Veer Books

Veer Books comes out of the activities at Birkbeck College’s Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC), and aims to publish a range of unconforming writing in poetry and poetics, including some texts that other publishers might view as experimental.

Veer Books have published 29 books to date by various authors, and two journals (Veer Away, and veer off) featuring work from many and varied poets working in the field. Details of these below.
Several more publications are upcoming at the start of 2010.

Veer Books are William Rowe, Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Aodán McCardle, and Piers Hugill.

For Veer Books ordering or other enquiries please contact:
Stephen Mooney, Department of English and Humanities, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London, 30 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DT, or by phone on 020 85210907.
Alternatively you can email Veer Books at veerbooks@gmail.com

We accept payment by cheque (£Sterling or $US), Paypal, or £Sterling or $US cash - please contact us at veerbooks@gmail.com for further details (including postage charges).

Submissions: we regret that we cannot accept book submissions at present, as our 2009/2010 programme is full. Please direct all enquiries to veerbooks@gmail.com

 

000  Maggie O’Sullivan – ‘All Origins are Lonely’
Veer Publication 000 [ISBN: 0-9546884-0-6]
A beautiful & innovative full colour work of contemporary poetry by one of the UK’s leading poets.
A4 size. Nov 2003. £8.00

 

 

 

 

001  Eric Mottram – ‘Towards design in poetry’ (2nd edition)
Veer Publication 001 [ISBN: 0-9546884-1-4/1 84254 618 X]
Mottram’s key essay on current poetics with massive, unsurpassed information. Reset and reissued in a second edition, and with an introduction by Professor William Rowe.
A4 size. 60 pages. Jan 2005. £4.00 [Published in conjunction with Writers Forum]

 

 

 

002  Val Pancucci – ‘80 SKINS AND 75 EGGS’
Veer Publication 002 [ISBN: 0-9546884-2-2]
A textually, and spatially, innovative collection of contemporary poetry from one of Birkbeck’s best poets.
A4 size. 60 pages. Nov 2004. £4.00

 

003  Adrian Clarke – ‘Former Haunts’
Veer Publication 003 [ISBN: 0-9546884-3-0]
A new three part chapbook from one of London’s best known contemporary poets and co-organiser of the Writers Forum press and workshops.
A5 size. Nov 2004. £4.00

 

 

 

004  Ulli Freer – ‘Burner on the Buff’
Veer Publication 004 [ISBN: 0-9546884-4-9]
A significant and exceptional, hand-bound work by major London based poet Ulli Freer, that calls the relationship of language to its environment into dizzying question.
A5 size. 80 pages. [hand stitched] Sept 2006. £5.00

 

 

005  Steve McCaffery – ‘Crime Scenes’
Veer Publication 005 [ISBN: 0-9546884-5-7]
An innovative text that plays with the language and humour of TV crime shows, and crime writing, to create something altogether more slippery …
A5 size. 92 pages. Jun 2006. £4.00

 

 

006  Gilbert Adair – ‘Xiangren’
Veer Publication 006 [ISBN: 978-0-9546884-7-9]
An extraordinary work, focussed on, and comprised of, aspects of the short poem – imitation people, lexically exposed, and penetrated, the interplay of these poems is both invigorating and startling.
5x8” size. 56 pages. Apr 2007. £5.50

 

007  Adrian Clarke – ‘Possession’
Veer Publication 007 [ISBN: 978-0-9546884-8-6]
Adrian Clarke’s selected poems 1996 – 2006, described by Ulli Freer as a ‘power driven selection of poems from an established urban argent provocateur of innovative and linguistic writing [that] uses textul methodologies to entice and propel the senses’.
5x8” size. 128 pages. Oct 2007. £7.50 [Published in collaboration with Writers Forum]

 

 

008  Veer Away (Veer Journal)
Veer Publication 008 [ISSN: 1755-0815]
The first in an occasional journal of poetry and poetics from a selection of contemporary authors. Veer Away will print unconforming writing.
A4 size. 84 pages. Sept 2007. £3.00

 

 

009  Jerome Rothenberg – ‘A Second Book of Concealments’
Veer Publication 009 [ISBN: 978-0-9546884-6-2]
The second part of Rothenberg's important work, A Book Of Concealments which, following on from the earlier 100 poem work, A Book of Witness, suppress the witnessing “I” but draws from his accumulated works by collaging as italicized inserts small fragments of poems already written & published.
A5 size. 68 pages. Oct. 2007. £4.00

 

 

