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The Hole in the Sum of My Parts
by Matt Harvey
Whimsical, perceptive, affectionate and above all funny, Matt Harvey’s poems and stories can be enjoyed by people of all ages, backgrounds and body-types.
This beautifully produced book with special illustrations by David Hughes is the perfect poetry present, gathering together the best of Matt’s poems for the first time.
Matt Harvey has recently been appointed Wimbledon Championships Poet 2010.
TO A VERY SPECIAL SLOPE
You’re such a radiant gradient
A smooth one, not a hilly one
Your red-rimmed sign says you’re one in nine
But to me you’re one in a million
UK price: £9
80 pages
Ludbrooke: An Introduction
by Alan Brownjohn
In this stylish new pamphlet from The Poetry Trust, Alan Brownjohn introduces Ludbrooke, his eponymous anti-hero.
“I’ve found somebody fictitious to represent the disagreeable elements in my own character”, Alan explains. “He’s devious and up to all sorts of furtive ruses. In fact Ludbrooke has more than a little seedy panache!”
This is the first time Alan’s ‘Ludbrooke’ poems have been brought together in one volume and according to Alan Jenkins, Literary Editor of the TLS, “Alan’s late flowering with Ludbrooke is one of the best things going on in poetry at the moment.”
Another fan is Dennis O’Driscoll: “Alan is astonishing: the Ludbrooke poems are among his very best – a brilliantly wry creation, lovably roguish, yet deeply vulnerable too… It’s an inspired idea of publish a pamphlet of them: I’ve been assembling a kind of samizdat Brownjohn pamphlet of my own by cutting out Ludbrooke poems whenever the artful character pops up in a literary journal.”
There are just 300 limited edition copies of Ludbrooke: An Introduction and these can only be purchased direct from The Poetry Trust.
Enjoy Alan reading a ‘Ludbrooke’ poem on The Poetry Channel (on ‘The Poetry Prom Poets’)
UK price: £5
28 pages