Broken Sleep Books

Shingle is a long poem which investigates the beaches of North Norfolk through an ecocritical lens. In this piece, Bethany Mitchell inspects the shifting meaning of a place under pressure from...

Gita Ralleigh's siren smoulders like smoke in a ruby, with a powerful sense of danger and compulsion in considering women's lives, agency, and hybridity. Ralleigh's survival poems are underpinned by...

Author: Rosanna HildyardPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: March 31, 2021Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913642410ISBN-13: 9781913642419

Sometimes i Write Poems and Sometimes i Write PoemsAuthor: Martín RangelPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Dec 31, 2021Number of Pages: 62 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Somewhere, Looking explores human orientation and 'sense of place' in the modern world, often in terms of dislocation. Here, in this spellbinding pamphlet, Amber Rollinson's work exists at the edge...

A series of poems, diagrams and invocations regarding the journey of three castrated priests of Cybele into Pluto's Gate. Songs of Xanthina is an eclectic, engaging, and vivid book encouraging the...

Author: Hannah CopleyPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: 31-Oct-21Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913642550ISBN-13: 9781913642556

SprungAuthor: Cai DraperPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Jan 31, 2022Number of Pages: 56 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1915079039ISBN-13: 9781915079039

Stick, Hook, and a Pile of Yarn is a collection of poems centred around a coming-of-age nomad-story that was conceived and weaved into place far from the speaker's family and the world he has...

Sun Step Black Lake is a remarkable book which showcases the art of collaboration, and artistic dialogue. The beautiful, abstract images, from John Welson, provide a platform for Allan Graubard's...

Temporary StasisAuthor: Lucy HolmePublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Aug 31, 2022Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/PoetryISBN-10: 1915079365ISBN-13:...

Terra Forming by Chloë Proctor offers a mess-making of language and grammar through the prism of contemporary eco-poetry. Terra Forming is a prescient and innovative addition to the flourishing...

The Art of Shutting Up - 9781913642167Author: Fern Angel BeattiePublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Jul 31, 2020Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

The Bare Thing delves into queer desire in an urgent, rough and surprisingly playful fashion. The poems celebrate illicit desire, the male body's vulnerability; transitioning, taking risks and...

In The Birds, The Rabbits, The Trees, Briony Collins deconstructs a year of grief and an abusive relationship through her evocative poetry. Her cutting yet delicate language leads the reader on a...

In The Book of the Unreal Woman Kelly Davio presents a series of funny, sharply observed poems about what it means to be embodied. Davio writes about body image and disability, teasing out the layers...

The Coin focuses upon the matriarchal line, cancer, class, and place with moments of lyrical intensity and clarity. This is a book that undertakes explorations of identity, mortality, the...

Marked by the perpetual use of nightmarish visions of disintegration, death, murder, and natural decay, Georg Trakl's poems bear haunting witness to a world devoid of faith, meaning, and hopeAuthor:...

The Data Harvest searches for 'some de-extinct world far from ours' where extraordinary entanglements of organic and artificial life are being born, and stunningly records how contemporary technology...

The Dialectical PhoenixAuthor: John Welson, John RichardsonPublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Feb 28, 2022Number of Pages: 56 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Erection Specialist is poetry-by-adventure, a throwback to literature that put the reader at the heart of the story. Niall Bourke's poetry centres the transformation of the characters within its...

In The Fireman's Daughter Jonathan Kinsman uses his theological background to present a bruised, searing, and occasionally claustrophobic examination of the human condition. Kinsman's poems are...

An inimitable and eccentric suite of five long poems in the most aberrant tradition of epic poetry; this sequenced fable grinds human nature through its cousins and throws words like faeces at a...

The Grief of The Sea - 9781913642075Author: Jennifer EdgecombePublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Mar 26, 2020Number of Pages: 26 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

The stories in The Incontinent of Royy are not stories in the traditional sense. People pass by in Daniel R. Connelly's subversive tales and disappear in each others' rearview mirrors; it's a kind of...

The Infinite Flood explores the vastness of space through details of modern life: lasagne sheets stretch out like layers of time, snooker balls roll into constellations, an astronaut's fingerprints...

The Last Song is a poignant tribute to one of the most beloved bands of our time. This book takes readers on a journey through the heart and soul of Frightened Rabbit's music, exploring themes of...

Rosenthalis writes with the care of the maker of the universe, turning everything over from the world's tallest mountains to the smallest pebble on the beach, always landing on the exact word.Author:...

The Nakedness Of The FathersAuthor: Samuel TonguePublisher: Broken Sleep BooksPublication Date: Feb 28, 2022Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1915079357ISBN-13:...

The Nation's Saddest Love Poems is a sequence of poems covering the unreality of grieving, alongside the notion that love is a far broader idea than the vague notion of romance often centred in...