NINE ARCHES PRESS

Independent publishers of contemporary poetry and short stories

"Melanchrini stands out among first collections for its coherence. Maria Taylor's achievement lies in having generated a deeply personal thematic and poetic drive that runs throughout the book. I very much recommend it."

Matthew Stewart on Maria Taylor's debut collection, Melanchrini.

"These are poems of lived experience: of the battles we engage in when we desperately want to live. And there is a deep sense of congruence between Sluman’s experience and the poetry which arises out of that experience. A congruence which, to me, suggests the poems have been hard-won in the truest sense of the phrase; one which possesses them of a deep integrity."

Amy McCauley on Daniel Sluman's Absence has a weight of its own.