Clutag Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Odi Barbare by Geoffrey Hill in early 2012.
Clutag Press is accepting pre-orders for this publication. Orders placed prior to the publication date will be despatched on a first come, first served basis as soon as copies are available.
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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.
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)
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56pp 13.5mm x 21.5mm
ISBN 978-0-9553476-9-6
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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 of ‘who wrote it?’ is always subordinate to the question ‘what is the subject?’. The answer, as all readers will discover, is what Wilfred Owen famously described as ‘the pity of war’: its horror and pathos, as well as its relentless continuance.
Laurels and Donkeys will be published this coming Armistice Day and launched that evening in the Grimond Room, Portcullis House, Palace of Westminster. Contact Clutag Press via the website for more information.
Sean Power who took the cover image is a freelance photographer currently studying photo-journalism at the London College of Communication. He has visited Afghanistan on several occasions. His work has appeared in a number of national newspapers, most notably The Times. Prior to becoming a photo-journalist, Sean served as a Royal Marines Commando, undertaking operational tours of both Afghanistan and Iraq. He is currently a serving member of the Royal Marines Reserve.
After production costs have been met at least half of any income Clutag Press receives from the sale of Laurels and Donkeys will be donated to the Royal Marines’ ‘Recovery – Rehabilitation – Reintegration’ Charity.
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ISBN 978-0-9565432-1-9
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 impact, and deeply-felt sympathy, might be described as ‘ego-less’ – in the sense that the question of ‘who wrote it?’ is always subordinate to the question ‘what is the subject?’. The answer, as all readers will discover, is what Wilfred Owen famously described as ‘the pity of war’: its horror and pathos, as well as its relentless continuance.
Laurels and Donkeys will be published this coming Armistice Day and launched that evening in the Grimond Room, Portcullis House, Palace of Westminster. Contact Clutag Press via the website or email info@clutagpress.com for more information.
Sean Power who took the cover image is a freelance photographer currently studying photo-journalism at the London College of Communication. He has visited Afghanistan on several occasions. His work has appeared in a number of national newspapers, most notably The Times. Prior to becoming a photo-journalist, Sean served as a Royal Marines Commando, undertaking operational tours of both Afghanistan and Iraq. He is currently a serving member of the Royal Marines Reserve.
After production costs have been met at least half of any income Clutag Press receives from the sale of Laurels and Donkeys will be donated to the Royal Marines’ ‘Recovery – Rehabilitation – Reintegration’ Charity.
Clutag Press is accepting pre-orders for this publication. Orders placed prior to the publication date will be despatched on a first come, first served basis as soon as copies are available.
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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, first served basis as soon as copies are available.
Pre-publication offer:
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
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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 poetry in the Gaelic and the Scottish traditions. Here are poems on themes as old as love and as topical as the Iraq War, on the phenomenon of the selkie and other legendary matters, on leaving St Kilda (with words from the St Kildan dialect), on a latter-day Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, and on language itself.
Iain Crichton Smith was given to saying that you could fit all true Gaelic speakers in an old-fashioned phone box. With Pàdraig Macaoidh on the other end of the line, it’s not hard to imagine why they’re in there. One can only imagine queues forming elsewhere, down innumerable island and highland roads, eager to lift the receiver from its cradle.
With the publication of this remarkable pamphlet we are pleased to announce that those queues might now be joined at all points of the compass, up and down the entire archipelago.
Note on the author: Pàdraig Macaoidh was until recently a Research Fellow at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, writing among other things a study of Sorley MacLean due out in 2010. He currently works as a broadcast journalist for BBC Alba.
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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 generation, the shape of myth or fable….Jenkins’s seven poems speak of the confusions, sorrows, embarrassments and poignant ironies of a particular moment, in particular circumstances, but do so with such powerful honesty that these ‘past lives’ are made vividly present.
Alan Jenkins is Deputy Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He has published five books of poetry, the most recent A Shorter Life (2005) being shortlisted for the Forward Prize.
An edition of 100 copies
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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 here for the first time, the ten poems will later appear in Here Comes the Night, from The Gallery Press.
Alan Gillis teaches at Edinburgh University. His first collection, Somebody, Somewhere (2004) was short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and received the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award for best first collection. Hawks and Doves (2007) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
An edition of 100 copies
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Announcing the forthcoming publication of FLOOD by Paul Abbott with illustrations by Gail McNeillie, available February 2008
Limited edition of 100 copies.
22pp 170mm x 240mm ISBN 0-9553476-2-9
Paul Abbott’s poem FLOOD is a ‘Waste Land’ for the twenty-first century, a timely and daring debut in the disaster genre, by a twenty-one-year-old in his final year at Oxford. Those who have read the first issue of Clutag’s magazine ARCHIPELAGO will have enjoyed a snapshot of the poem in its pages. Now it is offered complete in ten sections, illustrated with eight superbly grainy drawings by Gail McNeillie. The vision here – ‘an Epic Newsflash’ – is one of post-apocalyptic catastrophe ‘couched,’ we’re told in a prefatory note ‘somewhat in the film-cutting style of Soviet montage theory (which I read about on Wikipedia)’.
Streetwise, slangy, irreverent, intensely self-aware (and well-read), the poet-speaker steals a boat (in very un-Wordsworthian circumstances), jumpstarts its outboard, and survives long enough to tell his tale ‘Of London, of Global Warming, of HEAT magazine… of squalid Thames… and of its fall’. The shades of William Blake and John Milton – ghost writers – act as Virgilian guides, ushering him towards ‘the first day of the rest
of my death’, at Battersea Power Station (the service entrance to hell).
Don’t miss it.
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