The latest poetry collection from Michael W. Thomas. Here you will find dark corners that exist for good reasons and are most carefully explored, and also much light and hopefulness.
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Old Houses – Megan Wheeler
Megan Wheeler won the University of Worcester Black Pear Press Prize for Fiction 2023 and her debut novel Old Houses is available now. A launch date will be set soon and we’ll let you know when that happens. This is a fabulous story of teenagers in an old house and their spooky experiences – a gripping read.
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Congratulations!
To all of the poets who appear in Rhianna Levi’s anthology ‘Life’s Wonders’, there follows a link to a marvellous review by Neil Leadbeater in ‘Write Out Loud’. Congratulations! We at Black Pear Press are thrilled for all of you. You can see it here: Write Out Loud
Good news!
Black Pear Press is delighted to introduce a new member to our team. Charley Barnes is joining Tony and Polly to help with editing and social media. You can find out a bit more about Charley by clicking here.
We thought we’d take the opportunity to show you our little ‘interns’, each member of the team has them, so here are their photos.
Tony’s helpers are Luna and Merlin, seen here hard at work!
Polly’s little ones, at full attention, are Mabel and Tilly, here they are:
And you may have seen Charley’s intern, Benji, online before, working hard:
Worcestershire LitFest Young Writer and Flash Fiction Anthologies 2023
The 2023 Young Writer and Flash Fiction Anthologies from Worcestershire LitFest were launched in November. Young Writers read their stories and flash fiction writers entertained us both live and online.
The Greatest Forgiveness of All – Worcestershire LitFest Young Writer Anthology 2023
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Time and Tides – Worcestershire LitFest Flash Fiction Anthology 2023
Available by post in the UK only: £6.00 +P&P
Congratulations, Ade Couper
The Poetry Book Awards 2023 full longlist has been published and we’re delighted to see Ade Couper’s ‘Made of Stories’ featured. Hearty congratulations to Ade.
Order ‘Made of Stories’ for UK delivery here:
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Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2022-2023 launches her new collection
Rhianna Levi launched ‘Ghosts Hold Umbrellas In Rainfall’ in October 2023. Rhianna was joined by guest readers, who read some of their own poems and some selected from Rhianna’s collection.
£6.50 +P&P UK only
‘We should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.’ ~ Hayao Miyazaki
The boat takes the masked soul across the wall,
the unknown person remains obscure,
their identity stripped away in a realm against meetings
of forgiveness across crooked medical tables.
An extract from ‘Masking Criminality’
Mark Billen and Mogs’s Launch Party
Mark Billen and Mogs (Johnny ‘Mogs’ Morris) launched their latest books at Script Haven, Worcester’s newest independent bookstore and community cafe, in September. This is Mark’s third book of stories, ‘The Folk of the Forest’, featuring rural life in southern England, many of the tales are humorous, yet nostalgic for a way of life that has been swept away by modernity. Mogs’ ‘Poems You Won’t Learn At School’ is the long-awaited follow-up to ‘Poems Your Parents Won’t Like’. More of Mogs’ wonderful humour from this ever-popular children’s poet.
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