The Clutag Press was established in 2000 as a venture by
Andrew McNeillie to issue Clutag Poetry Leaflets, by established and emerging poets.
In 2004, it received backing from The Christopher Tower Fund (in association with
Christ Church, Oxford
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,
Oxford University
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).
As a result, it began issuing more substantial poetry pamphlets, full-length books, and CD sound recordings.
Its literary archive is now collected exclusively by the
Bodleian Library
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,
Oxford University
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, in digital and paper formats.
Bibliography
Its catalogue of poetry pamphlets includes:
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Paul Thomas Abbott -
FLOOD
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(2008)
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Tom Paulin - The Camouflage School (2007)
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Mick Imlah
Michael Ogilvie Imlah (26 September 1956 – 12 January 2009), better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor.
Background
Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent, in 1966. He was educated at ...
- DIEHARD (2006)
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Anne Stevenson - A Lament For The Makers (2006)
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Andrew McNeillie and Julian Bell - Arkwork with Artwork (2006)
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Geoffrey Hill
Sir Geoffrey William Hill, Royal_Society_of_Literature#Fellowship, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston Uni ...
- A Treatise of Civil Power (2005)
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Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...
- A Shiver (2005)
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John Fuller - The Solitary Life (2005)
Its catalogue of prose books includes:
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Andrew McNeillie - Ian Niall: Part of his Life (2007)
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John McNeillie - My Childhood (2004)
Its catalogue of CDs and sound recordings includes:
*
Geoffrey Hill
Sir Geoffrey William Hill, Royal_Society_of_Literature#Fellowship, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston Uni ...
- Poetry Reading, Oxford (2006)
Archipelago
In summer 2007, the Clutag Press launched a new magazine: ''
''Archipelago''''.
Its first issue featured contributions from:
Paul Thomas Abbott,
Norman Ackroyd,
John Beatty,
Julian Bell,
Roger Deakin,
Greg Delanty,
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...
,
Mick Imlah
Michael Ogilvie Imlah (26 September 1956 – 12 January 2009), better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor.
Background
Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent, in 1966. He was educated at ...
,
Nicolas Jacobs,
Andrew Kahn,
Michael Longley
Michael George Longley (27 July 1939 – 22 January 2025) was a Northern Irish poet. In his later years Longley observed: "It's a mystery where poems come from. If I knew where poems came from I would go there ... When I write a poem I am movi ...
,
Robert Macfarlane,
Derek Mahon
Norman Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, ...
,
Osip Mandelshtam,
Andrew McNeillie,
Gail McNeillie,
David Nash,
Bernard O'Donoghue,
Angharad Price
Angharad Price FLSW is a Welsh academic and novelist. She is a recipient of the Glyndŵr Award.
Biography
Price was born in Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales, the daughter of the Welsh historian . She graduated with a BA and DPhil in Modern Language ...
and Mark Williams.
Writing in the ''
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'',
Robert Macfarlane said its tone was "praiseful and attentive, content to acknowledge both the mystery of placehood and the strangeness of material fact."
References
External links
Clutag Presswebsite.
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