New Books (July 2008)
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THE AGATHOPOLIS COMANY intends to publishes poetry and plays.
First publication 2008:
Cat of the Inner Cities & Other Outer Hebridean Poems
These poems and illustrations were mostly inspired by the indomitable spirit of Father Allan McDonald (1859-1905) - priest, poet & scholar on South Uist & Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides - a year ahead of the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Paperback: 74 pages
The Poems: 38 poems, pp.3-50
The Illustrations: 12 illustrations including 3 in colour, pp. 53-64
The Afterword: Mapping Father Allan McDonald's Outer Hebrides, pp.67-74
Copyright: Jerry Nolan (Poems & Afterword) & Michael Felix Gilfedder (Illustrations)
ISBN: 978-0955843303
Copies available at 6.50 pounds sterling, including postage.
Further informtion from Jcmnolan[at]aol[d0t]com
Contact: Jerry Nolan, 8 Antrobus Road, Chiswick, London W4 5HY
www.jerrynolanwriter.com
Peter Hughes: Physical Geography. 24pp A5, colour cover. £4 inc UK postage.
ISBN: 978-1-905885-07-7
& while a spring
may seem delightfully
straightforward
bear in mind
springs slowly
eviscerate
their site & eat
backwards into bone
Ian Davidson: Familiarity Breeds. 20pp A5, colour cover. £4 inc UK postage.
ISBN: 978-1-905885-06-0
With the surface of the word unfolding new connections occur
Previously impossible to imagine from sites of special interest
Where the next body politic will come from throwing themselves
At the exhaust smothering the world in sound from their insane
Silencers and the baroque ornament of LED lights systems
And stick on spoilers. Silver track suits.
From Oystercatcher Press, 4 Coastguard Cottages, Lighthouse Close, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 6EL (cheques payable to Peter Hughes).
New Books (June 2008)
Companion chapbooks, Redell Olsen's Sharp Exhalations and Andrea Brady Poetry Lady are available at 3GBP each, including p & p (UK).
"If anyone does know what has been going on in the poetry scene in the last five years, could they write and tell us?"
(Angel Exhaust Number Eighteen, Spring 2005)
In October 2005, Andrea Brady and Redell Olsen shared a Crossing the Line performance at The Plough - the same night Don Paterson read at the London Review Bookshop. Companion chapbooks are partial answer to Angel Exhaust question.
from Home'Baked Books.
New Books (May 2008)
Peter Manson, Between Cup and Lip. A book of poems, prose and visuals made between 1990 and 2007. 81pp perfectbound, $15. ISBN 978-1-4243-3110-9.
Published by Miami University Press, Oxford, Ohio, USA.
Non-UK readers please order direct from the press or via Small Press Distribution in the US; UK readers should be able to buy a copy from various sellers on Amazon.co.uk and other online stores.
Morpheus Tales Magazine
From the creative minds behind Black Tears Magazine, Violent Spectres Magazine and Morpheus Press, comes a new magazine of horror, science fiction and fantasy. Morpheus Tales will be a quarterly digest-sized magazine featuring the highest quality fiction, artwork, and reviews of the latest books and films.
Morpheus Tales issue #1 will launch in July.
See www.myspace.com/morpheustales or www.morpheustales.com for details.
D.W. Wilson: Poems. 96 pages, original pbk. £9.00; Euro-zone: €13.50.
ISBN 978-0-907155-62-1. Publication date 20.05.2008.
from Tuba Press
Peter Riley: Best at Night Alone. 20pp A5, colour cover. £4 inc UK postage.
ISBN: 978-1-905885-05-3
"All our resources gone to
waste in the desert, these people are
wrecking the earth.
And nowhere but here in these
patient groves
will an eyelid be opened to the earth's curve
at dawn or fall of night.
No, I don't want a sandwich.
I don't want a valet case."
From Oystercatcher Press, 4 Coastguard Cottages, Lighthouse Close, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 6EL (cheques payable to Peter Hughes).
New Books (April 2008)
Alfred Nestor: The Only Way is UP. £9.99
ISBN 978-1-906439-25-5
R.A. Grant: Reach Me Down the Moon. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-906439-24-8
Nancy Childers: Smoky Mountain Musing. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-906439-23-1
from www.madjockpublishers.com
Written, a quarterly journal of fiction and verse based in Guernsey, is open to submissions of new work. Poems should be 40 lines or less, fiction under 1500 words. Email Adam Clayton, written.in[AT]gmail.com for more information.
Marianne Morris, Tutu Muse: Prophylactic Poetry for the Last Generation. £5 + 50p p&p in UK.
" Every day those fuckers BBQ. " Didn't mean to hurt you Snowy. I just it's I have a lot of psychological issues. I WOULD LIKE STYROFOAM NOODLE BOX. IT HURTS MY MOUTH TOO. Come throw your plastic Wilberforce Best Dog at my head. Sorry, it hurts me too. Please come. Bring your friends and it'll be like Gary Glitter back in the old days wishing he were Rod Stewart. I will prance about in your Dalston Megadeath Halberstam Trenchcoat. I will foam lovingly at the mouth about the Rabies you gave John William Electrodeath Megahouse when you TRIED to touch his ornate masterpiece. I will - etc. I'm really excited about the future. Can I stop now?
