Books Received
This page was last updated
02 February 2007
If you would like to review any of the following books for Sol, contact solmag(at)solpubs.freeserve.co.uk by e-mail or write to Sol Magazine, Sol Publications, PO Box 5828, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 9FA, England, UK. Books for review should be sent to the same address.
THE STERILE SEED by Jose Z. Tallet. Bilingual edition in Spanish and English. Published by Cefatex International, P.O. Box 144311, Coral Gables, FL 33114-4311, USA. Email: cefatex@aol.com. Perfect bound. 371pp. ISBN 0-9656232-8-9. Received 30/9/05.
POSTCARDS TO OLYMPUS by Derek Adams. Winner of the Open Poetry Monthly Booklet Competition. Published by Poetry Monthly Press, 39 Cavendish Road, Long Eaton, Nottingham, NG10 4HY. A5. Card cover. 28pp. Price: £4.00. ISBN 1-905126-05-0. Received 15/1/05.
THE WILLOW POND by Mervyn Linford. A 1950s childhood in South East Essex as told by the well-known poet. Perfect bound. 276pp. Price: £9.99. ISBN 0-9541844-2-4. Received 25/12/04.
KICKING LOU'S ARSE ~ a selection of poems by Alun Rees. Published by Bucephalus Press, 67 Hady Crescent, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 0EB, England, UK. A5. Card cover. 64pp. Price: £3.00. ISBN 0-903212-02-1. Received 30/10/04.
ATOMIC by Steve Davies. Published by Odyssey Poets, Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey, Somerset, England, UK. Perfect bound. 101pp. Price £6.00. ISBN 1-897654-78-2. Received 5/10/04.
SOUTHEND POETRY 20 ~ Poems by Adrian Green, Liz Rowlands, Christine Billington, Dorothy Turner, John Abrahams, Derek Adams, Mervyn Linford, the late Peter Marks, Malcolm E. Wright, Katie Mallett, Patricia Aves and other members of the Southend Poetry Group. Published by Southend Poetry Group. A5. Card cover. 40pp. Price £3.00. ISBN 0-9538784-4-9. Received 2/6/04.
RESCRIPT ~ selected poems by David Holliday. Published by Bucephalus Press, 67 Hady Crescent, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 0EB, England, UK. A5. Card cover. 62pp. Price: £3.00. ISBN 0-903212-01-3. Received 31/03/04.
ERL-KING'S BRIDE by Margot K. Juby. Poetry. Published by Moonshine Press, 48 Clifton Street, Hull, HU2 9AP, England, UK. A5. Card cover. 44pp. Price: £3.50. Received 19/1/04.
GHOSTLY RIDERS by Phil Carradice. Poetry. Young adult. Illustrated by Maggy Roberts. Published by Pont Books, Gomer Press Llandysul, Ceredigion, SA44 4QL, Wales, UK. Price: £4.95. Paperback. 48pp. ISBN 1-84323-088-7. Website: www.gomer.co.uk. Order by e-mail - gwasg@gomer.co.uk. Received 10/02/03.
THE BOSUN'S SECRET by Phil Carradice. Novel. Young adult. Published by Pont Books, Gomer Press Llandysul, Ceredigion, SA44 4QL, Wales, UK. Price: £4.95. Paperback. 98pp. ISBN 1-85902-719-9. Website: www.gomer.co.uk. Order by e-mail - gwasg@gomer.co.uk. Received 10/02/03.
HOW DO YOU SPELL BL...GH? and other stories by Ian Robinson. Published by Redbeck Press, 24 Aireville Road, Frizinghall, Bradford, BD9 4HH, England, UK. Price: £7.95. ISBN 0-946980-97-7. Paperback. 92pp. Received 25/10/02.
MY DOG IS A CARROT by John Hegley. Published by Walker Books Ltd, Vauxhall Walk, London, SE11 5HJ, England, UK. Price: £5.99. ISBN 0-7445-8633-X. Paperback. 64pp. Received 6/8/02.
