A London launch, and a bookfair

On Friday night I'll be at the London launch of The Best British Poetry 2011, Salt's new anthology - all are welcome to the reading, at the Betsey Trotwood, on Farringdon Road. I'm looking forward to it a lot, not least because there'll be the chance to put faces to some familiar names from the world of poetry magazines.

The next day, I'm reading with fellow Nine Arches Press poet Ruth Larbey at Free Verse, CB Editions' poetry book fair, at Exmouth Market, London. We're on at 12.30pm, coincidentally just after a reading by a number of HappenStance poets. It looks like a great event all-round, with a wide variety of poetry presses featured.

Now it's even easier...

...to buy Nine Arches Press books. The new online shop is up and running, meaning you can directly order copies of Under The Radar magazine, short stories by Joel Lane, or poetry from the likes of David Hart, David Morley, Roz Goddard, Luke Kennard, Myra Connell, Claire Crowther, Ruth Larbey, Simon Turner, Mark Goodwin, Peter Carpenter and myself.

You don't need a PayPal account (no bad thing, given the problems I've had getting my account to work lately), and postage is just £1 per item.

There are also seperate pages for each publication now (here's the one for my collection, hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica), and a sneak-preview of some of Nine Arches' forthcoming publications.

Current reading

The latest issue of Tears In The Fence arrived the other day - so far I've only had time to browse it, but I've enjoyed good poems from the likes of Ian Seed, Jane Commane and Sheila Hamilton.

As always, too, a lot of the pleasure is in the reviews - they're given the space they deserve, which isn't always the case in magazines.

Over at Peony Moon, meanwhile, there are some excellent poems by Ruth Larbey, whose Nine Arches Press chapbook Funglish is out now. Enjoy...

EDIT: Oh, and there's four fine poems from Helen Ivory's The Breakfast Machine over at Dan Wyke's Other Lives, too. I may get round to some work, later.