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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
