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 pamphlets include cover and title page art by Chloe Bonfield and are held in a bespoke slipcase.

ISBN 978-1-913749-43-9 / Four Pamphlet Box Set / Each pamphlet 190 x 130mm / Slipcased / Made with multiple Colorplan and Arena papers.

Box Set / Limited Edition of 75