- Europa Press
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Europa Press (news agency) is also a Spanish news agency."----The Europa Press was a publishing house founded and run by the Irishsurrealist poet George Reavey . The press was based inParis from its inception in 1932 until 1935, when Reavey moved toLondon . It ceased operation in 1939.The Europa Press is important in the history of 20th century
Irish poetry because it published early work by Reavey,Brian Coffey ,Denis Devlin andSamuel Beckett and in a wider context of literary and surrealist history because it published the first ever collection ofEnglish language versions of work byPaul Eluard . This was published to coincide with the opening of theInternational Surrealist Exhibition in 1936 and featured a drawing byPablo Picasso and a preface byHerbert Read , and the translators included Reavey, Beckett, Devlin,David Gascoyne ,Man Ray andRuthven Todd .Complete list of Europa Press books
#Reavey, George. "Faust's Metamorphoses". (1932) (in association with "
The New Review ").
#Reavey, George. "Nostradam". (1935).
#Reavey, George. "Signes d'Adieu". (1935).
#Beckett, Samuel. "Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates". (1935).
#Eluard, Paul. "Thorns of Thunder". (1936).
#Devlin, Denis. "Intercessions". (1937).
#Ford, Charles Henry. "The Garden of Disorder". (1938)
#Coffey, Brian. "Third Person". (1938)
#Reavey, George. "Quixotic Perquisitions". (1939).References
Print
*Coughlan, P. and Davis, A. (eds) "Modernism and Ireland: the Poetry of the 1930s". ISBN 1-85918-061-2
Online
* [http://english.fsu.edu/jobs/num02/earlywriting.htm An interview with George Reavey]
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