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Remembering the Hours: Nancy Cunard's Expatriate Press

Remembering the Hours: Nancy Cunard's Expatriate Press Nancy Cunar d's Expatr iate Pr ess RemembeRing the houRs Kris Somerville n 1930, at the suggestion of fellow English poet Richard Aldington, fledgling publisher Nancy Cunard launched a poetry contest to advance the reputation of her recently founded press, the Hours. She had begun her small expatriate printing operation two years before in a rustic farmhouse in the remote village of La Chapelle­Reanville in Normandy, sixty miles from Paris. But she tired of mundane conflicts such as uncooperative binders, unreliable and slow mail service and sudden interruptions in heat, electricity and water. She moved the Hours to a small shop at 15 rue Guenegaud, a narrow street on the Left Bank. To generate some publicity and announce her arrival in Paris, she offered ten pounds for a hundred lines on the theme of "time." After sending out announcements to literary reviews in England, she received over one hundred entries. In her estimation all of them were mediocre when "not frankly bad." Most submissions ranged from doggerel to metaphysical ramblings. None of the writers, she felt, could be called a poet, though two or three could feasibly be published. On the eve of the contest deadline, she went http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

Remembering the Hours: Nancy Cunard's Expatriate Press

Somerville, Kris.
The Missouri Review , Volume 33 (4) – Jan 21, 2010
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Nancy Cunar d's Expatr iate Pr ess RemembeRing the houRs Kris Somerville n 1930, at the suggestion of fellow English poet Richard Aldington, fledgling publisher Nancy Cunard launched a poetry contest to advance the reputation of her recently founded press, the Hours. She had begun her small expatriate printing operation two years before in a rustic farmhouse in the remote village of La Chapelle­Reanville in Normandy, sixty miles from Paris. But she tired of mundane conflicts such as uncooperative binders, unreliable and slow mail service and sudden interruptions in heat, electricity and water. She moved the Hours to a small shop at 15 rue Guenegaud, a narrow street on the Left Bank. To generate some publicity and announce her arrival in Paris, she offered ten pounds for a hundred lines on the theme of "time." After sending out announcements to literary reviews in England, she received over one hundred entries. In her estimation all of them were mediocre when "not frankly bad." Most submissions ranged from doggerel to metaphysical ramblings. None of the writers, she felt, could be called a poet, though two or three could feasibly be published. On the eve of the contest deadline, she went

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Published: Jan 21, 2010

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