My Proper Life
Poems and Prose by John Richmond
Most of the poems on this site are now also available in print, in three hardback books. My Proper Life – Poems 1975-2017 (182 pages) contains 128 of John Richmond’s original poems; Bring Me the Sunflower – Translations and Imitations (152 pages) contains 66 of his translations of poems from French (Victor Hugo), Italian (Petrarch, Montale and Dante), Latin (Virgil and Horace), Spanish (Lorca and Machado) and Greek (Sappho, Hesiod and Aesop). Another Kind of Seeing (190 pages) contains original poems and prose, and translations of poems from French, Italian, German and Latin. All three books are published by Chalkface Press.
Each book costs £10, plus £2 postage and packing throughout the world. Available from chalkface@icloud.com or john@myproperlife.com. An invoice will be enclosed with the book(s).