The Frogmore Press
About the Frogmore Press
The Frogmore Press was founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page (poet) at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone in 1983. The Press has published hundreds of writers in its now bi-annual magazine The Frogmore Papers and also in individual collections and anthologies. Since 2010 the managing editor has been Alexandra Loske. The Frogmore Press is renowned for the quality of its cover art. Neil Gower has designed many of the press's most memorable cover. Other cover artist include John Fowler, Eva Bodinet, Elizabeth Jardine, Allan Hardcastle, Michael Munday and David J Markham.
Publications
Early work by numerous writers who have gone on to consolidate their reputations elsewhere appeared in the magazine. Poems by Sophie Hannah, Tobias Hill, Elizabeth Garrett, Katherine Pierpoint, Linda France, Tamar Yoseloff and many more were published in The Frogmore Papers before re-appearing in their authors' first collections. Work by established writers such as Brian Aldiss, John Harvey, John Mole, Clare Pollard, Carole Satyamurti, Pauline Stainer and Susan Wicks, has also appeared, alongside work by unknown or emerging writers.
Collections
Marita Over, Other Lilies, 1997[1]
Jeremy Page, The Alternative Version, 2001[2]
Michael Swan, When They Come For You, 2003[3]
The most recent publications from the Frogmore Press are Languages of Colour,[4] edited by Alexandra Loske, a collection of writings and artwork on the subject of colour and colour theory, and Poems from the Old Hill,[5] 2012, ISBN 978-0-9570688-1-0, an anthology of poems by writers resident in Lewes, East Sussex. The latter publication was edited by Jeremy Page (poet) and its launch was featured in the news section of the University of Sussex. Contributors to Languages of Colour include Graham Dean, Liz Rideal, Julian Bell, Tania Hershman, Aprilia Zank, Niki Fulton, Michael Swan (writer), Robert Hamberger, Tamar Yoseloff, Roy Osborne, Ros Barber, Catherine Smith and many others. This anthology includes twenty colour illustration, comprising contemporary artwork as well as historic images, such as colour circles by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Field (chemist) and Mary Gartside.
References
- ↑ Marita Over, Other Lilies, The Frogmore Press, 1997 ISBN 0953138305
- ↑ Jeremy Page, The Alternative Version, The Frogmore Press, 2001 ISBN 0953138399
- ↑ Michael Swan, When They Come For You, The Frogmore Press, 2001 ISBN 0953138364
- ↑ Alexandra Loske (editor), Languages of Colour, The Frogmore Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-9570688-0-3
- ↑ Poems from the Old Hill, The Frogmore Press, 2012 ISBN 9780957068810