Forty Foot Press

13/11/2024

A fascinating and revealing new book looks back on the inventor, writer, publisher and president’s scientific work

13/11/2024

Delighted to celebrate the publication of volume 7 of History on Your Doorstep, the latest edition by the Dublin City Historians in Residence, the Historian in Residence for Children, and Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh, Scríbhneoir agus Staraí.

This new volume was launched at City Hall by Councillor Vincent Jackson, with guest speaker Dr Ruth McManus of Dublin City University, joined by Brendan Teeling, Deputy Librarian, Dublin City Libraries, and Iseult Dunne, CEO, Dublin City Council Culture Company.

In photo (L-R) Elizabeth Kehoe, Cllr Vincent Jackson, Dervilia Roche, Cormac Moore, Brendan Teeling, Mary Muldowney, Iseult Dunne, Katie Blackwood, and Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh.

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For stories on any topic up to 2,000 words. With chief judge Ian Rankin. The Edinburgh Short Story Award is open to writers worldwide. We offer numerous prizes, publication in our next anthology to the top twenty stories, invitation to the Story Awards Soiree for all finalists. The Isobel Lodge Awar

12/11/2024

Clocking in at 513 pages, Tim Winton’s new novel carries all the apparatus of a major publishing event. Juice is an ambitious work, technically very skilful, which seeks to delineate not only a dystopian prospect of the planet’s future but also an alternative, revisionist version of its historic...

12/11/2024

12/11/2024

Severo Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque. While most of Sarduy's literary work is available in English, his theoretical writings have largely remained untranslated. This volume—presenting Sarduy's central theoretical contribution, Barroco (1974), alongside other related works—remedies that oversight.

Part of the Cultural Memory in the Present series.

"At long last, in a new and complete translation that navigates the author's tergiversation between Spanish and French, we have a definitive English edition of Barroco: an intriguing experiment with theories of figuration, geometric formalism, temporal recursion (retombée), and cosmic eccentricity by the Cuban exile Severo Sarduy. A novel exercise in anamorphic, elliptical thinking, a true event in the history of poetics and critical thought, Barroco will become essential reading for thinkers and comparatists of every stripe."
—Emily Apter, New York University

https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/barroco-and-other-writings

12/11/2024

Hugh's top 3 reads of 2024 include One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

11/11/2024

NLI marks acquisition of Paul Durcan Archive Collection offers valuable insight into acclaimed poet's creative process Monday, 11 November 2024 Ciara Kerrigan and Dr Audrey Whitty The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has today (11.11.24) announced the acquisition of a second tranche of papers of th...

11/11/2024

COVER REVEAL 👀🎉 We’re thrilled to share the cover for READING THE WORLD: BRITISH PRACTICES OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1760-1820 by Edwin D. Rose
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Reading the World locates books, natural history specimens and people in a close cycle of literary production to reveal new aspects of scientific practice in the eighteenth-century.
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Rose uncovers the complex material connections between books, specimens and manuscripts that came to dominate practices of natural history
across the British Empire in a period often seen to mark the emergence of a global modernity.
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‘It was right after he was born that I started looking at paintings.’ Rachel Cusk in Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists 2003.

11/11/2024

'[Books are] certainly important in my life.'

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The final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s masterpiece is the most intricate television you are ever likely to see. It is so beautifully made it’s breathtaking

10/11/2024

In this republished novella from 2000 about a fisherman and his son, the Norwegian writer captures the puzzlement and wonder of the human condition