11th November 2011
Visit 'Hatchbacks on Fire'the online home of Ford Dagenham.
Then buy his book in the shop!
7th November 2011
We have sold out of the Deluxe Edition of Paraffin Van. Many thanks to all the people who supported the press and bought one. They will surely be sought after collectors items in the future. I have a couple of 'Jokers' I'm thinking of putting on ebay in the next few weeks. Watch this space.
It's still available in the mighty fine Standard Numbered Edition.
18th October 2011
We are very pleased to announce the second of our two major publications this month.
Billy Chyldish's 'Paraffin Van (poems 2009-2011)'
A book of 74 poems, Billy describes it as 'a new collection of poetry by somone who's been doing it for too long'! It's available in two versions.
A Deluxe 'playing card' Edition of 52, each with a tipped in playing card and photographs. These have been 'signed' and stamped by Billy.
And a Standard Edition of 148 numbered copies signed by Billy with a gallows symbol.
Available to purchase now from the shop.
Deluxe edition is £20 and standard edition is £10, various postage options are available depending on where you are.If you'd like one please be quick as these are sure to fly!
17th October 2011
It gives us great pleasure to welcome back our old pal Joseph Ridgwell with his second novel, 'The Buddha Bar'.
A signed and numbered edition of 100 copies.
Available to purchase now from the shop.
£10
12th October 2011
Just putting the finishing touches to Paraffin Van.
18th September 2011
Two exciting new publications in production, coming soon...
5th June 2011
We are more than pleased to announce the first complete published collection of poetry from Ford Dagenham, an authentic voice from the English hinterlands. A Canvey Island Of The Mind has been a long time coming but we are sure you'll agree it was worth the wait. The collection has been edited by our friend and fellow blackheath author Adelle Stripe. She had a hard time choosing this collection from the extensive writings of a prolific poet.
Nameless nurses, the hard bells of time, cooked chicken; all justify equal consideration from Fords free verse vernacular. Based in South Essex, his poems could be about anywhere. Joy, pain, love, hope, fear, delusion, shopping malls, hospitals and dead shrub verges greet a reader instantly immersed in the interior world of D. A. Levy reincarnated as a hospital storeman.
Available to purchase now from the shop.
Nameless nurses, the hard bells of time, cooked chicken; all justify equal consideration from Fords free verse vernacular. Based in South Essex, his poems could be about anywhere. Joy, pain, love, hope, fear, delusion, shopping malls, hospitals and dead shrub verges greet a reader instantly immersed in the interior world of D. A. Levy reincarnated as a hospital storeman.
Available to purchase now from the shop.
28th May 2011
Our thirtieth publication!
'A Canvey Island of the Mind' by Ford Dagenham.
Should be out in about a week, watch this space...
'A Canvey Island of the Mind' by Ford Dagenham.
Should be out in about a week, watch this space...
26th February 2011
We are very happy to announce the publication of Jon Tait's 'Lucky to Get Nowt'. 'Lucky to Get Nowt' is Jon Tait’s debut collection on Blackheath Books and is a homesick nostalgic over-the-shoulder look at the north east of England.
You’ll find miners, welfare clubs, pigeon duckets, union banners, gypsies, poachers, hedgehogs, leek shows, local league football, curry houses and building sites in Tait’s homage to Northumberland. The pits and the pigeon lofts may be gone, but the people remain the same and Lucky to Get Nowt reflects the warmth and good humour of the region, tinged with sadness and a morose that inflicts the area.
The pit wheels that feature on the cover of Lucky to Get Nowt represent both the hardships that the region has faced as well as defining the unity and hopes of ordinary working class folk that inhabit the pages.
It is available in a limited edition of 100 signed & numbered copies.
Buy it now from the shop.
You’ll find miners, welfare clubs, pigeon duckets, union banners, gypsies, poachers, hedgehogs, leek shows, local league football, curry houses and building sites in Tait’s homage to Northumberland. The pits and the pigeon lofts may be gone, but the people remain the same and Lucky to Get Nowt reflects the warmth and good humour of the region, tinged with sadness and a morose that inflicts the area.
