User:Radh/Divers Press, Mallorca

Divers Press, a small press operating from Palma, on Mallorca from 1953 until 1954. It was operated by Robert and Ann Creeley, who lived on the island from November 1952 to March, 1954 with their three small children. All their money came from Ann Creeley's trust fund. Martin Seymour-Smith at first worked with them and it was called Roebuck Press. The printer of the press was Mossén Alcover.


 * Paul Blackburn: Proensa. June 1953 (translations of Provencal poetry)
 * Paul Blackburn: The Dissolving Fabric
 * Robert Creeley: The Gold Diggers. March 1954
 * Robert Creeley: The Kind of Act Of. July 1953
 * Robert Creeley: A Snarling Garland of Xmas Verses. Xmas 1954
 * Robert Creeley: The Kind of Act Of. July 1953
 * Robert Creeley: A Snarling Garland of Xmas Verses. Xmas 1954


 * Robert Duncan, collages by Jess [Collins]: Caesar's Gate: Poems, 1949-1950. 1954. [the last book of the press]. 1955.
 * Larry Eigner: From the Sustaining Air.'' July 1953


 * Katue Kitasono: Black Rain. August 1954
 * Irving Layton: In the Midst of My Fever. February 1954
 * Charles Olson: In Cold Hell, In Thicket. [Origin, No. 8, Winter 1958]
 * Charles Olson: Mayan Letters. 1953 [January 1954]. Creeley preface.
 * Martin Seymour-Smith: All Devils Fading. Spring 1954.
 * Douglas Woolf: The Hypocritic Days. January 1955, (prose)


 * H. P. Macklin: A Handbook of Fancy Pigeons. May 1954


 * Black Mountain Review, No. 1, Spring 1954 - No. 4. Cover art: Katue Kitsono. Lasted until No. 7 (Creeley's San Francisco Renaissance number) was the last.

External Weblinks

 * Alastair Johnston: Robert Creeley on Divers Press