About Smokestack Books
"and on every side smokestacks were dancing on rooftops..."
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Smokestack Books aims to hold open a space for what is left of the English radical poetic tradition in the twenty-first century. Smokestack champions poets who are unfashionable, radical, left-field or working a long way from the metropolitan centres of cultural authority. Smokestack is committed to the common music of poetry; is interested in the World as well as in the Word; believes that poetry is a part of and not apart from society; argues that if poetry does not belong to everybody, it is not poetry.
Since 2004, Smokestack has published over forty titles. Smokestack’s authors include Linda France, John Lucas, Katrina Porteous, Alison Fell, Kevin Cadwallender, Kath Kenny, Tom Wintringham and Sebastian Barker. Smokestack’s growing and distinguished international list includes Martín Espada (Puerto Rico), Francis Combes (France), Kristin Dimitrova (Bulgaria), Gustavo Pereira (Venezuela), Sergei Samolyenko (Russia), Andras Mezei (Hungary), Heinrich Heine (Germany) and Nikola Vaptsarov (Bulgaria). Coming soon from Smokestack are books by Jeremy Cronin (South Africa), Olga Berggolts (Russia), Richard Schaaf (USA) and Victor Jara (Chile).
Featured Titles
 | Both by Steven Blyth Both is a hymn to a 1970s childhood. £7.95 |  | From Here to Timbuktu by Pauline Plummer A modern-day reworking of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, set on the West African tourist trail. £7.95 |
 | His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Victor Jara by Martin Espada With a Preface by the British actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson. £8.95 |  | Orpheus Ascending by John Gibbens Orpheus Ascending tells the story of the singer who falls dangerously in love, of the beautiful woman who becomes all things to him, and of the underworld king who claims her for his own. £7.95 |
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