In 2009, 21-year-old poet Jamie McGarry met 78-year-old poet Nigel Gerrans. Nigel had been writing poetry for 70 years, but had rarely shared the results with anyone except a few close friends. Jamie had been producing books and booklets since he was 6, and had put the words 'Valley Press' on his most recent ones – but it wasn't until meeting Nigel that he realised publishing other people might be an interesting and rewarding pursuit.

Later that 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.

Seven years later, we've decided Tenebrae will 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 have just five copies left of Tenebrae, so if you'd like to purchase the book, this would be a good time to do so!