Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated Poetry
HomeHOME   About UsABOUT US   LinksLINKS   Contact UsCONTACT US  
Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated Poetry Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated Poetry Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated Poetry Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated Poetry
Categories
*Magazines
*Anthologies
*Arts and Photo
*Biography
*Criticism
*Fiction
*Interviews
*Jewish Interest
*Limited Editions
*Non-Fiction
*Poetry
*Translated Poetry
Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated Poetry
Powered By StoreMill E-Commerce Software
Partnered With Inpress
Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated PoetryMenard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated Poetry
Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated Poetry
About Us
Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated Poetry

Menard Press, founded as a little magazine in 1969, specialises in literary translation, mainly of poetry. In addition to its literary texts -- original and translated poetry, original and translated fiction, art and literary criticism – the press has published essays on the nuclear issue and testimonies by survivors of Nazism.

The backlist comprises almost 150 books, of which around one third are currently in print.

Menard's best known authors include: Octavio Paz, Gillian Rose, de Nerval, Rilke, Pessoa, Jakov Lind, Sylvia Plath (her French translations), John Burnside (his first book, which was published under a previous name, John Paul Dick), F.T.Prince, Jeremy Reed, Amichai, Baudelaire, Primo Levi, Jabès, Bonnefoy, Mallarmé, Mandelstam, Balzac, T.S.Eliot, Gabriel Josipovici, Paul Auster, Ivo Andric, Max Jacob, Oliver Postgate, Sir Martin Ryle and Lord Zuckerman.

But most of the books under Menard’s imprint are by less well known and, indeed, virtually unknown authors: their books receive as much attention from the press as do those by the aforementioned names, who include four Nobel Prize winners. In addition to books and pamphlets, Menard has published about 150 MenCards, which are postcards containing a poem, often translated and often to mark a celebration.

We mourn the passing of yet another friend and Menard Press author, the great Austrian-born writer, Jakov Lind, whose book of stories The Stove, written in English, we published in 1995. He died on February 16, 2007 aged 80. Anthony Rudolf’s funeral eulogy can be read on www.readysteadybook.com. Lind is best known for three great books written in German: Soul of Wood, Landscape in Concrete and Ergo. The Stove is currently his only book still in print in English -
Jakov Lind, The Stove [76pp / £6.99 / ISBN: 1 874320 08 X]

Menard has just published the second and revised edition of Anthony Rudolf’s book on Piotr Rawicz, Engraved in Flesh. Rudolf’s edition and revised translation of Rawicz’s masterpiece Blood from the Sky was published by Elliott and Thompson in 2004 (see their website www.elliottthompson.com).

In May 2007, Menard published If from the Distance: Two Essays by Christopher Middleton, with an eightieth birthday homage and critique of Middleton’s work by Alan Wall.

Menard Press Press UK - Literary Translation, Poetry, Translated PoetryContent by Menard Press. E-Commerce Software by Webcogs © Copyright 2008 Webcogs.com Ltd