Slow Dancer Press

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


around robinson

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

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

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

norbert hitschhorn

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 huston

‘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

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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

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

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

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