nine different translators, among them being Timothy Adès, Jean Base-Beier, Marian de Vooght, Anne Boileau and Dennis Tomlinson. Published by Independent Publishing Network (2023), it is available from the Wivenhoe Bookshop.
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Taglines is a gorgeous pamphlet composed and produced by Marian de Vooght: brief prose poems + visuals composed of clothes tags unpicked and then stitched into a line or two. This is a lovely piece of art and poetry, and it is available from the Wivenhoe Bookshop.
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The Last Hotel, our third collection of poems from the Anti-Covid-19 New Poems Initiative, edited by Peter Kennedy, published by Watermelon Press (2022). It is available from The Wivenhoe Bookshop by email or phone, and from treasurer@poetrywivenhoe.org
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The new collection Ekphrasticon “cultural heritage explored in poetic detail” by Ekaterina Dukas is published by Europe Books (July 2021).
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Natured – Colin Hopkirk’s new collection.
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Caged Blossoms – our second collection of poems from the Anti-Covid-19 New Poems Initiative, edited by Peter Kennedy and published (2021) by Watermelon Press. It is available from The Wivenhoe Bookshop by direct sale or online, and from treasurer@poetrywivenhoe.org
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Songs for a Daughter, the debut collection of Peter Ualrig Kennedy, is published (May 2021) by Dempsey & Windle. It is available from The Wivenhoe Bookshop by direct sale or online, and from
dempseyandwindle.com (see also the Reviews page and the Events page) 
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Colin Pink‘s new collection Typicity is published (April 2021) by Dempsey & Windle. For details see: Colin Pink – D & W PUBLISHING – BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND POEMS (dempseyandwindle.com)
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The Tales Told by Birds – Vol I of Poems in Lockdown Editor: Peter Kennedy
Watermelon Press 2020: £8.00
available from the Wivenhoe Bookshop.
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Tim Cunningham‘s new collection Passports is published (Revival Press). It is brilliant throughout.
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thirty-one small acts of love and resistance: this,
Steve Pottinger’s most recent collection, is available from Ignite Books, for £9.75 inc p&p:
https://ignitebooks.co.uk/products-page/steve-pottinger-books/
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Wild Persistence: by Katrina Naomi
published by Seren 2020. £9.99 https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/wild-persistence
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Skookum Jim and The Klondike Gold Rush: by Chrys Salt
https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/chrys-salt-skookum/4594876233
or from chrys@chryssalt.com (£10.00 p&p included.)
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Roger Caldwell‘s new collection Smoking Opium in Moscow is published by Shoestring Press.
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Poetry of the Holocaust
Edited and translated by Jean Boase-Beier and Marian de Vooght
…………………………Arc Publications 2019: £12.99
available from the Wivenhoe Bookshop
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Philip Terry has edited The Penguin Book of Oulipo (Penguin Classics). Enthusiastically reviewed in The Guardian 21 December 2019
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Wivenhoe indie publisher Dunlin Press have launched Port, their latest anthology of poetry and prose. (Dunlin Press: MW Bewick and Ella Johnston).
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Ornith-ology: the poetry of birds
Our collection of poems about birds. Anthology editor Tim Cunningham selected 30 poems for this publication. 
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The anthology has illustrations by local wildlife artist Richard Allen; by Charlotte Bernays and Janie Grote, local Wivenhoe artists, and Sheena Clover and Karen Dennison, artists and poets, both of whom have poems in the anthology.
We celebrate the work of local poets. Mosaic, the Poetry Society Stanza group which meets in Colchester, is our associate in this latest publishing initiative.
Pam Job
Ornith-ology: the poetry of birds. Poetrywivenhoe in association with Mosaic Stanza 2016. £7.00
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‘DAYS BEGIN…’
Edited by Peter Kennedy and designed by John Wallett, with cover and endpaper by Barbara Peirson.
42 poems by a stellar cast of headlining poets at Poetrywivenhoe – poets with national reputations who have donated their poems for this good cause (the Cancer Centre Campaign).
Published by Wivenbooks at £10.00 (all profit going to the Cancer Centre Campaign at Colchester Hospitals Charity)
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“poetrywivenhoe 2011″
Edited by Joan Norlev Taylor, Pam Job, Peter Kennedy and Petra McQueen, with cover design by Catherine Dodds, featuring Helen Lee‘s powerful painting of Wivenhoe’s skyline.
Published by Wivenbooks at £7.99.
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KJV: OLD TEXT ~ NEW POETRY
publisher: wivenbooks £7.99
Featuring poems by: Fleur Adcock, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, Roger Caldwell, David Charleston, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Keith Currie, Ian Duhig, Antony Dunn, Mike Harwood, Tobias Hill, Angela Livingstone, Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, Katrina Naomi, Mario Petrucci, Clare Pollard, Katrina Porteous, Anne Ryland, Penelope Shuttle, Pauline Stainer, Philip Terry, Robert Vas Dias, Christine Webb, James Knox Whittet.
edited by Joan Norlev Taylor, Adrian May and Pam Job.
published by wivenbooks, 2011 ~ ISBN 978-0-9557313-8-9 ~ £7.99
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“Ballads of Bohemian Essex” by Adrian May, published by wivenbooks £9.00, available from address above.
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poetrywivenhoe 2008
publisher: wivenbooks £7.99
ISBN 978-0-9557313-2-7
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Copies can be ordered here: https://kdennison.wordpress.com/blueshift/
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Bryan Thomas has a new collection out: Below the Shining (Double Decker Books 2015)
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