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A paraplegic wakes to find he is the sole survivor of an unknown apocalypse. He decides to survive and spends a year navigating the empty motorways of England to see if he really is the only one left alive. He sets off with only his wheelchair and enough food and medical supplies to last a week. To live beyond that he must adapt and scavenge. Told through a daily account of poems he begins to question his own identity, whether you are disabled if there is no-one to be compared to and what does it mean to want to move forwards.

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Rick once said he could write a series of books in answer to the all-too-familiar question 'Where are you from?' This isn't that book, but it is an attempt, by Rick, to come to terms with the question itself. Tales from the Other Box looks to blend the traditions of minstrel, bard and griot, to paint itself all at once the voice of old soul elder, trickster motif, and the teller of the tale. Concerned with the liminal regions of ethnicity and identity, this collection dances defiantly along the borders existing within individuals, families and wider society, in order to navigate the spaces between received notions of belonging and what it means to be truly at home.

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Happiness FM will take you on a joyful journey that explores the complexities and contradictions of 21st century life. Meet uninhibited Russian grandmothers along with creepy fans of Professor Brian Cox and learn how to achieve your bucket list without leaving your sofa. With wry humour, tenderness and a social conscience Mary Dickins invites us to recognise our own lives in her subject matter and themes and to celebrate with her all that is sublime and ridiculous about being human.

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In “… and then she ate him” Denbigh’s wickedly beautiful writing holds up a distorted mirror to the world. Deftly weaving the queer experience alongside tales of friends and strangers, Tom toys with myth, devilish humour, and absurdity to portray the bizarre and brilliant in the everyday. Imagination is brought to life in this unique collection that is thought-provoking, insightful and startlingly joyous.

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'Jam is for Girls' is Shagufta K's fiercely honest debut collection. Her work lays witness to the immigrant experience and gives voice to the women who made journeys into unknown lands through the eyes of their daughters. This is not a collection that struggles between two conflicting cultures, but is an unashamed and unapologetic confirmation of the third generation identity carving itself a space in an increasingly Islamaphobic world. She deftly balances passion and tenderness in her poems, exploring the personal and the political through gender inequality, racism and injustice that is present in the modern world. Leaving audiences with thought provoking poems that are rich and vivid in imagery.

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Let the Pig Out is the first collection from Chris Redmond - spoken word poet and front man of Tongue Fu - one of the UK’s leading spoken word shows. It is a fusion of performance writing and page poems, mixing story forms with internal rhymes and rhythms, comic dialogue and sparser, more condensed imagery.Fox racing, fatherhood, rainbows and road kill are some of the topics candidly explored with a playful heart, a political head and a compulsion to explore the friction between cynicism and idealismLet the Pig Out is a note to self and/or a call to arms, to embrace life in all it’s mess and discord with a wild sense of curiosity and wonder.

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Things You Find in a Poet’s Beard is a collection of poems that have been shouted at children from schools to church halls. They are a curation of silly tales that have been illustrated and bound into a book. Perhaps you’ll want to annoy your family by reading them out; perhaps you’ll want to chuckle at them under the covers with a torch; perhaps you’ll want to stare at the drawings drawn by Mr Chris Riddell or maybe you’ll want to shout them aloud to capture the spirit of A.F. Harrold himself.

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This is Tony Walsh's eagerly-awaited first collection. He takes us on an extraordinary journey through ordinary lives; flying the flag for the performance poetry scene which packs out venues and festival tents around the UK. These are accessible, musical poems, influenced by the songs which soundtrack our lives, brimming with northern warmth and humour, propelled by passion and compassion as their bassline and their beat. Sex & Love & Rock&Roll is a book to unite and inspire. lt's all about coming together and changing the world.

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Jemima Foxtrot’s highly anticipated A New Game whirls you through a world of vivid images, hedonism, memory and wonder as it celebrates and investigates the minutiae of everyday life. Full of wry humour and written with a bold elegance, Jemima Foxtrot proves that there is no subject that can’t inspire a poem. Foxtrot specialises in joy and this book makes you smile as much as it makes you think.

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What's it like to navigate between worlds anchored in different dimensions? DLWilliams is an interdimensional traveller, moving through the 2D audiocentric world inhabited by the peculiar 'hearing people' while negotiating the fantastical 3D world shaped by sign language and those who wield it. DL's poems reflect a journey that has been far from easy, negotiating misunderstandings and cultural confusion while trying to figure out their identity and where exactly they belong.

