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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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Hyakuretsu Kyaku

DOWNLOAD (23.5MB PDF) The mercurial Ross Sutherland’s new sonnet sequence Hyakuretsu Kyaku playfully recasts the characters from cult video game Street Fighter 2 as “twelve heroes that span the breadth...

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Adventures in Form

Welcome to a strange new world in which a poem can be written using only one vowel, processed through computer code, collaged from film trailers, compiled from Facebook status updates, hidden inside a...

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The Bells of Hope

The Kundalini The meat was darker when I was younger and sleeping. What ticked at the far edge of my luck? That more of the meat was dark. Where my head woke in the pillow was the magnetic centre of a...

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Mondeo 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...

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Human Form

So many things have come apart in my hands or somehow gone astray they could form a museum, a mausoleum of errings and shortfalls. Both human and humane, Oliver Dixon’s debut collection of poetry maps...

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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...

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What 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...

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Sunspots (paperback)

The Sun is our neighbourhood star, igniting the imagination and setting the template for divinity. But in reality, it is crawling with sunspots of differing shapes, sizes, and power. Simon Barraclough...

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Cain

The year is 2016 and Luke Kennard finds himself estranged from his family, his publisher and his faith. With the help of his Community Psychiatric Nurse, who claims to be the living embodiment of Cain...

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Cain

The year is 2016 and Luke Kennard finds himself estranged from his family, his publisher and his faith. With the help of his Community Psychiatric Nurse, who claims to be the living embodiment of Cain...

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The 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 —...

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The Remains of Logan Dankworth

Logan Dankworth, columnist and Twitter warrior, grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s. Now, as the EU Referendum looms, he is determined to be in the fray of the biggest political...

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Out for Air

Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where ‘the bridges are endless / beyond the cantilever / of reality’. Each...

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