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Ed Luker's Other Life is an acerbic and intelligent collection with heaps of personality. Luker's poems show an interest in the inner riddles of poetic form coupled with desperate attempts to navigate the insane demands of modern life, including £3 pound sausage rolls, yoga and the plains of Calabria. These complicated pressures push Luker into riotous protest. Other Life pushes against a certain shyness in contemporary poetry, replacing it with megalomaniac verve and sparkle.
Anthology of the best releases from Broken Sleep Books 2020. This includes work from every author published in 2020 by Broken Sleep Books, and forms a beautiful collection of poetry and non-fiction. Each year will see an anthology produced by Broken Sleep Books, to demonstrate the quality of work of those published by the press.
Wayne E. Tidwell writes poetry from one of the deepest sometimes darkest places you've ever seen. A poetic journey, seen through the eyes of one of the most talented poets of our time. These poems really make you feel, and sometimes take you to a place so deep you never want to return. A little bit of everything, from sleep and dreams to family and alcoholism, these poems have it all. A must read for the poetry readers of the world. One Love.
The Broken Sleep Books Anthology showcases the best writing from the press in 2021, featuring extracts from every publication, covering poetry, non-fiction and short fiction. An essential purchase for anyone interested in new writing, or curious about the work of a vibrant, dynamic and award-winning independent press. Authors included: Razielle Aigen, Jeff Alessandrelli, Andre Bagoo, Liam Bates, Simon Barraclough, Zoë Brigley & Kristian Evans, Leia Butler, Rosa Campbell, Richard Capener, Cat Chong, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Briony Collins, Cathleen Allyn Conway, Hannah Copley, Traian T. Coșovei, trans. Adam J. Sorkin & Andreea Iulia Scridon, Lucy Rose Cunningham, Karen Dennison, Jaydn DeWald, R...
The Broken Sleep Books Anthology showcases the best writing from the press in 2022, featuring extracts from every publication, covering poetry, non-fiction and short fiction. An essential purchase for anyone interested in new writing, or curious about the work of a vibrant, dynamic and award-winning independent press. Authors included: E. P. Jenkins, Azad Ashim Sharma, Sam Quill, Cai Draper, Bobby Parker, Trevor Ketner, Fiona Larkin, Samuel Tongue, Dean Rhetoric, J. H. Prynne, John Richardson, John Welson, David Spittle, Aaron Kent, Matthew Kosinski, Dide, SJ Fowler, Aimée Lê, George Sandifer-Smith, Colin Bancroft, Rochelle Roberts, Niall Bourke, Claire Trévien, Marie Lando, Len Lukowski,...
'Broken Sleep' is a cycle of poems from a mother to her baby, moving from the uncertainty and awe at the discovery of a pregnancy, through the ecstasy of early motherhood.
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Your Turn to Speak! gathers classical lovers into a room and encourages them to speak one by one. Zeus, Hera, Patroclus, Achilles, Aphrodite and Medea take to the stage and forge their dramatic monologues, while Sappho broods and whispers fragmented asides from the front row of the stalls. Together, they dissect the DNA of the love poem, in all its tragedy and comedy. Ultimately, we readers may begin to hear our own voices speak through the actors. Their masks reveal themselves as mirrors. “With this brilliantly disquieting book, the stage is set for a writing spectacle so subversive and outré that every word uttered threatens / promises to bring down the house! Your Turn to Speak! by Lad...
A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024 'The days have no names.The day they count the dead,the day they closed the doors,turned off the lights. We're still here in the silence,hearing tree-talk,the wind's secrets,the company of birds.'('The Year of the Dead') The poems in Gillian Clarke's The Silence begin during lockdown, to whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge. As the book progresses, that silence deepens, in the poems about her mother and childhood, about the Great War and its aftermaths, and in her continuing attention to Welsh places and names, and the rituals which make that world come in to focus. In these scrupulous, musical poems, Clarke finds consolation in how silence makes room for memory and for the company of the animal- and bird-life which surrounds us. These poems, compulsively returning to key images and formative moments, echo and bring back other ways of living to the book's present moment.