Poetry / poems by individual poets
Worple Press Bearings
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Worple Press Full Stretch: New and Selected Poems
Book Synopsis"Full Stretch" is a collection of poems.
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Worple Press Room: An Anthology of Poems
Book SynopsisPoems by Nell Keddie, Maggie Sullivan, Susan Utting, Allison McVety, Paul Merchant, Sam Riviere, Michael Swan, Siriol Troup and others in the adult section from a National Competition; young prize-winners from Kent and Sussex ( Sophie Goodall, Sam Green, Jennifer Leach, Katy Dye, Charles Hooper, Christian Mueller annd others)
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Worple Press Foraging: New and Selected Poems
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Worple Press Dove Release: New Flights and Voices
Book SynopsisPoems by 60 poets involved in The Practice of Poetry course( students, tutors and visiting poets)at the University of Warwick from 2000 to 2010; poems arranged alphabetically, with an introduction by David Morley. Poems by Peter Belgvad, Zoe Brigley, James Brookes, Phil Brown, Peter Carpenter, Swithun Cooper, Jane Holland, Luke Kennard, Anna Lea, Michael McKimm,Glyn Maxwell, David Morley, Jon Morley, Ruth Padel, Fiona Sampson, George Szirtes, George Ttoouli, Simon Turner and others.
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Worple Press Windows: An Anthology of Poems
Book SynopsisNational competition winners ( Caroline Price, Jenny Morris, Anna Davis, Phil Powley, David Grubb, Julian Stannard, Kate Rhodes,etc.) alongside young writers from Kent and Sussex ( Jack Lindsay, Megan Snyders, Hariett Hughes, etc.)plus introduction from Ann and Peter Sansom
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Worple Press Knot
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Worple Press Like the Living End
Book Synopsis'Like the Living End', an elegy occasioned by the sudden death of a school friend, is the centre-piece of this gathering of poems completed since The Returning Sky (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Described as 'the finest poet of his generation' and 'the finest poet alive when it comes to the probing of shifts in atmosphere, momeTrade Review'These poems are vivid, formally experimental, often strangely celebratory - written with great warmth and tenderness', observe the selectors in the Poetry Book Society Bulletin, adding that 'Robinson is able to bring off rapid and surprising shifts in register within poems shot through with wit', and concluding that here is 'a concentration and confidence that mark this out as his finest work to date.' 'a poet who is writing at the height of his powers' - The London Magazine 'he is a major English poet' - Poetry ReviewTable of ContentsDirty World 1 For the Years 2 In the Drift 3 Rubbish Theory 4 Coincidences 6 Between Parentheses 7 All Change 8 Next to Nothing 9 Another Twilight 10 One Late Afternoon 11 A Middle-Age Scene 12 Note to Self 13 Ein Feste Burg 14 Like the Living End 16 On the Esplanade 23 Diminishing Returns 24 Holy Dying 26 Notes 27
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Worple Press Pieces of Us
Book SynopsisPieces of Us is an eagerly-awaited first collection, full of Sally Flint's sensuous, groundedand well-crafted darts into those 'spots of time' that reverberate again and again for the reader, rendered as they are in engaging, compelling and memorable detail.Trade Review'Sally Flint's poems are often startlingly original. She dares to take risks when tackling dramatic situations and great skill is demonstrated in her powerful evocation of character, atmosphere and place.' - Robyn Bolam "Sally Flint is especially good at the slow reveal. Her poems show us half-glimpsed worlds, narratives articulated by the telling detail. If these are tasters of what is to come then Flint's is a bright future indeed." - Julia Copus "Sally Flint is the real deal and the lives that weave in and out of her first collection, as uncanny as a folktale, as urgent as the day you're reading this recommendation, reveal a world where every sound is beautiful which tells of life. This is refreshing, hard won poetry. Pieces of Us is the result of a discipline and a winnowing which gives us the object, the gesture, the image that condenses a novel into a stanza. Essential.' - Luke KennardTable of ContentsMeat Factory 1 The Meredith Brothers 2 Circa 1962 3 The Piano Tuner 4 Flash 6 Goal 7 Longbridge to Lowestoft 8 Break Down 9 Truants 10 Bird 11 Digitalis 12 You, Me and the Bookcase 13 Instinct 14 Black Confetti 16 Post Party Timing is Perfect 17 Leave Me Nothing 18 Rocket Man 20 Two Couples Fishing 21 Name 22 The Hospital Party 24 The Truth about Nurses 25 The Guilt of Nightshifts 26 Shifts 27 Flight 28 Sometimes, when a man stops there's no starting him 29 You were the man 30 One of us had already tipped the waiters 31 Lights 32 Their Paths Must Have Crossed 33 Eye 34 We Arrive by Truck 35 Release 36 Tower of Mothers 37 Waiting in Treptower Park 38 In the Making 39 Reflection of a Garden 40 Thanks to the Men Who Made Me Feel Beautiful 41 Sleeping in the Boys' Room 42 Uncle 43 Mother, Father, Doctor, Ghost 45 Descent 46 Pieces of Us 47 Big City 48 Amnesty 49 From a Balcony 50 In the Darkness 51 Investigation of an Island 52 Roland's Boat 53 The Meander Field 54 Part of Our Lives 55 The Colour of Snow 56 The Big House 57 Last Act
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Worple Press The White Valentine
Book SynopsisAn eagerly awaited first collectionTrade Review"In this scrupulously unsentimental collection, full of crisp, lucent imagery, the reader is transported to exquisitely rendered physical and emotional landscapes. Fully engaged with the material world, these poems interrogate memory and family mythology to reveal the darkness beneath luminous surfaces. Reading these poems - many of which engage with water - I felt that I was watching dazzling tropical fish dart across a tank." - Catherine Smith "'Aren't there laws against letters as young/as this travelling on their own by air?' asks the poet in 'Enda's Letter'. Missives, communications (including the extraordinary 'The White Valentine', a Valentine like no other), together with a sense of place and history inform these beautifully constructed poems. Almost by stealth, Mary Woodward gives us poems which surprise and reverberate, again and again." - Julian StannardTable of ContentsContents The Dining Room 1 The Schoolroom, Temple House 2 The Hills of Tinnacara 3 Enda's Letter 5 Clooneigh - the meadow of the horses 6 Census 8 The Midnight Returns 10 The Hard Stuff 12 Our Ladies 13 Maggie Philomena 14 War Wedding 15 The '36 Olympics 17 Transfer 19 The Boating Lake 20 Google Streetview 22 The Moon Landing 24 The White Valentine 25 Sweet Heart 26 Risotto 28 Cooking with Elizabeth Craig 29 City of Change and Challenge 31 Lodging 33 Dickins and Jones 2006 34 The V&A: evening dresses 36 Baudelaire, at sea 38 The Sea Deer 40 The Portuguese Storm 41 Cy Twombly's Hero and Leandro 42 Why the English like Jack Vettriano's Singing Butler 43 Autumn at Number Nine 44 The Summer of the Killer Frogs 46 The Empire of Evil 1983 48 Sachsenhausen 49 The Burning Tractor 51 Notes 52
