“It is 2031 and the must-have gadget is the Holophin: a tiny, dolphin-shaped microprocessor which cures your worst impulses and phobias, comforts you in your grief or boredom and makes everything look much, much prettier.” Holophin is the debut novella by award-winning British poet Luke Kennard – originally released in September 2012 as a limited [...]
Filed on March 28, 2013 under News - Comments (0)
Every now and then I like to make a record of an average working day in my life as a publisher and literary arts producer. Partly this it to communicate to the outside world what it is I actually get up to, here in my little corner office in Toynbee Studios, and partly to remind [...]
Filed on March 18, 2013 under News - Comments (0)
Great news! The venerable and wise Poetry Book Society has selected our forthcoming title – Beowulf by Meghan Purvis – as their Recommended Translation for Summer 2013. This accolade follows last year’s PBS Special Commendation for our best-selling anthology Adventures in Form. Written across a range of poetic forms and voices, Meghan Purvis’s vigorous new [...]
Filed on February 5, 2013 under News - Comments (0)
Two new releases have just hit the office and, following the lead of Charles Boyle from CB Editions, I’ve decided to write a few words about why I have published them. First up, we have Mondeo Man by Luke Wright – a 96-pager with a great cover design by Will Daw (think suburban pop). I’ve [...]
Filed on January 8, 2013 under News - Comments (2)
I wanted to share an email we received from Theodoros Chiotis, a good friend of the press. It really made me smile. * Hi Tom, I found this in a Genette text and reminded me of how Penned in the Margins works for me at least: More than a boundary or a sealed border, the [...]
Filed on January 6, 2013 under News - Comments (0)
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A day in the life of an independent publisher / producer
Beowulf selected as PBS Recommended Translation
New releases and some thoughts on why we published them
Poetry that blasts into the future and across distant galaxies
A sci-fi poem for National Poetry Day
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