Dempsey & Windle
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THE BRIAN DEMPSEY MEMORIAL COMPETITION CLOSED ON 14TH MARCH 2019
Full results will be published on 3rd May
Full results will be published on 3rd May
NEW RELEASES January – April 2019
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'The themes found in Richard Woolmer’s Speaking to Crows are eclectic and diverse : from childhood to an absent-minded old age; memorial poppies to Nagasaki; distant galaxies to the contemporary world of “spin.”
... This is a wonderful first collection introducing a unique new voice — I thoroughly recommend it!' – Patrick B Osada (SOUTH magazine) |
'This collection is a banquet for the senses, which in other hands than Bedford’s, could be overwhelming. That it is not, begins with the poet’s skill in setting up a sound, containing layout. The narrative, no matter how intense and detailed in its content, tells the story of a life with grace and precision. '
– Wendy Klein |
Poul Webb's third collection of poems. An artist as well as a writer, he has an observant eye for the everyday as well as the exotic. A pathway becomes ‘like a grey zipper across the glistening grass’ in an urban park, a bridge is ‘lifted from a Japanese print ... silvered and striated with age..’ and there is ‘Plankiness’ in the sound of feet upon it. Whether he writes of city coffee shops and their clientele or the beauty of mountains in north Africa and the daily grind of the people living there, these are highly crafted, often lyrical poems.
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'Fiona Sinclair's poems capture the untidiness and unexpectedness of life. Her world is various, messy and unrespectable, and we read her with a joyful recognition that she has looked at parts of experience that most poets are too polite to explore. There is nobody else quite like her.'
George Simmers |
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'Heather Moulson describes [the world of a teenager in the 1960's] with hilarious undertones ... With a bit of laughter, life is worth living in spite of some disappointments and frustrations. The stories she tells in her poems ... are about family, school, girlfriends and boyfriends [and always carry] a final punch line that humorously points out the contradictions and inconsistencies of being human.'
– Carla Scarano |
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