by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Covid
2020 has been the most most challenging year in the history of publishing. COVID-19 arrived without warning and, in our case, lockdown came at a critical point in the life of Angus Winchester’s book , THE LANGUAGE OF THE LANDSCAPE. We worked hard to have the book...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our latest book, THE LANGUAGE OF THE LANDSCAPE – A Journey into Lake District History, has had an enormous effect on the way I look at the landscape in Dentdale, where I have lived for just over twelve years. I will always be an ‘off-comer’, but during that time I...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Cumbria
It’s hard to post a news update from Handstand Press in such an extraordinary time. The world is in a state of paralysis as we face a pandemic of cataclysmic proportions. Nothing is normal. How could we have guessed as 2020 dawned that we would shortly be facing a...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Language of the Landscape
Angus Winchester’s wonderful book, THE LANGUAGE OF THE LANDSCAPE, A Journey into Lake District History, has gone to print. It is a satisfying moment – the culmination of at least six months quite intensive work. Publication date is 8th November and we are very much...
by PixelT | Nov 22, 2022 | Lakeland Book of the Year, This Place I know
Prize Day at the Lakeland Book of the Year Awards 2019 BOOKENDS AWARD FOR POETRY AND LITERATURE. Here we are, Kerry, Kim and I at the Lakeland Book of the Year awards, celebrating our win on behalf of the 93 brilliant poets whose work was published last year in THIS...
