V. Press is very very delighted to end the year with some review news and top title ratings for our poetry range.
"Clarke’s eerie sequence of vignettes can be read in any order, juxtaposed and rearranged like Tarot cards to reveal further details and dangers, without ever giving away the bigger picture; if such convenient knowledge were even possible (there will be no newspapers announcing the last day on earth)..."
Will Barrett, The Poetry School, full review here.
Bolt down this earth by Gram Joel Davies and Antony Owen's The Nagasaki Elder are also on the longlist (top 100) for The Poetry School Books of the Year.
THE IRISH TIMES REVIEW of WALKING BACKWARDS
V. Press was very very pleased to see Charlie Hill's short fiction pamphlet Walking Backwards reviewed in The Irish Times.
"...intensely observed fragments of ordinary lives, and all give pause for thought. Standout stories are The School Run, its effect achieved more by what’s left unsaid than what’s actually said, and The Allotment, with its sting-in-the-tail ending..."
Brian Maye, The Irish Times, full review here.
All of the titles above may be purchased through our bookshop or by clicking through to each individual title using the links above.
SABOTAGE REVIEWS REVIEW of SCARE STORIES
A wonderful very considered and very detailed review of David Clarke's Scare Stories has also just been published on Sabotage Reviews.
The review by Becky Varley-Winter concludes: "...his sustained use of form is also quite admirable. With controlled nerve, Clarke offers a sequence of quick, dark bites, with glinting teeth."
The full review can be enjoyed on Sabotage Reviews here, and the pamphlet ordered through the paypal link below.
WELCOMING 2018!
V. Press is very very happy to end one year and start the next with news that our first 2018 poetry pamphlet, How to Parallel Park by James Davey, is now available for pre-order.
"Stark, poised, precisely observed, James Davey’s
poetry well demonstrates how much more emotion is conveyed the greater the
restraint. The poems also exhibit an impressive musicality, from the lilting to
the percussive. Each poem rewards rereading." Carrie Etter
"These poems by James Davey are vivid, articulate
and entertaining. They evoke the peculiar intensity of childhood fears, the
angst of adolescence, the tremors of first loves. Davey has a gift for
clear-eyed dramatic presentation, as well as an often-humorous take on human
condition and a true empathy for the various characters he comes across, be
they ‘pyroman’ a down-and-out who accumulates trash to burn, the terrified
child taken on a hunting trip, or the lover discovering the ‘colours’ of a
girlfriend. This is a promising and well-wrought debut." Amy Wack
"Davey’s work is confident, crafted, elegant in
its simplicity. The poems are full of moments of recognition for the reader,
subtle emotive power balancing understated humour. I trust him to show me
something worth seeing with no fluff around the substance." Anna Freeman
Set in England and Italy, the poems of How to Parallel Park are very emotive,
very molto a pelle.
How to Parallel Park is James Davey's debut poetry pamphlet. A sample poem can be found below.
PRE-ORDER How to Parallel Park now using the paypal link below. (How to Parallel Park is published at the end of January 2018. Pre-orders are dispatched in the week of publication.)
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