Broken Sleep Books

Health Hireth highlights health and identity, as well as challenges faced by those who exist on the edges of the healthcare system. Chronic illness, Cornish culture, gender, sexuality, and mental...

Hey Ho The White Swan By God I Am Thy ManAuthor: Sam QuillPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Jan 31, 2022Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Hip-Hop-O-CritAuthor: Scott Manley HadleyPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Oct 31, 2021Number of Pages: 148 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913642704ISBN-13:...

Hit Points Green: An Anthology Of Video Game Poetry - 9781913642891Author: Matthew Haigh, Aaron KentPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: May 31, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage:...

Hit Points Red: An Anthology Of Video Game Poetry - 9781913642648Author: Aaron Kent, Matthew HaighPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: May 31, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage:...

how small we are, how little we know. is a beguiling debut pamphlet with poems centred on a rich mix of themes. This pamphlet is humorous, telling, eccentric, a neat introduction to a poet of nuance...

Human Townsperson follows a poet leaving town bearing supplies: a pack full of weaponry, potions, and prescription medication. The work will be precarious, the costs grave, but maybe we'll remember...

Using pliant forms and frugal, elusive acts of transformation, humilis captures the essence of life with its mournful bitterness and unforeseen gleams of optimism.Author: Marie-Pascale...

Chrissy Williams' I am the Table takes its cue from an unusual source, Love Island, serving up tasty morsels of found poetry, sound bites snipped from the mouths of Love Island contestants. I am the...

In his first book in over a decade, Instead of an Alibi proves that Geoff Hattersley has lost none of the sharp wit and incisiveness that has defined his brilliant and unique poems to date. Instead...

The poems find Lucy Rose Cunningham in contemplative mode, paying close attention to melody, with a love of beauty reminiscent of the artists she references. This is a collection which overflows with...

Knife Edge is a pamphlet which explores the psychological fallout in the aftermath of trauma, where the edges between bloodshed and recovery, life and death, are softened.Author: Colin...

Landsick inverts the idea of seasickness - in this pamphlet it is the lives we lead on land that are unstable, uncertain and often nauseous, while the ocean's rhythm provides moments of solace, rest...

Let us (or the invocation of smoke) is a mysterious, ethereal pamphlet. Shehzar Doja's words patter inexplicably onto the page like a tiger dreaming of snow. His masterful wordplay curls like smoke...

Light GlyphsAuthor: David SpittlePublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: February 28, 2021Number of Pages: 180 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913642453ISBN-13: 9781913642457

Titled after a popular Instagram filter, Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon by Poppy Cockburn draws on multimedia aesthetics to consider the ways our progressing post internet reality can complexify,...

Lives of British Shrews is an formally innovative poem designed to reflect the daily activity cycles of the three species of British shrew - Common, Pygmy and Water. Anchored in soricine ecology, the...

Lugubriations is a literary substack that publishes irregular and experimental essays, poetry, and fiction by artists and writers with a shared sense of despair and inanity. Edited by Roisin Agnew...

Jack Bennett's Lunette is an unsettling and mysterious series ekphrastic prose-poems which feature themes of displacement, flux and purgatory with a hint of something intangible floating alongside...

Merging true tales of adventures on the high seas with imagined dips in magical pools and manmade ponds, Marine Drive is an immersive showcase of fifteen short stories and flash fictions with a...

Michael by Mariah Whelan is a pamphlet-length poem that takes the form of a play. Set in a 'small town in northern England' and written with attention to the splatter of syllabic sound and a chorus...

Missing Person intertwines the themes of violence and history, reflecting on how the past influences and shapes the present, reminding readers of the interconnections between generations and the...

Author: Liam BatesPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Nov 30, 2021Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913642925ISBN-13: 9781913642921

My Car Plays TapesAuthor: John OsbornePublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Feb 28, 2022Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1915079098ISBN-13: 9781915079091

This spellbinding pamphlet is an intriguing read from a poet born under a 'strawberry ice cream moon'. Full of weird wit and fascinating imagery, predominately focused on the animal kingdom.Author:...

Night With A Pocketful Of StonesAuthor: Traian T Co?oveiPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Nov 30, 2021Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

On her shelves Penelope Shuttle found several Old English dictionaries belonging to her late husband Peter Redgrove, which she studied until their strange and mysterious vocabulary found its way into...

Nothing of the Month ClubAuthor: Jeff AlessandrelliPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: June 30, 2021Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 191364250XISBN-13:...

Painted in the jagged brushstrokes of wounded masculinity and childhood trauma, McPherson excavates new darkness. The haunted images - wolves, corpses, moons and abattoirs - form part of an internal...