The pit wheels that feature on the cover of Lucky to Get Nowt represent both the hardships that the region has faced as well as defining the unity and hopes of ordinary working class folk that inhabit the pages.
It is available in a limited edition of 100 signed & numbered copies.
Buy it now from the shop.
3am Magazine Awards 2010
3:AM POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2010
Jenni Fagan’s The Dead Queen of Bohemia (Blackheath Books)
Well done to Jenni, winner of the 3am Magazine Poetry Book of the Year Award 2010!
I'm really happy, it's the 2nd year running one of our publications has won this prestigious prize. Onwards and upwards...
9th December 2010
It gives us great pleasure to announce the publication of 'The Dead Queen of Bohemia' by Jenni Fagan.
The Dead Queen of Bohemia is Jenni Fagan’s extraordinary follow up to her debut collection Urchin Belle, released last year on Blackheath Books. This new collection of poems, explores the peripheries of life with an unpretentious, lyrical brutality.
The Dead Queen of Bohemia pays homage to 17th Century Chinese poetry, pornography in a Scottish caravan park, murder, first time sex in a hotel room, armed robbery, Elvis, native Indians, underage prostitution, coal mines and factories. Fights in wastelands, squirrels in the walls, bazookas, corpses, wife beaters, gang bangs and a white fox. There are dildos, moons, Eskimos, finest Bolivian, witches and stilettos, the ripped out heart of a Victorian debutante, quietude, despair and voodoo.
Fingerprints and butterflies; the covers of Fagan’s books mirror the contrasting defiance and fragility of her poems. Poems that document a disconnected fractured existence and what happens when there are no second chances.
It is available in a limited edition of 100 signed numbered copies and a special hardback collectors edition of 26 signed & lettered (A-Z) copies.
Buy it now from the shop
The Dead Queen of Bohemia pays homage to 17th Century Chinese poetry, pornography in a Scottish caravan park, murder, first time sex in a hotel room, armed robbery, Elvis, native Indians, underage prostitution, coal mines and factories. Fights in wastelands, squirrels in the walls, bazookas, corpses, wife beaters, gang bangs and a white fox. There are dildos, moons, Eskimos, finest Bolivian, witches and stilettos, the ripped out heart of a Victorian debutante, quietude, despair and voodoo.
Fingerprints and butterflies; the covers of Fagan’s books mirror the contrasting defiance and fragility of her poems. Poems that document a disconnected fractured existence and what happens when there are no second chances.
It is available in a limited edition of 100 signed numbered copies and a special hardback collectors edition of 26 signed & lettered (A-Z) copies.
Buy it now from the shop
25th September 2010
We are very pleased to announce the publication of 'sole' by David E. Oprava.
We are very pleased to announce the publication of 'sole' by David E. Oprava.
'sole' is a book of poetry that explores his childhood growing up in rural America. Each of the poems aims to express a solitary emotion, a universal whole, and the peculiar holes in which we find ourselves.
It's available in two editions, a hardback and our traditional cardback. It's our first foray into the world of hardback bookbinding. The hardback version is limited to 26 signed and lettered copies and as ever is handmade. The cardback version is an edition of 100 the first 25 feature a gold footprint and the rest are in red.
It's available in two editions, a hardback and our traditional cardback. It's our first foray into the world of hardback bookbinding. The hardback version is limited to 26 signed and lettered copies and as ever is handmade. The cardback version is an edition of 100 the first 25 feature a gold footprint and the rest are in red.
Available to purchase now from the shop.
Hardbacks are £15 and cardbacks are £7.50, various postage options are available depending on where you are.
We have a launch planned for Thursday 30th September at the Media Point Bar (upstairs) Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. If you're in the area please feel free to attend.
26th June 2010
OUT NOW
Available to purchase from the shop.
