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Catalogue New Books NEW BOOKS & COMPLETE LIST 2017 Laureate. Discovered during the cataloguing of Neruda’s papers, there are 21 poems in all, together with detailed notes about how they relate www.bloodaxebooks.com to his published work. BLOODAXE BOOKS INNOVATION & OUTREACH ‘Recently discovered within the “jungle of the poet’s Bloodaxe has revolutionised poetry publishing in May 2017 sees the release of the Bloodaxe manuscripts”, these 21 untitled and previously Britain over four decades. Internationally renowned Poetry App, drawing on our extensive archive unpublished poems, produced between the early for quality in literature and excellence in book of poems, video and audio material, also available 1950s and Neruda’s 1973 death, continue his design, our authors and books have won virtually on the Bloodaxe website for many titles. For a tradition of political engagement, love of homeland, every major literary award given to poetry, from glimpse into the history of how many of these and exaltations of nature and romantic love. These captivating poems are presented separately in English the T.S. Eliot Prize and Pulitzer to the Queen’s books came into being, follow the link to the and Spanish, and annotated with contextual notes Gold Medal for Poetry and the Nobel Prize. And Bloodaxe digital archive, courtesy of Newcastle and background information including dates, inter- books like the Staying Alive trilogy have broken University. Some 200 Bloodaxe titles are now pretations, and descriptions of the documents them- new ground by opening up contemporary poetry available as ebooks, including several enhanced selves. This is Neruda at his finest, his eloquence to many thousands of new readers. ebooks with audio. Bloodaxe’s new website and passion skilfully arranged in an accessible yet profound package.’ – Publishers Weekly includes online ordering. For full information NEW TITLES FOR 2017 on books, authors, news and events, see: ‘The poems here are certainly as deserving to form Bloodaxe’s latest list again reflects the innovative, part of the poet’s canon as any heretofore published www.bloodaxebooks.com international and diverse range of our poetry collections. It’s a real treat discovering long lost publishing, including Pablo Neruda’s recently Bloodaxe Books is named after the Viking king Neruda poems that do not disappoint.’ – Library Journal discovered lost poems and four other books of ERIC BLOODAXE, last ruler of the old kingdom of poetry in translation, four anthologies (one Northumbria, who features in Basil Bunting’s 27 April 2017 £12 paper with DVDs), and renowned poet Pascale Petit’s Briggflatts (published by Bloodaxe Books). 978 1 78037 360 7 192 pages 231 x 155mm 20 colour illustrations first collection from Bloodaxe. As well as many PABLO NERUDA North America: Copper Canyon Press writers from Britain and Ireland, this year’s Then Come Back programme includes poets from the US, Chile, Also available from Bloodaxe: THE LOST NERUDA POEMS China, Guyana, Romania and Somalia. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, £12. Translated by Forrest Gander BLOODAXE BOOKS LTD SALES & MARKETING WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Executive Chair: Simon Thirsk Bloodaxe Books, Unit 11, Penllyn Workshops, SPANISH-ENGLISH DUAL LANGUAGE EDITION Managing Director: Neil Astley Arun Street, Bala, Gwynedd LL23 7SP, Wales. Company Secretary: Nansi Thirsk, LLB TEL: 01678-521550 FAX: 01678-521544 ‘The greatest poet of the twentieth century, in any Patrons: Dame Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL; Rt. Hon. Mark Executive Chair: Simon Thirsk language.’ – GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ Fisher; Lee Hall; Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL; Marina Warner, E-MAIL: [email protected] CBE, FBA; Benjamin Zephaniah Finance Manager: Bethan Jones This stunning collection gathers together previously Registered Office: Eastburn, South Park, Hexham NE46 1BS. E-MAIL: [email protected] unknown poems found by archivists in boxes kept at Registered Number 1656254 England. VAT No 414 4062 89. Sales & Royalties: Jean Smith the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014. E-MAIL: [email protected] EDITORIAL, PUBLICITY & RIGHTS Neruda is renowned for poetry that casts away despair and celebrates living, fired by his belief that there is no Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Eastburn, South Park, SALES REPRESENTATION Hexham, Northumberland NE46 1BS, UK. unsurmountable solitude. Then Come Back presents PGUK (Publishers Group UK) Neruda’s mature imagination and writing: signature TEL: 01434-611581 FAX: 01434-611586 @BloodaxeBooks 63-66 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8LE love poems, odes, anecdotes, and poems of the political Editor: Neil Astley E-MAIL [email protected] www.pguk.co.uk imagination. Translator Forrest Gander beautifully E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL 020 7405 1105 FAX 020 7242 3725 @PGUK_Books renders the eros and heartache, deep wonder and Publicity Manager: Christine Macgregor complex wordplay of the