Books published by Colenso Books

A collection of over two hundred poems spanning the sixty years of the author's life and the many countries in which he has lived and worked.

A novel set in Torquay in the Aprils of two different years: 1898 and a year in the second decade of the 21st century.

Largely a facsimile edition of the original 1991 publication with revised preliminary pages, including a new Foreword by the editor and translator. In Greek and English.

One hundred pracrical texts of perception and spiritual discernment from Diadochos of Photike.

The scripts of three shadow-plays translated from recollections of mutliple performances in Greek withnessed by Theodore Stephaides in various places in the years 1920-1940. These playscripts are essentially recreations, complete with stage directions.

A first-person narrative, the story of a life distorted by sexual abuse in childhood and a serious crime in early adulthood that concealed for decades before the narrator, now retired, finally ends up in prison where he writes this memoir for his estranged daughter.

Two novellas by the Corfiot Author Konstantinos Theotokis (1872-1923), translated by the renowned translator form German and Greek J. M. Q. Davies, depicting the the harsh conditions of the urban working class and rural peasants in Corfu in the early years of the twentieth century.

Collected poems written between 1963 and 2020, most of them published here for the first time.

A series of chronological entries documenting Lawrence Durrell's life (1912-1990) and writing career, preceded by "Antecedents" (1851-1910), and followed by "Aftermath" (1991-2019), listing the main events connected with his reputation since his death. There is a 16-page "Index of Persons".

A collection of 43 stories, ranging in length from 1 to 30 pages, many in the mode of documentary fiction, allowing the inclusion of some 75 black and white illustrations: photographs, documents and artworks.

The first English translation (by J.M.Q.Davies) of the complete short stories of Corfiot writer Konstantinos Theotokis. Often brutal, occasionally humorous stories of village life in Corfu in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With an Introduction and Notes by the translator.

The first half of the book is devoted to the poetry of Yannis Ritsos and includes several of his longer poems in their entirety. In the second half are selections of mainly shorter by poems by the other five poets, although it includes Gatsos' long poem "Amorgos".

A selection of mainly late poems by Lawrence Durrell which were not included in COLLECTED POEMS 1931-1974, but appeared only in prose works and have not been collected before. Poems drawn from SPIRIT OF PLACE, SICILIAN CAROUSEL, THE AVIGNON QUINTET and CAESAR'S VAST GHOST. Edited by Peter Baldwin.

A selection of the poems of Sappho and other Ancient Greek authors translated into English verse by Theodore Stephanides, with facing Greek texts from editions which correspond closely to the translations. There is a substantial introduction and extensive notes by the editor, Anthony Hirst.

Three plays by Greece's most important modern dramatist. The Courtyard of Wonders (1957) and The Four Legs of the Table (1978) explore social issues still with a powerful resonance today from the perspective of the poor and wealthy respectively. Ibsenland, is development of the characters of Pastor Manders and Mrs Alving from Ibsen's Ghosts.

First English translation of a Greek novella first published in 1920 by the Corfiot author Konstantinos Theotokis. A tragi-comedy of Corfiot village life.