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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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'.
Life Work
The revered American Poet Laureate reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love with “extraordinary nobility and wisdom” (The New York Times) When Donald Hall moved to his grandparents’ New Hampshire farm in 1975, his work as a writer and a life devoted to the literary arts must have seemed remote from the harsh physical labor of his ancestors. However, he reveals a similar kind of artistry in the lives of his grandparents, Kate and Wesley. From them, he learned that the devotion to craft—be it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manure—creates its own special discipline and an ‘absorbedness’ that no wage can compensate. In this “sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness” (Los Angeles Times), we see how the writer has modeled his own life on his family’s lives of work, solitude, and love. When Hall comes face to face with his own mortality halfway through writing this book, we understand both his obsession with work and its ultimate consolation.
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...
Blackish
From family to relationships to race, we all have different factors that contribute to our overall identity. Blackish explores the complexity of identity. Tyrone explores the complexities of the different aspects that make up one's self, prompting others to think on what makes them.
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
