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Publications by our friends at The Onslaught Press
Tomorrow is the Tugboat of Today
By Alan John Stubbs.
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-97-8

This is Cumbrian poet Alan John Stubbs's third collection. "These poems carry with them the heat of recognition and the eeriness of dream. That light comes. That a door opens. That we are included within the mercurial secrecy of observation, but only for a second—like a painting done wholly with a drying brush: suggestive of the universe, in every brushstroke."

The Wounded Stork
By Jackie Gorman.
2019. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-96-1

This collection explores nature and language with poems which are rich in strange metaphors. There is a sense of magic in the ordinary, suggesting that the possibility of shape-shifting is never far away. This collection explores nature, childhood, ageing, love and loss with a sense of resilience and wonder.

Between Four Walls
By Yvonne Higgins. Preface by Ian Joyce. Preface by Mathew Staunton.
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-95-4

This book is an extension of the 2019 exhibition The Probable Causes of Future Experience which explores what it is to experience the world from a child’s perspective. Irish Artist Yvonne Higgins has used materials drawn from instructional manuals, illustrated encyclopaedias, family health guides, books about wildlife and the natural world, to investigate the power dynamic between adult and child and the shifting boundaries between adulthood and childhood. Between Four Walls extends the artist’s work through collaboration with an invited panel of international poets who have responded to her collages and photographs. It is prefaced by an essay on representing childhood by historian Mathew Staunton and artist Ian Joyce.

From the Heavens Fall the Fair Bright Stars
By Mathew Staunton and Ian Joyce.
2019. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-93-0

A small book of collaborative black and white monotypes and poetic text by Mathew Staunton and Ian Joyce meditating on space, loss and the survival of hope in the face of disaster and forced migration.

Le bruit des plis
By Marc Thébault and Rudi Meyer.
2020. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-91-6

Des matières grises et souples, s'échappent murmures et pas d'à côté. Celles des surfaces incisées en noir et blanc sur les pages choisies comme lit d'un torrent. Les souvenirs voilés dessinent 49 textes propices à l'éclosion d'irréelles images. Marc Thébault met en ligne les mots, dont Rudi Meyer rehausse les tons en une moisson de traits. Bruissements, crissements, tintinnabulements s'érigent en possibilités d'ornements et délivrent d'insoupçonnables reflets à tout ce qui s'y cache. Ce qui n'est que sentiment devient formes et chants à redéposer en silence au plat du papier où s'allongent les phrases, où s'étirent les plis. Au cours de ces promenades fictionnelles dans les ailleurs de l'âme, se dispersent les encres à défroisser le temps.

Living In: Creative Solidarities in Palestine
By Steve Wiley.
2019. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-90-9

Steve Willey’s Living In is a powerful statement of engagement and solidarity with the Palestinians. Having studied and become acquainted with many Palestinians, Willey has an understanding of their profound grievances. In prose and poems steeped in his knowledge of Palestinian literature, he highlights their predicament of suffering under Israeli occupation, as well as the ongoing complicity of imperial powers.

Spectral Forest
By Nisha Bhakoo.
2020. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-86-2

In Spectral Forest, the symbol of the forest is used to explore gothic and uncanny themes of haunting, telepathy, and strange repetitions. Nisha Bhakoo draws upon numerous treescapes to explore contemporary forms of human intimacy, and connection and disconnection from the natural world. Throughout her poems and polaroids, that focus mainly on her home city of Berlin, she shares insights on both personal and collective issues relating to rootlessness, alienation, exploitation of natural resources, and deforestation.

Sound About Hot
By Alan John Stubbs.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-85-5

In his fourth collection, Alan John Stubbs offers a closely observed commentary on place as affected by two of the major concerns of the day, climate change, and coronavirus. They address ordinary people; their relationships; wildlife and all of its interdependancies; and the wider environment. The space created by the poems allows us both to see the present anew, and envision the future.

