Our artist books range from full-length collections of poetry to chapbooks. Each book is a unique and thought-provoking exploration of the world and the human experience, tackling difficult issues and celebrating the beauty of the world.
Step into a world teetering on the brink of oblivion with "Fragments from Before the Fall" by JP Seabright, published by Sunday Mornings at the River. In this haunting poetry pamphlet, Seabright invites you on a mesmerizing journey through a world in the throes of the Anthropocene era's twilight. As our modern age faces its end, these verses serve as a portal to a past nearly lost to the encroaching New Dark Ages.
Enigmatic is a collection of poems that explores the complexities of life, love, and loss through the lens of a sensitive and perceptive observer. In this collection, Daragh Fleming takes readers on a journey through the highs and lows of human experience, touching on themes such as memory, longing, hope, and the fleeting nature of time.
'Burn it All Down, Then Kiss Me' is a fiery and unapologetic collection of poetry by Kate MacAlister. Through her words, MacAlister calls upon readers to join her in tearing down oppressive systems and building something new in their place. With a raw and visceral style, she explores themes of love, loss, power, and resistance.
Introducing The Difference between Breathing and Swallowing by Jocelyn M. Ulevicus - a debut collection of poems that will take your breath away. This stunning compilation of poetry explores the complexities of identity, desire, memory, and the connections between the body and the natural world.
In their debut poetry collection, The Third Self, Paige delves into the creative process with honesty and vulnerability, highlighting the highs and lows of artistic expression.
In Julie Stenton's In the Dream I Jump From a Great Height and Land Safely, readers will find a poetry collection that is both thought-provoking and entertaining. From the joys of love and the pursuit of meaning, to the importance of chicken sandwiches and the beauty in the small, perfect moments of life, Stenton's poems offer a relatable and engaging exploration of what it means to be human.
‘The Maiden in the Tower’ is the latest poetry collection from Kate Gough, in which the lonely gothic dread entwines the bodies of those living with chronic illness. From the isolating tower, the maiden sings poems of life and death, as she beckons those who often take their health for granted, to look inward, and to listen to those who have lost their health.
This collection of poetry centers around a single narrator, who reflects on (her) life and yearns for more. This is a story about the emotional swings experienced when she realizes that in order to pursue everything she wants to in her life, change needs to occur.
Like one of his favourite authors, Ralph Ellison, John has found solace in the blues as a genre - so in this collection of poems, he highlights a bluesy nature that feels improvised but secure. We go from the ecstatic heights of love and romance, to the depths of depression and loss. A roller coaster of frenetic proportions.
Through REBIRTH’s deeply personal poems, Williamson shares her own journey through darkness and liminality with a deep dive into what it means to suffer and survive.
The possessive magic of grief always has a danger of consuming us when it fully embraces us, but when we fully embrace it like Howard Young does in To Know the Way Back, we can see grief’s power of recollection and transformation. Young’s exploration and characterization of modern England as a grief text is intriguing.
Rising in the lyrical, imagist language of her roots, her present and what can only be seen in the dark, this first collection holds gently the stretch between nature and the ethereal, trauma and transcendence. An embodied yet otherworldly wander through woman’s undoing and her way back.
With both hands, this collection pulls you into the emotive and developing stance of an Iraqi refugee. Continuous themes of fire and water accentuate both the trauma and desperate potential of people fleeing areas of conflict. Based on her own heritage, Zara takes us through an honest and powerful history, threading a global language, too often left unspoken.
Kaci Skiles Laws new collection of poetry and prose, Summer Storms, is “for the child that dies inside us all. It begins reflecting on motherhood and how the author's relationships changed once she became a mother, bouncing back to a place in time when the author was just an observer of the adult world and adult things.
Christina Hennemann’s debut poetry collection will take you travelling across the coast of Ireland, through the deep dark woods of trauma to come out in the sun-drenched clearing of healing.
The modern world is so noisy, it's easy to overlook all the small, beautiful things in it. Whether that's a millipede, a blade of grass or a lonely feeling. With Ground Pearls, Tierney wanted to magnify the minuscule and the lowly by discovering the poetry in everyday life.
If you are used to your poets laying out their world at your feet and sprinkling it with emotional dew and petals of confession and catharsis, then this text is not for you. But if you wish to think and observe, if you ever wondered about your mind-body connection, if you’ve ever considered your own soft machine as a work of art, welcome to Raed's world." — Sean Felix, Author of 'Did You Even Know I Was Here?'
The Witch has been reimagined countless times in poetry and prose. However, the history behind the characterization of this villain has often been examined separately. I Call Upon the Witches reinvents the Witch in poetry.
Cottage in a mirror, a wistful collection of confessional poetry, in which the heroine tears out the roots of trauma and chronic illness from a flowery grave, and discovers what it is to be known.
In the wreckage of new trauma, and with a determination to heal, Herrin revisits the old experience of abandonment and betrayal to rewrite her own self-love story.
Hindsight is the first collection of poetry released by teen poet Sofiya Ivanova. In many ways, Hindsight is an autobiography, capturing Sofiya's pre-teen and early teen years, and all the feelings that come with them.
Like all great poetry, Pneuma takes a familiar thing and shows us those insights that we have overlooked. With this book, Faye Alexandra Rose has established herself as a powerhouse young poet and one to watch.
Found within the pages of this book is a fenestration of how a woman is dealing with the collapse of their world. The poet shows you such a harsh reality of being until it rips you to your marrow.
Grit is more than a collection of poetry by Silas Denver Melvin. Grit is a transgender coming of age story. There are no beautiful rainbows here, no whispers, but raw cries from somewhere primal.
The Care Home is as honest a portrayal of life as you will ever get. There is no glory or fame, just the stark realization that you are dying. The Care Home is the fourth book of poetry by Rebecca Rijsdijk.
Contrary to popular belief, ‘the other woman’ isn’t some mythical she-monster with snakes for hair. Sometimes she’s just a nursing assistant working 12,5-hour shifts picking up other people’s poop.
Rijsdijk renders the power of the mothers, the tragedy of the lovers, and the struggle of the forgotten in clear tones and immersive scenes, surrendering her readers to the waves.
The best portraits are the ones made with empathy. They are the ones that show you something of the inner life of the person portrayed. In her debut poetry collection, Rijsdijk does just that.
In this exquisite debut collection of poetry, Corinne Owens invites readers on a journey through the intricate tapestry of life's moments. With lyrical prose and an artist's eye for detail, Owens unveils the extraordinary in the ordinary, breathing life into the emotions and memories that define us.