tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58511297516035025422024-03-05T07:38:24.419+00:00The Emma/Valley Press BlogTwo small presses, one blog: all the latest news and views from your favourite publishers, Jamie McGarry and Emma Wright.Jamie McGarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11832647388923153105noreply@blogger.comBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-23273148309271823362019-11-04T13:02:00.002+00:002019-11-04T13:02:29.322+00:00Women Who Dared To Dream: Interview with author Louise Palfreyman<i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/once-upon-a-time-in-birmingham/" target="_blank">Once Upon a Time in Birmingham: Women Who Dared To Dream</a></i> is a fully illustrated book that tells the stories of 30 inspirational women from Birmingham, past and present. We interviewed some of the incredible women who helped make the book a reality... <b>Louise Palfreyman</b>, who wrote the stories.<br />
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<b>1. How did you get involved with this book?</b><br />
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I was approached by Writing West Midlands, who had heard that Birmingham City Council were looking for a way to commemorate the centenary of the first women to get the vote. The council commissioned the book, and I worked with local female-run publisher The Emma Press and a team of female illustrators to produce <i>Once Upon a Time in Birmingham: Women Who Dared to Dream</i>, which was launched at this year’s Birmingham Literature Festival.<br />
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Rather than celebrate the achievements of one woman, the council wanted to find a way to celebrate as many amazing (and yet unknown) women and their achievements as possible.<br />
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Everyone involved in the project wanted this to be a book with a difference, not a traditional ‘local history’ book, but something girls would want to pick up and read. Ultimately the book aims to inspire the city’s next generation of female achievers to continue to blaze that trail…<br />
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<b>2. What was it like working on/being part of this book?</b><br />
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The intention was always that this should be a book about, by and for Birmingham women.<br />
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We asked for public nominations, and they came flooding in via a social media campaign #BhamRemembers. More than 130 women’s names were put forward across a wide range of disciplines, all of whom either had a fantastic history or an inspiring story to tell. As a result, we had to bring in some real experts – a group of young female writers from Spark Young Writers - representing the book’s target audience (11-16 year olds) for a special nominations session. They worked in groups to pick the 30 women featured in this book.<br />
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Every entry required careful research and the help of a whole army of people with connections to each of our chosen women. I sought guidance from friends and family, colleagues past and present, academics and historians, and I must give a special mention to the archive service at the Library of Birmingham. The acknowledgements section at the back of the book gives the full list of people involved, all of whom played a crucial role in making sure we got our facts right and told each story the best way we possibly could!<br />
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What I found as a writer was that story was key – it was paramount to bring each woman to life and go beyond merely listing her achievements to really capturing her essence: the qualities she possessed, what drove her, and who contributed in her formative years to make her so determined to succeed. Once Upon a Time In Birmingham… is a book about, by and for Birmingham women – so every woman involved in this book’s journey is either based in or has links with the city.<br />
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<b>3. What kind of responses have you had from the book?</b><br />
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There’s a section at the back of the book where our panel of young writers give their responses to the stories within… here’s what they had to say:<br />
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'The women we have chosen are all, without exception, worthy of their place in this book. They’ve fought, often against discrimination or prejudice, to achieve things that have earned them a place between these pages but, even more so, a place in our hearts.'<br />
EVE CONNOR, AGED 14<br />
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'All of the women in this book are true pioneers and excellent role models. We wanted to help promote the achievements of women and how much of an influence they are on our daily lives.'<br />
MILJA STEVENSON, AGED 13<br />
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'Many of these women are unsung heroes. I was astounded by how few I had heard of before. It seems that few care to acknowledge the achievements of women; to remedy this, we need to celebrate women’s attainments, past and present.'<br />
MARYAM ALTAMANE, AGED 15<br />
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There are so many in the book... We have a female engineer, Asha Devi, who designed some of Birmingham’s most well-known landmarks. She also volunteered in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack at Ground Zero in New York.<br />
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There’s Raj Holness, a survivor of domestic abuse who went on to launch a project to help other women in a similar situation.<br />
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We have women from the arts, like author Kit de Waal and ballerina Marion Tait, and prominent sportswomen and scientists, too.<br />
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We have many firsts: Mary Lee Berners-Lee, an early pioneer of computer programming; Jessie Eden, who fought for women’s rights in the workplace; Lisa Clayton, who sailed single-handed and nonstop around the world…<br />
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There are also ordinary, everyday women like Joye Beckett, who ran a drama group for teenagers, and Clare Rowland, who works in the city centre with young people experiencing mental health issues.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">You can find out more about </span><i>Once Upon a Time in Birmingham</i> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">and order your copy (£14.99) </span><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/once-upon-a-time-in-birmingham/" target="_blank">here</a>.<i style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> </i><br />
<i style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></i><i>Photo: Jack Spicer Adams</i>Emma Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10543903911609479493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-3688765554220380602019-11-04T12:30:00.000+00:002019-11-04T12:30:00.629+00:00Women Who Dared To Dream: Interview with illustrator Saadia Kipkiss<i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/once-upon-a-time-in-birmingham/" target="_blank">Once Upon a Time in Birmingham: Women Who Dared To Dream</a></i> is a fully illustrated book that tells the stories of 30 inspirational women from Birmingham, past and present. We interviewed some of the incredible women who helped make the book a reality... <b>Saadia Hipkiss</b>, one of the illustrators:<br />
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<b>1. How did you get involved with this book?</b><br />
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The Emma press emailed me, and I remember being in bed checking my mail and the off chance I check my junk mail and I see this email asking if I want to be part of the book and illustrate inspiring women of Birmingham. I was so pleased! It felt like university had finally paid off and I was going to illustrate for a company, it was the best news ever. And on that note… always check your junk mail! I have ever since!<br />
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Such an honour! It was and still is an amazing opportunity. Being part of a book so powerful has been inspiring. I'm all about inspiration and to be part of a book revolving around inspiration, dreams and fighting for a cause you believe in, it’s just incredible. I was 7 months pregnant working on this book, so for me it's also a good memory and something I will forever look back on.<br />
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<b>3. What kind of responses have you had from the book? </b><br />
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Really positive responses, from family, friends and the public. Everybody loves the illustrations, the stories and its purpose. The exposure of the book has been great in terms of the events, the launch, book talks, and even an exhibition showing the illustrations.<br />
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<b>4. What has been a highlight for you of being involved in this book? </b><br />
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It has made me more positive, it has allowed me to become more confident with speaking to an audience and share my story, and the opportunity to carry out a workshop on international women's day.<br />
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<b>5. Can you tell us about a woman who has inspired you? </b><br />
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My mum, the strongest person I know. We have our ups and downs but she will always be my number one. She has taught me to be strong, and most importantly I wouldn't be the mother I am today without her guidance. She has made me the person I am today, and I'm forever grateful.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">You can find out more about </span><i>Once Upon a Time in Birmingham</i> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">and order your copy (£14.99) </span><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/once-upon-a-time-in-birmingham/" target="_blank">here</a>.<i style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> </i><br />
<i style="background-color: white; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></i><i>Photo: Jack Spicer Adams</i>Philippa Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12202238560133423771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-38415843889696717602019-11-04T12:24:00.002+00:002019-11-04T12:24:26.311+00:00Women Who Dared To Dream: Interview with illustrator Michelle Turton<i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/once-upon-a-time-in-birmingham/" target="_blank">Once Upon a Time in Birmingham: Women Who Dared To Dream</a></i> is a fully illustrated book that tells the stories of 30 inspirational women from Birmingham, past and present. We interviewed one of the incredible women who helped make the book a reality... <b>Michelle Turton</b>, one of the illustrators:<br />
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I was invited by Philippa, I must have been on a list of artists to contact. I believe The Emma Press had seen my portraiture work exhibited at the Lichfield Literature Festival and thought it would be a good fit.<br />
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It was a dream project and a dream brief to illustrate five inspirational women connected to Birmingham. I love drawing portraits and was given free rein to interpret their stories as I saw fit. It's also given me the opportunity to talk about my work and celebrate female achievement on a grand platform; from the launch at The Rep theatre to the Hippodrome's exhibition launch and a book launch at Waterstones.<br />
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People have been very supportive and encouraging. At the signing tables people, both men and women, are asking for more of this. This excites me, it gives me hope for the future. I look forward to seeing a new and balanced view of female strength and beauty.<br />
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<b>4. What has been a highlight for you of being involved in this book?</b><br />
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I'm excited about young people being inspired by our illustrations of true queens and princesses fighting real world demons and dangers, and in doing so, furthering self-belief and ambition in young women today. <i>Once Upon a Time in Birmingham</i> is a perfect example of how we can maintain the momentum for future generations to take the baton and go run with it. Representing women in art is vital to creating a balance of voices. Visual language is universal and as illustrators this project is a perfect opportunity to use our skills and talent to shine a light on female achievement.<br />
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<b>5. Can you tell us about a woman who has inspired you?</b><br />
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Dr Jane Goodall. At 85 years of age she's still determined to spread a message of hope. She uses her passion, persistence and purpose to improve the lives of others, animals & the planet we share.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Cb90PYbGY5Qua5uHVmYKkrDCY3U3gR0ZVBE3zOap7RQ9GvqjBInB3qHVJoKpxdnQV_hyphenhyphenpDC2O57-nR6PZQVB3zzyP46Twg74VEgJN0Fsts3ryqRBA8Df7qPln0TrEl9cM5SzBhFs3yLK/s1600/Yasmin-Bryan-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Cb90PYbGY5Qua5uHVmYKkrDCY3U3gR0ZVBE3zOap7RQ9GvqjBInB3qHVJoKpxdnQV_hyphenhyphenpDC2O57-nR6PZQVB3zzyP46Twg74VEgJN0Fsts3ryqRBA8Df7qPln0TrEl9cM5SzBhFs3yLK/s320/Yasmin-Bryan-2.jpg" width="179" /></a><b>1. How did you get involved with this book?</b><br />
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The Emma Press contacted me after seeing my work at Birmingham City University graduation show. It felt so great to get approached like this as it feels like you've really been noticed!<br />
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As I had only just graduated it was really exciting to be working on a project with real recognition. The Emma Press were great and easy to work with and I often got feedback for my work when I needed it.<br />
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Since the book I have done a number of freelance projects, from greeting card designs to theatre backdrops, so quite varied! But most recently I have taken on a full time design position at The Media Group - a creative design agency.<br />
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<b>4. What has been a highlight for you of being involved in this book?</b><br />
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I think the highlight for me was just to be given the chance to be involved in something so professional. When you come out of university it can be hard to find your first job, so it was really uplifting to have a company believe in you and your work.<br />
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I feel like I should name an iconic person from history, but I actually believe that Beyonce is a big inspiration to me. I grew up listening and dancing to her music and as I've got older and her music has progressed, I find what she stands for really inspirational. She speaks for the little people and is empowering to black females everywhere. Always giving 100% for anything she's believes and is passionate about which is a great attitude to have in life.
