Slow Dancer Press was in existence from 1977 to 1999. During that time, 30 issues of Slow Dancer Magazine were published, in addition to 45 pamphlet collections, 13 books of poetry and 9 books of prose.
All publications are now out of print; copies of most can be found in the British Library and the Poetry Library at the South Bank Centre.
SIMON ARMITAGE
The Walking Horses
Poetry 20pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 0 871033 01 2 1988
Around Robinson
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 0 871033 10 1 1990
ALBERT BAKER
The Sound of Wings
Poetry 24pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 31 4 1995
STEPHANIE BOWGETT
The Grape-Eating Fox
Poetry 24pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 29 2 1994
ROMULUS BUCUR
Ditties Poetry
28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 87103355 1 199
MATTHEW CALEY
Dancing At The Lone Star Diner
Poetry 32pp 21×12.5cm pamphlet ISBN 0 9507479 9 8 1987
Sirens: The Brixton Soundtrack
Poetry 20pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 33 0 1995
Thirst Poetry 64pp 224x148mm paperback ISBN 1 871033 50 0 1999
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, 1999
“A joy!”
Time Out
LUCILLE CLIFTON
The Terrible Stories
Poetry 72pp 224x148mm paperback ISBN 1 871033 42 X, 1998
“A gorgeous, haunting collection”
Poetry London
JILL COWLEY
Song of the Womb
Poetry 14pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 0 871033 11 X 1990
HUME CRONYN
Birdhouse Contributions
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 22 5 1993
CATHERINE DAVIDSON
Inheriting The Ocean
Poetry 28 pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 35 7 1996
JILL DAWSON
White Fish With Painted Nails
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 26 8
SUE DYMOKE
Sometime Other Than Now
Poetry [with John Harvey] 16pp A5 pamphlet
ISBN 1 871033 00 4
Hunting Ground
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 20 9
AMANDA EASON
In That Country
Poetry 16pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 06 3 1989
ROBERT ETTY
Marking Places
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 27 6 1994
JANET FISHER
Listening to Dancing
Poetry 16pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 07 1 1989
Nobody Move
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 19 5 1992
IULIAN FRUNTASAU
God’s Ear Poetry
28pp A5 pamphlet 1998
TINA FULKER
Gash!
Poetry 48pp
A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 14 4 1992
REBECCA GOSS
Keeping Houston Time
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet Price ISBN 1 870133 39 X 1997
LAVINIA GREENLAW
Love From a Foreign City
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 18 7 1993
HEATHER HAND
Eating Pearls
Poetry 24pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 25 X 1993
The Projector
Poetry 24pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 32 2 1995
JOHN HARVEY
The Old Postcard Trick Poetry & Photographs 20pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 0 9507479 3 9 1984
Taking The Long Road Home Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 04 7 1988
Territory Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 15 2 1993
Blue Lightning (Editor) Fiction 424pp B format paperback ISBN 1 87103343 8 1998
Short stories with a musical theme or background by Charlotte Carter, Rosanne Cash, Liza Cody, Stella Duffy, Jeffery Deaver, Kirsty Gunn, John Harvey, Michael Z. Lewin, Bill Moody, Walter Mosley, Gary Phillips, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson,James Sallis, Julie Smith, Neville Smith, Brian Thompson, JohnWilliams
“The most entertaining crime fiction of the year”
The Times
Now’s the Time: The Complete Resnick Short Stories
Fiction 04pp 205x133mm hardcover ISBN 1 871033 58 6 1999. Limited edition of 1000, 400 numbered and signed
304pp B format paperback ISBN 1 871033 53 5 1999
“A perfect coda to the most accomplished crime series of the 1990s”
Booklist
LEE HARWOOD
Dream Quilt: 30 Assorted Stories
Prose 48pp A5 Pbk ISBN 0 9507479 4 7 1985
In the Mists: Mountain Poems
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 23 3 1993
Morning Light
Poetry 72pp 224x148mm paperback ISBN 1 871033 41 1 1998
“A master of the craft”
Poetry Quarterly Review
NORBERT HIRSCHHORN
Renewal Soup Poetry 28pp
A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 34 9 1996
A Cracked River
Poetry 64pp 224x148pp paperback 1999
‘These poems are full of a wisdom and a depth I see very rarely in poetry…. This is a beautiful book,
one to be cherished, and if some major British publisher doesn’t bring us a full collection soon, there’s
no justice’
Steven Waling
‘Hirschhorn’s poems travel from Minnesota to Cambodia to Java, effortlessly – what connects them is the confidence of his voice, which is at once very personal and direct’
Poetry London
LIBBY HOUSTON
‘Libby Houston has an original voice, which is hard to characterize…. She likes to contemplate rottenness, rotting and the agents of change and decay, blowflies, maggots and mould, which she describes with a nice precision which remove them to the safe world of wit on the one hand, or fairy tale on the other. she looks at tiny details and large movements of life and time, like all good writers; a poet, a woman, not particularly a woman poet.’
