CATALOGUE 2014

RED HAND
RED HAND
BOOKS
2
SPRING 2014

Turkish Poetry Today 2014

Ed. George Messo
Paperback 216pp
9 x 6 in
10.99
ISBN 978-0-9575977-9-2
The second issue of this unique journal dedicated to modern and contemporary
Turkish poetry in translation. Turkish Poetry Today features many of the most
exciting poets writing in Turkish today, selected and translated by leading
translators from around the world. With translations and originals side-by-
side, Issue Two includes extensive new work by Gven Turan translated by
Ruth Christie, Sami Baydar translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat, as well as poetry
from Lle Mldr, Bedri Rahmi Eyubolu, Melih Cevdet Anday, and Asaf Hlet
elebi.
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SPRING 2014

The Return of the Divine Mary

Bjarni Bjarnason
Translated by David McDuff
Paperback 148pp
8.5 x 5.5 in
8.99
ISBN 978-0-9575977-7-8
BJARNI BJARNASON is an award-winning novelist, poet
and essayist. The Return of the Divine Mary was nominated
for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1996. He has won the
Tmas Gumundsson Prize and the Halldr Laxness Prize.
DAVID MCDUFF is a British literary translator and editor.
His translations include works of nineteenth-century
Russian fction in Penguin Classics, as well as nineteenth
and twentieth-century Scandinavian poetry and prose.
Mary is a perfectly ordinary girl until one day she can no longer see herself in
the mirror... So begins Bjarni Bjarnasons extraordinary tale, as Mary escapes
her former life in the company of the ingenious circus performer Michael
Blomsterfeld. In Bjarnasons innovative novel, the mystery of Marys true
identity will unfold in a powerful, dramatic climax.
... an extraordinary, beautifully written novel
RODDY DOYLE
Bjarni Bjarnason is no doubt one of the most remarkable Icelandic authors
of his generation...
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
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SPRING 2014

Angling Sketches
Andrew Lang
Paperback 142pp
8.5 x 5.5 in
8.99
ISBN 978-0-9575977-5-4
In essence fy-fshing has changed very little over the years. Angling Sketches,
with its rich and intimate evocation of the lochs and rivers of Andrew Langs
youth, scattered throughout Lowland Scotland, speaks to us today in a voice
as fresh and as entertaining as when it frst appeared in 1891.
Afterword by George Messo.
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SPRING 2014

Chats on Angling
H. V. Hart-Davis
Paperback 192pp
8.5 x 5.5 in
8.99
ISBN 978-0-9575977-4-7
H.V. Hart-Daviss Chats on Angling offers timeless advice on the art of fy-
fshing for Salmon, trout, sea-trout, and grayling. Whether dry-fy fshing for
plump chalk stream trout of the Test and Itchen, or on one of Englands most
exclusive fshing waters, the Driffeld Beck in Yorkshire, or salmon fshing the
big waters of Scotland and Ireland, Chats on Angling remains the classic,
indispensable guide.
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SPRING 2014

In Mesopotamia
Martin Swayne
Paperback 102pp
8.5 x 5.5 in
8.99
ISBN 978-0-9575977-6-1
In Mesopotamia is the graphic account of Martin Swaynes experiences as a
medical offcer during the First World War while on active service in Iraq and
Kuwait. Swaynes beautifully crisp prose draws a compelling and unfinching
portrait of modern warfare. First published in 1917, In Mesopotamia speaks
directly of the harrowing consequences of the Wests obsessive quest for
infuence over the Middle East.
MARTIN SWAYNE was the pseudonym of the British
psychiatrist, author and teacher Maurice Nicoll (1884-
1953). After serving as a medical offcer in the First
World War in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, Nicoll
trained as a psychiatrist, later becoming a student of
G. I. Gurdjieff. He was also closely associated with P.
D. Ouspensky. He is best known for his multi-volume
collection of talks Psychological Commentaries on the
Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (1952).
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SUMMER 2014

