Red Squirrel supports the Lit & Phil
Red Squirrel Press is facilitating three fundraising events this autumn in support of The Literary & Philosophical Society's Appeal.
Join us at 7.00 pm on Wednesday 8th September to hear local poets, Tom Kelly and Alistair Robinson read from James Kirkup's A Bewick Bestiary. Originally published in 1971, reprinted in 2009 by Red Squirrel Press as promised to James Kirkup before his death, the book features woodcuts by Thomas Bewick accompanied by poems by James Kirkup.
Tickets, available from the Lit & Phil cost £5 non-members, £3 Lit & Phil members. Free Refreshments.
See our Events page for news of other Lit & Phil fundraising events, and all Red Squirrel readings and launches.
About Red Squirrel Press
Red Squirrel Press is an independent publisher based in Northumberland, formed in April 2006 by Sheila Wakefield and aiming to publish both novels and 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 time scale.
As of February 2010, Red Squirrel Press is a member of Inpress, which represents independent publishers across the UK; this means that all our books are available from Inpress, as well as direct from the publisher here at Red Squirrel. Visit Inpress Books to see some of the best new publications in poetry and prose.
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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Last updated 3rd September 2010.