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 #6
HATTIE GRUNEWALD
Hattie Grünewald wrote her first book, Naughty Teddy, at the tender age of 4, and since then her career has gone from strength to strength. She was Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2009, and has had her work published in The Independent, YM and Myths of the Near Future. In Autumn 2010 one of her poems was published on London Underground trains as part of the Young Poets on the Underground scheme. She is twenty years old and is currently studying English and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. In her spare time she watches cooking shows, dresses as a giant boob for charity and runs the UEA Feminist Society, as incompatible as these activites may seem.
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NASTY LITTLE INTRO #5
TRISTRAM FANE SAUNDERS
Tristram Fane Saunders is sickeningly young. Aged 19, he’s already getting great reviews for his stage performances at the Edinburgh Fringe and appearing on bills with the likes of John Cooper Clarke and Simon Armitage at festivals such as Latitude. Here you can see the formal discipline at work beneath his slick performances and be assured that we are dealing with a very serious talent.
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NASTY LITTLE INTRO #4
ALEX GWYTHER
Alex Gwyther Tells tales of life in Britain, from the pound-a-pint Wetherspoon shenanigans of a Saturday night in Staines to the poignant re-telling of the Christmas truce in the First World War.
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NASTY LITTLE INTRO #3
AMY BLAKEMORE
Amy Blakemore is from south-east London and first started writing poetry out of spite. She was named a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in both 2007 and 2008 and has since gone on to be published in a number of journals and ‘zines.
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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.
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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.’
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