In 2008, 20-year-old Jamie McGarry met 77-year-old poet Nigel Gerrans. Nigel had been writing poetry for almost seven decades, but had rarely shared the results with anyone except a few close friends. Jamie had been producing books and booklets since he was six, but it wasn't until meeting Nigel that he realised publishing the writing of other people might be an interesting and rewarding pursuit.

The following year, Tenebrae was published, with 'Valley Press' written on the back cover, and the rest is history. Thought-provoking and painstakingly-crafted, Nigel's eclectic spiritual poems found hundreds of readers across the world, and set Valley Press on the road to becoming what it is today.

A decade later, we decided Tenebrae would not be reprinted again, as almost all its poems appear in the newer volume It Is I Who Speak: Selected Poems, published July 2015. (One of the non-selected Tenebrae poems appears in our 2014 anthology A Pocketful of Windows.) We are keeping this page up for posterity – thanks for scrolling down this far, and for your support!