First past the post on Grand National day is The Gift by Alban Low & Threshold Festival in the Official UK Chapbook Chart. New entries this week include the aforementioned The Gift and at No. 5 Love. Letters. by Tracy Elizabeth Plath, Alicia Sophia Martin & Some Poets. It is not the first visit to the chart from Plath, Martin and Some Poets, who appeared in the Top Ten from Weeks 3-5 (2016) with Wicked Words. Sampson Low Ltd remain the top publisher with 7 entries in the top ten.
1 (-) The Gift: Intuitive Gambling as an Artform – Alban Low & Threshold Festival (Sampson Low Ltd 12 Mar. 2016)
2 (3) Inger’s Forest – Eskild Beck (Sampson Low Ltd, 15 Feb 2015)
3 (1) Ballad of Reading Gaol – Oscar Wilde (Pluto Press, 29 Jun 1978)
4 (5) Hard Rain – Tony Hoagland (Hollyridge Press, 20 Oct. 2005)
5 (-) Love. Letters. – Tracy Elizabeth Plath, Alicia Sophia Martin & Some Poets (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 7 Mar. 2016)
6 (2) The Scotch Egg Diet – David Bushell (Sampson Low Ltd, 26 Feb 2015)
7 (7) Monet Monet Monet – Wayne Sleeth (Sampson Low Ltd, 15 Feb 2016)
8 (8) Murmurations – Stella Tripp (Sampson Low Ltd, 21 Dec 2015)
9 (9) Vertical Prose – Peter S Smith (Sampson Low Ltd, 11 Jan 2016)
10 (10) Over The Skin – Carole Bulewski (Sampson Low Ltd, 17 Nov 2015)