Introducing ‘Oils’ and ‘Rivers Wanted’, two new poetry pamphlets
The Emma Press is delighted to announce the publication of two new poetry pamphlets: Oils by Stephen Sexton and Rivers Wanted by Rachel Piercey.
Oils is Belfast poet Sexton’s debut pamphlet and features several poems inspired by paintings, including Peter Doig’s ‘Young Bean Farmer’ and Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’. Sexton is currently studying for a PhD at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast and he won the inaugural Funeral Services Northern Ireland National Poetry Competition in 2012. He recently won third prize in the Poetry London Competition with his poem ‘Elegy for Olive Oyl‘.
Rivers Wanted is the first full-length pamphlet from London poet Rachel Piercey, following on from her short booklet of love poems, The Flower and the Plough, which was the very first publication of the Emma Press. Piercey works at the Poetry Society in London and is a poetry editor at the Cadaverine magazine. In 2008 she won the prestigious Newdigate Prize, previously won by poets including Fiona Sampson, Andrew Motion and Oscar Wilde.
The pamphlets were launched in London on 16th October and will be launched in Belfast on 30th October at the Crescent Arts Centre, as part of the Belfast Festival at Queen’s. For more details about this event, please visit the festival website. Entry is free, but booking is essential.
About the Emma Press
The Emma Press is an independent publisher dedicated to producing books which are beautiful and thought-provoking. It was founded in 2012 in Winnersh, UK, by Emma Wright, formerly of Orion Books. The Emma Press has just been shortlisted in the 2014 Michael Marks Awards for poetry pamphlet publishers.
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