The Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series
Editors: Sidney Hall Jr. and Rodger Martin
At Hobblebush, we are in a unique position to produce beautiful volumes of some of New Hampshire’s best poets. The Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series publishes one or two volumes a year of New Hampshire poets who deserve a wider audience.
Series editor, Sid Hall, notes: “We are not looking for authors who are simply skilled. We are interested in work that is transformative and important. We are looking for authors who have lifted words into a new realm of spirit that did not exist before that author began to write. We believe those poets are here in New Hampshire.”
Hobblebush is also committed to the art of fine book design and typography, and these books reflect our passion for well-made books.
Hobblebush welcomes ideas and submissions for the series. Manuscripts should be approximately 60 to 80 pages of poetry. Please query first by sending an e-mail to hobblebush@charter.net.
More about our first three voumes:
From the Box Marked Some Are Missing by Charles W. Pratt
Earth Listening by Becky Dennison Sakellariou
Tales of the François Vase by Julia Older
A Note from The New hampshire
State Poet Laureate:
“The Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series is certainly off to an auspicious start with the publication of From the Box Marked Some Are Missing, by Charles W. Pratt, and Earth Listening, by Becky Sakellariou. By representing these and other deserving New Hampshire poets, and doing so in such beautifully designed books, publisher Sid Hall is providing an invaluable service to our state’s writers and readers.”
Walter E. Butts
2009–2014 New Hampshire State Poet Laureate
If you would like to subscribe to the series, please use the contact form to let us know. You will receive a 10% discount and free shipping on all books in the series and we will automatically ship new volumes to you as they come out, and send you an invoice. Please note in your email which volumes you already have.
“This is a valiant first round by Hobblebush Books. The packaging of both titles is quite fine, and great care has been exercised in the selection of both poets and the poems on display. If the rest of the Granite State Poetry Series is anything like Earth Listening and From the Box Marked Some Are Missing, poetry readers from all states are very lucky indeed.”
Edgar Mason,
The Fortnightly Review, UK
“...New Hampshire has its great poetic history, having sent off four of its own to become U.S. poets laureate, just for starters. Mr. Pratt has had his own distinctive career as poet, and now we have this volume to hold alongside the best there is.”
Robert Stewart: “New Hampshire Does it Again”
New Letters Vol. 76, #4
EVENTS
Sunday, February 26th, 2-5 pm
Charles Pratt reads at the 40th annual meeting of the Worcester County Poetry Association
First Unitarian Church in Worcester, MA, in the Bancroft Room, 90 Main Street. Directions at:
www.firstunitarian.com
The event will remember and celebrate Worcester's poetry heritage: Stanley Kunitz, Elizabeth Bishop, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Olsen. Reception to follow.