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	Crucifixion in the Plaza De Armas by Espada, Martín Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas brings together Martín Espada’s Puerto Rico poems in one volume for the first time. £7.95		Granny Albyn's Complaint by Betteridge, David A militant celebration in verse of Glasgow’s radical past £7.95

‘Smokestack has a great squad of radical poets lined up for its first season. I predict that the team will roll like thunder, strike like lightening and electrify British poetry.’ - Adrian Mitchell

Smokestack was founded in 2004, with the aim of publishing poets who are unconventional, unfashionable, radical or left-field and who are working a long way from the metropolitan centres of cultural authority. In just three years, Smokestack has begun to establish itself as a publisher with a distinctive identity and an unusual list of well-designed, high quality poetry books.

‘the poet must take part in the sweat, in the bread, in the wine, in the dream of all humanity.’ - Pablo Neruda

Smokestack books

• are coherent, planned books, not just selections of individual poems
• share a heightened, musical use of language
• pay attention to poetic form
• are unconventional, unfashionable and radical.

‘In the dark times
Will there also be singing ?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.’ - Brecht

Smokestack Books

• is interested in the World as well as the Word.
• believes that poetry is a part of and not apart from society
• argues that if poetry does not belong to everyone it is not poetry.

‘Ah-oh, smokestack lightning

Shinin’, just like gold

Why don’t ya hear me cryin’?’

- Howling Wolf

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