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Anvil to reissue first book

03.10.08

Independent poetry publisher Anvil Press will be celebrating its 40th anniversary this autumn with a specially commissioned re-release of the first title it ever published.

As well as the original 1968 anthology Time of a Flower by the Venetian poet Aldo Vianello, Selected Poems will include a number of other works by the poet.

The title will be launched in the UK on 29th October. The new edition has been written in both English and Italian, with translations by Richard Burns—who also translated the original edition in the 1960s—as well as Peter Jay and Linda Lappin.

Jay, who is editorial director and founder of Anvil Press, described the poetry as "quite easy to read," but added, "it gives you something to think about." He said: "It should appeal to people who like poetry that is a little bit different from the mainstream contemporary UK poetry."

The book will retail at £9.95 in paperback. The initial print run will be for 800 copies, Jay said, which included a number being sent to the US. Anvil is now the longest-running independent poetry publisher in the UK.

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