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Hypatia Publications is a Cornwall based small press of academic, social history and reference books with many duplicate rare books from The Hypatia Trust collection.
From 2019 to 2022 Linda Cleary curated a Literary Fiction department for Hypatia Publications of which there have been four releases; the fourth and final publication of the curation, Whistling Jack, was released in May 2022.
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Songweavers - An Anthology of Cornwall's Musical Women
Songweavers - An Anthology of Cornwall's Musical Women
OVERSEAS POSTAGE RATES - As this is a large, very heavy book there is an extra cost to cover the increase in postage costs - If your delivery address is outside of the UK please email us at: hello@hypatia-trust.org.uk to ensure we can calculate the correct postage costs for your location. Thank you!
Sing on! Song weavers!
‘This account of women in Cornish music is ambitious and far-reaching, emerging from the community and bringing much-needed light to the women song-weavers, tune carriers, performers, composers, teachers and directors of Cornwall.’— Dr Kate Neale
For the first time, a snapshot of the women behind Cornwall’s buzzing musical industry has been captured through the passions and personal experiences of a team of dedicated researchers. This anthology has something for everyone, with the stories uncovered ranging from sopranos of the Eighteenth Century to the ‘Punk Rebel Great-Granny’ Viva Hamnell, taking in comprehensive studies of female brass band players and organists along the way. You’ll also find explorations of the experiences of Cornish musicians abroad, following women’s stories to Australia, America and beyond, along with oral histories from some of our contemporary female musicians and stories of family musicianship from the research team.
The anthology has been created as part of the Hypatia Trust’s project Women of Cornish Music: Past and Present, which has been made possible through support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Cornwall Heritage Trust.
Edited by Hilary Coleman & Florence Browne.
ISBN: 978-1-872229-77-5
eBooks & Audiobooks
Invisible Borders
Linda Cleary
Invisible Borders, New Women's Writing from Cornwall is a collection of poetry and prose from 23 new and established voices responding to the theme of: The agenda of maps, the sense of exploration, personal and emotional inner landscapes and journeys, body as map, borders, stopping points (and absence of them).
Featuring the work of: Jacky Garratt, Vivienne Tregenza, Benigale Richards, Laura Sennen, Lucia Johns, Mary Charnley, Faye Wilson, Diana Dixon, Jude Brickhill, Rupam Baoni, Vicki Morley, Mary Oliver, Lou Sarabadzic, Katrina Naomi, Penelope Shuttle, Abigail Elizabeth Ottley, Alice Kavounas, Pascale Petit, Natasha Carthew, Katherine Stansfield, Linda Cleary, Lesley Hale and Ella Frears.
For the eBook or audiobook versions of Invisible Borders, simply click on the book images to take you to Glassboxx website where you can buy and download.
Born Between Crosses
Natasha Carthew
Born Between Crosses by Natasha Carthew is an incisive intersection of working class and nature writing. The lived experiences of women cleaners, care assistants, farm workers, factory workers, housewives and housemaids rendered here in Carthew’s vivid writing reveal what it really means to ‘get by’.
For the eBook, simply click on the book image to take you to Glassboxx website where you can buy and download.
chronicles of entering my body
Rupam Baoni
chronicles of entering my body is a collection of astonishingly sublime work that lets the reader into quiet intimacies whilst revelling in a poetic expansion of natural force.
These thirty poems erupt and dance into our consciousness, sequenced within five chapters – each with one of the author's own paintings at its mouth.
The title poem, also represented as a chapter title, comes to us with its remarkable lines and questions such as: 'I’m made of fire now and you’re wind; but still, tell me the chronicles of your entering my body, tell me how your entering is silent as non-entering in all its entirety'. Such profound and philosophical inquiries continue through the collection along with explorations of the body and the natural world. One's journey through the work brings encounters with love, death, tightrope walkers, the vulnerability of flesh, dementia, dialogues with trees, the bonds between mothers and daughters, Beethoven's symphonies, prayers to the earth and more.
Rupam Baoni is a poet of eloquent power, delivering her potency into your hands.
For the eBook, simply click on the book image to take you to Glassboxx website where you can buy and download.
King Arthur's Wood
King Arthur's Wood is a children's book written and illustrated by Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes. It was first printed in 1904 with a limited print-run of 350 copies. This wonderful Arthurian fairy tale has been carefully digitised, and converted into an interactive book so that children young and old may enjoy this magical story once again.
It is exclusively available on iPad through the iBookstore and contains scanned pages to preserve the original layout and typeface. Smaller illustrations can be tapped to view full screen, and there is an extra, interactive, gallery of illustrations at the end of the book for you to explore and enjoy.