Stubborn Mule Orchestra, by Luigi Marchini (Winner! Canterbury Writers Poetry Prize 2006), Christopher Hobday and Gary Studley (Winner! UKC T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize 2007), has just been published. The 76-page volume features more than 50 poems on a variety of subjects, in a multitude of styles, with free verse and regular metre. Honest confessions rub shoulders with flights of fancy.

Written with a commitment to producing the best possible standard of work, this collection marks a plateau for the poets, and features their best work of the past few years. Regular contributors to Night Train, members of the Save As writing group and previously on the editorial board for Logos, the University’s prose and poetry journal, these three poets have produced a startling, ambitious and impressive body of work. Stubborn Mule Orchestra sets the bar high for future local publications, and adds another facet to Canterbury’s burgeoning poetry scene.

Priced at just £4.00, Stubborn Mule Orchestra is available from Blackwells, The School of English, Chaucer Bookshop, Christ Church College and the Castle Arts Gallery.

You can contact the poets at:

luigimarchini@hotmail.com
christopher.l.hobday@hotmail.co.uk
gary.studley@hotmail.com