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Worple Press The Sisyphus Dog
Book SynopsisA long-awaited second collection of poetry that exlpores both public and domestic themes with great skill, sensitivity and accessibility. Memory, the powers of art and the limits and responsibilities of 'free expression' are themes explored with rigour and humanity.Trade Review"The poems of Stephen Boyce have an enviable assurance: clear, well-crafted and precise, they have an air of knowing where they are going, and invariably find their destination in an elegant closure. He is a master of the simple but telling phrase." - Roger Caldwell "In time of war, a woman 'darns to the ticking of clocks'. In peace, a child sees through a telescope 'all the life I ever wanted'. The music of Stephen Boyce's brief, intense poems quietly reveals both pain and joy, 'in the comfort of remembered song'." - Alison Brackenbury "Stephen Boyce is the master of surprising similes: carriages 'jolting like the lurch of camels', the hole in a sock 'like a tonsured head', a face 'red as a pomegranate flower'. Written with considerable poetic skill and emotional warmth, his perceptive cameos of lives, nature and art are finely-tuned. The Sisyphus Dog augments Stephen Boyce's rapidly growing reputation admirably." - Robyn BolamTable of ContentsContents Counting the Pips 1 Threads 3 Chai Wallah 4 Home from the War 5 Harvesting Tea 6 Telescope 7 A Certain Slant 8 Correspondence 9 Kernels 10 Washing Day 11 Cuban Heels 12 Change of Address 13 The Gift 14 Mother Explains the Value of School 15 Visitors 16 Ways and Means 17 David Niven's Smile 18 Sky Writing 19 Counting the Pips 20 Protected Species 21 A Gift Forever 22 Vows, Late Summer 23 Marking the Place 25 Going South 27 The Lesson 28 Convalescence, St Remy 30 Cote Vermeille 31 Stones 32 Stargazing 33 Reflection 34 Marking the Place 35 Tracking 36 Three Cliffs Bay 37 Laugharne 38 Vital Signs 39 The Sisyphus Dog 40 A Boat Named for You 42 And Snow in the South 44 Prospects 45 The Principle of Uncertainty 47 Spotting Red 49 The Principle of Uncertainty 50 Figure with Raised Hands 51 Burnt Chair 52 Illuminating the Whitworth 53 The Palette 54 Riverlight 55 A Brush with Renoir 56 Four Portraits 57 The Fox 59 Observing Beckett 60 Go Figure 61 Interrogation Scenes 63 Scanned 65 The Safe Side 66 Rescued 67 Volcano 68 Another Place 69 Dust in the Sunlight 70 Moving Image 71 Interrogation Scenes 72 The Security of Regulation 74 Worlds Apart 76 Pretty as a Picture 77 Trace Memory 78 Easing the Aching 79 Counting
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Worple Press Exurbia
Book SynopsisExurbia is the name of the urban fringe at the outer limits of suburbia. These poems begin here, characterised by edges, transition and change. In the assured lyric voice for which Andy Brown's poetry has become well known, they pay meticulous attention to where and how we make our homes. The poems of the book's central sequence are elegiac versions inspired by the Argentinian poet Borges, gazing over the city's blurred outskirts at dawn and sundown, while the book's final poems reach fully ex urbia, arriving at woodlands and moors, rivers and estuaries. Here, from the edge of the shoreline, they head out to sea before making a circular migration back home.Trade Review'A contemporary goliard with an emotional range. The aural landscape that Brown creates is remarkable.' James Sutherland-Smith 'A love of language and willingness to play with music, meaning and the reader's expectations and perceptions.' Poetry ReviewTable of ContentsLost Shoes 3 Caliology 5 Hamlin Lane 6 The Last Thatch 7 Foreign News 8 Things 9 Becoming 11 Happiness 12 A Lover's Discourse 13 Self Portrait at the Year's Turning 15 Blackbird 16 Suburban Plot 17 Cemetery Song 19 'The Rain Falls Gently on the Town' 20 After Bottling 21 Picking Bullaces 23 Rewriting the Ground 24 Selvage 25 Home / Leaving 28 2 The Outskirts 33 3 Homing 41 Lambing at Gwernllertai 42 The Woolbrook 43 Pen y Fan 44 How to Pay Attention 45 The Wood for the Trees Crow Wedding 47 On Coupling 49 Two Birdstrikes 50 Nocturne 51 Forest 52 Learning the Names 54 Harbour Blues 55 The Storm Berm 56 A Beach 57 Seascape with Kites and Gulls 58 Song of the Lifeboat Men's Daughters 59 A Ship in a Bottle 60 Along the Tide Wash 62 It Happens When You Look Away 64 Matriline 65 Planktos 66 The Last Geese 67
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Worple Press A Hatfield Mass: Voice and Shape in an English
Book SynopsisIn Martyn Crucefix's bold new sequence of poems, A Hatfield Mass, the sensuous shapes of Henry Moore's work interweave with the fluid, observant voices of the verse. From curves and spaces, words and silence, Crucefix constructs a secular Mass that explores a variety of forms of love, our relationships with people and the world around us. In part a journey from innocence to experience, these are poems marvellously open to the beauty of landscape, the shared intimacies of our bodies, the passage of time through which we are endlessly becoming: "if not more beautiful we grow more rich"Trade Review"Crucefix has, as always, an exceptional ear - poems that are urgent, heartfelt, controlled and masterful" - Kathryn Maris, Poetry London "Crucefix is well aware of the possibilities of language, and, like Rilke, his language is intense, compressed and vivid - The poignancy of parenthood and companionship is a theme which emerges powerfully" - Zoe Brigley, MagmaTable of Contents1. Large Totem Head 1 2. Three Piece Reclining Figure, Draped 6 3. Reclining Figure, Angles 10 4. Draped Reclining Figure 12 5. Mother and Child 16 6. Reclining Connected Forms 18 6. A voice singing 23
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Worple Press The Street of Perfect Love
Book SynopsisA fantastic new chapbook from a poet much celebrated for his tonal control and simultaneous considerations of matters mordant and gleeful. Poems here are at once funny and melancholy; the style is inimitable: Stannard takes his readers through a range of emotions via a witty and wonderful tight-rope walking act with languageTrade Review"There's an air of luxurious melancholy about these poems, a languid play of feelings and associations, that sets them wholly against the uptight, earnest strain in British writing and that appeals to me warmly. They can be very funny, too." - Christopher Reid "Never have near-death experiences been rendered with such baffled detachment. Julian Stannard is unique, and I go to his poems for pleasures of indirection, appetite, curiosity and a sort of beleaguered fun that I can find nowhere else." - Charles Boyle "The poetry of Julian Stannard is a fresh and delectable pleasure because he is a flaneur without alienation a wit whose sharpness comes at nobody else's expense, and a gourmand with a gleeful sense of mortality. These are poems to devour." - Don Share "Like Frank O'Hara, Stannard can shift from breathless joy to heartbreak without warning. As in 'La Douceur de la Nuit' this new collection performs a 'dance with melancholy', and is a welcome addition to one of the most unabashedly entertaining bodies of work in contemporary British poetry." - Declan Ryan THE STREET OF PERFECT LOVETable of ContentsChastity 1 Thigh-Slapping on the Riviera 3 Dickens Discovers His Italian Babylon 5 Lorsica 8 Winston and Candy 9 Stations of the Cross 10 Via Monte Bello 12 La Baia di Silenzio 13 Minestrone 14 Via Antonio Burlando 15 Napoli 17 The Necropolis 18 Buddhism 19 King's Cross 21 Hampshire 22 Jerry Hall Meets Salvador Dali 23 Burlington Arcade 24 Aldgate East 25 September 1939 26 The Gargantuan Muffin Beauty Contest 28 Miss Pinkerton 30 La Douceur de la Nuit 31
