The Emma Press – Sabotage

Pamphlets Short Stories Translation

The Secret Box by Daina Tabūna

April 23, 2019 Phil Olsen Daina Tabuna, Latvia, Scott Manley Hadley, short stories, The Emma Press

– Reviewed by Scott Manley Hadley – The Secret Box by Daina Tabūna is a pamphlet of short stories published

Pamphlets Poetry Saboteur Awards

Paisley by Rakhshan Rizwan

April 22, 2018April 22, 2018 Karen Goodwin Phoebe walker, Rizwan Rakhshan, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Phoebe Walker- In her debut pamphlet Paisley, Rakhsan Rizwan impresses with an alert and peripatetic poetic consciousness. Drawing

Pamphlets Saboteur Awards

Saboteur Awards 2018: Spotlight on the Best Poetry Pamphlet Shortlist

April 20, 2018April 20, 2018 Editor Ana Prundaru, best chapbooks of poetry, best poetry chapbooks of 2018, Claire Walker, Dancing Girl Press, Hercules Editions, Indie Literature, indie publishers, Jacqueline Saphra, poetry pamphlets, Rakhshan Rizwan, Romalyn Ante, The Emma Press, V. Press

The wonderful thing about the Saboteur Awards is that the public-nominated shortlisted essentially supplies you with a whole new reading

Collaboration Pamphlets Poetry

Now You Can Look by Julia Bird & Anna Vaivare

February 19, 2018February 18, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter Anna Vaivare, Ed Ferrari, Edward Ferrari, Julia Bird, Now You Can Look, The Emma Press

– Reviewed by Edward Ferrari – Winners of the Publishers’ Award at the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2016,

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Pisanki by Zosia Kuczyńska

January 5, 2018January 7, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter Bernard O'Donoghue, Ed Ferrari, Edward Ferrari, Pisanki, The Emma Press, Zosia Kuczyńska

– Reviewed by Edward Ferrari – As the name suggests, Zosia Kuczyńska’s Pisanki (meaning painted easter eggs), largely conforms to

Pamphlets Poetry

Meat Songs by Jack Nicholls

August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter David Clarke, Jack Nicholls, Mark Andrew Webber, Meat Songs, The Emma Press

– Reviewed by David Clarke – Jack Nicolls’ unsettling debut pamphlet Meat Songs explores our curious relationship to other animals on this

Collection Short Stories

First fox by Leanne Radojkovich

July 25, 2017August 19, 2017 dj4twinx First fox, Leanne Radojkovich, Siobhan Denton, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Siobhan Denton– It is to Leanne Radojkovich’s credit, and unfortunately her detriment, that in reading First fox I

Postcard Stories by Jan Carson

June 18, 2017 dj4twinx Jan Carson, Postcard Stories, Siobhan Denton, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Siobhan Denton– As a nation, we are busier than ever. This increased demand on time has led to

Pamphlets Poetry

Dragonish by Emma Simon

April 24, 2017May 1, 2017 Karen Goodwin Emma Simon, Pam Thompson, The Emma Press

–Reviewed by Pam Thompson– The title of Emma Simon’s collection is a word borrowed from one of Mark Antony’s speeches

Anthology Poetry

Urban Myths and Legends: Poems About Transformations ed. by Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright

March 5, 2017May 1, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Bethany W. Pope, Emma Wright, Joe Lines, Metamorphoses, Ovid, Rachel Piercey, Richard O'Brien, The Emma Press, Urban Myths and Legends: Poems About Transformations

– Reviewed by Bethany W. Pope – Urban Myths and Legends is an ambitious, fascinating, largely successful reworking of Ovid’s Metamorphoses