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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...

Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures. In a landscape that...

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...

S?ofra McSherry's Midnight Masses is a haunting and evocative book of poetry which delves into love, loss, myth, and memory. McSherry's rich imagery and lyrical precision weaves a tapestry of human...

Mind's Eye: Notelets & Dialogues in Tribute to Paul Celan by Carol Rumens is a profound exploration of memory, language, and trauma. In this compelling collection, Rumens engages in a dialogue with...

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:...

New Famous PhrasesAuthor: Daniel HindsPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Mar 31, 2025Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1916938833ISBN-13: 9781916938830

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...

In of work Nóra Blascsók writes about office life, celebrating little rebellions and rare moments of joy found in the mundane, buried in "1,048,576 rows in a spreadsheet". Blascsók's poems consider...

John Greening's remarkable Omniscience takes its title from a long playful sequence at the core of this work. Rhetorically stunning, emotionally charged, and meticulously constructed, Omniscience...

In Open Your Mouth Jasmine Gray mixes the elegance of Joan Didion with the inventive spirit of Anne Carson. Gray moves with fluidity and style around her chosen subjects: Amy Winehouse, the Catholic...

Author: Zo? Brigley, Kristian EvansPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: 31-Aug-21Number of Pages: 58 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913642623ISBN-13: 9781913642624

Our lady of tyres is an absorbing collection of poetry by Claire Trévien translated into French by Marie Lando. This book reimagines the world a new, laid bare, reconstructed, enchanted by little...

Plainsong is a cultural history cycle of persona poems drawn from the time of the earliest English poetry to the industrial era and Suffragette movement. Victor Tapner explores universal themes -...

Wendy Allen's erotically charged pamphlet Plastic Tubed Little Bird, finds the speaker of her poems "wearing lipstick /the exact colour of my cervix" and "masturbating whilst reading Anaïs Nin"...

Poems for Pete Davidson by Ella Sadie Guthrie reveals an electrifying new voice in poetry. The poems show the thrills and perils of obsessive fandom coupled with a heavily romanticised version of the...

Author: April Egan|Kaycee Hill|Eve WrightPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Oct 31, 2021Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1915079985ISBN-13:...

Pothos - 9781913642587Author: Rosa CampbellPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: July 31, 2021Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913642585ISBN-13:...