original Spanish, which is E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 01434-611582 Rights Manager: Suzanne Fairless-Aitken This catalogue covers Bloodaxe titles in print in presented here with full-colour reproductions of the E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 01434-611583 2017 or planned till December 2017. See inside poems in their original composition on scraps of Administration/Publicity/Prizes: Rebecca Hodkinson back cover for details of distribution and sales paper, music programmes, a menu, and in notebooks. representation. E-MAIL: [email protected] TEL: 01434-611581 Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems simultaneously completes and advances the oeuvre of the Nobel CATALOGUE ISBN: 978 1 78037 400 0 BLOODAXE BOOKS 2 3 parts of the world, including America, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Guyana, India, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland and Sweden, as well as from Britain and Ireland. Most of the films present informal, one-to-one readings, with the poets reading to you in person. They enhance your appreciation of the poetry. You hear how the poems sound; you see how the poets read and present their work. Poets writing in other languages read in the original with the English translations read by themselves or by their translators. Some poets are also captured in live performance. T.S. Eliot once described poetry as ‘one person talking to another’, while W.H. Auden believed it was essential to hear poetry read aloud, for ‘no poem, which when mastered, is not better heard than read is good poetry’. In Person: World Poets presents the oral art of poetry in that spirit. There are over 14 hours of readings on four DVDs packaged with the book, and all the poems included DVD- in the films are printed in the anthology, with poems BOOK written in other languages alongside the translations, FLEUR ADCOCK LAND OF THREE RIVERS enabling you to follow either language as they are Hoard The Poetry of North-East England IN PERSON: WORLD POETS read on the film. Like the original In Person: 30 Poets, this new compilation gives readers a personal festival edited by Neil Astley Filmed and edited by of poetry in DVD and book form for viewing at Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to Pamela Robertson-Pearce & Neil Astley home on laptop or TV. It is also a unique keep under wraps for several years because they Land of Three Rivers is a celebration of North-East educational resource for the teaching and didn’t suit the themes of her last two collections, England in poetry, featuring its places and people, In 2008, Bloodaxe published the world’s first DVD- appreciation of poetry. The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include culture, history, language and stories in poems and anthology, In Person: 30 Poets, a new concept in reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, songs with both rural and urban settings. Taking its publishing: readings by 30 poets published by 25 May 2017 £15 paperback with 4 DVDs typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, ill- bearings from the Tyne, Wear and Tees of the title Bloodaxe in its first 30 years captured on film, with all 978 1 85224 985 4 320 pages 234 x 156m considered second marriage followed by her (from Vin Garbutt’s song ‘John North’), the book the poems included in the footage printed in the book Previously announced migration from New Zealand to England in 1963), maps the region in poems relating to past and of the films. and poems on trees, wildlife and everyday objects. present, depicting life from Roman times through PAMELA ROBERTSON-PEARCE is an artist medieval Northumbria and the industrial era of Its sequel, In Person: World Poets, is another inter- and filmmaker. Her films include Imago: Ellen Wilkinson, who led the Jarrow March in 1936, mining and shipbuilding up to the present-day. national collaboration between Bloodaxe Books and Meret Oppenheim (1996), Gifted Beauty (2000), makes two appearances, joining Coleridge, several award-winning film-maker Pamela Robertson-Pearce. Life is Immense: Visiting Samuel Menashe Introductory essays by Rodney Pybus and Neil (2009) and Benjamin Zephaniah: To Do Wid ancestors and two dogs. The most recent poems in Her style of filming combines directness and simplicity, Me (2013). She has shown her work in solo the book recall Adcock’s visits around the North Astley emphasise the importance of the oral sensitivity and warmth – the perfect combination for exhibitions in New York and Provincetown Island of New Zealand in 2015, affirming her tradition during the centuries when little “written these intimate readings. It is as if the poet were sitting (Cape Cod), and in group shows in the US renewed although not uncritical affection for the poetry” of note was produced in the region. There in the room with you, reading just to you, and and Europe. She co-edited the Bloodaxe country of her birth. are also fascinating commentaries on key historical anthology Soul Food (2007) with Neil Astley, sometimes saying a few things about the poems.
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