Don't forget the Launch Friday 2nd of July at The Betsey Trottwood, 56 Farringdon Road, London.
20th June 2010
Some news about our next publication
Here's what Vic has to say about it...
'It’s Like Taking Candy From A Dog ‘That’s what my uncle Mac used to say whenever he slotted another goal past me (two grown men against a couple of kids). So I used it for the title of my book, which is an account of childhood told, for the most part, by the boy in the 1970s present rather than the adult looking back.
Stories and episodes from the life of a boy are threaded together by the musings of a threadbare sock monkey called Luke. The monkey haunts (or taunts?) the man the boy has become.
Tales of football, picnics, cats, holidays, rabies, ghosts, skeletons, George Best, Father Christmas, punk rock, moth rescue, starling execution, ant holocaust, emu puppets and being winked at by strangers. I have also latterly come to realise that the book is also my apology to the boy I once was for the way I’ve turned out.'
A launch has been planned for the evening of Friday 2nd of July at The Betsey Trottwood, 56 Farringdon Road, London. If you're in the area pop along from 7pm for some readings, short films and tombola action.
It's our first foray into the world of full length novels and we are really quite excited about it. Right I best get binding, hopefully It will be finished in time!
30th April 2010
We are very happy to announce the publication of the truly eclectic and ground-breaking ‘Beat Anthology’. A collection of short fiction gleaned from the last three years of Beat Archives, it features the work of Joseph Ridgwell, Lee Rourke, Susan Tomaselli, Ben Myers, Melissa Mann, Steve Finbow, Jenni Fagan, Andrew Gallix, Chris Killen, Sean McGahey, Darran Anderson & U.V. Ray.
The first 52 copies (playing card edition) feature a tipped in playing card and a spoken word CD. These are sure to be in demand so please get your order in soonish.
These and the standard edition are available to buy from the shop.
Coming Soon
25th March 2010
We have now sold out of the Tasselled edition of Oswald's Apartment thanks to all those who purchased this important piece of kitsch banality.
16th February 2010
We are pleased to announce the publication of Joseph Ridgwell's short story collection 'Oswald's Apartment'.
It is available in an edition of 26 signed and lettered (A-Z) copies with ridiculous handmade woollen tassels (£10) and a signed numbered edition of 100 'au natural' (£7.50).
Available to buy now from the shop.
15th February 2010
Billy Childish has named the new major retrospective at the ICA after his Blackheath Book!
21st December 2009
3am Magazine Awards 2009
3:AM POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2009
Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid and Cigarettes in Bed (both on Blackheath Books).
3:AM PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR 2009
Blackheath Books
Onwards and upwards!
20th December 2009
Darran Anderson & Adelle Stripe discuss poetry, religion, drink and the forgotten art of the sea shanty over at 3am Magazine.
11th December 2009
It gives us the greatest of pleasure to announce the publication of 'Tesla's Ghost by Darran Anderson. Tesla’s Ghost is published in a limited edition of 100 copies (25 with a red spirograph image, 25 in gold and 50 in blue/grey) each signed by the author. Available to buy from the shop.
12th November 2009
Now sold out of Jenni Fagan's 'Urchin Belle', sorry if you missed out.
Snooze and lose!
28th October 2009
The Blackheath Books Edition of Beat the Dust is now available as a downloadable podcast and chapbook.
22nd October 2009
We are very pleased to announce the publication of Adelle Stripe's very fine chapbook, 'Cigarettes in Bed'.
The first 50 covers feature unique 'solar' burns inflicted by our skilled minions.
Available to purchase from the shop.
21st October 2009
Our new embossing stamp. From now on if it hasn't got it, it isn't.
10th October 2009
Sold out of Billy Childish's 'Unknowable But Certain', many thanks to all those who purchased it. If you missed out, Billy has a few copies he intends to sell at readings. So keep an eye out for him and go along.
7th October 2009
Here's a film to celebrate the 'Blackheath Books' edition of Beat The Dust the best online litzine celebrating independent writing on the web.
