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Friday, 31 May, 2013: Claire Dyer reads at Pangbourne Hall of Sound

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Foreigners drunks & babies Front CoverForeigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories by Peter Robinson (poet, editor)


24 May – 30 June, 2013: Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) exhibition “An artist’s year in the Harris Garden: Jenny Halstead”

This exhibition will present the product of Jenny Halstead’s artistic residency at the University of Reading’s Harris Garden. Jenny’s paintings and sketchbook studies take us through the seasons, moods and development of the Garden over the duration of a year … Continue reading

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Monday, 20 May 2013: Claire Dyer at Coffee-House Poetry at The Troubadour, London

20th May, Coffee-House Poetry at The Troubadour, 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW5 9JA. Telephone: 020 7370 1434.

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4 – 6 May, 2013: TRP artist, Sally Castle, at Henley Arts Trail

Come see the works of Two Rivers Press’ own Sally Castle at the Henley Arts Trail this May Bank Holiday weekend. Sally works on a wide variety of projects including illustration, lettering and lino cut prints which are regularly exhibited. … Continue reading

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Launch of Claire Dyer’s collection, Eleven Rooms, covered by The Reading Chronicle

On April 25th, The Reading Chronicle reported A POET whose words “gleam and glitter” on the page marked the launch of her new anthology with nearly 200 fans. Claire Dyer was at Waterstone’s in Broad Street on Thursday, April 12, … Continue reading

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Sunday, 28 April, 2013: Claire Dyer at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival

Come meet Two Rivers Press poet, Claire Dyer, at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. Hear her read from her new first collection, Eleven Rooms. When Sunday, 28 April, 2013: Claire Dyer at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival

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Interview/Review: Claire Dyer and her debut poetry collection, Eleven Rooms

From Get Reading, 17 April 2013. Eleven Rooms captures transient moments Reading poet Claire Dyer launched her debut poetry collection last week. Sophie Harrison chats to the poet about her work. Reading poet Claire Dyer had double cause for celebration … Continue reading

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Celebrating Sally Castle, Two Rivers Press artist and calligrapher

When Sally Castle designed her first book for Two Rivers Press, she could not have imagined that fifteen years after Rimbaud’s The Drunken Boat hit the booksellers’ shelves, she would be completing her thirtieth book cover for Two Rivers.  And … Continue reading

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19th April, Poet’s Cafe, South Street, Reading

Claire Dyer joins other local poets and reads from her newly published first collection, Eleven Rooms

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Thursday, 11 April, 2013 Launch Claire Dyer at Waterstones, Broad Street, Reading, 7.30pm

You are cordially invited to join us for the launch of Claire Dyer‘s much anticipated first collection, Eleven Rooms. When: Thursday 11 April, 2013, at 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm (Carriages at 9.00 pm) Where: Waterstones, 89A Broad Street, Reading … Continue reading

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Jane Draycott wins second place in National Poetry Competition 2012!

All of us at Two Rivers Press would like to congratulate our poet, Jane Draycott, on her success in this year’s National Poetry Competition. Jane won second prize with her poem, “Italy to Lord”. Established in 1978, the Poetry Society’s … Continue reading

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Review: At Poor Rude Lines a review of A.F. Harrold’s The Point of Inconvenience

John Field, has posted a review of A.F. Harrold’s new poetry collection, The Point of Inconvenience on his blog, Poor Rude Lines. He makes comparison to the poetry of Larking and writes: The Point of Inconvenience, A. F. Harrold’s collection … Continue reading

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Harris_Garden_Cover_finalAn Artist’s Year in the Harris Garden by Jenny Halstead (author, artist)


25 March, 2013: Two poems from Claire Dyer online today

A treat, a treat….two poems by Claire Dyer can be read here today!

