Burning Eye Books

The King of pop culture poetry returns with his second collection! As the great Dominic Toretto once said, 'I don't have friends, I have family'. '2 Black 2 Furious' largely looks at both what family...

5000 HURTSAuthor: Adrian. B. EarlePublisher: Burning Eye BooksPublication Date: October 01, 2019Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911570765ISBN-13: 9781911570769

This debut pamphlet of poems by DIY punk poet Jenn Hart is full of defiance, declarations of love and of war and portraits of dead women. Exploring the herstory of women of the past and the reality...

Chosen FamilyAuthor: LAMIPublisher: Burning Eye BooksPublication Date: Mar 02, 2022Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913958175ISBN-13: 9781913958176

Power walks in dressed like your best friend, offers to pay the bills and buy the drinks. Tells you to get some sleep because they've got this, they'll keep watch, stop anyone getting in. Then Power...

How often is it that a poet with the name recognition factor and critical standing of Salena Godden publishes their first collection 20 years into their career? Perhaps it is simply that no publisher...

Anna takes us into her world and with unflinching self deprecation lays open her heart. From the playground politics of My Little Pony ownership, the tortuous twists and turns of a relationship on...

The world has a way of getting into you; these poems document the process of prying it out. Whether that be from an ash tree's trunk or a rabbit's warren, or behind an abandoned shipping container on...

I Find My Strength In Simple Things - 9781913958039Author: DesreePublisher: Burning Eye BooksPublication Date: May 06, 2021Number of Pages: 52 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

With two hit Edinburgh Fringe shows under his belt, Bang Said The Gun's Rob Auton delivers his debut collection of poems and stories. In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh captures the charming, kooky,...

Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer is a rewriting of the original scale, measured to fit the expansiveness of a generation of queers who have lived from apocalypse to apocalypse.Author:...

A.F. Harrold's comic genius is very much to the fore in his latest collection of poetry as he utilises his considerable poetic dexterity to beguile, charm, dazzle and amuse. Harrold details his...

Life Goals of the Millennials: or The Commune Manifesto is about growing up queer and not growing out of it. In The Commune we champion platonic love and commitment. We tell stories, find good in...

Debut pamphlet from 2015 Poetry Rivals Slam ChampionAuthor: Jamal MehmoodPublisher: Burning Eye BooksPublication Date: Nov 24, 2016Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

My Achilles looks at the man behind the myth and explores both the strength and vulnerability in embracing all the sides of oneself: the complex and the ugly, the bold and the brilliant. With themes...

My Body Can House Two HeartsAuthor: Hanan IssaPublisher: Burning Eye BooksPublication Date: October 01, 2019Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911570757ISBN-13:...

Having been advised to 'Always travel in the direction opposite the tour bus' Sophia Walker set out to get away from the big noise, big tourist attraction, tick box bucket list experiences of life...

Pantomime Horse, Russian Doll, EggAuthor: SALLY. JENKINSONPublisher: Burning Eye BooksPublication Date: Sep 15, 2022Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Rob Auton follows the success of In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh with a deeper darker, richer collection of his trademark micro stories and poems from the other side. Featuring work from the two...

(Re)Framing the Archive derives from Panya Banjoko's personal engagement with museums over two decades and as the founder of Nottingham Black Archive. The poems are an attempt to give space to those...

This is a love letter to the testament of humanity and the patchwork of people that make up our lives.Author: Malaika KegodePublisher: Burning Eye BooksPublication Date: Jun 14, 2017Number of Pages:...

Rogue TeacherAuthor: Mark GristPublisher: Burning Eye BooksPublication Date: May 01, 2015Number of Pages: 78 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1909136530ISBN-13: 9781909136533

This is Tony Walsh's eagerly-awaited first collection. He takes us on an extraordinary journey through ordinary lives; flying the flag for the performance poetry scene which packs out venues and...

Rich with vivid surrealism, this is poetry that holds up a mirror to our world and makes us look long and hard, and not be afraid to laugh. This is poetry polished in the spotlight of the stage,...

Every one of us is a complex and beautifully woven fabric of stories, and whether we tell them or not, there are no measuring tapes or weighing scales to speak of their worth. Talk You Round Till...

That Which Can Be Heard, is published with Burning Eye Books. Its title taken from the meaning of her Sanskrit name, Shruti's debut bursts with the rich sounds and stories of her life as a British...

Take your little feelings-junkie-self on a dash through the house of fun. Here is hedonism and anhedonia a.k.a 'the inability to feel anything' nothing? explored through lyric poetry and dystopian...

From reflecting on the complexities of belonging to coming home early for a sandwich at the back of the fridge, The Secrets I Let Slip is a collection of poems that bounce between the personal and...

When Harry Baker first started writing rap infused poetry he was advised to "write about what you know" so instead of writing about killing people, or driving fast cars (over people), he wrote about...

Achieving a state of Sustainable Nihilism has not been easy for Jonny Fluffypunk.The Genesis of this Revolutionary has involved an up-bringing of scientific exactness, complemented by experimental...