But then a woman who will forever and always be a true inspiration to me is my mum, she's just the greatest! Need I say anymore?<br />
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<i>Photo: Jack Spicer Adams</i>Philippa Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12202238560133423771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-27215734528829130802019-11-04T12:15:00.004+00:002019-11-04T12:15:57.908+00:00Women Who Dared To Dream: Interview with illustrator Chein Shyan Lee<i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/once-upon-a-time-in-birmingham/" target="_blank">Once Upon a Time in Birmingham: Women Who Dared To Dream</a></i> is a fully illustrated book that tells the stories of 30 inspirational women from Birmingham, past and present. We interviewed one of the incredible women who helped make the book a reality... <b>Chein Shyan Lee</b>, one of the illustrators:<br />
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I am currently a full time illustrator and I was a Birmingham City University student majored in Illustration. Emma Press approached me after she took interest in my works through BCU's degree graduation show. It was a great honour to be able to illustrate 5 empowered women in government, activism and entertainment sector.<br />
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I always take a big interest in the publishing industry and it was the perfect opportunity for me working with Emma Press. It was an interesting project because I had to portray empowerment in each woman without overlooking their personal characteristics. Emma herself is an inspiring figure for running a publication in Jewellery Quarter and making <i>Once Upon A Time In Birmingham</i> happen. I would love to work more on books in the future because I think educational books are an important medium to inspire the future generation.<br />
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<b>3. What kind of responses have you had from the book?</b><br />
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Everyone loves the book, it was nice to acknowledge women are as capable as men in every aspect. I was really inspired after illustrating empowered women throughout Birmingham history. Back in my home country Malaysia, successful women are not as acknowledged as the women in England; it is really something we should strive for.<br />
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<b>4. What has been a highlight for you of being involved in this book?</b><br />
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The highlight for me is getting good exposure and as well as meeting new friendly faces, Emma herself and fellow illustrators.<br />
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<b>5. Can you tell us about a woman who has inspired you?</b><br />
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There are many women who inspired me throughout my life. My current inspiring woman is Yayoi Kusama, an iconic contemporary artist in our time. She has received many awards for her work and exhibited in major cities. What is so inspiring about Kusama is that she put her own fear in her works, making her art pieces her alter-ego. Besides that, Kusama is also an advocate for feminist art and environment art. I hope in the future I could produce art that inspires the world too.<br />
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I am always proud to be a woman, and proud to have a connection to our beautiful Birmingham and its people. I was really excited.<br />
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Being part of the book has been such an honour. It's a really special thing to be able to acknowledge these great women and their achievements by illustrating them and trying to embody their energy and spirit was a challenge that I tried to embrace. I desperately wanted to get it right so there were a good few furiously balled up sheet of paper in the process of trying to achieve their likeness! When things started coming together it felt good to represent them.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">When I tell people about </span><i style="text-align: center;">Once Upon A Time In Birmingham</i><span style="text-align: center;"> it is always so well received. The way that it is out there and ready to inspire young women can only be a good thing and I love telling people about they way that was an all female effort behind the scenes too. My boss heard about it on the work grapevine and made a point to come and ask me about it and wanted to see a copy which was wonderful!</span><br />
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Hearing people being so positive at the launch and the Waterstones event was so touching. It's really out there and people are loving it, and I think that's been a real highlight. When I've illustrated books before, the normal process is that you finish your illustrations, it eventually goes out to print and it's exciting to see it on the shelves in book shops, but you never really get to see how it's received. This has been a really special book in that the events that have followed have allowed everyone to see how much the girls are enjoying it and being inspired by it.<br />
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I find all women inspiring! My Mum, My Girl Gang, My sister, colleagues, everyone! If I had to pick one of the top of my head that inspired me when I was little I would choose JK Rowling. My Mum always made a big point, whilst I was reading the Harry Potter Books, about how she came from nothing and wrote the start of Harry Potter on a Napkin which I always found fascinating and must've taken real strength of character to get to where she is today.<br />
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Working on this book has really opened my eyes up to both the struggles and achievements of womenkind, that perhaps being born in the 90's I could've taken for granted. The world was a different place for women not so long ago and change has come about because of the efforts of so many women. The women featured in the book are particularly special because they knew what they wanted to do and were just going for it, regardless of their background, expectations of how they should behave or think or act. They have a cause for change and a job that needs doing and they're letting nothing get in their way! These are the kinds of women I admire in particular.
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Thank you for your support! Here, a little later than planned, is an update on the various things that have been going on with the Emma Press.<br />
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So, today is the last day of my long-awaited holiday! I've been in California for the last 2.5 weeks, staying with family and friends (someone I met just before I left said "Well done on having family and friends in California"), and I thought I'd enjoy my flight back this evening more if I'd sent out my overdue Friends newsletter. For the most part I've managed not to think too much about work while I've been away, as I wanted my brain to relax and return to Birmingham refreshed and ready to resume kicking ass/publishing recondite literary endeavours, but of course it was always in the background. It's hard to forget the reason why one is telling oneself every day to RELAX!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RELAX!!!<br />
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The main thing I've been trialling recently, even before my holiday started, has been letting go of all the things I've been telling myself I must be or avoid being. I'm very aware of how hard I've been trying since the start of the Emma Press to hold myself to the standards of the biggest publishers. Though my tagline was "small press, big dreams" and my business was the size of just me, I wanted to be just as professional and efficient as the big guys, and even more committed to accessibility and fairness. I think this was partly to avoid the stigma attached to the idea of self-publishing, and partly because I didn't see the point in aiming low. So, I tried to make lots of books, run publicity campaigns, organise lots of events for authors, stick to all my deadlines and committments, reply to all emails, create lots of opportunities for publication and give lots of people training in publishing through work experience and freelance work. Lots and lots. That is what I've been pushing myself to do over the last 7 years, and to no-one's surprise I've worn myself quite thin.<br />
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Before I left for California, I stacked up all the books I'd published this year and realised that I'd already published as many books as the previous year-with-the-most-number-of-books (2014; 15 books), and it was only June and I still have many more books yet to come. So that made an impression on me: I thought, "Well no wonder I need a holiday!"<br />
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And apart from the holiday, I've been taking care of myself in other ways: planning to do fewer books next year (maybe 12-14), just arranging one launch event per book, not beating myself up about getting behind on social media, moving some pub dates and deadlines instead of burning the midnight oil to hit them, having a little break from submissions, and letting my freelancers go.<br />
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The last one was kind of a big deal, as I really wanted to give more people opportunities to work in publishing and be part of the change I wanted to see, but it was costing a lot of money and I ended up realising that I don't need to take it on myself to try and single-handedly transform the publishing industry. I have done a lot already and I can do more in the future, when I'm less stressed.<br />
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When I return to my desk, I hope I can retain some of this clarity and keep making sensible decisions for myself and the business. I've been feeling good about the impact I've already had on the poetry landscape, as the various new pamphlets have been launched and I've looked back on all the other pamphlets they're joining in the Emma Press list. I'm glad that it means something now to be an Emma Press poet and I want to keep offering this platform to people, so I'm hoping I can open an new call for poetry pamphlet submissions in September but I'll see how I get in with work over the next few weeks.<br />
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I have another children's poetry anthology to typeset and illustrate, about insects, and some poetry pamphlets to get ready for the printer. Also, amidst all my thoughts about slowing down, an opportunity came up with the Arts Council to apply for a huge grant to develop my organisational resilience. My expression of interest was successful so now I have till 15th August to submit my full application. I'll send my next newsletter after that and let you know if I managed it!<br />
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<br />Emma Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10543903911609479493noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-72099304242900030922019-07-09T15:56:00.000+01:002019-07-09T16:07:25.953+01:00Dinosaur poets, assemble! What inspired your dinosaur poem? (Part 4)Our newest children poetry anthology is <i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/dragons-of-the-prime/" target="_blank">Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs</a></i>, edited by Richard O'Brien with notes by Will Tattersdill, aimed at children aged 8+. We asked the poets what inspired them to write their poems...<br />
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<b>Jeremy Wikeley </b><br />
I have always been fascinated by what did, or didn't happen between the dinosaurs' time and ours. To be honest, the scale of loss terrifies me. The poem probably comes, ultimately, from that place, although of course I don't want to scare anyone, least of all our readers! The poem itself is light-hearted, though you can see parallels with today's warnings about mass extinction. Meanwhile, there is something wonderful about the fact that you and I are descended from what thrived next. Human-centric as it is, I wanted to communicate that.)<br />
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<b>Rachael Nicholas </b><br />
It was the story of the discovery of the Podokesaurus that fascinated me, particularly because the museum housing the original specimen burned down. All those years since the first day of its life, all that time in the ground; uncovered by chance, and then destroyed by accident. I wanted to keep going back from that ending to think about what came before, and before that, and before that, right back to the start.<br />
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<b>Elli Woollard </b><br />
For me it's both incredible and humbling to think that dinosaurs probably once roamed the very ground we tread on now. I wrote the poem to conjure up that sense of wonder.<br />