Scott Andrew Christensens debut collection the boundaries of return is a

compelling exploration of passage in and through the natural world. Richly
symbolic and formally experimental, Christensens poems create worlds at
once uniquely perceptive and recognisable, in patterns of verbal play that are
distinctive and memorable.
the boundaries of return
Scott Andrew Christensen
Paperback / Hardback 70pp
8.5 x 5.5
8.99 / 12.99
ISBN 978-1-910346-00-6 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-910346-01-3 (Hardback)
SCOTT ANDREW CHRISTENSEN was born in Truro, Nova
Scotia, and now lives in the Middle East with his wife and
two daughters. He completed an MFA in English & Writing
from Southampton College, Long Island University. He has
published poetry in The Comstock Review, Contemporary
Verse 2, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, Prism
International and Poetry Salzburg Review, among others.
His RHB title, the boundaries of return, is his frst collection
of poems. He also writes fction.
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SUMMER 2014

Pan
Knut Hamsun
Translated by W. Worster
Paperback 190pp
8.5 x 5.5 in
8.99
ISBN 978-0-9575977-8-5
First published in Norwegian in 1894, Pan tells the story of lieutenant Thomas
Glahns life and adventures in a remote township in northern Norway, a scene
described by Richard Eccles in his poignant introduction as that remote,
exotic, romantic, diffcult landscape of extreme and epic beauty at the top of
the world

This stunning new edition restores translator W. Worsters powerful recreation
of Hamsuns enigmatic original and includes an informative introduction and
notes by Richard Eccles.

The whole modern school of fction in the twentieth century stems from
Hamsun.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
KNUT HAMSUN was born in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway,
in 1859 and grew up in poverty in Hamary in Nordland.
In early childhood he was apprenticed to a shoemaker,
later working as a road builder, stonemason, and a
school teacher. His novels Sult (1890) (Hunger) and Pan
(1894) led to his literary breakthrough. Hamsun was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920 for his
masterpiece Markens Grde (1917) (Growth of the Soil).
He died on February 19, 1952.
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SUMMER 2014

Letters & Sounds

lhan Berk
Translated by George Messo
Paperback 90pp
8.5 x 5.5
8.99
ISBN 978-0-9575977-3-0
Letters & Sounds is a multi-voiced selection of some of lhan Berks fnest
love poems, elegies and lyric prose. Brought into English by poet-translator
George Messo, these poems dance and sing with the energy and experimen-
tal daring of their dazzling Turkish originals.

Poets of our time in any language ignore Berks poemits treasure trove
at their own peril.
MURAT NEMET-NEJAT
One of Turkish poetrys most distinctive and necessary voices.
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
ILHAN BERK one of Turkeys most infuential and
innovative poets, was born in 1918 in the Aegean city of
Manisa. He was the award-winning author of more than
two dozen books of poetry, as well as volumes of critical
and biographical prose. He was also an acclaimed visual
artist. Berk lived for many years in the town of Bodrum
where he died on 28 August, 2008.
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BACKLIST 2013

The Book of the Grayling

T. E. Pritt
Hardback 72pp
9 x 6 in
8.99
ISBN 978-0-9575977-1-6
T. E. Pritts timeless classic The Book of
the Grayling has inspired generations of
fy-fshers. First published in 1888, it was
long considered the defnitive book on
the subject of grayling. Pritt drew from a
long and rich Northern English tradition
of fy-fshing in the limestone rivers
and streams of Yorkshire. Many of the
methods and techniques he describes
are still to be found in use today.
Turkish Poetry Today 2013
Ed. George Messo
Paperback 156pp
9 x 6 in
8.95
ISBN 978-0-9575977-0-9
From the Pine Observatory
George Messo
Hardback 70pp
9 x 6 in
14.99
ISBN 978-0-9575977-2-3
A unique journal dedicated to modern
and contemporary Turkish poetry
in translation. Turkish Poetry Today
features many of the most exciting
poets writing in Turkish today, selected
and translated by leading translators
from around the world. With translations
and originals side-by-side, Issue One
includes extensive new work by Bejan
Matur, Zeynep Koylu, as well as poetry
from Polat Onat, Necmi Zeka, Melih
Cevdet Anday, and Murathan Mungan.
First published in 2000, From the
Pine Observatory introduces a poet
of seductive range and power,
carefully observing stillness, yet urging
something to stir. Seldom far from the
natural world, these are poems in which
transformation and metamorphosis
recur as central themes, and hint toward
the mysterious, in a voice as authentic as
it is startlingly fresh.
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