Kalagora
A nose for paradox Made me read Chuang-Tsu On a late autumn afternoon In Washington Square— From his butterfly dream I too emerged with wings, A flowing gown of red and green, A taste for wet...
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My mind was elsewhere when you asked me about my default printer. I don’t have the right one. I have the wrong one. I wanted to know why, but you couldn’t explain. Heads turned, also needing an answer....
View ArticleNOT AN ESSAY
Published in a hardback, signed limited edition of 150 Composed as a single, fractured whole, Heather Phillipson’s NOT AN ESSAY is a tense handshake, momentary eye-contact, a rap on the cranium. This...
View ArticleCount from Zero to One Hundred
I was in Ireland and all I can remember thinking about was… I was in London and all I can remember thinking about was… I was in Berlin and all I was thinking about was… Taking his cue from Japanese...
View ArticleHuman Form
So many things have come apart in my hands or somehow gone astray they could form a museum, a mausoleum of errings and shortfalls. Both human and humane, Oliver Dixon’s debut collection of poetry maps...
View ArticleSoil
Soil. First there was just this - this and the rain. Geography and language collide in Soil, the debut collection of poetry by Tim Cresswell. His poems delight in the strange and are often situated at...
View ArticleDigital Monsoon
None of this is the city. All of it is you. So writes Siddhartha Bose in his new book of experimental poetry – Digital Monsoon. In this follow-up to the acclaimed debut Kalagora, Bose proposes the poet...
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In his most daring collection to date, Chris McCabe delves into the shadowy recesses of London history, bringing forth unsettling anachronisms and revealing the city as a perilous place to exist....
View ArticleThe Lost Art of Sinking
Some call it the Fainting Game, others Indian Headrush – but it’s all the rage amongst the girls of Class 2B. “It makes you go all rushy. You feel like you’re falling into a dream.” This is the story...
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Everything Crash (Special Edition)
A piano is thrown from the top of an East London tower block. A Goth is sick on the bus. Crises, curses and kisses punctuate this new book of poetry by Tim Wells. Written from the edges of the city,...
View ArticleEverything Crash
A piano is thrown from the top of an East London tower block. A Goth is sick on the bus. Crises, curses and kisses punctuate this new book of poetry by Tim Wells. Written from the edges of the city,...
View ArticleFutures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis
“the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls, the statue standing like something outraged remind you, you who yearned to live beyond this, that hope marked you too.” from ‘This City’ by Adrianne...
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What I Learned from Johnny Bevan (Special edition hardback)
What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from Johnny Bevan
What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the...
View ArticleSpacecraft
Spacecraft navigates the white space of the page and the distance between people. Margins, edges and coastlines abound in John McCullough’s tender, humorous explorations of contemporary life and love....
View ArticleCenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery
Step through the iron gates of one of London’s most spectacular Victorian cemeteries on the hunt for the lost poets of Nunhead. Literary investigator Chris McCabe pushes back the tangled ivy and hacks...
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The Lost Poets of the Magnificent Seven (Map)
To accompany the publication of Chris McCabe’s Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery, we commissioned artist Frances Ives to create an illustrated map of London’s lost poets,...
View ArticleCenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery (Paperback)
ORDER THE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION OF CENOTAPH SOUTH AND GET A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED MAP OF LONDON’S LOST POETS FREE Step through the iron gates of one of London’s most spectacular Victorian cemeteries...
View ArticleNatural Phenomena
A city lies in ruins. Spires topple, planes fall. Rubble is broken by wildflower. The radio chatter of birdsong. Follow the poet as futurist and flaneuse as she searches for unexpected beauty in a...
View ArticleThe Perseverance
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics...
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