Rocabillie Balor
By Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Illustrated by Ian Joyce.
2019. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-84-8

Aitinsint dhrámatúil ar cheann de sheanscéalta Chloich Cheann Fhaola atá anseo. An choimhlint idir Lugh Lámhfhada agus a sheanathair Balor na Súile Nimhe is ábhar don dráma véarsaíochta seo. Ní bheifeá ag súil lelagaithris ar an ghnáthinsint ó scríbhneoir chomh ceisteach le Ó Searcaigh agus tá a shliocht sin ar an leagan dúshlánach seo. Anseo éiríonn leis dearcadh úr agus fuinneamh spleodrach a chruthú agus é ag déanamh ceangail idir sheanscéal iomráiteach óna dhúiche agus ealaín bheo chomhaimseartha na hamharclainne.

Poems for the NHS
By Matt Barnard.
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-74-9

This is an anthology of poetry about the NHS. It includes poems about receiving life-saving treatment, about the people who deliver that treatment with empathy and resilience, about friends and family and their intimate journeys and about the impact of both ill-health and the effect of the interventions aimed at curing it. It celebrates the fact that access to medical care doesn’t depend on the lottery of good or bad fortune. We hope it is a fitting way to mark 70 years of an extraordinary institution.

B. Reigns
By Shanthamani M., Yvonne Higgins, and Marc Thébault
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-73-2

B. Reigns was an exhibition at the Gallery Sumukha (Bengaluru) with Bamboo as its medium. Artists Shanthamani M. and Marc Thébault come from diverse artistic and cultural sensibilities and this catalogue is the result of their engagement with this multi-purpose, eco-friendly and self-sustainable material.

Hold Your Breath
By Waqas Khwaja.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-72-5

Anger, nostalgia, evocative eroticism and amorphous love for the universal characterise the poems in this collection, which range from the poet's native Pakistan to his new home in America and a world that includes not only Emily Dickinson and centaurs dancing, but also Islamophobia and the blinding effects of living in the land of the Cyclopes.

long days of rain
By Janak Sapkota.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-71-8

A stunning collection of haiku from prizewinning Nepalese haikuist Janak Sapkota. These gem-like texts are charged with a mystery that cannot be faked, a mystery that is evoked and perceived through the poet's relationship with the living earth and the spirit of nature itself. Long Days of Rain brings the moisture of true haiku to a genre which too easily slips into the aridity of jokey cleverness.

Orpheus in the Underpass
By Gabriel Rosenstock. Illustrated by Ross McKessock.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-70-1

This book is the first product of the ongoing collaboration between artist Ross McKessock and haikuist Gabriel Rosenstock. Inspired by the image of Orpheus in the underworld, Rosenstock has composed a haiku rensaku in response to an audio recording of McKessock duetting with wheezing buses, heckling onlookers, and the ambient sounds of Oxford in an underpass sandwiched between City Council offices and the ongoing construction of a new shopping centre. McKessock has, in turn, illustrated the haiku sequence with his photographs of the site.

The Lost Library Book
By Amanda Bell. Illustrated by Alice Durand-Wietzel
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-69-5

The remarkable true story of a forgotten library book that was returned to Marsh’s Library after one hundred years, written by Amanda Bell and Illustrated in colour by Alice Durand-Wietzel.

Lugh na Bua
By Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Seán Ó Gaoithín. Illustrated by Sean Fitzgerald.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-68-8 (paperback), 978-1-912111-64-0 (hardcover)

Athinsint i gcaint chraicneach ar cheann de sheanscéalta Chloich Cheann Fhaola. Two new tellings in Irish and English by Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Seán Ó Gaoithín of a Donegal Folktale concerning the troublesome Balor and Lugh of the Tuatha Dé Danann, illustrated with stunning drawings by Sean Fitzgerald.

The Architecture of the Poetic Universe
By Hugh Conway Morris.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-67-1

This book is an effort to develop the idea of spiritual sustainability in architecture and explain how it might manifest itself in the cultural environment of the Hiberno-British Archipelago. This is not in any narrow nationalistic sense, for it transcends the closed minds of nationalists—it is the attempt to understand local human cultures in their global context. It is a thinking through a theology of nature, the place of humanity within the natural world, and how architecture presents a unique opportunity for us to live in harmony with sacred Creation.

