This list represents our remaining stock of poetry books and ephemera of all periods but with emphasis on modernist poetry published by small presses.
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Peter Ackroyd
Ezra Pound and his World
Published by Thames & Hudson 1980
Edition 1st
Condition Very good
With 111 black-&-white illustrations. Somewhat musty copy, boards in dustjacket with chips & small tear..
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Price £12.00
List ref
WB451
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Gilbert Adair
Signs of Life Book One
Published by Galloping Dog 1982
Edition 1st Limitation 150
Condition Near fine
A4 mimeo printed rectos only, perfect-bound in wrappers. Cover & illustrations by Patricia Farrell. Some wear to wrappers otherwise fine.
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Price £18.00
28pp
List ref
WB1446
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Conrad Aiken
Senlin: A Biography
Published by Hogarth 1925
Edition 1st
Condition Good
Uncut edges darkened. Boards rubbed & scuffed, spine fraying.
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Price £10.00
36pp
List ref
WB1156
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Mark Akenside
The Pleasures of Imagination, and other Poems
Published by J.Dodsley London 1788
Edition Reprint
Condition Very good
Some occasional spotting but generally clean pages. Contemporary half calf somewhat worn & rubbed, titling & gilt decoration dulled, joints still sound.
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Price £30.00
List ref
WB1276
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David Annwn
The Last Hunting of the Lizopard
with
Alan Halsey
Published by West House 2007
Limitation 150 copies numbered & signed by author & artist
Condition Mint
8 b/w images (approx. 165 x 110 mm) by Halsey, text by Annwn. Typeset & handsewn at Five Seasons Press, digital reproduction by Reprodux, Hereford. ‘Does the diet of the lizopard consist only of books? I can comprehend vellum’s attraction, and good whetting it is for the teeth. The fibres of the pages would certainly give some filling but not nourishment enough. Perhaps it is the readers whose flesh is required. The body of the reader was always necessary for the books of the lizopard to live fully. We might sense the book’s brooding content on its shelf, shadowed in unrealised potential, but as soon as we open its hide we are devoured, and our very essence is life blood to the lizopard.’ Martin Corless-Smith
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Price £14.00
20pp
ISBN
978-1-904052-23-4
List ref
WB974
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David Annwn
Bela Fawr’s Cabaret
Published by West House & Ahadada 2008
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
Paperback. ‘David Annwn’s work drills deep into strata of myth and history, exposing devices which resonate in new contexts. Faithful to the living moment, his poems dip, hover and dart through soundscapes rich with suggestion, rhythmically charged and etymologically playful. Formally adventurous and inviting disjunction, these texts retain a lyric coherence that powerfully renders layers of experience. The mode veers from jazzy to mystical, evoking in the reader both disturbance and content. Bela Fawr’s Cabaret has this recognisable stamp: music and legend ‘Knocked Abaht a Bit’, mischievous humour yielding subtle insight.’ Gavin Selerie
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Price £14.00
136pp
ISBN
1-904052-24-1
List ref
WB1077
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David Annwn
Hear the Voice of the Bard!
Published by West House Books 1995
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
In this essay, originally delivered as a lecture to the Blake Society in 1994, David Annwn considers the origin of William Blake’s vision of the Bard, tracing it back through Thomas Gray to the great Welsh bardic poems of Aneurin and Taliesin. He goes on to follow its recent history, from W.B.Yeats to the modernist poetics of Robert Duncan. Typeset at Five Seasons Press.
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Price £6.00
32pp
ISBN
0952189119
List ref
WB60
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David Annwn
Danse Macabre: Death and the Printers
with
Kelvin Corcoran, Alan Halsey, Gavin Selerie
Published by West House Books / Ispress 1997
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
Poems in response to the famous woodcut of 1499 showing skeleton Deaths fetching the workers from a printer’s office. The image, which originally appeared in Hus’s edition of the Danse Macabre, is the first known illustration of a printshop. The poems range through a variety of themes, historical and contemporary, and consider the Faust myth in relation to new technology.
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Price £6.00
40pp
ISBN
0952189194
List ref
WB61
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