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Worple Press Crimean Sonnets: A New English Version by Kevin
Book SynopsisKevin Jackson's versions (rather than literal translations) of the sonnet sequence written in exile between 1824 and 1829 by Poland's greatest poet, Adam Mickiewicz, are both urgent and memorable. The originals are poems of intense patriotism and nostalgia; Jackson's versions capture this and much more, including what he terms in his new companion essay, 'Mickiewicz's aching sense of loneliness and loss'. Jackson wrote in his introduction to Anthony Burgess's 'Revolutionary Sonnets' that 'pleasures both demotic and recondite abound in the pages': the same might be applied to this striking sequence. In the spirit of Robert Lowell's 'Imitations' he deliberately plays fast and loose with the literal sense of the poems, memorably revivifying diction and tone. In so doing, he shows himself to be an unassuming and masterful guide and host to Mickiewicz's original works.Table of ContentsIntroductory Essay 1 I: The Akkerman Steppes 6 II: Becalmed 7 III: The Voyage 8 IV: The Storm 9 V: View from the Steppes of Kozlov 10 VI: Bakczysaraj 11 VII: Bakczyaraj by Night 12 VIII: The Grave of the Countess Potocki 13 IX: The Graves of the Harem 14 X: The Baydar Valley 15 XI: Alusta by Day 16 XII: Alusta by Night 17 XIII: Catyrdah 18 XIV: The Pilgrim 19 XV: The Road along the Precipice at Cufat Kale 20 XVI: Mount Kikineis 21 XVII: The Ruins of Balaklava 22 XVIII: On Ajudah's Cliff 23 Appendix 24
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Worple Press Accidental Fruit
Book SynopsisAccidental Fruit is about the almost seen, the half remembered and the not quite touched, the silent collisions of past and present and the perpetual interweaving of childhood and age. It registers death as the moment where lived experience is transformed into history. But it is equally preoccupied with the absurdities of the school run and the small satisfactions of village gossip, the way the trees move on a windy day, and its own impossible efforts to pin down the sea.Trade ReviewCarolyn Oulton's world is meticulously observed and set down with a clarity that pierces the surface of things. Fresh, beautifully controlled and with a knack of transforming the quotidian Accidental Fruit brims with memory, daily rhythms, landscape, history and humanity,as engaging as it is accomplished. Jan Fortune.Table of ContentsStories of the war 1 Service Users' Book Club 2 Aurora Leigh in the Care Home 3 Waking to the light 4 Home Movie 5 Plane Passing 6 Lines in a Victorian diary, January 1862 - August 2010 7 Forecast 8 New Year Suddenly 9 School Run 10 Lines stolen from my daughter 11 Accidental Fruit 12 Threading the breeze 13 Travelling Backwards 14 Can you spot the difference between these two pictures? 15 Wind Stripped 16 A Walk in September 17 Glee 18 I ought to be working but 19 @theVictorianheroine 20 This morning I loved 21 Jerome K. Jerome in Walsall 22 Things I never did as a child 23 Painting the sea 24 Jumping Downs 25 Second prize answer 26 The Watchers 27 Cultural Studies 28 Flowers in the Snow 29 Dry Ice 30 Story on repeat 31 Circus 32 Easter 33 The web 34 From the cliff 35 Channel Crossing 36 Hodnet, Shropshire. 1876 37 Phases of the Moon 38 Toy Boats 39 The Book 40 Folkestone, New Year's Day 41 Flood 42 I knew it would start 43 Before I am old 44 Word for emergency use 45 May in the Garden 46 Early Work 48 Where the River Was 50 Looking for a Sunset 51 Coming in to Fishbourne 52 Heat-soaked 53 After Rain 54 Incidental God 55 Grass to The Head 56 Creative Writing Induction 57 Behind the Voices 58 Tidelines 59 Days After a Day 60 Notes for a Biography 61
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Worple Press What Possessed Me
Book SynopsisEvoking childhood memories and lifelong relationships with humour, poignancy, and preternatural clarity, What Possessed Me also explores the natural world and landscapes in various parts of England, Wales, France, and Greece. Another theme is the work of teaching and other professions seen from the vantage points of provider, recipient, and witness. There are salutes to writers like Edward Thomas, Dannie Abse and Jack Gilbert who, we are told, 'put his life into poetry.' Separate sequences celebrate years of occasional visits to Llandaff Cathedral and its surrounding landscape, and the delights and political revelations of a stay in Athens. This is a book diverse in its moods and subjects but unified by an infectious openness to the moment and to life's joys and sorrows, and an unfolding sense of accumulating experience and insight. It is illuminated by a recurrent sense of inspiration, of 'what possessed me.'Table of ContentsI Me and the Gatepost Interior With Red Linoleum Making A Meal Of It Poupard's Chiffchaff Eliminating the Diphthong What Possessed Me Friend of Truth My Grandfather's Hat Goodbye, House Brought to Mind The Bluebell Leaves Peasant Girl Hanging Clothes to Dry New Year's Eva In Apple Blossom Time Botham's Ashes A Man I used to Know Message to a Priest It Was Us The Exchange by the Stile My Father Swimming II Swallows Wimpole Hall Sunset on the River A Walk at Mawgan Porth To Southerndown and Back Blackbird and Magpies Summer Solstice, Cornwall Gulls Playing Sea Air Gardener's Friend What we Have in Late November November Christmas Journey of the Magi Ice Cream On A Beach Space Travellers Don's Present The Pond in the Fields Of Chalk and Gold A First Visit to Steep May Morning in Trerhyngyll Multiverse on the Seine The High Garonne Churches in Toulouse Morning in the Parc Lefevre Biometric III Flowers in a Terracotta Vase Woodwork Lesson Casting the Poem On the Field of Battle The Nest on the Ledge The Mug in the Common Room Giving Up The Keys The Real Thing The Gold Band A Good Home Phil Says Prisoners Witness Dannie The Land Has Its Say Letter to Jack Gilbert The Last Hamlet of Words IV: Visons of Llandaff 1: Words Inside a Birthday Card 2: A Lost View 3: Visions of Llandaff V: Attic Interlude 1: Homage To Clio 2: Finding Our Way 3: The Erechtheion 4: The Changing Of The Guard 5: Good Faith In Athens 6: Vision On the Muses' Hill 7: The Temple of Hephaestus 8: Selfie As An Ancient Ruin 9: What We Shall Take With Us 10: Fly Away Home
