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★ Any two chapbooks for £9.00 [includes postage]. ★

NB: The Private Press will be on hiatus from 28 April. Please allow 2-3 weeks delivery time until our return on 13 May 2008.

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We Don't Stop Here, ed. Ivy Alvarez

A chapbook anthology inspired by David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive

With poems by Emilie Zoey Baker, Juliet Cook, Karen Head, Esther Johnson, Collin Kelley and Daniel Lloyd. [Bios]

Audio poems:
Karen Head ¦ Collin Kelley ¦ Daniel Lloyd ¦

Published by The Private Press, March 2008
14cm x 14cm. Metallic blue with silver shimmer 250gsm cover. Natural White Conservation Wove 100gsm 100% recycled paper interior
Hand-trimmed & saddlestitched, 20 pages + cover

★ Reviews for We Don't Stop Here ★

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A Slice of Cherry Pie, ed. Ivy Alvarez

A chapbook anthology inspired by David Lynch's cult TV show, Twin Peaks

With poems by Emilie Zoey Baker, Jilly Dybka, Collin Kelley, elena knox, Jared Leising, Daniel Lloyd, Siobhan Logan, Eileen Tabios, Maureen Thorson, Andrew J Wilson and Maike Zock. [Bios]

Audio poems: Andrew J Wilson ¦ Maureen Thorson ¦ Jared Leising ¦ Daniel Lloyd ¦ Collin Kelley

Published by The Private Press, September 2006
13cm x 21cm. Mocha 150gsm acid-free cover. Ivory 80gsm 100% recycled paper interior
Hand-trimmed & saddlestitched, 20 pages + cover

Half Empty/Half Full publishes the US edition.

[View the Making of the Cherries slideshow]

★ Praise for A Slice of Cherry Pie ★

Seductive, with eccentric bread crumb trails that lead into the deep green of Twin Peaks, readers will be twisted, wondering, brow-wrinkled and pondering, yet again, what makes the peculiar characters and their stories so compelling.
—Lisa Factora-Borchers, Galatea Resurrects

A Slice of Cherry Pie is '...an intriguing and accomplished collection, not merely a put-together collage or even a mosaic in words, but a compilation complete and riveting.'
—Patricia Prime, New Hope International Review

'A kick-ass piece of work. I loved every poem, I devoured the whole thing at once, I want everyone to read this, whether or not they are Twin Peaks Fans.'
—Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jeannine Blogs

'The poems range from very tiny to quite extensive, but all evoke the eerie quality of Lynch's series.'
—Erik Donald France, Erik's Choice

Australian readers:
A Slice of Cherry Pie is now available from Brunswick Street Bookstore and Collected Works in Melbourne and the Hobart Bookshop in Hobart.

Thanks to elena knox for permission to feature her artwork on The Private Press site.

£5.00

what's wrong

• One year • Everdearest Ann • Rituals • Something for you • Nothing more to say • what's wrong • Last night • limbo • The Ballad of Ann and Bill • as I stand •

Cover image: 'Looking Away' by poet and artist Christine Hamm

"...gave me chills the first time I read it"
—Maureen Thorson, author of Novelty Act

"Dark, lyrical and lush."
—Suzanne Frischkorn, author of Red Paper Flower

Read Ernesto Priego's response.

Published by The Private Press, 2004; third printing
White 160gsm cover, white 80gsm interior, hand-cut & hand-stapled, 12 pages & cover

Also available from the Hobart Bookshop and Collected Works in Australia, The Toadstool Bookshop in the USA and Anthology Books in Ireland.

£5.00

catalogue: life as tableware

a chapbook of poems
• catalogue: life as tableware • Crow • teacups and rainwater • haiku • Girl Meets Boy • Sport • Sweet • nucleus •

"...like Meret Oppenheim's Fur-Lined Teacup... it lends a mystery to the daily, makes something new out of it..."
—Lucy Dougan, author of Memory Shell

"a jeweller's gift with words"
—Natalie d'Arbellof, author of Augustine's True Confession

Published by The Private Press, 2004; second printing
Pale grey 160gsm cover, pale cream 80gsm interior, seven poems and six haiku, hand-cut & hand-stapled, 12 pages & cover

Also available from the Hobart Bookshop, Brunswick Street Bookstore and Collected Works in Australia.