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Launch of Dedalus by Chris McCabe in pictures!

By - David
Posted on June, 25, 2018June, 26, 2018

Resident photographer of the London literary scene, Harpreet Kalsi, captured our Dedalus launch party wonderfully. You can see more of his photography at ?thatthingyoupluck.com Dedalus available for pre-order in our shop here.

Dedalus by Chris McCabe (a sequel to Ulysses)! Bloomsday launch! Pre-sale!

By - David
Posted on May, 16, 2018June, 27, 2018

We are honoured and excited to be bringing you what can only be described as a hotly anticipated novel : Dedalus, by Chris McCabe. The debut novel of a respected and much-loved poet; a sequel to the lodestar of Modernist writing; causing a stir among Joyceans and universities before it was even signed. The firstfruits of this

HFP & Herxheimer at FREE VERSE (the Poetry Book Fair) 30/09/17 (12 noon reading)

By - David
Posted on September, 11, 2017September, 11, 2017

We are delighted to announce we will be exhibiting at FREE VERSE, London’s pre-eminent Poetry Book Fair. If you are a poetry reader you will probably already have this event in your diary, but we would urge anyone at all interested in Independent Publishing and Literature to come. It brings together some of the most vibrant

A Press of One’s Own: The Hogarth Press was the luxury Virginia Woolf couldn’t do without

By - Ping Henningham
Posted on March, 23, 2017March, 23, 2017

Owning the means of production is one of those luxuries which can change your trajectory in life so much, it is a gamechanger. This especially applies if you’re an artist or writer at those fragile early stages where you are full of skills and promise and energy, but have nothing much to your name (yet).

There’s Sense In Nonsense: HFP in Moscow with The British Council

By - David
Posted on February, 3, 2017February, 2, 2017

I Five metres from a slipper bath filled with ice and cocktails, discussing Modernist Art with Paul Mason, Jenny Broom, Aysulu and Anna (from British Council Russia) we found we had experienced the same epiphany as Paul at the Tretyakov Gallery that day. We had been confronted by an alternative narrative of the origins of

The British Council send HFP to Moscow with UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature commission.

By - David
Posted on November, 22, 2016November, 22, 2016

The British Council have commissioned us to make a major public art contribution at The Central Hall of Artists, Moscow. We are among the British artists and writers being despatched to Moscow next week to represent Britain as Guests of Honour at Non/FictioNo.18 Literature Fair, including Sebastian Faulks, David Almond, (and several people I think

Not with a bang but a Wimpy – T.S. Eliot’s Economics in ‘The Rock’

By - David
Posted on April, 9, 2015April, 10, 2015

Reading T.S. Eliot’s pageant play ‘The Rock’, I mistook the statement Make perfect your will to mean one’s Last Will and Testament. Yet reflecting on my mistake it seemed apt, first that Eliot’s play should reveal my preoccupation with money, and secondly that I had imported the essential Capitalist pact into the play. Our Will

Letters Home Booklet Published with Poetry Library, Southbank Centre

By - David
Posted on January, 14, 2015January, 14, 2015

Letters Home The First World War Poetry Kit Henningham Family Press and The Saison Poetry Library 14pp, ISBN: 9780956316615 The exhibition of An Unknown Soldier at the Royal Festival Hall that ran from November to January has now come down, but it will have a legacy in the Poetry Library for a few years yet.

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