010  Bill Griffiths ‘The Lion Man and others’
Veer Publication 010 [ISBN: 978-0-9546884-9-3]          
Bill Griffiths died in 2007. This is his own eclectic selection of individualistic and definitive work, collected here in revised and edited form. Veer Books is proud to celebrate with this collection the extraordinary work of one of the most important poets of the last 50 years in the UK.          
5x8” size. 136 pages. July 2008. £6.50

 

 

011  Alice Notley – ‘Above the Leaders’
Veer Publication 011 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-1-8]
Above the Leaders, written in 2006, is a set of Paris poems -- almost-adventures, visitations, paranoias, the exquisite, outrageous language of l'étrangère. A complicated relation of identity to the city, this is a book of lonliness and encounter that refuses to solidify into inaction.
A5 size. 68 pages. May 2008. £4.00

 

 

012  Sean Bonney – ‘Baudelaire in English’          
Veer Publication 012 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-2-5]          
Charles Baudelaire explodes with raw noise and pulsating typography into the contemporary metropolis.
No other versions in English have achieved the vitality of Sean Bonney's.          
5x8” size. 96 pages. July 2008. £6.00

 

 

013  Estaphin – ‘DCLP (District & Central Line Project)’          
Veer Publication 013 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-3-2]          
A subversive journey through London's District and Central lines, where sexual territory, surveillance, and other invasive totalitarian tendencies of contemporary government meet. Truly investigative poetry. Shocking, exasperating, hilarious.          
5x8” size. 176 pages. July 2008. £7.00

 

014  Johan de Wit – ‘Up To You Munro’          
Veer Publication 014 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-4-9]          
Scales the inner strata of language that you half knew were there but had never visited and shows their part in the landscape. Alternately strange, dizzying, and delighting.          
5x8” size. 100 pages. July 2008. £6.00

 

 

 

015  Veer Journal 2 – 'veer off'  
Veer Publication 015 [ISSN: 1758-4140]  
The second in the occasional Veer journal series focusing on unconforming writing, veer off collects current writing from a selection of outstanding contemporary authors.
A4 size. 232 pages. October 2008. £6.00

 

016  Magdalena Chocano – ‘otro desenlace’
Veer Publication 016 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-6-3]   
[co-edition with Ediciones Insólitas - this publication is a Spanish language title]
Magdalena Chocano's otro desenlace (roughly, Another Ending) investigates what disposition of spaces, faces and rhetorics can be read as the spectacle of power, and what materialities can be seen or spoken beneath them. In the best tradition of innovative Latin American poetry.
5.3x8.3” size. 128 pages. January 2009. £7.50

 

 

017  Maggie O'Sullivan – ‘ALTO - London Poems 1975-1984’
Veer Publication 017 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-7-0]
Maggie O'Sullivan's new book presents work from the 1970s & '80s: these powerfully constructed poems offer a place from which it becomes possible to exercise vital thought … rather than just to suffer life; to ride in sound and syntax the sinewy entanglement of material existence.
5.3x8.3” size. 68 pages. October 2009. £7.50

 

 

018  Piers Hugill – ‘Il canzoniere’
Veer Publication 018 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-03-2]
Piers Hugill’s sonnets work their way up from one- to two- to three- to four- to five-word lines. This complexly incremental poetry makes the form strange, unbinding its energy by bringing to the surface the spectral ordering and ranking that goes on, concealed, inside the consecrated forms of poetry. These poems give a contemporary energy to the sonnet form.
5x8” size. 96 pages. November 2009. £6.00

 

 

019  Johan de Wit – ‘No Hand Signals: the invisibility of language in poetry’
Veer Publication 019 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-04-9]
De Wit’s Statements invite us to explore the unfamiliar landscape of language seen from inside its pores and corridors. Be prepared for a journey into unusual places where the habits that get you through the language labyrinth stop working and other realities start to appear.
5x8” size. 184 pages. December 2009. £8.00

 

 

020  Lawrence Upton – ‘a song and a film’
Veer Publication 020 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6]
Lawrence Upton’s visual poetry throws the intense visual attraction of the letter into licentious intertwinings and copulations: ocular excitement as the alphabet loses its fixity and dances. A welcome new work from a leading poet.[Published in collaboration with Writers Forum]
A5 size. 84 pages. November 2009. £6.00

 

 

 

021  Tony Trehy – ‘Space The Soldier Who Died For Perspective’
Veer Publication 021 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-06-3]
“What is the shape of trust? Does the quality of experience have a thickness?” - Tony Trehy’s exploration of space combines density with a lightness of touch that excavates the language’s interior. Hinged on exhibition spaces across Europe and beyond, these texts uncover the spaces within space.
5x8” size. 92 pages. November 2009. £6.00

 

 

