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To everyone who’s bought a book from us recently: thank you. We’re reaching for just 10% of our subscribers and followers to buy a book from us, which would sustain our work in a big way. If you haven’t yet, and you can, we’d love your support. brokensleepbooks.com
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We've launched a crowdfunder to help us publish next year's books, and we'd love your support. There's a reward at every level, from backlist lucky dips and slightly battered misprints to new books, a whole year of books, and feedback on your poems crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-bro…
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Next year we're publishing work from Sean O'Brien, Penelope Shuttle, Niall Griffiths, Matt Abbott, Percival Everett, Adam Price, Verity Spott, Beatrice Garland, Alice S. Yousef, Zeyad Al Nahas, Kexin Huang, Elijah Sofoluke, Jane Campbell, Grug Muse & more crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-bro…
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Abstraktion und Einfühlung is Percival Everett's collection of seventeen poems on modern art, first published in 2008, moving among the work of Picasso, Manet, Gauguin, and Van Gogh and the museums that house it. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Everett treats each work as a philosophical problem, weighing originality against borrowing & the ritual of making against the finished object, with a logician's wit that drives each argument through riff & refrain until it breaks into homophone & pun. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Strangers gathers a three-year collaboration between twelve Syrian mothers and caregivers displaced in Beirut's Shatila camp, the practitioners of Laban Theatre Company, and the project's researchers and filmmaker. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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At its centre is a performance script in fourteen scenes drawn from the women's own testimony, moving between the border crossing, the hostility of the host community, and the ordinary rituals of embroidery, kept objects, and a shared meal. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Bowl of Grapes by Lenni Sanders is a pamphlet of appetite and its embarrassments, where the body is at once the site of pleasure and a problem to be managed. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Sanders writes from baths, beds, packing boxes, and other people's houses, tracking desire, medication, sleeplessness, and dreams with a humour that stays dry even at its most exposed. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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The Ballad of Malady Nelson is a poetry comic that builds with momentum, each panel swallowing the lines before it until a single sentence has grown into a catalogue of chronic illness, botched surgery, and care that never arrives. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Its narrator is 39, living with her mother, & speaks in a diction that makes abscesses & discharge sound tender. Arscott and McCauley dress her in racecourse finery, then flatten her into wallpaper before the book opens out onto rooftops & a burning globe brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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After a Short Illness is John Whitehouse's meditation on aphasia, written from the aftermath of a stroke that almost severed his speech. The poems work in short, image-dense stanzas that measure the distance between talk and utterance. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Whitehouse finds company among others estranged from language, Zazetsky writing his way back from a head wound and Baudelaire silenced in an asylum, and what accumulates is less lament than an account of language repossessed word by word. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Discredited Universe Models gathers poems that test frameworks and find them wanting. Fallas moves between prose blocks, litany, and the clipped drift of the shipping forecast, tuning his attention to faulty instruments and misheard signals. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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A wry, self-implicating humour runs through the domestic material of chopping wood, hard adolescence, and reticent poetry readers in the pub. Fallas makes fallibility a method, holding his questions open where a system would close them. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Viewings works through the many senses of its title: flats seen but not secured in a hostile Dublin rental market, the interior of a body read through scans and symptoms, and the cartography of an island off Galway that was never there. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Health anxiety is both subject and method, a habit of scrutiny turned equally on memory, gender, and the limits of what can be verified. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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My Last Address, Horses, Horses, Horses is a raw, propulsive book of poems and lyric prose that moves through teenage motherhood, addiction, poverty, care work, violence, and the long afterlife of classed shame with furious clarity and bruised humour. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Across six sections, Burns writes from buses, pubs, kitchens, prisons, foodbanks, council estates, and the uneasy calm of nature reserves, allowing memory to return in flashcuts, refrains, and narrative riffs that feel as immediate as speech. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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The Radiant Ordinary, edited by Gavin Goodwin, celebrates the poet John Freeman, whose work has pursued across more than five decades the illumination latent in ordinary experience. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Goodwin's account of Freeman's formation, from a chance discovery of William Carlos Williams in a Charing Cross bookshop to his correspondence with the Objectivists, anchors a gathering of essays, close readings, and poems. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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FLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night. If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time. Every order goes back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us. brokensleepbooks.com/books
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pH tagada is a maximalist collection that runs language through the debris of contemporary life: brand names, dating apps, and the clinical prose of public-health letters. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Its formal range is wide, moving from haiku-like compression to sprawling prose poems, and from mutating sestina to concrete pieces that burrow meaning into the page. Wonderling détourns literary and pop-cultural sources in funny, unsettling ways. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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@PSTORALS runs the pastoral tradition through the textures of the contemporary internet: a single sequence in five movements & an envoi where shepherd swains, lambs, and burbling brooks share the frame with Depop alerts, dropshipping, and crypto futures. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Alex Lopez collages the diction of Marlowe & Wordsworth with platform vernacular, fashion vloggers and continental theory, setting the text against doctored Old Master landscapes in which classical idylls are overlaid with denim, trainers, & server farms. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Random Walk gathers modern Hungarian verse translated by Peter V. Czipott and the late John Ridland, and edited by Johanna Domokos. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Its title, borrowed from Czipott's earlier life as a physicist, names the chance-driven path by which the poems were found, through encounters, commissions and recommendations rather than any canonising scheme. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Serpent and Stone, a poetry collaboration between Mari Ellis Dunning and Natalie Ann Holborow, gathers women from fairy tale, Greek myth, Shakespeare, biblical narrative, and the Mabinogion into a sequence of paired dramatic monologues. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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The poems function as duets, placing archetypes in conversation: Athena beside Medusa, Belle beside Mrs Potts, Cinderella beside her stepsister. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Remora gathers four decades of poetry from Stuart Inman across four chronological sequences, spanning 1988 to 2023. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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The collection is shaped by a sustained engagement with the surrealist tradition and its fellow travellers: Rimbaud, Sade, Gherasim Luca, Alice Paalen Rahon, Magloire St. Aude. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Notes on Swimming, Arthur Lawson's debut pamphlet, draws the queer self into a sustained nautical idiom in which bodies dissolve into sand, sink like whales, or wake feathered as swans. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Across these poems, domestic interiors become submarines and kettles boil into oceanic dioramas, the marine world functioning less as setting than as the available vocabulary for dissociation, suppression and grief. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Cosmic Sadness gathers five sequences in which Jean Portante's imagination expands to an interstellar scale, Zoë Skoulding's facing-page translation carrying the French of La Tristesse Cosmique into the English language without settling its restlessness. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Migratory birds, departing trains, roses, and leaking cosmic plumbing recur as a vocabulary of movement between north and south, between the human and a universe that exceeds it. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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The Psamathe Centre Journal is the poetry edition of a centenary arts journal from Psamathe, a fictional inverted underwater city built upon the bones of a whale fall & populated by those displaced by the catastrophic failure of the Atlantropa dam. brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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Within this elaborately constructed fictional world, poems attributed to various Psamathe Centre residents are presented as collaborations with the Sentient Room, a dream-state technology that translates the poet's abreactions into text brokensleepbooks.com/product…
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