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Three New Pamphlets from Rack Press
We are very pleased to announce three new poetry pamphlets from Rack Press. You can order here post-free. International orders must add Royal Mail International Standard postage £3.20.
Latest reviews: https://thehighwindowpress.com/2026/01/16/the-high-window-reviews-four-recent-pamphlets/
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.
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
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
RoÃsÃn Tierney
Winner of the 2012 Michael Marks Award
out of print
Mock-Orange
RoÃsÃn 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
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