tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59058521911341644282024-03-16T18:49:54.154+00:00Rack Press PoetryWinner of the 2014 Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publisher of the YearRack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-57027624962932810012024-03-07T17:18:00.001+00:002024-03-07T17:18:20.070+00:00International Women’s Day <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-bNKJXyv2pAl9YFhgjFkm9sY0qzAZ6IiWWZN-VHRt9s1-UiFC7r8gywL_UtjX_i_3aGXis1Sl_xpEud5H_MM0iXVXOW0jnvcfX2XjYeWm6vQuAODX613CQ84cKimv21Ce7hSPkesYGm2bQb-y_ArHmWnNEsiBHEyaCa1qEMBv-wb7s82gT66QuG150w7/s3437/RackWomen.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3437" data-original-width="2409" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-bNKJXyv2pAl9YFhgjFkm9sY0qzAZ6IiWWZN-VHRt9s1-UiFC7r8gywL_UtjX_i_3aGXis1Sl_xpEud5H_MM0iXVXOW0jnvcfX2XjYeWm6vQuAODX613CQ84cKimv21Ce7hSPkesYGm2bQb-y_ArHmWnNEsiBHEyaCa1qEMBv-wb7s82gT66QuG150w7/w448-h640/RackWomen.jpeg" width="448" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-16907484883654646692023-06-18T09:59:00.002+01:002023-08-29T10:04:06.083+01:00Our New Poets of 2023: order a set now<p style="text-align: center;"> Here are our four new poets of 2023 launched in London on 16th June and seen here at the Music Room in Bloomsbury. </p><p style="text-align: center;">You can order here special packs of all four pamphlets in a set, each individually signed and numbered by the author, for £20 post-free. </p><p style="text-align: center;">Highly recommended.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEvsVVz8v3Iwe74NN9Vp8yVRqPUNhFC0s_ls5i8Lu5cq2rD7RBFXaRVDx0wyWJwRBzclgyXLx1h6eBBCXv_XRXVNg0paMSJkEcZT4wBmNUghdT-Qqow0KJ2b16YS5n_ArjqP72a0n4qrtwNdGO5ynKZsDFbzhX1pOg7LES2zXWsYBxEEKZxeYal2N4uw/s5472/IMG_1186.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEvsVVz8v3Iwe74NN9Vp8yVRqPUNhFC0s_ls5i8Lu5cq2rD7RBFXaRVDx0wyWJwRBzclgyXLx1h6eBBCXv_XRXVNg0paMSJkEcZT4wBmNUghdT-Qqow0KJ2b16YS5n_ArjqP72a0n4qrtwNdGO5ynKZsDFbzhX1pOg7LES2zXWsYBxEEKZxeYal2N4uw/w525-h354/IMG_1186.jpeg" width="525" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tuesday Shannon, Steve Griffiths, Michele Hutchison and William Palmer</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-53890768073587574052023-05-01T15:44:00.004+01:002023-06-16T09:16:19.323+01:00It’s today!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcGXHovOruWyf3mPocKLCKFHEatv8PQ5WwHhKpGWfL31G5eD6_9B0_EMvWad54423Zm9L3U9dWfpVUPBk_fzDy0t-1ekfcCdGOO1e-6xsbUpe5k-dJAysSIFOWKK_O5c7djoEaJA83JetcOCCQTj_E3M1el3i1ddP8JIHOKogh6jhFI9uPgXiBp2k8fg/s4677/Invite%20Rack%20as%20Pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4677" data-original-width="3305" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcGXHovOruWyf3mPocKLCKFHEatv8PQ5WwHhKpGWfL31G5eD6_9B0_EMvWad54423Zm9L3U9dWfpVUPBk_fzDy0t-1ekfcCdGOO1e-6xsbUpe5k-dJAysSIFOWKK_O5c7djoEaJA83JetcOCCQTj_E3M1el3i1ddP8JIHOKogh6jhFI9uPgXiBp2k8fg/w452-h640/Invite%20Rack%20as%20Pic.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-63567701329228374502023-04-28T08:52:00.000+01:002023-04-28T08:52:32.779+01:00New Titles Launched 16 June: Pre-order Now<p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiV89_P7ejozAMca5MYNdq-xEaTS2ASVKnR9Nmd-fOBq2kHmNV5W7ABMSAgq4NX1Pgb0KDXyB_Mj4aY3bPV0NJ3RPEkqnADQw8gUyIwkG-FZ-KAgYji4LZ_KFAxmSbr3Yst0ptriMhFt-Q6CsJgIaQgUipHGFyw9Qw58OpvhHJtwR7EFajeKn_0Wi4A/s5472/IMG_1086.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiV89_P7ejozAMca5MYNdq-xEaTS2ASVKnR9Nmd-fOBq2kHmNV5W7ABMSAgq4NX1Pgb0KDXyB_Mj4aY3bPV0NJ3RPEkqnADQw8gUyIwkG-FZ-KAgYji4LZ_KFAxmSbr3Yst0ptriMhFt-Q6CsJgIaQgUipHGFyw9Qw58OpvhHJtwR7EFajeKn_0Wi4A/w266-h400/IMG_1086.jpeg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">We are pleased to announce the publication </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">on 16 June of our four new poetry titles for 2023. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">All are available for pre-order now (dispatch date 25 May). </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">All four poets will be at the launch reading at the Music Room in London on 16th June (more details will follow).</span></b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Titles can be ordered here using Paypal.</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b> </b><b>A Twist in the Stairs by Steve Griffiths</b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 8px;">978-1-8382303-5-7. </b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 10px;">Steve Griffiths was born and raised in Anglesey.</b><b></b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 10px;">He has published eight collections of poems, most recently <i>Weathereye: Selected Poems</i> (2019) as well as a pamphlet, <i>Updrafts, </i>(2020). He is one of a hundred twentieth-century Welsh poets writing in English featured in The Library of Wales’ <i>Poetry 1900-2000 </i>(2007). His poems have appeared in many anthologies, including the NHS anthology <i>These Are the Hands.