Leaky Boot Press

Inter-racial. Inter-gender. Into drugs. What is it... this thing called Sly & The Family Stone? It's about time. It's about space. It's about the ups and downs of Funk, Psychedelic Soul and R&B. But...

Dick Swiveller, the wittily named park ranger who is by turns both ill-tempered and kind, Winston 'Franzia' Weatherby, the only wino Swiveller knows who really drinks wine, One-eyed Rita. . . Fern. ...

Robert Stark's collection, A Middle North, is like a finger poking directly into the eye of bad contemporary English poetry. Its fantastic mastery of language and images-not surprising since the poet...

Laurent Maindon is a theatre director and poet. In 1996 he founded and became director of Th?tre du Rictus, now based in Nantes, France, where he works to champion contemporary drama. His poetry...

. . . the energy of a young poet with the wisdom of long experience. Edward Hirsch, Guggenheim Foundation Air Tea With Dolores explores a six-year-old boy's hurt and confusion at being sent away to a...

Author: Manuel RenaudPublisher: Leaky Boot PressPublication Date: November 21, 2019Number of Pages: 124 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1909849812ISBN-13: 9781909849815

Birthing history is a slow process that takes place in the forlorn landscape of human memory before mythicized in the collective consciousness of a community. This collection of poems explores how...

Dear friendYou don't leave much for the undertakerSo fully you've inhabited thereI've never minded your not being hereyou being a favorite hallucinationbut I wonder how you speak of us ....so begins...

Vanished civilizations, unidentified flying objects, giant people, strange sea creatures, alien visitations, enigmatic ancient artifacts. . . Government conspiracies, media fraudsters, mass hysteria,...

Californian Muse tells, in poetic form, the beautiful--but cursed--modern day love story of a young, American girl who went to France to be the art student of painter and poet Gr?gory Huck. This...

(From the foreword by Kris Saknussemm) As with all the poets I most admire, words are living things for Tikuli. But as you will come to discover, they are never deployed for their own sake. She uses...

Perhaps it is a myth that writing poetry is a lonely art. Collaborations among poets have a long history and in these days of the internet it has become easier to collaborate than ever before--using...

Dreams and wishes have a power of their own... Ellie met Hugo through their shared love of dancing. They were happily married for many years. After her beloved husband Hugo passed away, Ellie is left...

Even now the embers is a singular, sustained act of recollection, a kind of learning to walk on hot coals. Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy...

In Frequencies, Matt Bialer, poet of the weird and inexplicable, explores the field of EVP - Electronic Voice Phenomenon. It starts with Renaissance man Friedrich J?rgenson (1903-1987), renowned in...

Alicia Young's poetry is inspired by her life experiences, which, like the lives of most of us, have been a mixed bag of both horrors and delights. The daughter of a dead drunk father and a hell-cat...

This book is for beginners and experienced judo practitioners [judokas]. Inside you will find: - Easy to follow illustrations.- Quick wins to make you look and feel great.- Guidance on technique: *...

MANUFACTURING POEMS In her collection, Hands of Clay, poet M?rcia Marques-Rambourg manufactures poems. Yes, manufactures, as when objects are created with various materials-soil, leaves, flesh,...

In Ice and Autumn Glass, Mark Dillon marries the Jacobean line and gothic imagery to a colloquial, thoroughly modern, goth-punk demotic, a frenzied coupling that yields up a species of frictive,...

Illuminations is a visionary poem in a hundred sections which levitates the reader from the blindness of modern avarice to the scintillating light of an imagined paradiso. Taking inspiration and...

Judo is more than just throwing and grappling.- It is helpful for a healthy mind and body.- In an emergency it can be a useful aid for self-defence. You can gain self-confidence and transferable...

These are poems that have been created out of the material of love. Love is, in all ways, a force that destroys. And since in destruction, as the Tantra says, are the seeds of creation, therefore...

Acclaimed author Djelloul Marbrook here offers us two powerfully original novellas that centre on the New York art world. The Pain of Wearing Our Faces is about an art teacher in Manhattan and one of...

Born in St Albans in 1943 and raised on Tyneside, Ian Watson escaped to Oxford as a student in 1960 for 5 years, including a dissertation on 19th Century French literature. Next he taught literature...

The singing mustard down the Mission Road/A guide to wanderers, these sunburt hills'. Mac Oliver's book sings the landscape, ravaged and devastated, of the West of the United States. If one of the...

Mothballs: Quantum Poems is the long awaited new collection by the internationally acclaimed poet Seb Doubinsky. "The whole collection. . . reads as one long poem with pauses in between (the white...

Mountains is the latest wonderful collection of Seb Doubinsky's poems to be published in English. Those who have encountered this fiercely intelligent poet and novelist, in any of the languages in...

The new collection of poems in the English language by an admired Danish poet. Ole Wesenberg Nielsen is a Danish punk poet whose work is widely admired. Born in 1965 in Fredericia he now lives in...

These alchemical poems challenge our compulsion to categorize and pigeonhole. They inquire deeply into the passion for containment symbolized by classical Greek vessels. The poems seek to define the...

Other Risks Include distills a lifetime of pain, growth, and insight into a suite of hair-raising poems. Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers and grew up in New York. He served in the U.S. Navy and...