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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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.
from the Introduction
Howard Mingham
Waters of the Night
Collected Poems 1974-84
(print book)
Forewords by David Kessel
and Ken Worpole
Afterword by Alan Morrison
OFFICIAL SECOND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE TO ORDER WITH TWO NEWLY REDISCOVERED POEMS!
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The complete poems of a truly gifted and original poet.
Price £2.99
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
Sally Richards
Emperor Dragonfly, 60pp
Introduction by
Alan Morrison
(e-book only)
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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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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Bruce Harris
The Huntington Hydra, 100pp
print book
£10 incl. P&P
e-book £3
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NEW!
Christopher Moncrieff
Tabac Blond, 136pp (2019)
Illustrated
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.
£12 incl. P&P (UK)
£15 incl.
P&P (Outside UK)
e-book £3
Peter Street
Earth Talk
54pp (2020)
Caparison is proud to announce an eco-poetry collection from a distinctive veteran poet.
NEW!
£8 incl. P&P (UK)
£11 incl.
P&P (Outside UK)
e-book £3
NEW!
£10 incl. P&P (UK)
£13 incl.
P&P (Outside UK)
e-book £3
Alan Price
Restless Voices
56pp (2020)
A collection of strikingly filmic
cut-up poems.