Deirdre Falvey (@DeirdreFalveyIT)
The Irish Times (@IrishTimes)
«The small community of independent and specialist publishers continues to fly the flag in a difficult environment, with an amazingly rich, diverse offering. We have asked some of them to tell us about a couple of titles they’re planning for 2020; they do so below.
»All will be hoping to see the kinds of successes that independent publishers have had in the past year. This month the British-Trinidadian dub poet Roger Robinson won the TS Eliot poetry prize for his collection A Portable Paradise, published by the tiny Peepal Tree. It was also a great year for Galley Beggar Press. Alex Phelby’s Lucia was joint winner of the Republic of Consciousness prize, and Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport won the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize.
»But there were pressures too. Galley Beggar says that, when Ellman’s experimental novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, it had to pay the Booker Prize Foundation, which runs the award, £5,000 (almost €6,000) just for being shortlisted; this money helps pay for publicity. Then, in December, a discount supplier went into administration owing Galley Beggar £40,000, it says, showing how precarious the business can be, even for successful small publishers.
»For the Irish publisher New Island, “independent book publishing can be a challenging business model, but focusing on producing beautiful books which have something important to say is solid motivation. Staying involved in the local scene and keeping in touch with our authors is a key factor in the success of our work, and the supportive community among the Irish publishers also plays an important role.”
»Here’s what New Island and its fellow indie publishers say about their books to watch out for in 2020.
Made in Saturn. By Rita Indiana, translated by Sydney Hutchinson.
Theft. By Luke Brown.
Look! It’s a WOMAN Writer! Irish Women’s Literary Journeys. Edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.
The Boiling Point for Jam. By Lynda Tavakoli.
Saving Lucia. By Anna Vaught.
The Sound Mirror. By Heidi James.
The Book of Newcastle. Edited by Angela Readman and Zoe Turner.
Europa28. Edited by Sophie Hughes and Sarah Cleave.
The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic piracy in the early seventeenth century. By Connie Kelleher.
Sport and Media in Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Neil O’Boyle and Marcus Free.
Winter in Sokcho. By Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins.
The Dominant Animal. By Kathryn Scanlan.
Indigo, Electric, Baby. By Enda Coyle-Greene.
The Humours of Nothingness. By Gerry Murphy.
TRAUMA: Art as a response to mental health. Edited by Thom Cuell and Sam Mills.
The Ideal Diplomat? Women and Irish Foreign Affairs, 1946-90. By Ann Marie O’Brien.
The best address in town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and its first residents (1730-1780). By Melanie Hayes.
Insignificance. By James Clammer.
Mordew. By Alex Pheby.
The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales. By The History Press.
Celt-ish: Unravelling the Great Celtic Confusion. By Bruce Durie.
The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse. By Ayfer Tunç, translated from the Turkish by Feza Howell.
Our Daily Bread. By Predrag Matvejevic, translated from the Croatian by Christina Pribicevich-Zoric.
A Sabbatical in Leipzig. By Adrian Duncan.
Are You With Me? By Mike Chinoy.
Hope against Hope. By Sheena Wilkinson.
To the Island and An t-Oileán Thiar. By Patricia Forde, illustrated by Nicola Bernardelli.
Dream Big. By Niamh Shaw.
Whatever It Takes. By Tadhg Coakley.
A Key to Treehouse Living. By Elliot Reed.
The Age of Static: How TV Explains Modern Britain. By Phil Harrison.
The Wolf of Baghdad. By Carol Isaacs.
Mother: A Memoir. By Nicholas Royle.
A Quiet Tide. By Marianne Lee.
The True Story of the Making of Ryan’s Daughter, Dingle 1969. By Paul Benedict Rowan.
Brehon Laws. By Jo Kerrigan.
Queen of Coin and Whispers. By Helen Corcoran.
Parenting the Screenager: A Practical Guide for Parents of the Modern Child. By Richard Hogan.
Irish Customs and Rituals: How Our Ancestors Celebrated Life and the Seasons. By Marion McGarry.
Riverwise. By Jack Smylie Wild.
Hello Friend We Missed You. By Richard Owain Roberts.
Snow, Dog, Foot. By Claudio Morandini, translated by J Ockenden.
Ankomst. By Gøhril Gabrielsen, translated by Deborah Dawkin.
Sanatorium. By Abi Palmer.
The Book of Naseeb. By Khaled Hakim.
The Sleeper Lies. By Andrea Mara.
Adele. By Nicola Cassidy.
Dead Ringer. By Nicola Martin.
A Time of Birds. By Helen Moat.
The Animals in That Country. By Laura Jean Mckay.
Don’t applaud. Either laugh, or don’t. By Andrew Hankinson.
Modern Times. By Cathy Sweeney.
Trouble. By Philip Ó Ceallaigh.
Handiwork. By Sara Baume.
A Ghost in the Throat. By Doireann Ní Ghríofa.
Margaret Skinnider. By Dr Mary McAuliffe.
Belfield 50. By Dr Ellen Rowley, Prof Finola O’Kane.
The Inland Sea. By Madeleine Watts.
The Other’s Gold. By Elizabeth Ames.»
.../... Read all and meet the publishers on The Irish Times
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario