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John Healy,
The Metal Mountain
288 pages, 234 x 156mm, paperback with flaps
ISBN 978 1 901538 89 2
£14.95 (plus £2.50 p&p)
Signed casebound edition of 75 with a new short story £45.00/€55.00; write to the editors here to purchase a copy.
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“Healy’s new work offers the reader an immersive and intense account of a complex immigrant experience. [...] A demanding novel from an always interesting and engaging author.”
Rebecca Long, The Irish Times
Rebecca Long, The Irish Times
Past Publications
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Carlyle Reedy
Epos, a Song for Alaric
£16.95/£25.00/£28.00
A “Song” for Alaric Sumner, made with mobile components representing incidents, ideas and topics within a luminosity and shadings.
Brian Coffey, How Far From Daybreak
£12.50/£16.50/£20.00
A new, selected poems (edited by Nicholas Johnson)...
Brian Coffey, Advent
£12.50/£16.50/£20.00The fifth publication of Advent, 40 years after Coffey first circulated a foolscap edition of 25 to family and friends in 1974. Long out of print, and in danger of neglect, Advent is perhaps the most extraordinary, certainly the most mysterious, long poem in 20th-century British poetry.
Carlyle Reedy
Epos, a Song for Alaric
£16.95/£25.00/£28.00
A “Song” for Alaric Sumner, made with mobile components representing incidents, ideas and topics within a luminosity and shadings.
Brian Coffey, How Far From Daybreak
£12.50/£16.50/£20.00
A new, selected poems (edited by Nicholas Johnson)...
Brian Coffey, Advent
£12.50/£16.50/£20.00The fifth publication of Advent, 40 years after Coffey first circulated a foolscap edition of 25 to family and friends in 1974. Long out of print, and in danger of neglect, Advent is perhaps the most extraordinary, certainly the most mysterious, long poem in 20th-century British poetry.
Nicholas Johnson
And Stood On Red Earth All Around
£14.95/£20.00/£25.00
A compendium of texts, including Pelt, Haul Song, The Lard Book, Pine Apple and Show.
And Stood On Red Earth All Around
£14.95/£20.00/£25.00
A compendium of texts, including Pelt, Haul Song, The Lard Book, Pine Apple and Show.
John Hall
Keepsache
£12.50/£16.50/£20.00
Unpublished and uncollected texts.
Keepsache
£12.50/£16.50/£20.00
Unpublished and uncollected texts.
Tom Leonard
Definite Articles
£13.95/£18.50/£25.00
A gathering of Leonard’s literary, political and personal prose written between 1973 and 2012.
Definite Articles
£13.95/£18.50/£25.00
A gathering of Leonard’s literary, political and personal prose written between 1973 and 2012.
Fred Beake
The Bees of the Horizon
£9.00/£18.50/£20.00
This exquisite folio groups twelve translations from the French of Louis Aragon, Rene Char, Michel Deguy, Robert Desnos and Paul Valery.
The Bees of the Horizon
£9.00/£18.50/£20.00
This exquisite folio groups twelve translations from the French of Louis Aragon, Rene Char, Michel Deguy, Robert Desnos and Paul Valery.
Brian Catling
Three books covering Catling’s collected and uncollected poems.
A Court of Miracles
£16.95/£23.95/£27.00
Late Harping
£9.00/£11.00/£12.50
Bobby Awl
Out of print...
Three books covering Catling’s collected and uncollected poems.
A Court of Miracles
£16.95/£23.95/£27.00
Late Harping
£9.00/£11.00/£12.50
Bobby Awl
Out of print...
Bob Cobbing
* Shrieks & Hisses / Kob bok
£11.00/£15.00/£18.00
One price for a pair of books; a collection of Cobbing’s concrete works.
* Shrieks & Hisses / Kob bok
£11.00/£15.00/£18.00
One price for a pair of books; a collection of Cobbing’s concrete works.
John Daniel
Missing the Boat
£6.50/£9.00/£12.50
Selected Poems
Missing the Boat
£6.50/£9.00/£12.50
Selected Poems
Ed Dorn
High West Rendezvous: A Sampler
£60.00Excerpts from ‘Rocky Mountain Spine,’ ‘Languedoc Variorum—A Defence of Heresy & Heretics,’ ‘Westward Haut—A Transit of the Far West.’ Limited Signed edition, with a handwritten poem.