In the Droom: A novel
By Heitham Al-Sayed.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-65-7

A work of magical fiction—part nouveau roman, part out of body experience—in which multiple realities appear to overlap in a fevered dream state. Prepare to be enveloped in Al-Sayed’s malfunctioning mist of multiple realities, pouring sexily through a crack in the wall onto the stuff that doesn’t really belong to you, in the city you have no real clue about, especially because you’ve lived there so long.

Lugh na Bua
By Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Seán Ó Gaoithín. Illustrated by Sean Fitzgerald.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-68-8 (paperback), 978-1-912111-64-0 (hardcover)

Athinsint i gcaint chraicneach ar cheann de sheanscéalta Chloich Cheann Fhaola. Two new tellings in Irish and English by Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Seán Ó Gaoithín of a Donegal Folktale concerning the troublesome Balor and Lugh of the Tuatha Dé Danann, illustrated with stunning drawings by Sean Fitzgerald.

Flower Press
By Alice Kinsella.
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-63-3 OUT OF PRINT

This short collection of poems can be described as an elegiac apostrophe. In three sections—bud, bloom, and blood—it explores the growth of love in childhood, the loss of innocence, and the fallout of that loss. Flower Press does not claim to offer answers, but the consolation of the act of remembering.

The Eight-Eyed Lord of Kathmandu
By Abhay K.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-62-6

In these rapturous poems Abhay K. catches the allure and mystique of Kathmandu; its maze of medieval streets, its thronged bazaars, its twilit courtyards. We taste the aromas of its ancient alleyways and the drift of incense from its crumbling temples. We hear in them the raucous chant of its life. Abhay K. is the all-seeing eye, the seer who brings to light a city and its people with a rare immediacy of speech and a boundless imaginative empathy. This young, visionary poet communes beautifully with his beloved Kathmandu in a superbly crafted, exquisitely achieved collection that chronicles the life and times of a city and a people.

Des mots de passe en proche
By Marc Thébault and Rudi Meyer.
2020. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-61-9

Chacun sait qu’il oscille entre l’être et l’autre. Longtemps en trousseau, au fond d’une poche, certains mots se sont échappés. Mots de passe en proche, ramassés et déposés sur l’établi de Marc Thébault, en qualité de matériaux. Leur assemblage forme des énoncés qui ricochent sur les feuillets des carnets d’atelier. Réorganisés en un abécédaire, l’initiale d’un mot choisi devient objet typographique. Le plan pleine page, ainsi ouvert par Rudi Meyer s’affiche et se regarde comme une possibilité de déploiement du sens.

Goa: A Garland of Poems
Edited by Rochelle Potkar. Translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-60-2

A stunning and timely anthology of the best of Goan poetry in English and Irish translation, including both favourite and almost-forgotten poems from the past and present. Rochelle Potkar has established a new Goan canon for the 21st century.

Anatomy of a Whale
By Matt Barnard.
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-58-9

Like all the best poets, Matt Barnard knows how to make poems bigger than themselves; short lyrics like ‘Please Follow the Yellow Line,’ ‘The Day Twilight Went on for Days’ and ‘Border Patrol’ manage to fill the page and the time beyond their reading, treading a nice line in Larkinesque terror. Writers like Charles Boyle and Charles Simic also come to mind in the poet’s highly original and enjoyable metaphors, his ability to draw symbol from the everyday. There are lyrics here on everything from cows named after Jane Fonda and Bette Davis to villanelles about intellectual property and the knotty question of dying hair in middle age. This is a poet with the highest regard for the reader, who offers us poems that lay out a welcome mat, before ushering us into the conservatory to look out at that incredible, incredible view.

