Menard Press

The Menard Press is a small-press independent publisher founded by Anthony Rudolf. It started as a magazine in 1969 and put out its first book in 1971. Today Menard Press is an imprint run by

publisher Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

Elte Rauch. The Menard Press has specialised in

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, mainly of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

. In addition to literary texts – original and translated poetry, original and translated

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non-fiction Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with be ...

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

and

literary criticism Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...

– the press has published essays on the nuclear issue (by Sir Martin Ryle and Lord Zuckerman, among others) as well as works and testimonies by survivors of

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, including the first English edition of Primo Levi's poems. In 2007 it announced it would be publishing its last book, but would continue to be engaged in the literary and cultural realm. From 2021 on, The Menard Press resumes its publishing work under the passionate involvement of Elte Rauch, who lives and works between

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and the

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. In

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, she runs the independent publishing house HetMoet. She continues in Rudolf's legacy and adds feminism, science, internationalism and social justice to Menard’s portfolio. Elte aims to sustainably reissue out-of-print titles as well as to offer new and contemporary publications at Menard Press to a growing and variable audience, in both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The first publication of the imprint Menard Press since its revival has been ''

On Being Ill ''On Being Ill'' is an essay by Virginia Woolf, which seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes about the isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability that disease may bri ...

'', an anthology created during the

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with the collaboration of authors and editors around the world in times of lockdown. Among the authors are classics such as

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...

and Audre Lorde, as well as contemporary writers Nadia de Vries, Deryn-Rees Jones,

Lieke Marsman Lieke Marsman (born 25 July 1990) is a Dutch poet. She is the Dutch Poet Laureate Dichter des Vaderlands/nowiki>">Dichter des Vaderlands">Dichter des Vaderlands/nowiki> for the period 2021 to 2023. Biography Marsman was born in Den Bosch and ...

, Jameisha Prescod,

Sinéad Gleeson Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish writer, editor and freelance broadcaster. She has won the Irish Book Award. Career Having edited the work of others, in 2016's ''The Long Gaze Back'' and 2017's ''The Glass Shore'', she released her first book ''Const ...

Nafissa Thompson-Spires Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African-American writer. Her first book, ''Heads of the Colored People'', won the ''Los Angeles Times'' Art Sidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Award for fictio ...

and Mieke van Zonneveld.
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