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Waterloo Press
Reading at Borders, Brighton 5th June, 6.30 pm Bernadette Cremin Simon Jenner David Pollard Alf Wiltshire
Saturday 30th May 2008
Beryl Fenton will read extracts from her new book alongside the excellence of Bernadette Cremin, Simon Jenner, David Pollard and Alf Wiltshire.Beryl Fenton
Beryl Fenton’s poetry has a fine ring and polish to it. She engenders a painterly quality on the page, and her highly accessible work resonates with the reader
Wes Magee
…weird and wonderful; Cremin dares to write honestly. Where does she get these images? Her similes are inspired
Michael Donaghy
There is genius in this poetry
Martin Seymour-Smith
Pollard's intensive, ontological meditations on loss, 'the death of God', creativity and the failure of writing, are quite wonderful and wholly unexpected.
The linguistic inventiveness - dazzlingly out of synch with impacted trendies - stems from a delight in words, concepts, puns, as they bounce off the business of living.
Waterloo Press is an exciting niche publisher with a proven track record in producing high-quality volumes of poetry. It's already a co-winner in Staple's Alt-Gen niche poetry publisher competition. Individual collections too have been praised in Poetry Review, and by its 2002-05 editor Robert Potts and others for sheer beauty of production - as well as the contents! Some say there's been nothing like us since Trigram Press in the 1970s. That's heady, but we're delighted.
Waterloo Press is a non-profit making publishing house, originally dependant on its founder and main benefactor, Sonja Ctvrtecka, and a variety of funding sources. In November 2004 Waterloo received a major Arts Council Grant.
Our aims are threefold:
to promote regional poets on a national and international basis;
to promote established or long-neglected modern and modernist poets with a broad appeal on the same footing;
and to provide a forum for all those in a specially bound Arts bi-annual journal with the broadest appeal of all (Eratica).
