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July 2009

New books forthcoming from Seraph Press

Seraph Press is getting back on the publishing horse this year, and will publish two new collections before Christmas.

The first is Watching for Smoke, a debut chapbook by Helen Heath. Helen is a writer and craft-maker from Paekakariki, who blogs at Show your Workings. This short collection gathers poems that explore the different roles we have, especially in our families, such as mother, wife, lover, daughter, sister, and the tensions within and between them. It circles around in time, and makes the domestic mythic. Watching for Smoke will be a limited-edition, hand-bound chapbook. It will be published in September 2009.

Also playing with the mythic in the every day is Vana Manasiadis's debut collection Ithaca Island Bay Leaves: A Mysthistorima. Vana is a Wellington writer currently based in Crete. This collection also explores family, in particular the lives of the author's mother and grandmother, their lives in Greece, and her mother's move to New Zealand as a young woman. It weaves their lives with Greek mythology, and people from Greek myth walk out and about in present-day Wellington. Ithaca Island Bay Leaves: A Mysthistorima will be published in November 2009.

January 2008

The latest issue of the Poetry Society’s magazine, A Fine Line, contains a positive review of Cold Comfort, Cold Concrete: Poems & Satires, by Scott Kendrick.

Bernard Gadd says:

'[…] Kendrick displays a deft competence with rhyme and rhythm. He’s a useful writer for the times, his satires and barbs often being aimed at the nonsense that’s in our minds courtesy of corporate-dominated media. Readers may find themselves even reeling back in horror or shock at some of the things to be found here. And that’s as it should be … there’s plenty in our world to be horrified about.'

November 2007

Check out Winged Ink, a new blog from Seraph Press Managing Editor Helen Rickerby, in which she writes about poetry, publishing, writing and reading.