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All Change front coverAll Change at Reading: The railway and the station, 1840 – 2013 by Adam Sowan (author)


5 March – 25 June 2013: A Poetic A-Z of Reading: an exhibition at Reading University Library

This exhibition celebrates a variety of creative activity through the lens of Reading town as busy commuter hub. It brings together manuscripts, books, maps, pamphlets, artworks and a number of poetic alphabets from the University of Reading Special Collections and … Continue reading

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Tuesday 19 March 2013: Two Rivers Press poets at Oxford Brookes

Where: The event will be held in the Music Room of Headington Hill Hall (see map) When: 6pm – 8.30pm Refreshments will be served. Tom Phillips lives in Bristol and is a freelance journalist, playwright, and currently completing a creative … Continue reading

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March 18, 2013: Oxford Brookes selects poem by Tom Phillips as poem of the week

This week’s poem is ‘Life After Wartime’ by Tom Phillips, and comes from his collection Recreation Ground, published by Two Rivers Press. Click here to read it. Last week’s came from Kate Behrens’s collection, The Beholder (read it here) both … Continue reading

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Thursday, 14 March, 2013: For foragers and foodies – Duncan Mackay discusses Eat Wild at 7pm

Author, Duncan Mackay, discusses foraging for food right here in Berkshire county and regales us with tales from Eat Wild. Join us! Where: Wokingham library, Denmark Street, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 2BB When: 14 March at 7pm

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Thursday, 28 February, 2013: Poet Claire Dyer on Radio Berkshire at 2pm

Tune in to Mike Read’s Talking Entertainment show on BBC Radio Berkshire to hear Two Rivers Press poet, Claire Dyer. She is likely to mention, and perhaps read from, her much anticipated first collection, Eleven Rooms. Eleven Rooms, explores contradictions … Continue reading

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Review: Adam Piette reviews Susan Utting’s Fair’s Fair

This review of Susan utting’s collection Fair’s Fair appears on issue No. 9 of Blackbox Manifold, on online forum with a slant towards innovative poetry that has prose, narrative, or sequences in its sights. Susan Utting’s collection from Two Rivers … Continue reading

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Friday, 1 March, 2013: Claire Dyer at The Independent Bath Literary Festival

Come to The 2013 Independent Bath Literature Festival and hear Two Rivers Press poet, Claire Dyer, read from her new collection, Eleven Rooms. Click the brochure image on the left to browse and book tickets for over 150 events coming … Continue reading

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Poem of the Week in The Guardian: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson

Monday 18 February 2013 Two Rivers Press is delighted that the poem “Otterspool Prom” by our poetry editor, Peter Robinson, has been selected to be The Guardian’s Poem of the Week. Carol Rumens writes, “Robinson’s sonnet to Britain’s early spring … Continue reading

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From the review archive: Reading Poetry reviewed “…one of the most thoroughly enjoyable books of poetry…”

This review was so lovely we thought we would share it with you again and point to the reviewer Dr. Todd Swift’s blog on which it first appeared way back in 2011. Wednesday, 8 June 2011 Review: Reading Poetry I … Continue reading

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Eleven_Rooms_CoverEleven Rooms by Claire Dyer (poet)


Poem of the week: Lesley Saunders’ ‘Fairchild’s Mule’

January 28, 2013 – Lesley Saunders’ poem ‘Fairchild’s Mule’, from her collection Cloud Camera, is this week’s poem on the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre. To read the poem please visit: http://www.poetry.brookes.ac.uk/poemoftheweek/

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Celebrating our very own poetry editor: Peter Robinson

  PETER ROBINSON AT SIXTY Our poetry editor Peter Robinson’s many and various contributions to contemporary poetry are celebrated in the latest issue of the Sheffield-based Blackbox Manifold. ‘Peter Robinson at Sixty’, edited by Adam Piette, contains a group of … Continue reading

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The Point of Inconvenience front coverThe Point of Inconvenience by A.F. Harrold (poet) Sally Castle (artist)


Monday, 21 January, 2013: Duncan Mackay talks about Bizarre Berkshireat 7pm

Author, Duncan Mackay,  entertains with tales of Bizarre Berkshire. Where:  Mortimer library, 27, Victoria Road, Mortimer Common When: Monday 21 Jan at 7pm

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Review: Susan Utting’s “Fair’s Fair” in The North 49