High West Rendezvous: A Sampler
£60.00Excerpts from ‘Rocky Mountain Spine,’ ‘Languedoc Variorum—A Defence of Heresy & Heretics,’ ‘Westward Haut—A Transit of the Far West.’ Limited Signed edition, with a handwritten poem.
Ed Dorn
Westward Haut
£9.50/£12.50/£15.00
Westward Haut
£9.50/£12.50/£15.00
“Westward Haut is a poem of the Plains, using 1-80 as the kind of spine of the east and west. I’m treating it like the longest strip town in the world. It’s just like the motorized western expansion, but now it's not covered wagons and horses. It’s people burning oil.”
—Ed Dorn (2012)
—Ed Dorn (2012)
Foil—Defining Poetry, 1985-2000
£10.00/£18.00/£27.00
Edited by Nicholas Johnson, this extensive anthology gathers 33 poets and prose artists whose work defines contemporary attitudes to poetics.
£10.00/£18.00/£27.00
Edited by Nicholas Johnson, this extensive anthology gathers 33 poets and prose artists whose work defines contemporary attitudes to poetics.
David Gascoyne
Letter to an Adopted Grandfather
£8.50/£10.00/£12.50
An eloquent, moving and ‘naked’ piece of writing, almost shocking in the excoriating honesty of Gascoyne’s rigorous self-examination.
Letter to an Adopted Grandfather
£8.50/£10.00/£12.50
An eloquent, moving and ‘naked’ piece of writing, almost shocking in the excoriating honesty of Gascoyne’s rigorous self-examination.
Bill Griffiths
A Book of Split Cities
£9.50/£11.00/£12.50
Long poetic sequences on the reversion of the city; the evolution of the suburb; and the city in revolution.
A Book of Split Cities
£9.50/£11.00/£12.50
Long poetic sequences on the reversion of the city; the evolution of the suburb; and the city in revolution.
Bill Griffiths
A Tour of the Fairground
£9.50/£11.00/£12.50 This collection brings together many of the finest of Bill Griffiths’ longer poems, including two quite new sequences, ‘A Tour of the Fairground’ and ‘The Violinist.’
A Tour of the Fairground
£9.50/£11.00/£12.50 This collection brings together many of the finest of Bill Griffiths’ longer poems, including two quite new sequences, ‘A Tour of the Fairground’ and ‘The Violinist.’
John Hall
Else Here: Selected Poems
£12.50/£16.50/£20.00 John Hall’s poetry is razor sharp, cool & witty. Else Here possesses a classical finesse in reviving Tudor poetry & subtle adaptations of Projective Form.
Else Here: Selected Poems
£12.50/£16.50/£20.00 John Hall’s poetry is razor sharp, cool & witty. Else Here possesses a classical finesse in reviving Tudor poetry & subtle adaptations of Projective Form.
Nicholas Johnson
Listening to the Stones
£8.50/£10.50/£14.50New Caledonia is a French territory in the Pacific. In the 1980s the indigenous Melanesians sought independence. This work documents superstition, colonialism, and Chirac-sanctioned execution during that period of insurrection.
Listening to the Stones
£8.50/£10.50/£14.50New Caledonia is a French territory in the Pacific. In the 1980s the indigenous Melanesians sought independence. This work documents superstition, colonialism, and Chirac-sanctioned execution during that period of insurrection.
Tom Leonard
access to the silence
£20.00
With the publication of access to the silence, Etruscan Books has restored the collected poems of Tom Leonard to print.
£50.00
Signed and cased limited edition (with additional poem)
access to the silence
£20.00
With the publication of access to the silence, Etruscan Books has restored the collected poems of Tom Leonard to print.
£50.00
Signed and cased limited edition (with additional poem)
Tom Leonard
intimate voices
£20.00
Few copies remaining...
£45.00
Signed and cased limited edition (with additional poem)
intimate voices
£20.00
Few copies remaining...
£45.00
Signed and cased limited edition (with additional poem)
Tom Leonard
outside the narrative
£12.95
First Edition out of print;
Second Edition available...
