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Publications
The Publications section links to information about all Clutag Press publications, including those under the Poetry Pamphlets heading.
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Andrew Motion - Laurels and Donkeys
This profoundly moving new book is a sequence of war poems referring to 20th - and 21st-century conflicts that have involved British forces: among them, the First World War, the Second World War, the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. Several of the poems are based on memories of the poet’s father, who landed at D-day and fought in France and Germany; many more take the words of other soldiers (from books, interviews and suchlike) to create ‘found poems’ that are in a sense collaborations between the author and his source.
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Geoffrey Hill - Oraclau | Oracles
Since the publication of A Treatise of Civil Power in 2007, Geoffrey Hill has completed five new collections. Under the general title The Daybooks, they include Al Tempo de’ Tremuoti, Odi Barbare, Oraclau | Oracles, and Clavics.
In addition to Oraclau | Oracles, Clutag Press also plans to issue Daybooks II: Odi Barbare in 2011. The five volumes constitute the final section of Hill’s Collected Poems 1952-2012, scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press in 2013.
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Ian Niall: Part of his Life - Andrew McNeillie (2007)
The Scottish writer John McNeillie, who died on 24 June 2002, aged 85, left a legacy of over forty books, among them a number of minor classics, and several decades of weekly nature journalism in the pages of Country Life for which he wrote under the pen name Ian Niall.
‘...We owe Andrew McNeillie a great debt for reintroducing us to the most neglected of writers.’
Douglas Gifford
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My Childhood - John McNeillie (2004)
The original and until recently mislaid and forgotten version of his account of John McNeillie's childhood and youth-time at North Clutag farm.
One of the finest pieces of writing he produced in a lifetime’s output of some forty books, it is now published for the first time.
Accompanying it are four hitherto unpublished tales, written around 1939 and 1940. ‘Boy in the Beanfield’, ‘Tales of the Smith’, ‘The Cancer Doctor’, and ‘Did you ever hear the like?’ shed fascinating light on elements in the memoir and reveal as nothing else John McNeillie wrote the story-telling culture in which his gift was forged.
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Poetry Pamphlets
The Poetry Pamphlets are a particular Clutag Press project, launched in early 2005 and originating from the hand-set and printed Clutag Poetry Leaflets.
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CD Recording
Clutag Press embarked on a one off CD recording project to mark its involvement in a Geoffrey Hill poetry reading event in Oxford, February 2006.
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Magazine
ARCHIPELAGO is a literary journal containing writings in non-fictional prose and verse that are primarily preoccupied with landscape, with documentary and remembrance, with wilderness and wet, with natural and cultural histories, with language and languages, with the littoral and vestigial, the geological, and topographical, with climates, in terms of both meteorology, ecology and environment; and all these things as metaphor, liminal and subliminal, at the margins, in the unnameable constellation of islands on the Eastern Atlantic coast, known variously in other millennia as Britain, Great Britain, Britain and Ireland etc; even, too, too readily, the United Kingdom.
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Publications