A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly’s first collection, considers words, the power they impart, the power their absence withholds. Forgetting, mis-hearing, mis-remembering all challenge the imagination to find ways round and ways through.
Jeremy Over's poetry creates a world of delight and amazement; in the face of language, love and an elusive reality which seems eternally beyond the realm of rational control. His cornucopia spills out pineapples, watermelons, unstitched shoes and flocks of birds from the baked remains of the waterlogged family bible. He dares to glance down from ......
Jokes wrapped in wordplay and rhyme, limericks date back to the middle ages. Playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing them - both nonsensical and irreverent ones - almost daily and posting them on Facebook to make his friends laugh. Here over 250 are gathered as a playful twenty-first-century 'like' of the hilarious and delightful limerick to ......
The poems in A Fixed White Light enter the lives of six of these courageous and mostly forgotten women, giving readers the opportunity to experience their heroism as well as their trials in a time when they were often met with skepticism and discrimination.
Rowland Bagnall’s poems are, in various ways, about seeing things—movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms—and seeing or not seeing the frames that hold them: windows, screens, fields of vision. Frequently funny and even more frequently fun, Bagnall’s poems cut across continents, memories, dreams, and rooms.
The work in Chip's first full collection, A Class Act, reveals a poet very much engaged with the struggles of the working man. The poetry is characterised by an attitude of stern determination and a tender, underlying empathy that never forgets the human story behind every headline and statistic.
The Chiltern Hundreds were three subdivisions of South Bucks - Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last is shared with Berkshire and dominated by the urban sprawl of Slough. This book celebrates it with a hundred poems of many kinds - historical, topographical, satirical and lyrical. It includes Classical odes, and ballade and villanelle.
The Chiltern Hundreds were three subdivisions of South Bucks - Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last is shared with Berkshire and dominated by the urban sprawl of Slough. This book celebrates it with a hundred poems of many kinds - historical, topographical, satirical and lyrical. It includes Classical odes, and ballade and villanelle.
