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Blank
The second pamphlet from Bad Betty editor Jake Wild Hall, Blank is a song of shared loss and quiet recovery, a talisman for the internal conflict between the vulnerability of hope and the safety of detachment.
Solomon's World
The first book of poems by Jake Wild Hall, Solomon's World is a compassionate and acutely honest debut. Against a backdrop of addiction and loss, moments of brittle beauty and unconditional love prevail, represented by a rich cast of both literal and honorary family. This is a voice reaching out to bridge gaps, pulling you in from the cold.
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
Biceps
Biceps is a love story, following a relationship from first sparks one frosty Bonfire Night through day trips to windy Hull and into the stalemate of dysfunctional domesticity. It's a story about the physical and emotional tidying we go through when we fall out of love. It's a story that explores the small ways we learn to understand ourselves better as a result of our relationships and gain the strength to start rebuilding in the face of personal loss.
While I Yet Live
While I Yet Live is the debut pamphlet from Gboyega Odubanjo. With an enviable lightness of touch, he explores themes such as race, mortality and the fallibility of faith. Intrinsically contemporary, grounded in something timeless, these poems beat to a luxurious musicality; prayers and confessions, these are poems to read to yourself aloud.
Are You There
In Are You There, Indiana poet Samantha Fain refracts contemporary melancholia into iridescent lyricism. Fain delights in breaking rules, the serendipity of autocorrect incantations, testing how far, in space and time, a connection will travel, and where it ends—quoting sources including Schrödinger, Ask Jeeves and Kim Kardashian. In Fain's haunting poetics, grief, mania, pop culture, faith, quantum physics and digital relationships collide, alive with the spiky humour of brutal self-awareness, aglow with startling new language. "These poems are like Neosporin; they sting and they heal." Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Creator of Bojack Horseman. "The most lyrically provoking debut I've ever read. Samantha Fain articulates the complex contemporary manifestations of grief and desire, while still giving us possibility instead of foreclosure." C.T. Salazar, Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
Light and Movement in Watercolour
Jake Winkle's loose, fresh and spontaneous style of painting is very popular. His paintings are full of light and movement and a key feature of his technique is that he doesn't work in the traditional way of light to dark but by placing the darks first. In Light and Movement in Watercolour, his first book, he demonstrates how to paint watercolours in a loose, direct way by step-by-step demonstrations and practical projects. Watercolours are often spoiled by a desire to be entirely truthful to the subject matter, which can lead to a painting that is overworked and tight. Jake's loose approach avoids those problems. He looks at subject simplification and shows how to focus on shapes rather than objects and, by painting what you see and not what you know, demonstrates how to capture the essence of the scene with freshness and clarity. The main topics in this book are: Understanding Watercolour; Building Confidence; What to Paint; Shapes, Tones and Colours; Dark to Light and Freshness and Clarity. Jake considers each topic in detail and shows the reader how to create paintings that glow with life, interest and spontaneity.
Gongoozler
Joshua Judson's disarming debut has an acute sense of place: in canal-side twitchels and river-thrashed hills, in visiting wards and the Co-op, in 'the town of the body'. On a mission to escape the self, this speaker channels the manifold ghosts we hold within, and the people who hold us together. Judson's poetry is pop punk in all its fierce and fragile beauty, the honesty of a power chord, the way 'an old old song can hit you exactly where you are and fill you with light'.
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to acknowledge his heritage—all the while believing they were doing what was best for him. For their own safety and to ensure the kidnapping remained a success, Shane’s grandparents had to make sure that he never knew the full story, so he was rai...
Poems from the Edge of Extinction
Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century. With the loss of these languages, we also lose the unique poetic traditions of their speakers and writers. Poems from the Edge of Extinction gathers together 50 poems in languages from around the world that have been identified as endangered; it is a celebration of our linguistic diversity and a reminder of our commonalities and the fundamental role verbal art plays in human life around the world. With poems by influential, award-winning poet...
