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A small & occasional press of pamphlets, short-length books and anthologies. We work at the intersection between languages, ideas, crafts, genres. Pre-order: RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS. (ed Jon Stone) https://linktr.ee/calquepress .. more

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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 16d

"Some Thoughts on Horror" is a forthcoming essay I wrote for our friends at @calquepress.bsky.social

Should be out in October, you can secure a copy of the signed, limited edition pamphlet here:

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Pamphlet Eleven - Some Thoughts on Horror: Consideration of an Effect

Buying from the EU? Please read about shipping from the UK. Limited edition - 100 copies Calque Ideas provides an opportunity for writers to think aloud, using their own experiences and knowledge to a...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · Sep 1

Join us and 15 other Northern publishers and agents for the Northern Publisher’s Fair in Manchester Central Library, on Saturday 27th September!

Publishers will be on hand to chat and literature enthusiasts can network informally.

More information: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/north...

Northern Publishers' Fair - Carcanet Press

Join us and 15 other Northern publishers and agents for the Northern Publisher's Fair in Manchester Central Library! Peruse books across genres including

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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · Sep 1

ICYMI: We are extending #WomenInTranslationMonth a little bit, and running this offer until Friday!!!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Aug 26

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

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Astoria Bookshop @astoriabookshop.bsky.social · Aug 25

Details + tickets for our launch event!
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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · Aug 2

We are taking a short break.

If you have been thinking about placing an order, you can still do it until Monday 4th midday (BST). All orders received after that time will have to be shipped from 20th August.

Thank you for supporting independent publishing!

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · Jul 29

Delivery of some more pamphlets. Publisher says it’s a bit of a bestseller for them. Thank you to everyone who’s been ordering & reading 🙏🏻 If you’re curious, check out the excerpts in American Theatre magazine and The Arts Fuse (@calquepress.bsky.social)

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · Jul 24

‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ (published by @calquepress.bsky.social) excerpted in @americantheatre.org — many thanks to editor @robkendt.bsky.social 🙏🏻

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you to @csvich.bsky.social for featuring ‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ on her podcast Day for Night 🙏🏻 @calquepress.bsky.social

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · Jul 21

reading wonderful 40 Questions About a Political Play by Dan O'Brien. published by Calque Press. @calquepress.bsky.social

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · Jul 16

It’s nice to see copies of the pamphlet arriving from across the pond. Thanks for ordering, friends 🙏🏻 calquepress.com/products/pre... @calquepress.bsky.social

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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · Jul 7

40 QUESTIONS ABOUT A POLITICAL PLAY, by @bydanobrien.bsky.social is here. All pre-orders shipping today. You can still get a copy of the 100 copies limited edition at www.calquepress.com

#CalqueIdeas #essay #indiepublishing #playwriting #limitededition #pamphlet #chapbook

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The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · Jul 1

Playwright Dan O'Brien offers an excerpt from his latest essay, "40 Questions about a Political Play," published as a pamphlet by Calque Press. The subject is political plays: what they are, and how and why we write them.

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Arts Commentary: Essential Inquiries -- "40 Questions About a Political Play" - The Arts Fuse

"A play is political if its subject is taboo and its story mirrors, exposes, and critiques the suppression and repression that interferes with the treatment of a cultural disease. A political play is ...

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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · Jun 20

A propos of LOST OBJECTS and OUT OF THE WINDOW, INTO THE DARK, @maudmarianw.bsky.social has put together this little list of books featuring Libraries, Museums, Scholars for @electricliterature.com ⤵️

Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · Jun 19

My little list is up 🖤

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Jun 17

“A good library is reactive, almost alive, in how it can respond to shifts in the kaleidoscope of opinion or academic fashion.”

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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · Jun 19

'Womack is a master at using realism to enhance the uncanny.'

Rachel Robinson reviews @maudmarianw.bsky.social LOST OBJECTS for Full Stop Mag:

www.full-stop.net/2025/03/31/r...

Lost Objects – Marian Womack

LOST OBJECTS shows us humanity at its most atomized, out of control, hoping and fearing and going mad.

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Marian Womack @maudmarianw.bsky.social · Jun 19

My little list is up 🖤

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Jun 17

“A good library is reactive, almost alive, in how it can respond to shifts in the kaleidoscope of opinion or academic fashion.”

buff.ly/Mn7KBhW

8 Books About the Quiet Power of Libraries and Museums - Electric Literature

To understand a society, consider how it records its knowledge

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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · Jun 17

New in July: 40 QUESTIONS ABOUT A POLITICAL PLAY, by @bydanobrien.bsky.social

Does anybody truly want to see a political play? What is a political play? What does it mean to think about politics in art? A masterful investigation of what it means to create.

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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · Jun 12

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · Jun 11

Cover for my pamphlet “40 Questions About a Political Play” — coming next month from @calquepress.bsky.social in Cambridge, England. Limited edition of 100 copies

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FEMINIST @feminists.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 17

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds

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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · May 14

Exciting times at the Calque office! These two limited-edition beauties are here.

Order at calquepress.com

Two pamphlets shown against a background of leaves.

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · Apr 25

A short story collection that leaves you with a feeling to be savoured, highlighting an author to watch. Out of the Window, Into the Dark by Marian Womack, published by @calquepress.bsky.social #BFSReview britishfantasysociety.org/review/out-o...

The cover of Out of the Window, INto the dark gives prominence to the author's name, it reading downwards in white on a black background with a a winding red shape like a snake behind it

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · Apr 25

Coming in July from @calquepress.bsky.social — 40 Questions About a Political Play in a limited edition of 100 copies 📚 calquepress.com/products/pre...

PRE-ORDER - Pamphlet Twelve - 40 Questions About a Political Play

PRE-ORDER. Available July 2025 Buying from the EU? Please read about shipping from the UK. Limited edition - 100 copies Calque Ideas provides an opportunity for writers to think aloud, using their own...

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Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social · Mar 21

Happy World Poetry Day! A feast for troubadours and trolls, nerds and necromancers! RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS, edited by @shotscarecrow.bsky.social, is an anthology of D'n'D adjacent poetry and prose that will knock your socks off and sell them to the goblins. Cover art by Vince Haig. Forthcoming.