About Smokestack Books
"and on every side smokestacks were dancing on rooftops..."
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Smokestack Books aims to hold open a space for what is left of the English radical poetic tradition in the twenty-first century. Smokestack champions poets who are unfashionable, radical, left-field or working a long way from the metropolitan centres of cultural authority. Smokestack is committed to the common music of poetry; is interested in the World as well as in the Word; believes that poetry is a part of and not apart from society; argues that if poetry does not belong to everybody, it is not poetry.
Since 2004, Smokestack has published over forty titles. Smokestack’s authors include Linda France, John Lucas, Katrina Porteous, Alison Fell, Kevin Cadwallender, Kath Kenny, Tom Wintringham and Sebastian Barker. Smokestack’s growing and distinguished international list includes Martín Espada (Puerto Rico), Francis Combes (France), Kristin Dimitrova (Bulgaria), Gustavo Pereira (Venezuela), Sergei Samolyenko (Russia), Andras Mezei (Hungary), Heinrich Heine (Germany) and Nikola Vaptsarov (Bulgaria). Coming soon from Smokestack are books by Jeremy Cronin (South Africa), Olga Berggolts (Russia), Richard Schaaf (USA) and Victor Jara (Chile).
Featured Titles
 | Caught by Victoria Bean Court is where you go when you get caught. Victoria Bean spent a year in Horseferry Road Magistrate’s Court in central London, recording in verse the high-drama and low-comedy of the English justice system. £7.95 |  | Celebrate Wha?: Ten Black British Poets from the Midlands by Eric Doumerc, Roy McFarlane Celebrate Wha? is an anthology of poems about identity and race, curried goat ‘n’ rice. £7.95 |
 | The Limerickiad - Volume 1: Gilgamesh to Shakespeare by Martin Rowson A witty, uproarious, tongue-in-cheek journey through the history of literature. £9.99 |  | Union: New & Selected Poems by Paul Summers “Bristlingly gifted.” – Dazed & Confused. £7.95 |
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