So, here it is
Feeling a bit nostalgic today – throwback to just before the Caper Press launched. Not quite Christmas yet, but the Caper Press launch is now just four days away. I know it must be real because Alexandra, Drew and I…
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Great review of Workhouse to Westminster!
So pleased with this great review of Workhouse to Westminster on Open Democracy, and reproduced on Radio Free. And we hear there’s another in this month’s copy of the The House magazine. We are impatiently awaiting our copy… https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/stuart-weir/workhouse-to-westminster-review
Looking for Erik: launching tomorrow!
Here is a glimpse of Looking for Erik! Hot off the press! Fresh from the box! Etc etc etc. So looking forward to tomorrow’s launch, and sharing this wonderful book with the world.
Join the search for Erik the Red this November!
November 2017 will see us launch our second caper! In Looking for Erik Alexandra Fitzsimmons follows tenth century Viking, Erik the Red, from Norway to Greenland via Iceland and the odd unexpected dip in a fjord.Outlaw, settler of new lands, and…
Lift Off! 24 November 2016
We are excited to announce that the Caper Press will be launching itself on the world on November 24th. Come and join us to celebrate from 7pm upstairs at Canal 125, 125 Caledonian Road. There will be readings by our three…
On ‘History and Futures – Greek Poetry and Writing in a Crisis’
The Caper Press was at the Poetry Library yesterday for History and Futures – Greek Poetry And Writing A Crisis, organised by Penned in the Margins. You can check out some of our live tweeting here. The event demonstrated the power of poems,…
On The Caper Press
My longstanding project to self-publish a collection of my poems rumbles on. Progress has been made, in the form of buying ISBN numbers. And since you can only buy them ten at a time, I thought why not aim higher than only publishing…
On meeting someone with the same signature
Sally Smith I stared at the register in consternation. Can this be? Seriously? That someone has the same — the very same! — signature as me. (Save for her flourish over the ‘i’ to my squiggle through the ‘t’.) It’s…
On internet dating
Soulmatch We’ve turned the romance down a fraction. Is there much anticipation? Hardly — online love’s a bit of a transaction. He asks me to dinner, I choose coffee. His messages aren’t dim, I might like him. Still, I’ll turn…
On life being confusing as a child
Glimpses I see her being stung by the bumble bee on the windowsill she was told not to play with. Then chicken pox, being sick. Drinking warm water to fix her tummy – really mummy? Shutting the door to her…