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LOTTE KRAMER has been described as a “Holocaust poet” and it is true that she writes feelingly about the family and friends she left behind when she came to Britain in 1939 in the Kindertransport. But her canvas is much broader. She writes about the landscapes of modern Europe, about the Fen Country where she now lives and about paintings and literature. Her sensitive treatment of these subjects has been widely praised by other poets and readers alike. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Turning the Key is her thirteenth book – others include a bilingual volume published in Germany, a selection of her poems about the Kindertransport (published by the University of Sussex) and a selection of her poems translated into Japanese. There is also admiration among reviewers for her ‘Versions and Translations’ of the great German poets – Rilke, Hölderlin, Heine and Trakl. And there are many of her fine translations in this present volume.

ISBN 978-1-904851-30-1 -- Paperback, 64 pages, £7.99

 

 

 

WILLIAM OXLEY is one of the most widely travelled poets of our time, as well as one of the most widely-published. His poetry has appeared in The New York Times, The Spectator, The Independent and The Observer, as well as in innumerable other magazines and journals.  He has given readings of his work in places as far removed as Nepal, Canada and the South of France where his Poems Antibes was launched in 2006.  Sunlight in a Champagne Glass gathers together a selection of his poems since his collection of London poems, London Visions, appeared in 2005. William lives in Brixham, where he was poet-in residence for Torbay as part of the nation-wide Year of the Artist scheme in 2000/1; and in 2008 he received the Torbay ArtsBase award for literature. He has published many books of poetry and is a critic and playwright. He has lived and worked with many of the great names of modern poetry and this volume celebrates many of them with affection – Kathleen Raine, Michael Donaghy, Ken Smith, Jon Silkin among them.

ISBN 978-1-904851-29-5 -- Paperback, 112 pages, £7.99

 

 

The Thin Places is Judi Benson's third collection from Rockingham -- although she has appeared in many anthologies in the meantime. It was written while Judi was Writer-in-Residence at the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, in Oncology and Palliative Care, where she worked with patients, carers and staff who wished to express themselves through writing. "Judi Benson's new collection," writes Tom Pow, "encompasses many different geographies - from that of a London bookshop to Italy and the Balkans. She crosses borders between the present and the deep past in the powerful 'Burying the Ancestors', but most significantly in a series of memorable elegies for her late husband, the poet, Ken Smith, she maps out the territories of the living and the absent. These are poems of wisdom and 'desperate loneliness'. However her sympathies and her sensibilities are such that the resounding message of the collection as a whole, is Henry James's: 'Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.'

ISBN 978-1-904851-10-3 -- Paperback, 80pp. £7.95

 

 

In 1997, David Perman had a pamphlet The Buildings from Acumen Publications which included poems about his Islington childhood. His first full collection,A Wasp on the Stair, extends his range with poems about interviewing the Ayatollah Khomeini, the the horror of 9/11 from a different viewpoint, the world after apartheid and the grievous loss to Britain of the elm tree. There are also poems of humour, satire and love. The collection was given a launch at the Torbay Poetry Festival in October 2003.

ISBN 1 873468 970 -- Paperback, 88pp. £7.95