Extracts from David Cooke’s review of Susan Utting’s in The North 49 http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/shop/815/489/north-49 Fair’s Fair is dedicated to the memory of ‘Sue and Ron of the Blue Ball Inn’… In ‘Lament for Susie Green’, the poet has composed a litany … Continue reading

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Caversham_Court_GardensCaversham Court Gardens: A Heritage Guide by Friends of Caversham Court Gardens (author)


December 10 2012: Poet Victoria Pugh takes part in the Wokingham Living Advent Calendar

On December 10th, 2012, Victoria Pugh, local poet and Two Rivers Press author, performed a number of her works as part of Wokingham’s 2012 Living Advent Calendar. There were funny poems, a Christmas poem, a shopping poem, a sad poem … Continue reading

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Thursday, 6 December, 2012: a Dickens bicentenary celebration: Hampstead Arts Festival, 1pm

Join us for a  Dickens bicentenary celebration with readings by Diana Bishop, Piers Plowright, Valerie Sarruf & Stephen Tucker. When: Thursday, 6th December 2012 @ 1.00pm Where:  Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead London NW3 1LT Fee:  £8 (tickets available online … Continue reading

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Thursday – Friday, 29 November – 1 December 2012: Aunt Elsie’s Christmas Do

Two Rivers Press is delighted to invite you to do your Christmas shopping and celebrating with us at Aunt Elsie’s Christmas Do. WHEN:  29 November 12-8pm, Friday 30 November 10-6pm, Saturday 1 December 10-6pm WHERE: Aunt Elsie’s Marquee, Market place, Reading, UK … Continue reading

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Monday, 26 November, 2012: Terry Allsop on BBC Radio Berkshire at 2pm

Be sure to tune on and listen to an interview with Terry Allsop, author of Newtown: A photographic journey in Reading a photographic, on BBC Radio Berkshire with Audrey French 2.00pm Monday 26th November, 2012.

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November 12th, 2012: Susan Utting poem is Oxford Brookes’ Poetry Centre’s weekly poem

Susan Utting’s poem Naked, from her collection “Fair’s Fair“, is Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre‘s  ‘weekly poem’ this week!    

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Review: Susan Utting’s Fair’s Fair reviewed in Magma 54

  In the November 2102, issue of Magma Poetry (The Visible and the Invisible), issue 54, on page 13, there is a review of Susan Utting’s poetry collection, Fair’s Fair. The reviewer, David Morely, writes: “The strengths of Susan Utting’s … Continue reading

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14 November, 2012: Redlands School Christmas Fair

Come visit the Two Rivers Press stand and do a little holiday shopping at the Readlands School Christmas Fair.

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BBB_CoverBikes, Balls & Biscuitmen: Our Sporting Life by Reading Museum Tim Crooks


Tuesday, October 30, 2012: Poets Claire Dyer, Susan Utting and AF Harrold at Warfield Arts Week, 7:30pm

On Tuesday 30 October at 7.30pm Warfield Arts Week presents an evening of poetry with Patrick Osada and friends: Claire Dyer Jean Watkins Susan Utting Tony Turner Richard Palmer Richard Woolmer Rosemary Muncie AF Harrold free entry+open mic session Come … Continue reading

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Saturday, 3 November, 2012: Secret Market, 10am – 6pm

So what’s it all about then? The Secret Market is a pop-up market, selling arts, crafts, an eclectic mix of things, vintage clothes, music, records, furniture and collectibles. Our aim is to create a vibrant market where you can buy … Continue reading

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Thursday, 25 October 2012: From microscopes to cloud cameras: the poetry of science at Oxford Museum of the History of Science, 7pm

Two Rivers Press invites you to a poetry and science event in Oxford on Thursday 25 October, at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science (Broad Street) – a wonderfully atmospheric venue. The Museum of the History of Science … Continue reading

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Saturday, 20 October 2012: Apple Day at MERL, 1-5pm

“Apples, Berkshire, Cider” the Two Rivers Press ABC book all about apples in Berkshire will be featured again at the Apple Day event at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading with traditional cider making being demonstrated by the … Continue reading

