NINE ARCHES PRESS

an independent poetry press that aims to bring you the best contemporary voices in handsome new

poetry pamphlets and collections

Hot off the Press...   Roz Goddard The Sopranos Sonnets & Other Poems     Roz Goddard's The Sopranos Sonnets & Other Poems is acutely observed, streetwise and bittersweet. At its heart are ten sonnet-portraits inspired by the television series about a dysfunctional mafia boss and his family. Among the cast of characters is Gloria, the hauntingly-seductive mistress with a built-in self-destruct button, and Leotardo, ready to murder at the drop of a letter…   This pamphlet will be available as a standard pamphlet, but also as a signed limited-edition pamphlet in a print run of 100 copies only.     Praise for The Sopranos Sonnets & Other Poems by Roz Goddard:   “The doors between fact and fiction, dream and waking, different orders of reality, are left slyly and unsettlingly ajar in this collection which can slip straight from tender poems for relatives to an edgy intimacy with the TV mobsters of The Sopranos, a relationship as real as the ancient Greeks must have had with the dysfunctional family scenes on Mount Olympus.” – Philip Gross.   Launched: 11th July 2010     Mark Goodwin Shod   When Sidney Realer experiences a moment of revelation in the supermarket aisles, it sets him off  on a pilgrimage through a frightening and familiar contemporary landscape. With narrative roots in the biblical, mythological and folk traditions, Shod is a twenty-first century parable, spirited and dark in equal measure, taking place in the clone-town wilderness, fearlessly singing the songs of our all our wrongs.     Praise for Shod by Mark Goodwin:   "Rich in folk tale, oral history, classical myth and religion including Nike as all too convincing goddess, AZDA as an underworld of sorts. Like Berryman's Henry, Goodwin has created a combined muse, foil and antihero in Sidney, at once everyman and every troubling crazy dream. He writes with an elegant, engaging strangeness, always anchored fast in our world through something that unites us all and keeps us all walking unhobbled. Shod's shoes are firmly on the ground, but its mind is tearing through the micro- and macro-verse with allusive abandon. It's an inspiring, extraordinary ride."    - Luke Kennard   "Mark Goodwin's Shod takes us for a walk on the wild side of poetic adventure and it's a treat."   - Geraldine Monk   Launched: 9th August 2010