Bloodaxe Books: Interviews

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Praise for Bloodaxe:

"Bloodaxe Books has a ferocious reputation as a publisher of ground-breaking poetry."

The Sunday Times

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Adrian Mitchell

"The books have class and clout. Bloodaxe is an extremely important venture."

Melvyn Bragg

"Bloodaxe -
well-designed and committed books, though never comfortable to read. They answer Kafka's definition of what real literature should be: 'One should only read books which bite and sting one. If the book we are reading does not wake us up with a blow to the head, what's the point in reading? A book must be the axe which smashes the frozen sea within us'."
Brian Hinton,
Tears in the Fence

Interviews

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Out of the Blue
Helen Dunmore's new book collects together poetry written between 1975 and 2001. She tells us about the book and the themes that preoccupy her new poetry.