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<b>Bo Crowder </b><br />
I was inspired by when 'Dippy' disappeared from the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum and <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/dippy-on-tour.html" target="_blank">went on to tour the country</a>.<br />
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<b>Louise Crosby</b><br />
There is lots of writing about dinosaurs, so my poem was inspired by what we don't know because nobody has ever seen a living dinosaur. I thought about all the senses and realised that we can only guess at what they smelt like, or sounded like. Hence I wrote 'What did dinosaurs smell like?' Well actually I wrote about what they <i>don't</i> smell of! I leave you to write about sound.<br />
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<b>Jane Newberry </b><br />
When my son was four he took part in the Palaeontologist race at Sports Day. Ned taught me everything I know about dinosaurs and took me to the Natural History Museum.<br />
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<b>Sophie Kirtley </b><br />
I'm always inspired by young people who do amazing things. When I read that Mary Anning was 12 (yes, 12!!) when she discovered her first dinosaur fossil (an ichthyosaur skull poking out of a rock face - how exciting must THAT have been?!) I knew that I just had to write about her. I imagined how it would feel to be a young Georgian girl stomping along a wild Dorset beach, dinosaur hunting, and I tried to literally put myself in Mary Anning's pioneering shoes.<br />
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<b>Lawrence Schimel </b><br />
I wrote my poem because I've always been struck by the disparity between the Tyrannosaurus' sheer bulk and ferocity, on the one hand, and its tiny, near-useless arms. Not to over-anthropomorphize, but it seems easy to imagine these creatures acting like bullies because of their self-consciousness about their body image--or otherwise trying to compensate, like the T. Rex in my poem.<br />
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<b>Emma Rose Millar </b><br />
I was inspired to write my poem Dawn of the Dinosaur while visiting Oxford Natural History Museum, where my son and I learned about the evolution of dinosaurs, beginning with lobe-finned fish. The museum is free to enter, with loads of interesting skeletons, fossils and crystals to see.<br />
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<b>Wye Haze</b><br />
Like many poems, my dinosaur poem is about more than one thing. It's about dinosaurs, of course, and it's also about cherishing time with your family, which is something which was on my mind when I wrote it.<br />
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<b>Lorraine Mariner </b><br />
I called myself a dinosaur to a friend because I felt I was falling behind with new technology and that gave me an idea for the poem.<br />
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<b><i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/dragons-of-the-prime/" target="_blank">Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs</a></i> is on sale now – buy your copy for £10.99 from our webshop!</b>Emma Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10543903911609479493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-6036879997237946132019-07-09T15:49:00.000+01:002019-07-09T16:03:40.516+01:00Dinosaur poets, assemble! What inspired your dinosaur poem? (Part 2)Our newest children poetry anthology is <i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/dragons-of-the-prime/" target="_blank">Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs</a></i>, edited by Richard O'Brien with notes by Will Tattersdill, aimed at children aged 8+. We asked the poets what inspired them to write their poems...<br />
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My poem was inspired by <i>Walking With Dinosaurs</i> Episode 4, 'Giant of the Skies', which featured an Ornithocheirus at the end of his life. I watched <i>Walking With Dinosaurs</i> a lot with my son when he was younger, and the tragic line "the Ornithocheirus has lost his majesty" always made us cry. My son also requested an Ornithocheirus cake for his 5th birthday party.<br />
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<b>Camille Gagnier </b><br />
When I decided to write a poem about dinosaurs, I thought about looking at stuff in museums with my parents and my grandparents, and then I thought about life going on and on through the generations. Animals who die are remembered by the rocks where their bones are buried, or by other living things who find evidence of them and wonder what they were like.<br />
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<b>Ros Woolner</b><br />
For the past four years, my favourite dinosaur has been the <i>T. rex</i> – specifically <a href="https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/museum/ausstellungen/tristan-otto" target="_blank">Tristan Otto</a>, whose skeleton is on display at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. At the end of 2015, the museum produced a wonderful bilingual book to accompany the exhibition, which followed the journey of the bones from living dinosaur to museum exhibit, and I was on the team that produced the English translation. I have felt connected to Tristan Otto's story ever since, and my poem '66 million years' is about him.<br />
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<b>Philip Monks </b><br />
My poem 'The Bone Wars' is a series of Clerihews. These were invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley and are slightly silly four-line poems about someone. My poem is about two fossil hunters and how silly they were, so I thought it was a good form to choose. <a href="http://www.verse.org.uk/what-is-a-clerihew.html" target="_blank">This website</a> tells you more about them and <a href="https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/how-to-write-a-clerihew/" target="_blank">this one</a> shows you how to have a go yourself. July 10th is National Clerihew Day.<br />
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<b>Ruth Wiggins</b><br />
My poem 'Tiny' was inspired by two things: firstly, a fossil of<i> Junornis huoi</i>. In photos of the fossil you can see the long tail feathers of this Early Cretaceous bird, and can really imagine it running. Secondly, my poem was inspired by my fairy goddaughters, Hester and Niamh (aged 10). Hester has adored dinosaurs for as long as she can remember, and Niamh (who prefers cats) is very good at running.<br />
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<b>Cat Weatherill </b><br />
I have always loved the idea of a jigsaurus dinosaur. I imagine it to be stegosaurus-shaped, with skin that is heavily mottled, giving the impression of jigsaw pieces. Brontosaurus-shape would work too, but NOT tyrannosaurus. A jigsaurus couldn't be ferocious, could it? It would have to be one of the placid ones!<br />
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<b>Pete Donald </b><br />
My poem, 'Pthe Pteranodon', celebrates the use of the silent P (as in bath).<br />
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<b>John Kitchen</b><br />
The thought of a just hatched and vulnerable lizard and the massive beast it would grow up to be.<br />
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<b><i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/dragons-of-the-prime/" target="_blank">Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs</a></i> is on sale now – buy your copy for £10.99 from our webshop!</b>Emma Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10543903911609479493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-59410913662242120382019-06-06T16:45:00.001+01:002019-06-06T16:45:23.931+01:00Dinosaur poets, assemble! What inspired your dinosaur poem? (Part 1)Our newest children poetry anthology is <i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/dragons-of-the-prime/" target="_blank">Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs</a></i>, edited by Richard O'Brien with notes by Will Tattersdill, aimed at children aged 8+. We asked the poets what inspired them to write their poems...<br />
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<b>Myles McLeod</b><br />
My poem is 'Roar, roar, T.rex'. In 2018 I was working with an illustrator friend Wilm Lindenblatt on a project which we called Poetry Picture Club, trying to produce one illustrated poem a week. We had a list of hot topics and of course one of them was dinosaurs. I was looking for a fun poetic form and had the idea of stealing the rhythm from a well-known nursery rhyme. When I hit upon <i>Baa, baa, black sheep</i> it all fell into place!<br />
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<b>Finlay Worrallo </b><br />
I was inspired to write my poem 'A prayer at bedtime' by my own childhood and everything I'd learned about dinosaurs when I was younger. I wanted to evoke a parent praying for their child using dinosaurs, the terms the child would understand best, to show their love as a parent and what they wished for their child's future.<br />
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<b>Gita Ralleigh</b><br />
Lingwulong shenqi, named in 2018, means ‘amazing dragon of Lingwu’, Lingwu being a town in China. The first mention of dinosaurs was 1700 years ago in China, when Chang Qu described 'dragon bones' – now known to be dinosaur fossils – and this is what inspired my poem. Lingwulong shenqi was found by a sheep-herder, showing there are still dinosaur discoveries to be made today!<br />
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<b>Valerie Pate </b><br />
I have two girls and I adore watching them learn and explore in museums. Their imaginations keep me inspired. So the narrative voice in my poem was based upon my daughters, who both really enjoy the Night at the Museum films.<br />
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<b>Lesley Sharpe</b><br />
My poem was inspired by the sheer age of the iguanodon <i>Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis</i>, which for me truly makes these animals creatures of the imagination – how can we conceive of something over 110 million years old? It's like thinking about how many stars there are in the sky, or how many fish in the sea. And also the fact that it is so complete – he has 80-90 % of his original bones, which shows the extraordinary capacity of fossilised bone to survive, and to reveal a blueprint which we still share in so many ways – jaw, rib, spine.<br />
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The other little known fact which fascinates me is that it was actually Gideon Mantell's wife, Mary Ann, who in 1821 discovered the enormous tooth that would first give its name to the Iguanodon. She disappears out of the story, of course, even though she also illustrated all his books and brought up all his children. Three cheers for Mary Ann!<br />
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<b>B.J. Lee</b><br />
The first time I heard the word 'dreadnoughtus' I thought, there has to be a poem in that. And then I wrote my playful poem 'The Dreaded Dreadnoughtus' in about half an hour after completing some research on Gondwana, the supercontinent where I believe the titanosaurs must have lived.<br />
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<b><i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/dragons-of-the-prime/" target="_blank">Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs</a></i> is on sale now – buy your copy for £10.99 from our webshop!</b>Emma Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10543903911609479493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-86583771383235833622019-05-16T08:59:00.000+01:002019-05-16T08:59:02.577+01:00The Emma Press at Andersen Press: Week Six<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I have learnt a lot from my last six weeks at Andersen Press and it’s
been particularly useful to be able to work in a few different departments,
including editorial, marketing, and rights. It’s also been nice to get out of the
house/coffee shop/library and work in an office environment again, something
that I realised I hadn’t done in nearly two years. The great food in the
canteen was a plus, too, and the shelves and shelves of books to browse. I had
a variety of tasks to do which made every week quite interesting and different
and I’ve been able to learn quite a lot. The most important take-away from my
placement, I think, is that working in a larger children’s publisher and
working at the Emma Press aren’t dramatically different experiences and this
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help promote a new book. I learned that the way that Andersen Press and the
Emma Press work are not so different: using publicity plans and lists to
determine other organisations who might help promote the book (such as reviewers,
bookshops, and libraries) and even having a lot of the same contacts in common.
