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Selkirk Lapwing Press is a ‘little’ poetry press dedicated to publishing the best poetry currently being written in south Scotland and north England.

Though we are currently in abeyance, because of the dreaded recession, we hope to resume publishing new additions to our Lapwing Chapbooks series soon. Watch this space!

The publications listed below are all available now. Please contact us at snakebird@snakebird.net .

	Poetry from Both Sides of Hadrian’s Wall Both Sides of Hadrian’s Wall celebrates the best in contemporary poetry from south Scotland and north England. More than sixty poets are represented here. They come from anywhere between Sunderland and Stranraer, North Berwick and Barrow-in-Furness. Rugged landscape and hard weather, Roman colonists and Dark Age saints feature inevitably in these poems. But there is also fantasy, humour, the struggle to reach the essence of art, the stern search for human honesty. It is a unique anthology which contains work by well known poets from this disparate region as well as poems by writers who are less well known, or who are just beginning. If the poets share anything, it is a commitment to humanity, to life: this is a collection which is genuinely inspiring.
	Lapwing chapbooks
Tom Bryan	Redwing Summer A beguiling mix of acute observation and consequent emotion, these poems from the well-known Scottish poet pin down the moment, and echo in the memory.
Sally Dalglish	Exhibition of my Uncle’s Parts Sally Dalglish is a well-known figure in the poetry world of Carlisle and Cumbria. Her work is notably open and honest: she is not afraid of emotion, and has a poetic ‘voice’ at once personal and attractive.
Andy Hopkins	Dark Horse Pictures These poems are refreshingly original and challengingly different. Often complex, always intriguing, they are a breath of fresh air on the contemporary poetry scene.
Vivien Jones	Something in the Blood Vivien Jones casts an inquisitive eye over the small print of existence. Simply delicious!
Robert Leach	Journey Flags A poetic journey through the foothills of the Himalaya. The poems are a little like Buddhist prayer flags, which dance and flutter in the wind – short, direct, wise.
Lis Lee	Sob Sister Poems which catch the moment – sometimes thoughtful, sometimes ironic, sometimes emotional, they stay with the reader long after the book is closed.
Ayelet McKenzie	Waiting for an Angel These poems are often short, but they cut through to the truth with the acuity of a laser. Fine, rare, and full of insights.
Mazzy Molotnikoff	Life and Porridge This is a wry, comic look at the trials of living – as a mum, as a woman – in this complicated, technological age. And anyway, where’s the next man coming from?
Tom Murray	The Future Is Behind You Poems which are deceptively simple. Tom Murray’s explorations of America take unexpected turns, and his memories and hopes open a significant world to his readers.
Nick Pemberton	Art, Medicine, Life, Death, Work and the Whole Ball of Wax The title says it all, really! These are hard-hitting, wild and witty poems, from a master of the craft.
Katrina Porteous	Seven Silences Katrina Porteous lives on the Northumberland coast, and is best known for her long poems for the BBC, two of which are included in this chapbook. They are truly brilliant!
Laurna Robertson	Milne Graden Poems In 1990 Laurna Robertson moved from the noise and lights of Edinburgh to Milne Graden, where traffic was the postman’s van and the sound was the river. Poems sombre and subtle.
Pam Russell	For the Hills I Sing Pam Russell, winner of the 1998 Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, has a deep love of the Border hills, where she lives and which inspire her work. Some of the best of it is in this collection.
Penny Wheatley	Dream Down Blue An unabashed romantic, Penny Wheatley’s poems repay anybody’s reading. She has a spectacular turn of phrase and a depp, even spiritual, response to life.
Jay Whittaker	Pearl These poems look at life from a highly individual angle. Direct and honest, this poetry is direct, accessible and yet challenging.
	All these pamphlets are available from Selkirk Lapwing Press. Please contact us at snakebird@snakebird.not