AGNES FROME
Children's Literature and Novels
Agnes Frome was an English author active in the 1920s, who invented a gentle magic realist genre for children that she called Dream Stories.
She wrote two intriguing semi-autobiographical novels, In Sonia's Room and The Shining Sword, both published by Hurst & Blackett, featuring elements of life as an artist model.
The Flowerdew Press is making all of her work available in a series of five books we call the Agnes Frome Edition
VICENTE HUIDOBRO
Poetry
Vicente Huidobro was a Chilean poet, painter and aesthetician, who was an intimate of the Parisian avant-garde in the first quarter of the 20th century, being friends with Picasso, Gris, Arp, Delaunay and many more. He cofounded the Nord-Sud little magazine, and in it was featured his celebrated poem for the Eiffel Tower, now published as a mimotype by the Flowerdew Press. His poetry was created in the style of his own movement replacing Cubism and Surrealism, called Creationism.
ALPHONSE ALLAIS
Absurdist
Alphonse Allais was an absurdist writer from 19th century France. He was a founder of the celebrated Black Cat theatre, and in his writing prefigured many of the comic styles of the 20th century. The Flowerdew Press has created a mimotype of Primo-Aprilesque Album of single colour paintings and silent music.
GEORGE RODENBACH
Poetry and Novels
Georges Rodenbach was a Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist of the nineteenth century writing in French. He wrote the prose poetry to describe two series of illustrations by Art Nouveau artists in the 1890s, which the Flowerdew Press is now publishing as mimotypes in one volume
MAX ELSKAMP
Poetry
Max Elskamp was a Belgian Symbolist poet who wrote passionately mystical religious verse. He carved the decorations and illustrations for his own books, and that makes them objects of beauty to rival William Morris. The Flowerdew Press has produced a mimotype of his Litany, an alphabet of epithets for Mary the Mother of Jesus.
GUILLAUME APOLLNAIRE
Poetry
Apollinaire was a prolific French language write from Banquet Years Paris, who is one of the most significant forces in the birth of Modernist culture. He coined the names Cubism, Surrealism and Orphism.
His livres des peintres embodied both the tradition of the medieval illuminated book and the Symbolist tradition of the Gesamtkunstwerk
ÉVARISTE DE PARNY
Poetry
Évariste de Parny can lay claim to have introduced the prose poem in 1787 into the French language via his collection of Malagasy Songs, purportedly a translation of the hainteny prose poems of Madagascar. Born on Reunion, he was educated in France but after leaving the seminary returned to Reunion, then worked for the government of Pondicherry before returning to France to settle down in Feuillancourt to write.
The Flowerdew Press is publishing the Malagasy Songs in a mimotype of the edition illustrated by J.E. Laboureur.