Qoaling
By Rethabile Masilo.
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-57-2

This is multi-award-winning Mosotho poet Rethabile Masilo's 4th collection. At its core, Qoaling is a book about the body and movement: from Eden, to prison, and into exile. Masilo’s poetics move through death and loss while remaining attentive to the inviolability of language. He continually summons memory and yet disrupts the making of it, inviting the reader to bear witness even where witness has not always been possible. His writing traffics across the range of textures of the human experience, from the quotidian to the visceral. This book is an offering against forgetting. (TJ Dema)

Mandible
By Ingrid Casey.
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-56-5

Ingrid Casey’s debut poetry collection Mandible is visceral, imaginative and sometimes surreal. It charts a tale of a failed relationship and more using mythology, legend and strong images. An effervescent book, brimming over with novel thoughts and points of view, held together by an upbeat, pleasing music all the way through.

poems for Grenfell Tower
By 62 poets.
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-55-8 OUT OF PRINT

In this powerful and moving anthology, 62 poets raise their voices in elegy, bearing witness to the human cost of the Grenfell Tower fire. All profits go to the Grenfell Foundation to help those affected by the tragedy.

The View from the Glen: Selected Prose
By Cathal Ó Searcaigh.
2018. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-54-1

In this collection of new and selected prose pieces Cathal Ó Searcaigh explores the natural and built environment, casting his gaze out from his home in Mín ’a Leá and documenting the tiny details and intimate spaces of his beloved corner of Donegal before moving into the wider world, dancing with Irish music-lovers in Milwaukee and navigating the bustling streets of New Delhi. He shares colourful snapshots of his people, friends and neighbours, giving us precious insights into his upringing and first steps as one of Ireland’s finest poets; and in a tour de force of literary criticism delves into the best of 1980s Irish poetry, the work of Colette Ní Ghallchóir and Gabriel Rosenstock, and the life of Ploughman Poet, Robert Burns. This book is a must for students of Irish poetry and lovers of landscape alike.

Glengower: Poems for No One in Irish and English
By Gabriel Rosenstock. With translations into Japanese by Mariko Sumikura and into Scots by John McDonald. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
2015. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-53-4

There’s something for nobody—the poet himself insists!—in Rosenstock’s latest volume of poems from The Onslaught Press, a publisher of poetry and haiku that has championed his recent body of work. Poetry International says he is “famously difficult to pin down”: indeed, now more than ever.

Albus Alba Album
By Carole Ecoffet and Marc Thébault.
2019. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-51-0

Carole Ecoffet et Marc Thébault se sont associés en 2011 sous le label ∂ cm. pour développer une réflexion singulière sur les relations entre art et science. Albus, Alba, Album, par l’entrechoquement des mots et des images, traduit en un récit de manière visuelle et sensible, la rencontre d’une scientifique et d’un artiste en 3 X 7 possibles énoncés du blanc.

Wings of Smoke
By Jim Pascual Agustin.
2017. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-1-912111-00-8

Wings of Smoke is the stunning work of a poet who asks the sorts of questions only poets ask, softly prodding us towards awareness, surprising us with gentleness and quiet humour, weaving wonderful things into his carefully stitched fabric of verse. It is a beautifully crafted collection of accessible poems in a mix of styles, all striking in the poet’s intimacy with his subjects. There is a depth of incisive thought, observation of nature, human movement that feels unforced. He expresses a concern for the fragility of our social order; a concern for violations of human dignity brought about by violent conflict.

behind the yew hedge
By Gabriel Rosenstock. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
Second edition 2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9956225-8-6

A short series of eight haiku and senryu in Irish and English by renowned haiku master Gabriel Rosenstock in response to black and white drawings of hedge mazes by Mathew Staunton. Sometimes dark and meloncholy, sometimes joyful and sparkling, these gem-like texts will capture your imagination.

