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An insight into the processes and techniques of botanical illustration by an award-winning artist and experienced tutor.

A new collection from James Harpur, chronicling his time at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1970s. Compelling, humorous and poignant, The Magic Theatre is an enthralling rite of passage amid the 'full catastrophe' of university life.

Quakers in the UK are grouped into many local Meetings; this book outlines the history of Reading Meeting and its place within the town, and of the Meeting House itself.

This new anthology features work from 37 emerging and established Reading poets. Edited by award-winning poet Vic Pickup, this book presents a vibrant and diverse collection, reflecting the energy and variety of the townâEUR(TM)s arts scene.

With Signs Following, David Ricks's first full collection, brings together poems and translations written over the last three decades.

Martha Kapos imagines sonata form as a narrative structure in this remarkable, and psychologically acute, showcase for poems written over nearly 30 years. With an afterword by Lawrence Kramer: Sonata, What Do You Want of Me?

Downland is a unique collaboration celebrating the landscape of the Berkshire Downs as seen through the eyes of artist Anna Dillon and poet Jonathan Davidson.

In The Adjustments, Claire Dyer's fourth collection with Two Rivers Press, the poet explores the vagaries of time and experience. As a narrative in reverse, her book scrutinises the fine tunings of life - from what's expected to what happens - and the associated search for equilibrium in a world that's constantly changing.

In The Blue Armchair, his third collection, John Froy seeks to rediscover his mother after her death in poems widely and wildly various.

The Colour of Rain is Susan Utting's fifth full collection of poetry, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race.

An absorbing look at the history of Reading through 150 pieces of printed ephemera.

The poems in Where Shadow Falls explore the frailties of the human condition, the landscapes in which such frailties emerge, and the dire consequences that can ensue.

Paradise Takeaway is a long poem with Luton Airport in it. Part memoir, part invention, it takes us along the bus and train routes of the London metropolitan area, not stopping at the eponymous fast food outlet en route to Aylesbury. On the way you'll meet the Spirit of Rail, a famous German philosopher, and other figures real and unreal.

Katherine Meehan's debut collection presents an examination of losses, failures, and griefs, all tempered by an unusual humour. The poems wander between urban and rural spaces, from Los Angeles and Appalachia to the English home counties, giving voice to glass eels, Grendel's mother and a host of nameless 'losers'.

Asuka Hishiki is an award-winning botanical artist whose work, showcased here with the artist's own commentary, encompasses subjects as diverse as rotting vegetables, endangered species, mundane weeds and backyard insects - all treasures to her and transformed into objects of intense and fragile beauty through her skill with watercolour.

'Some Other Where' is about steps and missteps, disconnection, and connection, both in relationships and between ourselves and the world. Matthews's poems embody those sudden jolts when we see our lives differently.

What are the ingredients for a successful career as a botanical artist? In The Tapestry of Life, Susan Christopher-Coulson shares her compulsion to collect and then record the botanical treasures she finds and details some of her favourite tools and methods, making this book both beautiful and useful.

'A la lumiere d'hiver' is a central work in the writing of the Swiss French poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021). Tim Dooley's translation, 'In Winter Light', is the product of a long relationship with the original, which he first read in 1977. His English version mirrors the tentative, scrupulous exploration of being he finds in Jaccottet's French.

The poems in 'The Weather on the Moon' turn Manet on his head, enter the thoughts of a post prandial lion, view and buy a 'snorting' Hot Rod, and imagine life on a modern-day Titanic. Bubbling away throughout this intense, sometimes humorous, sometimes quirky, always compassionate poetry is a joy in language, its possibilities, and music.

A new edition and reissue of Christina the Astonishing, a sensual and exhilarating poetic collaboration between Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders, retelling - through their own poems as well as brief extracts from medieval religious writers - Christina's story as a woman's search for selfhood.

To tie in with the rebuilding and extension of Reading Station this book gives an account of the station's history and development over the last 175 years.

The poems in Discoveries respond to the uncertainties of our time with an unpredictability of their own. Tim Dooley makes use of varied, sometimes arbitrary, structures to explore possibilities of expression.

This is Lesley Saunders' fifth poetry collection with Two Rivers Press. It is an intense examination of human culpability, and the unfathomable mystery of being (in) a body, incarnated, made flesh - a thing of blood and love that betrays us with its appalling vulnerabilities.

Transitional Spaces, Kate Behrens's fourth collection, is concerned with inner lives and the secret doings of damage and repair. Touching on politics, sickness, sex, art, global warming and the messages of fantasy and dream, it looks at the lost and the longed-for, and at what happens when the bonds between us rupture.

The Star in the Branches, James Peake's second collection, is an intense and heartfelt examination of memory, how it pains and consoles, deepens and shrinks, is both equal to, and less than, the objects and people who come to reside there.

A short history of Reading Gaol from its 19th-century origins to the present day.