eth press

13/05/2019

Dear eth-pressers... With all thanks due to Chris Piuma, without whom this page wouldn't exist, I think it might be time to think about shutting her down... With its erstwhile editors spread to the four corners of the globe and no projects currently underway, I think it's time to publicly acknowledge that eth press is on permanent hibernation. Most titles, I believe, or hope, will migrate over to punctum books, always our mother press. -- David Hadbawnik

24/01/2016

NEW! kadar koli 10: "Off the Books" features poems, essays, artwork by Ruth Williams, Tracy Zeman, Michael Kelleher, Thea Tomaini, Matt McBride, Alison Fraser, Greg Allendorf, Mike Rose-Steel, Paula Billups, Angela Warner, Jonathan Basile, Eileen G’Sell, Les Kay, Katelynn E. Carver, and Kendra Leonard. Edited by Lisa Ampleman and David Hadbawnik. Buy or download (free/donationware) now!

David Hadbawnik and Lisa Ampleman, eds. kadar koli 10: Off the Books Forthcoming: Winter 2016

31/07/2015

Kalamazoo 2016: We're sponsoring a reading/roundtable on Jack Spicer's "The Holy Grail", and we're looking for participants! Get in touch if you'd like to participate, or if you know someone who would be perfect for it.

eth press is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring a session at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May 2016. We are actively seeking participant...

04/06/2015

NEW! Richard Owens's "Ballads", playfully engaging with language, figures, and forms from medieval and early modern England. $15/€13/£11 for the book, free/donation for the pdf.

From "Immigrant Song":

mutual intelligibility—lonely time
weather wise roused
mine measured by a foreign model

frændr inhospitably near their own
throstle song hush—said grief
far inland from breakers dark frame

Richard Owens Ballads Published: 4 June 2015 Print: 5.5×8.5 in., 134 pp. ISBN: 9780615983936 $15/€13/£11 print | free download eth press relies on your support Before you start to download your new...

22/05/2015

I'm sure we'll be making this announcement again, but in the wake of it's a good time to look forward to BABEL Working Group's 2015 conference in Toronto this coming fall. And to put out a call for work for issue 10 of kadar koli, now published by eth press. DEADLINE JULY 20. I am co-editing this issue with Lisa Ampleman and both of us have major life events happening this summer, so we're setting the deadline on the earliesh side and anticipating a fall release to coincide with the conference. Check it out, and spread the word!

Call for submissions Now in its tenth issue, kadar koli has featured essays, poems, art work, translations, and interviews from some of today’s most adventurous writers and artists, including Joyel...

15/05/2015

If you're at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo today, come to our session 'False Friends: “Translation,” “Adaptation,” or “Creative Interpretation” of the Medieval Text?' at 10am in Schneider 2355, featuring talks by Jonathan Hsy and Katherine W. Jager.

28/04/2015

New broadside: A pwoermd by Geoffrey Chaucer, especially commissioned for International Pwoermd Writing Month.

It's International Pwoermd Writing Month, and we've commissioned a special pwoermd from Geoffrey Chaucer. He tells us he's thinking of working it into one of his Tales, but we are glad he's has all...

14/04/2015

April is the cruellest month, and tax day is just around the corner. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to eth press, via our doting parent publisher, punctum. (Use the big yellow button on the upper-left corner that says "Donate".) Thanks!

This word is set down so that you may understand that this whole time totum saeculum, which to us seems so long while it is rolling along, is really a moment punctum.

16/03/2015

New broadside! Pattie McCarthy's "a woman peeling apples, with a small child", from her hand-written book, "fifteen genre scenes".

Our March broadside features a poem from Pattie McCarthy's fifteen genre scenes, which we published last year in a hand-written scribal edition. (We have been asked by a few people about physical p...

25/02/2015

Donato Mancini, author of snowline, is doing some readings on the West Coast in the next few days. There's also an interview with him in the Puritan. Check it out! (More details in the comments.)

Donato Mancini snowline Published: 16 February 2015 Print: 6×6 in., 102 pp. ISBN 9780692374528 $14/€12/£10 print | free download eth press relies on your support Before you start to download your n...

