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Remembering Ted Hughes

Two new titles this month from Five Leaves, both offering unique insights into the public and private life of one of the UK's greatest poets.

In Memories of Ted Hughes: 1952-63, close friend Daniel Huws describes a young and still carefree Hughes during his time at Cambridge, as well as the arrival on the scene of a certain Sylvia Plath and their years together in London.

Poems and Journals: 1960-69 gathers together the works of Susan Alliston, a long-forgotten contemporary of Hughes in 1960s London, whose writing the man himself described as "a weird blend of something savage and a bit surreal with a hard, fine conscientious realism".

Buy Memories of Ted Hughes or Susan Alliston: Poems and Journals.

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Why not celebrate Ireland's patron saint with a great read from one of our new Irish publishers, Salmon Poetry and Dedalus Press.

Landing Places from Dedalus is a significant anthology that features 66 poets, both recent arrivals and first generation immigrants from all over the world who have made their homes in Ireland, including Richard Tillinghast, Enrique Juncosa and Chris Agee. A unique and intriguing collection that will challenge our conceptions of what the phrase 'Irish poetry' really means.

Spear-Fishing on the Chatanika, published by Salmon Poetry, brings together new and selected works from the distinguished Alaskan poet John Morgan. Described by Annie Dillard as "strong and full of carefully controlled feeling... tender and precise evocations of the moral and sensory life of man", you'll find award-winning poems on family, travel, landscape, dream and history.

And if you're a follower of Inpress on Twitter, you've got until 4pm today to enter our competition - tell us who your favourite Irish poet is and why and you'll be in with a chance of winning a free Inpress book of your choice.

Buy Landing Places or Spear-Fishing on the Chatanika.

Announcing the first ever Inpress Virtual Book Tour

A first for Inpress in the coming weeks: we're going on tour! More specifically, author Richard Aronowitz, of Five Amber Beads fame, will be appearing on a host of sites across the blogosphere, talking about his new novel It's Just the Beating of My Heart.

Over the next fortnight, you can follow Richard on his tour and read reviews and interviews on a range of topics, from how to get published to his career in the art-world, as well as the surprise ending that had Tom Sutcliffe in such a twist in The Independent last Friday.

First up, there's the next installment of Richard's ongoing Train of Thought series - little gems of thought and comment from aboard the commuter trains where both his novels were born.

Buy the book here.

Launching this week: Inroads by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

This week sees the launch of a prodigious new talent on the poetry scene. Inroads is the debut collection from Carolyn Jess-Cooke, a Northern Irish poet now based in North East England who has already received many awards and widespread recognition for her work.

Published by Seren, and launching at Newcastle's City Library this Thursday, Inroads is a sophisticated mix of modernised myth and legend, playful experiment and multi-faceted insight into modern life and young motherhood.

It has been described by Carol Rumens as "a sparkling variety-act, choreographed with a strong but daring sense of form... Jess-Cooke is a poet who revels in the magical pleasure of language, and readers will enjoy sharing it with her."

For more information on the launch event, click here.

Or to buy the book, click here.

Mark Hodkinson and his beloved Rochdale FC

Readers of the sports pages will have spotted, in The Times on Saturday, the story of long-suffering Rochdale FC – a football club now on the brink of success after years in the mire – as recounted by Mark Hodkinson, lifelong fan and founder of Pomona Books.

His book about his club, Believe in the Sign, was hailed as one of the sports books of the year for 2009 in both The Guardian and The Times. It's best described as a 'sort of a memoir': about a normal, average boy who would have grown up happily average and normal but for a dark and perverse passion: the seductive lure of devotion to a no-hope, near-derelict football club...

Mark Hodkinson has also written a novel, The Last Mad Surge of Youth, this time about his other life's love, music. It was dubbed the 'rock novel of 2009' by Q magazine and received widespread critical acclaim in the likes of The Observer, The Times and Mojo Magazine.

Click to buy Believe in the Sign or The Last Mad Surge of Youth.

Or for more titles like these, check out our Sport and Music sections.

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