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Caparison

Welcome to The Recusant's print and e-book imprint, Caparison. The choice of name is intended to convey variety of subject and style; poetry which demonstrates a love of language in combination with a strength of subject; poetry which is unconstrained by fashionable trappings. You can download samples from the e-books below by double-clicking on the cover images. Should the sample poems whet your appetites, you can then purchase the full e-books via Paypal by double-clicking on an Add to Cart button under it. Once your payment is received, you will receive the e-book by email. Calibre or Adobe Digital Editions are recommended for viewing the ebooks.

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Caparison

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Christopher Moncrieff

Wallpeckers

76pp

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The intriguing title of polyglot-poet Christopher Moncrieff ’s fourth volume under the Caparison imprint, Wallpeckers, is a translation of Mauerspechte, portmanteau of Mauer (wall) and Specht (woodpecker), an informal German term used for tourists who pick pieces from the crumbling Berlin Wall to take home as souvenirs. Much of this volume draws on the poet's former experiences as an army officer posted to Cold War-era Berlin.

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Alan Price

Unknown Woman & Other Attachments

48pp

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The second Caparison volume from London-based poet Alan Price following his experimental Restless Voices (2020). This volume comprises painterly poem-portraits of the various women who have had an impact on the poet's life. 

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Bruce Harris

The Growing Shadow

60pp

Introduction by Bruce Harris

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Bruce Harris's second Caparison volume comprises deeply moving poems that bear witness to his late partner's decade-long battle with Huntington's Disease.

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All proceeds from sales will be donated to the Huntington's Disease Centre at University College London. 

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John McKeown

The Chain Bridge

68pp

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This stunning Caparison debut from veteran Liverpool-born, Prague-based poet John McKeown is his seventh volume, and arguably his best to date, lyrically rich and unobtrusively sublime. 

Alessandro Cusimano

Blacken the Sun

58pp

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Italian 'Expressivist' poet Alessandro Cusimano's second volume from Caparison, as devastating, visceral, visionary and imaginative as his taboo-busting debut. 

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Alan Morrison

Rag Argonauts

148pp (2024) NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER

Clothbound hardback with wraparound dust jacket

 

Alan Morrison's twelfth full volume of poetry. As we voyage through the uncharted waters of the post-Covid 2020s to the scourge of war again on the European continent, and in the Middle East, a 'cost of living' (or 'greed') crisis of capitalism, a climate and refugee emergency, and an ever-increasing worldwide gap between the super rich and the super poor, we are in a period of ever scarcer resources, a 'ragtime' of a very different timbre to the syncopated rhythms popular during the hedonistic 'roaring' decade of a century ago. 

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Alan Morrison

Green Hauntings - New & Selected Poems 2006-2016

322pp (2022)

Foreword by Fran Lock

Clothbound hardback with wraparound dust jacket

 

Selections from four of Alan Morrison’s first six full volumes of poetry: The Mansion Gardens (2006), A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (2009), Blaze a Vanishing and The Tall Skies (2013), and Shadows Waltz Haltingly (2015)—published by Paula Brown Publishing, Waterloo Press, and Lapwing Publications, respectively.

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Alessandro Cusimano 

Arabesques of a Nervous Wandering 

Extended New Print Edition

84pp

Foreword by Alan Morrison

 

Cusimano's mesmerising volume originally produced as an ebook only in 2011 is now available as an extended print edition with two new poem plays included, 'The Iron Will of Axel Green' and 'The Heady Vertigo of Sin'.

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...sensual explorations reminiscent of those of Rimbaud        

Donald Webb

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Gordon Scapens

History Doesn't Die

66pp

Foreword by Alan Morrison

 

The belated debut volume of Preston-based veteran poet Gordon Scapens. Deeply compassionate meditations on time, memory, nostalgia, regret, mortality and posterity collect together as a poetic concatenation of the human condition.

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Christopher Moncrieff

English Not Spoken

88pp (2023)

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Foreword by Alan Morrison

English Not Spoken is the third Caparison volume by Christopher Moncrieff. It recalibrates the Continental travelogue, military reminiscences and surreal Mortmere-esque grotesque of Moncrieff's two previous Caparison volumes, with the poet’s signature mordant wit and satirical deconstruction. 

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Sally Richards 

Emperor Dragonfly Extended New Print Edition

68pp (2023)

Forewords by Alan Morrison

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Richards' volume originally produced as an ebook only in 2011 is now available as an extended print edition with ten new poems added.

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Richards’ poetry actually says something which is quite rare in modern poetry... She creates very successfully a doubt in the mind of the reader... 

Nigel Humphreys

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Peter Street

Earth Talk

54pp (2020)

Caparison is proud to announce an eco-poetry collection from a distinctive veteran poet.

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Christopher Moncrieff

Mermaids in Wormwood, 160pp (2021)

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Foreword by Alan Morrison

Moncrieff's second collection is a phantasmagorical navigation of undergraduate angst in a Cambridge college.

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Christopher Moncrieff 

Tabac Blond, 136pp (2019)

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Foreword by Alan Morrison

Caparison is proud to announce the debut poetry collection from prolific poet and translator Christopher Moncrieff. This is implicitly European poetry: lyrical, polemical and unashamedly erudite.

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Alan Price 

Restless Voices

56pp (2020)

A collection of strikingly filmic cut-up poems.

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Bruce Harris

The Huntington Hydra, 100pp

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Howard Mingham Waters of the Night

Collected Poems 1974-84 (print book)

Forewords by David Kessel and Ken Worpole

Afterword by Alan Morrison

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The complete poems of a truly gifted and original poet.

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Peter Branson Red Shift, 60pp 

(e-book only) Introduction by Alan Morrison

 

The poetry of Peter Branson is an accomplished combination of tone, style and subject one might not normally presume to go together: economy and flourish, restraint and passion, private-mindedness and social conscience. Branson manages to blend these variants into a handsome harmony, making for a poetry both emotionally and intellectually affecting. These poems ruminate on the many-coloured conflicts of today: from the clashes of the banking crisis to the scrub of Afghanistan.

 

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Sally Richards Emperor Dragonfly, 60pp

Introduction by Alan Morrison (e-book only)

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Richards’ poetry actually says something which is quite rare in modern poetry... She creates very successfully a doubt in the mind of the reader... 

Nigel Humphreys

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Kevin Saving Miracle & Mirage 60pp

Introduction by Alan Morrison (e-book only)

 

Kevin Saving’s best lines have the authority of proverbs (but are more musical!)

Alison Brackenbury

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Alessandro Cusimano Arabesques

of a Nervous Wandering, 64pp

Foreword by Alan Morrison (e-book only)

 

...sensual explorations reminiscent of those of Rimbaud        

Donald Webb

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