Look just forget I said anything.
from Fly By Night Press
Emily Critchley: Who handles one over the backlash.
A5, 16pp stapled colour cover. £4 including p&p.
"There in reversible relation
are more fields - consciousness permits. Grounds for ill-feeling,
due to closeness. The heroine of a book mirroring a complex
(disconcerting)! You're due certain erasures,
and for courage read luck."
Kelvin Corcoran: What Hit Them.
A5, 16pp. £4 including p&p.
"Whispered in schools, sung from towers
at dawn by rote in the blood,
repeated in the houses of power,
dog barking sanctimonious cant."
from Oystercatcher Press, 4 Coastguard Cottages, Lighthouse Close, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 6EL. (cheques payable to Peter Hughes).
New Books (March 2008)
Tony Boullemier: Leonie and the last Napoleon. £12.95.
ISBN 1-4251-1338-9
from www.leonieandthelastnapoleon.com
Skald 26 is now available. This issue features Francophone poetry from Quebec in translation and is guest edited by Erín Moure and Oana Avasilichioaei. Poets featured: Geneviève Desrosiers, Martine Audet, Xandaire Sélène, Jean-Marc Desgent, Nicole Brossard, Renée Gagnon, Louise Cotnoir and Steve Savage. Translations by Oana Avasilichioaei, Robert Majzels and Erín Moure.
To subscribe for two issues, please send a cheque for £4/€8/$10, payable to Skald, to 6 Hill St, Menai Bridge, Anglesey LL59 5AG. Halve this for a single issue.
Please note that for future issues the address will change to Skald, School of English, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG.
Kenneth Wade PhD: Its Your Money. £9.99
ISBN 978-1-906439-21-7
Dr Karen Stevens PhD: Serious & Satirical. £12.99
ISBN 978-1-906439-20-0
from www.madjockpublishers.com
Issue one of if p then q magazine (Spring 2008) featuring poetry by Ceri Buck, Tom Jenks, Andrew Shelley and Tony Trehy. Review of p. inman's 4 or 5. CD = Tom Jenks / Ceri Buck (readings)
£4/$5 envelope, paper, cd, pen
Anamaría Crowe Serrano: Femispheres. £8.95
ISBN 9781905700592
Mai Cheng: Selected Poems. £9.95
ISBN 9781905700882
Lisa Samuels: The Invention of Culture. £8.95
ISBN 9781905700851
Tony Frazer (ed): Spanish Poetry of the Golden Age, in contemporary English translations. £9.95
ISBN 9781905700691
Kelvin Corcoran: Backward Turning Sea. £8.95
ISBN 9781905700684
John Welch: Dreaming Arrival. £11.95
ISBN 9781905700561
from Shearsman
Herbert Williams: The Marionettes. A novella. £7 inc p&p
'...a good measure of sexual excitement, emotional damage, contempt, self-loathing and despair… It is contemporary, has psychological depth, is convincing, and entertaining' -- Meic Stephens
from Cinnamon Press
New Books (Feb 2008)
John Hope: The Project. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-906439-13-2
ISBN 978-1-906439-18-7
from www.madjockpublishers.com
Iain Britton: Hauled Headfirst into a Leviathan. 64pp, £7.99
ISBN 978-1-905614-42-4
This long awaited first collection from one of New Zealand’s finest writers reveals Iain Britton as a poet with a remarkable and distinctive voice.
Catherine M Brennan: Beneath the Deluge. 64pp, £7.99
ISBN 978-1-905614-54-7
'Beneath the Deluge' is a deliciously sensuous first collection, exploring the nature, both physical and metaphorical, of earth and water, drought and flood -- Catherine Smith.
from Cinnamon Press
New Books (Jan 2008)
Jonty Tiplady, At the School of Metaphysics. £4 + £1 p&p in UK.
Nubile, pop and utterly classic-al, this first collection of poems makes Big Bird in Catanou look like George Formby in Albania look like Rimbaud in Abysinnia.
from Fly By Night Press
Bob Beagrie: Yoik. 80pp, £7.99
ISBN 978-1-905614-40-0
Beagrie's handling of different forms and registers, his sheer variety of approach, is stunning --
David Woolley.
from Cinnamon Press
John Hall: The Week's Bad Groan
A5, 20 pp stapled. Cover artwork in colour. £4 including p&p (cheques payable to Peter Hughes).
from Oystercatcher Press, 4 Coastguard Cottages, Lighthouse Close, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk PE36 6EL.
