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In A Lick of Loose Threads Jenna Plewes gives us a window into the lives of people who are making the best of things in difficult times. Poems celebrate the kindness of strangers, resilience and courage found in unlikely places, fragments of ordinary lives that are extraordinary and special. These are warm and lyrical poems shot through with the beauty of the natural world. 'Attentive and observant, these sensitive poems are a mending of lif...

Progress spinning ahead of us but just out of reach Why do we struggle to move forward, to accept change? Zoetrope is a journey through the circles we trace, the detours and the repetitive movements we find safety in. The pamphlet explores how fear and an unwillingness to examine our own behaviour or to question those in power combine to hold us back. The poems examine themes as varied as sexual violence, the legacy of colonialism and the grow...

In a realm that lies between worlds, this collection of poems beguiles with tales of spent and unspent desire, made and unmade wishes, promises broken and fulfilled. Time and memory merge in a fabric which clothes the dreamer with supernatural gifts, offering a journey into an interior world electric with possibilities. The reader may dream with the poet in moments of subtle reflection and joyous epiphany. "This is an eclectic collection dee...

Julie Stevens speaks with the true voice of feeling, wrestling hope out of pain and celebrating every small instance of joy. Her experience of long-term illness draws her into many unlit areas of emotion. She illuminates these dark places with subtle cascades of metaphor. She is a genuine poet."- Steve Logan, musician and poet "It's not just the striking images, the startling turns of phrase that are so arresting within Julie's poetry - it's...

In My Life as a Time Traveller, Oz Hardwick pushes the idea of memoir into dazzlingly unexpected territories, foregrounding pattern and imaginative perception over anecdote.Oz is known for prose poems that are "relentlessly thoughtful about the nature of time, " and which "play with time ... with highly compelling, disconcerting results, " and has recently been described as "an Einstein of prose poetry, reconfiguring our understanding of time ...

Transformations is an ekphrastic collection of poems all drawing inspiration from the work of the artist, Elisabeth Frink. Elisabeth Frink spent the final ten years of her life in Dorset and her work is transformative. She explored the relationship between humans and animals and the complexities of simply being human. The poems in this pamphlet are a response to Frink's explorations of these themes.

Miniskirts in The Waste Land, set in Notting Hill and India, is an elegy for the late 60s/early 70s. In flamboyant contrast to the drab reality of post WW2 Britain, the air in these years of emerging counterculture, the era of the pill, throbbed with the scents and sounds of youth, the blazing hues of psychedelia. These poems portray a young woman's search for self-knowledge, and love. But the heady freedom of the sexual revolution masks a dar...

Fall, Nigel Kent's latest pamphlet, eavesdrops on an affair that has devastating consequences for a marriage of ten years. This narrative sequence of poems forensically dissects the complex nature of love. There are moments of thrill and exhilaration, of course, but there are also moments of recklessness, delusion, guilt, shame, loss, despair, madness and more, all captured in authentic, profoundly human poems. Read and be moved. "This is Nige...

Great news! A collection of poems from one of poetry's greatest friends, curator of the wonderful Poetry Festival on the Lake at Orta San Giulio. At first glance I am dazzled by phrases such as: silvered with sea verses, the minims and trebles of fish"Gillian Clarke 'This is a very fine small collection by a poet who deserves to be much better known. Perhaps she wonders, as many of us do, "What is my work really worth in the overall scheme...

Five years of seasons is an exhilarating journey of the imagination. Each verse is like a moving image captured from above by a hovering camera drone that employs both a wide-angle and a zoom lens. The verses ascend to the heights of the space station and down to the surface of the planet, across woods and fields and settlements, and traverse a lifetime that encompasses the exuberance of childhood and youth, the hopes and regrets of middle age...

The poems in this selection reach into the ungraspable realm of the human psyche, our own 'hidden constellations'. Charged with mystery and wonder, they explore the possibility of life being written 'into the white hot revelations' of stars, the hidden territory into which paintings lure you, the power of dreams to magnify and distort. Lyrically aware of the natural world, they are haunted by ecological loss and disaster, wondering how a post-...

Of Gone Fox is a cycle of 13 poems held between two photos of a dead fox... Mark Goodwin is a poet-sound-artist, and speaks & writes in various ways. He has published with various English poetry houses including Intergraphia, Leafe Press, Longbarrow Press, Nine Arches Press, Shearsman Books, and also with with Middle Creek in the United States. Mark was brought up on a farm in south Leicestershire, and from a young age has been a keen experi...

This finely crafted collection takes us on a personal journey to places of love, leaning, longing, and quickly belonging. Richly evocative poems in and of Paris that twist and turn like the narrow staircases of Haussmannian apartment buildings. Studded with literature, painting and cinema, each poem is a portrait of the city in the changing seasons as the young poet sits and sips, drinking in the people and their promise. Donnelly is a romanti...

We Wear The Crown is the debut pamphlet from Lucy Heuschen. We walk with Lucy through the aftermath of breast cancer, along the way we meet family members, consultants and nurses, talk with Marie Curie and dream of a-ha's Morten Harket. We Wear The Crown is a brave, moving journey towards healing and acceptance after a life-changing diagnosis. "A masterclass in finding the light in the dark and transmuting the sorrows and struggles of life i...

Sanjeev Sethi's poems are notable for conciseness, for their clarity. Observations, when they are made, are witty, succinct, and relevant. Words are crucial. With them, they carry symbolism, wizardry, enchantment, magic. The more I read him, the more I find myself sharing in the author's love of and relish for words in all their subtleties and guises."- Mandy Pannett, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, UK "Sanjeev Sethi uses his personal condition...

Perhaps we were all tall children then, playing games on asphalt under alien stars, the heat boiling up through the cracks." Named after a line in an outtake from his 1996 album 1.Outside, 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' is a collection of ekphrastic poems written in response to thirteen of David Bowie's albums, from 1969's Space Oddity to 2016's Blackstar. The ultimate changeling, Bowie wrote songs that led us into landscapes as various an...

Discover folklore about oak and mistletoe, and legends around lavender, white lily, amaryllis, banyan, rowan and hazel. Be surprised at how the nightingale got its sweet voice or how the devil tricked a fisherman. Be enchanted as you chase each mythical tale. Experience the myth as you turn the page. "Spirit Mother is a sensory voyage of discovery and delight through a rich landscape of Greek, Celtic, and Native American mythologies. The p...

I love that these words are about The Self - But not self-indulgent. There's no ego here, just words - Take 'em or leave 'em. There's so much hate in this world any bit of loving's gotta be alright." - Steve Ignorant"In 'The Machinery of Life' Darren J Beaney returns to the territory of his pamphlet, 'Honey Dew': drawing on myth, literature, and his own experience he explores the subject that has occupied poets through time: the nature of love...

There occurs an uprooting' writes Peter A. in Helenium One and Only, a poem from his deeply moving collection Art of Insomnia, and this line epitomises the book's theme - the sudden absence of a much-loved wife, lost suddenly and tragically. The music of this grieving collection is various - sometimes staccato, stark, and direct, ('I have to escape / the persistence of kindness'), sometimes fluid and unfurling, long single stanzas rushing down...

A collaboration of ten poems on the theme of TRUTH between two Prize Winning poets Maria Castro Dominguez ( Las Palmas, Spain) and Matt Duggan (Newport, Wales.) In a time of change this pamphlet is essential reading, all the poems are in English with translations into Spanish by Spanish poet Ana Gavila.