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The next Free Verse poetry book fair will take place in London on 8 September 2012. For more information, or to book a table, see www.poetrybookfair.com.
See the online Guardian’s write-up of CBe:
‘a brilliantly idiosyncratic operation . . . some truly dazzling books’



CB editions publishes short fiction, poetry, translations
and other work which, as the Guardian noted, ‘might
otherwise fall through the cracks between the big
publishers’.
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New titles
New titles for autumn 2012 will include poetry by
Stephen Knight and Joaquín Giannuzzi (translated from the
Spanish by Richard Gwyn). Come November, we’ll have
survived for five years; to celebrate, three pamphlets –
one of poetry, one of prose, one of drawings – will be
available exclusively from this website.
News
Free Verse: The Poetry Book Fair – a round-up of online
 responses (from a dozen blogs) to the book fair organised
by CBe and held in London on 24 September 2011 can be
read here (downloads pdf).
 
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