World Sounds
Written and illustrated by Aoife Staunton. With translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock and into French by Michel Jovet.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9956225-5-5

Transcreations in Irish and English of 34 snow haiku by Kobayashi Issa (1763–1827) by renowned Irish haiku master Gabriel Rosenstock. Illustrated with pictures of snowflakes by Mathew Staunton.

ident
By Alan John Stubbs.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9956225-4-8

In this new collection of playfully disturbing and provocative poems Alan John Stubbs, an established master of risky, inventive poetics, turns his critical eye towards the notion of identity, skipping effortlessly between vivid childhood memories, bright, impressionistic flashbacks from his international travels, and laments for the sorry state of the contemporary United Kingdom.

Sneachta: transcreations in Irish and English of Issa's snow haiku
By Issa and Gabriel Rosenstock. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9956225-3-1

Transcreations in Irish and English of 34 snow haiku by Kobayashi Issa (1763–1827) by renowned Irish haiku master Gabriel Rosenstock. Illustrated with pictures of snowflakes by Mathew Staunton.

Out of the Wilderness
By Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9956225-2-4

Sparkling new translations by Gabriel Rosenstock of poems from five of Cathal O Searcaigh's most startling and refreshing collections. Rosenstock's lengthy introduction and concluding essay explain O Searcaigh's unique position in the Irish literary corpus, shedding light on his relationships with west Donegal, his poetic influences, his mother and mother tongue. In these celebrations of Nature, love, friendship and the draw of poetic kinship the unexpected rises to the surface like foam formed under a waterfall during the spring thaw. (Bill Wolak)

I Wanna Make Jazz to You
By Moe Seager. Illustrated by Leïla Chaix.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9956225-1-7

Following on from his highly successful We Want Everything (2016), Paris-based Pittsburgh jazzman poet Moe Seager is back with a stunning collection of erotic poems. This edition is designed and illustrated in colour with sumptuous drawings by French artist Leïla Chaix.

The Lightbulb has Stigmata
By Helen Fletcher.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9956225-0-0

A stunning (and startling) debut collection of daring, thought-provoking, multi-voiced poems from a rising star of the UK scene. According to Helen Farish, "the voices we hear in this beguiling collection unsettle and engage the reader precisely because they speak without apparently having any designs on their audience—the hospital waitress, the woman seeing stigmata in a lightbulb, the undergraduate who sits ‘failing with victory ticks on [her] trainers’. These are captivating poems from a poet of great promise.

Stickers
By Laurent Delahaye.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-9-2 OUT OF PRINT

Stickers est une série de dessins au feutre par graphiste et musicien Laurent Delahaye, représentant des objets de son enfance, ou actuels. L'intérêt de cette série est de tirer le portrait d'une maison à travers ses objets mais aussi de créer des compositions parfois paradoxales de choses qui n'ont pas forcément de rapport les unes avec les autres.

Judgement Day: haiku, senryu, and other aimless utterances
By Gabriel Rosenstock. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-8-5

A lavish edition of 94 ekphrastic haiku and senryu in Irish and English responding to full-colour collages by Karl Waldmann. Judgement Day is Gabriel Rosenstock’s latest reckoning of who and what we are between the shoals of eternal good and historical evil, vision and blindness. His lantern is a bright one and illuminates vast, evolving worlds of mind, matter and choice, within a cosmology where anything appears and proves to be possible. The dark rubble, tossed forms, and dissociation of Karl Waldmann’s collage art, give to each of Rosenstock’s poems a setting of tactile grit that singes the imagination.

You Found a Beating Heart
By Nisha Bhakoo. Preface by Fiona Sampson. Edited by Mathew Staunton.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-7-8

You Found a Beating Heart is Nisha Bhakoo’s debut poetry collection. She views the heart from an uncanny perspective in these experimental, feminist poems. The rawness of her poetry is achieved largely through a free writing approach, which translates emotional excess into something that is both spiky and dream-like, both confessional and allusive.

