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Peach Pig
'Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPEST In her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women. These poems explore women's complicated relationship with their bodies, with sex, and with shame as she traverses the violence of romantic love, but also employs humour and mischief, a wry reclaiming of power. We hear stories of a challenging childhood in a seaside town, a girl growing up, getting out and reckoning with the guilt of being 'one of these people now.' The collection also offers a look at Knapp's close relationship with her older brother, his struggles with addiction and, eventually, his death. With tenderness, she remembers him and unpacks the unique grief that comes after a suicide. Peach Pig is a candid and unflinching look at loss, an attempt to find a language for it. It grapples with feelings of anxiety, insecurity and displaced anger; but it is also a collection full of dreams, hope and vibrant persistence, a willingness to question and to carry on.
Little Boxes
‘Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her’ KAE TEMPEST ‘Unmissable’ STYLIST ‘A really gripping read’ TIMES RADIO
Everything is Going to be All Right
From grief to toothache, heartbreak to homesickness, the power of finding solace in the words of another cannot be overstated. Whether it was written 300 years ago or in our present day, poetry provides a comforting light in the dark. Words may not always provide solutions, but they can at the very least offer us a sense of hope, and the reassurance that we are not alone in our experiences and in our feelings. Everything is Going to be All Right is a ready-made toolkit that offers you a light in the dark, no matter what you are feeling. Comprising poems from literary classics to new, cutting edge voices writing about the world today, this extraordinary collection proves that we are never alone in the suffering we endure, and in the human spirit's capacity to overcome. Whether you are well-versed in poetry or sceptical to the power it holds, we hope that this collection will surprise you, entertain, and ultimately offer comfort through those difficult days. Featuring poems from: Kae Tempest, Hollie McNish, Raymond Antrobus, Salena Godden, Theresa Lola, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson and many, many more.
Finding Home
I don't really know how to say this, but you need to come home. It's Leo. He's done it. Along cycle paths, alleyways and canals comes a coming-of-age story that maps the journey of a girl from a seaside town, to the tenements of city life as a 20-something. Writer and performer Cecilia Knapp's debut piece is about a lot of things; growing up, Mothers, make shift dens, accidentally shaving off your eyebrows, drinking wine, love and one night stands. But it's mainly about losing her brother Leo to suicide and how that affects a person. Through humour and moving storytelling she shines a light on how we deal with loss, how we talk about mental health, and explores what it is like to grow up amongst these things. We meet the characters that have influenced her, listen to her old casettes, hear her story and discover how she found home amongst chaos.
Badjelly the Witch
Badjelly The Witch can turn children into sausages or chop them up to make boy-girl soup. She can turn policemen into apple trees or bananas into mice and she is the wickedest witch in all the world. Searching for Lucy, their cow, Tim and Rose become lost in the great black forest. There they meet Binklebonk the Tree Goblin, Mudwiggle the worm, Silly Sausage the grasshopper and Dinglemouse. When they are captured by Badjelly, it is Dinglemouse who saves them by escaping and fetching his friend Jim the Giant Eagle. A charming fairy tale which has delighted children for many years, this edition is copiously illustrated with Spike Milligan's own drawings which have been specially adapted and beautifully hand coloured.
The Book of Bad Betties
The poems in this book pay tribute to the women who've changed our lives, globally or personally. The fighters, survivors, rebels, queens, bosses, mentors, mothers, lovers and friends. Poetry by Gale Acuff, Polly Atkin, Erdem Avsar, Honey Baxter, Chloe Bettles, K. Blair, Laurie Bolger, Helen Bowie, Helen Bowell, Troy Cabida, Jemima Foxtrot, Jasmine Gray, Fee Griffin, Marguerite Harrold, Julie Irigaray, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Cecilia Knapp, Jill Michelle, Jenny Mitchell, Charlotte Newbury, Madeleine Pulman-Jones, Ellora Sutton, Ojo Taiye, Claudine Toutoungi and Christian Yeo.
The Dizziness of Freedom
Fifty of contemporary poetry's most exciting voices speak out about mental health, in this groundbreaking anthology from Bad Betty Press. With a foreword by Melissa Lee Houghton. Supported by Arts Council England. Featuring work from: Amy Acre - Raymond Antrobus - Mona Arshi - Dean Atta - Joel Auterson - Rob Auton - Dominic Berry - Mary Jean Chan - Sean Colletti - Iris Colomb - Jasmine Cooray - Dizraeli - Caleb Femi - Maria Ferguson - Kat François - Anne Gill - Salena Godden - Jackie Hagan - Jake Wild Hall - Emily Harrison - Nicki Heinen - Gabriel Jones - Anna Kahn - Malaika Kegode - Luke Kennard - Sean Wai Keung - Cecilia Knapp - Melissa Lee-Houghton - Amy León - Fran Lock - Rachel Long - Roddy Lumsden - Katie Metcalfe - Rachel Nwokoro - Kathryn O'Driscoll - Gboyega Odubanjo - Jolade Olusanya - Abi Palmer - Bobby Parker - Deanna Rodger - C.E. Shue - Lemn Sissay MBE - Ruth Sutoyé - Rebecca Tamás - Joelle Taylor - Claire Trévien - David Turner - R A Villanueva - Byron Vincent - Pascal Vine - Antosh Wojcik - Reuben Woolley
Somewhere Something is Burning
An examination of solitude and absence, the poems within this collection grapple with the reality and taboo of loneliness pitted against an anxiety of connecting. Exploring human relationships, breakdown in communication, and silence -- self-inflicted or otherwise -- the poems give voice to the fears and experiences that shape us, and interrogate the ways in which we process and avoid. Frecknall's leaps of surreality, extreme empathy and vivid imagery make Somewhere Something is Burning a compelling joyride of a read.
I Did It Too
The much anticipated debut collection from Deanna Rodger demonstrates a remarkable ability to craft timeless poems. Spanning 10 years they embody the politics of state and person, the city to the universe. Featuring commissions from St Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace and Guardian News and well known poems such as 'Cog' and 'Being British' and the startlingly abrupt Nowadays . I Did It Too is a public admittance, a powerful statement in this time of history...