CARS STARS ELECTRIC GUITARS by James Carter. Illustrated by Mique Moriuchi. Published by Walker Books Ltd, Vauxhall Walk, London, SE11 5HJ, England, UK. Price: £3.99. ISBN 0-7445-8635-6. Paperback. 64pp. Received 6/8/02.
WITHIN THE LIGHT OF A DARKENED POINT by Meleeze Zenda. Published by United Press Ltd, 1 Yorke Street, Burnley, BB11 1HD, England, UK. Price: £3.99. ISBN 1-902803-1-8. A5. Card cover. 20pp. Received 15/5/02.
BETELGEUSE by Don Stallybrass. Published by LITTLEbigWORDS Poetry Press, 62 Willowhale Green, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 4LW, England, UK. Price: £1.50. A6. 12pp. Received 9/5/02.
LATEX ANGELS by Navat. Prose pieces. Published by Kill Factory Six, PO Box 124768, Horton Plaza Station, San Diego, CA 92112-4768, USA. No price. A5. Card cover. Received 11/3/02.
SHAKESPEAREAN VARIATIONS by Ralph McInerny. Published by St Augustine's Press, South Bend, Indiana, USA. Price: £7.00. Distributed by The Saint Austin Press, PO Box 28, Tenby, Wales, SA69 9ZB, UK. ISBN 1-890318-90-6. Paperback. 158pp. Received 13/2/02.
BLACKBIRD SINGING ~ Poems and lyrics by Paul McCartney. Edited and with an Introduction by Adrian Mitchell. Published by Faber & Faber. Price: £14.99. ISBN 0-571-20789-8. Hardback. 164pp. Received 23/12/01.
DANCING NAKED TO BEETHOVEN by Robert Cole. Published by the Brobdingnagian Times Press, 96 Albert Road, Cork, Ireland. Price: £3.99. ISBN 0-953063-66-6. A5. 32pp. Card cover. Received 20/12/01.
AUTUMN MANUSCRIPT by Mervyn Linford. Published by The Littoral Press, 38 Barringtons, 10 Sutton Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 5NA, England, UK. Price: £3.50 plus 50p p&p. Cheques should be made payable to Mervyn Linford. Cover design by Derek Adams. ISBN 0-9541844-0-8. A5. 52pp. Card cover. Received 5/12/01.
SELECTED POEMS: ROY CAMPBELL ~ Edited and introduced by Joseph Pearce. Published by The Saint Austin Press, 296 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2RA, England, UK. Price: £9.95. ISBN 1-901157-59-8. Tel: 0208-692-6009. Fax: 0208-469-3609. E-mail: books@saintaustin.org. Received 29/8/01.
OTHER WORLDS ~ A selection of short stories from twelve writers. Illustrated by John Light. Paperback. 132pp. Published by K.T. Publications, 16 Fane Close, Stamford, Lincolnshire, PE9 1HG, England, UK. Price: £4.95. (£5.50 by post; £8 overseas). ISBN 0-907759-13-0. Includes stories by John Light & Anthony North. Received 15/6/01.
RED HOT FIESTA ~ An anthology of poems from Ragged Raven Press, 1 Lodge Farm, Snitterfield, Warwickshire, CV37 0LR, England, UK. Price: £6. Perfect bound. 94pp. ISBN 0-9520807-7-X. Website: www.raggedraven.co.uk. Received 28/3/01.
KEEP WALKING by Robert Furze is a single long meditation on water towers in the Doncaster area, and while Robert's poem acknowledges the absurd aspect of this, it nevertheless manages to enter a strange, post-industrial world where these enigmatic, ignored objects...take on a mysterious significance. An adventurous poem...that discovers the lyrical ground beneath the everyday landscape. ISBN 1-899114-70-X. Price: £3.50. Published by Spout Publications, Kirklees Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 1RL, England, UK. 28pp.
