eth press

eth press is a parascholarly poetry press interested in publishing innovative poetry that is inspired by, adapted from, or otherwise inhabited by medieval texts. It is an imprint of punctum books.

eth [ð] is a letter that was once part of the English alphabet, which lives on in other alphabets (Icelandic, Faroese, the International Phonetic Alphabet). It is a reminder of a piece of language (a technology of expression) that English cast aside. It marks a sound that is rare in other languages, that causes trouble when others try to learn it. We are interested in the possibilities of poetries written under this sign.

David Hadbawnik, Chris Piuma, Lisa Ampleman, and Dan Remein were the editors of eth press. The press has suspended publication as of 2018. Pattie McCarthy’s two recent chapbooks, qweyne wifthing and margerykempething, can still be ordered below while supplies last. Our books can be ordered through punctum following the links below.

Chapbooks

(Prices are in Canadian dollars, and chapbooks are shipped from Canada.)

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qweyne wifthing + margerykempething / Pattie McCarthy

30.00

A pair of chapbooks by Pattie McCarthy. One on Margery Kempe, the other on late-medieval queen-hood.

sold out

fifteen genre scenes / Pattie McCarthy

20.00

fifteen genre scenes, a scribal edition of new poems by Pattie McCarthy. Each copy is written out by hand.

Books

All eth books can be ordered through punctum books (or your bookseller of choice).

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dôNrm'-lä-püsl / kari edwards

dôNrm'-lä-püsl, in which the great transgender activist and poet kari edwards encounters Joan of Arc with rare recognition and insight, as a fellow warrior and a rebel in kind.

Cotton Nero A.x / Hadbawnik, Remein, Piuma, Ampleman

Cotton Nero A.x, in which David Hadbawnik, Daniel C. Remein, Chris Piuma, and Lisa Ampleman retrace the four major poems of the ‘Pearl’ poet (“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, “Pearl”, “Cleanness”, and “Patience”).

snowline / Donato Mancini

snowline, in which Donato Mancini sculpts a neo-lyrical conceptual-visual eco-poem out of 40 translations of François Villon’s most famous line.

Ballads / Richard Owens

Richard Owens’s Ballads sing, as John Latta says, “somber, sobering, post-glorioso warnings to the polis”.

Unless As Stone Is / Sam Lohmann

Unless As Stone Is, a serial poem by Sam Lohmann that emerges from a long entanglement with a sestina by Dante.

kadar koli 10 / ed. Hadbawnik and Ampleman

kadar koli 10: Off the Books, a collection of poems, essays, and responses that emerged from and not from the 4th Annual BABEL Working Group conference.