Letters Against the Firmament is a user’s report on the end of the world, a treatise against Tory terror, a proposal for a new zodiac, a defence of poetry, a hex against the devourers of planet earth. The Letters are fierce epistolary poems, a vivid account of the sheer panic and brutality of the Austerity years. They are apocalyptic screeds of black humour hammered out in an obscure corner of east London, fearful attempts to ward off the attentions of gentrifiers, bailiffs, border agents and racists. In this collection in four parts they are joined by lean versions of already well-known...

In this beautifully conceived artist’s book, the paintings and drawings of Glenn Brown referencing the meteoric career of Ian Curtis and Joy Division are brought together with specially written texts by the novelist Michael Bracewell and the poet Lavinia Greenlaw. Both writers are perfectly attuned not only to the haunting music of Joy Division but also to Brown's artwork. The book begins with Bracewell’s essay, which describes the iconic musical intensity and profound romanticism of Joy Division. His essay is entitled ‘Licht and Blindheit’ from the last Joy Division record to be released during Curtis’s lifetime. Greenlaw’s poetry reflects on the impact of...

Pigeons with Pelican is from a set of nine prints published in 1994 by the Byam Shaw School of Art to raise funds for scholarships and bursaries. The artists each contributed an image depicting one of the birds of London. The purpose was not to produce an ornithological record but to provide a unifying theme through which the individual temperaments and styles of this group of distinguished artists (among them Craigie Aitchison, Patrick Caulfield, Prunella Clough and Paula Rego) could be expressed. Jeffery Camp RA, a Senior Academician who in his work and writings championed the art of drawing, presents...

Shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize for best first collection The Arctic has long been a place of encounters, and Disko Bay is a meeting point for whalers and missionaries, scientists and shamans. These poems relate the struggle for existence in the harsh polar environment, and address tensions between modern life and traditional ways of subsistence. As the environment begins to change, hunters grow hungry and their languages are lost. The final sequence, Jutland, moves the reader to the northern fringes of Europe, where shifting waterlines bear witness to the disappearing arctic ice.   Nakuarsuuvoq / The night hunter I am a poet. I am...

Description: Drawing of a butterfly and tile featuring St Jude from a 16th century ceramic stove from the Museum of London Collection. Medium: Coloured pencil on paper Image Size: 30.5cm x 22.9cm Frame Size: 40cm x 30cm

Description: Portland vase with roses Medium: Coloured pencil on paper Image Size: 30.5cm x 22.9cm Frame Size: 40cm x 30cm

Description: 6th Century BC Greek jug with flowers Medium: Coloured pencil on paper Image Size: 30.5cm x 22.9cm Frame Size: 40cm x 30cm

Work From All Major Volumes Selections range from Clemo's The Clay Verge in 1951 to 1995’s The Cured Arno. Landscape poems full of pain give way to monologues, biographical sketches, broader themes and looser forms. The settings of white tips, flooded pits and the grinding works of the industrial-rural clayscape are replaced by the rivers and bridges of Florence and Venice and the coastal ease of Dorset. However, as Rowan Williams states in his introduction, ‘mellow is not the word’ for this transformation.  

Alan Clodd and the Enitharmon Press is a bibliography of works published under Clodd's Directorship.   Clodd was a bibliophile in the purest sense of the word. His personal collection was vast, and above all, his dedication to publishing high quality poetry books was second to none.

The poetry of Frances Cornford (1886–1960) was admired in her lifetime for its simple and direct language, its memorable images, and its perceptive observations. Her Collected Poems (1954) was the Choice of the Poetry Book Society and in 1959 she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. This reissued selection brings the finest of her poetry to a new generation of readers. This selection is introduced by Dr Jane Dowson, Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at De Montfort University, whose publications include The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women’s Poetry (CUP, 2011). It includes a memoir written by Dr...

Drawing Sir Michael Craig-Martin began making line drawings of ordinary objects in 1978, and has continued to add to this vocabulary of images to the present day. All are of man-made objects, mostly mass-produced, immediately familiar in the contemporary world. They have been at the core of most of his work since 1978. Unlike a drawing produced on paper they do not exist as unique images. As the artist explains: "In the early days I drew each object in pencil on paper and traced it in fine tape on acetate. I then destroyed the pencil drawings. Since the mid-’90s I have drawn directly on a...

The Breaking Hour is a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. The Breaking Hour invokes Orpheus and Atargatis, Pierre de Ronsard and Beethoven, and moving from Hades to a hellish warzone, the high Alps and Crossley-Holland's own beloved north Norfolk.

This is a book of meetings. A mother meets her baby. A man steps into his childhood. An old man encounters Godfather Death. And in the persona of Harald Hardrada, a passionate man wrestles with his fantasies, and north meets south. The Breaking Hour invokes Orpheus and Atargatis, Pierre de Ronsard and Beethoven, and moving from Hades to a hellish warzone, the high Alps and Crossley-Holland's own beloved north Norfolk.   Special signed editions are too valuable to send out via regular postage channels. We therefore use a courier to send them to you. We hope that you can appreciate why there will be...

