Peterloo Poets, Poetry Publishers


	*Peterloo Poets*

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Black Dog

Here he comes, padding
across the surface of your mind
at the first sniff of sadness.
He weighs a ton. Looks at you
with those post-Hiroshima eyes
until the silent howl of him sinks deep
into your gut. What does he want?

You feed him all the hurts you’ve got
He can’t get enough of it, love, love.
He wants his mammy. He wants
to be back in the womb with his paws
over his eyes. He wants. He wants.

Poor black dog with the wildness
trapped in him and nowhere to go.
Toss him your funny bone,
let him gnaw on that.

Diana Hendry


	from: *Late Love & Other Whodunnits* by: *Diana Hendry*


	*Latest News:*

		We are proud to announce that Harry Chambers, Publishing Director of Peterloo Poets, was awarded an MBE ‘for services to poetry’ in the Queen’s New Years Honours. Many Peterloo titles are available direct from our authors. If you are seeking a permission request, wish to buy a Peterloo volume or are just seeking information, please e-mail: publisher@ peterloopoets.com and we will endeavour to put you directly in touch with the author or the author's estate.

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Peterloo would like to sincerely thank all of those that supported our farewell poetry event at the Troubadour in London on Monday 5th of October; especially our organisers and performers Anne-Marie Fyfe, R.V. Bailey, Stephen Blyth, John Weston, Owen Gallagher, Tim Cunningham, Julian May, Ann Drysdale and Anna Adams. The event was a marvellous celebration of Peterloo’s last 37 years and a fitting tribute to the tenacity, hard work and dedication of Lynn and Harry Chambers.

For more information about poetry readings, classes and prizes at Coffee-House Poetry at The Troubadour visit www.coffeehousepoetry.org - organiser is Anne-Marie Fyfe.

‘For three decades and more, Harry Chambers, the Publishing Director of Peterloo Poets, has been one of the great "hearers and hearteners" of the work being done in British and Irish poetry. Peterloo Poets, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2006, is a publishing house that has earned the trust of readers and writers alike; it has managed to keep the art in touch with its traditions and alive to its possibilities.'
Seamus Heaney


	‘Peterloo Poets is a small publishing house run by Harry Chambers in Cornwall. Its books are sensitively designed; each has a striking illustrated cover and the typography is excellent. The quality of production is much better than the usual standard of poetry paperbacks issued by major publishers.' G.B.H. Wightman / British Book News


	*Preview from our latest titles:*




	Stella Davis Last Boat to Avalon




	F.J. Williams Reading Lesson in the Lifers’ Wing




	Elizabeth Sandie Acts of Resistance: The Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe




	John Lucas Harry Chambers & Peterloo Poets: 37 Years of Poetry Publishing


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	Keith Chandler The English Civil War Part 2




		Diana Hendry Late Love & Other Whodunnits


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