Waterloo Press
Monday 8th February 2010
Waterloo poet Simon Jenner is Chairing a talk on Literature and the Sciences: Where do they meet? at the London School of Economics.
Date: Saturday 13th February.
Speakers: Michael Blackburn, Mario Petrucci, Richard Tyrone-Jones
Time: 12.30-2pm
Venue: The Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Three poets discuss the interrelationship between art and literature and the social sciences. What are the links between these seemingly polarised disciplines? Does art have any concrete influence on the social and political sciences?
All events in the Literary Festival programme are free and open to all, but a ticket is required.
To request a ticket using the online ticket request form please click here
To read more about the event please click here
For information and maps on how to get there please click here
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Wednesday 3rd February 2010
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High praise for John McKeown's first Waterloo Press volume Sea of Leaves in this glowing Stride Magazine review.
To read the Stride Magazine review Where Deeps of Feeling are by Steve Spence please click here
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McKeown has attitude in abundance but he puts it to good use and the relentless build-up of anger and dissatisfaction with 'the way things are' is either followed by a resounding last line which brings the whole edifice tumbling down - as in Suburbia - or by a more considered, lyrical approach, as in Llandudno, where the spirit-of-place evocation is equally effective and suffused with a more harmonious and tranquil feeling. I'd say, from the quality of this work, that both kinds of poem reflect a genuine response to the world and it's McKeown's ability to register this difference with authentic feeling that makes his poetry, at its best, so powerful and convincing.
Steve Spence, 2010
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| Sunday 24th January 2010
Waterloo Press
cordially invites you to the
Brighton Launch of our European Programme
featuring
Maria Jastrzębska
reading from her new poetry collection
Everyday Angels
Emily Jeremiah
reading from
Bright, Dusky, Bright
her translations of the work of Eeva-Liisa Manner
and music from
the 'passionate and gutsy'
Sarah Clarke
7:30 for 8pm / Tues, Feb 16th / £5/4
Iambic Arts Theatre
above Bell Book & Candle on Gardner St
** Entrance is behind the shop, on Regent St
and will be signposted with balloons **
For a map click here
Cash bar
For more information on Maria Jastrzębska
please click here
For more information on Eeva-Liisa Manner and Emily Jeremiah
please click here
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Waterloo Press
is proud to announce
its European Programme,
publishing the best of European poetry,
both in translation and by poets writing in English.
In this list we seek to celebrate the great range of voices,
aesthetics and cultures that have always conversed in the European tradition.
Current titles include:
Sea of Leaves, by Irish poet John McKeown.
Future 2010 titles will include translations of
Osip Mandelstam by Richard McKane,
and Pierre Reverdy by John Goodby.
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Waterloo Press is an exciting niche publisher with a proven track record in producing high-quality volumes of poetry. Individual collections too have been praised in Poetry Review, and by its 2002-05 editor Robert Potts and others for sheer beauty of production - as well as the contents! Some say there's been nothing like us since Trigram Press in the 1970s. That's heady, but we're delighted.
Waterloo Press is a publishing house originally dependant on its founder and main benefactor, Sonja Ctvrtecka, and a variety of funding sources. In November 2004 and October 2009 Waterloo received major Arts Council Grants.
Our aims are threefold:
to promote regional poets on a national and international basis;
to promote established or long-neglected modern and modernist poets with a broad appeal on the same footing;
and to provide a forum for all those in a specially bound Arts bi-annual journal with the broadest appeal of all (Eratica).
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