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 […]
States of Independence
Book fair Our next outing is at States of Independence at De Montfort University on Saturday 12th March. Now in its seventh year States of Independence is a free book fair with free events and talks throughout the day. Find out more here: www.statesofindependence.co.uk Come along to our stall and say hello! Free of charge […]
Brittle Star Writing Competition 2016
From the editors of Brittle Star magazine CLOSING DATE EXTENDED TO 18 MARCH Brittle Star‘s second writing competition was sent out into the big wide world at the launch of issue 37 and because we’re such chatty people here at the magazine we want to tell you all about it. Two years ago we launched […]
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 […]
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. […]
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.
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, […]