It was reassuring to know that we were both working in the similar ways and
contacting the same organisations to market our books. Initially, I wondered if
I might uncover a Big Children’s Publishing Secret that I hadn’t been aware of
before, but I was relieved to know that this was not the case. However, I did learn
that there might be more efficient ways to run campaigns, for
example, preparing curated lists of organisations based on genres, themes, and
age groups rather than working on individual lists for each book, and sending
books directly to organisations instead of emailing first, as that would be the
best way for someone to get a feel for a new book. </div>
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I had a chance to read through the fiction and picture book slush piles
at Andersen Press as well, which was an interesting experience. I’d had some
experience at the Emma Press reading pamphlet submissions as well as
submissions for a short story anthology, so it was great to utilise and further
hone my skills. I enjoyed reading the submissions as well as some titles from Andersen’s
current list. For me, this was a great way to get a better understanding of
what would be suitable to move forwards with and which submissions might not
fit with the publisher’s brand, though it may be more appropriate elsewhere. Something
that I’d learnt from both Andersen Press and the Emma Press was that sometimes,
you could read a really great submission but not be able to take it forwards simply
because it’s not a good fit for the publisher, for instance, if they don’t
publish a certain genre. That’s why it’s very important for writers to read the
submissions guidelines carefully before sending in their work (so important
that I wrote a <a href="http://emmavalleypress.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-emma-press-at-andersen-press-week_15.html" target="_blank">whole blog post about it</a>).</div>
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In my last two weeks, I mainly worked in the rights department and had a
chance to sit down with Sarah Vanden-Abeele, the rights manager, to find out
more about her role and her work in translation rights. I was interested to
learn about the relationships between Andersen Press and international
publishers. As the press had been around for so long, it was typical to work
with publishers they’d worked with before as there was a strong level of trust
between them. This seemed similar to the way Emma had worked with international
publishers so far, as we generally chose to publish a few books from the same
publisher, for example, <a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/the-dog-who-found-sorrow/" target="_blank"><i>The Dog Who Found Sorrow</i></a>, <a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/queen-of-seagulls/" target="_blank"><i>Queen of Seagulls</i></a>, and the
<a href="https://theemmapress.com/product-tag/bicki-books/" target="_blank"><i>Bicki-Books</i></a>, all originally published Latvian publisher liels un masz. Speaking with Sarah made
me realise how important these relationships were for the future. I also
learnt about marketing books in other countries and ways to help the books and
the publisher to be successful. This was something that is usually considered and
discussed carefully with a new publisher beforehand and in some circumstances, Andersen
can offer materials to other publishers to create content, such as posters or
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My work placement at Andersen Press has been extremely valuable as I was
able to gain new perspectives on children’s publishing. I learnt that there
were a lot more similarities than I thought between larger publishers like
Andersen Press and smaller independent publishers like the Emma Press who are
relatively new to the scene and because of this, I felt more confident taking
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<i>As part of the development of the Emma Press’ children’s
publishing programme (<a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/news/emma-press-wins-15k-ace-975461" target="_blank">funded by Arts Council England</a>), Yen-Yen Lu will be undertaking a six-week work placement at
Andersen Press to learn more about children’s publishing on a larger scale
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Last week, I
continued working with the rights department at Andersen and found some time to
sit down with Sarah Vanden-Abeele, the rights manager, and ask her some
questions. Her job is to sell rights, usually translation rights and digital rights,
and take care of a number of territories with the rights director. I have had
some limited experience in acquiring rights at the Emma Press, for example,
looking at titles from other countries which we might be interested in
publishing. As it’s a small press, all of our responsibilities overlapped so I
hadn’t realised that in larger publishers, it was actually the commissioning
editor who was in charge of acquiring rights, rather than someone in the rights
department. However, they all work quite closely together in managing rights
and it was great to learn a bit more about the relationships with international
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In the UK,
terms of copyright for a work last<s>s</s> until 70 years after an author’s
death. The number of years of a given license will usually depend on many
things, such as the publisher, the territory, and how past sales (of an author,
book, or genre) have gone. I learned that there are a lot of important factors
to consider when selling rights, for example, the population of the country. A
publisher in a smaller country may only agree to print fewer books, but this
would be expected for a smaller population. However, this may balance out if
they are able to adjust the retail price to be higher, for instance, if the
country is wealthier or they might be able to sell well if the book’s genre is
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I wanted to
know a bit about how Andersen Press chose which publishers to work with and
Sarah talked about three main approaches. As Andersen has been around for a
long time and built up a lot of key contacts, they typically go with the
publishers they’ve worked with before. That way, you know what to expect and
trust them with the titles and you get to know the type of books, whether genre
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Book fairs,
specifically London, Frankfurt, and Bologna book fairs, are also a great place
to make new contacts. The press is normally approached by interested publishers
some time before the fair to schedule a meeting, but sometimes they are
approached at the fair as well, at least to start the conversation. This was
the case for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Adventures of Na Willa</i>,
when Emma happened upon the publisher and the book at Indonesia Book Fair and
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their international clients lists. Usually, UK publishers work with several
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I also asked
about how other titles are received overseas and how they work with the
publisher to market the book. This is one of the key things that Sarah will
always consider and discuss with the publisher beforehand. In a series of books,
the first few books tend to perform better than later titles. In some
circumstances, Andersen can offer materials to other publishers to create
content, such as posters or stickers, to help promote the book. It was
interesting to learn about authors, titles, and characters that did extremely
well in other countries because certain trends and genres are more popular in
some areas. I remembered visiting Japan last year and seeing a French series
about two mice which was popular enough to have its own small theme park, but
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Over the
past couple of weeks, I have been helping to organise some of the paperwork in
the rights department – updating tax forms, copying contracts, and sending
translated editions of books to authors and illustrators. It’s been useful to
learn a lot more about the rights department through admin tasks and talking to
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-83052434854355964922019-04-30T17:00:00.001+01:002019-04-30T17:00:40.874+01:00The Emma Press at Andersen Press: Weeks Three and Four<i>As part of the development of the Emma Press’ children’s
publishing programme (<a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/news/emma-press-wins-15k-ace-975461" target="_blank">funded by Arts Council England</a>), Yen-Yen Lu will be undertaking a six-week work placement at
Andersen Press to learn more about children’s publishing on a larger scale
and writing a weekly blog on her findings! </i><br />
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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been involved with a variety
of admin tasks across the marketing, editorial, and rights departments at Andersen.
Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, the popular children’s book character and a
series which shaped my early reading experiences, is published by Andersen
Press. It’s coming up to <a href="https://www.elmerday.co.uk/">Elmer Day</a>
(25<sup>th</sup> May) and it’s also the 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Elmer so
everyone in the office has been busy preparing for it. I have been sending out <a href="https://www.elmerday.co.uk/event-pack/">Party Packs</a>, featuring stickers, colouring pages, and other DIY activities around Elmer, to schools, bookshops and libraries
so that they can hold their own events for Elmer Day. The Elmer Day website
also includes an<a href="https://www.elmerday.co.uk/map/" target="_blank"> event map </a>and a page to upload information about events for people
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For the past year, the Emma Press has been working with the
Reading Agency to help promote some of our children’s titles, particularly <a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/the-dog-who-found-sorrow/" target="_blank"><i>The Dog Who Found Sorrow</i></a> and the <a href="https://theemmapress.com/product-tag/bicki-books/" target="_blank">Bicki-Books</a>. We have created activity packs to send
to schools and libraries similar to the Elmer Day packs, for reading groups and
clubs to run their own sessions focused on the books. This included posters, stickers, and various DIY acitivities. We also have some of our
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and libraries across the UK. It’s always really interesting to see feedback
from directly from children (as opposed to adult reviewers), as they are our
target audience for these books. It’s also useful for us to see how our
translated books are received in the UK. The responses from children are
usually very creative and sincere and as the team worked hard on creating the
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possible to run a promotion independently, similar to the Elmer Day events. While
the Emma Press children’s books don’t have a 30 year legacy (yet), it might be an
idea to have a similar promotion (with bookshops and libraries to run their own
book events) as a way to introduce our translated children’s list to children
in the UK. Generally, the translated books we’ve published are very well-known
(and loved) in their original languages and we already run various children’s
events, usually with author visits, at bookshops, festivals, and libraries. Particularly
with our <a href="https://theemmapress.com/2019/03/emma-press-15k-ace-grant/">recent
ACE grant</a> to develop our children’s publishing programme and partnerships
with local libraries, it might be possible to take this further and be more
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The poems in <i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/elastic-glue/" target="_blank">Elastic Glue</a></i> are mostly about ownership of place. One of these places is Covent Garden where I, an incomer, have lived for 40+ years, in the corner called Seven Dials.<br />
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Most people think of the area as a tourist honeypot of dinky shops, bars and restaurants, with some very expensive flats for short-term lets or foreign investors – and that’s true. But it’s not the whole picture. It’s also home to successive generations of people who worked in the wholesale market, the theatres, the print and their ancillary trades. When two of these mass employers moved out, leaving the area ripe for redevelopment, the residents, who mostly lived in dilapidated social housing, didn’t just quietly submit to ‘relocation’, they stayed to fight a prolonged and complicated community-led battle with developers – both the benign-but-misguided and the opportunistic.<br />
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They were successful. Covent Garden was not flattened. The community was not ‘decanted’. Most importantly, a substantial quantity of new social housing was built. But the success was double-edged as the area became an increasingly desirable proposition for profit. The struggle now is to maintain a foot-hold in this heavily-marketed prime real estate and a sense of normality, surrounded as we are by pop-ups and fairylights and bedevilled by late night revellers and crack dealers.<br />
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The other place which crops up is an allotment site. I’m very struck by the changes in profile of allotmenteers over the years we’ve had plots and the little England-ness of the activity – how a sense of ownership here comes through an intense and strenuous physical relationship with land and productivity.<br />
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The poems are full of people – there’s Lenin and Renzo Piano, the Consultant Placemaker, Chicken Jim, the biodynamic hippy, the Fred Collinses and, amid them, me, owning myself – from a child in the school hall in my knickers and vest, stumbling towards feminism, as a heedless squatter, through to a ruby wedding anniversary. It’s a political pamphlet but channelled through the personal – as I’m a child of my times.<br />
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I write about what catches and noodles around in my mind. I still work within community activism, for a small Trust involved in public realm projects in Seven Dials, so engagement with who ‘owns’ the area is always on my mind. Though these are now quite old poems for me, I do like them still. I think they ‘stand up’. And they still make me laugh.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The title of the pamphlet comes from an old enamel sign on what used to be the ironmongers and is now a ‘vintage’ clothes shop. Seven successive generations of Fred Collinses had the business, through to the 1990s, when ill-health forced sale. I think of that continuity as a flexible but tenacious elastic glue which binds a community together – how accumulated place-based memories are as powerful a form of ownership as a freehold.</span><br />
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There are a couple of poems in my first pamphlet, <i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/goose-fair-night-paperback/" target="_blank">Goose Fair Night</a></i>, about Nottingham, where I was born and grew up – but they’re a personal history. I use place in other poems as a way to access ideas I want to have a play with or memories I want to tease out. <i>Elastic Glue</i> is definitely further removed from my personal history – though that’s there too, of course. I think, stylistically, the poems are a bit braver, less restricted by what’s of the moment – there’s a ballad!<br />
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In theory I set aside a couple of mornings a week for poetry – that might be writing from scratch and /or editing or it might be poetry admin, like submissions. If I’m writing new work or editing, I can usually keep at it for four hours or so at a stretch, interspersed with putting on another load of washing or a quick hoover round – dedicated writing time is the best spur to doing housework. I write new work in bursts – starting by hand and then moving to the screen once I’ve built up momentum, a certain hard-to-define weight. I keep a poetry diary where I write, last thing at night, about readings I’ve been to, the two poetry workshopping groups I’m part of, what I’ve been reading, what acceptances or rejections I’ve had and my notional plans – this sometimes turns into proto first drafts as does my sporadic non-poetry diary in which I moan about life, work and people. And I aim to read some poetry every day, leaving books and magazines lying around to ambush and encourage me.<br />
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I’m currently working on another pamphlet. I wouldn’t go as far as to say the poems are confessional but I’m thinking through what passes for an accumulated wisdom of age and trying to set it out. It includes poems about egg and chips, advice to daughters, adjusting to daylight saving, Keats, the Mersey Sound poets and Sammy Davis Jnr. Pending, I have notes waiting for my focused attention on crimes I have committed and an anecdote about a flying pig, which I think might be about the balance between expectation and resignation. I’m looking forward to that – but first, I find I must clean the bathroom.
