Hello and welcome!
époque press is an independent publisher based between Brighton and Dublin established to promote and represent the very best in new literary talent.
Through a combination of our main publishing imprint and our online ezine we aim to bring inspirational and thought provoking work to a wider audience.
Our main imprint is seeking out new voices, authors who are producing high-quality literary fiction and who are looking for a partner to help realise their ambitions. Our commitment is to fully consider all submissions on literary merit alone and to provide a personal response.
Our ezine will showcase a combination of the written word, visual and aural art forms, bringing together artists working in different mediums to encourage and inspire new perspectives on specific themes.
For details of how to submit your work to us for consideration please follow the submissions guidelines and for all other enquiries please email info@epoquepress.com
Hello and welcome!
époque press is an independent publisher based between Brighton and Dublin established to promote and represent the very best in new literary talent.
Through a combination of our main publishing imprint and our online ezine we aim to bring inspirational and thought provoking work to a wider audience.
Our main imprint is seeking out new voices, authors who are producing high-quality literary fiction and who are looking for a partner to help realise their ambitions. Our commitment is to fully consider all submissions on literary merit alone and to provide a personal response.
Our ezine will showcase a combination of the written word, visual and aural art forms, bringing together artists working in different mediums to encourage and inspire new perspectives on specific themes.
For details of how to submit your work to us for consideration please follow the submissions guidelines and for all other enquiries please email info@epoquepress.com
époque press
pronounced: /epƏk/
definition: /time/era/period
Mark Stewart writes with a social and environmental conscience; hoping to redress the balance in favour ofMother Nature. Often found deep in the woods of magical realism, in the company of wolves and other metamorphic creatures, or in the literary edgelands where the rarest orchids grow. Writing within earshot of the “sounding sea,” finding much inspiration in the sunken bowers of the ocean. Published in The Caterpillar, Paper Lanterns, Canopy anthology, NFFD 2021 Legerdemain, Odyssey e-zine, Spaceflight and The Norman Mailer Journal.
Of the poem, Mark states:
‘I was motivated to write the poem after seeing a field of sunflowers on the South Downs where I am fortunate enough to live. As I looked at the flowers with their golden yellow crowns, I thought how alive they looked, and of the piece of music written by Ennio Morricone entitled The Ecstasy of Gold from the soundtrack to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It's hard to think of a flower more ecstatically alive that these remarkable "giants."’