• For Platform: 1 on Thursday 26th November (@ 19:30 UK-time), I will read from my forthcoming pamphlet, “A Demand to be Heard“, a series of Ekphrastic poems based on photographs taken in Lincoln Cathedral. This is a format which worked well with my collection “Grimsby Docks“. To request an invitation to attend the Platform event…

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  • November sees the first in a new series of virtual reading events. For details please go HERE. To ensure you keep up-to-date with future Coverstory books’ events and opportunities please follow at www.coverstorybooks.com; you can also follow my own work – for free! – at www.iangouge.substack.com.

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  • To request an invitation to attend the event please complete the form below. To ensure you keep up-to-date with future Coverstory books’ events and opportunities please follow at www.coverstorybooks.com; you can also follow my own work – for free! – at www.iangouge.substack.com.

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  • To request an invitation to attend the event please complete the form below. To ensure you keep up-to-date with future Coverstory books’ events and opportunities please follow at www.coverstorybooks.com; you can also follow my own work – for free! – at www.iangouge.substack.com.

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  • In this, the ninth edition of New Contexts, you will discover more contemporary poetry and prose from both sides of the Atlantic: serious work which examines ageing and the past, nature and nurture, opportunities taken or missed; and softer and more light-hearted pieces perhaps inevitably addressing similar themes. New Contexts: 9 is a collection in…

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  • New Contexts: 9 (published on Saturday, October 10th) In this, the ninth edition of New Contexts, you will discover more contemporary poetry and prose from both sides of the Atlantic: serious work which examines ageing and the past, nature and nurture, opportunities taken or missed; and softer and more light-hearted pieces perhaps inevitably addressing similar…

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  • We are delighted to announce the publication of Ian Gouge‘s latest collection of short stories, Writing to Gisella and Other Stories. The collection opens with an updated version of the 2017 novella, Writing to Gisella. ~ Writing to GisellaIn many ways it was the perfect summer break: taken on impulse, and filled with the beauty…

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  • We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Ian Gouge‘s latest collection of short stories, Writing to Gisella and Other Stories, on the 3rd October, 2026. The collection opens with an updated version of the 2017 novella, Writing to Gisella. ~ Writing to GisellaIn many ways it was the perfect summer break: taken on…

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  • Since November 2021 I have been hosting Contextual, an hour-long virtual poetry reading event hosted on Zoom. There have been thirty-eight Contextual evenings since then. These have been international events at which many people have read, primarily from the UK and the US, but also from Scandinavia and numerous other European countries. It has become…

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  • New Contexts: 9 (October 10th) In this, the ninth edition of New Contexts, you will discover more contemporary poetry and prose from both sides of the Atlantic: serious work which examines ageing and the past, nature and nurture, opportunities taken or missed; and softer and more light-hearted pieces perhaps inevitably addressing similar themes. New Contexts:…

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