Hours Press

Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink, but the Hours Press became...

In Paris in the twenties, NC had been associated with Communism. In the thirties, she advocated revolutionary Communism in her anthology NEGRO. She worked for the cause of Republican Spain, and went there during...

Poems: A Joking Word, which had begun under the title Here Beyond, was published in London by Cape (as was Experts Are Puzzled, a book of essays and stories which LR had...

Nancy Cunard 's Hours Press in Paris published EP 's A Draft of XXX Cantos.

The book, published by NC 's Hours Press , included poems by Richard Aldington and Samuel Beckett and had a photomontage cover designed by Man Ray .

Just before Christmas the same year, NC published the pamphlet, prepared with Raymond Michelet as her assistant at the Hours Press . One half is an attack on her mother's prejudices and the other half...

SB 's first separately published work, the poem Whoroscope, won a ten-pound prize in a competition devised by Nancy Cunard , and was printed in Paris by Cunard's Hours Press .

NC founded the Hours Press in a farmhouse in La Chapelle-Réanville, Normandy, which also became her home, or one of her homes.

An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies. A second edition appeared in 1932, and two years later a...

NC 's These Were the Hours: Memories of My Hours Press , Réanville and Paris, 1928-1931, with a foreword by Hugh Ford , was published posthumously.