The Collected Poems of Ted Walker
Read and be astonished. With vivid images drawn from nature, the sounds of the sea, and a keen eye for human behaviour, Ted Walker gives voice to feelings you recognise but cannot quite put into words.
“This magisterial edition, long overdue, gives Ted Walker what he has deserved for so long.”
Dr Oliver Tearle, Loughborough University
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Fiction
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The second Alex Martin novel, set largely in Estonia during its break from the USSR.
Debut novel
Brighton and London, late 1980s: a group of activists find their situation spiralling out of control.
Fiction
A giant of German literature is finally brought to life for English-speaking readers.
First English translation
Graf’s satire on a retired civil servant in rural Bavaria who just wants to “stay on top” as the Nazis edge towards power.
Translated and introduced by Ed Walker
Autobiographical novel
A unique Bildungsroman tracing Graf’s odyssey from the village bakery to the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
Translated and introduced by Ed Walker
Literature in translation
First or new English editions translated and introduced by Ed Walker
Shop and bookshops
Anton Pannekoek
A new translation of Pannekoek’s 1909 critique of bourgeois Darwinist readings of human society.
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Max Hoelz
The autobiography of a soldier, revolutionary and political prisoner, with his defiant “Indictment of Bourgeois Society”.
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Karl Plättner
The 1929 study of life in Weimar prisons that caused a sensation, with a foreword by Magnus Hirschfeld.
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Erich Wollenberg
Reportage from the Munich Soviet Republic, by the infantry commander on the Dachau front.
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What motivates me
Only two criteria really matter: the work makes us think, and it is a bloody good read.
Ed Walker, publisher
RedLines Press publishes new fiction, literature in translation and poetry in the tradition of socially engaged writing: books like A Kestrel for a Knave, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and B. Traven’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Oskar Maria Graf belongs to that same tradition. The two novels translated here, We Are Prisoners and Anton Sittinger, offer a radical inside view of Weimar Germany. Such literature can take any form, but it should never be propaganda.
22 October 2026
Writing about the recent past means navigating unreliable memories and plausible anachronisms.
20 September 2026
Forget the solitary antihero. In network noir it is activists with complementary skills who drive the story.
For writers
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