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Book Cover for: Lanny, Max Porter

Lanny

Max Porter
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PRAISE for Genevieve Carver: Deeply funny and very sad at the same time...the ironic and the tender are perfectly fused, and formal innovations are cleverly tethered to meaning. — Max Porter, Lanny @maxjohnporter https://t.co/4vbOmToZRu https://t.co/4HA5ltHjDV

Paperback, 2020

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Temporary Stasis

Lucy Holme
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1 x signed copy of Lucy Holme's Temporary Stasis, and editorial feedback from Lucy Holme 3 x signed copies of James Byrne's Of Breaking Glass 1 x choice of any book from The87Press 3 x signed Briony Collins book bundle (Blame it on Me, All That Glisters, handwritten card) [...]

Paperback, 2022

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Hand & Skull

Zoë Brigley
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The Fireman’s Daughter has the bombast of a Jim Steinman song (referenced in one poem) and the collection’s style can be summed up by the poem title ‘this is gonzo dream pornography, not forty winks erotica’. — Zoë Brigley, Hand & Skull, @ZoeBrigley https://t.co/DhHMylaCxz https://t.co/ZcjlN7H8Au

Paperback, 2019

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Commonplace Book

Taylor Strickland
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PREORDER (30.10.22): Taylor Strickland’s Commonplace Book moves across the Atlantic from the poet’s native United States to the landscape & seascape of Scotland, exploring through its inquiring lines the beauty of the terrain & complexity of human life. https://t.co/xwvd0VtRbN https://t.co/wQY7vWFK5A

Paperback, 2022

$9.50$4.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Boy Friends

Michael Pedersen
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The spectacular Michael Pedersen is touring Boy Friends, a wonderful book. Featuring Omar Musa on 3 of the dates, with his upcoming Broken Sleep release Killernova. https://t.co/4zgDTw5Tdu

Paperback, 2023

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Waste Extractions

Andrea Mason
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PREORDER: Released 31st july, 2022 // 42 pages In Waste Extractions, the brilliant fiction pamphlet from Andrea Mason, we are asked to consider waste, nature, and what determines value, in a variety of interesting and diverse forms. https://t.co/t0aoRqkpmi https://t.co/paOx69kOhv

Paperback, 2022

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Horseback Afternoon: Collected poems Written In & Out of Surrealism, Abdul Kader El-Janabi

A Horseback Afternoon: Collected poems Written In & Out of Surrealism

Abdul Kader El-Janabi
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PREORDER (30.11.2022): Abdul Kader El-Janabi’s A Horseback Afternoon is a selection of poems, translated by the author into English, encompassing a life in writing, spanning 1975 to 2015. With an original cover image by acclaimed surrealist John Welson. https://t.co/EdDwhM8lCu https://t.co/5QCFbQNLrM

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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A Terrific Uproar

Scout Tzofiya Bolton
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PREORDER: 31/07/2022, 92 pages, @socio_plath A Terrific Uproar is a dedicated & exuberant collection from Scout Tzofiya Bolton. The poems juxtapose her mental health struggles with her love for her boyfriend, Vaslav Nijinsky, and the birth of modernism. https://t.co/TaWkazd17X https://t.co/9TgihsgtwC

Paperback, 2022

$11.50$5.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Grief of The Sea, Jennifer Edgecombe

The Grief of The Sea

Jennifer Edgecombe
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BROKEN SLEEP POEM OF THE WEEK! This week's poem is taken from the incredible 2020 pamphlet 'The Grief of the Sea' by @jenniedgecombe Exploring the relationship between the ocean and loss, these poems stir such deep emotion. You can grab it here: https://t.co/Epqbft1cnI https://t.co/qc8HtmqiGS

Paperback, 2020

$7.50$3.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Blame it on Me, Briony Collins

Blame it on Me

Briony Collins
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1 x signed copy of Lucy Holme's Temporary Stasis, and editorial feedback from Lucy Holme 3 x signed copies of James Byrne's Of Breaking Glass 1 x choice of any book from The87Press 3 x signed Briony Collins book bundle (Blame it on Me, All That Glisters, handwritten card) [...]

Paperback, 2021

$9.50$4.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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