ALICE KAVOUNAS was born in New York to Greek immigrant parents. She has lived in the US and London, and now lived in Cornwall with her husband, the writer Fred Taylor. Her poetry has been published in the London Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, the New England Review and Breadloaf Quarterly, as well as in anthologies and on BBC Radio.

      Her first collection, The Invited was published by Sinclair Stevenson to wide acclaim. 'Rich and gripping material in a family life and ancestry divided between Greece, America, London and Cornwall ... brilliant lyrical style.'

     'This is a highly promising debut.' 
                                   Alan Brownjohn in the Sunday Times.

     She has collaborated with Andrew Lanyon and Derrek Hines to produce Open to the Weather for Cargo Press.

Limited Edition, 250 copies signed. SOLD OUT.
ISBN 1 89990 030  paper  £10.00 254x160   36 pp.
8 colour plates by Andrew Lanyon.

Two North American writers who have made Cornwall their home explore their response to landscape and people.

      'Black tongue of land
       languishing in the mouth of Coverack
       lapped at by pre-dawn
       small fisted waves.

       a lull in birdsong -
       that gap in nature's soundtrack ...'  The Lizard  AK

      
       'Study the skiffs, their hollow shapes filled
       with a promise the ebbing tide has left
       tilted on the oyster-knuckled gravel.

       Beam-end on the dry, the hulls
       are a random jumble of moored hopes'.  The Boatyard  DH

THE INVITED

by Alice Kavounas.

ISBN 1 856197816, paper 62pp. 200 x 125. £8.00

        Alice Kavounas's first collection, The Invited, was published by Sinclair-Stevenson. It is now only available from the Cargo website.

        Alice Kavounas's poems speak with clarity and force about family, inheritance, love and loss, place and displacement. She renders quiet homage to the past in language that pays due respect to things and to feelings, keeping its poise between the lyrical and the everyday.'
           Alan Jenkins