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‘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
Contact Details:
w: http://www.smokestack-books.co.uk
t: +44 (0) 1642 813997
Address: PO Box 408 Middlesbrough TS5 6WA United Kingdom
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