Ahadada Books is pleased to present Greek Passages (First Part) by Peter Riley.

Greek Passages (First Part) is the eleventh release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.

Peter Riley was born in 1940, in Stockport, near Manchester, in an environment of working people, and entered higher education through Britain’s post-war socialistic educational policies. He read English at Cambridge and has since lived and worked in UK and abroad in various kinds of teaching and casual employment. Since 1985 he has lived in Cambridge, where he recently closed down a mail-order poetry book business. He has written studies of Jack Spicer, T.F. Powys, improvised music, poetry, lead mines, burial mounds, village carols and Transylvanian string bands, and has published two books of translations from the French poet Lorand Gaspar. He also edited the poetry of Nicholas Moore (1918–86).

Greek Passages (First Part) is available as a free download... Click here!

Ahadada Books, in association with West House Books and Ikuta Press, have launched an online shop designed to provide our readers in North America with the books they want at affordable prices—over 50 titles are available on-line from this new area of our website. 

The new shop was a planned extension of our site and fits with our mission to provide titles not readily available in Canada and North America. We hope this new extensions serves as a valuable supplement to augment sales, support traditional sales channels and better serve regional markets.

At the moment we offer a selected number books, but before the end of this year we hope to make the additional presses and books available for purchase.

Ahadada Books is pleased to present The Milton Poems by Simon Perchik.

The Milton Poems is the tenth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.

Simon Perchik was born December 24, 1923 in Paterson, New Jersey. He is a graduate of New York University where he received both his B.A. in English and his law degree. Perchik was a pilot during World War II and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, ETO Ribbon with three Battle Stars, and the Presidential Unit Citation. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1951 and was in a private law practice until 1975. He served as five years as Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County, New York. Perchik's poetry has, so far as we can determine, appeared in more journals and magazines than other poet in America. Perchik resides in East Hampton, New York.

The Milton Poems is available as a free download... Click here!

West House Books & Broken Compass Press
present a reading by

Jesse Glass

to launch his collection

The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems

together with readings by

Andy Hirst &

David Kennedy

Saturday 19th August
8 pm at the Rutland Arms
86 Brown Street, Sheffield
Admission £3/concs. £1.50

Click here for a map and driving directions

 Alan Halsey founded West House in 1994 to publish contemporary poetry and poetry-related work. In recent years he has run it in partnership with Geraldine Monk.

West House sees the relationship between publisher and author as a unique collaboration and aims to involve its poets in all aspects of a book’s production, from overall design & format to the precise setting of text on the page. In this way we hope to offer the reader an author’s own perspective on his or her work.

Pamphlets, sometimes swiftly made, seem to us the most effective way of circulating new work and these are published alongside more substantial books produced in association with Five Seasons Press and also with the North American publishers Chax and Coach House. West House has no interest in ‘schools’ and ‘movements’ but has sustained long-lasting relationships with poets working in related fields of late modernist poetry.

Other books and works by Geraldine Monk and Alan Halsey also appear on this site. You will find too the current calendar for Sheffield Poetry International, the reading series we run with David Kennedy. And in the books section a selection from our stock of second-hand books, pamphlets and ephemera.

The Rutland Arrms is a proper pub with real ales and proper pub food . . . There's a certain timelessness about the place which makes it the perfect pub in which to hang out while time slips by.The beer garden's lovely, and crammed with so many flowers in the summer that you could easily mistake it for somewhere more exotic than a dusty corner of central Sheffield.
            —The BBC

Yoko Danno will be giving the following readings in the Washington, DC area in support of her new book of collaborative poetry The Blue Door.

In this collaboration across time zones and cultures, two poets, American and Japanese, explore the process of invoking the Muse. Strangers collect white pebbles only to discover they are primordial mates.

Yoko Danno was born, raised, and educated in Japan.  A graduate of Kobe College, she has been writing poetry solely in English for more than 40 years.  In addition to being a poet, she is also a playwright, translator, and the editor-in-chief of the Ikuta Press in Kobe, Japan.  Her poetry has been published in various journals, anthologies, and magazines in the US, Canada, and Japan, and she is the author of four books of poetry, including Epitaph for Memories published in 2002 by the Bunny and Crocodile Press.  Her fifth book of poetry--a jointly-written poetic experiment with the American poet James C. Hopkins, entitled The Blue Door--will be published in May of 2006 by The Word Works press in Washington, DC.