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
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Brian Hurley
Stranger
I will always be a stranger.
The one who sits in a bar full of laughter,
wanting to cry.
The one who walks the streets at night,
to find company.
Who in flat after flat, city after city, country after country-
still, can never feel at home.
Who never truly wants, and therefore, is never truly wanted,
or missed.
Who can never belong, because if truth be told,
they were never really there.
Who finds solace in their strangeness, their failings the only
evidence of life.
Who throughout their life has worn this mask, to keep others
from recoiling en-masse.
Who like a migratory bird leaves to return to the same place
each year, though never laying an egg.
Who sings the sorrowful tune each morning with the corncrake
as we look for a mate, both in vain.
Who writes these lines to pass inevitable time, and forget,
just for a moment, why all that is- is.
Who watched as they fell gratefully into the jaws of depression
hoping for an end, only to find a start.
Who lives each day as Edmund, a consumed bastard and illegitimate,
flayed by jealousy and incompetence.
The one who must always be a little in love with death-
the stranger.
The Inevitable Full-Stop
There was a burst of life,
A noise so shrill and sweet,
The end, for now, so far
Away in the future
Of unknowns and history.
As time went by, it grew.
Crawled, walked, slept, cried and laughed.
And when more time passed by,
It thought and felt and loved.
And when thoughts and feelings
Had run their course, and love,
Lost and found, could no more
Be felt, it stops and waits
In ever present dread
Its life spent and misspent
Most of it forgotten
In the end left hanging
By a thread awaiting
The inevitable
Full stop.
Brian Hurley is from Co. Tipperary, he has recently completed a BA in English and is hoping to further his studies by completing a MA in Creative Writing. Brian says that…’much of my writing is derived from my time travelling and the moments of contemplation one has during this period. I am heavily influenced by poets of the 'Beat' generation as well as Irish poets such as Yeats, Kavanagh, Heaney and Eavan Boland.’