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Sunday, 14 October 2012: BOOKFACE Artists Book Fair at the Rising Sun Arts Centre 11am – 5pm

Come visit the Two Rivers Press stand and do a little holiday shopping at the BOOKFACE Artists Book Fair:  a relaxed social event with artists selling and exhibiting their handmade books. Comic books, altered books, small press, photographic works, paper … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 9 October 2012: Two Rivers Press poets at the Cheltenham Fringe Festival ‘Words on the Side’, 5 – 6pm

Trois-La  Anna-May Laugher, Lesley Saunders and Susan Utting – three  award-winning poets, three distinctive voices echoing and interweaving their poems in a lively, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining performance. Do join us! Free Entry THE STRAND LOUNGE  40-42 High Street,   … Continue reading

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Busy, busy Two Rivers Press author, Duncan Mackay!

Eat Wild and Duncan Mackay featured on a live BBC Berkshire foraging broadcast within the Henry Kelly radio show on Saturday 8 September. Eat Wild also featured in a letter ‘If in doubt, don’t eat it’ by Duncan Mackay printed … Continue reading

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Review: Lesley Saunders’ Cloud Camera reviewed in Poetry Review

Below is an extract from the review “Unlit Rooms” by Michael Hulse which appears in POETRY REVIEW Volume 102:3 Autumn 2012 p119-120 Unlit Rooms MICHAEL HULSE Lesley Saunders, Cloud Camera, Two Rivers Press, £8.99, ISBN 9781901677812 Stephen Edgar, The Red … Continue reading

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Kate Noakes talks about becoming a writer, the importance of learning, and the passage from poetry to novel

Two Rivers Press poet, Kate Noakes talks with Lisa Burkitt about writing, inspiration and working cash jobs!  Read the full interview here. Kate’s first collection, Ocean to Interior, was published by Mighty Erudite Press in December 2007 and Kate’s second … Continue reading

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4 October 2012: National Poetry Day and A Mutual Friend at the Foundling Museum, 6-8pm

Come celebrate National Poetry Day with Two Rivers Press and the English Association!   READINGS FROM A MUTUAL FRIEND 16 poets reading from the English Association’s new anthology of poems for Charles Dickens.   WHERE      The Foundling Museum … Continue reading

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Saturday, 8 September 2012 – Launch of three new books: “Believing in Reading”, “Broad Street Chapel” and “Newtown” at Waterstone’s Broad Street, 12:30 – 2:30pm

Join us at Waterstone’s book shop 12:30 – 2:30pm,  for the launch of three new books celebrating the heritage of Reading!  Believing in Reading by Adam Sowan takes a look at the history and architecture of our places of workship. … Continue reading

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Saturday, 8 September 2012 – Free Verse 2012: The Poetry Book Fair!

Please come join Two Rivers Press at this year’s Free Verse 2012: The Poetry Book Fair: a day of all activities and readings in celebration of everything contemporary poetry publishing has to offer. It is a free day out, full … Continue reading

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Friday, 7 September 2012: Launch of Tom Phillips “Recreation Ground” at Two Rivers Press poetry event ‘The Time of our Lives’ at Waterstone’s Broad Street 6.30pm

‘The Time of our Lives’ Friday, 7 September 6.30pm Join us for ‘The Time of our Lives’ poetry event at Waterstones, Broad Street, as part of Heritage Open Days weekend on Friday 7th Sept at 6.30pm. This event has been … Continue reading

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Review: Recreation Ground by Tom Phillips

The words with which Leontes announced to his Sicilian court his admission of guilt and his determination to seek forgiveness through a recognition of the everyday quality of life, a quality only recognisable to those whose eye is firmly based … Continue reading

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Newtown Just CoverNewtown: A photographic journey in Reading, 1974 by Terry Allsop (author)


Believing_in_Reading_CoverBelieving in Reading: our places of worship by Adam Sowan (author)


Broad_Street_Chapel_CoverBroad Street Chapel & the Origins of Dissent in Reading, second edition by Geoff Sawers (author)


