03 November 2008 - THE ROCKINGHAM PRESS is our featured publisher this week
David Perman set up The Rockingham Press in 1991 to champion new and neglected poets and also Middle East poetry in translation. Since then Rockingham has published, on average each year, five paperback collections (always including a first collection) and one or two pamphlets.
Middle East titles have included MODERN TURKISH POETRY (a Poetry Book Society recommendation), MODERN PERSIAN POETRY and works by Feyyaz Kayacan Fergar and Oktay Rifat.
One of Rockingham's finest poets, Lotte Moos, died on 3rd January 2008 at the age of 98. She was a remarkable person and an outstanding writer. David Perman is writing a biography of Lotte and there are plans to publish her short stories, and to republish her Collected Poems.