</i></b><b></b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Baskerville;">“A subtle and deeply intelligent writer who can address human concerns like the intimate recall of childhood or the challenges of middle age without sentimentality; he can move between abstract thought and concrete particularities with such ease that sometimes the join is invisible.” – Philip Gross</b></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>The poems of <i>A Twist in the Stairs</i> respond to a time of political, psychological and climate crisis, criss-crossing and interrogating threads of optimism, certainty and error, wonder, defeat, resignation – and resilience</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*</b></span></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 9px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>The North Wind by Michele Hutchison</b></span></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>978-1-8382303-7-1</b></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>Michele Hutchison was born near Birmingham and grew up in Lincolnshire. She is a literary translator and writer based in Amsterdam. In 2020 she was co-winner of the International Booker Prize with Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and also won the Vondel Translation Prize. This is her first collection.</b></span></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">“<b>Her lines are like diary notes, deceptively plain, as they open a window on a life. Emotional intensity is conveyed by understatement. This is a quiet voice, that says things as they are, so that when something is described – hurt or happiness, loneliness or sensual intensity – you feel with her. The poems</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>lodge in your mind and stay there – economy of phrasing is the technique.” – Donald Gardner</b></span></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">*</p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>At First Light by William Palmer</b></span></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>978-1-8382303-6-4</b></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>William Palmer’s book of poems, <i>The Island Rescue,</i> was awarded the First Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers’ Festival in 2006. His work has appeared in many journals including <i>The</i> <i>Dark Horse, London Magazine, New Walk, Poetry Review, Rialto, The Spectator</i>, and <i>The Times Literary Supplement. </i>He is also the author of six novels and a collection of short stories. </b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>His latest work is <i>In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers, </i> published in 2021.</b></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>Rack Press has published two earlier pamphlets, <i>An Instruction from Madame S.</i> and </b></span></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><i>The Paradise Commissionaire, </i>and a full-length collection of poems <i>The Water Steps</i> in 2017.</b></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Praise for <i>The Paradise Commissionaire: </i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>“These shapely, profound poems...It is hard not to love a poetry whose rhythms seem to finger the pulse of the world outside and the beat of its time.” – Alison Brackenbury</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*</b></span></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b></b><br /></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>The Rough Guide to Ilkeston by Tuesday Shannon</b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>978-1-8382303-8-8.</b></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>Tuesday Shannon grew up, and still lives, in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. She has a Midlands4Cities-funded PhD from Nottingham Trent University, on poetry and the post-industrial north of England.</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>This is her first collection.</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>“In this, her moving first pamphlet, Tuesday Shannon invites us to see the universal in the particular and to perceive the shared experiences of joy and grief through a language which is at once inventive and precise. Her preoccupation with place and identity makes for a telling undercurrent to this impressive debut from a young poet with a clear, distinctive voice.” – Ian Parks</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>“Tuesday Shannon’s often tender, always multifaceted poems belong to a long tradition, but approach and leave it at angles that are entirely her own.” – Rory Waterman</b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Baskerville SemiBold"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-34485567179020035512023-03-08T09:58:00.001+00:002023-03-08T09:58:15.989+00:00Reading in London 14th March<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVIBFT39szz0JQq0ihMM942BkKszTS8Qb-Ign6ga-14m5nud3mkCvr1G9R3eROkDxdBNZlCMwQS_zDfdf59Fp_CgGtlihRUTP-hN3rRt2uPxvfTAwNEiYC5Wxhb8no3yVrcJ-2J8BerALuGoobVJETBn9PEPBycYosLaCUOD32McoBq4jKEOwjNVhO5Q/s4677/Lumen.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="4677" data-original-width="3305" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVIBFT39szz0JQq0ihMM942BkKszTS8Qb-Ign6ga-14m5nud3mkCvr1G9R3eROkDxdBNZlCMwQS_zDfdf59Fp_CgGtlihRUTP-hN3rRt2uPxvfTAwNEiYC5Wxhb8no3yVrcJ-2J8BerALuGoobVJETBn9PEPBycYosLaCUOD32McoBq4jKEOwjNVhO5Q/w452-h640/Lumen.jpeg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-47921556236605296042023-03-02T14:10:00.008+00:002023-03-02T14:22:54.830+00:00Special Offer for International Women’s Day<p>To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8th March we are making available for only £2.00 our special pamphlet of four women poets first issued for IWD in 2019. Order here, postage free.