Outside the Narrative (Poems 1965-2008) contains what Tom Leonard wishes to retain in print of the poetry in his two main collections Intimate Voices (1965-83) and access to the silence (1984-2004).
£30.00
Signed edition
outside the narrative
£12.95
First Edition out of print;
Second Edition available...
Outside the Narrative (Poems 1965-2008) contains what Tom Leonard wishes to retain in print of the poetry in his two main collections Intimate Voices (1965-83) and access to the silence (1984-2004).
£30.00
Signed edition
Helen Macdonald
Shaler’s Fish
£25.00
Few copies remaining...
£75.00
Limited, cased and signed edition
Shaler’s Fish
£25.00
Few copies remaining...
£75.00
Limited, cased and signed edition
Rebecca E. Marshall
Ways to Disappear
£9.00/£11.00/£14.00
Debut collection in the Etruscan ‘exhibition’ series.
Marshall’s first book of wordfilms, includes a DVD of her film-poem Mortar.
Ways to Disappear
£9.00/£11.00/£14.00
Debut collection in the Etruscan ‘exhibition’ series.
Marshall’s first book of wordfilms, includes a DVD of her film-poem Mortar.
Stuart Montgomery
Islands
£8.50/£10.00/£12.50Begun in the ‘60s, a piece of ‘Circe’ appeared in Poetry Chicago and the complete poem was published by Fulcrum Press in 1969. An early unfinished version of ‘Calypso’ was included in a Christmas supplement of the Poetry Book Society in 1976. Over the years Stuart Montgomery continued working on the poem which is now published for the first time as a complete poem. ‘Sirens’ was also written over many years. It was completed in the summer of 2004 and makes its first appearance in this book.
Islands
£8.50/£10.00/£12.50Begun in the ‘60s, a piece of ‘Circe’ appeared in Poetry Chicago and the complete poem was published by Fulcrum Press in 1969. An early unfinished version of ‘Calypso’ was included in a Christmas supplement of the Poetry Book Society in 1976. Over the years Stuart Montgomery continued working on the poem which is now published for the first time as a complete poem. ‘Sirens’ was also written over many years. It was completed in the summer of 2004 and makes its first appearance in this book.
Wendy Mulford
and suddenly supposing
£14.50/£18.00/£25.00
Selected Poems
and suddenly supposing
£14.50/£18.00/£25.00
Selected Poems
Maggie O’Sullivan
red shifts / Waterfalls
£9.00/£11.00/£15.00
Red Shifts is a multi-textual, full-colour book, punky, volatile & dissenting. Collage & mapping, underpinned by a visceral, tactile (un)nerving text.
red shifts / Waterfalls
£9.00/£11.00/£15.00
Red Shifts is a multi-textual, full-colour book, punky, volatile & dissenting. Collage & mapping, underpinned by a visceral, tactile (un)nerving text.
Tom Pickard
Fuckwind
£9.00/£11.00/£15.00
Introduction by Paul McCartney
Since High on the Walls (1967) Pickard’s always been a lone wolf; a dynamic & volatile writer. Spacious, sparse and of so few syllables, his poems & songs are visceral, slipping roughshed with sparks off their heels. Evoking border ballads, the territory of the outlaw, the reiver—in talking-blues, rants, lyrics & love poems—Fuckwind is a collection of works that live with suss & study diversity in adverse conditions.
Fuckwind
£9.00/£11.00/£15.00
Introduction by Paul McCartney
Since High on the Walls (1967) Pickard’s always been a lone wolf; a dynamic & volatile writer. Spacious, sparse and of so few syllables, his poems & songs are visceral, slipping roughshed with sparks off their heels. Evoking border ballads, the territory of the outlaw, the reiver—in talking-blues, rants, lyrics & love poems—Fuckwind is a collection of works that live with suss & study diversity in adverse conditions.
Seán Rafferty
Review Sketches & Fragments
£14.95/£17.95/£24.95Collected Poems in II Volumes—the poems of Seán Rafferty, indifferent to fashion & almost if not completely unrecognised during his lifetime, have the distinction of being increasingly appreciated as among the most enduring written during the middle years of the twentieth century. Rafferty’s poetry had long been admired by writers as diverse as Sorley MacLean, Harold Pinter, Hamish Henderson, Hugh MacDiarmid and Ted Hughes.
