ALT Three books. Tim Craven's features multicoloured gravestones facing a similarly multicoloured landscape. Marianne MacRae's is a purple background with a three legged green creature inside a turquoise circle. And Alice Willitts's is an orange yellow background with a dark blue portrait of a woman with big hair and eyes and the words Kiss My Earth replacing her nose and mouth.

ALT Blue Diode poets launch their new books - Olga Stehlikova and Chris Crawford - readings in Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, Sat 9th Nov, 7pm; Bigglestones Books, Glassford St, Glasgow, Sun 10th Nov, 4pm; Typewronger Books, Edinburgh, Mon 11th Nov, 7pm.

ALT A background of greyish sand. Black-purplish seaweed in the rough shape of a leafless tree in the foreground, and a few scattered shells.

ALT Book cover: Birds gather round a book of music presided over by a fierce-looking owl.

ALT Glasgow launch of Nuala's book, Monday 19 February, 7pm, The Old Hairdresser's, Renfield Lane, Glasgow. Free entry, the book will be on sale for £10. Brown background. White book with 3 giant hooks, and a small jade fish negotiating it's way through them.

ALT Book front cover : a small green fish navigates its way through a sea of three giant hooks on lines of rope

ALT Petr Hruška's poetry has won a number of state and international awards, including the Czech State Award for Literature and the 2023 Magnesia Litera, the most prestigious annual literary award in the Czech Republic. Everything Indicates (Blue Diode Press, 2023) is translated into English by Jonathan Bolton. Milan Děžinský is a Czech poet, the author of seven collections of poetry. He won the 2018 Magnesia Litera Award for poetry. Děžinský’s A Secret Life, translated into English by Nathan Fields, was published by Blue Diode Press in 2021. Kathryn Gray is a Welsh poet, whose debut collection The Never-Never was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her second collection, newly published by Seren, is Hollywood or Home. Jo Bratten was born in the USA, and living in London. Her poetry has appeared in Bad Lilies, The North, The Rialto, The London Magazine etc. Her debut pamphlet, Climacteric, was published in 2022 by Fly on the Wall Press.

ALT Czech poet Petr Hruska's UK Tour dates to read from his first collection translated into English, Everything Indicates: Mon 23 Oct, London, Torriano Cafe 6.45pm - with Milan Dezinsky, Kathryn Gray and Jo Bratten Tues 24 Oct, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, 7pm - with Jake Morris-Campbell and Jennifer Lee Tsai Wed 25 Oct, Edinburgh, Saltire Society HQ, High St, 7pm - with Juana Adcock, Annie Brechin and Iain Matheson Thurs 26 Oct, Glasgow, Mirrorball, CCA, 7pm - with Jane McKie, Lady Red Ego, Georgi Gill and Rob A. Mackenzie

ALT Cover of 'The Wind and the Rain' by Anthony Wilson. Painting by Lucy Runge. A grey water jug and two bowls (one grey, one yellowish) sit on a shelf, lodged against a grey wall.

ALT Book cover image is from a painting by Lucy Runge. Grey background. Near the top, a brown band with the title and author name inside in white and blue respectively. Near the bottom, a grey shelf and a grey jug with two small bowls - one light blue, the other yellow.

ALT Launches of Carnation Lily Lily Rose by Jane McKie. Book cover is green with a pink/orange half oval at the bottom. Monday 15 May, 6pm, 50 George Square, with Ryan Van Winkle and Patrick Errington. Thursday 18 May, 7.30pm, Waverley Bar, St Mary's Street, with Patricia Ace, Tessa Berring and JL Williams.

ALT Front cover:Green background, semi-circle in orangey pink at the bottom. The title printed in large capitals top left, one word under the other. Author name in black, bottom left. Diode symbol bottom right. Back cover: the same background but the semi circle at the top. And two blurbs. Three fronts, three backs, arranged in rows.

ALT Cover of Kayakoy. Kayakoy is an abandoned Turkish village of multicolored houses, here painted from a stone rampart nearby.

ALT Batch of Blue Diode books: Kayakoy, The Mouth of Eulalie, The Calls, Poemes Ecossais, (Find Yourself) at Constant Falls, Folded Purse, the male and the female poet go to the surgery in exciting times, and Your Turn to Speak!

ALT Front cover. Painting of the author's face as a mask using red paint.

ALT Back cover: self-portrait drawing of the author with a red gag over her mouth, along with blurbs by Colin Herd and Xie Jinhao.

ALT Tessa Berring’s eagerly-awaited (by me at least) second collection Folded Purse (published last month on Blue Diode) does everything I most like poetry to do and expertly - stunning, stumbling line breaks, precisely occasional repetitions, and the emergent disassociation of feeling words as things, all wrapped up in a disturbed and discombobulated domesticity, which if playful and funny if not entirely ‘playtime’ or ‘fun’. It’s even better than Berring’s previous collection Bitten Hair, which is saying something. Experience, for example, the stop-you-in-your-tracks heartrend(er)ing perfection of ‘About a Word’: The heart- breaking hope of a word It breaks

ALT Green cover, with title at the top in blue and author's name immediately below in red. A poem is displayed decoratively in the middle.