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Steve Whitaker has written a lovely long and considered Yorkshire Times review for Home on the Move, our new poetry in translation anthology recently launched at Ledbury Poetry Festival: "What is fascinating about the premise of this short, interwoven, collection of poems and images is that it does not demand an actual journey; this homage to place is linear only in the sense of a formal progression from one poetic impression to the next. Home on the Move commences with poems about two notional odysseys across Europe – one in the East, one West – conceived, respectively, by Rafal Gawin and...

A great turnout at Cardiff MADE yesterday for the launch of two debut poetry titles by Roberto Pastore and Kittie Belltree. Here are some snaps: Books and Wine – A winning combo! A captivated audience! A young cover artist with her two first covers for us as Lianette Art and Design, with jacket design by Emily Courdelle. Bert with his serious poet glasses on! 

Here are some snaps from our launch of our new poetry in translation title Home on the Move at Ledbury Poetry Salon on Friday night with readings from Jim Dening, Margaret Adkins, Jacqui Rowe and myself playing Deryn Rees-Jones for one night only. All followed by an excellent open mic. Thanks for having us!  Susie x  

Here are some of a selection of great photos taken by Simon Oconnor of the poetry extravaganza recent Cardiff launch event for J. Brookes' new and selected poems. Featuring a plethora of names from the very well established to the emerging on the Cardiff Spoken Word Scene, with a wonderful plentiful audience to boot, much fun was had. Here's a selection:   See the album in full on Facebook Find out more about J. Brookes  

There was a great feature on J.Brookes' Selected Poems: Hymns Ancient & Modern in the Western Mail on Saturday. Here are some of his answers for the piece:  Tell me a bit about how and why you became a poet? 'In the 50s my father had an EP record called Red Bird, the poems of Christopher Logue, read by the poet to the jazz of the Tony Kinsey Quintet, and these, titles like "Drunk as drunk on Turpentine" and "Blue Shoes" seemed very exciting and beautiful. Then, later, when I was a teen, "The Mersey Sound", a collection by Adrien...