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by Tony Walsh (Author)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 festival tents around the UK. These are accessible, musical poems, influenced by the songs which soundtrack our lives, brimming with northern warmth and humour, propelled by passion and compassion as their bassline and their beat. Sex & Love & Rock&Roll is a book to u...

Fishing in the Aftermath - Poems 1994-2014 - Paperback

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by Salena Godden (Author)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 has had the courage to commit themselves to the task of reflecting the force of nature that is Salena Godden to the page... until Burning Eye came along!Be clear, Fishing in the Aftermath is more that a sweeping up exercise, more than a greatest hits retrospective, more t...

When I Grow Up I Want to be Mary Beard - Paperback

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by Megan Beech (Author)Although still in her second year at University when this book was written Megan caught attention with her infectious reeling wordplay. Megan is not afraid of speaking her mind and grappling with political themes with a confidence missing in many older poets. When I Grow Up To Be Mary Beard captures the sound of a resurgent feminism that demands to be heard and marks Megan Beech out as a name to watch. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Dat...

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by Paula Varjack (Author)Letters I Never Sent to You is a collection of impressions and encounters; of people briefly met and of places passed through and lived in. It explores the sometimes slippery nature of the word "home", and how love and heartbreak can be felt just as strongly for a place as for a person. It explores connection and disconnection with places, people and the spaces in which we encounter them. From Washington D.C. to London, from Accra to Paris and onwards to Berlin, Lette...

Underneath the Roses Where I Remembered Everything - Paperback

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by Molly Case (Author)Underneath the Roses Where I Remembered Everything is a collection of exposed and vulnerable moments from the perspective of a nurse. It explores the importance of memories and things that slip away as life goes on. These poems contain both the blood and bile from first kisses to the last breath of lives beyond hospital walls. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: November 13, 2015

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by Ash Dickinson (Author)Mama Cass overdoses on pork. A shower gel's compassionate talk. Revenge best served by time machine or octopus as a hat. Star Wars told in three minutes flat. Misogyny in rap, sexism at the Oscars. The running of the bullfinches. Scottish independence. Heckling Miley Cyrus. Midlife dating/midlife crisis. Syria and political satirists. Life through the lens of a food photographer. New persona after new persona. Tattoos and stalkers. Swindon is the new Disneyland. The l...

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by Ash Dickinson (Author)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, poetry that tears up the rule that says performance poetry does not transfer to the page.In the tradition of Adrian Mitchell and The Liverpool poets, Adrian Henri, Brian Patten and Roger McGough, this is poetry that is consistently accessible and entertaining. Although written...

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by Jess Green (Author)The first collection by poet Jess Green is taken from her spoken word show set in an inner city secondary school suffering the cuts and blows of the Coalition government. Burning Books champions the underdogs; the unnoticed and unheard stories bearing the gritty reality of the UK's education system. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: September 21, 2015

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by Chris Redmond (Author)Let the Pig Out is the first collection from Chris Redmond - spoken word poet and front man of Tongue Fu - one of the UK's leading spoken word shows. It is a fusion of performance writing and page poems, mixing story forms with internal rhymes and rhythms, comic dialogue and sparser, more condensed imagery.Fox racing, fatherhood, rainbows and road kill are some of the topics candidly explored with a playful heart, a political head and a compulsion to explore the frict...

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by Selina Nwulu (Author)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 political. Inspired by themes of social justice, protest, identity and, on occasion, failed dreams of becoming a rock star, this debut collection from Selina Nwulu considers the beauty and pain of living in a modern age. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publ...

Gingering The World From The Inside - Paperback

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by Anna Freeman (Author)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 rocks, the thrill of a new partner and the quiet revolution of Ginger takeover, Anna's comic touch remains deft and perfectly timed. Gingering The World From The Inside is an assured debut and demonstrates that honing work in performance before committing it to the page i...

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by Rob Auton (Author)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 Edinburgh shows that have earned him cult status and a growing army of fans, Petrol Honey explores the deeper meaning of the colour yellow, whether Lurpak is available in heaven, what happens in a supermarket when the lights go out and how photographing food is the 21st Centur...

