Nasty Little Press has been scouring the country to find the finest new voices in poetry. Nasty Little Intros are limited editions offering a taste of a glittering career to come. The perfect accompaniment to train journey or long hot bath.
Over the next two years Nasty Little Press will publish 10 Intros. Copies of these Intros will be sent to literature and live lit industry figures and Nasty Little Press will help the authors to get bookings for readings/performances. Intro authors will be mentored through the editing process with a view to publishing a longer collection of poems in the future.
Nasty Little Intros are kindly supported by Arts Council England.
Nasty Little press makes no profit from Intros. 100% of the cover price goes to the author.
NASTY LITTLE INTRO #2 LIZZY DENING
Lizzy Dening is a feature writer based in Cambridge. She has been writing poetry for eight years and has been published widely, including The Times, The Rialto, Rising, Pomegranate and Orbis.
£2 / 12pp
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NASTY LITTLE INTRO #1 HANNAH JANE WALKER
Hannah Jane Walker is a talkative person confused about whether she is from Cambridge or Essex, who can make a room a nest and has the handwriting of an C18th gentleman. She studied literature at UEA and an MA in Newcastle. She works as a poet, theatre maker and visual artist and has performed at festivals and residencies such as Latitude, Shunt and Forest Fringe. around. Having taken her first show ‘This is just to say’ an interactive show about apology, to Edinburgh 2010 she is now working on a second show ‘The O Fuck Moment’, a two hander with theatre maker Chris Thorpe about mistake culture. Total Theatre say ‘her writing is muscular and lush, tinged with a lightly bitter edge. The emotions she feels are acutely illustrated with the clarity and pitch that allows you to connect to your own.’
