Founded 2005 | ||
rufus books was an independent small press publishing house based in Toronto, Canada with affiliates established in Dublin, Ireland and London, England.
Publishing poetry and short fiction with a secondary interest in bilingual or multilingual translation, rufus books produced limited editions in both chapbook and full-length formats with an emphasis on traditional production values and methods combined with modern techniques (letterpressed, offset, hand-sewn, or smyth-sewn and perfect bound) and featuring artistic collaborations. Audio recordings of writers reading from their own works were also introduced.
rufus books' published authors included Jeremy Clarke, Matthew Francis, Gill Gregory, Jeremy Harman, Thomas Joachim Kingston, A. F. Moritz, Fernando Pessoa (trans.), Michael Lee Rattigan, and Anthea Simmons. Artists included John Berger, Yves Berger, Hanlyn Davies, Elizabeth Jane Gregory, Rudolf Kurz, Andrea Maguire, and Richard Tetrault.
2012 saw the publication of two chapbooks of poetry by Jeremy Clarke (Incidents of Travel and Common Prayer), a collaboration of artwork by Péter Cserháti (mainly woodcarving) with ekphrastic poems by John Reibetanz, edited and with an introduction by Vajay Emőke Cserháti; a translation of two of those ekphrastic poems by András Imreh; a poetry collection by Michael Lee Rattigan; a chapbook of short stories by Erin Soros; and audio recordings by Anthea Simmons and Matthew Francis.
rufus books' final publication was Jeremy Clarke's collection Spatiamentum (2014).