WH Auden once set out a curriculum for his ‘daydream College for Bards’ and in this four-pamphlet limited edition box set the poet Camille Ralphs has signed herself up. The pamphlets contain work produced while completing Auden’s demanding course of study, including Imitations of other poets, Translations from Russian, Latin, Old Irish and Old English, experiments with formal Constraints, and a Journal.

Camille Ralphs is a poet, critic and editor. She has released two pamphlets: Malkin (The Emma Press, 2015); and uplifts & chains (If A Leaf Falls/Glyph Press, 2020). Her debut collection After You Were, I Am is due from Faber & Faber in 2024. Camille writes critically for publications including the Telegraph, the Poetry Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books, produces a regular column for Poetry London and conducts an interview series for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal. She is Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement.

The Guillemot Offcuts series presents out of print work from some of our illustrated limited edition titles in a text-only format using paper offcuts left over from some of our other productions. This means you might see this title dressed in a range of different cover stocks. Not only does this series reduce paper waste but it also allows the poetry to remain visible in an affordable pamphlet edition. Please note: The picture to the left does NOT necessarily reflect the actual colour of the title. The cover colour will vary depending on the stocks and offcuts are available at the time of printing.

Daydream College for Bards was originally published by Guillemot Press in 2023 in a limited edition slip cased set of four pamphlets.