<p>'Meet one-eyed, opera-singing Pepek who flees war-ravaged Europe haunted by the ghost of a policeman he killed for beating a horse. He'll lead you down the cobblestone streets of Okres Krupina, take you digging for oysters, "those jelly-kisses from the sea", and treat you as an honoured guest at his wedding to Bata, 'his little Shoe', where "someone plays a balalaika and sings the Bride's Lament during the splitting of the braid". Turn the heavy brass knob, push open the door and step into Joyce Ellen Davis's enchanted world. You may never wish to leave.' Joyce Ellen Davis is a writer from Salt Lake City, Utah, where she resides with one husband, two dogs and a lovebird. She has five sons and is a grandmother of eight. Her novel Chrysalis received a $5,000 publication grant and was nominated for the American Book Award. Her first poetry collection, In Willy's House, won her a USPS Laureate Award. She has also co-authored a poetry textbook, On Extended Wings.</p>

Pepek the Assassin

Literature & Fiction

Davis, Joyce Ellen

Poetry

Pindrop Press

You Do Not Need Another Self-Help Book is Sarah Salway's first poetry collection. Her poems have won significant prizes in competitions organized by Poetry London, the Essex Poetry Festival and The New Writer, and have appeared in publications including the Financial Times, the Virago Book of Shopping, Mslexia, Pen International and Poetry London. Sarah is the current Canterbury Laureate, and author of three novels and a collection of short stories. Her website is www.sarahsalway.net In this stunning debut collection, imagination is indeed 'the single currency' as bankers burn stocks for fuel, Icarus's sister goes shopping, a muse talks back and God plays a prank on the worlds' backsides. Here too are poems that, with uncanny insights and a keen wit, expose the workings of the family, bearing witness not only to our epiphanies but to what fails to sustain us.

You Do Not Need Another Self-Help Book

Salway, Sarah

<p>Kiran Millwood Hargrave was born in London in 1990. The British Shakespeare Assocation commissioned her first pamphlet Scavengers. Her poetry and short stories have been selected to feature in publications such as The New Writer, Aviary, The Forest Book of Bedtime Stories and Orbis. Last March was produced in collaboration with the Scott Polar Research Institute to mark the centenary of Captain Scott's final expedition to the South Pole. This astonishing collection transports the reader to the 'last place without men' - a place that, for all our civilisation, we can still be rubbed to 'knuckles' by the extremity of the weather, the isolation. And though the poems are rooted in history, there is a chilling message here for the future: 'that water, with seeping insouciance, really can unmake stone'.</p>

Last March

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood

In his debut collection, Things That Are Silent, Rethabile Masilo has crafted poems that bear witness to seemingly unnoticed events. Whether it's a tribute to Sharpeville or an indictment of apartheid from a lover's tongue, Masilo's lyrical voice attests the fervent need to preserve memory from the quotidian crush of collective amnesia. Geoffrey Philp

Things That Are Silent

Masilo, Rethabile

The Chongololo Club

Burchell, Graham

The Instinct Against Death

Gillespie, Emer

The Yellow Table

Stubbersfield, Alicia

Angel Visits

Ely, Garry

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Morley, Abegail

Spearmint & Rescue

Russell, Mark

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