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6xrKeLvrSz40Dzynh0Pwo_XDmQRgAIV_RjDvnHlOhZrlokrlngRL-ohLzPd1jFKKRzF_kRqptbvMr2Uy02CNnVBENZZVQm4KyitSmZf7-E2J__UeTgN2SYwwLGFRoH5vqezpwkB6WpTv82FGy3p8KIvD2Y_v03OT3Uf9xCoS9xGm7wYLBP1ncaegnMw/s2409/SpeakingCover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2409" data-original-width="1677" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6xrKeLvrSz40Dzynh0Pwo_XDmQRgAIV_RjDvnHlOhZrlokrlngRL-ohLzPd1jFKKRzF_kRqptbvMr2Uy02CNnVBENZZVQm4KyitSmZf7-E2J__UeTgN2SYwwLGFRoH5vqezpwkB6WpTv82FGy3p8KIvD2Y_v03OT3Uf9xCoS9xGm7wYLBP1ncaegnMw/w446-h640/SpeakingCover.jpg" width="446" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-61215763225010143212023-01-14T07:03:00.002+00:002023-02-16T09:00:27.939+00:00New Voices Submission Window Closes 14 February <p> </p><p><i><b>Update: Please note that the deadline for current submissions has passed. We will let you know as soon as possible about your submission.</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>We are pleased to announce a New Voices Submission window for poets who have not yet published a collection, either book or pamphlet. Rack Press has since its inception published debut collections alongside work by established names and we are currently looking for submissions from poets of any age who may have published individual poems in magazines or in online poetry magazines but not so far brought out a collection.</p><p>To submit no later than midnight on 14 February 2023 send us a PDF of no more than ten poems suitable for a 12 page, A5 pamphlet (10 pages of poems). They can be a group of poems, a short sequence or a single long poem. Any submissions not observing these guidelines will be rejected automatically. 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Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-48740089079133955562022-09-05T09:21:00.002+01:002022-10-03T10:46:57.105+01:00New Titles (available to purchase here now) Launched in London on 3 October<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WrLyDZDU8WvfFilu-s_tDeXVQW3mB1CcXXllJOMXiCeNgQBRIadf3fcxfPq4BCc7BkDbIx3Gc_swOlgUB1aJX_sMqjVirhSXp5zSHik35rGmHNV7X26E08qAddaZxx2bKJ7mARluTsQP48auKSpcQ6eGRsvGyxgLPS-adEdq0m43rptQ7_IBsiSBiA/s4677/5D38267D-8E49-40EB-8092-5FB16F5FFA29.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4677" data-original-width="3305" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4WrLyDZDU8WvfFilu-s_tDeXVQW3mB1CcXXllJOMXiCeNgQBRIadf3fcxfPq4BCc7BkDbIx3Gc_swOlgUB1aJX_sMqjVirhSXp5zSHik35rGmHNV7X26E08qAddaZxx2bKJ7mARluTsQP48auKSpcQ6eGRsvGyxgLPS-adEdq0m43rptQ7_IBsiSBiA/w452-h640/5D38267D-8E49-40EB-8092-5FB16F5FFA29.jpeg" width="452" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-80759420415801638472022-08-04T15:16:00.006+01:002022-08-04T15:19:50.426+01:00New Titles for 2022 - Available to order now<p>We are pleased to announce four new Rack Press titles for September 2022 marking our return to post-Covid normality. They can be ordered now from this site post free using the Paypal buttons in the side column or from any bookshop.</p><p>The exciting line-up is:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Exposed Staircase </i>by Will Eaves</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Grief Dialogue</i> by Eve Grubin</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Shreds and Patches </i>by David Ricks</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>A Conversation with George Seferis</i> by Michael Vince</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ8bG34eKd7r2DaHLkG9YXy2zyLN3zcydVO-nBVS1WPKbsPfaBCNAOBGdA7pUw3ODO_VRu2oO9-lB8Llmtoo_MkM9rRODBrVsSisPlECTV1EQ59MbHad4VVjs1XKCcbrkCWM_l2r8y5dCjwdXjielGKmR6Tjz5TaU44wKm_cKjvQVFKBsJH8ql3qXf4A/s640/9781838230333.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ8bG34eKd7r2DaHLkG9YXy2zyLN3zcydVO-nBVS1WPKbsPfaBCNAOBGdA7pUw3ODO_VRu2oO9-lB8Llmtoo_MkM9rRODBrVsSisPlECTV1EQ59MbHad4VVjs1XKCcbrkCWM_l2r8y5dCjwdXjielGKmR6Tjz5TaU44wKm_cKjvQVFKBsJH8ql3qXf4A/s320/9781838230333.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><p style="text-align: right;">Will Eaves is a novelist, poet and musician. He has been Arts Editor of the <i>TLS</i> (1997–2011) and Associate Professor in the English department at the University of Warwick. In 2020, his novel <i>Murmur</i> won the Wellcome Book Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Fiction.</p><p style="text-align: right;">“Poetry is a pleaching of language into its most original, convincing and economic shape. Will Eaves has such technical magic at every moment in this collection. Whether semi-concealed narrative, allegorical landscape or literary annotation, each poem in <i>Sound Houses</i> is a pleasure and a satisfaction to encounter.” – Peter Porter on <i>Sound Houses</i> (2011</p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLyvG6CeyPrfyuro_JKa1YhlgU3uS0EmR5_oYL7vmn1fY6zte1IHoRoV39zQ-rnVYo4GYuaiKpKSd-fMU71lGEjRh-VgriSbWitdhfaZlsPNJd7EOTIkq4umCAG_DXaUcnpe0BJF5z83IBjIv7mmFtpsWqlsEdB6u2qsaNoEznDE_VB2rq9FVxRUXug/s640/9781838230326.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="451" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLyvG6CeyPrfyuro_JKa1YhlgU3uS0EmR5_oYL7vmn1fY6zte1IHoRoV39zQ-rnVYo4GYuaiKpKSd-fMU71lGEjRh-VgriSbWitdhfaZlsPNJd7EOTIkq4umCAG_DXaUcnpe0BJF5z83IBjIv7mmFtpsWqlsEdB6u2qsaNoEznDE_VB2rq9FVxRUXug/s320/9781838230326.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><p style="text-align: right;">Eve Grubin’s previous collections are </p><p style="text-align: right;"><i>Morning Prayer</i> (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005), and </p><p style="text-align: right;"><i>The House of Our First Loving</i> (Rack Press, 2016)</p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;">“Her poems hold a deep and unusual charm….