Timothy Adès is a prolific rhyming translator-poet with eleven books from French, German, Spanish, and awards for translating Victor Hugo, Robert Desnos, Jean Cassou, and Alfonso Reyes. His book of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets includes his translations into Inglish, with no letter E, on the facing page. His bookstall offers, also, many poetry books by other translators: many languages, mostly bilingual books, some beautifully illustrated. He is a trustee of Agenda, the great poetry magazine. He is on Facebook and YouTube. He will be speaking for ten minutes, presenting poems which he has translated from other tongues.

Nick Cennamo-Smith is the author of the Mortzeel’s Lost & Found crime-fantasy series, as well as other standalone titles.

The latest installment of his whimsical and chaotic series, The Blade of Qalkar, will be releasing in August 2026.

WarmPorch Publishing is a very small, independent, labour of love.

In one form or another, I have been involved in publishing for almost twenty-five years, from setting up an independent music magazine (Sandman Magazine) in Sheffield to my current work at Oxford University Press.

WarmPorch was initially created to publish some extracts from my grandmother’s journals, The Search for Freeland Gardens [2009]. This small book (also now our first ebook) covered the arrival of my family, 50 years previously, to open a nursery garden in a small West Oxfordshire village.

In recent years I have been working with the sculptor Steve Hurst, using his diaries and sketchbooks to tell the story of the young artist. In 2022, Drawn From Life: The Ruskin Diaries 1949-53, was the first full length WarmPorch book and this year we published the follow-up, Bluff Road: The Malaya Diaries 1953-1955, covering Steve’s experiences as a national serviceman during the Malayan Emergency.

Looking further ahead, my grandmother wrote her journals between 1931 and 1974, and they track the author’s life from a shy teenager about to embark on her nursing training during the early years of the Depression, to the older, hardy, market gardener contemplating retirement. Ideally I’d like to publish three volumes of these journals. The entire text has been transcribed (about 1.3 million words); the next task is to edit them down.

Watch this space.

nü editions is a uk-based independent publisher that aims to introduce original, innovative poetical works that provoke thinking, through bilingual productions.

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Peter started life on the North Downs near Guildford and studied social, political and economic geography, and languages at the Goethe Institut in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany.

His first novel Mazzeri was published in 2013; Ontreto, Boarding House Reach, The Wind Between Two Worlds and Constant Tides followed. The novella, What You Don’t Know About Me, was published during the Covid lockdown, and the Italian translations of the three books of Constant Tides, Tre Donne Di Messina, were completed last year.

Peter has recently published Theo’s Voice, the story of a young man who loses the power of speech, and is currently writing a further novel set during the late 1920s on the island of Lipari, Sicily.