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Clayhanger Press
A small independent press for North Staffordshire 
specialising in poetry about the area and the work of local poets and artists

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The Westlands Stories
by Paul Anderton

On sale at DougieMac shops or online here £10 plus p&p
all proceeds to the Dougie Mac
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A Staffordshire Collection 

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50 poems by contemporary Staffordshire Poets
Edited by Bert Flitcroft
£10 plus p&P


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Limited edition
of 50  numbered copies signed by the artist
hand printed and hand bound

Buy now while stocks last



​This 28 page book measuring a petite 4" x 5.5"
uses the text of William Blake's first 'illuminated manuscript'
ALL RELIGIONS are ONE
combined with monoprint images responding to the text.
This reimagining of Blake's work explores the meaning of
​ 'Poetic' and 'Genius' through a series of original illustrations
available while stocks last
£10 plus p&p 
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Some houses are built without walls
by Sara Levy

can now be ordered at £7 plus p&p

We have a new print run
arriving so plenty available after the success of Sara’s launch which you can see here

' ... a poignant and technically brilliant debut from a poet with the grace and sensitivity to bring this hidden chapter of history to life'
Tamar Yoseloff

click here to order your copy

Clayhanger Press is an environmentally aware publisher and uses print on demand for large run publications - there may be a ten day delay in obtaining new stock if we run low but we post as soon as we get the supply from the printers or they are available from a number of online sources such as Amazon, Waterstones & Foyles.


These are our publications - click any image for more details and to purchase copies
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The Alchemy Spoon Issue 6

£5.00

Sold out

The 'Fixed Forms' issue with a reading by Michael Lavers

Issue 5 The Alchemy Spoon

£5.00

The 'Unthemed Issue' with a new poem by Glyn Maxwell

12 months subscription to The Alchemy Spoon

£18.00

Take out a 12 month subscription and get 3 issues for £6 an issue with free postage within UK - saving 60p an issue

A Staffordshire Poetry Collection

£10.00

50 poems by contemporary Staffordshire poets

All religions are one

£10.00

hand printed - hand bound limited edition of 50 signed by the artist

Some houses are built without walls

£7.00

Levy takes us on a journey through the dark and foreboding world of the Staffordshire mental asylum” Tamar Yoseloff, Poetry School London

 

“extraordinary poems…wrought, as if by magic or witchcraft, wondrous images of silent and silenced people” Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham

 

Published January 7th 2022 by Staffordshire independent publisher Clayhanger Press, this poetry pamphlet is the result of a research project within the archives of the Staffordshire Records Office, focussing on the 19th century admission books, medical records, correspondence and photographs from Brentwood, Stafford and Cheddleton.

 

“a poignant and technically brilliant debut from a poet with grace and sensitivity” Tamar Yoseloff

 

Sara Levy is a graduate of the Newcastle MA Poetry programme. She performs her work regularly and is widely published and placed in National and International competitions. She has recorded a selection of poems from the book for inclusion on sound posts at the Staffordshire Archive exhibition ‘A Case For The Ordinary’, which will tour local venues from January and also feature her poems in the printed displays. She will be reading from the book at the launch event at the Museum of Cannock Chase on January 12th.

 

O beautiful, my country

£10.00

This limited edition of 100 numbered copies is a hand printed, hand bound, A6 pamphlet, printed on a selection of specialised papers including handmade Lokta paper from Nepal and paper made with 50% recycled paper coffee cups. 


Clayhanger Press invited twelve poets to write an ekphrastic cinquain in response to the photographic  image of early 19th century industrial North Staffordshire entitled  

O Beautiful, my Country 

by local photographer William Blake circa 1910.


Stacking Winter Wood

£10.00

Stacking Winter Wood

is published on June 1st 2021

ISBN: 978-1-913329-43-3


Paperback 210 x 148mm


72 pages

Few voices in contemporary poetry can match the instinctive reverence of Roger Bloor’s. His poems contemplate moments, testing their fragility, hearing their whispers, knowing they will modulate to loss. In his historical poems and in his scrutiny of the present, Roger Bloor is the most delicate of elegiac writers, in all things sensitive, attentive, and rich in understanding.

                                                                                                Michael Hulse

Roger Bloor’s poetry is luminous and painterly. This stunning collection of poems honours his Staffordshire homeland, the forgotten and the marginalised juxtaposed with the poet’s gentle observations of intimacy, companionship and enduring love.

​                                            Vanessa Lampert

Roger Bloor’s poems are haunted by the realities of nature, historical stories and love. The poems start with ‘Solstice Song’ a poem of the very present caught in a yearning for the past. This theme, with different subjects, is continued throughout the book. Bloor uses precise, vivid language for all of his themes with subtle and powerful cadences. The reader is left with much to think about after the book has ben returned to the shelf.

                                             Wendy French

Poems from the 53rd Parallel

£6.00

An anthology of poems from 9 Staffordshire poets

Quandaries by Oliver Leech

£9.99

Only a few left!

This brilliantly crafted set of poems is  reproduced in Oliver's original hand written calligraphy and illustrated with his delicate gouache artwork

Aldgedeslegh

£4.50


Student Bodies 1968

£5.00

Diana Cant's debut pamphlet, a sequence describing a troubled student relationship amidst the decay and decline of the Potteries landscape.

Poetry Before Anything

£5.00

Only a few left!

The Newcastle Stanza Group Anthology 2020

Purchase a gift card for a Clayhanger Press product and give the pleasure of poetry

£5.00 - £20.00
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A Centenary Compendium of the Jabez Stories

£11.00

The Centenary Compendium is a collection of stories in North Staffordshire Dialect which document life in a small mining village in the early part of the 20th Century.

The centenary compendium edition has been produced by the author’s sons to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wilfred Bloor the author of the Jabez North Staffordshire dialect stories who wrote under the pen name of A Scott.

The book has been compiled from the original three Jabez books published in the 1970’s. The compendium contains many original photographs taken by the author which portray many of the events and scenes which he used as a background for his stories.

These photographs and his stories provide a unique social record of life in a North Staffordshire rural mining village in the period between the two World Wars.A collection of stories in North Staffordshire Dialect which document life in a small mining village in the early part of the 20th Century.

Oblivion

£6.00

Only a few left!

Claire Hughes' debut pamphlet - the winner of the Clayhanger Press Pamphlet Competition 2021.

Poems for Medical Students

£7.50

Sold out

This anthology of poetry is for students embarking on a life in medicine.



Dream Sequences

£7.00

Published by DreamWell Writing. A poetry pamphlet of a heroic crown of sonnets responding to a series of photographs - all the profits from the book go to Dyslexia Association of Staffordshire

Copies of Oblivion are  still available  direct from Claire Hughes
​or on Amazon

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