<i>The House of Our First Loving</i> left this reader longing for more light-filled, surprising work” – Alison Brackenbury in <i>PN Review</i>.</p><p style="text-align: right;">Ivan Juritz Prize judge, Will Eaves, has written of Grubin's work: </p><p style="text-align: right;">“These are tender imagistic poems that owe an avowed debt to Emily Dickinson but which also, and more unusually, marry intimate observation with an interest in Jewish heritage and scriptural authority.”</p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6gsuhxiWRDhhfs9XJHyFh3XS7c4OpnxnANAgpP7onZ36AIzJvGH37aEv4ij4ofcNHnN7BC50suEv68LHYZ784QVE562pcIvXPk3gK2-oWOwCZ6dy7Qbxa_9aC7RbLRDzjiOZiH_Me3KPI7YAAITHRNTSSnbVSU88BtlphF-EK4_A_W2JT9MX70vlhQ/s640/9781838230319.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="452" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6gsuhxiWRDhhfs9XJHyFh3XS7c4OpnxnANAgpP7onZ36AIzJvGH37aEv4ij4ofcNHnN7BC50suEv68LHYZ784QVE562pcIvXPk3gK2-oWOwCZ6dy7Qbxa_9aC7RbLRDzjiOZiH_Me3KPI7YAAITHRNTSSnbVSU88BtlphF-EK4_A_W2JT9MX70vlhQ/s320/9781838230319.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><p style="text-align: right;">David Ricks taught at King’s College London for more than thirty years and has written on most of the modern Greek poets who matter. His poems have appeared in a range of magazines including <i>Poetry</i> and <i>New England Review. </i></p><p style="text-align: right;">This is his first collection.</p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfpPfcqR9rgQa-MB0HDPc0VQAkEohfEa0MQFLW13fflvT9bhvcoRtdMRTxtS-P2Sjf2r3aftW9PenVPwYuITz1-HB4WHAoYJBAwltPxjlXgvvEEiUx1gLBKvBJFO99zxE8-j3wG04oRZX6ebOh14zo-ibo8z1KjKr4mBWAgg41aW-Lg9gTyhghh5ve4A/s640/9781838230340.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="459" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfpPfcqR9rgQa-MB0HDPc0VQAkEohfEa0MQFLW13fflvT9bhvcoRtdMRTxtS-P2Sjf2r3aftW9PenVPwYuITz1-HB4WHAoYJBAwltPxjlXgvvEEiUx1gLBKvBJFO99zxE8-j3wG04oRZX6ebOh14zo-ibo8z1KjKr4mBWAgg41aW-Lg9gTyhghh5ve4A/s320/9781838230340.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><p style="text-align: right;">Michael Vince taught in Italy and the UK before emigrating to Greece in 1977 where he worked in language teaching. Previous collections include: <i>The Orchard Well</i> (Carcanet, 1978) <i>Mountain, Epic and Dream,</i> (Hunting Raven, 1981) <i>In The New District</i> (Carcanet, 1982) <i>Gaining Definition</i> (R L Barth, 1986) <i>Plain Text,</i> (Mica Press, 2015) and <i>Long Distance</i> (Mica Press, 2020) </p><p style="text-align: right;">Michael Vince writes: “This is a sequence interrupted, which has a postscript. It is a conversation with the poems of Seferis, rather than with the poet himself, who died in 1971. The poems are as much about me as about him. It was written in 1992 when I was still living in Greece. The postscript occurs during a visit to Skyros, by which time I had returned to live in London.”</p><p style="text-align: right;">Some of the titles are taken from poems by Seferis, some poems refer to or invent parts of his experience, or refer to his poems – particularly to the sequence <i>Mythistorema</i>, and the poem <i>Thrush.</i> The poems are not what Seferis would have called “a contribution to criticism”. </p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-73286517450431124672022-06-14T07:22:00.000+01:002022-06-14T07:22:31.860+01:00Closed now for submissions<p>Thank you to all those who submitted work for consideration since we re-opened on 1 March. We are sorry to have disappointed so many of you but, as we warned, space was very limited and the pandemic set us back considerably. </p><p>We will announce again when we are next open for submissions and watch this space for an announcement of the new titles for autumn 2022 when they are ready.</p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-85404222512384245962022-02-27T16:49:00.005+00:002022-04-17T08:03:35.851+01:00Rack is Back!<p>We are very pleased to announce that Rack Press has finally emerged from its two-year Covid-induced sleep and will be re-opening on 1 March which is St David’s Day here in Wales – the national day of Wales. We have also changed our address – still in the heart of Radnorshire – to The Old Manse, Broad Street, Presteigne, Powys LD8 2AD, six miles from our previous base. All other electronic contacts remain the same.</p><p>The story so far is that back in March 2020 we were forced to cancel at the last minute because of imminent lockdown the launch of four new pamphlets: <i>Field Trips in the Anthropocene</i> by A.C.Bevan, <i>24 Hours </i>by Stephen Capus, <i>A Dovetail of Breath </i>by Fiona Larkin, and the bilingual <i>Dy Galon Ofalus/Your Careful Heart </i>by Elinor Wyn Reynolds. This was an excellent quartet of titles and we are pleased to say that copies of all of them are still available and can be ordered directly here.</p><p>Unfortunately, we were also forced to cancel all our planned 15th birthday celebratory events including a reading with live music at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. We would have been marking 15 years of independent publication of 50 poets. </p><p>We are very grateful, however, to The Poetry Pharmacy who invited some of our Wales and Marches poets to read in November, our only public event since lockdown and a great success.