Cinnamon Press

  • Herself Alone In Orange Rain, Tracey Iceton

    Picture a member of the Provisional IRA and you won’t be alone in imagining a balaclava-clad man in his twenties or thirties. Think again. ‘Official numbers are small but unconfirmed accounts report a 50-50 male-female attendance at IRA training camps,’ Iceton tells us in the author’s note of Herself Alone in Orange Rain. Women were…

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  • EMPIRES OF CLAY LAUNCH

      The launch of my first full poetry collection Empires of Clay began dramatically with a text from my publisher Jan Fortune of Cinnamon Press to say that she had been knocked over at York train station and had injured her leg. Fortunately she wasn’t badly hurt but she would be unable to compere the…

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  • Haunt Shortlist, Altofts Lit Fest In A Day, Panel Discussion and Performance

    I have some big news. Haunt has been shortlisted for the saboteurawards.org  and the site is open to votes now. My poetry pamphlet Echolocation, Karen Dennison’s Blueshift and both my poetry publishers Mother’s Milk and Cinnamon Press were also longlisted.  Huge thanks to any of you who nominated any of the wonderful projects I’ve been involved with. You…

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  • ‘Passionate Words On The Wing’

    ‘Moving honest films’.  ‘Loved the variety and the uniqueness of each voice and the imagery in films, ‘Nice to have lots of different atmospheres created in a night.’  ‘The energy, passion and enthusiasm of the poets was so exciting.’ These were just some of the comments collected at the ‘Words in Motion’ events in Bristol…

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