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Worple Press Rockabye
Book SynopsisIn these wonderful poems, telling stories of the abuse of women long before the outcries of the current scandals, Patricia McCarthy ranges across cultures and religions, poetry, art and music, to dramatize the particulars of female lives she has known, both tragic and heroic.Table of ContentsContents Prologue: Writer's Block 1 The Shiver 3 A Sisterhood 4 Rockabye grandfather 8 The Royal Kumari 10 A different kind of prison 12 Even with a flower 14 Depersonalised 16 Fairytale reversed 17 Fortune-Teller 18 Repatriation 20 Refuge 21 Dulce Domum 22 Dancing around her 24 Portrait: Red Indian 26 Jekyll and Hyde 27 The Lover 28 Prayer to Bacchus 29 His Say 30 D I Y Divorce 31 Restitution 34 Childless Woman 35 Odd One Out 36 Dirty Old Men of Dublin 38 Return of the Drag Queens 40 Ivy Leaves 42 Plaint to Epona 43 Old Retreat Notebook 45 Love Songs 47 Sonnets made of Wood 48 Love Letters 49 Homeward Bound 51Never without her 53 The Man who killed my Father 55 The Walking stick 57 Grey... and the poet 58 Piano Player 59 His Second Wife 60 All my long-gone horses 63 His mother 65 The Walk from Louisburgh to Delphi Lodge 67 From behind curtains 69 Stalker 71 Woman of an Age 72 Painted Lady 74 Philomel 76 Rock Horses 78 The angels keep 79 Rest, young lady 80 Sarola 82 Epilogue: When all is said and done 85 The Erl King's Shroud 87 Notes 102
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Worple Press Bloodlines
Book SynopsisIn Bloodlines Andy Brown turns his attention to the subjects of medicine and the human body, treating them with the lyricism, imaginative range and formal agility for which his poetry has become widely known. The poems in part one, Shifting Shape, offer more personal narratives, while the poems of part two, Bloodlines, explore the longer lines of medical history, through medical paintings, sculptures and translated versions from Spanish. There are also several lively versions of medical scenes from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and a number of poems that focus on disease, hygiene and sanitation.Trade Review`A love of language and willingness to play with music, meaning and the reader’s expectations and perceptions.’ Poetry ReviewTable of ContentsI. Public Speaking 1 Genetics 3 Berserk 4 The Splinter 5 Shield Bugs 6 Keystones 7 Committal 8 Twins 9 Public Speaking 11 i. Public Speaking 11 ii. Paring 13 iii. The Vacuum 14 iv. The Shunt 15 v. Nightlights 16 Excision 17 On Septicaemia 18 Skin Tag 19 Some Sayings About the Hand 20 Self Portrait at Fifty 21 A Story About Teeth 23 II. Bloodlines 25 Homo naledi 27 Human Anatomy Classes 28 i. Écorché 28 ii. The Crowd 30 iii. Anatomy for the Blind 31 iv. Birthing Machine 32 v. A Sick Lady and Her Doctor, 1657 33 vi. Human Anatomy Classes 34 Bloodlines 35 i. Two Mongrels 35 ii. Bedlam 36 iii. Arthur Coga 37 iv. Which Part is Man? 38 A Doctour of Phisik 39 Hospitals 41 A Blind Man 43 I, Me, Myself 44 The Wounded Child 45 Cremation 46 A Villanelle in Varanasi 48 A Wife Advises Her Husband on His Dreams 49 Bald’s Leechbook 50 Acute Myocardial Infarction 51 Surgery Operation 52 Snake Oil 53 Five Noses 54 i. Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) 54 ii. Tycho’s Nose 55 iii. Taliacotius’s Noses 56 iv. A Leap-Year Nose 57 v. Body Poetic 58 The Pardoner’s Tale 59 i. To a Doctor 59 ii. The Ballad of Gallipot Lane 60 The Broad Street Pump 62 from Watersong 63 i. Ballad of the Coroner 63 ii. Ballad of the Sexton 64 iii. Bury Fields 66 The Unnameable Taxonomy 67 The Flying Toilets of Kibera 69
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Worple Press The Watching Stair
Book SynopsisThis is a new collection of poems. They are accessible, highly intelligent,and have a wonderful psychological truthfulness, particularly about relations between mother and daughter.The poems transcend the individual situation to become meditations on meaning in the face of mortality.Trade ReviewThe Watching Stair is a wonderfully apt title for this collection. Like the narrator of the title poem, Diana Hendry is `intensely good’ at both `watching and listening’. The result is a collection of poignant, often wryly humorous and always beautifully-crafted poems that open windows on childhood and old-age. Vicki FeaverTable of ContentsAutobiography 1 The Watching Stair 2 The Catch 3 Before 4 The Billiard Room 5 My First Love 6 Murphy 7 Imaginary Snakes 8 Latin by Post 10 Mother on the Beach 11 The Beaten Track 12 Other Mothers 13 The Pot of Rouge 14 Far from true 15 Kaddish 16 Father’s Doors 17 Fire Watch 18 Sonny Boy 19 The Greenhouse 20 What we’re here for 21 Cousins i 22 Cousins ii 24 Lighting Effects 25 Parting 26 My Daughter’s House 27 Wind, go easy 28 Charades with Freya (7) 29 To Talia, at six months 30 Travelling with Ruairidh 31 Boys 32 Signs 33 Watching telly with you 34 The Winter Pilgrim 35 Caroline Herschel: Her CV 37 Paddy on his long Irish legs 38 Abduction 39 Dorothy Dobson 40 Never Brought to Mind 41 Absent Friends 42 To friends prevented by illness from visiting 44 Gwen Boyt 45 Jim on Sax 46 The Kano Beggars 47 Leonard 48 Abigail’s Garden 49 Portobello Beach 50 Trespassing 51 What the rowan tree said 52 April: Early Evening 53 Yellow Poppies 54 Nasturtiums 55 How to play the piano 56 The Last Piano 58 In praise of a potted cyclamen 59 In praise of the man with big ears 60 In praise of the Variscan 61 Canada 62 Camouflage 63 On being asked to write a poem about a tool or utensil 64 Treasure 66 Timor mortis conturbat me 67 End Matter 68 Callers 70 Beyond 71 Praise Poem 72 Dear Seamus 75 Notes 76 About the Author 77
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Worple Press The Afterlife
Book SynopsisAnthony Wilson’s poems explore the borderline territory between grief and laughter, memory and forgetting, illness and health. His central subject is the way we live within family and community, questioning the roles we construct, both alone and with others. The Afterlife explores central themes: mortality, mental health, the relation between body and soul, and how to live fully in the present moment.Table of ContentsContents Part One 1 Teaching Writing Theory 3 What I Should be Feeling 4 Slow Weather 5 On Losing the Ability to Sleep 7 To Spring 8 In Oregon 9 British Teeth 10 Mornings in Paradise 11 Balinese Surfers 12 Thinking Outside 13 Poem Beginning With a Line by John Ash 14 The Barchester Chronicles 15 Staffroom, Summer, 2015 16 From a Chalkface 18 Utterance Dusk 19 Three Pieces (Poem Beginning With a Line by Yehuda Amichai) 20 Part Two 23 The Afterlife 25 The All-Clear 26 The True Story of the Night they Told me I was Cured 28 There are Days 29 Death Shelf 30 The Last Time I Saw Mary 31 Chicken and Almond Soup 32 Sitting With Your Body 33 Part Three 35 To a Notebook 37 Part Four 53 Bookmark 55 Signals 56 The Escape 57 After Coucou 58 Wildlife 59 Dream Opera 60 Part Five 61 The Names of My Mother 63 Trying Not to Think of Seamus Heaney 64 Bécotte’s Poem 65 Vinaigrette Variations 66 Insomnia 68 Dear Coffee 69 Driving to England 70 Lament 71 The Four of Us 72 Part Six 75 The Editing Suite 77 Due 78 Smoke 80 My Shyness 81 For My Children 82 The Future 83 Youth 84 Boy, Pirouetting 86 S 87 To a Charlie Irvine Guitar Solo 88 Poem 89 Poem Beginning With a Line by Eve Merriam 90 Everything I Know of What I Want to Say 91 Poem of Leaves 92 Notes 93 Acknowledgements 95