Le Livre du Venin
Four stories by Panu Petteri Höglund and one by S. Albert Kivinen, translated into French by Michel Jovet, with illustrations by Jeff Grimal.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-6-1

L'Innommable n'a pas de frontière, et on découvrira au travers des nouvelles présentées ici que, de la Finlande profonde aux falaises de la verte Erin, le Mythe de Cthulhu a laissé sa marque tentaculaire: ici, le Livre du Venin, ouvrage impie dont le texte s'adapte à celui qui le lit; là, une île abandonnée de tous et qui cache, enfouie, un terrible secret, et encore enfin, un club musical abandonné, hanté par le souvenir d'un musicien capable d'ouvrir des portes interdites grâce à son génie créatif. L'esprit des premiers cercles Lovecraftiens se retrouve dans ces courts textes de Panu Petteri Höglund et S. Albert Kivinen, aux réferences implicites et au style direct et sobre, illustrés par les tableaux hallucinés du talentueux Jeff Grimal, compositeur, guitariste et chanteur du groupe The Great Old Ones.

Tea wi the Abbot: Scots haiku with transcreations in Irish
By John McDonald and Gabriel Rosenstock. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-5-4

118 haiku in Scots by haiku master John McDonald with transcreations in Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. Raw, real, disturbing and beautiful, these haiku are "...an invitation to see more clearly, to hear more sharply, to feel more soulfully. If we have at all those eyes to see and those ears to hear they wake us up, not only to taste the language, but to hear the music of wonder. These verbal explosions echo in the chambers of wisdom" (Alan Titley (Writer and scholar, Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish, University College Cork).

El Magnifico
By Camille Prieur and Vincent Malgras.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-4-7

A visually stunning Western-themed graphic novel by two rising stars of the indie world. Prieur and Malgras combine traditional Wild West themes (gunplay, masked villains, nameless vigilantes) with references to modern cinema (Star Wars, The Big Lebowski) to produce a satisfyingly fresh and altogether enjoyable read.

The Lost Box of Eyes
By Alan John Stubbs. Preface by Fiona Sampson. Edited by Mathew Staunton.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-3-0

A playful and inventive collection of thoroughly modern poetry, The Lost Box of Eyes moves smoothly between visually vibrant poems brimming with people, life and colour; and quieter meditative nature poems. Alan John John Stubbs captures and evokes tender moments of interaction between strangers, lovers, and a lyrical experience of the natural world through his use of sensually rich detail and energetic language. A striking and ambitious range of work from a talented writer.

Déchiffrage
By Marc Thébault and Rudi Meyer.
2020. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-2-3

Dessins de chiffres, dessins de mots. Du 0 au 9, Rudi Meyer et Marc Thébault proposent une expression sensible, visuelle et allusive, de dix chiffres en alphabet Didot. Le dessin de ce caractère présente un registre restreint de formes. Cette particularité permet des possibilités inédites d'assemblage. Les deux auteurs,dans une démarche de création conjointe mais autonome, ont choisi d'explorer les contraintes formelles du signe et du texte, en autant de pages en vis à vis. Au lecteur de naviguer de similitudes en oppositions, de contiguïtés en éloignements, de douces impertinences en évidences.

We Want Everything
By Moe Seager.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-1-6

"This little book reflects my integration of the personal, the political. I write, recite and sing in the honored tradition: Poet as voice of the people, our quality of life, the absence of quality." (Moe Seager) These poems are "a way in to a way out, artful and (consciously) artless simultaneously, socially engaging, conversational, erotic, egalitarian, and quite musical. Read these poems aloud for maximum effect, unwrap them, chew on them, embrace them, lock horns with them, but ultimately feel them." (Danny Shot)

to kingdom come: voices against political violence
Edited by Rethabile Masilo.
2016. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9934217-0-9

In 1970, deserving Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn argued that "violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, [was] brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility [had] been demonstrated and proved many times in history." Nearly half a century later, the situation has clearly deteriorated. Here are 47 writers (including Makhosazana Xaba, Marge Piercy, Pamela Mordecai, Ingrid de Kok, Ruth Valentine, Rustum Kozain, Mike Cope, Denis Hirson, Athol Williams, Alan J. Stubbs, Yahia Lababidi, Peter Horn, Eugene Skeef and Gabriel Rosenstock) who have something to say about that.

