Books
Sue Allen
Hongwei Bao
Keith Ford
Laura Grevel
Martin Grey
Kevin Jackson
Vron McIntyre
Frank McMahon
Leanne Moden
Clare Stewart
Lytisha Tunbridge
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Hazel Warren
Gail Webb
Trevor Wright
Sue Allen
Finding Comfort in Salt
by Sue Allen
Big White Shed
Sue Allen approached us to produce a poetry pamphlet. She has produced her own work in the past but wanted this collection of poems to be part of Big White Shed. Her manuscript had been fully edited by some of her peers so all we had to do was typeset, design and proof. Sue opted for a simple stapled book as this collection has only 10 poems which explore loss and finding comfort.
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by Sue Allen
Big White Shed
Sue Allen approached us to produce a poetry pamphlet. She has produced her own work in the past but wanted this collection of poems to be part of Big White Shed. Her manuscript had been fully edited by some of her peers so all we had to do was typeset, design and proof. Sue opted for a simple stapled book as this collection has only 10 poems which explore loss and finding comfort.
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Crone Chronicles
Sue Allen, Laura Grevel, Clare Stewart
Big White Shed
Three Nottingham-based friends, self-identifying crones, explore the experience of older women through poetry. Sue, Laura and Clare met through DIY Poets, and are active performance poets, with a number of publications to their names and have appeared in numerous poetry festivals around the country. They are all involved in running Women Write at Nottingham Women’s Centre.
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Sue Allen, Laura Grevel, Clare Stewart
Big White Shed
Three Nottingham-based friends, self-identifying crones, explore the experience of older women through poetry. Sue, Laura and Clare met through DIY Poets, and are active performance poets, with a number of publications to their names and have appeared in numerous poetry festivals around the country. They are all involved in running Women Write at Nottingham Women’s Centre.
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Hongwei Bao
Dream of the Orchid Pavilion
Hongwei Bao
Poetry
Informed by his life experience as a queer Chinese migrant living in the UK, Hongwei Bao’s book ruminates upon love, intimacy, memory, heritage and identity.
On a late spring day of 353 CE, to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, a group of forty-two Chinese literati gathered by a zigzagging brook playing a social game. Small cups filled with rice wine flew downstream. If a cup stopped in front of a person, they must either compose a poem or drink the wine. Thirty-seven poems were composed on that day, and a lot of rice wine were consumed. What if we could travel in time and join them in the party?
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Hongwei Bao
Poetry
Informed by his life experience as a queer Chinese migrant living in the UK, Hongwei Bao’s book ruminates upon love, intimacy, memory, heritage and identity.
On a late spring day of 353 CE, to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, a group of forty-two Chinese literati gathered by a zigzagging brook playing a social game. Small cups filled with rice wine flew downstream. If a cup stopped in front of a person, they must either compose a poem or drink the wine. Thirty-seven poems were composed on that day, and a lot of rice wine were consumed. What if we could travel in time and join them in the party?
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The Passion of the Rabbit God
Hongwei Bao
Poetry
Hongwei Bao's debut collection charts an emotional journey through centuries and between nations, with the poet's own migration from Inner Mongolia to Nottingham offering a unique, fascinating perspective through which to examine Asian and queer identity.
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Hongwei Bao
Poetry
Hongwei Bao's debut collection charts an emotional journey through centuries and between nations, with the poet's own migration from Inner Mongolia to Nottingham offering a unique, fascinating perspective through which to examine Asian and queer identity.
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Self-Portrait as a Banana
Hongwei Bao
Poetry
Hongwei Bao’s latest collection, Self-Portrait as a Banana, is a candid exploration of his queer, diasporic, East Asian identity and cross-cultural relationships. Appropriating, subverting and queering cultural tropes like the banana, rice and beckoning cat, and identities such as queerness and Chineseness, this is a powerful journey. A bold, humorous and refreshing celebration of queer desire, identity and cultural differences.
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Self Portrait as a Banana by Hongwei Bao
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Hongwei Bao
Poetry
Hongwei Bao’s latest collection, Self-Portrait as a Banana, is a candid exploration of his queer, diasporic, East Asian identity and cross-cultural relationships. Appropriating, subverting and queering cultural tropes like the banana, rice and beckoning cat, and identities such as queerness and Chineseness, this is a powerful journey. A bold, humorous and refreshing celebration of queer desire, identity and cultural differences.
