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This week sees the launch of a prodigious new talent on the poetry scene. Inroads is the debut collection from Carolyn Jess-Cooke, a Northern Irish poet now based in North East England who has already received many awards and widespread recognition for her work.
Published by Seren, and launching at Newcastle's City Library this Thursday, Inroads is a sophisticated mix of modernised myth and legend, playful experiment and multi-faceted insight into modern life and young motherhood.
It has been described by Carol Rumens as "a sparkling variety-act, choreographed with a strong but daring sense of form... Jess-Cooke is a poet who revels in the magical pleasure of language, and readers will enjoy sharing it with her."
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Readers of the sports pages will have spotted, in The Times on Saturday, the story of long-suffering Rochdale FC – a football club now on the brink of success after years in the mire – as recounted by Mark Hodkinson, lifelong fan and founder of Pomona Books.
His book about his club, Believe in the Sign, was hailed as one of the sports books of the year for 2009 in both The Guardian and The Times. It's best described as a 'sort of a memoir': about a normal, average boy who would have grown up happily average and normal but for a dark and perverse passion: the seductive lure of devotion to a no-hope, near-derelict football club...
Mark Hodkinson has also written a novel, The Last Mad Surge of Youth, this time about his other life's love, music. It was dubbed the 'rock novel of 2009' by Q magazine and received widespread critical acclaim in the likes of The Observer, The Times and Mojo Magazine.
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Today we celebrate World Book Day 2010, the biggest celebration of books and reading across the UK and Ireland. And while the focus is rightly on schools and children, there's no reason why the adults can't join in, is there?
Launched this coming Monday are the latest poems from Simon Armitage, perhaps the UK's foremost poet, playwright, biographer and novelist: "the front man of his generation", according to Poetry Review. The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in its Own Right will be published on 8th March, and is available to pre-order now.
Simon Armitage is also the author of The Not Dead, a collection of poems on modern warfare that draws on the experiences of veterans of the Gulf, Bosnia and Malaya, and originally aired on a Channel 4 documentary film of the same name in 2007.
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Launching this month is Richard Aronowitz's second novel, It's Just the Beating of My Heart. Published by Flambard Press, this is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Five Amber Beads, which received sterling praise in the likes of The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and The Financial Times.
It's Just the Beating of My Heart launches this Thursday (4th March) at Daunt Books, Fulham Road, London. If you'd like to be there, and for more details, click here.
Not for Specialists, the new and selected poems of Pulitzer Prize-winner W.D. Snodgrass, has received special attention and acclaim in this week's Times Literary Supplement.
In his review, Henry Shukman describes Not for Specialists, published by the Waywiser Press, as "an invaluable overview of Snodgrass's career" and "a ready and welcome gathering of Snodgrass's best work for the British reader".
The collection has already garnered similar praise from the likes of The Guardian, The New York Times, and the author and broadcaster Clive James.
W.D. Snodgrass was born in Pennsylvania in 1926. In 1960 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his first book of poems, Heart's Needle, featured here alongside works from seven other distinguished collections, and 35 previously unreleased poems written before the author's death in 2009.
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