New imprint launch
Red Squirrel is the new home of the acclaimed Sand poetry chapbook series (previously based in Sunderland). Come and help us launch our new imprint with the publication of our first chapbook, Stevie Ronnie's The Thing To Do When You Are Not In Love (Sand Chapbook) on Monday 12 May at 7.00pm at the Lit & Phil (location).
More about The Thing To Do When You Are Not In Love.
Child from Water
Red Squirrel is committed to publishing both poetry and prose, so we are particularly pleased to distribute Sand's first novel, Child from Water by Maurice Dijon (otherwise known as Mike Dillon). Child from Water was launched in Edinburgh on April 17th 2008; a north-east launch follows in June.
It is the Dark Ages, and it's getting darker. The despotic refime of Baron Urming is under threat from The Child Roland, an infant paladin whose idea of armour is a bucket with arm-holes. Will the Child be able to rouse the rusticated Heroes known as the Scum to righteous rebellion? Or will the henchmen of the evil Baron capture the Child before he and his Scum army can march on The Dark Tower and take it by storm? There may be short-cuts to the answers to these questions, but Child from Water ignores them. This is a book determined to go the pretty way.
About Red Squirrel Press
Red Squirrel Press is an independent publisher based in Northumberland, formed in April 2006 and aiming to publish mainly novels and some poetry (by commission only).
- RSP is 'author friendly'; it acknowledges the frustrations felt by authors sometimes when dealing with large publishers. It will offer carefully chosen authors input regarding title, cover etc. but must retain overall control in order to ensure a marketable result.
- RSP believes that there are times when one size does not fit all and therefore intend to be flexible regarding publishing techniques, using both traditional and digital methods depending on the individual novel or poetry collection.
- RSP will attempt to respond to submissions within an acceptable timescale.
Special Offer
Red Squirrel Press also distributes two books by Annette Chevalier and Pauline Plummer: Bamako to Timbukto and Palaver - Paintings and Poems about Sierra Leone. You can now buy both books for ONLY £8.00 (rrp £10.95)
Bamako to Timbukto - Paintings and Poems
Annette Chevalier and Pauline Plummer
"The reader feels the full force of the poet's experience. At the same time, though, the poems here are clear-eyed, always looking closely at and into this extraordinary world. Full of colour and rich with incident, theses lyrical and vividly descriptive poems are compelling, moving, and (rare in poetry) actually exciting."
Peter Sansom
£5.00
Palaver - Paintings and Poems about Sierra Leone
Annette Chevalier and Pauline Plummer
"These poems celebrate an encounter coloured always by the complexities of the colonial past, the post-colonial present. In them the traditional forms of English poetry, their joints loosened with a little palm wine, put on the bright singing cloths of Sierra Leone, pick up 'the raw pulse of wave and sand' and dance."
Gillian Allnutt
"Palaver is a vivid, sensuous, compassionate and intelligent collection - each person has an emotional and moral centre, nicely judged, not presuming too much intimacy."
James Simmons
£5.95
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Thanks to Allan Potts for the Red Squirrel photograph.
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Last updated 2nd May 2008.