Penniless Press Publications

A vulgar trip into the mock heroic: an entertainment from the years after the Second World War.Author: Keith HowdenPublisher: Penniless Press PublicationsPublication Date: Apr 04, 2022Number of...

The rain adding its dreary greyness to the monotonous swishing of the windscreen wipers, joined neon lights bouncing off the surface of the road on this wet November night in a conspiracy...

Gus Watt has gotten into a bit of a fix. Over the course of 24 hours he is introduced to the woman of his dreams - twice. He is unable to let either down and negotiates the pressures of both...

CircumferenceAuthor: Keith HowdenPublisher: Penniless Press PublicationsPublication Date: Oct 13, 2020Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913144232ISBN-13:...

ConsumptionAuthor: Graham FultonPublisher: Penniless Press PublicationsPublication Date: Feb 07, 2020Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913144143ISBN-13:...

Jeff Bell's debut poetry book, has had poems published in various magazines and websites which can be found here,Author: Jeff BellPublisher: Penniless Press PublicationsPublication Date: Aug 12,...

Be my servant Soul Gnome in your salamander planet, be Jack the Lad, be Jack in the Green, be Jumping Jack in a quicksilver cosmos of arsenic, ammonia and brimstone. Be my necrotic juggler, conjure...

The collected poems 1962-2007 by north west poet and critic Jim BurnsAuthor: Jim BurnsPublisher: Penniless Press PublicationsPublication Date: Mar 26, 2021Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage:...

THE AUTHOR of this book (1907?1944) was perhaps the greatest poet of the Holocaust, a Jewish Catholic convert who fell victim to a mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the regular Hungarian Army under...

The search for love in its various forms is the theme of this collection of stories. It focuses mainly on lonely women looking for connections in unlikely places from unlikely people. Mary Mannion is...

Keith Howden continues to evoke the passions and memories associated with his lifelong contact with the moorland of the East Lancashire Pennines and the characters who live there.Author: Keith...

This new collection from Mark Ward selects work from his two previous collections Thunder Alley and The Visitor's Book, adding a substantial selection of new poems. Predominantly set in his hometown...

Schoolboy is Martin Keaveney's fifth book. It follows the novels Delia Meade (2020) and The Mackon Country (2021), a novella, Caravan (2022) and a short story collection, The Rainy Day (2018), all...

Shop TalkAuthor: Paul TannerPublisher: Penniless Press PublicationsPublication Date: October 15, 2019Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1913144100ISBN-13:...

Singsong is Martin Keaveney's sixth book. It follows the novels Schoolboy (2023), Delia Meade (2020) and The Mackon Country (2021), a novella, Caravan (2022) and the short story collection, The Rainy...

I began writing these blogs in 2013 and continued with it sporadically over the next six years, during which time I relocated from Grasmere to Blackburn. It's been a period of great political and...

It has proved difficult to separate the usually melodramatically rendered life from a creative achievement that, despite a further number of successfully achieved canvases, depends essentially on the...

Two plays about financial goings on in the oil industry. The world is run by the rich. Their influence over government policy in the so-called democracies is far greater than the voters'. Elsewhere,...

Voices, the Manchester based magazine of working class writing, ran for 31 issues between 1972 and 1984. It included such talents as Jimmy McGovern, John Cooper Clark, Tony Marchant, Jim Arnison and...