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The Big Little Poem Series, and Big Little Poem Books
Robert Richardson,
3 Park Avenue, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE13 0JB
Tel/Fax: 01664 850228
Email: rmr@dmu.ac.uk
Publisher
and editor: Robert Richardson
With the Series,
poems were published in sets of cards, handset, printed letterpress,
and presented in wrappers. The printer was Derek Maggs, who died
in 1992, after which the Series was discontinued. A few copies
are still available.
The book imprint
began in 1987, when there was a collaboration with Agenda Editions
(the book imprint of Agenda Magazine: arguably the most important
British poetry magazine of the second half of the twentieth century).
The
book imprint continues as an occasional publisher. The most recent
books are Outside the Chain of Hands (59 pages, paperback
bound, £3.90 + 50p p&p), poems by Shirley Bell, Sarah Lawson,
Vicki Raymond and Julie Whitby and a new edition of William Cookson's
Vestiges (38 pages, paperback bound, £6 + 50p p&p).
The editorial
policy of the BLP imprint is to follow the Imagist principles
of conciseness of form and precision of language, and also to
have effective contemporary approaches to the lyric and epigram.
In this way important aspects from the origins of Modernism are
fused with much older traditions in poetry.
Books are
usually limited to poets who appeared in the Series, and consequently
publication is by invitation only.
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