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Self Portrait as a Banana by Hongwei Bao
Keith Ford
Matters of Life and Death
by Keith Ford
Poetry
Matters of Life and Death is a sensitive and funny book of poetry about Life... and Death, whichever way you look at it! Start with one, flip it up and turn it over to read the other side!
Keith Ford was born and bred in South Shields, refined and defined in Nottingham. He is the non-musical half of the acoustic duo Mr Ford and Mr Gibbs, the non-hip-hopping half of the Dad Rap duo Geordie Genes.
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by Keith Ford
Poetry
Matters of Life and Death is a sensitive and funny book of poetry about Life... and Death, whichever way you look at it! Start with one, flip it up and turn it over to read the other side!
Keith Ford was born and bred in South Shields, refined and defined in Nottingham. He is the non-musical half of the acoustic duo Mr Ford and Mr Gibbs, the non-hip-hopping half of the Dad Rap duo Geordie Genes.
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Laura Grevel
Crone Chronicles
Sue Allen, Laura Grevel, Clare Stewart
Big White Shed
Three Nottingham-based friends, self-identifying crones, explore the experience of older women through poetry. Sue, Laura and Clare met through DIY Poets, and are active performance poets, with a number of publications to their names and have appeared in numerous poetry festivals around the country. They are all involved in running Women Write at Nottingham Women’s Centre.
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Sue Allen, Laura Grevel, Clare Stewart
Big White Shed
Three Nottingham-based friends, self-identifying crones, explore the experience of older women through poetry. Sue, Laura and Clare met through DIY Poets, and are active performance poets, with a number of publications to their names and have appeared in numerous poetry festivals around the country. They are all involved in running Women Write at Nottingham Women’s Centre.
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Martin Grey
The Prettyboys of Gangster Town
by Martin Grey
The Prettyboys of Gangster Town is about the connections we attempt to form with others, from the hopeful to the helpless, and how these relationships change. Martin Grey explores growing up through time, circumstance and by growing out of 'masculinity'.
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by Martin Grey
The Prettyboys of Gangster Town is about the connections we attempt to form with others, from the hopeful to the helpless, and how these relationships change. Martin Grey explores growing up through time, circumstance and by growing out of 'masculinity'.
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Kevin Jackson
Loves Burn
by Kevin Jackson
Kevin had very clear ideas about the design of this book, we worked together to select paper stock and choose fonts. His friend Ivor had agreed to allow use of his painting Battered Angel for the cover and we asked Richard Heaven to utilise it in the final cover design. Kevin had editing input from his friends and supporters in the poetry community and we supported him with a final edit as part of the process.
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by Kevin Jackson
Kevin had very clear ideas about the design of this book, we worked together to select paper stock and choose fonts. His friend Ivor had agreed to allow use of his painting Battered Angel for the cover and we asked Richard Heaven to utilise it in the final cover design. Kevin had editing input from his friends and supporters in the poetry community and we supported him with a final edit as part of the process.
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Touching you
by Kevin Jackson
A debut collection from UK-based poet and spoken word performer Kevin Jackson. Written in a "free-thought style, using spacious imagery and generous musicality" (Matt Miller, BBC Verb New Voice Winner, poet & performer), these poems look with love's fierce eye at personal and social stories in our modern world, inviting the reader to share the journey and meet their own emotions.
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by Kevin Jackson
A debut collection from UK-based poet and spoken word performer Kevin Jackson. Written in a "free-thought style, using spacious imagery and generous musicality" (Matt Miller, BBC Verb New Voice Winner, poet & performer), these poems look with love's fierce eye at personal and social stories in our modern world, inviting the reader to share the journey and meet their own emotions.
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Guy Jones
Guy is the Writer In Residence for Hothouse Theatre, a community theatre, audio and film project in Nottingham. He has written several fringe style plays and short films for Hothouse.
He performs his poems on the Nottingham Poetry scenes and is an active member of DIY Poets.
Guy is the Writer In Residence for Hothouse Theatre, a community theatre, audio and film project in Nottingham. He has written several fringe style plays and short films for Hothouse.
He performs his poems on the Nottingham Poetry scenes and is an active member of DIY Poets.
In The Moment 1
by Guy Jones
A collection of poems and short stories performed by the author Guy Jones, in Nottingham, Derby and Leicester.
This collection of 15 poems and 5 short stories were all written in 2021 or there about (Guy's record keeping is not all it could be). Many of them have been published elsewhere, either in written form or as audio recordings.
In The Moment 1 is the first in a series of similar publications.
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For hard copy email guy@hothousetheatre.com
Bonds by Guy Jones
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by Guy Jones
A collection of poems and short stories performed by the author Guy Jones, in Nottingham, Derby and Leicester.