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Follow Kathy on Twitter <span class="username u-dir" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr !important; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a href="https://twitter.com/kathy_pimlott?lang=en-gb" target="_blank">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="font-weight: normal;">kathy_pimlott</span></a></span> and find her website <a href="http://www.kathypimlott.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a>.Philippa Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12202238560133423771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-40018813937070889362019-04-15T11:47:00.001+01:002019-04-15T11:53:23.981+01:00The Emma Press at Andersen Press: Week Two<i>As part of the development of the Emma Press’ children’s
publishing programme (<a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/news/emma-press-wins-15k-ace-975461" target="_blank">funded by Arts Council England</a>), Yen-Yen Lu will be undertaking a six-week work placement at
Andersen Press to learn more about children’s publishing on a larger scale
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Last week, I had an interesting day at Andersen Press
reading through the fiction slush pile. While it is a <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dream</span></i> for me to spend the entire day reading, I also felt slightly
guilty knowing that some of the submissions would have to be rejected. As a
writer myself, I can understand that it can be disheartening to have your work
rejected, especially when you’ve put a lot of work into not only writing but
also summoning up the courage to send your work in at all. However, it can also
be reassuring, at least, to know that this particular publisher wouldn’t be
right for your work (or vice versa) and you can move on to submitting elsewhere
or working on something new. I once met a writer who said they were aiming for
forty rejection letters in one year and I found it strangely inspiring (I’ve
only had a couple this year, but fingers crossed).</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hioyKk0OG2DPVoKMH72hNZPpS7o0V_YMypoMkHC2lDBk9YzMT05QARDfzj04LxDYUuNgHeMu3KdIkuf_EY3h6HP2cFcgiVW6H9jQkiFwkPk8UJTKZFN2u8sA177VfM6SDAbix4ou8XMv/s1600/IMG_20190410_0952020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hioyKk0OG2DPVoKMH72hNZPpS7o0V_YMypoMkHC2lDBk9YzMT05QARDfzj04LxDYUuNgHeMu3KdIkuf_EY3h6HP2cFcgiVW6H9jQkiFwkPk8UJTKZFN2u8sA177VfM6SDAbix4ou8XMv/s320/IMG_20190410_0952020.jpg" width="240" /></a>Andersen Press are one of the few larger publishers who
accept unsolicited manuscripts (as opposed to manuscripts from agents). The
fiction submissions guidelines ask for a physical copy of the synopsis and the
first three chapters of a manuscript to be sent in the post along with a SASE
(self-addressed stamped envelope). The last time we had a call for pamphlet
submissions at the Emma Press, the guidelines asked for six pages of a
manuscript to be emailed as a PDF or word document instead. I read through most
of those submissions on my laptop but this time I found that reading through
physical copies of a manuscript felt a bit easier, though part of me was
slightly concerned for the environment. Fortunately, old envelopes and the
manuscripts that authors didn’t want back are usually recycled. </div>
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The covering letter is important because this is a chance to
tell the editor about your work and who you are, as well as being somewhat representative
of your skill and style as a writer. Normally, the covering letter would focus
on your writing experience and your work, such as influences on the work or
what the work might be similar to. Some authors also include a synopsis of the
work in the covering letter. I found that some authors also talked a lot about
themselves outside of their writing, for instance, about their family history,
their pets, and their other hobbies. While it can be useful to include a short
biography, it might not be a good idea to focus your covering letter on what
your childhood was like and who your favourite musicians are. The exception
would be if it is something relevant to your work e.g. you are writing about
someone growing up in Newcastle in the 1980s and you are someone who grew up in
Newcastle in the 1980s.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglkdilKFU5i718ahldYI2aDPeePTbZPKykUCXJ5t252HeXu4_mV58BcOyDs0yATl2lLy0uwoN6W_QoDUnMu_QbXSrgAZpaAsChApZTLFNUoRGXsW2wo2ZXMacXxfcDlCf1CUB04E6uU0Uk/s1600/bicki-books-6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="637" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglkdilKFU5i718ahldYI2aDPeePTbZPKykUCXJ5t252HeXu4_mV58BcOyDs0yATl2lLy0uwoN6W_QoDUnMu_QbXSrgAZpaAsChApZTLFNUoRGXsW2wo2ZXMacXxfcDlCf1CUB04E6uU0Uk/s320/bicki-books-6.JPG" width="320" /></a>It is also helpful for an author to read the submissions
guidelines. This might sound incredibly obvious and maybe slightly patronising but
unfortunately, during my experience at the Emma Press and Andersen Press, I
have still received submissions that deviate from the guidelines and that can hurt
the chances of the work being published. This was particularly the case for receiving
genres that the press didn’t publish or weren’t right for a particular editor.
For example, during the Emma Press’ call for submissions, each of the editors
specified which genres they were interested in reading and even though I’d
specified that I was interested in fiction, I still received a lot of poetry
submissions. Although all of these submissions were still read by the whole
team, it would have been much more straightforward for the editors and the
authors if the submissions were directed to someone who specialised in that
genre. </div>
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<span id="goog_426761853"></span><span id="goog_426761854"></span>Andersen Press accept picture book and fiction submissions
and their guidelines can be read <a href="https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/about-us/submitting-a-manuscript/">here</a>.
The Emma Press are currently running a call for picture books, closing on the
20<sup>th</sup> April (this Saturday!) and their guidelines can be read <a href="https://theemmapress.com/about/submissions/">here</a>. You can also take
a look at their current picture book list on the <a href="https://theemmapress.com/product-category/childrens-books/picture-books/">Emma
Press website. </a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-9117258232297430262019-04-05T16:04:00.001+01:002019-04-05T18:28:22.990+01:00The Emma Press at Andersen Press: Week One<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i>As part of the development of the Emma Press’ children’s
publishing programme (<a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/news/emma-press-wins-15k-ace-975461" target="_blank">funded by Arts Council England</a>), Yen-Yen Lu will be undertaking a six-week work placement at
Andersen Press to learn more about children’s publishing on a larger scale
and writing a weekly blog on her findings! </i></div>
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Andersen Press is based in the Penguin Random House building,
though they are independent. I knew this before I arrived but I still had a few
moments of panic as I waited in the reception, thinking “oh God I’m in the completely
wrong place and now I’m going to be extremely late”. Luckily, this moment
passed when Sarah, Head of Marketing, came down to meet me and we headed to the
office. I met the rest of the team, including Paul and Alice in the Publicity
department, who I’d be working with that day.</div>
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We spent the day preparing copies of a new book to send out
to schools, libraries, bookshops, and literary organisations, along with a
letter and info sheet, as part of their publicity campaign for the book. This
was something that I’d had some experience with at the Emma Press when I emailed
various places about whether they might like a review copy or if they’d be
interested in stocking the book or having an event with the author at their
school or library. However, at Andersen Press, I learned that they usually send
copies of the book directly to people, rather than emailing first. Emma and I
had recently been discussing this strategy so I asked a bit more about their
process and how they decide which places to send the book to. I learned that
they use different lists for different types of books, depending on
what kind of book it was and who it might appeal to.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKN4YfiV_Degy6zoWS5TELSan3_UEyX6zC-vafhbmRpAT9LoxcWrEQdf4sUdAwMdDhyphenhyphen41YlVFYaAEXWz0bR6Wo0ijwo3SSfUTt3qLxGJhyphenhyphennN6voOw8kmKvPAXH4gojeMbYZZDLGOsI4l0_/s1600/IMG_8843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKN4YfiV_Degy6zoWS5TELSan3_UEyX6zC-vafhbmRpAT9LoxcWrEQdf4sUdAwMdDhyphenhyphen41YlVFYaAEXWz0bR6Wo0ijwo3SSfUTt3qLxGJhyphenhyphennN6voOw8kmKvPAXH4gojeMbYZZDLGOsI4l0_/s320/IMG_8843.jpg" width="212" /></a>I found this interesting and thought it could definitely be something
to take back to the Emma Press. We similarly put together a publicity plan for
each book, but having curated lists ready seemed much more efficient and would
be quite straightforward to put together as we already had lists of contacts. I
particularly wondered if this could be something to do with <a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/once-upon-a-time-in-birmingham/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Once Upon a Time in Birmingham</i></a> and
future titles about Birmingham, sending copies directly to schools, libraries,
and stockists based in Birmingham. </div>
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Alice and I discussed some of the pros and cons to both emailing
first and sending books directly. On one hand, people could be quite annoyed
with getting books out of the blue and perhaps they would have a more positive
response if they’d been contacted about the book beforehand. However, it seemed
that having curated lists for specific types of books would make it more likely
that the person receiving the book would be interested in buying copies of the
book. </div>
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advantage to sending books out directly. It was the best way to get a feel for
the book compared to an email, and a lot more efficient in the long run. Next
week, I’m hoping to find out more about how Andersen track the results of their
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-89241572065343267262019-04-05T12:02:00.003+01:002019-04-05T15:28:11.986+01:00Interview with picture book author Rassi Narika<b>We interviewed our newest picture book author and illustrator, Rassi Narika, about her new book <i>When It Rains </i>(<a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/when-it-rains/" target="_blank">£10.00, available now</a>), which was first published in Indonesian as <i>Waktu Hujan Turun</i>.</b><br />
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I think it's because picture books were my first encounter, as a young child, with the world of reading, literature, and imagination. It's easier to start feeling comfortable with the concept of wonder, imagination, and storytelling when you do it through picture books; it's not as intimidating.<br />
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With picture books we learn to relate words with the visualized world – or even the unseen visualized world, and over time we train our minds to imagine our own visualization of any world we'd like to create, and I think that can get us anywhere. Our minds become really powerful when they learn to imagine things.