022  William Rowe – ‘The Earth Has Been Destroyed’
Veer Publication 022 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-07-0]
The poise and delicacy of touch of Will Rowe’s language in ‘The Earth Has Been Destroyed’ contains within it the unrelenting pulse of political activism. Its radical poetic expression bores into the ‘post-human’ stasis of disenfranchisement, reviving and uncovering momentum where other poetries enter and fail to emerge. Truly political poetry.
5x8” size. 88 pages. November 2009. £6.00

 

 

023  Antony John – ‘now than it used to be, but in the past’
Veer Publication 023 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-08-7]
Antony John’s poems hum with the undissipated energy of the newspaper type they are made up of, cutting and chopping at the lines’ velocities and composition. They reconstitute as the eye engages and the ear runs into them, leaving a sensation of dense physicality.
A4 size. 72 pages. November 2009. £5.00

 

 

 

024  Aodán McCardle, Piers Hugill, Stephen Mooney – ‘Shuddered’
Veer Publication 024 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-09-4]
Three young poets explore new rhythms and sounds to make poetry that dismantles the everyday actual world of comfortable compliance and issues a challenge to hear and see and act differently.
A5 size. 288 pages. November 2009. £10.00

 

 

 

 

025 Jennifer Pike Cobbing – ‘SCRUNCH’
Veer Publication 025 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-10-0]
Jennifer Pike Cobbing’s stunning and extraordinary visual work has for too long remained unobtainable in print form. With SCRUNCH, the first of two collections, we present a startling selection of visual work that stretches over decades of innovation.  This is a book long, long overdue, and features both visual poetry and visual composition in both black and white and vibrant colour.
A4 size. 120 pages. December 2009. £10.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Burner 000  Piers Hugill – ‘“Ways Through a Field”: 13 Lyrics’
Burner Veer Publication 000 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-0-1]
Piers Hugill's beautiful and poignant rewriting of the lines of field, poetry and process. Both surprising and densely material, this is a text that encounters within its own processes the performance of field as both place and concept. This is the first in a new series of Veer publications emphasising a responsiveness and an immediacy of samizdat reportage.
A5 size. 40 pages. April 2008. £4.00

 

 

Burner 001  Francis Crot (aka: Jow Lindsay) – ‘OCTAVE PUKE: 3 CHAPTERS FROM THE TRAGEDY OF BEYONCE KNOWLES’
Burner Veer Publication 001 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-5-6]
The book that crashed Lightning Source! Francis Crot's startling second excerpt from the extraordinary 'Tragedy of Beyonce Knowles'. Labelled as Cuntomatic II: Posture In Gloucester, this text extends the scope and horizon of the project far beyond the expected (or the rational)!  Visuals by Claire Cecelia Churches Lindsay.
5x8” size. 96 pages. October 2009. £7.00

 

Burner 002  Tom White – ‘Old Sense’
Burner Veer Publication 002 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-8-7]
In Tom White’s text, desire is the language cruising to jouissance the words narcotic, solicit streets & be wrapped around tree trunk, substantiated through reflection and analysis down fishnet alleys.
A3 size. April 2009. 21 pages. [comes in its own tube!] £5.00

 

Burner 003  Out To Lunch – ‘Swift Blab Residue’
Burner Veer Publication 003 [ISBN: 978-0-9558763-9-4]
Out To Lunch's Hottentot heehaw of sheer joy in language: poems that lick their chops at the physical load, the zig-zag cut, the intellectual blast, the music of ur-sounds.
Crown Quarto size. 36 pages. April 2009. £4.00 

 

 

Burner 004  Jon Clay – ‘Here 1-24’
Burner Veer Publication 004 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-00-1]
In Jon Clay’s ‘Here 1-24’ emotional landscapes intersect with multiple interlocking ‘heres’, where presence is both shifting and pivoted. It’s feet-finding stuff.
A5 size. 40 pages. September 2009. £4.00

 

 

Burner 005  James Harvey – ‘Temporary Structures’
Burner Veer Publication 005 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-01-8]
James Harvey’s texts move into and out of visual spaces with subtle and striking thrusts. Open and closing visuality - angles abound!
A5 size. 44 pages. October 2009. £4.00

 

 

 

 

Burner 006  James Wilkes – ‘Reviews’
Burner Veer Publication 006 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-02-5]
This short collection relocates the review of poetry to poetry itself. Billed as ‘reviews of imaginary books’ these textsundo the relationship between the poetic and the discourse of appraisal.
A5 size. 24 pages. October 2009. £4.00

 

 

 

Forthcoming from Veer :–

watch this space ...

 

Veer Books would like to acknowledge the support of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) Birkbeck, and the Department of English and Humanities, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London.