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Here is the latest from Lighthouse and Gatehouse Press:
LIGHTHOUSE #10
Lighthouse #10 is now available to buy through our website and
stockists (London Review of Books, Foyles, The Book Hive to name a
few).
Lighthouse 10,
now at 96 pages, comes packed with essays by writers on their
homelands, including George Szirtes in conversation with András
Gerevich on Hungary after 1989, poet and translator Cecilia Rossi on
developing as a writer in Argentina, and Amit Chaudhury in conversation
with Amitavar Kumar about saving sites of historical interest in India,
plus fiction from Ruby Cowling and Thomas McMullan, and much more.
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RIVERINE by
Eleanor Rees
Gatehouse press are
pleased to announce the publication of Riverine by Eleanor Rees.
In
this evocative new pamphlet, poet Eleanor Rees taps into the flow that
runs through everyday acts of being alive.
“The
Mersey’s high tide ebbs a mile from my house, trains stream behind the
garden wall, beech leaves shift, geese fly, my neighbours lock the
front door as they leave our flats. The 80A bus passes over the bridge
though I can only hear it. Dew settles. Carbon clogs up the sky. These
transitions define reality. There is no stillness and there is no lack:
each local movement has an impact on the other. And poetry is another
of these transitions, dynamic — a charge, a movement of energy from one
state to another via rhetoric and rhythm — then travelling back out
again to the interior of the reader or dispersed amongst an audience as
sound and visualisation. In a world which is perpetually changing — in
which there are no fixed states — the poet’s work is to morph the forms
we think with.”
From
the liminal spaces of suburbia to the wild, sacred landscapes of the
west, Rees’ fluid lyric style draws us into a motion between the real
and the imagined; where temporal lives come adrift in a timeless
current. Sometimes drawing on her native Liverpool and sometimes roaming
beyond into surreal, formless spaces, both Rees’ subtle voice and her
acute observations are effortlessly displayed in these poems.
Intended
as a companion volume to her recent collection, ‘Blood Child’, this
pamphlet is an opportunity to engage with one the UK’s most distinctive
voices.
“a
paean to the locales and environs of the North West of England; to the
city of Liverpool and its peoples’ past and present. These are magical,
dynamic poems.” – Andy Brown
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New Fictions launch at Cafe Writer's Norwich - Jan 2016
Gatehouse Press New Fictions winners, Preti Taneja and Nicola Daly are
launching their books at Cafe Writers on Monday 11th Jan, 2016.
Cafe Writers say:
"The Café Writers hold events at Take 5, 17
Tombland, Norwich in the upstairs function room.
Meetings start at 7.30 and admission is £2.00. All are
welcome. We host readings from writers from across the globe,
presenting a wide range of writers performing a variety of styles –
poetry, drama, prose – in an atmosphere that both welcomes new work and
invites professional polish. There are opportunities to read from the
floor."
More detail can be found here: http://cafewriters.co.uk/542/
Have a great
xmas!
Lighthouse editors.
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