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The second in the ground-breaking mouthmark series, 13 Fairy Negro Tales is a vibrant pamphlet of contemporary poetry. In language scooped directly from a paintbrush, Inua Ellams announced his arrival on the poetry scene, with what has become a runaway bestseller. Written in language that has roots in Keats, hip hop rhymes and Shakespearean narrative, 13 Fairy Negro Tales has sold over 2000 copies since its release.

Miriam Nash's debut, 'Small Change, ' is a document of transitions. In language that is at once rural, urban, shocking and gentle, she chronicles a compelling portrait of modern life - a global conundrum in which even love learns to stretch beyond time-zones.

Malika Booker is a writer, spoken word and multidisciplinary artist, whose work spans literature, education and cross-arts. She has appeared world-wide both independently and with the British Council. Founder of the international writer development collective, Malika's Kitchen, Malika was Hampton Court Palace writer in residence in 2004 and Poet in Residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2011. Breadfruit, her first pamphlet, was commend...

...poetry with its hair down and a wicked glint in its eye" - Jerusalem Times

In his debut pamphlet, Max Wallis traces the year-long course of a love affair and all its constituent parts: sex and sensuality, longing and loneliness, desire and disappointment, heady beginnings and inevitable endings, in a world dominated by high street brands, text messaging and social media.

Inklings, is the debut poetry pamphlet of Sarah Westcott, runner up in the inaugural Venture Award for poetry.

A collection of poetry that is dedicated to the late Brinsley Sheridan, the author's long-time friend and fellow poet. It features poems on themes of history, memory, everyday beauty and struggle. It explores the nature of friendship and the ingredients of endurance, joy and survival.

The mouthmark Book of Poetry' is an anthology of the individual-author titles published under the mouthmark poetry pamphlet series, comprising the work of Nick Makoha, Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jessica Horn, Truth Thomas, Denise Saul, Malika Booker, Janett Plummer and Warsan Shire. The series was conceived by flipped eye publishing's senior editor, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, as a means to get poets from non-mainstream backgrounds - including pe...

Kuenyehia on Entrepreneurship' is a ground-breaking book, focusing on local content from Ghana, one of the World's fastest growing economies. Part textbook, part reference book for enthusiasts of entrepreneurship, it is a must-read for both Ghanaian students of entrepreneurship and investors with an interest in the Ghanaian economic renaissance.

Somebody has to tell the truth sometime, whatever that truth may be. In this, her début full collection, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie offers up a body of work that bears its scars proudly, firm in the knowledge that each is evidence of a wound survived. These are songs of life in all its violent difficulty and beauty, songs of fury, songs of love. 'Karma's Footsteps' brims with things that must be said and turns the volume up, loud, giving silenc...

Winner of the Poetry Book Society (PBS) Pamphlet Choice for Summer/Autumn 2006.

A man claims ambush and assault by women's underwear, Houdini's diametrically opposed counterpart waits taped and shackled for her man to save her, and girly-weak is not an option. Described as a poet of the world, Jacqueline Saphra's work dances between the personal and the profound to offer a striking vision of growing up and growing older, mothers and motherhood, femininity and gender relations, all framed against the backdrop of a modern w...

Feeling 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.

The Courtesans Reply is a long poem sequence in the voices of Indian courtesans - women famed for their skills in music, dancing, storytelling and the art of love.

Starting with one of the best-known poems in the American canon, William Carlos Williams' 'This is Just to Say, ' Kate McLoughlin adopts and transposes Picasso's template for re-imagining Velazquez's Las Meninas onto both Williams' poem and the history of the Velazquez painting. The result is 58 variations - short poems that embody both Williams' pithy wit and the mystery of Picasso's 58 adaptations of Las Meninas, where Picasso's paintbrush t...

In Search of Fat' is a translation of some of Bewketu Seyoums's popular poems from Amharic. The poems in this bilingual edition mark his distinctive humorous but cutting style in predominantly short form. The translations, with input from the author, aim to replicate in English the energy and vitality of his voice. Bewketu Seyoum is a popular young Ethiopian poet and writer from Mankusa in Gojjam, north-west of Addis Ababa. His father is an En...

Winner of the inaugural Venture Award (2012)

Snorkeling beneath dust and deep, the poems in 'The Dishonesty of Dreams' shapeshift from tender to tough at line-break speed in an ethereal dreamspace. Where Adrienne J. Odasso explored consequences in her first collection, 'Lost Books' (2010), here she engages the liminal, the reality that exists at the borders of a lived life, the fables we choose to build upon, the lies we tell ourselves to make our dreams true. In this liquid space emerge...