SABOTEUR AWARD SUCCESSES
V Press is very very delighted to have a title shortlisted and another win a Special Mention in this year's Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet.
Something so wild and new in this feeling by Sarah Doyle, which was only published last month, has a Special Mention in this year’s Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet.
Meanwhile, Katy Wareham Morris’s V. Press pamphlet Making Tracks has been shortlisted for this year’s Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet and is one of 4 titles now in the running for the award.
The shortlists for all the categories can be found here - featuring a wide range of fabulous literature and spoken word in many forms.
Readers' and supporters' votes are more important now than ever!!!
So, please do go across to the form HERE and register your vote for Making Tracks, as well as supporting your favourites in the other categories!
REVIEWS
Something so wild and new in this feeling
Annie Fisher, OPOI, Sphinx, full review here.
Something so wild and new in this feeling has been so popular that just a month after publication we've had to order a new print run! For more information, a sample poem or to order Something so wild and new in this feeling before this print run also sells out, please click here.
"This pamphlet reminds us of the spectacular nature of the universe. Miranda Lynn Barnes uses that context of vastness together with astrophysical terms and gemstones to explore personal relationships, and her work brims with colour."
Sue Wallace-Shaddad, OPOI, Sphinx, full review here.
For more information, a sample poem or to order Blue Dot Aubade, please click here.
'“A Woven Rope” is a lyrical exploration of maternal lineage through transitional roles of daughter becoming mother, mother becoming granddaughter and the potential for the line to continue through the new daughter. Jenna Plewes’ attention to details, whether marks that create a watercolour, phrases used by a mother realising she’s quoting her own mother, the tension in a high wire, let the reader admire the intricacy and feel their deceptive strength.'
Emma Lee, full review here
For more information, a sample poem or to order A Woven Rope, please click here.
FORTHCOMING & POETRYFILM
Later this year, we have Alex Reed's much-anticipated debut full collection knots, tangles, fankles scheduled for publication.
In the run-up to this, V. Press is delighted to share a poetry film of one of Alex's poems from his collaborative pamphlet with photographer Keren Banning, These nights at home. The poetry film, which features the poem set to music and new images by Keren Banning, can be enjoyed below.
For information about the pamphlet, a different sample poem or to order a copy of These nights at home, please click here.
SPRING/EASTER BUNDLES *
There's just a week left to snap up one of our Spring/Easter pamphlet bundles offers. V. Press has three double-pamphlet bundle offers available from now until the end of April 2021.
In and out of this world bundle: Blue Dot Aubade and Hierarchy of Needs for £11.99 including postage and packing for U.K. delivery
"[...] At times playful, at times poignant, these intelligent poems illuminate our environment in the broadest sense: they give us a new view of our universe and our relationship to it. An engaging, original debut." V. Press Guest Editor Carrie Etter
More on Blue Dot Aubade and a sample poem can be found here.
"We do not exist without nature, though more and more these days, we seem to be expected to. In this book, Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory is used as a narrative to consider the entwining of both nature’s and our own human needs. [...]" Jane Burn
More on Hierarchy of Needs and a sample poem can be found here.
Community bundle: Winter with Eva and Checkout for £11.99 including postage and packing for U.K. delivery
"Elaine Baker writes so beautifully about love: macrocosmic passion and domestic comfort are drawn with sharp, sensual tenderness. But Winter with Eva is also a timely sociopolitical exploration and a gripping page-turner of a pamphlet, one to read carefully yet compulsively in a single sitting." Rachel Piercey
More on Winter with Eva and a sample poem can be found here.
"In a time where high street shops are declining or under threat, Checkout is a timely ode, set in Middle England with a ‘cadenced heart,/ alert to daily rhythms, oiled/ by traffic, chips and friends.’" Roy Mcfarlane
More on Checkout and a sample poem can be found here.
Survival bundle: art brut and Scare Stories for £11.99 including postage and packing for U.K. delivery
More on art brut and a sample poem can be found here.
"The poems in Scare Stories offer us exactly that: a series of richly populated narratives that show the contemporary moment as a grotesque and fearful nightmare. This is a world of war and refugees, high politics and helicopters, sex and suffering as entertainment. Somewhere at the root of things is money. It’s all delivered in sharp quatrains whose flamboyant rhyming makes it more brutal, not less. [..]" Tony Williams
"David Clarke conjures up post-apocalyptic visions that are uncomfortably close to our present. All of humanity is played out here, from gamers to generals, the whole bitingly observed. Scare Stories is a frightening mirror, but it’s also compelling and hypnotic, I dare you to look away." Claire Trévien
More on Scare Stories and a sample poem can be found here.
* Offers intended for U.K. delivery only and valid until the end of 30 April 2021 only.
SUBMISSIONS
The quality and number of submissions received during this year's flash fiction chapbook submissions window has been
incredible, making decisions trickier than ever.
Sarah Leavesley has now completed the first round of reading, with eight submissions longlisted for consideration of the full manuscripts.
The next stage of the process will be an even harder one, whittling this down to just one or two titles for publication with V. Press this year. (Some shortlisted authors may however be invited to stage in touch about the possibility of publishing their manuscript at a later date.)
Sarah would like to thank everyone who submitted during this year's window for the enjoyable reading and their interest in V. Press.