This collection of 15 poems and 5 short stories were all written in 2021 or there about (Guy's record keeping is not all it could be). Many of them have been published elsewhere, either in written form or as audio recordings.
In The Moment 1 is the first in a series of similar publications.
E book version
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For hard copy email guy@hothousetheatre.com
Bonds by Guy Jones
Vron McIntyre
Random Trail
by Vron McIntyre
Poetry
Random Trail is a collection of poems touching on diverse themes including family, magic, science, nature, humour and randomness where you will encounter turnips, netball hoops, deep time, caves, architecture, hills and mohair.
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by Vron McIntyre
Poetry
Random Trail is a collection of poems touching on diverse themes including family, magic, science, nature, humour and randomness where you will encounter turnips, netball hoops, deep time, caves, architecture, hills and mohair.
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writing at risk
by Vron McIntyre
Poetry
A Lyric Essay combines poetry, memoir, essay with references, and impassioned rant to address questions about daring to write our unvarnished truths and how much we need to do so. With reflections on writing honestly, fat liberation, feminist activism, lesbian community, magic and spirituality. First published in 1993, this update includes an introduction putting it in present day context, and a glossary. Contains some strong language.
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by Vron McIntyre
Poetry
A Lyric Essay combines poetry, memoir, essay with references, and impassioned rant to address questions about daring to write our unvarnished truths and how much we need to do so. With reflections on writing honestly, fat liberation, feminist activism, lesbian community, magic and spirituality. First published in 1993, this update includes an introduction putting it in present day context, and a glossary. Contains some strong language.
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Frank McMahon
Denim & Leather
Frank McMahon
There is scarcely a poet in Nottingham who hasn't met or at least heard of Frank McMahon. This collection brings together poems to give us an insight into what makes him tick. It was an absolute privelage for us to be trusted with his work and to put onto the page what he delivers on the stage.
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Frank McMahon
There is scarcely a poet in Nottingham who hasn't met or at least heard of Frank McMahon. This collection brings together poems to give us an insight into what makes him tick. It was an absolute privelage for us to be trusted with his work and to put onto the page what he delivers on the stage.
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When Will I Be Zen?
Frank McMahon
Big White Shed
Frank is well known in the Nottingham poetry community, cornerstone of DIY Poets! This collection contains 40 poems about the struggle for good mental health, looking at depression, anxiety, insomnia, addiction, the pernicious effects of social media on self-esteem, the power of friendship, mindfulness and the ;positive effects of exercise.
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Frank McMahon
Big White Shed
Frank is well known in the Nottingham poetry community, cornerstone of DIY Poets! This collection contains 40 poems about the struggle for good mental health, looking at depression, anxiety, insomnia, addiction, the pernicious effects of social media on self-esteem, the power of friendship, mindfulness and the ;positive effects of exercise.
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Leanne Moden
Get Over Yourself
by Leanne Moden
Get Over Yourself is a collection of poetry about belonging and exclusion. Using humour, spoken word and storytelling, Leanne Moden takes us through the familiar touchstones of experience - teenage rebellion, grief, sex, self-esteem and self-discovery - in collection of poems that mix the personal with the political. Get Over Yourself is a poignant, funny and accessible collection of poetry, written especially for you.
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by Leanne Moden
Get Over Yourself is a collection of poetry about belonging and exclusion. Using humour, spoken word and storytelling, Leanne Moden takes us through the familiar touchstones of experience - teenage rebellion, grief, sex, self-esteem and self-discovery - in collection of poems that mix the personal with the political. Get Over Yourself is a poignant, funny and accessible collection of poetry, written especially for you.
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First Flight
A Poetry Anthology
by the Paper Crane Poets
Paper Crane Poets is a collective of writers, based in Beeston Library in Nottinghamshire. We run fun and friendly writing workshops for poets of all ages and abilities, and we firmly believe that everyone can (and should) write poetry.
The poems in the collection (written by 25 poets from the Paper Cranes Collective) are by turns funny, beautiful, moving, and surprising.
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A Poetry Anthology
by the Paper Crane Poets
Paper Crane Poets is a collective of writers, based in Beeston Library in Nottinghamshire. We run fun and friendly writing workshops for poets of all ages and abilities, and we firmly believe that everyone can (and should) write poetry.
The poems in the collection (written by 25 poets from the Paper Cranes Collective) are by turns funny, beautiful, moving, and surprising.
