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Needlepoint

Needlepoint
by Hazel Hammond

Needlepoint is more than just a poetic meditation on tattoos; it is an exploration of what lies beneath tattoos.

In this collection, tattoos are much more than mere decoration; they are dark desires, reminders of dreams and symbols of belonging or difference. They are magical and alive; flexing on bodies, prowling in minds and inhabiting hearts.

64 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0-9551180-6-7
Price £7.99

 

building wings

Building Wings
by John Terry

These poems have in common a passion for how inventions affect our perception of what is possible, and a grief for lost and drowned things. Water and voyaging invade many poems, and a trip is as likely to be to imaginary territories such as the world’s edge or Victorian Mars as in more everyday places such as around a washing machine. The collection is both an elegy for vanished machinery and for the people who made it, and a celebration of the way everything has holes in its socks.

80 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0-9551180-5-0
Price £7.99

Seasoned

Seasoned
By Edson Burton

A collection of poems which document a personal and collective journey through the historical and contemporary African Diaspora experience. It examines multiple forms of alienation – gender, race, self.

Seasoning was a process which lasted between one and three years and involved slaves being ‘familiarised’ with plantation routines and discipline and taught to use tools that they may not have used before.

80 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0-9551180-4-3
Price £7.99

 
Hana No Kage

Hana no kage - Shadow of a flower
by Ralph Hoyte

Ralph Hoyte is a Bristol-based professional public poet, writer and artist who works with words live, visually and sculpturally, and increasingly, cross-artform and in new media.

The very first manga-haibun. Hana no kage is based on Matsuo Basho’s - Japan’s foremost haiku master’s - sublime ‘oku no hosomichi’ (The Narrow Road to the Deep North). Hana no kage combines the high octane energy of the Japanese manga comic style with the studied formalism of ‘haibun’ and a strong grounding in Zen.

96 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0-9551180-3-6
Price £7.99

Folk House Anthology

Folk House Anthology
edited by Rosemary Dun and Kate Gardiner

This exciting collection of poetry and short stories is a fitting way to celebrate 85 years of cutting edge creative writing from Bristol’s very own Folk House adult education classes. Nestled on the funky strip of Park Street cafés, restaurants and uber trendy shops, the Folk House is an oasis of creativity. Here we showcase students’ tall tales and pithy poetry. From stolen haiku moments to murder, gore, mythical creatures, love found and opportunities lost, this books thrums with the beat of Bristol’s streets and beyond. A cracking read.

112 pages, paperback
Price £7.99
ISBN 978-0-9551180-2-9

 
Transitions

Transitions
by Baljinder Bhopal

Baljinder Bhopal is poet, writer, painter. She performs poetry regularly and became more widely popular when she supported Lynton Kwesi Johnston in Bristol. Her poetry's been published in two anthologies. She is currently working on a prose narrative.Her artwork has been exhibited in Bristol and Exeter.
"Transitions" is Baljinder's first collection of poems. The poems reflect on a personal journey, both physical and spiritual. From her childhood, as the daughter of Indian immigrants in Glasgow to becoming an artist of rising reputation in Bristol.

52 pages, softcover.
Price £6.99
ISBN: 0-9551180-0-X