</p><p>Because small presses like ours, without any grants or subsidies, or extensive sales and marketing resources, depend on events and readings to sell what we publish, we took the decision to defer our annual launches of new titles until readings were once again a possibility. Fortunately, we had two other titles in the pipeline and these appeared in December 2020 (<i>A Quartet in Winter</i> by Nicholas Murray: still available) and March 2021(<i>Homeland: Eighteen Bitter Songs (Yannis Ritsos) </i>by David Harsent which is now sold out).</p><p>This means that our “closed for submissions” sign on the door has been turned back to “open" but we must stress that capacity this year is <i>extremely</i> limited as we have some work already in the pipeline. If you are considering submitting <a href="http://nicholasmurray.co.uk/rack-press/">please read our guidelines VERY carefully.</a> We regret that we do not have the resources to comment on work or offer anything other than a simple Yes or No but at least we promise to do our best not to keep you waiting any longer than is necessary.</p><p>Our plan, if possible, is to launch our new 2022 titles later in the year and this will be announced when they are ready.</p><p>In the meantime we would be very grateful if you chose to order some of our titles from this site now, some of which you will see are on special offer.</p><p>Thank you</p><p>Nick and Sue Murray</p><p>Rack Press</p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-59060921269509046332021-10-26T10:43:00.002+01:002021-10-26T10:43:59.260+01:00Rack Poets at the Poetry Pharmacy 7 November<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYreyldQD4ez61VacXd8sqSOEc32lXD2w24kE-vz_BxycmS3J5Kw642CrIJp_YPa0r5utGP5p15YPsnU-7D-KKfc4fofZnV7yTtrBXn9J6tOhcZobGy8fNLbVEPhdmB7tqA9mzdAZXzjJB/s1682/Poetry+7+Novembet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1682" data-original-width="1190" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYreyldQD4ez61VacXd8sqSOEc32lXD2w24kE-vz_BxycmS3J5Kw642CrIJp_YPa0r5utGP5p15YPsnU-7D-KKfc4fofZnV7yTtrBXn9J6tOhcZobGy8fNLbVEPhdmB7tqA9mzdAZXzjJB/w452-h640/Poetry+7+Novembet.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-47783271256287665192021-02-24T08:59:00.001+00:002021-03-03T15:37:11.543+00:00Homeland: Eighteen Bitter Songs. A New Title from David Harsent<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 24pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Homeland:Eighteen Bitter Songs</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Versions of Yannis Ritsos</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 18pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"> </span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: 700;">by David Harsent</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Date of Publication : 4 March 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">Available <i>now</i> to pre-order</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">Yannis Ritsos was born in Monemvasia in the Greek Peloponnese in 1909. As a young man he became a communist and his long career was marked by the travails of the Greek Left: proscription, imprisonment, internal exile. He was one of Greece’s most prolific twentieth- century writers, publishing extensive collections of poetry alongside novels and plays. </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">He wrote </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Homeland: Eighteen Bitter Songs </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">in 1968-70, during the time of the Greek junta. Ritsos received the Greek First State Prize for Poetry in 1957 and the Lenin Peace Prize in 1977. He died in 1990 and is buried in the place of his birth.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">David Harsent has published thirteen volumes of poetry. </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Legion </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">won the Forward Prize for best </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">collection; </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Night </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">was triple short-listed in the UK and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize.</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Fire Songs </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">won the T.S.</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">Eliot Prize. </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">A new collection, </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Loss, </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">appeared in January 2020. </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">In Secret</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">, Harsent’s versions of Yannis Ritsos, published in 2012, was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">‘In the tradition of Robert Lowell’s “Imitations”, these are versions of Ritsos by a major English poet. Yannis Ritsos, one of the most celebrated Greek poets of the 20th century, has at last found a “companion translator” who is up to the task.’</span></div><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Times Literary Supplement</span></div></span><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">‘[These poems] record, at times celebrate, the enigmatic, the irrational, the mysterious and invisible qualities of experience.’</span></div><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">New York Times Book Review</span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">John Kittmer has a PhD in modern Greek literature and is working on the poetry of Yannis Ritsos.