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Because a lot of picture books are meant for children, I also find that they bring the best qualities of human beings. As an adult, I find picture books are my refuge when I need to be reminded that at the core of life, we have good qualities. The innocence, curiosity, and childlike perspective I get from reading picture books helps me to find new stories in life.<br />
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<b>What did you enjoy about working on the book and what did you find difficult? </b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfK2_biHwtqZNMV3pmug2FQXq4wdSxVshBJ-sjnXQ5zJG1kwuszMTg7S-SgGIoJSpR87ho3vgotuJmpRbi_A0BaHNOdwifV6pTO6kiVEKZf9e4Yy8scDQuL7lWVzF-CjQcrFHku16gUXE/s1600/WHEN+IT+RAINS+fan.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfK2_biHwtqZNMV3pmug2FQXq4wdSxVshBJ-sjnXQ5zJG1kwuszMTg7S-SgGIoJSpR87ho3vgotuJmpRbi_A0BaHNOdwifV6pTO6kiVEKZf9e4Yy8scDQuL7lWVzF-CjQcrFHku16gUXE/s320/WHEN+IT+RAINS+fan.JPG" width="320" /></a>The writing and colouring process are my favourite parts because it's all about exploration and finding new things. I enjoy writing because that's where I usually start things from, and it's usually very raw without having any boundaries to tell my story. It's very fun. I enjoy colouring because it's very soothing and therapeutic. I mostly do water-colouring, so there's a phase where I have to leave the artwork to let the colour dry and set; and that's like a letting go process to let the colours interact with the paper and be whatever they need to be.<br />
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The most difficult part is finding the balance of text and illustration. I don't want them to be the same. I like the illustrations to show the things the text doesn't reveal. I like the illustrations to be connected to the text, but not exactly it. It can be very trivial and mundane, but it's about a world that the story is living in. I want to leave room for readers to create new stories from the illustrations.<br />
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It's a little bit of both, but usually, I would have a sentence that summarizes the story. For <i>When It Rains</i>, I always wanted to do 'a story of rainy days, because there's so many things going on when it rains.' And then immediately I would have an idea of a scene that I want to draw. This scene can be part of the opening, middle, or ending; so depending on that I build the story from this particular scene, or find a way to get my story to this scene.<br />
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<b>We currently have a <a href="https://theemmapress.com/about/submissions/" target="_blank">call for picture book manuscripts</a>, closing on 20th April. What advice would you give to anyone writing a picture book? </b><br />
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Start with a simple story, but imagine a bigger world at the back of it. Even when you can't put it into your text, you can build the world with the pictures, and even if you can't fit in the whole world in the picture, you're allowing your readers to find and create it themselves, and they can be more engaged to your book.<br />
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<b>What has been the best response to your book (original or translation)? </b><br />
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Two of my favourite responses came from kids who told me the story of the book and introduced me to the characters of the book as if they were their friends, and parents who come to say how their children love the book and it has been their favourite bedtime story. To know that my story has been a part of their world and intimate moments means a lot to me.<br />
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Rassi Narika has been writing since she was a child. She worked as a creative writer for Tulisan in 2011, where she fell in love with the combination of writing and illustration. While studying at Goldsmiths, University of London, she started to explore this combination, and she wrote and illustrated her first picture book when she co-founded Seumpama. <i>When It Rains </i>is her second picture book.<br />
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Rassi now lives in Jakarta, in a little house which feels very cosy even when it’s raining outside.<br />
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<b>Order your copy of <a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/when-it-rains/" target="_blank"><i>When It Rains</i> in our webshop</a> for £10.00.</b>Philippa Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12202238560133423771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-49479955539068960522019-03-27T17:02:00.000+00:002019-03-27T17:02:01.794+00:00Everything That Can Happen poets discuss what inspired their poems…<br />
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an android fills out a passport form; the local cricket pitch is lost
underwater; frozen limbs thaw from cryogenic sleep; robotic shoes allow for
highspeed parenting. We asked anthology poets what images inspired their future
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‘My poem,
'Everything That Can Happen', is loosely based on Hugh Everett's many worlds
theory in quantum physics - but I'm no scientist so don't shoot me if my
interpretation is even more 'out there' that Everett's! The basic premise
is that every possible version of every possible event exists somewhere in an
infinite number of parallel universes. Therefore, everything that can happen, does happen.
The implications of the theory are pretty tricky to get the old grey matter
around in any meaningful sense. For example, right now there's a version of you
(or indeed many versions of you) reading this blog. At the same time, there's also
a multitude of versions of you doing something else entirely. And several
versions of you that probably wrote the blog. And the poem. And edited the
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brought up near Worcester where the county cricket ground is very near the
river Severn and often used to flood. It got me thinking about global warming
and the fact that in the future it might be flooded more than not! My poem
‘Flood Defences’ came out of me thinking about this and what might become of
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‘The image
that sparked the poem 'Algorithmically Designed Electronic Universal Score' was
from <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>. It's one of those films that has haunted me from
when I first saw it, and many of its scenes still pop up in my dreams unbidden.
I had just seen a production of Amadeus at the National Theatre, and that
night, in my dream I saw in this space so familiar to me, what looked like a
harpsichord. Everything else flowed from trying to tell the bigger story of
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‘My poem
‘counting’ emerged from my walks along Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk as I began to
count the gaps between each break wave. Thinking: how relentless they are; how
to capture their movement and endless forms; how not to get my feet wet. After
several walks – taking photographs, stopping to stare – it seemed that ten seconds
between breaks was a regular pattern. I became curious – What else happens on
this planet – and beyond – every ten seconds?’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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‘Here's a
photo of the photo/sculpture by the French artist Marc Gaillet, that my poem
'The Tiger' is based on. The artwork is called 'Dommage Collateral'
('Collateral Damage') and was part of a collection of work by Gaillet on
exhibition in Montpellier last year. The pieces on display were about climate
change and about humanity's violence towards humanity as well as to our
environment. The first stanza of 'The Tiger' really was about my reaction to
this artwork and to another piece, 'Voyage au Bout de l'Enfer 1' ('Journey to
the End of Hell 1') which shows a tiger in a forest alongside a tiger-coated
box. The second stanza opens out to include other pieces in the exhibition -
miniature plastic soldiers melded together in various states of combat. It all
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I've never
written about climate change before and tend not to write explicitly political
poems, but this one had to be written. I think because a single art-piece was
the hook, it was easier to enter that world, that anger, that sense of
desperation - feelings that might otherwise be too big and all-encompassing to distil
on paper otherwise. And once started, of course, the pen often runs away with
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my husband Keith in Brighton, only a stone's throw from the prom, so we see
this amazing sight of the sea every time we step out of our flat. My husband
(who is seventeen years older than I am) has always been a supporter of
Palestine, and has taught me about its history. One afternoon, when we were
sitting on our favourite bench on the prom, I read him Don Paterson's powerful
sonnet 'The Foot' (from his 2015 Faber collection '40 Sonnets') about
Palestinian boys being killed playing football on the sand. There was something
so moving about us reading before the sea, and the boys being killed before the
sea, that led to my husband's statement that forms the basis of my poem, ‘Gaza’.’