Recreation_GroundRecreation Ground by Tom Phillips (poet)


Review: Susan Utting’s Fair’s Fair reviewed in Ambit Magazine

Fair’s Fair  by Susan Utting Two Rivers Press, £7.95 Review Extract Susan Utting is never intimidating. Her poems welcome you in and they are invariably well made. They sound good too: it’s a pleasure to encounter a collection that flows … Continue reading

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Review: Michael S.Begnal reviews Kate Behrens’ The Beholder

This is an excerpt from a Michael S. Begnal’s guest review of Kate Behrens’ The Beholder which appears in its entirety as the Thursday, 26 July 2012 post here.  Kate Behrens is a poet active in Reading, England, and was … Continue reading

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Review: Jessica Mayhew reviews Cloud Camera by Lesley Saunders

Jessica Mayhew is currently a student at the University of Northampton, studying English Literature and Creative Writing. She has had poems published in several magazines including The Seventh Quarry. Of Lesley Saunder’s new collection Cloud Camera she writes: “Cloud Camera evokes … Continue reading

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Review: Gillmor reviewed in IBIS, International Journal of Avian Science

The following review of Robert Gillmor’s Birds, Blocks and Stamps appears in the July issue of IBIS, International Journal of Avian Science: Robert Gillmor was commissioned to design the first pictorial stamps for self‐service Post & Go machines – four … Continue reading

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Sunday, 24 June, 2012 Portsmouth’s Tongues&Grooves, 8pm

As part of the Portsmouth Festivities, we invite you to A Mutual Friend – Poems and Music for Charles Dickens Tongues and Groove Sunday 24 June 8pm The Florence Arms, Southsea Readings from A Mutual Friend, new poems by contemporary … Continue reading

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Weekend 16-17 June, 2012: Whiteknights Studio Trail 2012

The Whiteknights Studio Trail is a walking tour of artist’s studios in the University area of Reading. The Trail, now in its 12th year, has become an established and eagerly anticipated event in the Reading cultural calendar and an opportunity … Continue reading

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Saturday, 9 June, 2012 at 6:30pm: AF Harrold launches Fizzlebert…a novel for children

A special event for you and your children at Waterstones in Broad Street, Reading (UK): The launch of Fizzlebert Stump – The Boy Who Ran Away From The Circus (And Joined The Library), a novel for children being published by … Continue reading

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Beholder_CoverThe Beholder by Kate Behrens (poet)


Review: A Mutual Friend is reviewed in the May issue of Acumen

This review was first published in Acumen 73, May 2012. UNDOCUMENTED WORLDS A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens edited by Peter Robinson, Two Rivers Press with the English Association, 7, Denmark Road, Reading, RG1 5PA. 101 pp. £10.00. In … Continue reading

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Gill Learner wins the English Association’s Fellows’ Poetry Prize

The staff at Two Rivers Press would like to extend its heartfelt congratulations to Gill Learner, on winning theFellows’ Poetry Prize of the English Association with her poem The Dead of Night.

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Saturday, 19 May 2012 Caversham Arts Trail: poetry reading from Lesley Saunders Cloud Camera, 3pm

It is almost time for the third Caversham Arts Trail. The Trail this year takes place on Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th May and Friday 18th – Sunday 20th May. All venues are open from 11am to 5pm. With 32 … Continue reading

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Saturday, 19 May, 2012: Museums at Night: Poetry Night at MERL and launch of Lesley Saunders’ Cloud Camera, 6-10pm

Join Two Rivers Press for an evening of poetry readings, local beer and the chance to visit the ‘Our Sporting Life’ exhibition at MERL, which opens on 16 May, or take a relaxing out of hours stroll around the Museum … Continue reading

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Saturday, 12 May 2012 Caversham Arts Trail: poetry reading with Susan Utting and Gill Learner, 3pm

It is almost time for the third Caversham Arts Trail. The Trail this year takes place on Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th May and Friday 18th – Sunday 20th May. All venues are open from 11am to 5pm. With 32 … Continue reading

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Review: Mike Bartholemew-Biggs of Lond Grip reviews Utting’s Fair’s Fair

