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A house filled with history and secrets is more than mere bricks and mortar; not only a mirror on the past, it can also be a window to the future. "masterful..soul-searching. I would have liked to...

Doomed Spanish poet Federico Lorca, ill-fated Tudor battleship the Mary Rose, a Ming dynasty porcelain flask, a sawing horse: in a collection spanning almost 40 years, Tom Furniss's poetry ranges far...

A Picture's Worth is a marvellous collection, linking the past to the present. Friedman's voice is in fine form, turning language into brush strokes - and brush strokes into a gallery that's well...

After The Rehearsals is a prose poem narrative in which the poems - although they stand on their own - are akin to chapters in a work of fiction. Reading them sequentially draws the reader into the...

An Irregular Piece of Sky contains fifteen contemporary stories in which we meet characters who - just like us - are striving to make sense of their place in the world, and to navigate their way...

Life weaves its magic of triumphs and disappointments everywhere, and often those burdened with more than their fair share of tragedy can feel lost and alone. Even in a quiet backwater like Maunston...

BoundAuthor: Ian GougePublisher: Coverstory BooksPublication Date: Jul 06, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1738469344ISBN-13: 9781738469345

Degrees of Separation is a series of short stories, each tied to the next it through one of its two characters. The book's invisible thread weaves its way across geography and time until the circle...

When people escaped gravity and started to travel in space, astronauts were amazed by the view when they looked back at the Earth - moments they found difficult to describe. Poets face the same...

Grimsby Docks is an examination of a once thriving but now desolate industrial landscape through photography and poetry.Author: Ian GougePublisher: Coverstory BooksPublication Date: Feb 17,...

A selection of some of the best poems from my seven collections published to-date, plus a small number of as yet unseen poems. There are many more poems that might easily have found their way into...

Making Marks In The SandAuthor: Ian GougePublisher: Coverstory BooksPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 182 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1838232176ISBN-13: 9781838232177

New ContextsAuthor: Ian GougePublisher: Coverstory BooksPublication Date: Jan 01, 2021Number of Pages: 132 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1916289967ISBN-13: 9781916289963

Curating a collection such as New Contexts provides its editor with an interesting conundrum in that their job is not simply to trawl through all the submissions in order to find pieces they like. Of...

New Contexts: 2Author: Ian GougePublisher: Coverstory BooksPublication Date: Oct 01, 2021Number of Pages: 132 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 183823215XISBN-13: 9781838232153

New Contexts: 3 is an anthology of poetry and short fiction curated from around the world. Written in English, its contributors primarily come from England and the United States, but this collection...

Welcome to the fourth edition of our New Contexts anthology. Once again we have been able to harvest an eclectic selection of contemporary poetry and short prose from around the world. Authors in...

As the fifth in our series of poetry and short prose anthologies, New Contexts: 5 represents yet another meritorious addition to our canon.Author: Ian GougePublisher: Coverstory BooksPublication...

Imagine tackling the entirety of Shakespeare's sonnet cannon with the aim of creating a contemporary and modern interpretation of the poems both in terms of subject and form. Imagine starting where...

Oak Tree Alchemy, the title of this poetry collection brought to you by twelve members of The Poetry Society's North Yorkshire group, has a more literal than literary derivation. The poets meet, read...

On Parliament HillAuthor: Ian GougePublisher: Coverstory BooksPublication Date: May 21, 2021Number of Pages: 222 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1916289983ISBN-13: 9781916289987

A group of friends who come back together to honour an old friend who has recently died. The weekend is intended as a celebration but merely serves to reignite old emotions and uncover long-held...

Author: Kate Miller, Emma Blowers, Erin ThompsonPublisher: Coverstory BooksPublication Date: Dec 01, 2020Number of Pages: 296 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1916289959ISBN-13:...

Kathleen was brought up in rural Cumbria and now lives in North Yorkshire. She spent her working life in the NHS and, since her retirement, is now able to concentrate on her family, gardening and...

Primarily a writer of longer pieces of fiction, Ian Gouge has written two novels - "Mirrors" and "The Big Frog Theory" - and a number of novellas - "Losing Moby Dick," "Writing to Gisella," and...

Across the wide-ranging topics tackled in this joint debut collection of poetry from Jim Friedman and Dave Smith, the common thread is undoubtedly one of emotion. Whatever the subject, Friedman and...

The Deadwing Generation is a second stand-out collection from Simon French. Perceptive and emotionally raw, French applies his poetry scalpel to the experience of living life in the modern world...

In this expansive new collection, Tom Furniss lets his vivid poetic imagination roam in time and place. Alongside personal history goes an awareness of deeper geological time and a dialogue with...

The Opposite of RememberingAuthor: Ian GougePublisher: Coverstory BooksPublication Date: February 01, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1999302796ISBN-13:...

Vincent edits books. It is modest and quiet occupation - yet one which is about to be thrown into turmoil. Orwell meets Kafka in this tale of a dystopian future which could be a lot closer than we...