Selkirk Lapwing Press

the best contemporary poetry from both sides of Hadrian's Wall

Collections

All our collections are available, and priced at £2-50, plus 50p postage and packing; or - buy three and get one free, that is, four books for £7-50 plus £1 post and packing. If you'd like to receive information about our publications and future plans, please send a stamped addressed envelope to the address given in the contact section. We hope to provide online payment using PayPal in near future.

To whet your appetite, we have included a poem by each poet - click on the cover image to read the one that intrigues you, or visit the showcase to see them all.

Mazzy Molotnikoff

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Mazzy Molotnikoff, Life and Porridge (Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2006, ISBN 0 9554056 1 0  /  978 0 9554056 1 7) Mazzy’s wry take on life blends humour and wisdom in unexpected proportions, while she struggles to get the porridge ready and on the table ...

Nick Pemberton

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Nick Pemberton, Art, Medicine, Life, Death, Work and the Whole Ball of Wax (Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2006, ISBN 0 9554056 2 9  /  978 0 9554056 2 4) This is a new collection from the moving spirit behind Carlisle’s Speakeasy poetry sessions. The poems range in subject and mood from mourning to argumentative, and take in everything from the power of the Bank Manager to the destructiveness of alcoholism.

 

Tom Murray

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Tom Murray, The Future Is Behind You (Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2006, ISBN 0-9531212-9-1) Tom Murray is co-editor of The Eildon Tree magazine. This collection of poems explores some of his enthusiasms, which are often tempered with a wry sense of humour.

Penny Wheatley

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Penny Wheatley, Dream Down Blue (Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9531212-0-5) A series of poems, many taking their inspiration from the natural setting of the author’s home by the River Leeder: they probe the complexities of living, seeking meaning with anger, hope, desire and despair.

Lis Lee

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Lis Lee's Sob Sister (Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2005. ISBN: 0953121259) was the first collection we published. It explores common poetic themes - childhood, for example, or loss - with an individual tone and an urgent engagement.

Tom Bryan

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Tom Bryan, Redwing Summer (Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2005. ISBN: 0953121275). Tom is Brownsbank Writing Fellow in Biggar, has had collections published before, and we are proud to present this one: in it, he writes especially powerfully of the small failures of life which are also paradoxically successes because they affirm the reality of our living.

Jay Whittaker

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Jay Whittaker, Pearl. (Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2005. ISBN: 0953121267) Jay Whittaker is a prize-winning author whose poetry is both sensitive and proud - an arresting combination.

 

Robert Leach

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Robert Leach, Journey flags. (Selkirk Lapwing Press, 2005. ISBN: 0953121242). These poems record incidents in a journey on foot through the lower slopes of the Himalaya, accompanied by a guide, a cook and several porters.

 

 

 

 

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