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="section" style="background-color: white;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">Critical praise for </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 16pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Homeland</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700;">:-</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">The poetics of an ongoing and bitter revolution needs to be compressed and tough while offering hope. The Greek poet Yannis Ritsos’s </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Eighteen Bitter Songs</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">, set to music by Mikis Theodorakis, were written in hardship under the rule of the Colonels in 1968. They make a set of eighteen double couplets focusing on the tribulations and consolations of struggle in a natural landscape. David Harsent renders them with a clarity, precision and austere passion that is perfect for our times.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;"><b>George Szirtes</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">These exquisite and beautifully chiselled poems themselves become, in Ritsos’s words as translated by Harsent, “a door that opens onto Greece”: conjuring Greek landscape, Greek poetry and Greek heartache.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Ruth Padel</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">The sober, elegant design of </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Homeland: Eighteen Bitter Songs </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">commends itself to the hand and the eye, and is perfectly suited to the grave music of David Harsent’s versions of Yannis Ritsos.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Sean O’Brien</b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">David Harsent’s new versions of that abundant poet Yannis Ritsos’ tersest poems are timely: it is as if Greek tenacity, now in the testing times of economic calamity, needed to be honoured anew. They are shrewd and often surprising recreations of poems whose reticence is a form of resistance.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;"><b>David Ricks, </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><b>Professor Emeritus of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature,</b></span></span><b style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;"> King’s College, London</b></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">Ritsos’s curt and sometimes cryptic verses are like the ‘Bitter Songs’ that a person in political danger might sing, </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">sotto voce, </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;">to sustain his or her spirit of resistance. Harsent finds and holds just the right pitch to convey to the English reader their urgency and quiet power.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Christopher Reid</b></span></p></div></div></div></div>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-43376787954968297822020-11-30T18:04:00.008+00:002020-12-01T09:34:51.092+00:00A New Pamphlet by Nicholas Murray<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyTGBsWAKHXl5jGHp1FIP4Y3hfSAQQhGO1Ae3qmoPGbTfcFY9Qehb_6FtkPqPJ1eDAmKpWRaULg1w4Y5KUFl3yH_oo4f884JTS3zvv8nqBdjm_67JiXs7b17oIel_VEm7eYfBsQcfYa0t1/s2048/98C41E4B-6F9C-4A5A-83DD-C333E0C108C8_1_201_a.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1457" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyTGBsWAKHXl5jGHp1FIP4Y3hfSAQQhGO1Ae3qmoPGbTfcFY9Qehb_6FtkPqPJ1eDAmKpWRaULg1w4Y5KUFl3yH_oo4f884JTS3zvv8nqBdjm_67JiXs7b17oIel_VEm7eYfBsQcfYa0t1/s320/98C41E4B-6F9C-4A5A-83DD-C333E0C108C8_1_201_a.jpeg" /></a></div>Our last pamphlet of 2020, which has been our 15th anniversary year, is <i>A Quartet in Winter </i>by Nicholas Murray published on 1st December.<p></p><p>In the fourth of a series of formal verse satires that began in 2011 with <i>Get Real! </i>and which included <i>Trench Feet</i> (2014) and <i>A Dog’s Brexit </i>(Melos, 2017) Nicholas Murray evokes the Welsh Marches in early winter, when “frost lays its dust-sheet on the Radnor Hills”, contemplating, in rustic confinement in a pandemic, a world of “smirking kleptocrats on giant screens”, and the fate of the Earth “we treat so roughly”.</p><p>Nicholas Murray is a poet and literary biographer living in Powys. His most recent full-length poetry collection, <i>The Yellow Wheelbarrow</i>, was published in 2019 by the Melos Press. </p><p>In <i>The Manchester Review</i> Ian Pople praised: “...the quiet rhythmic pulse with underpins all Murray’s poems. That assured rhythmic control is often allied with a closely observational sense in Murray’s writing”.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can order the new pamphlet here (see side panel) post free at £5.</p><div><br /></div>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-68003344372520652222020-11-25T08:50:00.009+00:002020-11-25T08:52:11.519+00:00More Good Reviews<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBBwWjQjtw2gqgFYdcVBALH5ZAuR6Pxv2RVAY7xW_38DFzTX09CXmbEIGKNnXyQd8clySp9nXWgU96kBOvMhxbDocMgdy0vCRg_RRS0g0HKYc5IMeXUVYTjx9X39hiSElQIILj7K3Qnmv/s2048/BevanCover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1426" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSBBwWjQjtw2gqgFYdcVBALH5ZAuR6Pxv2RVAY7xW_38DFzTX09CXmbEIGKNnXyQd8clySp9nXWgU96kBOvMhxbDocMgdy0vCRg_RRS0g0HKYc5IMeXUVYTjx9X39hiSElQIILj7K3Qnmv/s320/BevanCover.jpg" /></a></div>We were very pleased to see that A.C. Bevan’s pamphlet <i>Field Trips in the Anthropocene</i> is well reviewed in the latest issue of <i>PN Review </i>(No 256) as well as in the new issue of <i>Stand.