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A compelling and poetic debut from Finnish-Swedish author Hannah Lutz about animals and people - and their capacities to grow and to destroy.

A middle-grade book breaking all the rules inviting readers to zig-zag across the page on a dazzling and humorous journey from story to story.

A collection of poems in two sections reimagining the Greek myth of Medea and personal sonnets exploring the author's time caring for her mother.

An innovative memoir debut from Maddie Ballard on living a life shaped by patterns and crafting, stitched through with threads of love, family and heritage.

A poetry pamphlet by queer, neurodivergent poet Serge â(TM)¿ Neptune. Mother Night is a hallucinogenic journey across a city with too many alleyways and across a life surviving childhood sexual assault.

Nine fairytales about a community of strange creatures who live along the Livonian coast, in the north of Latvia. These interconnected stories follow the anxieties and existential crises of the creatures, gently satirising their preoccupations and suggesting solutions with empathy and wisdom. In the titular story, Namby-Pamby takes the skeleton in his cupboard out for its annual airing on the first day of spring. He worries about what his neighbours would think if they saw him, unaware that they all know about his skeleton (and do not judge him for it!). In "The Sea Wolf and the Hare", Hare falls in love with Wolf, a dashing sailor, and decides to kidnap him so he can keep him forever. In "The Long Day", Harrumph is tortured by the constant flow of time and so sets sail with two friends to try and catch up with time, making the day neverending. These are strange, slightly dark, certainly surreal tales, aimed at an older target audience than fairytales usually are in the UK. With strong shades of Tove Jansson, the Moomins and The Summer Book, as well as The Wind in the Willows and the dreamy expanse of Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. A Skeleton in the Cupboard won the prestigious Latvian Literary Award of the Year (Children's Category) in 2019, with judges noting: 'Lilija Berzinska's tales ooze warmth and sweetness.'Translated by Žanete Vevere Pasqualini and Sara Smith. With black and white illustrations by the author.

A debut pamphlet of poems from Z.R. Ghani rich with desire, shame, grief, faith, love, and at the forefront of it all: the colour red.

Poems on girlhood, the body and working class women from award-winning writer Laurie Bolger.

Clare Pollard's first book for children revisits Arthurian legends in a thrilling tale of adventure and mystery. *The Untameables* turns traditional folklore on its head and forces us to think about how legends are written and whose stories get told.

An unusual collection of poems for older children. Recurring motifs, such as the poet's pet fly, ground this travelogue romance about finding yourself as a creative person. The poet reflects on learning Dutch, and the coincidences of sound across languages, alongside poems about how overwhelming it can be to be a person with feelings.

Filled with tales of tragedy, love, hope, and frustration, Parables, Fables, and Nightmares offers a surreal and satirical account of the many perils of contemporary life. From resistant mothers and unexpected corporate climbers, to botched Botox and affairs, these dark, comedic, and candid stories shed an unforgiving light on everyday encounters.

Meet Balam, a boy who could be a cat. Meet Lluvia, a girl who could be the dawn. Balam and Lluvia are siblings who catch fireflies, bid farewell to their pet fish in the bathroom, and wait for Raton Perez to collect their teeth. In Balam and Lluvia's House, the secret tastes and sounds of the everyday are waiting to be found.

Accessioning is an index of lives encased in museum glass, and then brought to life. This is a pamphlet of poems about the stories that we tell ourselves, the memories that we construct, and the ways that we value and devalue people, animals and objects alike.

This is a book about the wild, strange and exciting time that new parenthood is.

An essay collection/memoir about a young woman moving to Kyoto and experiencing an intense friendship.

