John Rety - Notebook in Hand: New and Selected Poems. This item is unavailable.John Rety - Notebook in Hand: New and Selected Poems

John Rety - writer, editor and publisher, chess player, anarchist and pacifist - was best known in the literary world for his contributions to poetry: he established the long-running and much loved Torriano Meeting House poetry readings and Hearing Eye press. Less well known is John's own poetry. Notebook in Hand is a selection from his five collections as well as unpublished and new poems - he was still writing up until his untimely death in February 2010. His poetry is both simple and complex - tender, funny, poignant, and companionable, it is also edgy, acerbic, troubled and disappointed. As well as his better-known comic poetry,<ki> Notebook in Hand presents tender lyrics and trenchant political meditations, some of which may surprise, but will certainly delight, his readers.

John Rety (1930-2010) was a writer, editor and founder of Hearing Eye press. He published several books and pamphlets of his own poetry, including Banal Incidents from My First Period, Song of Anarchy and Other Poems and In the Museum.

Martin Parker is a visual and sound artist with an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin's, London. He works as a freelance graphic designer and clients include Tate Modern, The Wallace Collection and Royal Museums Greenwich. His art has been exhibited in Edinburgh, London and abroad and also featured on several books, magazines and album covers.