News from the west

I was really pleased to be nominated for the Wigtown Poetry Alastair Reid pamphlet prize in great company last month. And this past weekend I got over to the splendid bookshop filled Wigtown for Stephen Rutt's wonderful Saltmarsh library where this photo was taken.

You can learn more about the prize here and congratulations to Sarah Leavesley who won.

I was very excited to discover I was runner-up. Plans afoot of a way of sharing the sequence that would have been in the pamphlet in due course.

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I also bought an H G Wells book on film - the joy of the second-hand book shop in a nutshell.

Poetry bookshelf

Send us your photos of the poetry shelf in your local bookshop or library - however splendiferous or meagre.

For example, you may remember that in the Universitaria bookshop in Plaza de Anaya in Salamanca (it has moving bookcases btw and is well worth a visit) pretty much the whole of English language poetry was represented by Leonard Cohen.