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 […]
Stonewood 3x3x3 in Nottinghamshire
3x3x3: Three Poets, Three Artists, Three Libraries Take three poets, match them up with three artists, and the results are three very different books. Over 33 days in September and October, three Nottinghamshire libraries will simultaneously host exhibitions of poetry and art from three Stonewood titles: Small Grass, The Night Library and Lace. As part […]
New Thumbprints
We are delighted to be launching two new Thumbprint pocket books in June: Paul Blake‘s debut chapbook A Massacre of Hummingbirds and Sue MacIntyre‘s Green City – a quiet love song to the city. The joint launch is at 7pm on Thursday 30th June at Keats House. Please RSVP to stonewoodpress@gmail.com by 25th June. Do […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our very first newsletter
Welcome… to our first ever newsletter Every now and again we’ll send you news about our books, events, launches and other lovely literary shenanigans we might get up to. In our first issue we’re really happy to be able to tell you about our new authors Di Slaney & Sarah Passingham and their books. We’ve […]
Poem of the week – Poetry Book Society
Last week Poetry Book Society selected ‘Grass speaks at the foot of Volcano‘ as their “poem of the week” from Small Grass by Jacqueline Gabbitas. Click on the image (below) to enlarge.
Sounds of the Front Bell – Review
The long and short of it – Thomas Ovans It can quickly be said that Sounds of the Front Bell seems like quite a bargain. Attractively produced in pocket size and priced at only £4.99, it presents an introduction to a dozen poets, more than half of whom were new to me. […] This is […]
Hoad and other stories – Review
EDP Saturday Magazine – 25/10/2014 There’s not a word wasted in any of these stories.” Trevor Heaton
Small Grass Launch: London
I’ve never thought of grass talking before, but after reading this sequence, with its delicate and sharp voices, I may not be able to walk on it again without listening. – Pascale Petit We are delighted to be launching Small Grass by Jacqueline Gabbitas and Frances Barry at the Barbican Library, London on 1st September, […]
