Hazel Press
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During the Covid lockdown of 2020, artist, poet and passionate environmental advocate Daphne Warburg Astor founded Hazel Press, a publisher of small books of prose and poetry based at her Cambridgeshire home. The press’s ethos was simple and inspiring: to publish work focused on the environment, the realities of the climate crisis, feminism and the arts, works of lasting value and great beauty printed locally and using the most environmentally responsible processes possible.
Sadly, Daphne’s long career as artist, philanthropist, patron, publisher and innovator was brought to an end last month by cancer. In accordance with Daphne’s wishes, Hazel Press will continue her work, under the management of her collaborator and friend Sara Hudston. In memory of a good friend of the shop we will be focusing throughout August on the many memorable works she brought into existence. You can see some of them online here, and if you can, come along to Bury Place to fully appreciate the love and care with which they were curated.
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Come, lean in for this song of myself.Bear with me these tides of telling.Days without dawn, nights of no end,the oceans upturning. I cannot calmthe surge within;A new translation for our times of the classic Anglo-Saxon poem.The seafarer…
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Twenty-nine interlinked poems walking through Greencombe Gardens in Somerset by Bristol-based poet Ella Duffy.Greencombe Gardens:Greencombe is a woodland garden of mazy paths, tucked below the north slopes of Porlock Hill on Exmoor.From…
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Daughter Wound explores a young Black South African woman’s negotiation of intimate relationships: sexual, familial and political. Nkateko Masinga is an award-winning writer and scholar. A graduate of the University of Iowa’s…
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A tender exploration of our planet’s environmental catastrophe by prize-winning poet Jane Lovell.In On Earth, as it is, life on land, sea and air interweave and collide, highlighting relationships past and present. This new collection…
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Closely observed kettles of light, honest shadows, ash memories and a sensual universe of colour fills the art studio world of Maria Isakova Bennett’s new poetry collection an o an x.Isakova Bennett has been published across the UK…
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Maggie Wang’s debut poetry pamphlet, The Sun on the Tip of a Snail’s Shell takes its inspiration from the sixth mass extinction—an event encompassing destruction of colossal proportions and thoroughly entangled with what…
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Everything is interconnected. Dress accordingly. In this free-wheeling collection of lyric essays and poems, Kate Fletcher and Helen Mort explore fashion, ecology and wild landscapes. Their dialogue ranges from gloves to gritstone, and…
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The name Mersey comes from boundary: a water border, connecting and separating. Through a series of 17 ‘portraits’, poet and artist Maria Isakova Bennett connects us back to the place rivers hold, following the Mersey from…
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Like Sappho’s fragments that survive on papyrus, parchment and potsherds, The Wren is a book of small pieces: not quite prose; not quite poetry. It holds within it a life that spins into motion in the same way a zoetrope cylinder…
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The musical term perdendosi almost always comes at the end of a piece and directs sound, rhythm and tone to gradually fade and die away. ‘After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things,’ wrote Wallace…
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All gnarled up inside us are people, animals and places. We peer into a bog cauldron and witness a giant, and within him a young girl and within her a hare and within him a salmon. Through this scrying we locate secret histories. In s t a…
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Pinecoast is a dual sequence: ‘Ghost Lines’ and ‘Pine Coasts’, the first set in the southeast of England, the second in Quebec’s Gaspésie Peninsula, tied together by various ghost tracks and desire…
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A few days after her eighty-sixth birthday, Gillian Beer decided to write a few fragments about her childhood in England just before and during World War II. As is her custom, she applies her precise and inquisitive nature to recall that…
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One of Paul Celan’s poem begins ‘There was earth inside them and they dug’. In The Woman Who Buried Herself Alys Fowler takes us deeper and deeper into, and under the soil, until there is no longer a separation. This story…
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Ted Hughes once wrote: ‘Poetry is a universal language in which we can all hope to meet'. Through a time of separation, isolation and uncertainty, during the UK lockdown of 2020, two poets, Katrina Naomi and Helen Mort…
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“We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.”Audre LordeO is an anthology about…
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Akin to Heathcote Williams' Whale Nation, Anna Selby’s Field Notes takes us beneath the waves with poems and poetic-studies, written on waterproof notebooks in the Atlantic Ocean, whilst observing marine environments…
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Henry David Thoreau wrote of fallen leaves, ‘they teach us how to die’. Seven years in the making, Leaves is a long poem by Matthew Hollis, which holds loss and grief in one hand; new life in the other. It explores the…
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“It is the nature of woodland to be in on a secret”Rootstalk is written in five voices, some drawn from myth, others from historical accounts, all re-imagined. The lives of these characters are shaped by the Ghost Orchid…
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Re-Dreaming Sylvia Plath as a Queen Bee draws connection between the Ariel poems of Sylvia Plath and the esteemed bee-science of her father/beekeeper, Otto Emil Plath. This reading of Plath's poetry and its closeness to a science,…
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