Menard Press news:December 2007 sees the co-publication by Menard and Temporel (see www.temporel.fr) of Chants de l'absence / Songs of Absence by Claude Vigée, translated by Anthony Rudolf and introduced by Anne Mounic. This is the first publication of the poems not only in English translation but also in the original. Menard still has in print Flow Tide, Vigée's Selected Poems, and Quatre Quatuors, his translation of Eliot's Four Quartets.Chants de l'absence / Songs of Absence, €9 / £6. Menard has acquired remainder copies of Yesterday's Wilderness Kingdom, Anthony Rudolf's translation of Yves Bonnefoy's Hier régnant désert. The price is £6 incl postage. Jakov Lind's The Stove, published by Menard is currently and shamefully his only book still in print in English but Menard has obtained a few remaindered copies of his masterpiece Soul of Wood; of an autobiographical volume Trip to Jerusalem; and of two later novels, Travels to the Enu and The Inventor. Order now while limited stocks last. Each title is £6.99 post free, but any two copies (in any combination) will be charged at £5 each, any three at £4 each, any four or more at £3 each. Lind titles should be ordered directly from the publisher at 8 The Oaks, Woodside Avenue, London N12 8AR, enclosing a cheque (sorry, no credit card facilities). All other Menard titles should be ordered from Inpress via the website (www.inpressbooks.co.uk) in the usual way.We have obtained copies of two titles by Menard author, Keith Bosley: Skating on the Sea: poetry from Finland edited and translated by Keith Bosley, this is a unique anthology reflecting all three traditions of Finnish poetry: oral in Finnish (Iron Age to 19th century), written in Finnish (16th–20th century), written in Swedish (18th–20th century). 1997, 256pp. This book is available at the reduced price of £7.50p - post freeFrom the Theorems of Master Jean de La Ceppède, LXX sonnets: a bilingual edition selected & translated with an introduction & notes by Keith Bosley. Les Théorèmes sur le sacre Mystère de notre Rédemption is a sequence of 520 sonnets (with commentaries) designed to demonstrate, as the title implies, the truths of the Catholic faith. La Ceppède (c1548-1623) was forgotten for 300 years, but with the European rediscovery of Baroque poetry he is now regarded as one of the great poets of that troubled period. His vividness, condemned by France which was standing on the threshold of Classicism, is at last appreciated: a sonnet on Golgotha begins "Amid the horror of stale meat he stands / I this foul shambles". 1983, 121pp. This book is available at the reduced price of £5.50p - post free There is a further reduction if you send a cheque for both books: £12 in all.
