Hearing Eye is a small independent press established by John Rety and Susan Johns in 1987 with the publication of the pamphlet Cats’ Parnassus by John Heath-Stubbs. Since then, Hearing Eye has published over 200 books and pamphlets by new and established poets, ranging from selections of haiku to epic poems.
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Hearing Eye is based at the Torriano Meeting House in Kentish Town, north London. The Meeting House has hosted weekly Sunday-evening poetry readings since the mid-1980s with a wide range of readers, including Dannie Abse, Les Murray and Mimi Khalvati. Many Hearing Eye books are written by poets who have read at the Meeting House, including many who have initially read a poem from the floor and, a couple of years later, have ended up having their first pamphlet published.
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Dear people from Hearing Eye,
I would like to know if you would be interested to publish the book „The Continent of the Light. Antarctic Poems”, by Oscar Pinochet de la Barra, Chilean explorer and former Ambassador.
The book is a bilingual edition (Spanish-English) and it counts with original paintings made especially for this edition and a prologue written by me.
Oscar Pinochet de la Barra is probably the first Antarctic poet.
Looking forward hearing from you.
With Kind regards
Rafael Videla Eissmann
Historian
Universidad Católica de Chile
Dear Raphael
We are having a lull in publishing at the moment because we have so many books in the pipeline. However I am intrigued by your “The Continent of the Light. Antarctic Poems”, so if you would like to send them to deletebrackets[hearing_eye@torriano.org, I would be interested in looking at them.
Best wishes
Emily Johns
Hearing Eye