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
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Thank you to BBC News Magazine for a fascinating piece on the volunteer doctors currently saving lives in Greece. See it here. It reminded me of this, which I wrote in early 2012, in response to the endless news reports…
