Publishers

nick-e melville – selections and dissections

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The first release of the year from the book publishing arm of Otoliths is a collection from Scottish concrete & visual poet, nick-e melville.

What nick-e melville creates within selections and dissections is text as experience, presenting us with different ways to look at visual language, different ways to understand the ubiquitous textscapes of daily living. The pages of this book are filled with games, but games of the most serious kind, games about the act of being sentient textual beings. Melville, a textual imagineer, examines the spaces between letters, the negative spaces between lines of text, and even the halftone atoms of printing, always looking for the surprise in the printed text. To read this book is to experience these acts of textual imagination as cinema, as vibrant and moving sequences of thought. — Geof Huth

Check out a sample here and the Otoliths project – a magazine as well as a publisher – here.

Penned in the Margins

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“Independent poetry press Penned in the Margins is now open to submission of manuscripts. Our authors include David Caddy, James Wilkes, Sarah Hesketh and George Ttoouli. This year we published the anthology City State: New London Poetry, featuring new work by Chris McCabe, Heather Phillipson, Steve Willey, Ahren Warner and many more. Our individual collections have been Highly Commended by the Forward Prize, featured on Newsnight and reviewed in Poetry London, Poetry Salzburg Review and Mslexia.”

More here.

Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80)

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Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) will be published in January by Reality Street.

This is the first time this great, innovative poet’s work has been properly collected. The poetry included here was originally written and published in the 1960s and 70s, and immediately predates the work included in The Mud Fort. It includes the complete “Cycles”, War W/ Windsor”, “A History of the Solar System” and other sequences, as well as a multitude of other poems and and sets of poems, previously published in fugitive editions or not at all, presented in roughly chronological order. The volume is rounded off with Alan Halsey’s meticulous endnotes, detailing the original publishing history and variant texts.

You can obtain this book by:

  • becoming a REALITY STREET SUPPORTER in 2010 – you will receive it as part of a package which also includes books by Fanny Howe, Richard Makin and Jim Goar.
  • ordering it at the pre-publication price of £17.50 post free (after January it will be £18 + p&p).

    • You can also pre-order it at http://www.amazon.co.uk at £18 post free.

    Bill Griffiths: Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80)
    Edited & introduced by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards
    368pp
    ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
    29 January 2010

    Maggie O’Sullivan – ALTO

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    You need this in your life:

    “Maggie O’Sullivan’s new book presents work from the 1970s & ’80s: these powerfully constructed poems offer a place from which it becomes possible to exercise vital thought … rather than just to suffer life; to ride in sound and syntax the sinewy entanglement of material existence.


    This publication, and all other Veer Books, will be available at the Small Publishers Fair 2009, as well as at various upcoming CPRC Birkbeck events, or by post directly from Veer. Contact Veer Books at veerbooks[at]gmail[dot]com for more information.
    ISBN: 978-0-9558763-7-0
    £7.50”

    Via Openned. Watch Maggie’s reading for The Other Room in August 2008 here.

    Small Publishers’ Fair 2009

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    SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR 2009

    Friday/Saturday 13th/14th November, 11am to 7pm

    Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

    Poetry presses include Colin Sackett, Coracle, Essence, Leafe/Bamboo, Moschatel, Reality Street, Shearsman, Veer & West House.

    Exhibition of vintage NY mimeos curated by Les Coleman & John Janssen

    Saturday afternoon readings:

    1.30 Royal Holloway Poetic Practice: Sejal Chad, Becky Cremin, Ryan Ormonde, Karen Sandhu
    2.00 Shearsman Books: Linda Black & John Welch
    2.30 Kurt Johannesen: Everything & Nothing
    3.00 Les Coleman: Written, Drawn & Stapled (NY mimeos)
    3.30 Road Books: Judy Kravis
    4.00 Loose Teeth Press: Joey Comeau
    4.30 Reality Street: Wendy Mulford
    5.00 Light-Trap Press: Angela Gardner
    5.30 Veer Books & Torque Press: Will Rowe, Piers Hugill, Aodan McCardle, Tony Trehy, Antony John & Carol Watts
    Free admission to fair & readings

    Knives, Forks and Spoons – relaunched

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    Alec Newman has picked up the torch from Richard Barrett and is now managing Knives, Forks and Spoons press. His publication schedule is as follows:

    October 2009:

    ‘Earthworks’, poetry by Alec Newman and illustrations by Stacey Dunkinson. £5.00.
    ‘Londonstone’, a long poem by Alex Davies. £3.50.
    ‘Little Machines’, poetry by Simon Rennie. £5.00.
    ‘Captured Yes’, poetry by Steven Walling. Price to be confirmed.

    Later in 2009:

    ‘North’, poetry by Matt Dalby, and graphic interpretations of sound waves by Stacey Dunkinson.
    A collection of poetry by Scott Thurston.
    Another one by Antony Rowland.
    And a collection of art prints by Stacey Dunkinson.

    More here.

    if p then q calls for manuscripts

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    Duck-Rabbit_illusion1The imminent issue of if p then q magazine issue 4 will be the last so that I can concentrate on doing more full length collections. I am therefore encouraging more manuscripts to be sent. Please see the lowdown at www.ifpthenq.co.uk or more specifically at http://www.ifpthenq.co.uk/contact.html for what the house style is. Replies will be reasonably quick although there is no definite time proposed.

    At the moment I only publish around two/three collections a year; so please bear that in mind but I’d love to see stuff.

     James

    Ray DiPalma – The Ancient Use of Stone

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    Nick Piombino reviews…

    While contemporary poets and critics opine and debate about whether or not originality is still possible, contemporary poet Ray DiPalma has been quietly at work on a project for 10 years that demonstrates that not only is creativity and originality by poets alive and well, but Otis Books/Seismicity Editions has presented The Ancient Use of Stone, DiPalma’s superb new book, subtitled Journals and Daybooks 1998-2008, in a form that defies comparison with any other book of new writing for sheer visual and typographical beauty.

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    Matchbox Digital Archive at The Poetry Library

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    For me the whole thing was about how to get good poetry read by people who don’t usually read good poetry, create excitement, be cheap to produce and sell; and yet not be some folded A4 paper. There were about 150 or so of each issue – all sold out now. The limited number of copies made was due completely down to the fact that I was getting sores on my fingers from cutting and folding not due to exclusivity so it’s wonderful that Dean Farrow, Chris McCabe et al have archived the editions for anyone who’s not read the poems or seen what the boxes looked like. So far the first 6 are up with the final six to come.

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