We are thrilled to announce details of a fairly secret project that we’ve had in the pipeline for several months. Between Two Rivers is a unique collaboration between poet, Nick Allen and artist, Myles Linley that will be published as Maytree 006 in September.
The book features fourteen new poems by Nick together with several colour reproductions of Myles’ wonderful paintings of the East Yorkshire landscape.
Look out for more news and a cover reveal very soon.
Talking about the project, Nick said:
‘The project between two rivers grew out of a long standing friendship between Myles and I that has involved a lot of curry and far too many nights standing at Fall gigs wondering which way the evening was going to go. When Myles moved to Beverley we started visiting places around Hull, especially on the waterfronts of the Humber and the Hull. We found we were talking…
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I spent the first twenty years of my life in East Yorkshire (although to be fair, my hometown of Goole was part of West Yorkshire when I was born, then assigned to North Humberside when I was a lad and is only now officially in the district of East Yorkshire). I still return to Goole, salmon-like every term, to visit family and have mixed feelings about the place ( Goole Revisitied https://northernjim.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/goole-revisited ) … You have piqued my interest with Nick and Myles’ lovely looking book and I shall nip over to Maytree Press and blow the dust off my Paypal card.
JH 🙂