TO BE IN THE SAME WORLD PETER KANE DUFAULT December 2007

This new collection from Dufault confirms him as one of the greatest living American poets and in particular one of the finest commentators on the natural world; his poetry is able to snatch ‘those uncatchable moments’ as Ted Hughes put it. There is a stark divide between the book’s two sections: the first part ponders the place of man in the natural world via finely-crafted narratives and poems of memory; the second contains some blistering and wry political satire with Dufualt’s principal targets American domestic and foreign policy over recent years.

WARP AND WEFT AN ANTHOLOGY OF WORPLE WRITING December 2007

This first anthology of Worple poetry is edited by Peter Carpenter with a Foreword by Kevin Jackson; it gathers together poems written by established Worple authors and others whose work has come to the press’s attention via submission.

In all there are contributions from 25 writers including Jonathan Attrill, Anne Fitzgerald, John Freeman, Jeremy Hooker, Ann Leahy, Paul McCloughlin, Nessa O’Mahoney and Hugh Underhill, all new to Worple. Established names include Andy Brown, Peter Kane Dufault, David Morley, Peter Robinson and Iain Sinclair.

All the work is uncollected and it will give a very good snapshot of how far Worple has come since 1997 and where it is heading over the next few years.