Four new 2013 titles are now available from this site: Todd McEwen’s The Five Simple Machines, Andrew Elliott’s Mortality Rate, Tony Lurcock’s No Particular Hurry and The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann.

Five years, 20-something books, and now the first pamphlets, exclusively from this site.

The 2013 catalogue of new books and titles in print is available for download: see below.

Excerpts (pdf) from each book can be downloaded from the relevant title’s page.



CB editions publishes short fiction, poetry, translations
and other work which, as the Guardian noted, ‘might
otherwise fall through the cracks between the big publishers’.
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Ordering
All titles are listed on the Books page, with links to individual pages where the books may be bought securely from this site. Free delivery
for all UK orders. For orders from abroad, please press the
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Special offers
Order any title from this site and write ‘Allen’ in the ‘instructions to merchant’ box as you check through Paypal and Fergus Allen, Before Troy will be added in free. The regular offers are two books for £13.50, three for £20: the titles to which the offers apply change regularly (they are currently two Hofmann titles for £13.50 and three poetry books – Stephen Knight, J. O. Morgan – for £20). More >
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New titles
To download a pdf of the 2013 catalogue of new titles, click here.


Free Verse poetry book fair
Free Verse 2013: The Poetry Book Fair will be at the Conway Hall, London, on Saturday, 7 September. Initiated by CBe in 2011 and now organised by CBe, Chrissy Williams and Joey Connolly, the book fair presents and sells direct to the public (free entry) the work of 50 poetry publishers from thoughout the UK. More details on the Free Verse website.
 
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