Ahadada Books is pleased to present two of its newest titles. Available now from our online store. Moreover, stock is on its way to Small Press Distribution in Berkely, California.

We are pleased to announce the launch of Jerome Rothenberg’s China Notes & the Treasures of Dunhuang. This Sunday, October 8 from 2:00pm—3:00pm at the The Bowery Poetry Center, New York, NY.

We'd like to whet your appetite with a short video of Jerry reading from the "Treasures of Dunhuang", recorded last December 17 at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California. Check it out, here!

For more information on Jerome Rothenberg, click here.

Jerry Rothenberg Book Party: "China Notes and The Treasures of Dunhuang", published by Ahadada (Tokyo/Toronto) $6/cover

Address:
308-310 Bowery
New York, NY 10012

Location:
West side of The Bowery, at East 1st Street between Bleecker & East Houston Streets.

Directions:
Closest subway: 6 to Bleecker Street. Walk east on Bleecker Street to Bowery, then south to the theatre.

The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space. Located at Bowery and Bleecker Street in Lower Manhattan, the BPC provides a home base for established and upcoming artists.

The Bowery Poetry Club was founded by Bob Holman, the owner of the building that houses the club. In a recent profile of Holman in The New Yorker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., wrote “he has done more for poetry in the bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti,” hearkening back to the famed impresario of the Beats. Holman has been making a living as a poet and running readings for 25 years, first at the St. Mark’s Poetry then the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he founded and MCed their infamous Poetry Slams from 1988-1996.

Ahadada Books is pleased to present Greek Passages (First Part) by Peter Riley.

Greek Passages (First Part) is the eleventh release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.

Peter Riley was born in 1940, in Stockport, near Manchester, in an environment of working people, and entered higher education through Britain’s post-war socialistic educational policies. He read English at Cambridge and has since lived and worked in UK and abroad in various kinds of teaching and casual employment. Since 1985 he has lived in Cambridge, where he recently closed down a mail-order poetry book business. He has written studies of Jack Spicer, T.F. Powys, improvised music, poetry, lead mines, burial mounds, village carols and Transylvanian string bands, and has published two books of translations from the French poet Lorand Gaspar. He also edited the poetry of Nicholas Moore (1918–86).

Greek Passages (First Part) is available as a free download... Click here!

Ahadada Books, in association with West House Books and Ikuta Press, have launched an online shop designed to provide our readers in North America with the books they want at affordable prices—over 50 titles are available on-line from this new area of our website. 

The new shop was a planned extension of our site and fits with our mission to provide titles not readily available in Canada and North America. We hope this new extensions serves as a valuable supplement to augment sales, support traditional sales channels and better serve regional markets.

At the moment we offer a selected number books, but before the end of this year we hope to make the additional presses and books available for purchase.

Ahadada Books is pleased to present The Milton Poems by Simon Perchik.

The Milton Poems is the tenth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series.

Simon Perchik was born December 24, 1923 in Paterson, New Jersey. He is a graduate of New York University where he received both his B.A. in English and his law degree. Perchik was a pilot during World War II and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, ETO Ribbon with three Battle Stars, and the Presidential Unit Citation. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1951 and was in a private law practice until 1975. He served as five years as Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County, New York. Perchik's poetry has, so far as we can determine, appeared in more journals and magazines than other poet in America. Perchik resides in East Hampton, New York.

The Milton Poems is available as a free download... Click here!