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Worple Press Ravishing Europa
Book SynopsisThe poet’s eleventh collection, marks a wholly unexpected development, prompted, as is evident throughout, by the fissures exported from a political party to an entire country, and beyond, by the 2016 referendum on membership of the EuropeanUnion. Its consequences cast crucial events for this poet, bothpersonal and public, into unforeseen fresh lights. Prompted by a televised debate to wonder in the title poem upon what impulse the founding European myth is based, Robinson’s new poems search through his individual and cultural memory to offer, as the book unfolds, an answer.Table of ContentsOne 1 Belongings 3 Monterosso 5 Written in the Bay 6 Violated Landscape 7 Ravishing Europa 8 Lincolnshire Landscapes 9 Balkan Trilogy 11 Garden Thoughts 13 Bibliographical Note 14 In the Apennines 15 Women of Elche 17 Plaza de las Monjas 19 On a Walk to Sonning 22 Out of Europe 24 The Prospects 25 Sonning Lock 27 World Citizens 28 Die Holzwege 30 Night Flight 32 Post-Truth 34 Two 35 Bloomsbury Way 37 The Hard and Soft of It 39 Drawing a Line 40 The Vehicle 42 Where Europe Ends 45 The Further Losses 50 Saudades da Europa 54 At this Distance 56 Last Refuge 57 Cold Comfort 58 The Irish Border 59 Wall-to-Wall 62 Don Quixote in Sofia 63 On the Electricity 64 Three 65 This Last Year 67 Leave to Remain 69 European Epitaphs 72 Colouring the Past 82 Haus Europe 84 Postcards from Bern 86 Empty Vase 88 Notes 89 Acknowledgements 94
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Worple Press When I Kiss The Sky
Book SynopsisThis collection follows Bowl from Worple and The Sound of Rain from Garlic Press. It explores the dynamics of presence and absence. There is lament but also affection and delight.Trade ReviewNecessary, sustaining poems that brim with luminous insights and remind us time and time again that there is another world and it is in this one. Michael Laskey Such richness and movement, honesty, humour,;imagination, connectedness. Paul Mills;Elizabeth Cook can take an image (fruitfully) further than I would have thought possible. Helena NelsonTable of ContentsContents Exemplum 1 Lupa 2 Thinking of Thomas Hardy 4 i.The Fieldfare ii.The Biscuit Tin Note on The Biscuit Tin Orrery 6 The Elephant Tree 7 The Young Palaeontologist: Lyme Regis 1808 8 Up 10 Pesci diversi 12 The Bandstand by Day 14 The Bandstand by Night 15 Dürer, 1514:Two Studies 16 i Melencolia 1 ii St. Jerome Gust 18 Les Saintes Maries de la Mer 19 Rain 20 Edmund in Edmundsbury 21 Fox, you’ve changed 31 The Assignment 32 The Leopard Leapt 34 The Boy who Hurts Trees 36 Approximate 38 arrest 39 Memory House 40 Talking with Eric 42 As Told by Ramakrishna 43 pulse 44 A Whole Glade 45 Token 46 Lift 47 The Night Bus 48 At Dark-Break 50 ‘I am usually vigilant’ 51 Stealth 52 The Candles 53 Peacock Season 54 Duck, just inches from the back door 55 The Ascent of Gulliver 56 Folds 58 in Rembrandt’s studio 59 undress 60 If Jesus Came to My House 62 Quilt 63 Tent 64 Calf 65 at the churchyard 66 Can you see? 67 The Sea of Tears 68 It Takes so Little 70 He Rose Up 72 Pen 74 The New 75 AsaVestureShaltThouChangeThem(Ps. 102:27) 76 ‘the shag dips’ 77 ‘At the School of the Tao they taught us’ 78 Fusiform 79 Last Meal 80 when the stars threw down their spears 81 as chimney sweepers come to dust 82
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Worple Press The Guest Room
Book SynopsisThe Guest Room, Diana Hendry’s new collection of poems, continues her always perceptive explorations of family, childhood and finding oneself, encounters with people (whether neighbours or strangers) and animals (pets or otherwise). Added to this is her embracing of Seamus Heaney’s notion of poetry paying attention to the world, here including climate change, coronavirus, political prisoners, Palestine and the health service, for example – never preachy, telling it slant.There’s pleasure to be found throughout, in her craft and characteristic wry humour and in what U.A.Fanthorpe called her ‘remarkable eye for the truth and an ability to see the otherness in the ordinary.’Trade Review‘generosity of spirit’ Richie McCaffery ‘riches of feeling, unexpected depths and meanings, and a jolt to the senses in every tightly-controlled poem’ James Roderick BurnsTable of ContentsContents Skara Brae 1 Mr Obama and the Chemist 2 Mother with scissors 3 Smokers 4 Cabbage Whites 6 Market Street 7 Poste Restante 8 Vagabonds 9 The Last Dog 11 Mulligan 12 Dear Old Growler 13 The Harlequin Ladybird 14 The heron complains of his reputation 15 The Octopus 16 Talking Toad 17 A death in the time of coronavirus 19 A&E 20 Vax 21 Skulking 22 The Insomniac’s Café 23 Unsteadiness 24 In the Margins 25 The Haar 27 Melancholy 28 From: Where I Was Before Us 29 The Porch 30 In the Sitting Room 31 Father’s Dream 32 Mother in the kitchen 33 Hoylake 3594 34 Before we go 35 Ottoman 36 The Trainee Angel of Mingladoon 37 Their Room 38 Her Room 39 The Spare Room 40 The Guest Room 41 Nepalese Namaste 43 Cheer Leader 44 Helen’s Whites 45 Writing to the President ofTunisia 46 A Piano in Gaza 47 The Unvisited 48 The Empty Road 49 Dr Braun’s thoughts on love 50 Freya and St Cuthbert 51 Freya and the people in the books. 52 The Couple Downstairs 53 Dear Ms and Mr X 54 My Neighbour, Mrs Baker 55 The Shadow Tree 56 Summer with Mr Jonathan Back 57 The Man in the Harbour Café 58 Epithalamion 59 Three Haiku 61 Possibly 63 A Village in Heaven 64 The Light Collector 65 The Way Flowers Die 66 From the Footlight Flats: to whom it may concern 67 We wanted different rivers 68 To Cut a Long Story Short 69 The Quest 71 Nearby 75
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Worple Press Because we could not dance at the wedding
