Three New Pamphlets from Rack Press

 We are very pleased to announce three new poetry pamphlets from Rack Press. They are released on 1 October but you can pre-order now here.

Crocodile 

by Mari Ellis Dunning

Crocodile explores domestic violence and coercive control through the eyes of victim, reptilian perpetrator and the justice system.

Mari Ellis Dunning is a poet and novelist. She lives near Aberystwyth. 

Her latest collection of poems, Pearl and Bone, was selected as Wales Arts Review’s Best of 2022. 

Her debut novel, Witsh, is out now with Honno.

“These poems don’t shy away from hard facts. These are scenes from a horror movie. These are scenes from the 1950s. These are scenes from the world we’re living in right now. These polyphonous poems are voices at a protest march, strong in their oneness, furiously, exhaustedly casting their spells and blessings.” Mslexia – praise for Pearl and Bone

Here is a great interview with Mari on Alan Parry’s blog.

Summers Are Other by Andrew Neilson

From the funerary rites for a pet hamster to a lament from Tang Dynasty China, Summers Are Other draws its inspiration from an eclectic range of sources. Throughout Andrew Neilson’s debut pamphlet, however, the poems are drawn from a sustained meditation on transience and the ties that bind us.

Andrew Neilson was born in Edinburgh and lives in London. 

He co-edits, with Kathryn Gray, the digital poetry journal, Bad Lilies.

“There is much to admire in Andrew Neilson’s poetry –  its sober aplomb, for example, its musical exactitude, and the humane steadiness of its gaze at love and

mortality. This is a very welcome sample. More, please.” – Sean O’Brien 

The Culture Man by Nicholas Murray

The Culture Man, a satire on cultural populism using a variant of the ‘Pushkin stanza’, is the fourth in a series of verse satires that began with Get Real! (2011) followed by Trench Feet and A Dog’s Brexit which was described by Andy Croft as “a funny, angry satire”. 

Nicholas Murray is a poet and literary biographer.  He has published three full poetry collections and more than a dozen poetry pamphlets. In 2015 he won the Basil Bunting Prize for poetry.

Welcome to Rack Press

 Rack Press Poetry is an award-winning Welsh poetry pamphlet press founded in 2005. 

After nearly twenty years we are currently having a short breather from pamphlets and are closed to submissions but we recently launched a new series of “broadsides” by poets engaging with contemporary issues and the first three can already be ordered.

If you would like to order pamphlets from our back list every title prior to 2024 is priced at £4.00 (post free) and if you would like one just choose from the list below 

 

Rack Press Complete List of Titles

To order from backlist below simply select “Any Rack Press Title” in the Paypal box each time then email us with the name of the title(s): rackpresspoetry@btinternet.com

Our latest series of poetry broadsides has been launched

Rack Broadside No 1: River Run for the Wye in Hard Times by Nicholas Murray

Rack Broadside No 2: Kaleidoscope: Images from a Disordered World by John Barnie

Rack Broadside No 3: How Many Children? by John Fuller

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Soft Mutation

Nicky Arscott

The Green Buoy

John Barnie

out of print

Sherpas

John Barnie

De’Ath & Daughters

A.C.Bevan

Field Trips in the Anthropocene

A.C.Bevan

Cuffs

Byron Beynon

Darwin Among the Machines

Siobhán Campbell

out of print

24 Hours

Stephen Capus

Eight by Five

Peter Dale

out of print

Alabaster Girls

Damian Walford Davies

out of print

Exposed Staircase

Will Eaves

Oh Bart

Martina Evans

out of print

Watch

Martina Evans

out of print

Oscar & Henry

Katy Evans-Bush

out of print

Clockwork Scorpion

Hazel Frew

Minim

Hazel Frew

Flowers

Kathryn Gray

out of print

Nebamun's Tomb

John Greening

A Twist in the Stairs 

Steve Griffiths

Landing

Steve Griffiths

out of print

New Reader

Susan Grindley

out of print

The House of Our First Loving

Eve Grubin

Grief Dialogue

Eve Grubin

Finishing Lines

Ian Harrow

Songs from the Same Earth

David Harsent

Address Book

David Harsent and 

Fiona Sampson

Terra Ignota

Rosalind Hudis

The North Wind 

Michele Hutchison

Mistral

David Kennedy

Muddy Fox

Chris Kinsey

A Dovetail of Breath

Fiona Larkin

(out of print)

The Blue Cell

Anna Lewis

Strange, Such Strength

Andrew McCulloch

Inside the Animal House

Kathy Miles

Blood and Other Elements

Dawn Morgan

Here's to the Home Country

Philip Morre

The Narrators

Nicholas Murray

out of print

Get Real!

Nicholas Murray

out of print

Trench Feet

Nicholas Murray

out of print

A Quartet in Winter

Nicholas Murray

Hooligans

Katrina Naomi

At First Light 

William Palmer

An Instruction 

from Madame S.

William Palmer

The Paradise Commissionaire

William Palmer

A Paston Letter

Ian Parks

out of print

The Cavafy Variations

Ian Parks

Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Recommendation

out of print

Mineral Adventures

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Silencing the Dust

Ian Pople

Lute Variations by Louise Labé

Richard Price

out of print

If You Love Something

Kate Quigley

Airs and Ditties of No Man’s Land

Christopher Reid

out of print

Yesterday’s News

Christopher Reid

out of print

Not Funny Any More

Christopher Reid

Dy Galon Ofalus/Your Careful Heart

Elinor Wyn Reynolds

Shreds and Patches

David Ricks

The Heretic’s Feast

Michèle Roberts

Swimming Through a Painting by Bonnard

Michèle Roberts

House of Blue

Denise Saul

out of print

Recovery Position

Deirdre Shanahan

The Rough Guide to Ilkeston 

Tuesday Shannon

Glass as Broken Glass

Martha Sprackland

out of print

Dream Endings

Roísín Tierney

Winner of the 2012 Michael Marks Award

out of print

Mock-Orange

Roísín Tierney

Catching On

Angela Topping

Inconsequences

Dai Vaughan

out of print

A Conversation With George Seferis

Michael Vince

Variations on Four Places

John Powell Ward

Lament for Ali Farka Touré

David Wheatley

out of print

Spring Journal

Dan Wyke

Lime &Winter

Samantha 

Wynne-Rhydderch

Shortlisted for 2014 Michael Marks Award

out of print

Ling Di Long

Samantha 

Wynne-Rhydderch

Speaking Again: 

Poems for International Women’s Day

Martina Evans, Michèle Roberts, Denise Saul and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

From Rack Press Editions:-

Bloomsbury and the Poets

Nicholas Murray

A brief tour of the literary associations of the Bloomsbury district of London.

‘a delight’ – The Spectator

Silly Lady Novelists?

Michèle Roberts,

In a lively and polemical response to George Eliot’s famous Westminster Review essay of 1856 “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”, Michèle Roberts offers a challenging examination of current debates around fiction and sex.

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The Whitsun Wedding Video

Jeremy Noel-Tod

‘a suavely witty and wise collection of essays’ – David Wheatley

The Water Steps (£9.99)

A full-length collection by William Palmer