Swift Permissions

27/01/2021

Despite shops being closed for much of 2020, figures show Britons bought books in volume – although many authors continued to struggle

06/01/2021

Cleared poetry permissions for 3 of these 4 wintry beauties.

28/11/2020

02/09/2020

A scrumptious seasonal offering that I had the pleasure to work on for Candlestick Press...ripe and ready to buy in shops now (and online)

Autumn is here! With ripe pears, twittering swallows and children gathering berries, alongside early-evening switching on of TVs. Poems by Emily Brontë, Maggie Dietz, Kahlil Gibran, Jane Hirshfield, John Keats, Ted Kooser, Amy Lowell, Freya Manfred, Vinode Ramgopal, RS Thomas 🍂

13/02/2020

Very excited to be working on the book to accompany this forthcoming Wes Anderson movie, for Pushkin Press.
Watch this space...

THE FRENCH DISPATCH brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. It...

12/11/2019

Listen to them!
Really pleased to have worked on this book of women's speeches for Yvette Cooper and Atlantic Books. Powerful female voices and wisdom to be read from Boudicca, Pankhurst and Angelou, through to Greta, Malala, Jo Cox, Emma Watson, Eva Kor, Obama.
Inspire someone for Christmas...the book is published on 14th November

She Speaks: The Power of Women’s Voices Yvette Cooper RRP: £10 14 November 2019 ISBN: 9781786499929 A powerful celebration of 30 brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Boudica to Michelle Obama, that have inspired change and altered the course of history. Looking at the greatest sp...

04/10/2019

22/07/2019

Well chuffed to be a part of bringing together this fabulous National Poetry Day 2019 anthology.


https://www.mombooks.com/book/tell-me-the-truth-about-life/

14/12/2018

As if today hadn’t been exciting enough, we got first sight of the printed copies of Ten Poems about Walking, beautifully edited by Sasha Dugdale and illustrated by Hugh Ribbans. Stock arriving in the book and gift trade early next week, just in time for fitness resolutions!

14/12/2018

Not wishing to start a stampede, but we’ve been taken by surprise with the success of Ten Poems about Robins and Christmas Lights, and both titles are now going out of stock in the book and gift trade. We have a few copies left to order via our website but going, going, gone...