A Watchful AstronomyWelsh raised and Bristol based, the poet Paul Deaton has produced a debut collection, A Watchful Astronomy, full of poems that are artfully formal, quietly precise, yet full of powerful emotion. Part of the popular Spoke performance group and frequently published in The Spectator, amongst other places, Deatons star has been on the rise in recent years.

having already produced a book on Hank Mobley for Northway

including Jüri Üdi ja Juhan Viiding

pioneering and indomitable spirits of some remarkable Restoration and 18th century women

others are more like smuggling and transgression

is forthcoming with Schaffner Press

She also helped to establish Carte Blanche

Anthologised in over 100 publications

‘The Cologne Epode’

my father was strapping up my trunk

Angus and his son search for what it takes to survive

was awarded the Argana International Poetry Prize by the House of Poetry in Morocco

his visual response to the desolate years of political dictatorship and social collapse in the Guyana of the 1980s in a more explicitly ‘readable’ art