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Clare Stewart
Crone Chronicles
Sue Allen, Laura Grevel, Clare Stewart
Big White Shed
Three Nottingham-based friends, self-identifying crones, explore the experience of older women through poetry. Sue, Laura and Clare met through DIY Poets, and are active performance poets, with a number of publications to their names and have appeared in numerous poetry festivals around the country. They are all involved in running Women Write at Nottingham Women’s Centre.
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Sue Allen, Laura Grevel, Clare Stewart
Big White Shed
Three Nottingham-based friends, self-identifying crones, explore the experience of older women through poetry. Sue, Laura and Clare met through DIY Poets, and are active performance poets, with a number of publications to their names and have appeared in numerous poetry festivals around the country. They are all involved in running Women Write at Nottingham Women’s Centre.
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Lytisha Tunbridge
A Backpack on his Backpack
by Lytisha Tunbridge
A Backpack on his Backpack is a collection of place and travel poems from Lytisha, published by Poetry Aloud, October 2019.
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by Lytisha Tunbridge
A Backpack on his Backpack is a collection of place and travel poems from Lytisha, published by Poetry Aloud, October 2019.
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Hear Me Crack and Melt
a collection of narrative based love poems.
by Lytisha Tunbridge
“Like an archaeologist uncovering fragments of treasure, or
a prospector discovering tiny gold nuggets, Lytisha reveals
the poetry within precious moments that might otherwise go
unnoticed, the meaningfulness of small gestures, the
tenderness of longing, the generosity of love. She brings
them all to the surface where they can shine and we can
recognise pieces of our own experience”
Chloë Jacquet Click Here
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a collection of narrative based love poems.
by Lytisha Tunbridge
“Like an archaeologist uncovering fragments of treasure, or
a prospector discovering tiny gold nuggets, Lytisha reveals
the poetry within precious moments that might otherwise go
unnoticed, the meaningfulness of small gestures, the
tenderness of longing, the generosity of love. She brings
them all to the surface where they can shine and we can
recognise pieces of our own experience”
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World Jam Anthology2
World Jam, Nottingham’s global poetry and music collective
edited by Lytisha Tunbridge
The World Jam Anthology is a collection of poems written by members of World Jam, Nottingham’s global poetry and music collective. There are poems from speakers of more than twenty languages, some in their native tongue, some in translation and some in English.
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World Jam, Nottingham’s global poetry and music collective
edited by Lytisha Tunbridge
The World Jam Anthology is a collection of poems written by members of World Jam, Nottingham’s global poetry and music collective. There are poems from speakers of more than twenty languages, some in their native tongue, some in translation and some in English.
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Hazel Warren
To See The Moon
by Hazel Warren
This is Hazel's debut collection. She is a member of Nottingham's DIY Poets and had editing support from her peers in the poetry community, with support over further editing, ordering and layout. She produced line drawings as illustrations for some of the poems and arranged the cover design through her contact Steve O'Brien.
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by Hazel Warren
This is Hazel's debut collection. She is a member of Nottingham's DIY Poets and had editing support from her peers in the poetry community, with support over further editing, ordering and layout. She produced line drawings as illustrations for some of the poems and arranged the cover design through her contact Steve O'Brien.
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Gail Webb
The Thrill of Jumping In
by Gail Webb
Gail is a very active member of the Nottingham poetry community and was persuaded by poet Leanne Moden to get in touch with us about working on a collection. We worked closely on the manuscript to produce the final draft. It really was a privilege to work trhough the manuscript, which explores themes of friendship, ageing, love and grief.
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by Gail Webb
Gail is a very active member of the Nottingham poetry community and was persuaded by poet Leanne Moden to get in touch with us about working on a collection. We worked closely on the manuscript to produce the final draft. It really was a privilege to work trhough the manuscript, which explores themes of friendship, ageing, love and grief.
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Windsnap
by Gail Webb
NEW PAMPHLET!
Windsnap pub 7 December as part of Gobs Collective Pamphlet Series So excited to introduce these poems !
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by Gail Webb
NEW PAMPHLET!
Windsnap pub 7 December as part of Gobs Collective Pamphlet Series So excited to introduce these poems !
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Trevor Wright
Salt Flow
by Trevor Wright
Trevor Wrights's second poetry collection.
His poetry is bruised and brave music, and if justice is to be done, should be housed in bookshops under Soul.
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by Trevor Wright
Trevor Wrights's second poetry collection.
His poetry is bruised and brave music, and if justice is to be done, should be housed in bookshops under Soul.
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