A long and interesting list, with mentions for Other Room readers Tim Atkins, David Berridge, Peter Hughes, Alistair Noon, Michelle Naka Pierce,.Eléna Rivera and Rachel Sills. More here.
Peter Hughes
Poetry Launch: Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes and Time Dust by Ian Patterson
Wednesday, 24th February 2016, 18:30. Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge. The launch of two new poetry collections published by Equipage: Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes and Time Dust by Ian Patterson.
Peter Hughes is based in Hunstanton, having worked as a teacher and translator in Italy and the UK. He is the publisher of the Oystercatcher Press chapbooks and has had his own works published by a wide range of presses, including Equipage, Shearsman and Reality Street. His most recent publications are Quite Frankly: After Petrarch’s Sonnets (Reality Street, 2015) and Cavalcanty (Equipage, 2015)
Ian Patterson lives and works in Cambridge, where he is a fellow of Queens’ College. He is well known for his work on Modernism and C20 and contemporary literature, especially poetry. A Selected Poems was published by Salt in 2003 under the title Time to Get Here. Since then, The Glass Bell (2009) has appeared from Barque, as well as Time Dust (2015) from Equipage and Still Life (2015) from Oystercatcher.
The event is free to attend, but booking is essential.
Peter Hughes, John Hall and more at The Plymouth Arts Club
Peter Hughes’ Petrarch reviewed by Billy Mills
Billy Mills reviews recent Other Room reader Peter Hughes’ Quite Frankly After Petrarch HERE
Peter Hughes video from The Other Room June 2015
Peter Hughes launching his translations of Petrarch
The Other Room Tonight
Preview of Other Room reader – Peter Hughes
Peter Hughes will read at The Other Room on 10th June, 7pm, alongside Amy Cutler and Luke Allan.
I sometimes wrote in Italian, in an exploratory kind of way, just for myself, in notebooks. I didn’t try to publish it. Mainly I contented myself with reading Italian, and sometimes translating from Italian into English.
Read more of this interview with Peter Hughes HERE
And a review of Quite Frankly (Translations of Petrarch’s Sonnets) by Steve Waling HERE
Preview of Other room reader – Amy Cutler
Amy Cutler will read at The Other Room on 10th June, 7pm, alongside Luke Allan and Peter Hughes. Below is an example of her series Suckers.
Read more on Amy’s blog HERE
Preview of Other Room reader – Luke Allan
Luke Allan will read at The Other Room on 10th June, 7pm, alongside Amy Cutler and Peter Hughes. Below is an example of his work – one sandwich from his series ‘eight sandwiches’.
See more at his website HERE
Peter Hughes poetry reading
25 February, 6 PM. Clephan Building (De Montfort University), Leicester.
FREE reading by poet, artist and publisher Peter Hughes. All welcome but please book in advance by clicking on the link http://www.dmu.ac.uk/cultural-exchanges-festival/2015/cultural-exchanges-festival-2015.aspxPeter has published a number of collections and his adaptations of Petrarch are due out this year. He is also the editor of the award-winning Oystercatcher Press.
New from Oystercatcher
Heiligenschein : Petrarch Sonnets 160 – 180
Knives Forks and Spoons book launch
- Peter Hughes
- Sarah James
- Robert Sheppard
Saturday, 21 September 2013, 1 pm start.
MelloMello, 40-42 Slater Street, Liverpool, L1 4BX.
2 new Reality Street books

Sarah Crewe’s flick invicta reviewed by Tom Jenks
“This short book by Sarah Crewe, published by Peter Hughes’ always interesting Oystercatcher Press, poses many questions. The first is: what exactly is it? Is it a long poem, a sequence of poems or a collection of discrete pieces? Reading flick invicta, the reader is repeatedly presented with these questions and is always looking for connections, for a way of navigating the text and understanding its internal wiring. Content is constantly framed and reframed. Perhaps the most pertinent analogy is that of a Venn diagram with many circles of context, voice, syntax and style. Where these circles intersect is where the poetry happens.”
Read more. Buy a copy at the Oystercatcher site.
New from Oystercatcher
Jessica Pujol i Duran: every bit of light
Peter Hughes: Regulation Cascade
Out now at the Oystercatcher site.
Two new chapbooks from Wild Honey Press
origins of process by James Cummins and Collected Letters by Peter Hughes. More information available at the Wild Honey Press site.
Out now from Arthur Shilling
Edmund Hardy – Desertion
First Edition Features: 60 copies, A6, 8 pages. Plain red cover (‘a . s’ hand-stamped on rear). Speckled innards.
£2 inc. postage
Peter Hughes – Site Guide
First Edition Features: 30 copies, A5, 20 pages. Cover is a potato print on ivory card. Plain paper innards.
£3.50 inc. postage
available at at arthur-shilling-press.blogspot.com