FOUND OBJECTS by Mary Males. "...unclassifiable writings...surrounded with an abstract visual narrative...they show a deftness and tenderness that is reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's short fiction, but with a very English eye for the absurd and unexplainable." ISBN 1-899114-66-1. Price: £6.00. Published by Spout Publications, Kirklees Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 1RL, England, UK. 48pp.
GOING TO THE ISLAND by Miriam Scott. A series of 22 poems meditating on Bardsey Island, off the coast of North Wales. ISBN 1-899114-65-3. Price: £3.50. Published by Spout Publications, Kirklees Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 1RL, England, UK. 32pp.
JEWELLED TREE by Louise Cole. 25 intense, lyrical and passionate confrontations with death and grief, more like a journey than a book, but a journey which finds peace and resolution at its close. These poems are naked, honest reflections of the experience of bereavement, written with a direct force and clarity. ISBN 1-899114-61-0. Price: £3.50. Published by Spout Publications, Kirklees Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 1RL, England, UK. 32pp. More about Spout Publications can be found at www.wordhoard.co.uk.
FROM CHICAGO TO CANTERBURY: A Poetic Pilgrimage by Benedict Auer. Published by Curlew Press, Hare Cott, Kettlesing, Harrogate, Yorkshire, HG3 2LB, England, UK. A4. Card cover. 24pp. Received 16/2/01.
A WORD IN YOUR EYE ~ An Introduction to the Graphic Poem by Steve Sneyd. Price £3.75 or $8.00. Published by Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD5 8PB, England, UK. Sneyd does his usual job of detailing another critically-neglected aspect of modern poetry. A5. ISBN 0-905262-24-8. A5. 36pp. Received 10/2/01.
THE CLIFF HOUSE by Alan Marshfield. Published by Abraxas Press, 13 Copthall Gardens, Mill Hill, London, NW7 2NG, England, UK. Poems and notes on the poems. Part of the work is translations from the Italian of poems by Eugenio Montale, Giovanni Pascoli, Salvatore Quasimodo, Umberto Saba & Giuseppe Ungaretti. A5. 56pp. ISBN 0-9535477-7-9. Received 18/10/00.
PIER PRESSURE ~ Southend Poetry for the Millennium edited by Jean Owen. Price £3.00. No publisher's name & address. Perfect bound. 54pp. A neat little volume that includes poems on local themes by Christine Billington, Adrian Green, Katie Mallett and the editor herself. Received 1/9/00.
GESTALTMACHER, GESTALTMACHER, MAKE ME A GESTALT by Steve Sneyd. Price £5.99 or $12.00. Published by The Four Quarters Press, 7 The Towers, Stevenage, Herts, SG1 1HE, England, UK. A5. Perfect bound. 88pp. ISBN 0-95351-13-2-4. Received 15/8/00.
SOUTHEND POETRY 2000. Published by Southend Poetry Group. Price £2.00 plus p&p from Adrian Green, 44 Station Road, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 7HL, England, UK. ISBN 0-9538784-0-6. A5. Card cover. 40pp. Poems by Derek Adams, Robert Cole, Dorothy Gibson, Adrian Green, Mervyn Linford, Katie Mallett, Liz Rowlands, Malcolm E. Wright and many others. Received 5/7/00.
EACH BROKEN OBJECT by David Greenslade. Illustrations by Andy Penaluna. Published 2000, by Two Rivers Press, 35-39 London Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 4PS, England, UK. Price £6.95. ISBN 1-901677-230. Perfect bound. 64pp. Received 24/6/00.
POEMS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Vol. 1. Selected poems by P. J. Precious, 1972-1997. Published by The Curlew Press, Hare Cottage, Kettlesing, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 2LB, England, UK. February 1999. ISBN 0-9533479-0-7. Perfect bound. 104pp. Received 22/6/00.
