At the recent SSF conference Jean Moorcroft Wilson told us all about the background and publishing ethos of the War Poets 'Monograph' series of books. 

A Monograph is defined  as a 'book or paper on a single subject'  The War Poets series are A5, soft backed booklets of about 40-60 pages. A List of Current and Forthcoming Monographs in the series: 

1 Richard Aldington, The Selected War Poems. Edited and with an lntrodution by   Michael Copp. £7.50 

2. Richard Perceval Graves, Changing Perceptions: The Poets of the Great War.     £5.00

3. Anne Powell. Alun Lewis; a Poet of Consequence. £6.00

4. Alan Byford. Edmund Blunden and the Great War: Recollections of a Friendship.   £5.00

5. John Press. Sidney Keyes. £5.00

6. Christopher Saunders, Edward Thomas: All Roads Lead to France. £7.00 

7. Dominic Hibberd, Harold Monro and Wilfred Gibson: the Pioneers. £7.00 

8. John Press, Charles Hamilton Sorley. £5.00 

9. Merryn Williams, T.P.Cameron Wilson. £5.00 

10. Edward Thomas. The Complete War Poems. Edited with an Introduction and  Notes by Christopher Saunders. £7.00

11. Vivien Whelpton. Leslie Coulson: a Singer Once. £7.00

12. Phil Carradice, People's poetry of World War One  £7.50

13. Trench Songs of the First World War. Selected and edited by John Press with an             lntroduction and some further Notes by Roger Press. £6.00

14. Michael Copp. Edgell Rickword: No Illusions. £6.00 

15. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Isaac Rosenberg: War Poet as Painter. £l0.00 

16. Alan Byford, Rupert Brooke: Myth and Reality. £5.00

17. Winifred Stevenson. David Jones: the Art of War. £7.50

18. Michael Copp, Frederic Manning: Soldier-Aesthete. £6.00 

19. Rachel Wagstaff, The Soldier: a Play Based on the Life of Rupert Brooke. £7.50

20. Shaun Levin, lsaac Rosenberg's Journey to Arras: a Meditaton. £5.00

21. Ross Davies, Drummond Allison: Come, Let Us Pity Death. £9.95

22. Andy Croft, Randall Swingler: the Centre of Contradiction. £7.00

23. Phil Carradice. People's Poetry of World War Two. £7.50 

24. Phil Carrdice, Hedd Wyn: Poet of the Trenches and Welsh Bard. £7.50

25. Ross Davies. F.W Harvey: Poet of Remembrance £7.50

 The following momographs are scheduled for publication in late 2010

26. Michael Copp, Ford Madox Ford: lmpressions of War.  

27. Margi Blunden, My Father, Edmund Blunden: on Rereading Undertones of  War.

28. Vivien Whelpton, British and lrish Poets of the Gallipoli Campaign: Heirs of  Achilles.

29. Dennis Silk. Siegfried Sassoon, As I Knew Him. 

30. Alan Byford. Edmund Blunden Country. 

31. David Worthington T.E.Hulme 

32. Jacqueline Peltier, Apollinaire: Poet of War and Peace

All publications available by mail from:

Cecil Woolf Publishing

1, Mornington Place, London, NW1 7RP

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The Reading Room Press is pleased to announce its fourth publication 

T E Lawrence and Siegfried Sassoon: a Friendship by Dennis SIlk
The text is a transcript of a talk given by Dennis Silk in 2007 at the Imperial War Museum.

Lawrence was one of only five guests at Sassoon's wedding: they had developed a high regard for each other's literary endeavours.  No photograph can be found of them together, so the Reading Room Press has asked Jim Westergard to engrave, on boxwood, an illustration: possibly the first time that such an image has been published.

Set in Perpetua and printed on an Albion handpress on Zerkall mould-made paper, the edition will be 120 copies.  Bound by Chris Hicks.  Price £30 plus P+P.

Orders to:

Miles Wigfield
Coneygar Lodge

Quenington
Glos GL7 5BZ

or mailto:miles.wigfield@btopenworld.com