Smokestack Books

Three New Poetry Titles from Smokestack, August 2011

CELEBRATE WHA? TEN BLACK BRITISH POETS FROM THE MIDLANDS

edited by Eric Doumerc and Roy McFarlane

Celebrate Wha? is a book of many voices. It is a book of questions and answers. It is an anthology of poems about identity and race, curried goat ‘n’ rice. Dreadlock Alien, Sue Brown, Marcia Calame, Evoke, Martin Glynn, Michelle Hubbard, Kokumo, Roy McFarlane, Chester Morrison and Moqapi Selassie explore what it means to be black and British and from the Midlands.

Eric Doumerc teaches at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail. Roy McFarlane is currently Birmingham’s Poet Laureate.

Paperback £7.95 ISBN 978-0-9568144-0-1

SWARF

Chris Kinsey

Swarf is a book about Nature – the animal kingdom and the real of the human. It is a book about life in a small town, its mad Fridays, slow Sundays and long afternoons in the pub. It is a book of poems about living and learning, about hospitals, park-life, martial arts – and greyhounds.

A winner of the BBC Wildlife Poet-of-the-Year competition, Chris Kinsey’s previous books are Kung Fu Lullabies and Cure for a Crooked Smile. She lives in Mid-Wales.

Paperback £7.95 ISBN 978-0-9564175-2-7

ANGEL IN FLAMES: SELECTED POEMS & TRANSLATIONS, 1967-2011

Jim Scully

Angel in Flames brings together for the first time the best of Jim Scully’s poetry from the war in Vietnam to the savage wars of the twenty-first century, addressing an imperial order which seems determined to reduce the planet to a shrunken head on a stick.

Jim Scully has published ten books of poetry, as well as translations of Aeschylus and Quechua poetry from Bolivia. Other books include Line Break, Vagabond Flags and (with Bob Bagg) The Complete Plays of Sophocles. He lives in Vermont with his wife, Arlene.

Paperback £8.95 ISBN 978-0-9564175-8-9