Book SynopsisAt its heart a collection of love poems, Because we could not dance at the wedding is about coming out, coming to terms and settling down.Through a series of vividly observed scenes – from single- bedded student flat to registry office waiting room, from a clumsy hotel-room dance to the enforced domestic retreat of lockdown – these poems chronicle a relationship across two decades. Michael McKimm, whose work has been described as ‘powerfully tactile’ (Penelope Shuttle) and ‘delicately momentous’ (TLS), has developed a gently radical urban-pastoral, where beating the bounds of his east London neighbourhood may be a negotiation with anxiety and threat, but is always – ultimately – a celebration of falling in love and finding joy in an uncertain world.Trade ReviewMichael McKimm’s Because we could not dance at the wedding tells the story of a queer couple, reminding us of the beauty of a life shared, whether birdwatching, travelling on the London Underground, or joining a Pride parade. McKimm could be a queer Robert Frost or a modern Wordsworth, but McKimm is an inheritor of Michael Longley too with the crafted phrasing, the lyric quality, and quiet beauty.There is much to enjoy in the careful attention and gorgeous moments of intimacy recorded with care and authenticity. Michael McKimm is a brilliant writer on relationships, about nature, about the wondrous details of being alive. Zoë Brigley;Michael McKimm is that objet d’art discovered at a car-boot sale – surprise turning to excitement as the item is rolled slowly in the hand. With this new collection, McKimm’s abilities once again skilfully illuminate the seemingly mundane; the flaneur constrained by lockdown measures peering out of his window,still driven to celebrate the world. Similarly, McKimm rejects restrictions on gay relationships and practices, and instead argues for, and honours, gay love in defiant and compassionate ways. However, poetry is never sacrificed for the conveyance of a reductive message; instead McKimm employs poetry’s full tool- kit.Turn this work in your hand, study it, observe its beauty. Paul MaddernTable of ContentsLove Poem with Goshawk 1 Because we could not dance at the wedding 3 To Go About 4 Conversion 14 What the River Carries 16 Black Snow 18 From the Kitchen Window 19 Romford Road and Broadway 27 Love Poem with Beech Coppard 31 Poem for one whose birthday falls in winter 33 What the greenfinch actually sounds like 34 Low Traffic Neighbourhood 38 Tattoo 39 Heatwave 45 Aubade 47 Rummikub in Co. Antrim 48 Daffodils 50 Love Poem with Sanderling 53 Acknowledgements 55
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Worple Press Beyond The Gate
Book SynopsisA brilliant collection that explores the frailties, perils and joys of love in all its guises. Clare Best's carefully observed, memorable and formally daring poems deal with a wide range of themes, including the intimacy of domestic situations, the rights of women in our society, and the pressing need to respect and learn from the natural world.Trade ReviewBeyond the Gate is rooted in a woman's right to walk through streets and forests, through her own story. Clare Best plays compelling, original games with form. Her voice is fired by precision and observation, seared with a questioning wit. - Robert Hamberger;Shifting between the intimacy of the domestic space and a deep connection with the natural world, Best shows us beauty laced with danger, darkness, flashes of fear.This exploration of love and loss considers how we hold and carry our memories, how far ahead we dare to look. - Rebecca Goss;Clare Best writes with scruple and clarity, listening always for the unsaid and the unsayable, watching for the passage of flame into darkness. - Michael HulseTable of ContentsContents Woods, Chalk, Glass A heron in a poem might seem a cliche 5 Lark walk, February 6 Watering hole 7 Clem, at six, 8 Googling < long-tailed tit > in November 9 Still life with lemon 10 Browsing at my desk, May 2020 12 In Markstakes Wood 13 beyond the gate 14 By Night At WH Smith, Brighton Station 19 The pools at Glyndebourne 20 Once my home 22 Using Greenwood's Large-Scale Map of the County of Suffolk (1825) to find my friend's house 23 Portent 24 Hard hat 25 Rising in the night, in summer 26 My son's first leather boots 27 St Lucy's Day, 4.15 pm 28 Last thing 29 Cinder Path Salting 33 After your procedure 38 On this day 39 What do we know? 40 The words 41 By Water Three poems about fog 45 In the well-house, December 46 Book of water 47 Dewpond 48 Cart pond 49 Geological section 50 salt works 51 Field notes, Horsmonden furnace pond 52 Water spirit 54 Lecanomancy 56 Flight Path Return to Lago Maggiore, March 2022 59 Of seasons 60 T-Junction 61 A14 62 It was always my head 63 Burning 64 Late fig 66 I'm writing 67 Self-portrait as boundary oak 68 My possible deaths 69 Flowers, 70 Wake 71 Crossing the Styx in the Quiet Carriage 72 Epitaph 73
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Worple Press Landline
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Worple Press Architecture Other Poems
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Luath Press Ltd Immortal Memories
Book SynopsisThe Immortal Memory remains the centrepiece of the traditional Burns Supper and although that rite might be seen by some to have had its day, the 'Immortal Memory' itself still retains its importance and prestige to Burns lovers all over the world. It is an honour to be invited to present this toast and it is to honour this status and to further respect its subject that Dr Cairney's third book on Burns is devoted to his 'Immortal Memory'. The extraordinary thing is that the contributors, while dealing with the same man, all appear to see him so differently, but what they all still have in common is a love and admiration for the man and his work. This is the factor that makes Burns unique, that he has the same appeal for so many different kinds of people.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited This One is for You
Book SynopsisTwo-time winner of the Christina Sergeyevna Award at the Austin International Poetry Festival, Agnes Meadows returns with her fifth collection of poetry, "This One Is For You", dedicated to the late Brinsley Sheridan, her long-time friend and fellow poet. The new work covers Agnes' usual themes of history, memory, everyday beauty and struggle, but it also explores the nature of friendship and the ingredients of endurance, joy and survival. After the huge success of her last two books, "Woman" and "At Damascus Gate on Good Friday", this new collection is a must-read for fans of Agnes Meadows - and for those who've never heard of her, "This One Is For You". Agnes Meadows' 'This One Is For You' is an intense and wondrous journey into the imagination. Her poetry is warm, rich and evocative of all the places we might travel. Each poem is like a personal dedication to the reader given in a spirit of generosity and celebration. It's a book full of secret delights, hidden sadness, and true friendship - Aoife Mannix A rich and intense journey. Here [in 'This One Is For You] we find themes of remembrance and history and the beauty hidden beneath the everyday and ordinary. Agnes Meadows is a rebel and a powerhouse of a writer - Camden New Journal Author of four previous books of poetry, Agnes Meadows has been gypsying around the world since she was 15 and her writing reflects the broad range of perspectives that her peripatetic lifestyle has taught her. She has been a featured poet with the Austin International Poetry Festival several times - giving performances and workshops all over Texas, including readings in Spanish, drawing on the 3 years she lived in Mexico - and now serves on the board of the festival. Agnes has also performed and led poetry workshops and residencies in Turkey, Spain, Israel and Palestine. She held residencies in all of the Universities on the West Bank, and spent several months in the Gaza Strip working with students from all three of Gaza's main Universities and the British Council. Away from academia, Agnes has run workshops on writing and performing poetry in the corporate sector, and has a wealth of experience of arranging and stage managing performances and shows across London. In addition to her own work, Agnes has also been an adviser on Poetry for Channel 4 TV (UK). Her previous publications are You and Me, Quantum Love, Woman (waterways, 2003), At Damascus Gate on Good Friday (waterways, 2005). Agnes has also produced two CDs of her poetry with music - Agnes Meadows and Blues Shakin' My Heels. She lives in London.Trade ReviewAgnes Meadows' 'This One Is For You' is an intense and wondrous journey into the imagination. Her poetry is warm, rich and evocative of all the places we might travel. Each poem is like a personal dedication to the reader given in a spirit of generosity and celebration. It's a book full of secret delights, hidden sadness, and true friendship - Aoife Mannix