Tender, loving and visceral, Ovarium is a pamphlet of poems about a giant ovarian cyst. The poet charts her journey with the cyst, from diagnosis to surgery to recovery, via a landscape of scanner rooms and hospital wards. The poems explore the impact of illness, and the body as a site of disgust and shame but also healing and endurance. Ingham's poems are forensic as she looks at the disorientating and sometimes patriarchal language of anatomy and medicine, and the way illness can change the relationship we have with our own bodies.I tried to think of you as fruit, growingagainst the sun-warm wall of my gut.Melon-headed, you nudged the leafy organs,dug out a place for yourself in the plot.I never guessed. I was only bloody earthto you, a coldframe full of light. - from 'Cyst'

Playful, formal, satirical and tender, the poems in The Fabulanarchist Luxury Uprising are wildly wide-ranging. Jack Houston whisks the reader through meditations on family life, the teachings of Lucretius, the sexual potential of Captain Barnacles, and dreams of a socialist utopia, managing to be both deeply weird and touching. In his debut pamphlet, Houston draws out and scrutinises the mundanities of life, showing how they can form part of something much bigger. His poems aim to awaken the capacity for revolution within us all, even if it only gets us as far as the roundabout in the local playpark. "In the year 2121, we‿re all now too aware that a sofa is simply a bench constructed from the hewn corpse of a tree, covered in a mesh made from the amniotic fibres of oppressedly mono-cropped cotton plants & filled with the plumage from many a murdered full-grown duck [...]"- from 'Utopia'

Acerbic, precise and very funny, Pamela Crowe's poems explore home life and relationships in a delightfully forthright voice. Secret frustrations and anxieties are aired and private fantasies brought into the light, as odes blur into diatribes and psychodramas become love poems. Woven throughout The Bell Tower is a love of Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and - above all - Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones. These are fierce, acutely observed poems that give weight to domestic minutiae and put words to helpless howls into the abyss. You, the cloud. Oh look! there you are, blobbing along as if you're best friends with rain and thunder is your dad. Fuck off.- excerpt from 'Cloudcunt'

Europe, Love Me Back is a collection of relentlessly questing, sharply satirical poems about the continent, and the poet's fraught relationship with it. Hurting yet clear-eyed, Rizwan explores and exposes what it means to be a small brown woman in Dutch suburbs, hospitals and academiaThis is an angry love letter, to a place left behind yet always there, continuing to matter and hurt and shape the poet's identity."e;But no one was interested in eliciting my testimony;after all I wasn't dead - I wasn't ill - and hadn't thiscountry treated me so well?For it is not a human right to be much more than Agamben's bare life,to exist in the hallowed halls of the academe,because there comes a point when our wanting is simply too much, obscene -"e;

In Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees. bleary from sleep and warmwater and no glassesi spot an uncertain commaslidinghe drags his tail up myshower wall cumbersomeand not unmaggotesque and ican seehis gutsor maybe it'shis dinner- from 'companion'

Debut poetry pamphlet by Valerie Bence.

A picture book about a rainbow family trying to find a home.

A pamphlet of poems about a land overcome by sand.

You never know how things really are in other people's families, in other people's homes. There's the public face and the private truths - the personal griefs and tragedies, whether festering or resting in peace. In her wry, engagingly strange poems, Anne Bailey takes the door off the latch and lets us inside. She shows us loss and disappointment, as well as hardness and resilience, particularly through the eyes of a daughter, wife and mother. We see the domestic sphere in such close-up detail that it becomes bizarre, an uncanny dimension that nonetheless rings horribly, weirdly true. "e;So you've put a picture on the lovely blank wallthat used to go pink in the sun and feel like an ice cream. A wall on which I used to rest my eyes in pleasant contemplation."e;- from 'Domestic'

A novel about a boy who talks to various objects.

A pamphlet of poems about a character named Pearl.

A pamphlet of poems about healing.

Rachael Matthews is a working-class poet who paints poetic miniatures of domestic and psychological interiors. Her debut pamphlet, do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom, is a playful, dark meditation on the queer body as site of pleasure, connection, fertility, loss and trauma. Matthews finished writing these poems during lockdown, while she was heavily pregnant with her daughter. It was an unwitnessed pregnancy, experienced in isolation from friends and family, and invisible to the psychotherapy patients she was treating virtually when New York City became the global epicentre of the pandemic. Resilience and hope are woven into its DNA.

A pamphlet of poems about loss.