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Pamphlets

Our pamphlet range consists of engaging poetry and short stories that will leave you wanting more.


Handy Guide
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​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. 
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A Taste for Bread













A TASTE FOR BREAD deconstructs fairytales and myths (along with some real-life events) and focusses on overlooked characters’ explanations for their actions.

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All Bright Beginnings













​The meditative and deeply engaging poems in ALL BRIGHT BEGINNINGS span a forty-year period in the writing life of poet Wolfy O’Hare.  

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Becoming Familiar
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​BECOMING FAMILIAR
is a short vampire story without any vampires, asking what it means to be human, to be a monster, and to exist.  

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Craig's Story













​CRAIG'S STORY
 is a sci-fi / horror short story set on the streets of Hull. 
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Crooked Walk

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​​CROOKED WALK
is a collection of poems all based in Sheffield.

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Driving Instructor Number 1

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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
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Faint

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​FAINT encompasses themes such as maternity, memories of student life, office politics and reflections on beginnings and endings.
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Fieldnotes from a Deep Topography of Dudley

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FIELDNOTES uses west midlands dialect to explore  the urban  environments around Dudley.
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From a Sheltered Place













​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.

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Golden Slumbers












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​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.
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Go on a Road Trip












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​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. 
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How not to multitask













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.

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Leaf-eater













​​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. 

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Light Perception













​​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.

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Little Masticated Darlings

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​LITTLE MASTICATED DARLINGS is a series of true crime poems regarding the slayings of two young boys in the summers of 1984 and 1985.

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Medusa's Children

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​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.  

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More.
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​​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.

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One Night in January













​​ONE NIGHT IN JANUARY
evokes the bite of that month in the breath of a hare and the white blankness of the winter air.

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Old Ground

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​OLD GROUND is a psycho-geography walk through memories of time and place. The poems in this collection make the walk seem almost dreamlike.

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Organics in a Vacuum

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​ORGANICS IN A VACUUM​ is a collection of poems that come from the mindset of esteem.

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Postcards from the Van













​​POSTCARDS FROM THE VAN
is a collection of poetry inspired by travelling through Scotland in a camper van.

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So Full of Emptiness Without Her?

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​In SO FULL OF EMPTINESS WITHOUT HER? a girl discovers a true crime video has been made about her sister's murder.
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Songs of the Hen Ogledd

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​​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.
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Storm and Silence
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​STORM AND SILENCE expertly combines the narrator’s voice with the voice of landscape, weather and situation. When one speaks, another answers.

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Strawberry Fields











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​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.
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Subterranean












​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.

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The Decision












​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.

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The Oblivious Whale

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​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. 

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The Red Ego













​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

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The Town Talks

​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. 
 
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The Twilight Shift













​​​THE TWILIGHT SHIFT
is a  short collection of poems centred on aloneness and on the relationship between environment and the Human Condition.
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The Visitors











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​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.

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Transitions










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​​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.

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Universal Credit












​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.

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