Everybody’s Reading Festival 2017
As part of this year’s Everybody’s Reading Festival in Leicester, Traverse Poetry Trading Cards will host a reading event at: The Exchange Bar (in the cellar) Mon 2nd October 6:30pm – 9pm FREE to attend Put a poet in your pocket! Come along to hear great poetry, pick up one of our FREE cards and […]
Fledgling Award – Dad’s Slideshow Highly Commended
Stonewood is delighted to announce that Dad’s Slideshow by Di Slaney was shortlisted and then Highly Commended in the Fledgling Award (2014/15) judged by Martin Figura. The brand new Fledgling Award celebrates debut pamphlets and collections by poets over the age of 40, the shortlist was: Jemma Borg The Illuminated World (Eyewear Publishing) Meg Cox Looking at Sodom […]
Autumn duos
I’m very excited by the new book coming out in November (Lace by Susan Wicks and Elizabeth Clayman), which caps off Stonewoods autumn events. And I also just wanted to let you know a few bits of nice news about a couple of our writers. The wonderful Loose Muse will be featuring Di Slaney and […]
John Lucas reviews Dad’s slideshow
Source: John Lucas reviews a mixed bag of recent poetry collections from both sides of the Atlantic (Londongrip) Reviews of: Down Stranger Roads by Roger Craik, Dad’s Slideshow by Di Slaney, Millenium Blues by Evan Gwyn Williams Extract (Dad’s slideshow): There is far less stony ground in Di Slaney’s attractively produced debut collection. The back […]
Di Slaney’s hats & the Lowdham Book Festival
So I find myself wearing three hats at Lowdham Book Festival this year… …but fortunately not all at the same time. This is very unexpected because I’m usually at this lovely local book festival in my comfortable third hat of publisher, as myself and my business partner Jenny Swann always have a stall on the […]
Stonewood Poetry at Lowdham Book Festival
Join poets Jacqueline Gabbitas, Anna Robinson and Di Slaney as they read from their recent collections: Dad’s Slideshow (Di Slaney), Small Grass (Jacqueline Gabbitas) and The Night Library (Anna Robinson) on Saturday 27th June at the wonderful Lowdham Book Festival, Notts. They’re reading from 2.00 – 3.00 pm in the Marquee behind the Village Hall. […]
Father’s Day Special Offer for Dad’s Slideshow
Put aside the boxer shorts with Homer Simpson on, the badly spelled mug with Wrolds Best Dad! and the Old Spice aftershave, and get your father a beautiful pocket book of poems to show him how much you love him on Father’s Day. Dad’s Slideshow by Di Slaney is a daughter’s love song to her […]
The Night Library
Our newest title, The Night Library by Anna Robinson with artwork by Martin Parker, is a wonderful and timely poetry pamphlet about libraries and what happens when they close their doors. “…inventive and full of intriguing new perspectives, The Night Library is indeed a love song to libraries and librarians everywhere.” – Penelope Shuttle “…this […]
New Thumbprint – Dad’s Slideshow by Di Slaney
Dad’s Slideshow is a poetry sequence charting a family’s ancestry over a lifetime and includes a range of different voices – vividly captured in carefully constructed forms. Di Slaney’s deft and evocative poems are a living testimony of what survives long after the events recorded in a family album. She writes movingly about relationships, tracing […]
