It has been over three years since our simplistic (binary answer) referendum on the EU and the hasty invocation of Article 50. And we are now approaching the time at end of October when we will leave the EU without a deal. We published the MY EUROPE anthology in March 2018 and many of the contributors are still involved in our ongoing discussions about the...
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After a few technical hiccoughs, we are now back into the publishing swing! Thank you so much to all those who attended our three launches of the My Europe Anthology in March! Our first launch was at the University of Westminster on Thursday 8th March. We were delighted that so many people attended and that George Szirtes read his poem: Je Suis Européen....
Read MoreMy Europe – March events
My Europe – A Patrician Press Anthology has gone to press! The publication date is 23 March 2018. We are delighted to announce that there will be three events taking place to launch the book. The first will be at the Wivenhoe Bookshop – as part of the Essex Book Fair – at 6.30pm on Friday 2nd March. Here is the...
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“Politics, power and poetry” Patrician Press was set up at the end of 2012. Our aim, as Virginia Woolf said of the Hogarth Press, is: “TO PRODUCE WRITING OF MERIT WHICH THE ORDINARY PUBLISHER REFUSES.” One of the first books published as an e-book edition, was The Unfettered Cube by Mark Brayley. This is a long poem based on a...
Read MoreAlbion Beatnik Bookstore, Oxford
As usual, it’s been a busy few months and our last event for the summer was on Saturday 24 June at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Walton Street, Oxford. Coincidentally, a street that I know well as my sister-in-law and brother-in-law used to live there. In fact the day turned into a family reunion for my husband, Charlie Johnson, as we met up with...
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