Fantastic Summer Sale
For July & August we are offering a range of great books in sets (plus one individual book) combining some of our best poetry and fiction to bring you excellent value and superb summer reading
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- Meirion House
- Tanygrisiau
- Blaenau Ffestiniog
- Gwynedd
- LL41 3SU
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Stale Bread and Miracles By Jan Fortune-Wood £6.00 Introductory offer
Pre order: published Sepetmber 2008.
Jan Fortune-Wood’s novelised sequence of prose poems reveal the essence of an institutionalised world that is outwardly safe, yet constantly on the edge of danger. There is a dark, subtle wit at work in this finely written and highly innovative exposé of ecclesiastical power turned inwards against itself. The writing is a tour de force, combining the lyric, rhythmic pulse of poetry with the narrative power of prose.
In Stale Bread & Miracles the reader is engaged in a drama that is as tragi-comic as it is stark. Intelligent, crafted, darkly humorous and formerly inventive, Fortune-Wood places every word with precision, building up a poetic narrative that is both disconcerting and compelling.
The Scots Connection £16.00 - 3 for 2
Award winning poetry from Scotland to New Zealand – Jane McKie’s Morocco Rococo was awarded Sundial Scottish Arts Best First Book of the Year Award earlier this year. Buy it with Robin Lindsay Wilson’s formerly inventive, lucid Ready Made Bouquets and New Zealand poet (of Scottish descent) Iain Britton’s superbly observed, highly acclaimed Hauled Head First into a Leviathan (Iain has already been offered a contract with a large Australian publisher on the strength of this debut).
Cinnamon Irish Poets £16.00 - 3 for 2
From new to established voices these three poets move from landscape to world issues, from family to internal states with grace and honesty. Three of our most popular poets attracting wide ranging critical acclaim – Fred Johnston’s finely observedThe Oracle Room, moving from protest to tenderness; Catherine Brennan’s ability to seep under the skin inBeneath the Deluge & Frank Dullaghan’s precise lyricism & wit inOn the Back of the Wind
Cinnamon Welsh Poets 1 £16.00 - 3 for 2
With the range and verbal dexterity of established poet Herbert Williams’Wrestling in Mud; the vision of Marilyn Jenkins’ Close Distances, travelling across global and interior landscapes, and the honesty, humanity and wit of Lloyd Rees’ Simple Arithmetic this is a set of books that will go on giving pleasure.
Cinnamon Welsh Poets 2 £16.00 - 3 for 2
Some of our most innovative poets are also our most local – reaching out to readers everywhere. christopher brooke’s & the concept of zero has been a firm favourite since publication and if you haven’t read it yet you’re missing out – with the eye of a documentary realist this is “poetry of velocity” (Peter Finch); Susan Richardson’s Creatures of the Intertidal Zone is a Cinnamon best-seller and it’s not hard to see why – every word is placed with precision – journeying from the Arctic (Susan trekked in the footsteps of an 11 th century Viking woman explorer) to modern environmental concerns this collection is simply brilliant; Richard Marggraf Turley won this year’s Keats-Shelley prize. His poetry in The Fossil-Box resounds with a sense of place and the language of memory – “alert to the strata of human experience” (John Barnie)
Welcome to the North £16.00 - 3 for 2
Bob Beagrie is getting a lot of great reviews and rightly so – travelling from Celtic to Finnish mythology with some North-East idiom along the way Yoik is shamanic, original, linguistically inventive, “everything here is utterly convincing” (David Woolley); Joan Hewitt’s Missing the Eclipse was launched in May and is already making itself heard – passionate, poignant, unflinching and more; Judy Kendall’s The Drier The Brighteris another of our best-seller’s – finely crafted, intelligent writing , “a collection of scintillating clarity” (Barbara Dordi)
Cinnamon US Poets £16.00
Our newest collection,Evening Land by Adam Chiles, originally from Yorkshire and living in Virginia,is, precise and lyrical – moving from memory to land, image to word, this is sure to be a best-seller;Irish citizen and New York based Tim Keane’s Alphabets of Elsewherecharts relationships lost and found and maps the unexpected routes to all those elsewheres we can find in the very language that we live, while Kentucky poet and lecturer, Kelly Moffett’s Waiting for a Warm Body to Fill It unites the sensuous and the transcendent, “woven from the shimmer and ache of the most essential questions’” (Mary Ann Samyn)
The Relic Environments Trilogy£16.00
With the publication this month of Estill Pollock’s Designs for Living the Relic Environments trilogy is complete (Relic Environments; Available Light & Designs for Living)– ranging from adaptations of fragments from a 9 th century Chinese courtesan to eye witness accounts of the Chernobyl disaster via 1920s Kentucky and dark, startling re-tellings of fairy tales that are “no fairy tale” these three collections showcase some of the finest modern poetry writing.
Distinctive Perspectives £16.00
Innovation is an important element of the books we publish and in these three collections the innovation shines through. Hazel Frankel is a South African writer and visual artist with a Russian-Jewish heritage, bringing a fresh way of looking at the world that bursts out of Drawing From Memory ; Louisa Adjoa Parker is a British-Ghanaian poet whose debut, Salt-sweat & Tears resounds with raw energy and lucid honesty – “She writes like a dream that will not let you go” (Selima Hill); Dana Littlepage Smith is an American poet and long term resident of Devon “speaking with many tongues from many horizons” (Pauline Stainer) – authentic, sometimes dark and full of passion Black Elk Dances for Queen Victoria is an exceptional debut collection.
Summer Reading Novels £16.00 - Normally £26.96
If it’s prose you’re looking for with stories to lose yourself in then treat yourself to three satisfying novels – Shanta Everington’s Marilyn and Me, currently serialised in the Western Mail, is the story of Jane aka Marilyn, who is determined to find her own sense of identity despite her learning disabilities and despite being left for dead at a bus stop; Francesca McMahon’s tragic-comic How to Marry the Dead follows Sue from the day her daughter dies for no reason – full of surprise and wit this is a firm favourite with anyone who reads it, while Jan Fortune-Wood’s Dear Ceridwen explores a new age community torn apart by accusations of abuse from the perspective of two mother’s – Caro, the wife of the accused, and Bethan, whose daughter Ceridwen disappeared on the day of the trial.
Innovative Fiction £16.00- Normally £26.97
As a small press we pride ourselves on being able to be adventurous with our books. Eva Shell by Kate North is a novel with a difference – written as a multi-genre narrative exploring identity & memory the novel moves through letters, columns, texts, poetry, diary entries and more – “one of the few novels written for grown-ups.” (John Freeman) Dinner Time by Holly Howitt is one of the most exciting books we’ve ever published – a collection of microfictions the pieces are deceptively simple, but make an impression far beyond their seeming brevity – moments of strangeness and epiphany combine in beautifully crafted, sometimes surreal, often astonishing finely honed miniature narratives – this is an author we will be hearing a lot more from. Jan Fortune-Wood’s The Standing Ground is a novel that combines a dystopic vision of the future based on erosions of current liberty with character archetypes drawn from the Mabinogi and Arthurian legend – all that in an accessible, gripping story.
Stories Plus £10.00 2 great anthologies normally £15.98
The Bus Stop Scheherazade is a sparkling anthology of short story writing from emerging new voices as well as established authors - The writers in The Bus Stop Scheherazade & other stories use language in such a way that the everyday becomes the extra-ordinary, taking us on journeys of imagination as well as across continents, while in Mint Sauce & other stories& poems we encounter some of the finest new voices writing today. In lucid prose and distinctive poetry we are taken from Bayou Lacombe in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina to the Indian Sub-continent with a daughter who is on a surprising trip; from shadow puppets to the moment when the bells rang and the world changed forever; from a Sunday kitchen where past and future lives mingle with the smells of cooking to an Irish diary farm. Two eclectic and engaging anthologies that will amuse, surprise, enlighten and enthral.
Because it's brilliant £5.00
Ann Drysdale's poignant, elegant account of a love story set against the back-drop of hospital cancer treatment, written in prose and poetry with line drawings by Philip Grey, Three-three, two-two, five-six.
A masterpiece, striking a perfect balance between the metaphysical, physical, emotional and institutional aspects of serious illness. What makes it extraordinary is not only the brilliance of the writing but also the profundity of Ann Drysdale's love for this man… something very rare in literature: great art that is also persuasive advocacy on a matter of the most urgent practical concern. (Raymond Tallis)
