Red Ceilings Press publishes contemporary poetry in the form of limited edition chapbooks and free ebooks. Submissions are now open. More here.
Mark Cobley
Tim Allen – A New Geography of Romanticism
“There is another England, a country not of Cameron, Farage and the house of Windsor, but of Lear and Carroll, Gasgoyne and Blake, a deeper, darker, stranger place. It is of this nation underground that Tim Allen is the cartographer. A New Geography of Romanticism stakes out this shadowy turf with prismatic, kaleidoscopic brilliance. Reading this book on another rainy afternoon in Albion is a beautifully startling experience, like finding a giant hailstone in the fireplace or a peacock perched on the sideboard. These poems are the potions of the maddest of scientists, a gift of sherbet lemons from the gods.” Tom Jenks.
Out now on The Red Ceilings Press.
New from The Red Ceilings
New from The Red Ceilings
Crabtree
Crabtree lived here and his father before him,
but neither of them built the pyramid.
40 poem chapbook by Tom Jenks, out now on The Red Ceilings.
Two new Red Ceilings
Heiligenschein : Petrarch Sonnets 160 – 180
Endless / Nameless ~ Rachel Sills & Richard Barrett
The gingerbread silhouette of my father
Is absent today I’m perspiring
Or you could say shimmering over a coastline
In a row pegged-out, colour coded
Three weeks’ worth of hearts
A Freudian couch with sponge cake perhaps?
An arrow, a narrowboat, arrowroot blot
A stair-lift stops, temperamentally
I decline to use the honesty box
But am generous for life-guards
On a good day, only on a good day
A magazine before dinner before, later, the paper
The evening smell of tobacco
‘Papa?’ I hear; to which I answer ‘yes, Nicole?’
More at The Red Ceilings.
The Grimace, David Berridge
Great writer, great press, out now.
Ollie Evans – The Chomedy
New e-book from Mark Cobley’s The Red Ceilings Press.
Eye Jar by Stephen Nelson
New e-book from The Red Ceilings press.
Cinderella City
Out now on Mark Cobley’s The Red Ceilings, a new ebook by JD Nelson.
Andrew Seems Popular by Mark Cobley reviewed at 3am
Although many of the lines in ‘Andrew Seems Popular’ have the feeling of being sourced from a primer, there are many lines which seem improbable: ‘That manager envied him his good fortune’. The idiom of this sentence works but not the subject, ‘manager’; when have we ever talked in this way? Another example is ‘The gardeners walked quickly’, as if two people were trying to catch a train who just happened to be gardeners. In many lines Cobley is attempting ‘bad’ poetry and doing it very successfully.
A review by James Davies of the excellent Andrew Seems Popular is available to read at the 3AM website.
Dash Booked a Builder by Ollie Evans
Out now from Red Ceilings Press. Ollie Evans is a poet and performer from London. He has been making experimental ventriloquist theatre as a soloist and with his group, Dummy Company, since 2008. His first booklet, Stutter Studies (2011) was published by Department Press. He has had poetry printed in the International Egg & Poultry Review (2011), Depart (2012) and Anything Anymore Anywhere (2012). A book of poems after Dante, The Comedy, is due out through Holdfire Press in October 2012. He is also studying for a PhD on ‘Performance and Finnegans Wake’ at Birkbeck College.
New ebook from The Red Ceilings
Circle/Line, Alexander Allison.
The Red Ceilings has also announced that at is now open to submissions again.
#wave1 by Gareth Durasow
ebook A5 28pp – free, out now on The Red Ceilings Press.
A Soft That Touches Down & Removes Itself
By David Tomaloff, a limited edition chapbook from The Red Ceilings Press.
the little shed of various lamps
Published towards the end of 2011 by Mark Cobley’s The Red Ceilings Press, Nikolai Duffy’s chapbook the little shed of various lamps will be launched at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester on 19th January at 6 o’ clock PM. Also reading are Jeremy Over and Ian Seed.
Gnomes
Chris McCabe and Tom Jenks. Limited edition chapbook [rcp cb15] A6 36pp 40 copies. 3.50 inc. p&p (UK). Out now on Red Ceilings.
PLUS-QUE-PARFAIT
Plus-Que-Parfait is an evolving, open-ended text created by Emily Howard, Mark Cobley & Simon Howard. New edition online now.
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