The Hard Word Box
In 2013 poet Sarah Hesketh spent 20 weeks visiting a residential care home for people with dementia. The result is The Hard Word Box, a book of poems and verbatim interviews that takes the reader on a...
View ArticleThe Good Dark
The Good Dark is the place we go to remember. The Good Dark is the place we go to take account. In his atmospheric second collection, Ryan Van Winkle charts what is found when love is lost. A lyric...
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...
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 ArticleSunshine
Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity...
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...
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...
View ArticleNo Dogs, No Indians
How far would you go to resist oppression? What would you choose to remember, and what to forget? It is 1932 in occupied Bengal. A young revolutionary prepares to storm a whites-only club in...
View ArticleAt Hajj
At Hajj is a book of yearning and of pulling away, of things handed down and newly made. Its central sequence plunges the reader into the heat and dust of the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. For...
View ArticleSwims
Plunge into mountain lakes and drift along meandering rivers in Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s lyrical celebration of wild swimming. A long poem taking many forms, Swims begins and ends in Devon, moving...
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 ArticleThe Old Weird Albion
Justin Hopper traces memories, myths and forgotten histories from Winchester to Beachy Head, joining New Age eccentrics and accidental visionaries on the hunt for crop circles, ancient chalk figures...
View ArticleTwenty Theatres to See Before You Die
A ruined playhouse, haunted halls, a stage hewn from granite cliffs. Theatres on wheels, squeezed into a former public lavatory and rescued from fire. A theatre that is not there at all. Making the...
View ArticleThe Girl Who Forgets How to Walk
In this remarkable first collection, tarns, limekilns and abandoned pits become portals into a dark, interior world. A woman levitates above a building site; earth slips and fault-lines open up beneath...
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...
View ArticleLow Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
Low Country records his probing, hallucinatory journeys along crumbling sea-walls and through retail parks, past abandoned military forts and plotlands. He uncovers an ancient battlefield upstream from...
View ArticleAfter the Formalities
The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou’s breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that...
View ArticleThe East Edge
In The East Edge, McCabe leaves the safety of streetlights behind and walks in the footsteps of William Morris and W.G. Sebald through one of London’s most enigmatic Victorian cemeteries. Stealing...
View ArticleAn Archive of Happiness
It’s the summer solstice and theirs is a fractured family, broken by arguments, by things said and not said, by a mother who has left and a father who was left behind. What happens on this day will...
View ArticleThe Feel-Good Movie of the Year
Both brazen and elegiac, these poems pull on the ‘tidy hem’ of responsible existence, unravelling the banal frustrations of online outrage and ageing friends, and grasping at something ‘beyond our...
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