Antlered Stag of Dawn
By Gabriel Rosenstock. With translations into Japanese by Mariko Sumikura and into Scots by John McDonald. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
2015. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9927238-9-7

A sensuous and playful collection of 100 haiku in Irish and English (inspired by a photograph of the Very Venerable Chögyam Trungpa in Highland Regalia) by renowned haikuist Gabriel Rosenstock. This edition includes translations into Japanese by Mariko Sumikura and into Scots by John McDonald, with linocuts by Mathew Staunton.

behind the yew hedge
By Gabriel Rosenstock. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
First edition 2015. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9927238-8-0 OUT OF PRINT

Spontaneous haiku and senryu in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock in response to black and white drawings by Mathew Staunton. Haiku agus senryu spontáineacha ag freagairt do líonaíochtaí dubh is bán le Mathew Staunton.

Bumper Cars
By Athol Williams. Edited by Mathew Staunton.
2015. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9927238-7-3

The 41 poems in Bumper Cars do not spare the reader, as a mother might spare a child. They spare the reader the possibility of not experiencing the lives, love, opportunity, disappointment, war and peace that they describe. Athol Williams peels the skin off South Africa and walks us up and around its body, commenting on each protuberance and explaining or questioning its function. An energy pervades this book, a raw, shocking energy. In an age when intellectual robots are in danger of taking over the world of poetry, here's something hauntingly different, something savage and visceral and human, a cry we cannot ignore.

pensées
By Roain Renault. With an introduction by Yahia Lababidi. Edited by Mathew Staunton.
2015. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9927238-6-6

A series of illustrated epigrams drawn on post-it notes. With economy and wit, the author touches on matters absurd, philosophical, moral, psychological, and political. His terse, arresting visual aphorisms register, alternately, as micro-essays, a text book of wisecracks or, more broadly, exercises in seeing and thinking, differently.

Waslap
By Rethabile Masilo. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
2015. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9927238-5-9

Winner of the 2016 Glenna Luschei Prize. Rethabile Masilo is a Mosotho poet born in 1961. He left Lesotho with his parents and siblings to go into exile in 1980, moving through the Republic of South Africa, Kenya, and The United States, before settling in France in 1987. The poems in this (his second) collection speak of this journey. They are intimate, playful and ironic; mysterious, urban, heartbreaking, and painful. Infused with the warmth of the language of family and full of references to nature and the grandeur of remembered landscapes, the poems are both universal and personal. It is poetry that reflects the predicament of those displaced; the victims of prejudice, war and terror. Masilo describes how fettered by suspicion the daily life of an exile can be. At the same time, "by a conquest of will", he is now the keeper of his dead father's dreams, which in itself entitles him to a kind of freedom. In the end, it is such freedoms; such home-truths; that form the solid bedrock on which this powerful and moving collection stands and where the poet stakes his ground: where "the mountains rise above my predicament."

For the Children of Gaza
Edited by Mathew D. Staunton and Rethabile Masilo.
2014. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-978-0-9927238-4-2

The contributors to this book are telling the story of our anger and disgust and horror. You will not be surprised to discover that there is darkness in many of the texts that follow. But there is also joy and beauty. Its aim is much less to accuse than to paint a correct picture of what most of the world seemingly does not see, or chooses not to see, and we think that a right recognition of the reality of Gaza today needs to be accompanied by the right remedial action. Such action is in the hands of all of us, even if the leaders of the world, who are indeed in the best position to act, do not. What is at stake in Gaza goes well beyond the politics of sides and enters the consideration of crime and of killing. There are many accomplices on both sides and as in any crime, they, too, must be held accountable. Bishop Tutu has said that "if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." The work presented here by many artists and writers from all corners of the world attempts, unlike the non-actions of those who actually have political clout and power, to choose the side of the oppressed. Suddenly, in the face of these killings, it does not matter that tunnels have been dug, or that rockets are being launched at Israeli cities. Even if you are right, what suddenly matters is choosing to kill your opponent, who is weaker.

