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Adapted from a spoken word solo show, Chosen Family by ibizo Iami is a raw but gentle story of recovery and strength.
What's it like to navigate between worlds anchored in different dimensions? DL Williams is an interdimensional traveller, moving through the 2D audiocentric world inhabited by the peculiar 'hearing people' while negotiating the fantastical 3D worldshaped by sign language and those who wield it.
This is a book of poetry: half human, half emergency. It's about what it means to be alive and angry and afraid.
Five new poems from Deanna Rodger. Each one inspired by one of Kevin Elyot's plays: Coming Clean, Forty Winks, And Then There Were None, Perfect Moment, Twilight Song.
Nigrescence is the breakthrough debut collection of poems by northern poet Abdullah Adekola. The word 'nigrescence' means to develop a racial identity which Adekola unpicks through language that tugs and pulls through his own blackness, searching for ways to heal in a increasingly fractured world.
The debut collection from Muneera Pilgrim explores belonging, spirituality, gender race and identity as well as themes of girlhood, pop cultural, familial bonds and crushes, against the back drop of London and Bristol streets steeped colonial power structures that still live on. Despite that this collection is a story of labouring love.
This Is Not Therapy is an infectious rebel shout-out to the healing power of art, and contends that no person or day is exempt from an interesting story.
On the radio they said that Hans Christian Andersen wrote the Little Mermaid whilst he was avoiding the wedding of the person he loved. I thought 'that doesn't sound like a story that involves singing lobsters'.
Please Do Not Touch asks important questions about these things, about the world and the lives that they have shaped. How have the ill gotten gains of colonialism shaped our society today? How does the noise of the crimes of the past reverberate into our present day soundscape?
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.
Political, funny, heart-breaking, I Find My Strength In Simple Things is an exploration of growth, chaos and relationships.
Dating & Other Hobbies is a collection of female-centred poetry and short stories from spoken word artist Cat Hepburn (#GIRLHOOD), offering up a uniquely humorous and poignant exploration of modern relationships and dating culture.
Yay! Is a collection of upbeat poems for uncertain times, poems of imagination and escape, whimsy and warmth, humanity and honesty.
"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.
Not Dancing with Ingrid Pit is an honest and personal collection capturing missed opportunities, those unstructured moments and nostalgic, half recalled memories which skulk at the periphery of an increasingly confusing current world state.
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.
Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's debut poetry collection 're: desire' explores the yearning to love, be loved and belong from a desi (South Asian) perspective. Her work sits on the intersections of flash fiction, poetry and script, echoing the hybridity of the worlds that many young British desis find themselves occupying.
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.
Second poetry collection by award-winning writer Molly Naylor. 'Molly makes me laugh and her poetry makes my heart grow plumper and more confident. I love her words and her honesty' - Sara Pascoe
Poetry about all the things we do all those days we aren't campaigning, marching or petitioning. About how we love, howwe care, how we create. And how these things give us the resilience to keep resisting.
German poet Nora Gomringer translated into English for the first time by Annie Rutherford. Nora's poetry defies categorisation. These are poems which laugh, howl, stamp their lines. Candid, wry, compassionate. Nora tackles the darkness of Germany's modern history, reworkings of myths and fairy tales, and a 3-page-long ode to sex against a wall.
The Book of Hours is a contemporary re-imagining of a Medieval book of hours.
The Smiths and electricity wastage. A three day New Year's Eve. Love, art, death. The ways of a coffee addict. And Britain's foremost method poet... This can only be a new book from everyone's favourite comic surrealist Ash Dickinson.
Poetry collection from Arts Foundation Award and Ted Hughes Award winner Hollie McNish. Illustrated by some of her favourite artists and illustrators it includes Mathematics (1.9 million hits on YouTube). Hollie's poetry has received over 3.5 million YouTube views and she is one of Britain's most popular poets.
In "... and then she ate him" Denbigh's wickedly beautiful writing holds up a distorted mirror to the world.
In this debut collection Caroline Teague addresses ideas of melancholy linked to striving for a sense of belonging and home.
MY BODY CAN HOUSE TWO HEARTS skips across the fragile boundaries of history, culture, relationships, and language.
Alright, girl? is a collection of poems centred around being ok. It focuses on working class culture, gender stereotypes, body image, femininity, mental health, recovery and celebration.
`Notes on Loneliness' is a collection of commissioned, unpublished and new writing from poet Daniel Cockrill written between 2008 - 2018.
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