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Signed, limited edition chapbook. Each copy is uniquely bound in handmade marbled wrappers by Jemma Lewis. The text paper, provided by Graham Williams of the Florin Press, is 120gsm Basingwerk Suede. "When my editor at Hutchinson asked me to prepare a Collected Poems I hesitated. To agree to do so seemed to signify an irrevocable ending to my poetry-making, a final dirge-like act. Yet rare is the author who can resist an opportunity to see his cherished works in print. So the book appeared in 2003. But the whistle had been blown only faintly and the Muse did not go home. In...

This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: 'Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, oppressive, liberating, crowded, lonely, addictive, and green-and-gardened, London is a microcosm of the World.' These words, from Anna Adams' Foreword, give a taste of the breadth of subject-matter and tone to be enjoyed in this magnificent illustrated anthology. Writing from the Middle Ages to the present is divided into themes including 'The Weather in the Streets', 'The Poor and the Rich', 'The Countryman in Town', 'The Recent Wars' and - unavoidably - 'London Transport'. Writers include: Anna Adams, W.H.Auden, William...

I Have Found a Song is a fascinating collection of poems and images published to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. It originated in a commission from Arts Council England for 12 poets to write on the theme of enslavement, which has resulted in a richly diverse selection of new poems. Interspersed with these are elaborate and exciting visual contributions by five artists invited by Enitharmon Editions to produce work on the same theme. The de luxe edition of the book is accompanied by a portfolio of signed original prints, and each artist has also...

This book gathers together three important poems by Simon Armitage written for film or radio. Out of the Blue is an award-winning poem-film created after the attacks on the twin towers, told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre. With a title from a Churchill speech ‘We May Allow Ourselves a Brief Period of Rejoicing’,  Rejoicing is a Channel 5 commission broadcast on the 60th anniversary of VE Day. Additionally, ‘Cambodia’ comes from the radio drama The Violence of Silence set 30 years after the Khmer Rouge.

Stanza Stones The Stanza Stones Trail runs through the Pennine region, containing some of the most striking landscapes in England. Simon Armitage composed six new poems on his Pennine walks. With the help of local expert Tom Lonsdale and letter-carver Pip Hall, he found extraordinary, secluded sites, and saw his words carved into stone. This book is a record of that journey, containing the poems and the accounts of Lonsdale and Hall. Covered in decades of soot and grime, the colours released by the carvings may never return to shades of black. Hence, they become a small reminder of the changes that...

Still is a sequence of poems in response to panoramic photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme. Chosen from archives at Imperial War Museum, these astonishingly clear photographic images are ahead of their time. Still was published on the centenary of the battle, which is considered to be one of the bloodiest in British military history. Consequently, Armitage's thirty poems are versions of the infamously tense Georgics by the Roman poet Virgil. The contemporary words meld with the visual devastations of war to haunting effect. Designed by Praline Design Studio and published by Enitharmon Press and the Imperial War Museums, Still is an...

The 2023 the Print and the Poem series with Jealous Gallery is Mammoth Lies Charming Baker's 9 colour screen-print on Somerset Tub sized 410gsm paper.  The print is accompanied by Robert Frost's The Secret Sits (1942) hand typed on Cartridge 95gsm paper.

This edition is a limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. A man searching for peace returns to the sea, because of many childhood summers spent by the ocean. John Banville’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sea, was adapted into a film starring Natascha McElhone in 2013. Banville crafted the screenplay, exclusively published in this limited edition. Introduced by the author, this screenplay reveals new sides to the work, including extensive screen directions. Each copy is specially printed, hand-bound and slipcased and has been signed by John Banville. John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945, and now lives in Dublin. He is...

A man searching for peace returns to the sea, because of many childhood summers spent by the ocean. John Banville’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sea, was adapted into a film starring Natascha McElhone in 2013. Banville crafted the screenplay, exclusively published in this limited edition. Introduced by the author, this screenplay reveals new sides to the work, including extensive screen directions. Each copy is specially printed, hand-bound and slipcased and has been signed by John Banville. John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945, and now lives in Dublin. He is the author of nineteen novels including The Sea. He was...

Sebastian Barker’s final collection weaves a rich tapestry from the powerful themes that have always been central human questions: how we make our journey through life, how we love those around us, what the nature of belief and of our own mortality is. In the opening sequence, Barker contrasts life’s ecstasies with the certainty of loss; in The Land of Gold he travels through the blazing spiritual landscapes of South-West France; while in ‘The Tablets of the Bread’ he faces the temptations of despair head on. All these themes then receive a masterly summation in ‘A Monastery of Light’, where...

The novel follows Jack McNulty during his commission in WWII, a position that renders him a temporary gentleman. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. McNulty's experience of a torpedo attack opens the story on the Mediterranean. We are told in Barry's introduction that it was his grandfather's true experience which inspired this incredible story. Excerpt from the text: 'So for a moment of odd calm I stood there, one leg...

The novel follows Jack McNulty during his commission in WWII, a position that renders him a temporary gentleman. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. McNulty's experience of a torpedo attack opens the story on the Mediterranean. We are told in Barry's introduction, that it was his grandfather's true experience which inspired this incredible story. Excerpt from the text: 'So for a moment of odd calm I stood there, one leg...

At the Yeoman's House When in 1947 the young writer Ronald Blythe first visited Bottengoms Farm on the Essex-Suffolk border, the ancient house of the artists John and Christine Nash, he could not have guessed that this would in time become his own home and the centre of his writing life. From his current perspective, Blythe looks back with affection to the friendships with artists, writers, farmers, gardeners and neighbours that were to enrich his life. At the Yeoman’s House is not merely a spellbinding fragment of autobiography, but also a fascinating picture of the history, topography, botany and folk-lore of...

The first collection of poetry by the novelist and writer on the countryside Ronald Blythe. He is also author of Akenfield and At the Yeoman's House. Each copy is uniquely bound in handmade marbled wrappers by Jemma Lewis. The text paper, provided by Graham Williams of the Florin Press, is 120gsm Basingwerk Suede.   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 an appropriate shipping charge to accommodate this.

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...

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...

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.