Awen Publications

Helen Moore’s third major collection of poems, The Mother Country, is published by Awen on 1 May 2019. Helen is a poet of passion, power, and precision. She writes with a commitment to the world – the ecological, the political, the spiritual...

The question that haunts Ian Alexander MacDuffy is why the playwright Campbell McCluskie was murdered at 10.30 p.m. on Wednesday 16 June 1954, for that was the very moment that Ian’s mother died giving birth to him. The coincidence suggests that...

by Anthony Nanson I first read Forêt, terre et tabac, and another of Nicolas’ collections, Totem, about three years ago, in the course of...

by Anthony Nanson Green Man Dreaming: Reflections on Imagination, Myth, and Memory is a definitive gathering of Lindsay Clarke’s...

by Anthony Nanson The scale of Kevan’s output of poetry of this kind is prodigious, ranging from individual lyrics to ambitious epics....

On 19 August 2018 we gathered in the Ale House in Stroud to celebrate two things: the launch of Awen’s newest title, Silver Branch:...

Chrissy Derbyshire is a master of style – lyrical and accessible, archly ironic, and yet at the same time charged with the sensual...

Jay will be reading from the book at Hawkwood College, Stroud, on 20 April as part of an event with Andrew Harvey on the theme of sacred...

Ditch Vision is a book of essays on poetry, nature, and place that extends Jeremy Hooker’s thinking on subjects that, as a distinguished...

By Anthony Nanson So the twelve stories in The Firekeeper’s Daughter are threaded together by this theme, even though each story involves...

By Anthony Nanson compelling case for regarding as steampunk (among other things). Indeed, back in 2012 Kevan promoted the previous...

by Anthony Nanson Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils is rather more than a collection of poems. It will have a particular interest,...

by Gabriel Bradford Millar On Thursday 9 March @ Star Anise in Stroud a roomful of poetry aficionados were treated to a double book...

I am grateful to Anthony Nanson for inviting me to contribute a few lines on my poetry collection, Pilgrim Station, recently brought out...

Alchemy is best known as the age-old science of turning base metal into gold. But it is much more: essentially, it is a path of...

In a verse sequence that swoops between wit and ancient wisdom, between the mystical and the mischievous, award-winning novelist Lindsay...

By Kirsty Hartsiotis Fittingly, this image is from a kylix, an ancient Greek wine cup, the kind used at Greek symposia, parties where...

The Anthology of English Folk Tales (The History Press) released on 1 November, Kirsty Hartsiotis has been blogging about some of the...

By Richard Selby The beginning was one afternoon, five years ago, I forget exactly what I was doing, it would be good to say I was...

Jay Ramsay (Soul of the Earth) has brought out a poetry collection with Tayen Lane Publishing. Diamond Cutters names the tradition of...