We are excited to continue to partner with West House Books and The Ikuta Press to provide our readers in North America with the books they want at affordable prices!

West House Books

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.

West House Books' titles are available from the publisher's site, and for online order at Small Press Distribution and from this site. Click here to browse our selection.

The Ikuta Press

The Ikuta Press was established in 1970 in Kobe, Japan by Yoko Danno. Two years later, with the American expatriate poet Lindley Williams Hubbell and Kanaseki Hisao, a scholar and translator known for his work on Gertrude Stein and American Indian mythology, Editor-in-chief Yoko Danno put out the first Anthology, an annual, or sometimes biannual, poetry collection. Among the writers Danno published in the series, which continued until 1991, were Sato Hiroaki, Timothy Harris and Arturo Silva.

Ikuta Press titles are available in North America exclusively from Ahadada Books. Click here to browse our selection.