Double Book Launch: Dinah Hawken and James Brown

Join us to launch two incisive new poetry collections - Peace & Quiet by Dinah Hawken and New Days for Old by James Brown.

New Days for Old is a life story in small scenes. Funny, moving, erotic, political and undeniably odd, it turns our most familiar-feeling days into something altogether new.

Each scene in this book is like a 1-minute pop song: its depths are at first easy to miss. But as the story proceeds, the grand scheme of things hoves into view: we are born, we crawl and then are carried away, and everything is a-shimmer, even the disappointments.

Dinah Hawken's Peace & Quiet queries the use of poetry in times of ecological and political turbulence, invoking both human voices and the voices — ‘the silt and the slash’ — of the natural world.

Powerful and illuminating, these poems show that peace, gentleness and reflection are a form of resistance.