</i> You can order it here (post-free, same day dispatch) and also other pamphlets published with it this year: Fiona Larkin’s <i>A Dovetail of Breath, </i>Stephen Capus’ <i>24 Hours</i> and Elinor Wyn Reynolds’ <i>Your Careful Heart/Dy Galon Ofalus </i>[in Welsh and English]. You might like to try a set of all four, each individually signed by the author, for £15, a saving of £5.<p></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-33426691363171335112020-09-26T09:10:00.001+01:002020-10-19T10:55:13.274+01:00Irish Times praises Róisín Tierney<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4JGdAd2rGV-I2DtaGewOe61GBeRzIS52cdPKjqxfH1-J7tqSaNzRSdoFe_ruegFY75WtLKDSzwHFQ7Y1YGlLU3rbKnOKRmxrzrpZ4Aepq_Bzgjf8Dme7pKRSiSMFrL5W3H3iX4jpapm0/s2048/Mock-OrangeCover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1425" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4JGdAd2rGV-I2DtaGewOe61GBeRzIS52cdPKjqxfH1-J7tqSaNzRSdoFe_ruegFY75WtLKDSzwHFQ7Y1YGlLU3rbKnOKRmxrzrpZ4Aepq_Bzgjf8Dme7pKRSiSMFrL5W3H3iX4jpapm0/s320/Mock-OrangeCover.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>We were pleased that the <i>Irish Times</i> reviewer, Sean Hewitt, liked Roisin Tierney’s pamphlet <i>Mock-Orange</i> calling the poems “skilful and atmospheric”. He continued: “These unsettling dark lyrics have a wonderful verbal energy; a mythic imagination.” </p><p>Copies of the pamphlet are still available here and you can also read two new poems of Roisin in the latest issue of <i>Dark Horse</i> magazine.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can see Róisín reading from the pamphlet on our You Tube channel.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jCgDhVi4SoY" width="320" youtube-src-id="jCgDhVi4SoY"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj9zZLNYVGXs6LILeUgeYhXLPAbRepmkxkOzJi7opn8PGqENRrQfDxQnQIfc_y-tqd5HZJwTKEt6ig_zolU9Pqrf_QwF-VzaNY2Ip6VJ7vphZ1Br2x_9RAj9B4z3PkEOJIsdOLJ0o1LNpB/s2048/Mock-OrangeCover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ryPFjVR-p-NM5Jz0-g0jmLAwnzrTiJYCRqeatwCU8K23I_svRCLHqixlwQYUB-X6RucUWBiZLU8jsiuiwh9FJoUZa2ES86ShaERmlH3TVjgOFjSPzxkYyqf5FHMrcmfUfLUQTRK39bTI/s2048/Mock-OrangeCover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ryPFjVR-p-NM5Jz0-g0jmLAwnzrTiJYCRqeatwCU8K23I_svRCLHqixlwQYUB-X6RucUWBiZLU8jsiuiwh9FJoUZa2ES86ShaERmlH3TVjgOFjSPzxkYyqf5FHMrcmfUfLUQTRK39bTI/s2048/Mock-OrangeCover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswm6WSjXItGsiI9cunDcgzDfoBK-bcOw9tXUhpNPw-TkV1WqjDgfpCYVJtTtFvCLVOdqiEzSNtA2z-Yvl97qMWxA87VmeuZo-po6LhTroq5jb93HqC-ajE7LZCTjREXrwiMjwDfAyVLII/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-1615072449397176212020-07-28T08:30:00.002+01:002020-07-28T08:38:41.452+01:00Special Sale Offer on Selected Titles<div style="text-align: center;"><b>We are pleased to announce a special sale offer on selected titles from 2005-2018. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Post free in the UK. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>All the following titles can be ordered for £2 each:</b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>Soft Mutation</i> by Nicky Arscott</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>Sherpas</i> by John Barnie</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>Alabaster Girls</i> by Damian Walford Davies</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>Minim</i> by Hazel Frew</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>Nebamun's Tomb</i> by John Greening</font></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>The Blue Cell</i> by Anna Lewis</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>Inside the Animal House</i> by Kathy Miles</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>Blood and Other Elements</i> by Dawn Morgan</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>Mineral Adventures</i> by Fiona Pitt-Kethley</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><i>Catching On</i> by Angela Topping</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ff0000"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;">To order choose from the Paypal sidebar to the right of this.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you see a title from our pre-2019 backlist (scroll down on the right to see the full list) that you would like and can’t see it listed in the special offer simply email us and we will try to accommodate your order at the sale price.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-75384786309873186812020-05-05T09:44:00.000+01:002020-05-05T09:44:06.305+01:00Fifteen Years; fifty poets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is another poem from our new season of pamphlets read by Stephen Capus from his new pamphlet <i>24 Hours. </i>All these pamphlets can be ordered directly from us here, post-free, with immediate dispatch.<br />
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Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-44618465759194462872020-04-11T14:38:00.002+01:002020-04-11T14:38:14.702+01:00Another New Poem from Rack PressHere is another poem from our new spring quartet of pamphlets and we are sorry that current circumstances mean that we weren’t able to launch these poems live – but we shall definitely be doing so once it becomes possible again.<br />
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The poet is AC Bevan reading from his new pamphlet (which can be ordered here post free) <i>Field Trips in the Anthropocene</i>.<br />
