When You Lived Inside The Walls launch
We’re delighted to invite you to the launch of Krishan Coupland’s first collection of short stories When You Lived Inside The Walls and Other Stories on Thursday 9th February at 7pm at The Sir Garnet, 36 Market Place, Norwich NR2 1RD. When You Lived… is at once dark and tender, mundane and extraordinary. The stories here speak of strange realities where a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A short review of Hoad, July 2015
A short review of Hoad and Other Stories features on Five Leaves Bookshop blog. “Stonewood has taken care with the production of this short book [Hoad and Other Stories] containing three stories. The format is the size of the a postcard and the whole is easy to read on a short train journey…” by Ross […]
The Reading List
Source: The Reading List, week 2 by Robin Houghton “The weather has been so good lately it’s tempting to go out for a walk (or a pub lunch!) rather than read. But I’m enjoying the discipline – I find last thing at night and first thing in the morning are good times to read. This week […]
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 […]
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 […]