Things You Find in a Poet's Beard - Paperback

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by A. F. Harrold (Author)Things You Find in a Poet's Beard is a collection of poems that have been shouted at children from schools to church halls. They are a curation of silly tales that have been illustrated and bound into a book. Perhaps you'll want to annoy your family by reading them out; perhaps you'll want to chuckle at them under the covers with a torch; perhaps you'll want to stare at the drawings drawn by Mr Chris Riddell or maybe you'll want to shout them aloud to capture the spir...

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by Cecilia Knapp (Author)I don't really know how to say this, but you need to come home. It's Leo. He's done it. Along cycle paths, alleyways and canals comes a coming-of-age story that maps the journey of a girl from a seaside town, to the tenements of city life as a 20-something. Writer and performer Cecilia Knapp's debut piece is about a lot of things; growing up, Mothers, make shift dens, accidentally shaving off your eyebrows, drinking wine, love and one night stands. But it's mainly abo...

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by Agnes Török (Author)We Need to Talk is a poetry collection on sexual violence, survivorship and solidarity. On gender-based violence and genuine social change. On things that are hushed and need to be spoken of with empathy - and fact-checking. Poet Agnes Török writes honestly and courageously about lived experience and statistical societal structure, inviting the reader to reflect and join in the conversation on how to end gender-based violence. With sections speaking directly to victims ...

In the Beginning Was the Word, Then a Drawing, Then More Words, Another Drawing, and So On, and So on - Paperback

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by Dan Cockrill (Author)In The Beginning Was The Word, Then A Drawing, Then More Words, Another Drawing, And So On, And So On is a sequential chain that alternates from poet to illustrator, a creative game of ping pong that takes each artist on a path they would not have discovered on their own. Responding to each others original and sometimes witty thoughts, they explore the darkness and the light, ask 'why are we doing this?' and 'where is all this leading?' as they take us on a journey fro...

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by Nora Gomringer (Author), Annie Rutherford (Translator)German poet Nora Gomringer is here translated into English for the first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford. There is no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kate Tempest is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is experimental wile remaining accessible and in her ability to stride seamlessly from stage to page to film to literature festival. These are poems which defy categorisation - interweaving the ...

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by Ash Dickinson (Author)For younger years and ageless imaginations, this collection pulls together the most fitting pieces from Ash's two Burning Eye releases, plus others. In 2018, Ash saw eighty-eight different schools, the majority of the pupils being too young for either Slinky Espadrilles or Strange Keys. This collection is for them. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 7.99 x 5.24 IN Publication Date: July 30, 2019

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by Sara Hirsch (Author)Louder Than Words is the second poetry collection from spoken word educator Sara Hirsch; the former UK Slam Champion, ranked 3rd in the World Slam Championships (as seen on the BBC). Sara presents poems for and about young people and a selection of their responses in this gritty, honest and accessible collection. This is a conversation between poems, schools and hemispheres, including poems by students in London and New Zealand, alongside Sara's original poems that insp...

The Best Poetry Book in the World - Paperback

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by Jenn Hart (Editor), Clive Birnie (Editor)The Best Poetry Book in the World is a collection of popular poems from published poets from the last five years. Celebrating Burning Eye's 5th birthday, this anthology brings together all the anthems, the foot stompers, finger clickers, belly laughing crowd-pleasers under one cover. Prepare yourselves. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.37 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 16, 2017

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by Beryl The Feral (Author)This book is a homage to the valiant ones who reach their limit and then keep on stretching; to embrace their challenges, forgive their fears, own their imperfections, and Show-Up, in spite of it all... A tour through the treacherous terrain of Beryl the Feral's mind; where self-esteem battles the sirens of shame and sabotage daily. Tipping her hat with cheerful accuracy at some intimate and awkward places along the way, Beryl brings keen observations of her own inn...

All The Days We Don't Revolt - Paperback

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by Agnes Török (Author)Award-winning poet, TED speaker and activist Agnes Török writes with hope and hilarity, exhaustion and empathy about the need to get out of bed and pay the bills and fall in love and over-water the pot plans - all while the revolution needs you. Poetry about all the things we do all those days we aren't campaigning, marching or petitioning. About how we love, how we care, how we create. And how these things give us the resilience to keep resisting. How all that care giv...

