Well, there must be something in the water, but following on with the start of Damien Donnelly’s new series of interviews yesterday, another of our brilliant Hoglets, Mr Nigel Kent, has also launched an innovative and quite cleverly cool series over on his web site.
Nigel’s ‘Drop ins’ will see a series of poets talk to him about individual poems from collections that he will be subsequently reviewing, which is a great approach and idea and definitely adds new dimensions to the whole review process, bringing some background and context to the review that we generally miss.
His first visitor is Damien B. Donnelly himself talking about one of the poems from his forthcoming collection, ‘Eat The Storms.’
This is definitely a series I will be following closely – even if it is a little odd to find yourself learning more about collections you are publishing, this late in the day! – and I think both Nigel and Damien come across perfectly.
I really look forward to reading Nigel’s review in the next few days.
You can find out more about Nigel Kent’s ‘Drop in’ and read Damien’s explanation of one of the poems from the collection, HERE
If you wish to pre-order a copy of Damien’s collection direct from the chap himself, HERE is where you need to go.
If you haven’t checked out Nigel Kent’s work yet, you really (genuinely, properly) owe it to yourself to read one on the UK’s most exciting voices.
We have had the pleasure of publishing a number of Nigel’s pamphlets and all of them can be bought signed direct from Nigel HERE.
I would heartily recommend you invest a Tenner in the full set of four pamphlets, any one of which would be worth the entry price.
Here endeth the lesson (ahem.)