The issue includes poetry from Billy Childish, Adelle Stripe, Ben Myers, Darran Anderson, Miles J Bell and Garrie Fletcher, plus fiction from Joseph Ridgwell, Vic Templar, Jenni Fagan and Graham Bendel. There's also an interview with Geraint Hughes conducted by some of his contemporaries in the underground publishing scene.
6th October 2009
Very few copies of 'Unknowable But Certain' by Billy Childish left check out the shop for availability.
15th September 2009
It gives us great pleasure to announce the publication of 'Unknowable But Certain' by Billy Childish. Available in a numbered edition of 200 in 4 different letterpressed cover styles. Stamped in red by Billy with a gallows stamp.
Available to buy from shop.
12th September 2009
Price Restructuring
We have undertaken an extensive review of our prices based on, amongst other things, the cost of raw materials and amount of effort involved in the production of each publication. Having consulted with valued customers, authors and esteemed colleagues in the independent publishing world we have settled on the following price structure for future publications.
Chapbook (up to 40 pages, stapled spine) - £5.00
Slim Tome (40-90 pages, perfect bound) - £7.50
Novel (90 pages +, perfect bound) - £10.00
In light of this we have scrapped the old subscription option, existing subscriptions will still be honoured. This should allow us to be more adventurous in our publications; we hope this meets with your continued approval.
26th August 2009
There is a nice review of Jenni Fagan's 'Urchin Belle' .
We've sold out of the Red and Gold covers, many thanks for all your support. It is still available in the Grey cover (it's actually my favorite!).
Watch this space for news of our next exciting release
21st July 2009
Urchin Belle by Jenni Fagan is now available to pre-order from the shop. It has been produced with three different coloured letterpressed covers. Collect the set.
7th July 2009
Coming Soon
8th May 2009
Latest release is Joseph Ridgwell’s 'Load The Guns', a confederate volume to 'Where Are The Rebels'
Available to order from the shop.
26th June 2010
OUT NOW
Available to purchase from the shop.
Don't forget the Launch Friday 2nd of July at The Betsey Trottwood, 56 Farringdon Road, London.
20th June 2010
Some news about our next publication
Here's what Vic has to say about it...
'It’s Like Taking Candy From A Dog ‘That’s what my uncle Mac used to say whenever he slotted another goal past me (two grown men against a couple of kids). So I used it for the title of my book, which is an account of childhood told, for the most part, by the boy in the 1970s present rather than the adult looking back.
Stories and episodes from the life of a boy are threaded together by the musings of a threadbare sock monkey called Luke. The monkey haunts (or taunts?) the man the boy has become.
Tales of football, picnics, cats, holidays, rabies, ghosts, skeletons, George Best, Father Christmas, punk rock, moth rescue, starling execution, ant holocaust, emu puppets and being winked at by strangers. I have also latterly come to realise that the book is also my apology to the boy I once was for the way I’ve turned out.'
A launch has been planned for the evening of Friday 2nd of July at The Betsey Trottwood, 56 Farringdon Road, London. If you're in the area pop along from 7pm for some readings, short films and tombola action.
It's our first foray into the world of full length novels and we are really quite excited about it. Right I best get binding, hopefully It will be finished in time!
30th April 2010
We are very happy to announce the publication of the truly eclectic and ground-breaking ‘Beat Anthology’. A collection of short fiction gleaned from the last three years of Beat Archives, it features the work of Joseph Ridgwell, Lee Rourke, Susan Tomaselli, Ben Myers, Melissa Mann, Steve Finbow, Jenni Fagan, Andrew Gallix, Chris Killen, Sean McGahey, Darran Anderson & U.V. Ray.
The first 52 copies (playing card edition) feature a tipped in playing card and a spoken word CD. These are sure to be in demand so please get your order in soonish.
These and the standard edition are available to buy from the shop.
Coming Soon
25th March 2010
We have now sold out of the Tasselled edition of Oswald's Apartment thanks to all those who purchased this important piece of kitsch banality.
