Geoffrey Hill’s ORACLAU | ORACLES was reviewed by M Wynn Thomas in the Guardian on 16th October. “Oraclau/Oracles is indeed a troubling and challenging volume of “devices”, a remarkable emblem book for our times by one of the most considerable, and accordingly formidable, poets of our age.” Click here to read the full review online.
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Geoffrey Hill – ORACLAU | ORACLES (Clutag Press, 2010)
Copies of Geoffrey Hill’s ORACLAU | ORACLES are now available to order. Advance orders have now been despatched. Hardback £15.00 (including p&p UK and Ireland) £20.00 (including p&p USA, Canada, R.o.W.) 56pp 13.5mm x 21.5mm ISBN 978-0-9553476-9-6 [wpsc_products product_id=’539′]
Andrew Motion – Laurels and Donkeys (Clutag Press, 2010)
Andrew Motion’s 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. The result is lyric poetry which for all its emotional impact, and deeply-felt sympathy, might be described as ‘ego-less’ – in the sense that the question…
Andrew Motion – Laurels and Donkeys
Announcing the forthcoming publication of Laurels and Donkeys by Andrew Motion, 11th November 2010 ISBN 978-0-9565432-1-9 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. The result is lyric poetry which for all its emotional…
ARCHIPELAGO Issue Five
Pre-publication announcement for ARCHIPELAGO Issue Five, available Winter 2010-2011 The next issue of ARCHIPELAGO is currently in the final stages of preparation. Among the contributions so far accumulated are: Tim Dee on ‘Nature Writing’, James Macdonald Lockhart on ‘The Flow Country’ of West Caithness, John Kerrigan on ‘Archipelagic Oz’, Caspar Henderson on Norfolk’s ‘Scolt Head Island’, John Greening with a literary history of Huntingdonshire, a ‘Ghosts’ feature on Seton Gordon (1886-1977) with a plethora of black-and-white photographs, returning us to St Kilda in 1928. There are new poems by Meg Bateman, Douglas Dunn, Michael Longley, Les Murray, among others, and engravings by Norman Ackroyd. Clutag Press is accepting pre-orders for Issue Five. Orders placed prior to the publication date will…
Geoffrey Hill – ORACLAU | ORACLES (Clutag Press, 2010)
Clutag Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication in October 2010 of a new book of poems by the Oxford Professor of Poetry: 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. Clutag Press 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. ORACLAU | ORACLES Clutag Press is accepting pre-orders for this publication. Orders placed prior to the publication date will be despatched on a first come,…
Pàdraig Macaoidh – From Another Island (Clutag Press, 2010)
Announcing the publication of From Another Island by Pàdraig Macaoidh, June 2010 ISBN 978-0-9553476-8-9 Pàdraig Macaoidh is a native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Lewis. His pamphlet offers poems in English, including the title poem, and in Gaelic, for which en face English versions are provided by the author, and in one instance by Ciaran Carson. Together the poems redouble the otherness of their title, playing brilliantly on the cultural ironies that accrue when an ancient language faces up to and bears down upon a world (a colonial politics), that has for centuries conspired with all its might to silence it. The poems speak back to the past with the blend of tenderness and satire that has always characterised…
Launch of In Mortal Memory by Andrew McNeillie
Andrew McNeillie’s new collection of poems In Mortal Memory is now available. A launch event is being held at 6.30pm Blackwells Bookshop, Oxford, 25 February 2010. If you happen to be in the area you are most welcome to join the gathering. For more information, or to order copies, visit www.carcanet.co.uk
Alan Gillis – The Green Rose (Clutag Press, 2010)
Announcing the forthcoming publication of The Green Rose by Alan Gillis, available February 2010 ISBN 978-0-9553476-5-8 ‘This carefully orchestrated collection showcases a striking new development in the work of a fast-emerging poet. From the North of Ireland, but now living in Edinburgh, deeply in tune with his forbearers and contemporaries, yet freshly independent, Gillis offers a vibrant new perspective on our changing archipelago. The Green Rose distils, in concentrated form, a poetic that powerfully combines range and variety with unity and resonance. The vivid sweep of Gillis’s stanzas combine direct speech and sonorous cadence in reverberating verse which, in the grand Irish tradition, is both good craic and a caustic examination of the cracks within society and the self. Published…
Alan Jenkins – The Lost World (Clutag Press, 2010)
Announcing the forthcoming publication of The Lost World by Alan Jenkins, available February 2010 ISBN 978-0-9553476-7-2 ‘No human ingenuity could suggest a means of bridging the chasm which yawned between ourselves and our past lives. One instant had altered the whole conditions of our existence….’ (Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World). Looked back on from middle age, childhood and the adults who peopled it seem as fabulous as the dinosaurs of Conan Doyle’s famous tale. For the parents of anyone born, like Alan Jenkins, in England in the 1950s, the ‘one instant’ that had ‘altered the whole conditions of their existence’ was still in the recent past: a terrifyingly destructive war that was in turn taking on, to a new…