A. S. Byatt
Necessity Poetry
56pp A5 Pbk ISBN 1 871033 02 01988 1988
Out of Necessity
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 36 5 1996
Cover of Darkness
Selected Poems 160pp 224x148mm paperback 1999
“A brilliant poet craftily at work”
Judith Kazantzis
KEITH JAFRATE
War Poems
Poetry 44pp A5 Pbk ISBN 0 9507479 6 3 1987
Jump!
Poetry, with Photographs by John Harvey 16pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 0 871033 00 4 1987
The Song of Orpheus
Poetry 18pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 38 1 1996
DAVID KRESH
Bloody Joy : Love Poems
Poetry 48pp A5 paperback ISBN 0 9507479 0 4 1981
BARRY MACSWEENEY
Ranter
Poetry 48pp A5 Pbk ISBN 0 9507479 5 5 1985
RHONA McADAM
Old Habits
Poetry 64pp A5 pbk ISBN 1 871033 21 7 1993
Co-published with Thistledown Press, Saskatchewan, Canada
JULES MANN
Pluck Poetry
28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 60 8
BILL MOODY
Solo Hand
Fiction 224pp B format paperback ISBN 1 87033 49 7
NANCY NIELSEN
East of the Light Poetry 50pp A5 Pbk ISBN 0 9507479 2 0 1984
Co-published with Stone Man Press, Lubec, Maine USA
Fencing Wildness 28 pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 59 4 1999
SHARON OLDS
The Matter of This World
Poetry 60pp A5 Pbk ISBN 0 9507479 8 X 1987
ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS
The Haunted Mirror
Three short stories with an introduction by Jennifer Bailey
48pp A5 Pbk ISBN 0 9507479 1 2 1984
ANN SANSOM
Vehicle
Poetry 28pp pamphlet A5 ISBN 1 871033 61 6 1999
PETER SANSOM
More Poems About Love Affairs & Trains
Poetry 20pp A5 ISBN 0 9507479 7 1 1987
Talk Sense Poetry
28pp A5 pamphlet. Price ISBN 1 871033 40 3 1997
JAMES SCHUYLER
Last Poems Poetry
64pp A5 paperback ISBN 1871033519 1999
JULIE SMITH
New Orleans Mourning
Fiction 412pp B format paperback ISBN 1 871033 45 4 1998
The Axeman’s Jazz Fiction
380pp B format paperback ISBN 1 871033 57 8 1999
“Cool, complex and penetrating right to the heart”
Val McDermid
NEVILLE SMITH
Gumshoe
Fiction 192pp B format paperback ISBN 1 871033 44 6 1998
“A small masterpiece of humour”
Time Out
MARTIN STANNARD
The Gracing of Days
Poetry 56pp A5 Pbk ISBN 1 871033 09 8 1989
MANDY SUTTER
Permission to Stare
Poetry 24pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 24 1 1993
DIANA SYDER
Catching The Light
Poetry 18pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 37 3 1996
BRIAN THOMPSON
Ladder of Angels
Fiction 240pp B format paperback ISBN 1 870133 48 9
“Well-written, funny, unexpected, sophisticated and thoroughly enjoyable”
San Francisco Chronicle
RUTH VALENTINE
The Identification of Species
Poetry 16pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 13 6 1991
Second, Enlarged Edition 20pp A5 pamphlet
ISBN 1 871033 17 9 1992
The Tide Table
Poetry 64pp 224x148mm paperback ISBN 1 871033 46 2 1998
“Serious,impassioned, keenly perceptive work”
John Burnside
RHIANNON WAKEMAN
Tenants of The House
Poetry 20pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 08 X 1989
JACKIE WILLS
Black Slingbacks
Poetry 16pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 12 8 1991
Second, Enlarged Editon 20pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 17 9 1992
SARAH WOOD
Love Or Something Else
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 30 6 1995
TAMAR YOSELOFF
Fun House
Poetry 28pp A5 pamphlet ISBN 1 871033 28 4 1994
Sweetheart
Poetry 64pp 224x148mm paperback ISBN 1 871033 47 0 1998
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
Winner, Aldebugh Poetry Festival Prize for Best First Collection, 1998