Static Exile
All the houses in this city have ghosts. The shops in Little India and the stalls in China Town all full of ghosts. Sometimes you’ll see a pickup full of ghosts, Sri Lankans, Tamils, making their way...
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Weather A System
A bike couriers’ soirée might happen in an abandoned multi-storey with fluorescent tube lights propped in corners, cans of iced beer sold from a wheelbarrow and a choice of hard trance or the music of...
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Shad Thames, Broken Wharf
Consider the Gherkin: a suppository for the arse they made of things. Somewhere between a warehouse & a backstreet, between the Thames and the City… did you see the squatters on the way in?...
View ArticleLimits of Control
Suddenly a bulky white shape loomed up ahead of us and we flashed on the second torch. It’s very useful to have eyes sensitive enough to see by moonlight if you happen to be an owl. Clearly I am not...
View ArticleLove / All That / & OK
That cat gut you’ve inserted through my mouth, It travels down my spine, fires & tugs With every movement, ‘specially in my loins ~ It is the fruit of all seasons; a bird For every journey ~ on...
View ArticleMondeo Man
Last week I walked through Maidenhead suburbs. Good old boys stooping to check their tyre pressures, mums hauling kids in car seats like they’re shopping, bins standing to attention by well-kept lawns...
View ArticleForms of Protest
Forms of Protest collects together for the first time the work of Hannah Silva, a poet and playwright known for her fearless and wholly original vocal performances. These poems and experimental texts...
View ArticleSpeculatrix
In his most daring collection to date, Chris McCabe delves into the shadowy recesses of London history, bringing forth unsettling anachronisms and revealing the city as a perilous place to exist....
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Everything Crash (Special Edition)
A piano is thrown from the top of an East London tower block. A Goth is sick on the bus. Crises, curses and kisses punctuate this new book of poetry by Tim Wells. Written from the edges of the city,...
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A piano is thrown from the top of an East London tower block. A Goth is sick on the bus. Crises, curses and kisses punctuate this new book of poetry by Tim Wells. Written from the edges of the city,...
View ArticleFutures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis
“the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls, the statue standing like something outraged remind you, you who yearned to live beyond this, that hope marked you too.” from ‘This City’ by Adrianne...
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What I Learned from Johnny Bevan (Special edition hardback)
What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from Johnny Bevan
What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the...
View ArticleSunshine
Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity...
View ArticleTrammel
Trammel is a radical book of poetry for an uncertain future. Voracious in her critique of modernity, Charlotte Newman ranges across the spectra of social and sexual politics – from Brexit to the...
View ArticleThe Toll
An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex; a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fête; and the silent majority takes to the streets. Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England —...
View ArticleNo Dogs, No Indians
How far would you go to resist oppression? What would you choose to remember, and what to forget? It is 1932 in occupied Bengal. A young revolutionary prepares to storm a whites-only club in...
View ArticleFrankie Vah
Following the multi-award-winning What I Learned from Johnny Bevan, celebrated poet Luke Wright’s second verse play deals with loss, love and belief against a backdrop of beer-soaked music venues and...
View ArticleTwenty Theatres to See Before You Die
A ruined playhouse, haunted halls, a stage hewn from granite cliffs. Theatres on wheels, squeezed into a former public lavatory and rescued from fire. A theatre that is not there at all. Making the...
View ArticleLow Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
Low Country records his probing, hallucinatory journeys along crumbling sea-walls and through retail parks, past abandoned military forts and plotlands. He uncovers an ancient battlefield upstream from...
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