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RiversSide

We invite contributions to our online gallery – RiversSide – where we feature poems, artworks, photography and short prose. RiversSide publishes works about Reading or by creators who live in Reading.

To submit a work for consideration please email riversside@tworiverspress.com.

If we select your work, we will feature it on the RiversSide section of our website, and we may also republish your content in print format, for example in a printed pamphlet anthology. We are unable to offer payment for publication of your work, but you will be entitled to a small number of free copies of any printed work we publish which includes your content (contributors would retain copyright in their own work).

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The Botanical Art Portfolios – a new series!

We are delighted to announce the launch of our New Series!

The Botanical Art Portfolios, edited by Julia Trickey, feature distinguished botanical artists, their work and their inspiration. Intentionally both beautiful and useful, these handy-sized paperbacks are designed to be taken anywhere, referred to, collected and gazed at. Each book will bring out the personality of its individual artist, showcase their work and share why they love what they do, explain their choice of subjects, the distinct techniques they have developed, and their failures as well as their successes.

Here is the first title in the series: Botanical Artistry by Julia Trickey. It’s out now!

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Two events to celebrate Europe

Tuesday 12 FEBRUARY, 7.30pm

A PART OF THE MAIN

A reading at Toppings bookshop, Bath, from the newly published A Part of the Main by Lesley Saunders and Philip Gross. This collaborative project grew from an email exchange after the referendum of 2016. In a time of soundbites and binary rhetoric, it gives the pressing questions about individual and national identity more breathing-space, more heart- and head-room.

Tuesday 12 MARCH, 5.30pm, MERL

POETRY IN EUROPE

Jane Draycott, Lesley Saunders, Philip Gross and Peter Robinson will celebrate relations between contemporary British poetry and poetry from Europe. Far from being merely a lament or complaint, it will draw attention to the deep continuities between our poetic culture and that of our nearest neighbours, underlining that these continuities will continue despite the United Kingdom’s imminent withdrawal from the European Union.

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Gill Learner wins 100 words competition

100 words for 100 years

Hampshire Libraries ran a competition looking for poems, letters or short stories of exactly 100 words in length. It was won by Gill Learner, with ‘Time Out’:

No-one knows which hospital, but family history had it on the Isle of Wight. A shaded-glass back door, rotting wooden steps, five of them, all nip-waisted crispness. One’s my aunt, Adelaide Marie, always known as ‘Bob’. Scarcely seventeen, inside the starched half-halo of her cap, she grins.

Home and beloved piano left behind in Chandler’s Ford, she joined the VADs. Ever the tomboy, she must have struggled to keep that floor-length apron clean, those stiff cuffs white. I imagine her singing softly as she scrubbed bedpans in the sluice, mopped between beds, smiled comfort. But she never spoke of it.

Poetry books from Gill Learner include The Agister’s Experiment and Chill Factor.

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Sue Leigh’s Chosen Hill reviewed in the TLS!

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‘BRIEF… AND EXPANSIVE’

We were delighted to see Sue Leigh’s Chosen Hill reviewed in the TLS in December, by Suzannah Evans.

‘Sue Leigh’s intelligent and considered collection is a homage to the act of paying attention: to objects, to the past, and to our surroundings… Leigh’s poems are brief, and employ minimal punctuation; the questions they consider, on the other hand, are expansive. Many of them read as meditations on how to exist in the world, and how we might accept the chance happenings of life.’