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by Bethany Rose (Author)Neon softly lights the shadows of LGBT issues, mental health, school, grief and longing. Delve into a mind of swimming pools and hospitals, planets and supernovas, classrooms and therapy offices, playgrounds and the sky - all bound together in tight prose spliced with light. This is a book for all ages, for the very radical act of just being alive. Number of Pages: 138 Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: November 19, 2020

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by James McDermott (Author)Manatomy is a collection of wry, witty and cheeky poems exploring how nature, nurture, pop culture, prejudice and politics shape the identity of camp gay man James McDermott.Structured in three parts - 'Boy', 'Youth' and 'Man' - Manatomy interrogates how the experiences of growing up gay in a homophobic world and in rural millennial England affect a gay man's relationships with himself, his partners, the LGBTQ+ community and the wider world. Number of Pages: 108 Dim...

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by Pascal Vine (Author)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 the way to work, or in a dusty noiseshow basement, Good Listeners leads you through the afterlife of trauma and disability. You will meet many strangers to guide youinto a world where you may suddenly find yourself coping. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 7.81 x 5.06 ...

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by Stephen Lightbown (Author)A paraplegic wakes to find he is the sole survivor of an unknown apocalypse. He decides to survive and spends a year navigating the empty motorways of England to see if he really is the only one left alive. He sets off with only his wheelchair and enough food and medical supplies to last a week. To live beyond that he must adapt and scavenge. Told through a daily account of poems he begins to question his own identity, whether you are disabled if there is no-one t...

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by Helen Sheppard (Author)Fontanelle is about 'soft spots', birth, women and those whose voices are often unheard. Helen has long family connections to care: aunt a midwife from 1941, her mum worked at a Transplant hospital, and her Dad passed down a quirky nature. All these influence her reasons to become a nurse and midwife. This debut collection is her 'take' on the complexities and joys of care, duty, burnout and friendships. Unexpected tender pockets of tragedy and humour in poetry and l...

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Report copyright infringementby Rob Auton (Author)Take Hair is the third collection of writing and drawing from award winning writer and performer Rob Auton. Take Hair houses the ideas that Rob wants to exist. The ideas that came to him that he got enough from to want to record them and share them with others to see if they get anything from them too. Number of Pages: 110 Dimensions: 0.23 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2018

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Report copyright infringementby Joelle Taylor (Author)Joelle Taylor is a TS Eliot Prize winning poet, spoken word artist, playwright and novelist. She is a former UK slam champion and founder and artistic director of the Poetry Society's national solo youth slam SLAMbassadors UK. She has produced four plays for theatre as well as several texts on performance practice. This is her second poetry collection. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.22 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN ...

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by Ibizo Lami (Author)Adapted from a spoken word solo show, Chosen Family by ibizo Iami is a raw but gentle story of recovery and strength. Set in the waiting room of Dr Unicorn's office, Ibizo reflects on the instances that have knocked her down and built them back up again. Through emotionally charged poems and monologues, we start to unpick the importance of boundaries, love and expression in the quest to recover the body from trauma. We meet friends and concepts along the way that shape I...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Bolens (Author)How do we remember those who have died? Why are we so attached to their stuff? Have you ever pictured your own funeral? Erin has. She's pictured yours too. Not everyone will be in black and at least one person will just be there for the buffet. In her debut show, poet and performer Erin Bolens explores our relationship with legacy and loss. Using wit, warmth and funeral tunes, What We Leave Behind tenderly examines the rules and of funerals ...

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by Maz Hedgehog (Author)Madeleine Ekezie has done everything right: good job, a step on the housing ladder, successful friends. But she's lost, miserable and deeply lonely. When she discovers the story of The Body - a maybe mythical, definitely magical being who feeds the hungry and soothes the hurt - Maddy blows her life up to find it. She quits her job to hunt through old zines, ignores her parents to pick through abandoned blogs, finding in each entry some truth about The Body.The Body in ...