Inpress Books is the home of some of the finest poetry, fiction and non-fiction available in the UK. On this site you will find one of the largest collections of contemporary poetry in the UK.
Parthian has been publishing innovative fiction drama and poetry in Wales for ten years. Their aim is to promote new talent and bring exciting new authors to as wide an audience as possible. While the main focus is on Welsh fiction and the image of Wales the list construct is dynamic, contemporary, and inclusive of different cultural groups.
Home to an Empty House is a frank tragicomedy about ordinary people living against the backdrop of an industrial Wales that is quickly falling away, never getting what they want, but finally realising what it is they need. The author, Alun Richards, was born in Pontypridd in 1929 and spent time as a Lieutenant Instructor in the Royal Navy His output was prodigious. It included six novels, two collections of short stories, plays for stage and radio and adaptations for television includingThe Onedin Line. His sensitive biography of his close friend, Carwyn James, appeared in 1984 and his own entrancing memoir Days of Absence in 1985l He died in 2004.
The Venezuelan Embassy & the Venezuela Information Centre present: An evening of Poetry and Song/una peña literaria revolucionaria
In celebration of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela and in commemoration of the Popular Unity government in Chile
Date: Thursday 11 September 2008 7.00pm
Venue: Bolivar Hall, Grafton Way, Central London (closest stations Euston or Warren Street Tube)
Poets:
Harold Pinter, Eduardo Embri; Carlos Reyes and Maria Eugenia Bravo (Chile), and from the UK: Alexis Lykiard, Chris Searle, Dinah Livingstone, Paul Summers and Andy Croft and special guests from Venezuela.
Musicians:
Joe Wilkes; Andy Smythe; Mauricio and Laura Venegas with Rachel Pantin of Quimantu; RubenH of Landing Sky.
Contact: Venezuela Information Centre, PO Box 56210, London, N4 4XH or telephone: 0207 250 0132; email: info@vicuk.org
In announcing the 2008 Saif Ghobash Banipal Award for Arabic Literary Translation, the Banipal Trust pays tribute to the author of the winning translation, Mahmoud Darwish, who tragically passed away on 9 August.
By unanimous decision of the judges, Marilyn Booth, Aamer Hussein and Bill Swainson, with non-voting chair Roger Allen, the 2008 award goes to Fady Joudah for his translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry collections in The Butterfly’s Burden, published in a bilingual edition by Bloodaxe Books in the UK, and by Copper Canyon Press in the USA, the latter being short-listed earlier this year for PEN America’s poetry in translation award.
The runner-up is Ghassan Nasr for his translation of the late Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s last novel, The Journals of Sarab Affan, published by Syracuse University Press.
A third submission won commendation – the translation by Nancy Roberts of Salwa Bakr’s The Man from Bashmour, published by The American University in Cairo Press.
The Award Ceremony is hosted by the British Centre for Literary Translation, the Arts Council and the Society of Authors and takes place as follows:
Monday 29 September, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London SE1. 6.30 pm: Readings by the translators from the prize-winning translations 8.00 pm: Presentation of the Translation Prizes by Sir Peter Stothard, Editor, Times Literary Supplement followed by The 2008 Sebald Lecture on the Art of Literary Translation Louis de Bernières speaking on “A Day Out for Mehmet Erbil”.
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