The Exeter Book Riddles The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century Exeter Book are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. This volume contains Crossley-Holland’s translations of seventy-five fascinating and discursive riddles, while a further sixteen are also translated in the notes. These translations are widely anthologised in Britain and the USA. Sir Arthur Bliss and William Mathias set some of them to music. In addition, Ralph Steadman has illustrated them and Michael Fairfax has incorporated them in his Riddle Sculpture. They are full of sharp observation, earthy humour and above all - a sense of wonder.  

Light Unlocked consists of poems sent by their authors, many of them well-known contemporary writers, as Christmas cards. It begins with Advent and ends with songs at the year's turning and Epiphany. While a good number of the poems attend to the nativity, others also encompass the natural world, weather and the time passing. Hardbound and filled with festive engravings by John Lawrence Light Unlocked is, above all, a celebration of festivity. It is therefore a fantastic choice for a Christmas gift. Edited by Lawrence Sail & Kevin Crossley-Holland. 'This is one of the most delightful anthologies to be published in years. It's beautifully illustrated...

These 81 brief poems from the 5th century BCE make up a foundational text in world culture. In elegant, simple yet elusive language, the Daodejing develops its vision of humankind’s place in the world in personal, moral, social, political and cosmic terms. Martyn Crucefix’s superb new versions in English reflect – for the very first time – the radical fluidity of the original Chinese texts as well as placing the mysterious ‘dark’ feminine power at their heart. Laozi, the putative author, is said to have despaired of the world’s venality and corruption, but he was persuaded to leave the Daodejing poems...

Deceptively relaxed in tone, these verse letters – sometime serious, sometimes whimsical – are addressed to people who, for various reasons, have been of importance in Neil Curry’s life. Ranging from Angela Carter to the Venerable Bede and from Odysseus to Gilbert White’s tortoise, they cover topics as diverse as smallpox and the paintings of Vermeer, landscape gardening, the King James Bible and Eddie Stobart’s lorries on the M6. There has not been a collection of verse letters of this nature since the Epistles of the Roman poet Horace and, fittingly, it is to Horace that the final letter is...

David Jones in the Great War The great modernist artist and poet David Jones grew up in Brockley, London. He finished art school in the summer of 1913, ready to pursue a career as an artist. But then Britain declared war on Germany, and Jones joined the army. He was sent to France in 1915, serving in the same regiment as Robert Graves; unlike him, however, he was a private, a rank he kept throughout the war. Now, thanks to Thomas Dilworth's painstaking research, including scores of personal interviews, Jones's story can be told in detail. Accompanying the text are photographs of...

Jim Dine’s vivid, candid and detailed reminiscences about his friendship and working relationship with Aldo Crommelynck (1931-2008), the legendary printer of Matisse and Picasso, over a period of more than 30 years are full of affection, humour and layer upon layer of information. In conversations with Marco Livingstone, Dine charts the extent to which his experience of working with Aldo, a man who was not only a great printer but also a skilled draughtsman, enriched his experience of France on every level. From an appreciation of its art and culture, its city life and countryside, to its food and its specialist shops, Dine’s ruminations also...

This etching, from Jim Dine's Eight Little Nude series of 1982, was published by Pace Editions, New York, in an edition of 30 signed, numbered and dated by the artist. It is a softground etching with drypoint and aquatint in colours, printed on BFK Rives. Dine’s reputation as one of the preeminent American printmakers of the post-war period was established in the early 1960s and he has produced an astonishing body of graphic work up to the present day, often working with master printmakers such as Ken Tyler in Los Angeles and New York, Kurt Zein in Vienna and particularly the...

With 17 original etchings by Jim Dine, Kali is among the most ambitious books yet published by Enitharmon. Dine, one of the greatest living printmakers, admired particularly for his innovative etchings and woodcuts, has revitalised European traditions stretching back to antiquity since he returned to drawing the figure from life in the 1970s. Kali was conceived during an intensive period of printmaking and writing in the summer of 1998. The bound and slipcased book contains a sequence of new poems by Dine and 16 original etchings covering a wide range of his best-known current motifs and some images introduced here for the first...

Out of series, finely bound and slipcased in blue cloth, comprising 17 original etchings with aquatint on wove paper, bound into the volume. No loose print.   A special book of 14 poems by Dine, set alongside his original etchings. One copy remaining.  

Derelict Air Included are more than 400 pages of previously uncollected poetry, from Dorn’s first Beat poems in 1952 to translations of native texts from the Mayans and Aztecs. The transatlantic roots of Dorn’s anti-capitalism are fully visible. Robert Creeley wrote that “No poet has been more painfully, movingly, political”. Any reader interested in post-War American modernism must have Edward Dorn’s poetry, complete with scholarly endnotes, manuscript facsimiles, and a cover by the painter Raymond Obermayr.   THE SCREWBALL There’s my guy on patrol, janglin keys, chains rings upon all his fingers studs scattered like imps Bellbottoms (Feb. 1996) He’s not pierced yet...

Print: 7 Colour Screenprint on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm Paper, 45x45cm Poem: 2 Colour Screenprint on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm Paper, 45x45cm Stanley Donwood has partnered with life long collaborator Thom Yorke, also known by his pseudonym Tchock, for the Print and the Poem; an annual project co-published by Jealous and Enitharmon Editions, first initiated in 2015 and released as part of London Original Print Fair. Target Land  is a seven colour screenprint, beautifully presented in a bespoke gatefold 45 x 45cm record sleeve, with debossed text on both the front and back. The print is accompanied by a screenprinted poem, also...