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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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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
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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
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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
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WB61
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David Annwn
Turbulent Boundaries
Published by West House Books 1999
Edition 1st
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Poems. The Caseg-Fedi, the Celtic harvest horse, and the ancient Goddess-centred ceremonies of August preside over this sequence by Anglo-Welsh poet David Annwn. Turbulent layers: languages of conflicting technologies, nations and claims on human consciousness push at their boundaries ...
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Price £5.00
24pp
ISBN
0953150925
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WB62
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David Annwn
Euro6oros
Published by Ispress 2002
Condition Fine
Poem. ‘Annwn’s challenge is that one should keep up with him and his Eurobus, his Occident Express, as it races through an intellectualised landscape full of data, scraps of arcane knowledge, popular culture and contemporary myth-making.’ (John Mole)
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Price £5.00
32pp
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WB151
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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
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WB974
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David Annwn
Bela Fawr’s Cabaret
Published by West House & Ahadada 2008
Edition 1st
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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
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WB1077
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David Annwn (editor)
The Canting Academy
Published by IsPress 2008
Edition 1st
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Responses by contemporary poets to Richard Head’s rogues’ lexicon 1673. Wrappers. Contributors include Vahni Capildeo, Kelvin Corcoran, Ian Davidson, Giles Goodland, Ken Edwards, Alan Halsey, Rupert Loydell, Christine Kennedy, David Kennedy, Geraldine Monk, Peter Riley, Gavin Selerie & Scott Thurston.
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Price £12.00
List ref
WB1115
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John Ashbery
Houseboat Days
Published by Penguin 1977
Edition 1st, paperback issue
Condition Fine
Simultaneous paperback edition. Colour postcard laid in, Ashbery’s L’Heure Exquise, Artists Postcards 1977.
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Price £20.00
88pp
List ref
WB1669
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