more thoughts on book sales After my post about poetry sales figures and people’s responses, I’ve been thinking a lot about comparisons with what I know now of nonfiction sales, particularly of nature writing, memoir and biography. Since Recovering Dorothy first came out with Saraband in the UK in 2021, I’ve had experiences publishing nonfictionContinue reading “Putting It Owl Out There”
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On Selling Poetry
These are my three poetry collections, all published by Seren: Basic Nest Architecture (2017) Much With Body (2021) Emergency Dream (2026) Yesterday I got my sales figures for the first time since 2017 (there’s been an issue that’s being worked on!) and I thought it would be useful and interesting to share those numbers, afterContinue reading “On Selling Poetry”
Second Selves and Natural Hearts
On Grasmere as a centre for poetry This year it will be twenty years since I left London and moved north to start a phd at Lancaster University in collaboration with the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. A large part of my doctoral research was concerned not only with the poetry of the past – howContinue reading “Second Selves and Natural Hearts”
On books in the landscape
Some time in the mid twenty-teens, when twitter was still twitter, and still a place to make connections and jokes, my partner Will stepped out of the bookshop where he had been working part-time for years, carried a book across the road, and positioned it on a gate. For a couple of years he hadContinue reading “On books in the landscape”
Shadow Dispatches 