Aistear Anama
By Tadhg Ó Caoinleáin. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
2014. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9927238-3-5

Is é seo an chéad chnuasach ó pheann Thaidhg Uí Chaoinleáin cé is go bhfuil sé ag cumadh dánta ar feadh i bhfad. Is turas taisceadála é an bailiúchán seo a chíorann a fhorbairt phearsanta mar Éireannach nua-aoiseach a léiríonn a ghrá dá theanga dhúchais, dá mhuintir is dá chairde. Tá bá doimhin ag an údar leis an nádúr i gcoitinne ach go h-áirithe le dúile mar fharraige, salann, clocha, cré agus gaineamh. Tá an saothar seo bunaithe ar shraith de thurasanna comhcheangailte óna óige i ranganna scoile a bhí dáinséareach uaireanta go dtí aois fir dhó le luí aige le h-iontaisí an tsaoil mar radharcanna, fuaimeanna agus bolaithe na tuaithe agus na cathrach araon. Cuimsíonn na h-aistir éagsúla seo dhá thuras thábhachtacha – ar láimh amháin, an turas ón domhan neamhchomhfhiosach chuig an domhan comhfhiosach agus ar an láimh eile dhe turasanna corpartha fisiciúla ó thalamh glas na hÉireann go dtí garráin líomóide na hIodáile Theas. Is múinteoir méanscoile agus comhairleoir páirt-aimsire é Tadhg Ó Caoinleáin atá ag obair i mBaile Átha Cliath mar a bhfuil cónaí air le blianta.

Poison Trees
By Mathew Staunton. Illustrated by Philippe Saltel.
2014. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9927238-2-8

Philippe Saltel's etchings explore the universal in the individual: each of his trees is the quintessence of all trees and his tree line is the edge of the dark woods that haunt children's stories. Mathew Staunton's texts document a journey in the opposite direction. Moving from the universal to the personal, he navigates through the trees, embracing some and scrutinizing others from a respectful distance. When text and image chime together, fresh itineraries are opened up. Ultimately, however, it is up to the reader to cut his or her own path.

Colouring Book for Nationalist Children
Written and illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
2013. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9927238-1-1

The Colouring Book for Nationalist Children explores the surrealist side of nationalist propaganda via the juxtapostion of minimalist texts and images, poking fun at cherished symbols and drawing attention to the absence of children as children (rather than victims or potential revolutionaries) from nationalist discourses the world over.

Seeing the Unseen: Responses to Fitz-James O'Brien's 'What Was It? a Mystery'
By Mathew D. Staunton, Kristine Hoyt Jouanne, and Rethabile Masilo. Illustrated by Mathew Staunton.
2015. The Onslaught Press. ISBN 978-0-9927238-0-4

Fitz-James O'Brien's "Enigma", the progenitor of all invisible monsters, has thrilled readers for a century and a half and inspired several generations of science fiction and horror writers. A masterpiece of mystery, this strange text leaves the reader as perplexed as its befuddled narrator. Is it the exciting account of triumph over evil it purports to be? Or is there more to this than meets the eye? Could it be a subtle attack on slavery in America? Or a defence of the powerless and disenfranchised? Are we dealing with a creature from another planet, a monster of the id, or the hallucinations of an opium addict? And who are the real monsters? This book is the result of a lively conference and exhibition that united artists, designers, writers, researchers, teachers, and students in an exploration of the multiple meanings of O'Brien's most disturbing tale. Included are the full text of 'What Was It?', a new French translation by Agnès Fourtané, a suite of new poems by Mosotho poet Rethabile Masilo, the last published work of the late science fiction writer Feargus G. MacIntyre, and provocative essays by Cécile Chartier, Alexandra Tauvry, Dr Kristine Hoyt Jouanne, and Dr Mathew D. Staunton.