16/02/2015

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

NOW PUBLISHED: Donato Mancini's SNOWLINE, a neo-lyrical conceptual-visual eco-poem traced in the archives of François Villon’s most famous line. $14 for the book—and the materiality of the book is part of the structure of the poem, so we encourage you to splurge on the print version—but there's still a downloadable pdf version for free or for a donation.

Donato Mancini snowline COMING SOON Print: 6×6 in., 102 pp. $14/€12/£10 print | free download “Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?” François Villon’s most famous line is a kind of translation, a varia...

14/02/2015

COMING QUITE SOON:

Donato Mancini's SNOWLINE, a neo-lyrical conceptual-visual eco-poem traced in the archives of François Villon’s most famous line.

Donato Mancini snowline Published: 28 February 2015 Print: 6×6 in., 102 pp. $TK print | free download eth press relies on your support Before you start to download your new book, take this moment t...

14/02/2015

"It is not proper to love the letter carrier
simply because s/he brings you checks and correspondence."

Lisa Ampleman's "The Rules of Courtly Love (abridged, rev. ed.)", after Andreas Capellanus, is the first of our new broadside series.

We're launching a series of occasional broadsides! We begin with our own Lisa Ampleman and her poem "The Art of Courtly Love (abridged, rev. ed.)", after Andreas Capellanus. She also wrote the "Pat...

25/01/2015

kadar koli will now be published by eth press! Some old issues will be made available at our website to download soon—but for now, here's the call for submissions for our next issue, "Off the Books". It's an unofficial off-the-books tie-in to the upcoming BABEL Meeting in Toronto in October.

Call for submissions Now in its tenth issue, kadar koli has featured essays, poems, art work, translations, and interviews from some of today’s most adventurous writers and artists, including Joyel...

17/01/2015

brand new broadside for pattie mccarthy's fifteen genre scenes

08/10/2014

We're happy to announce that Lisa Ampleman has joined us as an editor at eth press!

The editors of eth press are pleased to welcome Lisa Ampleman to the team. Ampleman most recently contributed to the collaborative re-imagining of the 'Pearl' poems in eth press’s release Cotton Ne...

15/09/2014

TODAY is the deadline for sending in proposals to our panel at next year's medievalist conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan. We'll be talking about recent translations/adaptations/whatevers of medieval texts. Join us!

eth press is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring our first session at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May 2015. We are actively seeking pap...

29/07/2014

We're sponsoring a session at next year's big medievalist conference in Kalamazoo, called "False Friends", on recent translations/adaptations/whatevers of medieval texts—and we're looking for paper proposals!

eth press is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring our first session at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May 2015. We are actively seeking pap...

24/04/2014

NOW AVAILABLE: Cotton Nero A.x. The works of the 'Pearl' poet, as believed by David Hadbawnik, Daniel C. Remain, Chris Piuma, and Lisa Ampleman. Free download/$11 paperback.

From the opening of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight":

Poker is a game
that depends on the ability
to keep perfectly
devoid of emotion.
Or to fake an emotion—
slight rise of eyebrow
shift in one’s seat, fingers
absently fondling chips as
the green knight strolls in

David Hadbawnik, Daniel C. Remein, Chris Piuma, Lisa Ampleman Cotton Nero A.x From the works of the "Pearl" poet. $11 print | free download eth press relies on your support Before you start to down...

22/04/2014

Donate $15 or more to the BABEL Working Group (which produces and supports such great projects as, well, eth press!) and you can WIN a unique illuminated copy of Pattie McCarthy's "fifteen genre scenes", scribed by the author and illustrated by her children!

Promo #4 [through 11:59 PST Tuesday 22 April]: From eth press, a unique illuminated copy of their scribal edition of Pattie McCarthy's "fifteen genre scenes", scribed by the author herself, and illustrated by the author's children. Also printed copies of eth's other publications, "Unless As Stone Is…

16/04/2014

Sam Lohmann will be reading this weekend at the Brooklyn Poetry Summit ( http://brooklynpoetrysummit.tumblr.com/ ). We'll see you there!

