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Our pamphlet range consists of engaging poetry and short stories that will leave you wanting more.
Should you find yourself unexpectedly in the seventeenth century and wondering about pregnancy and labour, this HANDY GUIDE will tell you all you need to know. read more ... |
A TASTE FOR BREAD deconstructs fairytales and myths (along with some real-life events) and focusses on overlooked characters’ explanations for their actions. read more ... |
The meditative and deeply engaging poems in ALL BRIGHT BEGINNINGS span a forty-year period in the writing life of poet Wolfy O’Hare. read more ... |
BECOMING FAMILIAR is a short vampire story without any vampires, asking what it means to be human, to be a monster, and to exist. read more ... |
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DRIVING INSTRUCTOR NUMBER 1 is about the effects of target culture on the lives of a couple, showing how with latter day capitalism, work is something that leaks - damagingly - into all aspects of life read more ... |
FAINT encompasses themes such as maternity, memories of student life, office politics and reflections on beginnings and endings. read more ... |
FIELDNOTES uses west midlands dialect to explore the urban environments around Dudley. read more ... |
FROM A SHELTERED PLACE takes us inside, from where everything’s cancelled or deferred. But there are no refunds for this postponed life. In these poems, Michele Witthaus explores how our natural concerns and suspicions are magnified by the intensity of lockdown. read more ... |
GOLDEN SLUMBERS tracks the climactic ten minutes of Max's plan to kill Paul McCartney, looking at the desperation of the marginalised working class - who, lacking a canvas, find destructive ways to leave a mark. read more ... |
GO ON A ROAD TRIP with Esther to visit her estranged mother. The reason for this trip is that Esther's father, who she has been caring for for some years, is going to pass away soon. read more ... |
HOW NOT TO MULTITASK explores the difficulty of juggling issues in ‘normal life’ with those which occur in extenuating circumstances, and the struggle to combine these into a new perspective. read more ... |
LEAF-EATER takes a look at the natural world through a dog’s senses. Lockdown has been a troubling time for the mental health of many, and the poet of this pamphlet has found a refreshing and enriching way of dealing with this. read more ... |
LIGHT PERCEPTION is a poetry collection centring on the theme of disability, visual impairment, and dealing with how people react to one with a disability. read more ... |
LITTLE MASTICATED DARLINGS is a series of true crime poems regarding the slayings of two young boys in the summers of 1984 and 1985. read more ... |
From performing in the alleys of LA, MEDUSA'S CHILDREN recounts the experience of getting on stage at the ICA in London with The Hittite Empire Performance Art Collective, an all-Black Intergenerational Men’s Cultural Elite. read more ... |
MORE. is an exploration of the world though the lens of mental illness; a reflection on joy and trauma and gratitude and heartbreak, and amongst these the daily life that goes on regardless. read more ... |
ONE NIGHT IN JANUARY evokes the bite of that month in the breath of a hare and the white blankness of the winter air. read more ... |
OLD GROUND is a psycho-geography walk through memories of time and place. The poems in this collection make the walk seem almost dreamlike. read more ... |
ORGANICS IN A VACUUM is a collection of poems that come from the mindset of esteem. read more ... |
POSTCARDS FROM THE VAN is a collection of poetry inspired by travelling through Scotland in a camper van. read more ... |
In SO FULL OF EMPTINESS WITHOUT HER? a girl discovers a true crime video has been made about her sister's murder. read more ... |
SONGS OF THE HEN OGLEDD evokes the voice of landscape: underground growls and mutterings; hoarse cries from rent earth, the howl of the wind amongst risen stones. read more ... |
STORM AND SILENCE expertly combines the narrator’s voice with the voice of landscape, weather and situation. When one speaks, another answers. read more ... |
STRAWBERRY FIELDS is a collection of poems about sexual assault, living with mental illness and the struggles of being young and queer, with some love poems in the mix. read more ... |
SUBTERRANEAN explores the historic and ongoing exploitation of the earth for minerals, and the impact on both the environment and the people who work at the sharp end of the industry. read more ... |
THE DECISION addresses themes of alienation, loneliness and poverty and is about a young woman who goes shopping for milk but her mundane trip results in a moral dilemma. read more ... |
THE OBLIVIOUS WHALE deals with landscape, nature, the seasons and the human condition. Graham Hamilton’s writing style is in turn sombre, lyrical and playful. There’s a strong sense of immediacy in place and relationship in some of the poems. read more ... |
THE RED EGO is a collection of poems exploring themes of identity, sexual trauma, and redemption within a lesbian relationship through the conflicting dimensions of The Red Ego, a furiously vulnerable alter-ego read more ... |
THE TOWN TALKS explores the lives of twins Michael and David, removed from their father as babies and later separated from each other when Michael is abducted. read more ... |
THE TWILIGHT SHIFT is a short collection of poems centred on aloneness and on the relationship between environment and the Human Condition. read more ... |
Characters in THE VISITORS discover the seas, woods, and part-way towns of Wales and Northern England. Their conflicts, loss, and passions are written on their bodies. Their memories dance across the page or rise like ghosts. read more ... |
TRANSITIONS is about some of those times in life when changes happen: the loss of love; events in the past whose effects are hard to shake off; the shock of change that comes with ageing. read more ... |
Mood, melancholy, dragging days, bottles of beer, the click of pistachio nutshells hitting the table: fear, sadness, the guts on spin and tumble, while the rain falls, the hours stack and the streets are empty. This is one side of the story in UNIVERSAL CREDIT. read more ... |