I Googled the phrase "Restif Press," the
publisher listed for <Easter
Rising>, and found the poet Richard Burns mentioned as its author on
several sites, including Burns' own (see:
http://www.richardburns.eu/site/Books-in-English.html).
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George,
Thank you for casting some light on this - I was obviously looking in
all the wrong places !
The book states :
"This nine-part poem written in Greece during the early days of the
1967coup, was smuggled out of the country in late November. It is
published here in a translation made by the author, who is obliged to
write under the pseudonym Agnostos Nomolos "
This led me to assume that this was a GREEK author in hiding, so was
searching for some clue in Greek bibliographies etc. Even if it was
originally written in Greek, I could not find if it had ever been
published there, even after 1975.
I also checked some some "pseudonym" sites (paper & on line) with no
success
There were NO listings in the British Library, or Oxford (or even
Trinity College Dublin)
Which there "ought"to have been under UK copyright/ legal deposit
rules ( but this was the
year before ISBN numbers arrived to simplify things in National
Bibliographies <g> )
I just checked again in BL, Oxford & Trinity - this time using
"Burns" and AN and NA as well as the title. There is nothing on record
that this publication was ever deposited at any of them as was
mandatory at the time. ( I used Trinity on the assumption that no one
in Dublin was likely to have casually disposed of a book with a title
like "Easter Rising" )
No listing by AN ir under title anywhere in WorldCat.
When I posted a qry on MGSL list some time ago there was no response
I also sent a qry to Denise Harvey who published the anthology below,
and who I thought might know:
HARLOW, MICHAEL (ED) Events Greece 1967-1974
Athens, Anglo-Hellenic Publishing. 1975, 1st Greek Ed. Original Wraps.
A short anthology of poetry, prose and art reflective of the Junta
years in Greece by a wide range of authors including : Contributors
include : Michael Harlow, Andonis Kyriakoulis, John Demos, Pericles
Korovesis, Yianni Ritsos, Margarita Karapanou, Jenny Mastoraki,
N.C.Germanacos, Kay Cicellis, Irving Layton, Gail Holst, Martin Booht,
Nikos Stavroulakis, Kevin Andrews, Sophia Yemenaki, Manolis
Anagnostakis, George C.Savvides, G.Williamson McDiarmid, Yannis
Goumas. 88p. illus.
Some unanswered questions arise :
Why no legal deposit copies anywhere in the UK ?
Why would a British author need to disguise his ID ?
When did the Restif Press record identify it as by Richard Burns ?
It seems that this publication fell through a number of Bibliographic cracks!
June S
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