CAFARD - Poems by Robert Cole. Published by Community of Poets Press, Hatfield Cottage, Chilham, Kent, CT4 8DP, England, UK. Price £3.20. ISBN 1-902529-06-5. A5. 44pp. Received 5/4/00.
AFTER HOURS, a joint collection by Margot K. Juby and John Mowat, produced to commemorate a final reading at the Haworth Arms in Hull. Nine poems each from these two excellent poets. Price £1.50 (includes p&p). Make cheques payable to Margot K. Juby. Published by Moonshine Press, 48 Clifton Street, Hull HU2 9AP. Received 27/11/99.
LOVE AND REVOLUTION - Mini multi-lingual poetry collection by Steve Sneyd and Anja Moskon, with drawings by Claudia Parantela. Price $1. Published by You and Me Press, Poljska 29, 40315 M.Sredisée, Croatia. 20pp. Received 20/7/99.
HOLDING HANDS WITH PRUFROCK by David Goodall. Poems re-drafted from their original appearance in magazines and arranged to form a fictional sequence. Price £2 plus 50p p&p. Available from the author at 64 Hawkswood Drive, Hailsham, East Sussex BN27 1UR. Published by Cherrybite Publications. A5. 36pp. ISBN 1-900447-17-7. Received 4/5/99.
TWELVE by Stephen Morris. Poems and visuals by a Birmingham-born poet/artist who now lives in the South of France. Price £3.95. Published by The Moving Finger, PO Box 2923, Smethwick, West Midlands B67 5AG. 32pp. Perfect bound. ISBN 1-87129656-0. Received 27/11/98.
JOURNEY TO THE FIRESIDE by Chris Roe. A short selection of verse by a Christian poet. Illustrations by Paul Roe. Price £1.50. Cheques should be made payable to Chris Roe. Published by Word Pictures Publications, 13 Church Road, Bergh Apton, Norwich, Norfolk NR15 1BP. A5. 20pp. Received 6/11/98.
KINDRED SPIRIT by Chris Roe. A selection of verse by a Christian poet. Illustrations by Paul Roe. Price £1.50. Cheques should be made payable to Chris Roe. Published by Word Pictures Publications, 13 Church Road, Bergh Apton, Norwich, Norfolk NR15 1BP. A5. 24pp. Received 6/11/98.
PURPLE by Bryan Roy. Part one of an autobiographical fantasy. Price £2.99. Published by Underground Publications, Chichester PO19 1BE. A5. 68pp. ISBN 0-9533793-0-2. Received 21/9/98.
TRIPLE WHAMMY by Margot K. Juby. Price £4.50 plus 50 p&p from Braquemard, 20 Terry Street, Hull HU3 1UD. A grouping together in one volume of Margot Juby’s first three collections, Femme Fatale, Pandora’s Box and Grey. Perfect bound. 64pp. ISBN 0 9527113 0 3. Received 12/2/96.
THE MUTINY POEMS. This anthology contains one poem by each of 12 readers from the second series of Mutiny Readings held at The Mutiny on the Bounty, High Street, Hull in November 1995 as part of the 4th Hull Literature Festival. The poets are Carol Coiffait, Graham Hamilton, Shane Rhodes, Dean Wilson, Audrey Dunne, James L. Orwin, Tony Petch, John Robinson, Brian Connell, Andy Fletcher, Margot K. Juby and Patrick Simpson. Published by The Mutiny Poets, c/o Newland Bookshop, 14 Newland Avenue, Hull HU5 3AF. A5. 16pp. Received 12/12/95.
CDs & Tapes
JOHN BARTLES IS A LIAR!!! And he must die in order to protect his accusers from being exposed! He almost died laughing making this album. Audiocassette. Available from John Bartles, PO Box 106, Livonia Center, NY 14488, USA.
MELODRAMA - a
poetry-music CD by Ten Thousand Monkeys. Available from Chris
Feik, 152 Brunswick Road, Brunswick 3056, Melbourne VIC Australia.
Received 4/12/02.