Agenda Editions is Agenda’s own publishing company

which produces small, beautifully printed, limited editions of an individual’s poems.

New, Recent and Forthcoming Poetry from Agenda Editions:

For further details and to order, contact Agenda Editions, The Wheelwrights, Fletching Street, Mayfield, East Sussex TN20 6TL or email: editor@agendapoetry.co.uk

                                       AGENDA EDITIONS

                                          A Woman Called Rose

                                               and other poems

                 Published July 2011: Spanish poems translated by Arthur Terry who, just

                 before he died, sent a hand-written letter to William Cookson, expressing

                 a strong wish for Agenda Editions to bring this collection out. This has at

                 last been made possible by a generous grant from the estate of the late

                 Elizabeth Robertson, a lover of poetry.

                 Arthur Terry was part of the Belfast Writing Group which included such

                 well-known poets as Seamus Heaney, Philip Hobsbaum, Michael Longley,

                 James Simmons and Derek Mahon.

                 Price: £9 (plus P&P)

                 Order from: editor@agendapoetry.co.uk

Zarathustra

Nicholas Jagger

This long poem is a response to Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra, rendering in strong and urgent language Nietzsche’s call to a journey away from accepted norms and towards true self-realisation.  By turns lyrical and acerbic, and deploying many different voices, the poem offers an imaginative engagement with the challenges posed by Nietzsche’s figure of Zarathustra.  The cover illustration and the drawings placed throughout the book come from a complementary body of painting and sculpture in which the poet explores the nature of masks and effigies.

Published by Agenda Editions

The Wheelwrights

Fletching Street

Mayfield

East Sussex TN20 6TL

www.agendapoetry.co.uk

ISBN 978-0-902400-93-1   Price £10

Jean Cassou’s The Madness of Amadis and other poems,

                        translated by Timothy Adès (£9.99)

        (Bilingual edition: French and English on facing pages)

Jean Cassou, a war time Resistance leader in France, is still somewhat under-appreciated. These intriguing poems represent the body of Cassou’s work, following his famous 33 Sonnets of the Resistance (also translated by Timothy Adès), composed and memorised while Cassou was in prison, forbidden any writing materials.

          ‘Without strain, Adès creates

          a perfect mirror for Cassou’s language’…

          ‘He has done the literate British a huge service’…

         ‘Cassou’s shade must be glowing’…

         ‘Ades’ sensitivity xrays the heart of every poem’.

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                                                              Harry Guest.

Gary Allen:  Iscariot’s Dream (£8.99)

This poignant, multi-layered collection – particularly relevant for our day in its treatment of treachery, and its detailed, graphic rendering of violence as something revolting, not to be mythologised – is the fourth collection by Gary Allen. It is ‘thronged with the undead’, living ghosts from classical mythology, from the Bible, and from the more recent ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland. Gary Allen, who was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim in Northern Ireland, uses his childhood memories to give a gripping reality to this book. He has published three very well-received collections of poetry, the last of which, North of Nowhere, came from Lagan Press in 2006. He has also published a novel, Cillin (Black Mountain, 2005) and a collection of short stories, Introductions (Lagan Press, 2007).

           ‘A Courageous and stunning work’…

           ‘Six poems in, the reader is wrenched awake, and to the realisation: something

            very brave is being done’…

                                                               Ailbhe Darcy in the monthly arts supplement

Jan  Farquharson: No Dammed Tears(£8.99+£1 p&p)

Dante: The Divine Comedy, translated by Laurence Binyon, with La Vita Nuova, translated by D.G. Rossetti
(revised edition) (£10+£1 p&p)

Kenneth Cox: Collected Studies in the Use of English (£12+£1 p&p)

Agenda Editions presents                        The Book of Hours                        by Rainer Maria Rilke                        translated by Christine McNeill                                        and Patricia McCarthy A fresh translation/version of this masterwork by Rilke particularly relevant to our present day: a fine entrance to the rest of his poetry.                       Rarely available in English.                       £10.99 incl p & p

John Montague: A Smile Between The Stones, translations from Sur La Dernière Lande by Claude Esteban, who gained the first Prix Goncourt ever for poetry (usually awarded for prose). (£7.99+£1 p&p)     Desmond O'Grady: Kurdish Poems of Love and Liberty (£9.99+£1 p&p)             Grey Gowrie: The Domino Hymn – poems from Harefield (£10+£1 p&p)

Steven O'Brien: Dark Hill Dreams ( £8.99 + £1 p&p ) (a first collection from this Irish/first Generation British poet).

For further details and to order, contact Agenda Editions, The Wheelwrights, Fletching Street, Mayfield, East Sussex TN20 6TL or email: editor@agendapoetry.co.uk