Sam Lohmann Unless As Stone Is Variations from Dante's sestina beginning Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d'ombra eth press relies on your support Before you start to download your new book, take t...

01/04/2014

BUT IN THE EXCITEMENT OF OUR FIRST BOOKS FINALLY BEING PUBLISHED, let us not forget:

punctum books [which eth press is an imprint of], founded on April Fools Day, 2011, celebrates its 3rd year anniversary today [and eth is happy for our first releases to come out on their anniversary!]. Please consider the fool's errand of making a donation to this ALL VOLUNTEER, NON-PROFIT adventure by simply going to their website [or ours], downloading a book you've been wanting to read, and following the instructions in the pop-up window: http://punctumbooks.com/

Punctum Books is an open-access and print-on-demand independent publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry and writing across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage.

01/04/2014

NOW AVAILABLE: Pattie McCarthy's fifteen genre scenes. "A series of ekphrastic poems responding to paintings of interiors and/or paintings of women working in the home." A scribal edition, with each copy written by hand. (Available as a finished copy, or as a kit for writing your own copy.)

Pattie McCarthy fifteen genre scenes a scribal edition Forthcoming: March 2014. eth’s interest in scribal transmission is driven by our work as medieval scholars, and as editors and publishers—we w...

01/04/2014

NOW AVAILABLE: Sam Lohmann's Unless As Stone Is. A serial poem that recarves Dante's sestina "Al poco giorno..." Buy a physical copy, and/or download a PDF (for free, or for a donation).

Sam Lohmann Unless As Stone Is Variations from Dante's sestina beginning Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d'ombra eth press relies on your support Before you start to download your new book, take t...

01/04/2014

Happy National Poetry Month. Happy April Fools. Happy cruellest month. Happy .

eth press has some books for you to read. Buy them, download them, read them—even write them.

postmedieval poetries

19/03/2014

The editors of eth press are organizing a session at the BABEL Biennale in Santa Barbara this October. The panel is called "Writing the Unreadable Text"—and we're looking for medievalists, poets, art historians, astrophysicists, and [people like you] who could offer short papers and/or performances and/or surprises that engage full-on with the allure of the unreadable / unwriterly / dysperceptional / xjrhgðvish.

Deadline: April 1st, 2014.
Proposals to: [email protected] + [email protected]

3rd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group [all images from Joni Sternbach, Surfland] ~ On the Beach: Precariousness, Risk, Forms of Life, Affinity, and Play at the Edge of the World ~ 16-18 ...

17/02/2014

a new eth title from Pattie McCarthy

11/02/2014

asha is so excited about Pattie McCarthy's new eth press chapbook that she can't stay out of the covers

07/05/2013

A terrific review of Thomas Meyer's translation of Beowulf.

Thomas Meyer, Beowulf: a translation (punctum books, New York, 2012) By Tom White The survival of premodern works of literature owes much to chance; those that study such texts at once lament the w...

18/03/2013

A final call for contributors to the "dystranslation" issue of kadar koli. Looking for poems and essays and the like which obsessively poke their tongue at the missing teeth of translation. Edited by some of your eth press editors. http://habenichtpress.com/?p=888

After the enthusiastic response to last year’s “violence” issue of kadar koli—featuring contributions from Joyelle McSweeney, Richard Owens, Rob Halpern, Julie Carr, josé felipe alvergue, Maggie Nelson, Diane di Prima, Emily Critchley, Justin Katko, Shin Yu Pai, Gloria Frym, Daniel C. Remein, Dale S...

01/02/2013

In which Eileen Joy says "f**k practicality" (and mentions eth press in passing) and Vincent Van Gerven Oei (of the excellent Uitgeverij press) says "f**k peer review".

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11/01/2013

Robert Kelly on Thomas Meyer's Beowulf!

Stuart Kendall, Gilgamesh. New York, Contra Mundum, 2012 Thomas Meyer, Beowulf, a translation. Brooklyn, Punctum Books, 2012.