Titles in print

Listed alphabetically by author

 

Oliver Bernard

Five Peace Poems

1985 · 19 x 27.5cm

Printed offset at Berrington Press, Hereford on 100% recycled drawing cartridge. Gollancz-pastiche cover printed letterpress at Five Seasons.

ISBN 0 947960 01 5 · 16pp · Price £5.00

 

Wendell Berry

The Landscape of Harmony: two essays on wilderness & community

1987 · 13.7 x 18.7cm

‘A Wendell Berry primer for British readers.’ With an introduction by Michael Hamburger to the writings of Wendell Berry, together with a checklist of Wendell Berry’s books. The essays are ‘Preserving wilderness’ and ‘Does community have a value?’.

ISBN 0 947960 03 2 · 80pp · Price £9.50

 

David Constantine

Mappa Mundi

1984
HEREFORD POEMS NINE
A poem in nine parts celebrating the Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral.

Special edition 19.5 x 23cm
50 signed & numbered copies on Zerkall mould-made paper sewn into imitation-parchment wrapper inserted into board sleeve with label.   Price £15

Trade edition 18.5 x 21.5cm
12pp sewn into board wrapper · Price £4.50

 

Roy Fisher

Near Garmsley Camp

1988 · 17 x 26cm

HEREFORD POEMS TEN

With two illustrations by Caroline Hands.

Printed on Rives mould-made paper and sewn into Colorplan cover. 275 copies signed and numbered by author and artist.   

8pp · Price £7.50

 

Charles Haldeman

without graves—no resurrections

1984 · 16 x 22cm

Three poems and the ‘Chania Haiku’ sequence. Checklist of Haldeman’s novels published and unpublished. Foreword by Peter Levi. Two drawings by Jan Liodaki.   

16pp · Price £7.50

 

Alan Halsey

Auto Dada Café

1987 · 15 x 21cm

Nineteen poems printed letterpress.

Special edition not in print — see complete checklist.

Trade edition in Colorplan cover with author’s illustration.

ISBN 0 9504606 9 9 · 32pp · Price £8

  Marginalien

April 2005 · 24.8 x 17.6cm

Section-sewn paperback plus CD-Rom. For more details see home page.

ISBN 0 947960 34 1 · 416pp · £15.50

  The Text of Shelley’s Death

2001 · 15.5 x 22.5cm

Collage prose poem / biographical study.

‘A cross-genre masterpiece.’

The 1995 Five Seasons letterpress-printed trade edition is out of print (see complete checklist).

This offset reprint is published by West House Books, Sheffield. Section-sewn paperback with Shelley manuscript cover.

ISBN 1 904052 00 2 · 84pp · Price £8.95
[orders will be forwarded to West House Press]

   

1995 · 18 x 26cm

A few copies remain of the 1995 special edition (see photo) hand-printed at Five Seasons on hand-made Fabriano Umbria paper and bound by The Fine Bindery in an imitation-parchment reproduction of an Italian memorandum book, with foredge flap, used by Shelley in 1822.

Manuscripts reproduced from the Bodleian Shelley collection decorate both the endpapers and the solander-box covers. Now only available from West House Books.

Price £235
[orders will be forwarded to West House Press]

 

David Hart

Setting the Poem to Words

1998 · 15.5 x 23cm

His major collection. Photoset at Five Seasons and printed by Biddles (first web offset production to use Five Seasons recycled paper). Section-sewn paperback.

ISBN 0 947960 19 8 · 144pp · Price £8.50

  Crag Inspector

2002 · 14.5 x 21cm

'A Poem of Bardsey Island’

Typeset at Five Seasons and printed by Biddles. Section-sewn paperback in Swedish Tre Kronor covers.

ISBN 0 947960 29 5 · 144pp · Price £8.00

  Running Out

2006 · 23.4 x15.6 cm

ISBN 978-0-947960-49-0 · 272 pages £10.50 

 

 

Charles Johnson

The Feather-list Extracts

April 2005 · 23.4 x 15.6cm

Section-sewn paperback.
For more details see home page.

ISBN 0 947960 37 6 · 128pp · Price £7.50  

 

Paul Matthews

The Ground That Love Seeks

1996 · 14 x 23cm

New and selected poems. 'Pre Preface’ by Robert Duncan. Photoset at Five Seasons and printed offset by Biddles with laminated jacket printed at The Senecio Press. Section-sewn paperback. Second printing.

ISBN 0 947960 09 0 · 128pp · Price £10

 

Paul Merchant

Bone from a Stag’s Heart

1988 · 15 x 21cm

Five sequences of poems. Letterpress-printed section-sewn paperback with cover illustration by Alan Halsey.

ISBN 0 947960 03 1 · 64pp · Price £9.50

 

Some Business Of Affinity

2006 · 24 x 16.5cm

ISBN 978-0-947960-39-1 · 272 pp · Price £13.50

 

Richard Penna

One Man

1999 · 14.5 x 21cm

A novel disguised as a poem or vice versa.

'I was somewhat hypnotized by it - by a quality of the stanzaic scheme that I could not put my finger on. I also liked the humour, the quietly disorientating treatment of time, and many other things. It’s a poem that stays in the mind.’ J.M.Coetzee

Photoset at Five Seasons and printed by Biddles. Section-sewn paperback with coloured endpapers and Gainsborough cover.

Distributed for Annephelios Press, France

ISBN 2 9513747 0 4 · 80pp · Price £10

 

Gavin Selerie

Le Fanu’s Ghost

2006 · 24.5 x16.5 mm

ISBN 978-0-947960-44-5 · 352 pages £15.50   

 

Gary Snyder

Good Wild Sacred

1984 · 14 x 19cm

First publication in book form of this essay.

The special signed edition and the second trade edition (see complete checklist) are unavailable.

A few copies of the first letterpress edition, single-section sewn into Strathmore covers with Colorplan endpapers, are available.

ISBN 0 947960 00 7 · 32pp · Price £15

 

Boat of a Million Years

1996 · 38 x 57cm · broadside / poster poem

First publication of the poem shortly afterwards included in Snyder’s 'Mountains and Rivers Without End’ (Counterpoint). Chinese calligraphy by Kwok Man Ho. Printed letterpress in two colours on Rives mould-made paper. Numbered edition of 300.

A few copies available · Price £75

 

Glenn Storhaug

for silver see blue

2003 · 15 x 21cm

A long poem co-published by West House Books. See details and reviews.

ISBN 0 947960 15 5 · 64pp · Price £7.95

  On Printing Poetry Aloud

1984 · 19 x 25cm

The Five Seasons manifesto reproduced from the pages of 'Matrix 2’ (1982). Subsequently republished in 'Type & Typography’ (Mark Batty, New York 2003).

Stapled pamphlet.

8pp · Price £4
(only available when added to another order)

     

 

 

     
       
   

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