Blue Orange Publishing

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Blue Orange Publishing is a dissonant literary book-publishing enterprise based in London, England and with offices in Canada, the United States, Ireland and Albania, whose members include Richard Rathwell, author of the novels The Bush: Hank the Aid Detective and Red the Nile, Blue the Hills. Other parters have included or include Kim Austin, Catherine Madill, Avis Pitso, the Albanian poet Ali Carcani (known as the 'Limon Poet'), and Selena Slind. Its present manifestation as a 21st century entity came into being in 2001 but the organization evolved from the Blue Apple Group of international surrealists, which included Donal White and Jane Gehring, and operated in County Tipperary, Ireland in the late 1970s and 1980s.

The organization functions as an objective creative enterprise likened to Live Wire of the Redgraves, the household of the Mitfords or the kitchen of the Brontes -- a higher form of feudal relations raised to the level of social enterprise and development agency. Besides publishing, its members involve themselves in IT, the visual arts, as well as journalism and political research. Its proponents consider themselves in favour of, or have been associated with, the following literary concepts or schools: dissonance, prism-smashing, retro-modernism (against the twenty-first century school of memoirism and 'reality'), and the revival of the reader. The organization also helped establish the Asperger's Liberation Front (the ALF) and the Foucault School of Cooking.

In its history it has worked to re-establish the roman fleuve (of Proust and Anthony Powell) but adding other genres and supplementary counter-points through collaborative effort and resistance. It has published a series of chapbooks, for example, under the title of The Bag, considered an original and unique presentation of novel, plot, and character background. Other examples include the 'Hank' stories of Richard Rathwell and various poetry manuscripts.