Small Press Library — Windows Project

The Small Press Library

The Picton Room in Liverpool Central Library, housing The Windows Project Small Press Library (top right).

The Windows Project's Small Press Library is located in the Picton Reading Room at Liverpool Central Library.

The Poetry Library contains "a specialist collection of poetry magazines: an impressive back catalogue dating from the mid 1960s that goes way beyond public libraries.” - Chris McCabe Joint Librarian, The Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London

The Windows Project’s Small Press Library collection archives a broad range of print media: from spirit ink to duplicator, mimeo, photostat and offset. These publications were produced by editors, writers and independent publishers, predominantly from all over the UK as well as a number of international items.

The publications provided a platform and readership for an increasingly diverse range of writers in terms of style, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.

By their nature, many of the publications have fallen outside conventional documentation and will not have found their way into archives such as the British Library.

Screen Shot 2016-02-12 at 10.52.54.png

Screen Shot 2016-02-12 at 10.52.41.png

Screen Shot 2016-02-12 at 10.54.27.png

Screen Shot 2016-02-12 at 10.54.22.png

Screen Shot 2016-02-12 at 10.54.06.png

Screen Shot 2016-02-12 at 10.53.54.png