Echoing Green Press is a small-scale publishing enterprise aiming to produce a diverse range of quality books (both in content and production) with a particularly South African focus, of interest to a national and international readership.  Genres in the Press's current plans are fiction, poetry, and ecological/nature writing.  It publishes books by unrecognized and recognized authors selected for their merit.

Echoing Green Press derives its name from William Blake’s poem “The Ecchoing Green” (his spelling), one of his Songs of Innocence.  The name suggests not only an ecological metaphor but the gathering place of the human community centred, as in Blake's poem, on the village green, where humanity and nature interact and echo each other back and forth.

The Echoing Green Press logo conveys symbolically a tree above and below the earth, branches and roots, suggesting the conscious and unconscious dimensions of the mind inter-related in the creative process.

Echoing Green Press is a Close Corporation whose sole member, Jim Phelps, has been an academic teacher and researcher in the literatures of English for some thirty years.  The Managing Editor is Nigel Bell, also an academic teacher and researcher of many years experience, and editor for some years of the English Academy Review (EAR).

All Echoing Green Press titles have worldwide rights.

PURCHASE INFORMATION

Individuals, Institutions and Libraries

All Echoing Green Press titles can be purchased at good bookshops throughout South Africa.

For secure credit card purchases of Echoing Green Press titles from South Africa and international locations go to Netbooks http://www.netbooks.co.za or email enquiries to books@netbooks.co.za Phone: +27-(0)21-551-4248 Fax: +27-(0)21-552-9504

In the United Kingdom, Europe, the USA and at all international locations purchases of Echoing Green Press titles may also be made easily and securely from Africa Book Centre, Preston Park Business Centre, 36 Robertson Road, Brighton BN1 5NL, United Kingdom http://www.africabookcentre.com or email enquiries to info@africabookcentre.com Telephone:+44-(0)1273-560-474 Fax: +44-(0)1273-500-650

Bookshops and Retail Traders

Stephan Phillips, Cape Town, is the sole sales and distribution agent to bookshops and retail traders in South Africa for Echoing Green Press.

Bookshops and retail traders in South Africa wishing to sell Echoing Green Press titles should contact Nisa Petersen at 021-448-9839 or fax 021-447-9879 or email nisa@stephanphillips.com

Owen Early is Gauteng, Free State and Mpumalanga representative at 082-338-5078 or bacchus@telkomsa.net

George Thorne is KwaZulu-Natal representative at 084-562-9999 or george@stephanphillips.com

Xavier Nagel is Western Cape representative at 083-719-8407 or xaviernagel@mweb.co.za