Mike Bartholemew-Biggs of Lond Grip has reviewed Susan Utting’s collection, Fair’s Fair. His concludes his review with this summary… I’d like to close by revisiting Utting’s dexterity with language. Besides her freely-scattered and lively compound adjectives, there are many other … Continue reading

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Cloud Camera coverCloud Camera by Lesley Saunders (poet)


Tuesday, 8 May 2012: International Music and Poetry Evening, Holywell Music Room, Oxford 7pm

Turkmen and Russian musicians and composers will improvise on the piano and theremin, and perform works of Chopin, Halmammedov, Erkin and Ledenev. Two Rivers Press poet, Susan Utting, will be among the British and Eurasian poets reading their own works. … Continue reading

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Saturday, 5 May, 2012: Henley Arts Trail event, 2pm

On Saturday, 5 May, 2012 Susan Utting, our award winning Berkshire poet will read from her brand new poetry collection, Fair’s Fair. Fair’s Fair has been described as ‘joyous, heartbreaking, ramm’d with life’ with poems that shimmy in the mind … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 1 May, 2012: St John’s School Fair 18:30 – 20:30

Come visit the Two Rivers Press stand at the St. John’s CE Primary School Fair. 121-147 Orts Road|Reading, Berkshire|RG1 3JN

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Friday, 27 April, 2012 A Celebration of Dickens at the Old Combination Room, Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK 6-8 pm

A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens — Bicentennial Event with Moniza Alvi, John Greening, Angela Leighton, Adrian Poole, Peter Riley, Peter Robinson and George Szirtes, The Old Combination Room, Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ. 27 April 2012 … Continue reading

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Monday, 23 April, 2012: Author Duncan MacKay talks about Bizarre Berkshire at World Book Night, Reading Central Library, 19:00

Celebrate St George’s Day and World Book Night with local author, Duncan Mackay, at Reading Central Library. Duncan’s book Bizarre Berkshire tells tales and legends of UFOs, ghosts, nuclear cows, the Hocktide festival, the Ankerwycke yew tree, and Hammer horror … Continue reading

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Review: The London Magazine review of A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens

In Our Own Hard Times by Andrew Mangham A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens, edited by Peter Robinson, Two Rivers Press, 160pp, £10 (paperback) It is the time for Dickens. Should anybody be left in doubt, 2012 is the … Continue reading

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Launching A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens

Thanks to the collaboration of the poets anthologized and the team — coordinating editor Sally Mortimore, designer Nadja Guggi, and manager Barbara Morris — at Two Rivers Press, A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens, co-published with the English Association … Continue reading

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Launch of Our Mutual Friend at The Portico Library, Manchester, UK

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 – Two Rivers Press had its Northern launch for Our Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens at The Portico Library, Manchester, UK. In celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, Two Rivers Press with the … Continue reading

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Friday, 30 March 2012: Launch of Fair’s Fair at RISC, 19:45

You are warmly invited to join us at the Reading launch of Fair’s Fair, a new collection of poetry by Susan Utting, published by Two Rivers Press on Friday 30th March, from 7.45 in the Conference Hall at RISC, Reading … Continue reading

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Wednesday, 28 March, 2012 Northern Launch of ‘Our Mutual Friend’ at The Portico Library, Manchester, UK, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Please join us at The Portico Library & Gallery for “The Northern Launch” of A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens. In celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, Two Rivers Press with the English Association present an anthology … Continue reading

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21 March 2012 – World Poetry Day

In 1999, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) declared March 21st to be World Poetry Day, a day to “give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements”. “In a constantly evolving world, a … Continue reading

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Poem: Dictation by Susan Utting

Dictation It is the after-lunch, the p.m. dip, the bellyful of three more hours to go against the bodyclock that wants to slow itself, to droop its lids, to drift. And she’s not listening to a word he says, she’s … Continue reading

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Poem: Germ Theory by Lesley Saunders

