About Menard Press
Menard Press, founded as a little magazine in 1969, specialises in literary translation, mainly of poetry. In addition to its literary texts – original and translated poetry, original and translated fiction, art and literary criticism – the press has published essays on the nuclear issue as well as testimonies by survivors of Nazism.
Menard’s backlist comprises almost 150 books, of which around one third are currently in print. Their best known authors include: Octavio Paz, Gillian Rose, de Nerval, Rilke, Pessoa, Jakov Lind, Sylvia Plath (her French translations), John Burnside, F.T.Prince, Jeremy Reed, Amichai, Baudelaire, Primo Levi, Jabès, Bonnefoy, Mallarmé, Mandelstam, Balzac, T.S. Eliot, Gabriel Josipovici, Paul Auster, Ivo Andric, Max Jacob, Oliver Postgate, Sir Martin Ryle and Lord Zuckerman.
But most of the books under Menard’s imprint are by less well known and, indeed, virtually unknown authors; their books receive as much attention from the press as do those by the aforementioned names, who include four Nobel Prize winners.
In addition to books and pamphlets, Menard has published about 150 MenCards, which are postcards containing a poem, often translated and often to mark a celebration.
Featured Titles
 | Blood from the Sky by Piotr Rawicz The new edition of Piotr Rawicz's masterpiece of European and Holocaust literature, edited and with a revised translation by Anthony Rudolf £9.99 |  | Boccaccio in Florence and Other Poems by W. D. Jackson New collection from W.D. Jackson, anticipating the upcoming Opus 3, the final work in the Then and Now series. £9.95 |
 | Homing by John Burnside, J. P. Dick The poems in this collection explore the tension between regret and desire, absence and presence, in a series of honed, powerful lyrics whose depth, complexity and range recall the early Mandelstam. £3.00 |  | Into the Abyss: The Life and Work of G.R. Sims by William J. Fishman The final book by the famous social historian, W.J. Fishman, Into the Abyss: the Life and Works of G.R Sims, with a preface by Beryl Bainbridge. Sims wrote the famous monologue, 'Christmas Day in the Workhouse'. £7.99 |
 | Kitaj in the Aura of Cézanne and Other Masters by Anthony Rudolf, Colin Wiggins Published to accompany the National Gallery exhibition, 7th November 2001 to 10th February 2002. £5.00 |  | Yesterday's Wilderness Kingdom by Yves Bonnefoy Yesterday's Wilderness Kingdom is a complete translation of celebrated French poet Yves Bonnefoy's second collection, Hier régnant désert (1958). £6.99 |
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