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Every Single One
Book SynopsisFeeling a way through the electric, breathless experiences of young adulthood, 'Every Single One' is the debut pamphlet from Nina Bahadur. From New Year's Eve to the stretches of summer, dealing with prickly relationships and an exhaustive search for identity, these poems are an honest and unabashed exploration of youth, intimacy, and growth. Born in London in 1990, Nina Bahadur is a recent graduate of Princeton University, and an assistant editor at The Huffington Post. She has been writing poetry since childhood, and her work has been featured in Magma, Pomegranate Poetry, and Yes, Poetry. Her interests include photography, travel, singing, and summer nights
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Small Change
Book SynopsisMiriam Nash's debut, 'Small Change', is a document of transition; taking in geographical shifts from farmland to metropolis, the changing shape of family, the seeping of global into personal, and a hunger for self-definition. In writing that is at once rural, urban, shocking and gentle, Miriam weaves a world that is instantly recognisable but refreshingly complex, evoking celebration, sorrow and redemption with the same clear voice. / Miriam Nash spent her early years living on an island off the west coast of Scotland. Her poetry has taken her to the USA, Singapore and across the UK, where she has been published in Magma, Brand and Generations Magazine and performed at Tate Britain, Singapore's Esplanade and Chicago's Green Mill. She has been an active part of the UK and Singapore poetry scenes, leading workshops in schools and producing large-scale poetry projects for young people. In 2012 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. 'Small Change' is her debut pamphlet.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Batmans Hill, South Staffs
Book Synopsis'Batman's Hill, South Staffs' is non-linear sequence of poems set largely in Staffordshire, between 1961 and 1972. Quietly contemplative and playful with language, the poems derive their energy from the dialogue between memory and hindsight, the moments where the present - physically, or through lived experience - throws a clear unrelenting light on the past, 'coming for you in the dark'.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Krapp's Last Tape: The Musical
Book SynopsisPeter Ebsworth is a poet in love with the stage. In Krapp's Last Tape, he treads the line between the audience and the performer, an act of voyeurism and ventriloquism that results in tense snippets of verse only relieved by a tongue in cheek humour that is evident throughout. In his persona poems, he embodies a pantheon of pop culture gods and goddesses such as Marlon Brando, Sticky Vicky, the veteran Benidorm erotic entertainer, and Tony Soprano; in other poems he turns the gaze around to observe them as audience. Selected from literary output ranging over 30 years the tone swings from bullish to reflective, aptly mirroring the gamut of emotions that performers embody on stage. Krapp's Last Tape remains, however, firmly rooted in side stage drama - Ebsworth's interest in Pythagoras is focused on his role as a soldier rather than mathematician, and his girl has a lobster tattoo in place of the dragon of myth.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Advice for an Only Child
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads
Book SynopsisIn Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads, aliens and time machines, Lambrusco and apocalyptic first kisses, broken relationships and breast-shaped mountains are perfect companions for a delicate dance through Hill Valley, Wagamama and potato fields in Nepal. The language, open-hearted and burlesque, is lifted from hypnotherapy podcasts, ad agency jargon, the fine distillate of the worst things we think about ourselves. These are poems alive with tingling histamines and humming generators. They slip between lines of conversation, sneak into your bedroom at night, haunt your dreams.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Breaking the Surface
Book SynopsisThe poems in Katie Hale's Breaking the Surface are populated with totems of our wild, essential truths- from the raven bearing witness to death, to the wolf's dark appetite. Hale interrogates desire in its different forms and unpicks the seams of myths, folktales and fairy stories, offering them up with new life. A self-assured debut.Trade Review"Katie Hale's nimble poems, attuned to both the mythic and the quotidian, are full of the delighted surprise and sadness of being alive. Read them and be thrilled." - Jacob Polley
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited A Suburb of Heaven
Book SynopsisA Suburb of Heaven is a collection built from observation and speculation. Based on artist Stanley Spencer's work in the first section and the part-imagined life of Anna O, patient zero of psychoanalysis, in the second, it is a feast for the senses. Spencer's predilection for using Biblical scenes in a rural context carries a narrative impetus that Pnina Shinebourne builds on to create revelatory poetic highs, "half-way between drunkenness and reverie". These moments of altered reality perhaps lead inevitably to the sequence on Anna O, which starts with the curiously apt line, "Transference, said Freud". From that opening, Pnina invents Anna O's history, complete with music notes and linguistic asides. The imagery here is soft against what was sold as hard science; a struggling patient's emotions set against the speculating notes of ambitious men.Trade Review"A very ambitiously conceived [pamphlet] that succeeds beautifully as poetry on its own terms and for its own sake... inviting readers to peer into strange funhouse mirrors." - Dr Lauri Ramey, California State University, Los Angeles
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited A Class Act