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Supervillain Origin Story is a mischievous, seditious, and often incendiary exploration of trauma, loss, and erasure. Drawing strength and forging defiant triumph from the myriad provocations that could spin a soul into darkness, but somehow didn't. Dove's sophomore poetry collection weaves the ethereal from the light falling through cracked panes, taking inspiration from both personal experiences, and the political turmoil of the pandemic era, to create a collection that unsettles as it thrills. Echoing his educational psychologist's advice to "Use your words" Rick Dove picks up diverse narrative strands touching on queer love, reconciling abusive relationships, and demanding social justice, Dove's Supervillain Origin Story, demonstrates effectively just how disruptive words can be. No one was harmed in the creation of this collection...

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Combining the collections Monster Poems, Morbus and Fashions, Nora Gomringer’s trilogy offers a modern anthropology. Gomringer shines a light on the all-too-human, plays with the superficial and loves the invisible. Accompanied by Reimar Limmer’s illustrations, these poems unpick ideas around the monstrous, the inscribed and gendered body and the face we present to the people around us. Packed with pop culture references and always casting an eye back to where we came from, The Trilogy of Surfaces and Invisibilities is a call for a radical humanism.

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Stand-up poet, comedian and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall returns with Complete and Utter Cult! the follow-up to 2017’s “Viva Loch Lomond!”. This new collection of satirical verse captures Elvis’ ongoing futile exasperation at the dismal trajectory of our post-truth world as it trundles along the primrose path to Beelzebub’s bottomless pit. Fake news and COVID-19. Organic novichok and Piers Morgan. Yes, the good ship lollipop is sailing down the shitter. Climb aboard with Elvis as he bellows into the void of our diseased, burning planet and we all drift towards a giant melting iceberg. “Complete and Utter Cult!” tackles everything from the pernicious effects of the patriarchy to disappearing rainforests via Brexit milkshakes and a pandemic. Yes, all the feel-good hits are here, fully annotated with the innermost thoughts from the canyons of Elvis’ mind as he banged away on his typewriter at The Graceland Caravan Park. And there’s a love poem.

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This full collection of poems by underdog polemical poet Jamie Thrasivoulou is a no-holds-barred exploration of anthemic working-class narratives. Our Man spans themes of politics, drug addiction, gritty social observation, class-divide and identity.

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Cosmocartography is the debut poetry collection from multi-awardwinning Irish poet Ciarán Hodgers. It investigates a wide range of personal experiences, challenges what it means to belong and documents the journeys we take to understand ourselves, the triumphs and trauma of the stories we carry in us. Ranging in scale from the quiet introversion of meditations on identity to the epic, cinematic movements of the universe, this poetry collection is a love letter to celebration, survival, love and resistance.

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Molly Naylor is not your typical Burning Eye poet. Poetry is actually just one of her many writing talents. She is also a scriptwriter, producer and filmmaker. From writing sitcoms for SKY 1 to recording audiobooks for BBC Radio 4 and recording short films, Molly’s new poetry collection Badminton only exemplifies her diverse interest and talent as a writer.

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The poems in Very Friendly Weapon run the course of an impossible year, the accumulation of several years' explorations and discoveries: poet James M'Kay travels as far as Turkey and Tennessee while still struggling to leave Tyneside, developing interests in death, flying, and regular metre.

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Having been advised to 'Always travel in the direction opposite the tourbus' Sophia Walker set out to get away from the big noise, big tourist attraction, tick box bucket list experiences of life and find out what was happening quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) on the other side of the street or the less visited part of town.

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Every one of us is a complex and beautifully woven fabric of stories, and whether we tell them or not, there are no measuring tapes or weighing scales to speak of their worth. Talk You Round Till Dusk is a collection of tiny stories and big ideas celebrating the wonder of the moment. It''s about those journeys in a car driving across a desert, or walking from the bedroom to the kitchen, where we discover that what we have is enough. Stories so small they fit in the palm of a hand, yet carry the weight of the world with them.Talk You Round Till Dusk is a collaboration between spoken word artist Rebecca Tantony and illustrator Anna Higgie. In a mix of flash-non-fiction, short stories, poetry and 16 full page colour illustrations, Rebecca and Anna take us on on a philosophical road trip from Bristol to Andalucia, Nicosia, India, San Francisco, Death Valley and Mexico.

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