Germ Theory ‘Hydras and Gorgons, and Chimeras dire’ William Heath, ‘A Monster Soup’, satirical etching of a sample of Thames water 1828 We are all sapiens, all cherishable. Even those of us who drink only bottled water for fear of … Continue reading

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Poem: The Taxidermist by Susan Utting

The Taxidermist Most times it’s knowing when to stop, to leave it, to let go’s the hardest bit; but this time something ticks inside his chest. A small flip-flutter and he’s laying down his grooming brush, standing back to look … Continue reading

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Poem: Fair’s Fair by Susan Utting

Fair’s Fair We are not all able to do all things Virgil, Eclogues viii Lend me your quickstep twinkle, your Highland Schottische and I’ll lend you the flex of my knees, my steady toes, my hop for your shuffle, your … Continue reading

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6-7 March, 2012 Gerald Finzi Memorial Lecture & Reading 2012, University of Reading

6 pm Tues 6 March in the Henley Business School G11: Award-winning poet George Szirtes will give a lecture entitled: ‘Sister Arts: Cohabitations, Credits and Debts’ which will focus on poetry and ekphrasis, the way the three arts of poetry, … Continue reading

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Sunday, 4 March, 2012 Old Fire Station Gallery: Book launch Duncan MacKay’s Bizarre Berkshire, 12:30pm

Please join us for the launch of Bizarre Berkshire by Duncan MacKay. Duncan is hoping that visitors to the launch will come and tell him about their personal experiences of bizarre or unexplained events in their lives, which may be … Continue reading

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Friday, 2 March 2012: Poetry Reading Old Fire Station Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, 18:30

We hope you will come and visit us at the Fire Station Gallery in Henley on Friday, 2 March at 18:30. Four of our poets will be reading from their works: Susan Utting, Gill Learner, Adrian Blamires and Peter Robinson. … Continue reading

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1-6 March, 2012: Old Fire Station Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, 10.30 – 5pm

We hope you will come and visit us at the Fire Station Gallery in Henley from Thursday 1st to Tuesday 6th March. We will be exhibiting the latest Two Rivers Press publications alongside the works of three local artists including … Continue reading

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Fair's Fair cover finalFair’s Fair by Susan Utting (poet)


Launch of Our Mutual Friend at Reading’s Great Expectations Hotel and Bar

Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 – Two Rivers Press launched Our Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens at the library of Reading’s Great Expectations Hotel and Bar. In celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, Two Rivers Press with the … Continue reading

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Sunday, February 12, 2012: Reading Launch for A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens

An opportunity to enjoy a Dickensian Sunday lunchtime! Join us from 12:00 – 15:00 in the library at the Great Expectations Hotel & Bar, where the great novelist himself once gave a reading. More than 50 poets contributed to this … Continue reading

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Carol Rumens poem from A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens in The Times Literary Supplement

7 February 2012 Marshalsea Quadrille: a poem for Charles Dickens by Carol Rumens appears in The Times Literary Supplement (TLS). It is one of the poems from our collection A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens published in celebration of … Continue reading

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The Guardian’s poem of the week is from our collection: A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens

6 February, 2012 “I Am Greatly Changed” by Richard Price, is this week’s poem of the week. It is a complex but poignant reinvention of Pip and Estella’s final meeting in Great Expectations. In the accompanying review of A Mutual … Continue reading

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Duncan Mackay’s Bizarre Berkshire in the Henley Standard – again!

February 6, 2012 The Henley Standard has covered another of the stories from Duncan Mackay’s A to Z collection of strange and true tales of people and events in Berkshire (Bizarre Berkshire): that of the shrine of Our Lady of … Continue reading

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Just published! A tribute to Charles Dickens

In celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, Two Rivers Press with the English Association present an anthology of new poems by contemporary writers responding to the life and work of this most enduringly popular of novelists: A Mutual … Continue reading

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Duncan Mackay’s Bizarre Berkshire in the Henley Standard

January 23, 2012 The Henley Standard has covered one of the stories from Duncan Mackay’s A to Z collection of strange and true tales of people and events in Berkshire (Bizarre Berkshire): that of Thomas Day, who believed that people … Continue reading

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