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<br />Philippa Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12202238560133423771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-83741700068709622212019-03-11T02:00:00.000+00:002019-03-11T16:17:39.266+00:00A quick interview with Kate Wakeling, co-translator of 'The Adventures of Na Willa'<i>It's launch week for our latest children</i>’<i>s book, </i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/na-willa/" target="_blank">The Adventures of Na Willa</a><i>, a collection of stories about a little girl growing up in Surabaya, Indonesia. Here's a quick interview with one of the translators, Kate Wakeling!</i><br />
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<b>What were your first thoughts on reading <i>The Adventures of Na Willa</i>?</b><br />
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I remember thinking: this is absolutely brilliant. The book has this sharp humour and total honesty – it feels so refreshing and alive.<br />
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<b>What's your favourite story in the book? </b><br />
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I really love the book's opening chapter, 'Just Like Mak' – it captures so much of the spirit and purpose of the book and yet handles these huge topics with such a deft touch. I also love 'Fish', which hones in so playfully and sensitively on the particularities of a child's preferences.<br />
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<b>What did you find challenging about working on the translation? </b><br />
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It was challenge to make sure we always stayed true to the tone of Reda's writing, particularly the humour that underpins everything in the book and which is so crisp and alert and never-ever-ever-ever twee. And then there are all sorts of interesting quirks to Indonesian – as of course there must be with any language – but I remember getting particularly flummoxed by certain Indonesian exclamations like 'wah' (which sort of means gosh/wow/heck/well...) and 'aduh' (oh dear/oh no/poor you/poor me/ouch). These words have such particular senses/implications in Indonesian depending on the context (and I was also struck that the way they are uttered is also crucial – they're often articulated with a particularly musical/theatrical ring) and I remember thinking: the English language just doesn't get quite this. (Aduh.)<br />
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<b>Why do you think it's important for children to read books in translation? </b><br />
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Reading in translation really helps transport us beyond those little bubbles of familiarity that we can so easily float about in. Books in translation remind us that there are zillions of different sorts of lives and give us amazing access to different ways of thinking and being, which seems so very crucial. At any stage in life. But of course the sooner better.<br />
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<b>What are your favourite books in translation? </b><br />
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I read <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489025-the-vegetarian" target="_blank">The Vegetarian</a></i> by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith) a couple of months ago and still haven't really recovered. I've loved devouring everything by <a href="http://elenaferrante.com/" target="_blank">Elena Ferrante</a> (translated by Ann Goldstein). And I have loved <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._G._Sebald" target="_blank">W.G. Sebald</a>'s books (as translated by Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell) since I was a student and only wish he could have lived until he was 107 and kept on writing his strange and wonderful works.<br />
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MORE ABOUT KATE:<br />
<b>Kate Wakeling</b> is a poet and musicologist. Her debut poetry collection for children, <i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/moon-juice-paperback/">Moon Juice</a></i>, won the CLiPPA in 2017 and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. A pamphlet of her poetry for adults, <i>The Rainbow Faults</i>, is published by The Rialto. Kate studied music at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Balinese gamelan music from SOAS. She is writer- in-residence with Aurora Orchestra.<br />
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Website: <a href="http://www.katewakeling.co.uk/">www.katewakeling.co.uk</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/WakelingKate">@WakelingKate</a>Emma Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10543903911609479493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-86732385367248659002019-03-11T01:46:00.000+00:002019-03-11T01:47:50.127+00:00A quick interview with Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul, co-translator of 'The Adventures of Na Willa'<i>It's launch week for our latest children</i>’<i>s book, </i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/na-willa/" target="_blank">The Adventures of Na Willa</a><i>, a collection of stories about a little girl growing up in Surabaya, Indonesia. Here's a quick interview with one of the translators, Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul!</i><br />
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<b>What were your first thoughts on reading <i>The Adventures of Na Willa</i>? </b><br />
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I thought: finally, a book which can take me back to my glorious childhood! It’s Na Willa!<br />
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<i>The Adventures of Na Willa</i> is a must-read children’s book that can be enjoyed by all ages. Once you have this book in your hands, you won’t be able to stop reading. It talks about the essential freedom of thought which all the children in the world should possess – that’s why this book should be read universally.<br />
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All the elements – places, characters, conflicts – are drawn with care and brought alive by the fun and spontaneous Indonesian and Javanese expressions. <i>The Adventures of </i><i>Na Willa</i> is fun but also powerful; funny but full of wisdom.<br />
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<b>What's your favourite story in <i>The Adventures of Na Willa</i>? </b><br />
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All of the stories! It’s a difficult question, isn’t it? I really like ‘Just Like Mak,’ which might be some children's first introduction to ideas about gender equality. Oh yes, Na Willa! You can be whatever you want and for sure, girls wear trousers too!<br />
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<b>What did you find challenging about working on the translation? </b><br />
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I was born in Surabaya, east of Java, the city where (I believe this is fate) Na Willa lives too. Every time I came across pieces of Javanese dialect included by the author, Reda Gaudiamo (Did I mention I was already a mega-fan of hers? Well, now you know!), I understood what they meant but found it hard to express this in English.<br />
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This was my biggest challenge in translating <i>The Adventures of </i><i>Na Willa,</i> because I wasn’t just translating the text in terms of grammar – more than that, I was trying to communicate the vibrancy of Javanese culture so it could be shared by everyone.<br />
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My co-translator Kate Wakeling (I hope I’ll have a chance to drink a glass of wine with her this summer, finger crossed) helped a lot about this, as she has a great sensitivity to Javanese culture and the words she has proposed were absolutely brilliant!<br />
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<b>Why do you think it's important for children to read books in translation? </b><br />
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As a mother of mixed-culture children, I think reading books in translation is an essential delight. By reading literature across borders, children open their minds and their hearts to new ideas, new realities. It’s like the biggest adventure for them, giving them inspiring ideas as a change to their school routines!<br />
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<b>What are your favourite books by Indonesia authors?</b><br />
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<li><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337885.Pada_Sebuah_Kapal" target="_blank">Pada Sebuah Kapal</a> / Aboard A Ship</i> by Nh. Dini</li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Earth_of_Mankind" target="_blank">Bumi Manusia / This Earth of Mankind</a></i> by Pramoedya Ananta Toer.</li>
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MORE ABOUT IKHDA:<br />
<b>Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul</b> is an Indonesian poet currently based in Japan. Her debut pamphlet, <i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/books/the-emma-press-poetry-pamphlets/ikhda-by-ikhda/" target="_blank">Ikhda by Ikhda</a></i>, was published by the Emma Press in 2014. Her poems have been published in <i><a href="http://theemmapress.com/books/mildly-erotic-verse/" target="_blank">Mildly Erotic Verse</a></i> and <i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/books/the-emma-press-anthology-of-motherhood/" target="_blank">The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood</a></i>. Her second poetry collection, <i>The Goldfish</i>, is forthcoming with the Emma Press in 2019.<br />
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Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ikhdadegoul" target="_blank">@ikhdadegoul</a><br />
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ikhdadegoul/" target="_blank">@ikhdadegoul</a>Emma Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10543903911609479493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-26716351973123270672019-03-11T00:53:00.000+00:002019-03-11T00:53:21.889+00:00A quick interview with Reda Gaudiamo, author of 'The Adventures of Na Willa'<i>It's launch week for our latest children's book, </i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/na-willa/" target="_blank">The Adventures of Na Willa</a><i>, a collection of stories about a little girl growing up in Surabaya, Indonesia. Here's a quick interview with the author, Reda Gaudiamo!</i><br />
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<b>When did you start writing stories? </b><br />
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I wrote my first story when I was 6, a very short one.<br />
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<b>Do you remember the first story you wrote? </b><br />
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Yes, it’s about a farmer who found a tiny seed, he planted it, and it grew beautifully and multiply by itself. Turned out that tiny seed was a grain of rice.<br />
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<b>What do you like writing about? </b><br />
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People and their stories, their lives, feelings….<br />
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<b>What’s your favourite story in <i>The Adventures Of Na Willa</i>?</b><br />
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Oh my, this is difficult. I can’t pick one – “This Evening” and “Party”.<br />
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<b>What were your favourite books as a child? </b><br />
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<li><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4445825-wiro-anak-rimba-indonesia" target="_blank">Wiro Anak Rimba Indonesia</a> / Wiro the Indonesian Jungle Boy</i> – a comic book by Liem Boen Djien (stories) and Kwik Ing Ho (drawings)</li>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totto-Chan:_The_Little_Girl_at_the_Window" target="_blank">Totto Chan</a></i> by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi </li>
<li>All books by <a href="https://www.asterix.com/en/the-creators/rene-goscinny/" target="_blank">René Goscinny</a> (with Uderzo, Sempe, and other illustrators) </li>
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<b>What advice would you give to a budding writer? </b><br />
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Good writing is like drawing, riding a bike, baking… You need practice. You start with something simple and easy, and move to something more delicate. You might stumble along the way, but then you become better and better.<br />
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MORE ABOUT REDA:<br />
<b>Reda Gaudiamo</b> is a writer from Jakarta, Indonesia.
She was born in 1962 and she wrote her first story when she was in the first grade, reading it to her parents after dinner time. Her first book – <i>Bisik-bisik / Whispers</i> (EKI Press), a short story collection consisting of dialogues – was published in 2004. In 2012, she published her first children’s book: <i>Na Willa</i> (Aikon). This was followed by <i>Meps, Beps and Me</i> (2016) – a collaboration with Soca Sobhita, her daughter, and <i>Na Willa and the House in the Alley</i> (2018). These last two books were published by Post Press, who also reprinted <i>Na Willa</i>.
