The Emma Press acquires rights to pandemic-themed children’s poetry debut by Rakhshan Rizwan
The Emma Press has acquired world rights to My Sneezes Are Perfect, the debut children's poetry collection by Rakhshan Rizwan, author of Kashmiri Life Narratives (Routledge, 2020) and Paisley (The Emma Press, 2017). Publisher Emma Wright chose My Sneezes Are Perfect
The Emma Press acquires rights to poetry debut by Atangana Bekono
The Emma Press has snapped up the debut poetry collection of Dutch author Simone Atangana Bekono.
The Emma Press announces shortlists for poetry pamphlets and children’s poetry collections
The Emma Press has announced the shortlists from their most recent call for submissions, which ran from November 2019 to January 2020.
The Emma Press publishes second volume of Carson’s Postcard Stories
The Emma Press is launching Postcard Stories 2 by Jan Carson at EastSide Arts Festival this week, with an online event on 6th August and an outdoor picnic in Belfast on 9th August.
Food memoir Tiny Moons on third print run
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai, a food memoir by Nina Mingya Powles, has proven popular with readers during lockdown, becoming a bestselling title for the publisher.
The Emma Press hosts first virtual booklaunch for “Call and Response”
The Emma Press is marking the publication of Call and Response, a poetry pamphlet by Rachel Spence, with a virtual booklaunch on Friday 27th March.
The Emma Press publishes first collection of Estonian eco-poetry
The Emma Press has just launched Vivarium, a poetry pamphlet by Maarja Pärtna, translated from Estonian by Jayde Will.
Vivarium contains a selection of poems from Vivaarium, published by Elusamus in 2019. Vivarium was the first collection of poems about climate change to be published in Estonia, with Pärtna addressing topics of major environmental changes, loss of biodiversity and global warming by aligning them with themes of national trauma, examining the impact of Soviet rule on Estonian society.
The Emma Press launches food memoir by Nina Mingya Powles
The Emma Press is publishing Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai, a food memoir by award-winning poet Nina Mingya Powles, at the end of the month.
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Powles journeys between Wellington, Kota Kinabalu and Shanghai, tracing the constants in her life: eating and cooking, and the dishes that have come to define her. Through childhood snacks, family feasts, Shanghai street food and student dinners, she attempts to find a way back towards her Chinese-Malaysian heritage.
The Emma Press launches second set of Bicki-Books, mini picturebooks for children
The Emma Press has published six more titles in the Bicki-Books series, originally published in Latvia. Bicki-Books are postcard-sized picturebooks aimed at children aged 3+, each featuring a poem and illustrations by different contemporary artists.
Publisher Emma Wright acquired UK rights for the series from Liels un mazs, Riga. The BIKIBUKS series was curated by Rūta Briede, arts director at Liels un mazs and tutor at the Art Academy of Riga. There were 101 BIKIBUKS published in Latvia between 2012 and 2018, with the 101st book released to mark 100 years of Latvian independence.
Wrights said: “The Bicki-Books are the perfect size for little hands, and a great way for children to feel ownership over books. All the illustrations are rich with details, so readers can discover new delights every time they return to the books. They have become instant classics to children in Latvia, and I hope that they will help connect children in the UK with the wider world.”
The Emma Press publishes Poems The Wind Blew In, winner of the English PEN Writers in Translation Award
Birmingham publisher The Emma Press has published Poems The Wind Blew In – the latest addition to their flagship children's poetry book list.
Poems The Wind Blew In, by Karmelo C. Iribarren, was first published as Versos que el viento arrastra in Spain in 2010, by Ediciones El Jinete Azul. It has been translated into English for The Emma Press by Lawrence Schimel, with newly-commissioned illustrations for this edition by Riya Chowdhury.
