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WELCOME TO KATABASIS
Katabasis has published pamphlets since 1967 and books since 1989, both poetry and prose. We publish English poetry and bilingual editions of Latin American poetry. The latter may have introductions, notes and pictures to set the poems in context. Besides publishing one of the best known Chilean poets now living in London, we are enthusiastic publishers of the poetry of Nicaragua, a country famous for its poets. Katabasis' latest Latin American title is from Mexico: Zapatista Stories by Subcomandante Marcos
As well as looking abroad, Katabasis is strongly attached to its home in London and to its native English landscape, language and radical tradition. We publish a distinctive list of English poetry We are local and internationalist, wanting down-to-Earth poetry, that is both rooted in a particular place and history, and speaks beyond them.
Katabasis' Common Words anthologies, Work and Home, contain a rich mixture of poems, essays and personal accounts, with clear speaking voices, from all sorts of people, workers in all kinds of jobs and workless, with all sorts of homes or homeless.
Katabasis' title, The Poetry of Earth by Dinah Livingstone, is an essay on poetry, language, theology, ecology and politics, attempting a down-to-Earth ('katabasic') poetic.
Katabasis is for humanity and does not accept that it can hope for nothing better than this neo-con World Order ordains. We believe, with Hopkins, that beauty keeps warm our wits to the things that are -- what good means and therefore does not mean. We agree with Wollstonecraft, that imagination, the 'true fire stolen from heaven', can render us social by expanding our hearts.
Contact
Katabasis:
10 St Martins Close, London NW1 0HR
Telephone and fax +44 (0)20 7485 3830
katabasis@katabasis.co.uk
We welcome
comments about our books or this webpage.
We regret that Katabasis
cannot consider unsolicited work at present.