Book SynopsisAs the opening poem of this début, Death of a Pie ‘n Mash Shop, attests: Chip Hamer is not your typical man of letters. A founding member of the Poets on the Picket Line squad, his poems have been bellowed against the din of rush hour traffic from picket lines throughout London, bringing solidarity and attention to workers across the capital. Chip’s first full collection is unflinching in its appraisal of the first fifteen years of the millenium, from New Labour’s descent into Middle Eastern conflicts to the ConDem government’s age of austerity. But while the outlook may seem grim, A Class Act is characterised by an attitude of stern determination and a tender, underlying empathy that never forgets the human story behind each headline and statistic. Revealing another passion, as a coach at the All Stars Boxing Gym, these poems jab, feint and move before catching you with a hard left hook.Trade Review"Chip Hamer is a proper lefty malcontent and activist. His poetry reflects this. It is working verse; it accompanies him on demos and picket lines. Poetry that embodies the art of saying in a few terse words that for which the rest of us use protracted, inelegant sentences. Curt, concise, succinct. Nothing unnecessary or unintentional. It has purpose. Read it. Enjoy it. As I have." - Rhoda Dakar; “Chip Hamer writes poetry that stands its ground and looks you in the eye. Poetry with punch." - Billy Bragg
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Grammar of Passage
Book SynopsisGrammar of Passage details a German family’s quiet lives as they are pulled into the gathering maelstrom of the first half of the Twentieth Century. Monika Cassel’s attention to detail in this début, tempered with a deep empathy brings individual moments to vivid life, deftly demonstrates how poetry can excavate and reinvigorate history.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Portrait of Colossus
Book SynopsisPortrait of Colossus is a searingly forthright début that navigates parenting, masculinity, racism and ambiguities of identity. It articulates, with skill and sly humour, the migrant experience from the perspective of the second generation, the ones who “know [England]/ more than everywhere else/ put together”. Brimming with vulnerability and pitched between the lilt of hooyo's admonitions and Ted Hughes' eye for the natural world, many of the poems reconcile disparate worlds, cultures and identities, firing them with the lyricism of Dawud's Psalms. Samatar seamlessly blends influences from Somali oral history, Ovidian tales and Homer’s Odyssey into a poetics that makes Portrait of Colossus cathartic, musical, emotionally satisfying as well as erudite.Trade Review"Samatar Elmi's Portrait of Colossus is the work of a hybrid sensibility taking its cues equally from the rhythms and narrative drive of the Hip Hop emcee and the wisdom of a true historian; one who looks at the world and sees not just the world as it is but as it has been, as it might yet be." – Kayo Chingonyi
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Mercy
Book SynopsisEleanor Penny's Mercy celebrates and shuttles between the visceral and vulnerable, the cruel and and the kind. It attends to the assumptions we may make about the civilised self, assumptions all too often proven hollow or insubstantial in times of crisis. Mercy is a dizzying yet finely orchestrated menagerie of dark fairytale, biblical allusion and metamorphosis, anchored by a sense of something intimate in every bright detail. A highly anticipated debut.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Voice of the Two Shores
Book SynopsisDrawn from Agnes Agboton's two Spanish collections in a single volume for the first time ever, Voice of the Two Shores was originally written in Gun, a language of Benin, the musicality of which is faithfully reproduced through the net of two translations. Many of the poems are rooted in Benin, while others confront the absence of the living testimonies of that world and its traditions. Yet the poems are redolent of love - of the poet's beloved, and of the land where she was born, which is (re)born in her. The result is a book charged with deep emotion, in which ancient tradition is deeply rooted, poems that thrum with intimacy, nostalgia for her natal landscapes following years in exile in Spain, and a thread of dismay in the face of unacceptable realities.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited The Towns We Leave Hate Us Most
Book Synopsis“Sometimes, I shout at the face with which I must live, hoping to discipline it into behaving. I squash its nose and slap its cheeks.” Employing an inimitable combination of cutting wit, impressive feats of formal experimentation and bold illustration that pulls no pixels as it shades, Aislinn has created a moving début that defies categorisation. Lovingly produced as a collectible item, this is poetry you will want to carry with you as you leave.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Flood Season
Book SynopsisAfter over a decade working as a musician under the name Kae Sun, Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr. makes a full-blooded return to the bones of his craft – poetic exploration and wordplay. His début pamphlet, Flood Season, begins with seeds of perennial flooding, a phenomenon as familiar to residents of Accra as it is to residents of Assam, and blossoms into an exploration of diasporic belonging, the tensions between who we are and the clichés that surround our nation states. Ultimately, the poems hint that we might all be routinely, “caught in the delicate act of restraining/ Home in clasped hands/ Held to the ear, listening for a way back”. Flood Season carries the weight of its musings with an ease akin to water uprooting a misplaced house, and fizzes with the joy of a burst dam.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Dont Speak Easy
Book SynopsisDon't Speak Easy is Tom Jameson's debut pamphlet. Its scope ranges from a childhood spent in the immediate wake of the Second World War to a projected future where death provides the opportunity to spin back to the very beginning of life at breakneck speed.
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Sikiliza
Book SynopsisIf listening is a form of attention, and attention is a form of love, Bella Cox's Sikiliza presents itself as both an imperative and a promise for exploration of the bonds that tie the constituent elements of a self together. A self woven from voices rooted in different continents. A self both defined by and defying notions of what it means to be woman, sister, daughter, lover, loved, queer. A self versed in the languages of scalpels and flowers. A self that howls, soothes and sings off-key. A self that's unapologetically here, wherever here may be.Trade Review"Sikiliza touches gently on memory as it unearths how the tiniest, tender moments can form and define an entire life. It is filled with colour, smells and sound — jumping between continents, weaving a tapestry rich with catharsis. This pamphlet spills over with care, compassion and love.” - Xabiso Vili
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Ritual for a Mango
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