Review Sketches & Fragments
£14.95/£17.95/£24.95Collected Poems in II Volumes—the poems of Seán Rafferty, indifferent to fashion & almost if not completely unrecognised during his lifetime, have the distinction of being increasingly appreciated as among the most enduring written during the middle years of the twentieth century. Rafferty’s poetry had long been admired by writers as diverse as Sorley MacLean, Harold Pinter, Hamish Henderson, Hugh MacDiarmid and Ted Hughes.
Carl Rakosi
The Earth Suite
£9.00/£12.00/£15.00
Rakosi’s voice is puckish, deep, earthed & crystal clear. His art is to create a myriad of elegantly paced voices soldered to a deep wit. His music & diction never falter.
“If there is any word that describes Rakosi's work of the past dozen years, it is joy. It is as if each poem he now writes were a gift, something above & beyond the life he has already lived.”
—Paul Auster
The Earth Suite
£9.00/£12.00/£15.00
Rakosi’s voice is puckish, deep, earthed & crystal clear. His art is to create a myriad of elegantly paced voices soldered to a deep wit. His music & diction never falter.
“If there is any word that describes Rakosi's work of the past dozen years, it is joy. It is as if each poem he now writes were a gift, something above & beyond the life he has already lived.”
—Paul Auster
Carl Rakosi
The Old Poet’s Tale
£9.00/£12.00/£15.00Gathering work spanning 1924-98, an ambitious project featuring a key figure in the group of Jewish & Communist poets known as ‘The Objectivists.’ This book reconfigures previously published works, including 56 new poems & a new essay.
The Old Poet’s Tale
£9.00/£12.00/£15.00Gathering work spanning 1924-98, an ambitious project featuring a key figure in the group of Jewish & Communist poets known as ‘The Objectivists.’ This book reconfigures previously published works, including 56 new poems & a new essay.
Carlyle Reedy
Epos
£20.00
Selected Poems
Epos
£20.00
Selected Poems
Iain Sinclair
The Firewall
£16.95/£21.95/£24.95
Selected Poems
“Not even the Thousand Handed Giant could easily turn over all the poems and open half of the portals of intelligence in this book... This is the landscape of another realm. We are walking over a raw and smoking surface filled with surprises. All around are the possibilities of lost tribes bustling in the shadows. The Firewall edges towards being a world rather than paper and pages. This is a rare jewel.”
—Michael McClure
Iain Sinclair
Saddling the Rabbit
£9.00/£11.00/£12.50
“I recover my sense of London from these coded fragments in a way that considered prose pieces, fiction or essay, won’t allow... I don't want to give nostalgia a good press, but unframed, uncrimped effusions call up corners of lost worlds that are still usefully remembered... If it's not lived experience, it's not in the movie. Cinema and its bastard offspring, television, is the addiction, always... They were the double lives I wanted most, film and poetry. These tight-lipped scripts are about not getting them. And about the world, its tender body, as a consolation.”
—Iain Sinclair
The Firewall
£16.95/£21.95/£24.95
Selected Poems
“Not even the Thousand Handed Giant could easily turn over all the poems and open half of the portals of intelligence in this book... This is the landscape of another realm. We are walking over a raw and smoking surface filled with surprises. All around are the possibilities of lost tribes bustling in the shadows. The Firewall edges towards being a world rather than paper and pages. This is a rare jewel.”
—Michael McClure
Iain Sinclair
Saddling the Rabbit
£9.00/£11.00/£12.50
“I recover my sense of London from these coded fragments in a way that considered prose pieces, fiction or essay, won’t allow... I don't want to give nostalgia a good press, but unframed, uncrimped effusions call up corners of lost worlds that are still usefully remembered... If it's not lived experience, it's not in the movie. Cinema and its bastard offspring, television, is the addiction, always... They were the double lives I wanted most, film and poetry. These tight-lipped scripts are about not getting them. And about the world, its tender body, as a consolation.”
—Iain Sinclair