Anvil Press Poetry is an independent poetry publisher based in Greenwich, south-east London. It was founded in 1968 by Peter Jay and specialises in contemporary English poets, with a leavening of Irish and American, and in a range of translated poetry, from ancient classics to modern and contemporary poets. Greenwich (pronounced grenn-itch or by some grinn-itch ) is a town, now part of the south eastern urban sprawl of London, on the south bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
Cyprian Norwid, born 1821, was orphaned in early childhood, left Poland forever at 21, was befriended by Chopin, traveled widely, even to America, was dogged by financial crises, arrested for debt, and from 1854 lived in Paris, forced to spend his final years in a hostel for Polish orphans and veterans.
Single-minded and largely self-taught, he created a unique and seemingly uninfluenced brand of poetry that was only recognized long after his death as among the best of Polish literature.
Yet Rozewicz’s poetry is not confined to recording the horrors of war.
One of Britain's leading publishers of classics and poetry in translation, it is committed to the quality of the translations it publishes as it is to the quality of work written in English.
An Irish publisher of poetry that is daring and classical at once, Dedalus was the first Irish publisher to publish poetry in dual language translation, reaching to Europe and beyond from an island off an island off a continent.
The Many Press publishes poetry that in many cases follows on from a revival of interest in a 'modernist' programme in the late sixties, and that is consequently not in the mainstream.
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