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Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-81421810834798793322020-04-08T14:49:00.001+01:002020-04-08T14:50:29.295+01:00A New Poem from Rack PressHere is Fiona Larkin reading from her new Rack Press pamphlet <i>A Dovetail of Breath</i> which you can order here for immediate dispatch.<br />
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Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-80272404674116696092020-03-31T08:33:00.000+01:002020-03-31T08:33:16.994+01:00William Palmer: Guardian Poem of the Week<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-23157518598441161822020-03-25T09:12:00.001+00:002020-03-25T09:12:35.703+00:00Poetry and Pandemics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We were very sad to learn that our distributors, Central Books, who make sure that all our publications get to the bookshops, have had to <a href="https://centralbooks.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cc2a96dfc6a893d13b8ff450&id=dfd316f7ce&e=b953ad763a">close </a>like everyone else until at least the end of April but we will continue to supply orders directly (post free, same day dispatch) from our website here until the Post Offices close or the stamps run out (but we expect neither of those things to happen).<br />
Individual copies of our new pamphlets published on 17th March can be bought here as well as the best bargain we offer: a set of the four new pamphlets each individually signed and numbered by the author priced at £15 for the set instead of £20.<br />
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We hope that all our readers keep safe at this very difficult time.<br />
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Rack Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05370617952935357013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905852191134164428.post-70970336201923925842020-02-27T11:25:00.002+00:002020-03-14T18:26:43.583+00:00New Titles Released 17th March but Launch Cancelled<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Four new titles are published on 17th March but with great regret we have to announce that owing to the current situation we have had to cancel the launch event and party which will be rescheduled as soon as it is prudent to do so. The good news is that all titles can be ordered now from the drop-down menu here. You can also buy packs of our bright new 15th birthday postcard featuring the names of all 50 of our poets. <br />
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<i>Field Trips in the Anthropocene</i><br />
A.C.Bevan<br />
<i>24 Hours</i><br />
Stephen Capus<br />
<i>A Dovetail of Breath</i><br />
Fiona Larkin<br />
<i>Dy Galon Ofalus/Your Careful Heart</i><br />
Elinor Wyn Reynolds<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A. C. Bevan’s</b> fifth poetry collection explores the terrain of the new environmental epoch, in which mankind has become the driving force – if not the “extinction pulse”– of global ecological change. As our fossil economy, industrialisation & rampant consumerism create a human-induced climate crisis of increasingly catastrophic weather, mass species extinction & a rising tide of old & new existential threats, these are poems for our Geological Age.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Bevan is both a poet of élan & technical virtuosity… not only dexterous, but dexterity at the service of reflections on a very real world” Ian Pople, <i>The Manchester Review</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Stephen Capus’ </b>first collection captures the ephemeral impressions, feelings and thoughts of a single day through a series of spare, understated, exact poems, the skilful formal structure sharpening epigrammatically the significance of the otherwise unformed immediacy of the experiences they convey.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stephen Capus was born in West Cross near Swansea, and studied Russian at Birmingham University and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. He has contributed poems, translations and reviews to various periodicals and anthologies, including <i>Acumen, Agenda, Modern Poetry in Translation,</i> and <i>The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry</i>. His essay on translating the poetry of Georgiy Ivanov appeared in the magazine <i>Cardinal Points,</i> published by the Department of Slavic Studies, Brown University, in 2018.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fiona Larkin</b> was born in London to Irish parents, and was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and Royal Holloway. She organises innovative poetry events with Corrupted Poetry. Her work was highly commended in the Forward Prizes 2019 single poem category, and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Aesthetica Award. Poems have appeared in <i>Best New British and Irish Poets 2018, In Transit: Poems of Travel</i>, and in a wide range of journals. <i>A Dovetail of Breath</i> is her first pamphlet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘In ten spare, exact and immensely moving poems, Fiona Larkin offers us a daughter, watching a father’s slow neurological decline. What can be done when words are forgotten, unable to be drawn from the ‘inarticulate thicket’? Larkin explores language as a bonding device, something that roots us to people and place, but asks us to consider what happens when that comes under threat. It is a remarkable debut.’ </span></span></div>
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