Cyder Press

The Country by Edward Thomas

Edward Thomas's 'forgotten' volume on Keats (1916) from 'The People's Books' series introduced by Richard Emeny freelance writer and researcher and past secretary of the Edward Thomas Fellowship.

Rupert Brooke's little-known and only play Lithuania (written 1912) and Lascelles Abercrombie's early play The End of the World (1913) introduced by Seán Street Professor of Radio Bournemouth University.

Wilfrid Gibson's volume of war poems Battle (1915).

This volume of war poems is a striking example of Gibson's attempt to write a more realisitc, non-heroic poetry of the First World War, later made famous by the work of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. It has never before been reprinted in its original published form.

Introduced by Kelsey Thornton formerly Professor of English University of Birmingham.

Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture booklet No.1

Eleanor Farjeon's poems for children Come Christmas (1927) - with the original wood-cut illustrations by Molly McArthur.

Introduced by Anne Harvey writer actor and compiler of the acclaimed anthology Adlestrop Revisited 1999.

A facsimile of the first edition of Charlotte Mew's increasingly admired volume of poems The Farmer's Bride (1916) introduced by Deborah Parsons Lecturer in English University of Birmingham.

A facsimile of the first edition of Robert Frost's poems North of Boston (1913) with contemporaneous reviews by Edward Thomas introduced by Hugh Underhill formerly Senior Lecturer in English La Trobe University Melbourne freelance writer and poe

A new edition of John Philips's early-18th-century eclogue Cyder: A Poem in Two Books (1708)

Edited by Professor John Goodridge The Nottingham Trent University and J.C. Pellicer University of Oslo with an introduction by J.C. Pellicer.

Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture booklet No.2

A facsimile of the first edition of Edward Thomas’s only book specifically for children Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds (Duckworth 1915) with full-colour frontispiece and title-page introduced by Richard Emeny past secretary of the Edward Thomas Fellows

Edward Thomas on Thomas Hardy: all Thomas’s known writings about Hardy (including correspondence between them) collected edited and introduced by Trevor Johnson critic and editor of Hardy’s fiction and poetry.

A facsimile of John Masefield’s first ever book Salt Water Ballads published in 1902 over 50 poems introduced by Philip W. Errington Department of Printed Books and Manuscripts Sotheby’s and visiting fellow University of London.

Selected Poems of Ann Yearsley a new scholarly edition prepared and introduced by Dr Tim Burke St Mary’s College Strawberry Hill Twickenham with a forward by Professor Donna Landry Wayne State University Michigan.

Thomas Chatterton Selected Poems prepared with the intention of revealing the variety and power of Chatterton’s work retaining Chatterton’s own footnotes and with further explanatory notes by the editor Dr Nick Groom University of Bristol.

A facsimile-style version of the first edition of John Masefield’s second volume of poetry Ballads (1903). Including the poem 'Cargoes' which John Betjeman stated would be "remembered as long as the language lasts".

Introduced by Philip W Errington Department of Printed Books and Manuscripts Sotheby’s and visiting fellow University of London

Edward Thomas on the Georgians is a selection of the little-known reviews of contemporary poetry written by Edward Thomas between 1900 and 1914. They reveal his perception, sensitivity, critical judgment and extensive knowledge of English Poetry.

Selected edited and introduced by Richard Emeny former Secretary of the Edward Thomas Fellowship.

As Told to a Child: Stories from the Derry Notebook celebrates the creative collaboration between Robert Frost and his children in the period of his emergence as a practising poet. This publication can be seen as a visual and textual companion to Lesley Lee Francis' scholarly work of 1994 The Frost Family's Adventure in Poetry.

Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture booklet No.4

Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture booklet No.5

Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture booklet No.6

Printed by his friend James Guthrie in 1916 Six Poems by Edward Eastaway was the only poetry by Edward Thomas published before his death. Less than 100 copies were printed so we are happy to be able to offer an affordable edition copied from number 7

A selection of poems intended to reveal the variety and power of Shenstone's work. William Shenstone (1714-1763) man of letters antiquarian and landscape gardner experimented with a variety of poetic forms. Esteemed in his lifetime he fell out of favour

A selection from an epic 18th-century poem by the labouring class poet James Woodhouse (1735-1820) revealing the innovative power of the writing. Incorporating auto-biography topography (of the West Midlands) and satire the poem is a sustained attack

Robert Southey was a significant literary figure at the height of the English Romantic movement. This selection of his epic fantasies is intended to reveal the variety and power of Southey’s poetry. The text has been meticulously culled from his Complete

The Cyder Press is pleased to reprint a new selection of UA’s poems Homing In chosen by herself and Dr. R. V. Bailey as amongst their favourites to do with Gloucestershire and its environs

Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture booklet No.8

John Dyer's A Poem in Four Books The Fleece

Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture booklet No.3

Three Plays by Laurie Lee two previously unpublished (Black Saturday Red Sunday and I Call Me Adam) radio plays broadcast by the BBC and one (Peasant’s Priest) previously published for Canterbury Cathedral Festival in 1947. Introduced by Jane Mack M

The Rural Church and its fate in the 21st Century reprints the text of Sir Roy Strong's Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture delivered at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in October 2007, and is related to his recently published book, A Little History of the English Country Church (Jonathan Cape, 2007).

The British artist, John Nash (1893-1977), enlisted as a private in the Artists' Rifles, 28th London Regiment, in September 1916, and was drafted to the Western Front in November the same year (his brother, Paul Nash, also served in France before being appointed an Official War Artist in 1917-18). a short time earlier, John had become engaged to Christine Kuhlenthal, a Slade School of Art student; his letters to her from the Front over the period 1916 to the end of 1917, when he went home on leave then also became an Official War Artist, comprise the present volume.

An anthology of writing about Cheltenham through the ages that attempts to set the record straight and celebrate the town by offering 'a garland for Cheltenham'.

Foreward by U.A Fanthorpe

Laurie Lee Memorial Lecture booklet No.11
edited by Professor John Hughes.

The annual Laurie Lecture, sponsored by the University of Gloucestershire in connection with the Cheltenham Festival of Literature.