16th February 2010
We are pleased to announce the publication of Joseph Ridgwell's short story collection 'Oswald's Apartment'.
It is available in an edition of 26 signed and lettered (A-Z) copies with ridiculous handmade woollen tassels (£10) and a signed numbered edition of 100 'au natural' (£7.50).
Available to buy now from the shop.
15th February 2010
Billy Childish has named the new major retrospective at the ICA after his Blackheath Book!
21st December 2009
3am Magazine Awards 2009
3:AM POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2009
Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid and Cigarettes in Bed (both on Blackheath Books).
3:AM PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR 2009
Blackheath Books
Onwards and upwards!
20th December 2009
Darran Anderson & Adelle Stripe discuss poetry, religion, drink and the forgotten art of the sea shanty over at 3am Magazine.
11th December 2009
It gives us the greatest of pleasure to announce the publication of 'Tesla's Ghost by Darran Anderson. Tesla’s Ghost is published in a limited edition of 100 copies (25 with a red spirograph image, 25 in gold and 50 in blue/grey) each signed by the author. Available to buy from the shop.
12th November 2009
Now sold out of Jenni Fagan's 'Urchin Belle', sorry if you missed out.
Snooze and lose!
28th October 2009
The Blackheath Books Edition of Beat the Dust is now available as a downloadable podcast and chapbook.
22nd October 2009
We are very pleased to announce the publication of Adelle Stripe's very fine chapbook, 'Cigarettes in Bed'.
The first 50 covers feature unique 'solar' burns inflicted by our skilled minions.
Available to purchase from the shop.
21st October 2009
Our new embossing stamp. From now on if it hasn't got it, it isn't.
10th October 2009
Sold out of Billy Childish's 'Unknowable But Certain', many thanks to all those who purchased it. If you missed out, Billy has a few copies he intends to sell at readings. So keep an eye out for him and go along.
7th October 2009
Here's a film to celebrate the 'Blackheath Books' edition of Beat The Dust the best online litzine celebrating independent writing on the web.
The issue includes poetry from Billy Childish, Adelle Stripe, Ben Myers, Darran Anderson, Miles J Bell and Garrie Fletcher, plus fiction from Joseph Ridgwell, Vic Templar, Jenni Fagan and Graham Bendel. There's also an interview with Geraint Hughes conducted by some of his contemporaries in the underground publishing scene.
6th October 2009
Very few copies of 'Unknowable But Certain' by Billy Childish left check out the shop for availability.
15th September 2009
It gives us great pleasure to announce the publication of 'Unknowable But Certain' by Billy Childish. Available in a numbered edition of 200 in 4 different letterpressed cover styles. Stamped in red by Billy with a gallows stamp.
Available to buy from shop.
12th September 2009
Price Restructuring
We have undertaken an extensive review of our prices based on, amongst other things, the cost of raw materials and amount of effort involved in the production of each publication. Having consulted with valued customers, authors and esteemed colleagues in the independent publishing world we have settled on the following price structure for future publications.
Chapbook (up to 40 pages, stapled spine) - £5.00
Slim Tome (40-90 pages, perfect bound) - £7.50
Novel (90 pages +, perfect bound) - £10.00
In light of this we have scrapped the old subscription option, existing subscriptions will still be honoured. This should allow us to be more adventurous in our publications; we hope this meets with your continued approval.
26th August 2009
There is a nice review of Jenni Fagan's 'Urchin Belle' .
We've sold out of the Red and Gold covers, many thanks for all your support. It is still available in the Grey cover (it's actually my favorite!).
Watch this space for news of our next exciting release
21st July 2009
Urchin Belle by Jenni Fagan is now available to pre-order from the shop. It has been produced with three different coloured letterpressed covers. Collect the set.
7th July 2009
Coming Soon
8th May 2009
Latest release is Joseph Ridgwell’s 'Load The Guns', a confederate volume to 'Where Are The Rebels'
Available to order from the shop.