Rols Sperling: The Baggy Trousered Philanderer. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-906439-15-6
Carl Harris: Memories of you and other poems. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-906439-16-3
Jean Marie Feddercke: The Shaman's Drum. £7.99
ISBN 978-1-906439-14-9
from www.madjockpublishers.com
Elisabeth Bletsoe: Landscape From a Dream. £8.95
ISBN-13 9781905700875; ISBN-10 1905700873
Peter Robinson: The Look of Goodbye £9.95
ISBN-13 9781905700455; ISBN-10 1905700458
Jennifer Clement: New and Selected Poems £8.95
ISBN-13 9781905700462; ISBN-10 1905700466
Jill Magi: Torchwood £8.95
ISBN-13 9781905700547; ISBN-10 1905700547
Jennifer Firestone: Holiday £8.95
ISBN-13 9781905700530; ISBN-10 1905700539
from Shearsman
New Books (Sep 2007)
Sarah Riggs CHAIN OF MINUSCULE DECISIONS IN THE FORM OF A FEELING £7.50
"... the dance is an ancient one, of identity and difference, revelation and concealment" Michael Palmer
Carol Watts WRACK £7.50
"...women's experience as still largely unrecorded, erased from the logs of culture." Caroline Bergvall
from Reality Street
Scott Thurston (ed) THE SALT COMPANION TO GERALDINE MONK £11.99 (introductory offer)
essays by Sean Bonney, Elizabeth James, Harriet Tarlo et al.
Will Rowe (ed) THE SALT COMPANION TO BILL GRIFFITHS £11.99 (introductory offer)
essays by Clive Bush, Paula Claire, Robert Hampson et al.
from SALT PUBLISHING
Paul Lester HITTING WHERE IT HURTS £1.75
twelve pages of poems and songs
from Protean Publications, 4 Milton Road, Bentley Heath, West Midlands B93 8AA
Scott Thurston INTERNAL RHYME £1
one of a poetry series published in an actual matchbox!
Craig Dworkin COPYS £1
one of a poetry series published in an actual matchbox!
Minimum order £3 so look at other matchboxes on www.matchbox.org.uk
ed. Anthony Mellors FRAGMENTE issue 9 £5 postfree to UK
Iain Sinclair, Peter Riley, Geraldine Monk, John Welch et al.
Cheques to Anthony Mellors, 31 Dale Close, Oxford OX1 1TU
Zoe Skoulding & Ian Davidson DARK WIRES. 20pp. ISBN 978-1-904052-20-3. £3.50
Poems written collaboratively over a two-year period by email
Geraldine Monk & David Annwn IT MEANS NOTHING TO ME. 36pp. ISBN 978-1-904052-21-0. £4.50
Words unaccountably mutate in the cyberspace of South and West Yorkshire.
Christine Kennedy NINETEEN NIGHTS IN SAN FRANCISCO. 32pp. ISBN 978-1-904052-22-7. Copublished with Cherry On The Top Press. £4.50
A text-graphic sequence - an itinerary of imaginary spaces, a fantasy travelogue of one who has never seen America.
Post-free in the UK from West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN; email alan@nethedge.demon.co.uk; web www.westhousebooks.co.uk.
Buy all 3 pamphlets at discount price of 10 inclusive!
Maggie O'Sullivan BODY OF WORK £15 plus £3 p&p (UK/Europe), £6 p&p (elsewhere)
including her radically beautiful series of bookworks and pamphlets to 1993
Ken Edwards NO PUBLIC LANGUAGE: SELECTED POEMS 1975-1995 £10.95
from Shearsman
Gael Turnbull THERE ARE WORDS: COLLECTED POEMS £18.95 pbk
isbn 0-907562-89-2; 496pp, 9x6ins.
"Gael Turnbull (1928-2004) was born in Edinburgh, but grew up in
Jarrow and in Blackpool, before emigrating to Winnipeg at the
outbreak of the war with his father and mother, respectively a
Scottish Baptist Minister and an American of Swedish descent. He
returned to England in 1944 to complete his schooling and then to
study Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. After rejoining his
family in North America, he studied for an MD at the University of
Pennsylvania and then, in 1952, became a GP and anaesthetist at
Iroquois Falls Hospital in northern Ontario as well as providing
medical assistance at logging camps in the area. There followed a
short stay in London (1955-56), and a position as anaethetist at
Ronkswood Hospital in Worcester until 1958, followed by a similar
position at the Ventura County hospital in California. He returned to
Worcester in 1964, to avoid the possibility of being sent to Vietnam
as a medical orderly. He was to work as a general practitioner and
anaesthetist until his retirement in 1989, whereupon he returned to
live in Edinburgh.
"An independent figure, he was central to the early transatlantic
poetic contacts which were to have a transforming effect on many
poets in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Frequently collected and
anthologised, his own poetry was deeply personal and owed little to
any particular school, although it is fair to say that his admiration
for the work of William Carlos Williams, another poet-doctor, never
left him and was an early driving force behind the discovery, and the
maturing, of his own poetic voice."
from Shearsman Books
Peter Finch THE WELSH POEMS £9.95 pbk
or 'Selected Experimental Poems'