Reda is also well known as a singer and musician through the AriReda duo, whose poetry-inspired ballads have captivated audiences across Southeast Asia and Europe.<br />
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Website: <a href="http://www.redagaudiamo.com/" target="_blank">redagaudiamo.com</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/RedaGaudiamo" target="_blank">@reda.gaudiamo</a><br />
Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reda.gaudiamo/" target="_blank">@reda.gaudiamo</a>Emma Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10543903911609479493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-50323997501858127102019-03-08T10:11:00.000+00:002019-03-08T12:34:21.946+00:00Happy International Women's Day from the Emma Press!<div class="MsoNormal">
Happy International Women’s Day! We are so proud to be a
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written by women, including poetry, short stories, and books for children –
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The poems in Rakhshan Rizwan’s debut pamphlet explores issues
of class, linguistic and cultural identity – particularly for women – in the
context of Pakistan and South Asia. The pamphlet was shortlisted for the 2018
Michael Marks Award and judges commended it for <i><span style="font-style: normal;">“her formal control over the
prose poem or ghazal…an impressive tonal sharpness, [and] a fascinatingly
laconic voice”.</span></i></span></span></div>
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Meet the women who made – and are making – Birmingham the
great city it is today. Featuring stories and portraits of 30 inspirational
women from Birmingham, this book is sure to encourage and motivate a new
generation of female artists, activists, athletes, and more. The book will also
be part of several events to celebrate International Women’s Day in Birmingham,
including a model display of the book in Victoria Square – find out more on our
events <a href="http://theemmapress.com/events/">page</a>.</div>
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This book features three short stories, all narrated by young
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they’re too old to be playing with paper dolls, a teenager re-examines her religious
beliefs and fixation with Jesus, and a disaffected young woman stumbles into an
awkward relationship with an office worker. The narrators of these three
stories each try, in their own way, to make sense of how to behave in a world
that doesn’t give any clear answers.</div>
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anthology as a gift? The poems in the anthology examines the depth and
complexity of emotion surrounding motherhood, celebrating motherhood at the
same time as challenging the huge expectations placed on mothers.</div>
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these explorations of intimacy in a witty, playful, and bold voice.</div>
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<![endif]--><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-2478771549848637292019-03-07T12:59:00.000+00:002019-03-07T13:06:44.226+00:00World Book Day with the Emma Press: favourite books from the past year<br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">In celebration of World Book Day 2019, we asked a few of
our recent and upcoming authors and poets to tell us the best book they’ve read
in the past year…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Aalfred and Aalbert</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> by Morag
Hood – Rachel Plummer, poet<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘A book I've really loved
sharing with my kids this year is a picture book called </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Aalfred and Aalbert</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">, by Morag Hood. It is a sweet and funny queer
love story for younger children, about two aardvarks who are perfect for each
other but need a little push along the way. Sweet and charming, this book is
great LGBT representation and a lovely read. What's not to love?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Don’t miss <span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/wain/">Wain</a> by Rachel Plummer, a
collection of LGBT themed poetry for teens based on retellings of Scottish myths</span>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
People in the Trees</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> by Hanya </span>Yanagihara
– Rassi Narika, author<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘</span><i style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The People in the
Trees</i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> was my second Yanagihara after I read </span><i style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Little Life</i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> - I was an emotional wreck after reading it. It was
so good, I laughed and cried with it. In 2018, </span><i style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The People in The Trees</i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> left me with a different kind of wreck. I
kept rereading its pages just because I wasn't sure how I feel about the story.
I love the book because my interpretation about each character, and their story,
was continuously challenged in every turn of events. I had many moments of
self-conversation, questioning the social construct of how we see culture, and
who decides – or defines the cultural narrative of the Ivu'ivu's world. It made
me think about an alternate universe where civilization has a different
storyline than one we have today. And, the fact that this fiction was inspired
by true events, made me even more obsessed with how Yanagihara beautifully tells
such difficult story.’</span></div>
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</i>by Rassi Narika is a children’s picture book that spins a story of hope and
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Motion – </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kathy
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘My favourite book during
2018 was the only prose book I read, Andrew Motion’s biography of John Keats,
published in 1997 and given to me, I see from the inscription, in 2002. I’d
started it two or three times but had always been distracted. In 2018 I was
just finishing an 18-month Writing School with the Sheffield-based Poetry
Business and one ‘homework’ was to read a poet’s biography. Keats was my
schoolgirl crush (along with Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, Simon & Garfunkel
and Hamlet), the book was on the shelf, so it was a no-brainer. Though, of
course, I knew Keats’ short and tragic story, I wasn’t ready for the emotional
undertow of the book, how it would drag me into the deeps over and over again.
It sent me straight back to the poems I thought I knew so well, to the house on
Keats Grove, and prompted four new poems of my own. What more could you ask?’</span></div>
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poetry pamphlet by Kathy Pimlott exploring the ways we own and are owned by
land – how we both make and are made by the places we inhabit. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘It’s so hard to choose!
Because all of them are really interesting and special to me. </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Bubble Wrap</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is a poetry book, written
and illustrated by Dean Parkin. I choose this book because the author not only
writes for children, but also thinks and lives in these poems like children.
The poems are vivid, funny, cheerful and heart-warming.’</span></div>
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Girl Who Learned All The Languages of The World</a> </i>is an illustrated story
for children exploring the joys of language learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tomi Ungerer - Rūta Briede, author & illustrator<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘Sometimes there
are books with not a lot of text in them. And sometimes silence and observing
is the best state of mind when nothing really happens but everything happens. In
</span><i style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Snail, Where Are you?</i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> by Tomi Ungerer,
there aren’t too many lines to read. Only two. But can a story be told by a
good question? Can one feel the author’s bright and playful mind by seeing some
illustrations and reading one question and one simple answer? Yes, it’s
possible if the author is Tomi Ungerer. This is a book where simplicity is done
by a true master and one question is exactly the one that must be asked and the
answer is truly simple. Can you guess it?’</span></div>
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Dog Who Found Sorrow</a>, </i>a beautiful, resonant story about sadness
and healing, suitable for all ages.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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really loved reading Hugh Raffles' collection of essays <i>Insectopedia</i>. It's a fantastic book that I read slowly from summer
through to winter, dipping in, reading an essay here and there. This means for
months at a time in 2018 I was saying "Oh look, a bee! Hey, did you
know...?" and things like that, to anyone around. His style is
captivating and clear as he explores our various relationships to insects. I
was especially into 'My Nightmares', a poetic and incantatory piece about what
it is about insects that can be so frightening to us - 'There is the nightmare
of putting the shoe on and of taking the shoe off. There is the slithering
nightmare and the one that walks backwards. There is the squirming nightmare
and the squishing nightmare.'’</span></div>
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Book of Clouds</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> by
Juris <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Kronbergs – R</span>eda Gaudiamo,
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘This is a book I cannot stop talking about. The Book
of Clouds by Juris </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kronbergs<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">showed me that Indonesian
children need to read and enjoy poetry — the format often considered the most
serious one compared to other formats. Poems are seen as being the type of
text for adult, the rhymes we know are so old, and forgotten. Little do we
know that poetry is the type of format that helps children to read, love
reading, helps their articulation... and much more. This book makes me want to
pursue a new project: working with Indonesian poets to write poems for children.’</span></div>
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Willa</a> </i>by <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">R</span>eda Gaudiamo is
a collection of stories of curious adventures and musings of a multicultural
girl growing up in Indonesia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Carrying</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> by Ada
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘Ada Limón's newest collection, </span><i style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Carrying</i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">, is one for these times, and I think, for
the ages. Her poetic speakers are most always astonished and bewildered in, and
by, this troubled world; yet they won't be stopped by it, nor let us be
stopped. She's a poet whose very flesh seems composed of compassion—the poems
of incandescent feeling, wrought in simplest words. Seeing and feeling
with, and through, the flesh—often in emotional and physical pain—she captures
essences, in poems which, nonetheless, cast outward toward timeless reflection,
resolutions on the desire and will to survive, indeed flourish. She's also
a master at "saying the thing", and plays few linguistic games. I
marvel at her directness and clarity, how it conjures the profound; and gain
great pleasure too from the jewel-like epiphanies that rise up within, and
often end, her poems with fresh insight, but seem also inevitable! In this new
collection, especially, she's unflinching in her effort to understand and
describe the world, even if her methods become ruthless; thus she's able to
live in this world, I think, for the better—and so might we. In
"Killing Methods" her speaker, reflects— "I'm thinking of how we
make stories, / pluck them like beetles out of the air // I don't know how to
hold this truth, / so I kill it, pin its terrible wings down / in case,
later, no one believes me." The Carrying, helps me to see how we
might hold the truth, and believe.’</span></div>
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<br />Philippa Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12202238560133423771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851129751603502542.post-60075123505437482502019-02-13T09:54:00.004+00:002019-02-13T11:49:34.965+00:00Interview with Elīna Brasliņa, illustrator of The Dog Who Found Sorrow<i>We interviewed </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><i><b>Elīna Brasliņa</b> about her work in </i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/the-dog-who-found-sorrow/" target="_blank">The Dog Who Found Sorrow</a></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, a picture book about an adventurous dog whose town has been taken over by dark clouds and smoke...</i></span><br />
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I made a whole bunch of
smudgy clouds by crumbling charcoal on paper and rubbing it in with my thumb.
Then I cheated – I scanned all these clouds and, by combining some bits and
erasing others, I was able to create these smoky landscapes on my computer.</div>
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<i>Where did you learn to
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of animals from encyclopaedias – I didn’t put the paper over the image and
trace it like my classmates did, I looked at it and struggled to draw one that
was just as good. I couldn’t, obviously. After that, I drew cartoons I saw on
TV, then moved on to Japanese manga characters. It was only when I was 21 and
started attending evening courses at the Art Academy that someone actually taught
me the basics of drawing. I think all of it helped in some way!<br />
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<i>What was your favourite
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I don’t really remember
any picture books – but there were illustrated books that I loved. Tove
Jansson’s <i>The Moomins and the Great Flood</i> was one of my favourites. My mother
used to read it to me – she did all the voices too – and I would look at the pictures.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "acaslonpro-semibold" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Elīna
Brasliņa</b> </span><span style="font-family: "acaslonpro-regular" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">studied Printmaking and Graphic Arts
at the Art Academy of
Latvia. Since 2014 she has illustrated more than twenty titles, including</span> </i><a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/moon-juice-paperback/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "acaslonpro-italic" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Moon Juice</span></a><i><span style="font-family: "acaslonpro-italic" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "acaslonpro-regular" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">by
Kate Wakeling, which won the 2017 CLiPPA. She has been
nominated for numerous awards in Latvia and won the Zelta Ābele</span><span style="font-family: "acaslonpro-regular" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Golden
Apple Tree) National Prize for Book Art twice. She was awarded the
International Jānis Baltvilks Prize in 2017.</span></i><br />
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<a href="https://theemmapress.com/shop/the-dog-who-found-sorrow/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "acaslonpro-regular" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Dog Who Found Sorrow</span></a><i><span style="font-family: "acaslonpro-regular" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is available to buy on our website. </span></i></div>
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