Lawrence Sail
Lawrence Sail has been chairman of the Arvon Foundation and has directed the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. The recipient of a Cholmondeley Award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published several collections of poems, most recently Guises (Bloodaxe, 2020). In 2005 Enitharmon Press published a book of his essays, Cross-currents. He has edited a number of anthologies, including First and Always: Poems for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital (Faber, 1988) and, with Kevin Crossley-Holland, The New Exeter Book of Riddles (Enitharmon Press, 1999), Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems (Enitharmon Press, 2005) and The Heart’s Granary: Poetry and Prose from Fifty Year of Enitharmon Press (Enitharmon Press, 2017). Bloodaxe Books published Eye-Baby (2006) and Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems (2010); and in 2020 Impress Books published Sift: Memories of Childhood.
The Heart's Granary
The Heart's Granary marks the 50th anniversary of Enitharmon Press.
Compiled by Lawrence Sail, it is a personal selection from all Enitharmon's publications. It also conveys the Press's striking range and coherence – international in reach, while true to its Blakean vision. Including prose as well as poems, with more than 120 contributors, and with full colour illustrations by some of the many well-known artists who represent another facet of Enitharmon's achievements, the anthology creates new contexts for writers, translators and artists, from Nobel Prize winners to emerging talents. The Heart's Granary is memorable not only on its own account, but...
£30.00
Songs of the Darkness
Songs of the Darkness brings together a selection of poems for Christmas written over a period of more than thirty years. They are notable for their combination of a close focus and breadth, and for the way in which the seasonal is celebrated alongside the challenges of history and the beauty of the natural world. Trees, flowers, creatures and landscapes are set memorably in the context of the Christmas story and the calendar: and topographically the poems range from a Romanian convent to a Devon beach to an alpine cablecar.
£9.99