Static Exile
All the houses in this city have ghosts. The shops in Little India and the stalls in China Town all full of ghosts. Sometimes you’ll see a pickup full of ghosts, Sri Lankans, Tamils, making their way...
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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...
View ArticleSteak & Stations
he made a mousse of pig heart and a confit of duck gizzards her dress little blackbirds white on black she wore a garter and her neck so perfumed he set the starter down glistening...
View ArticleLimits of Control
Suddenly a bulky white shape loomed up ahead of us and we flashed on the second torch. It’s very useful to have eyes sensitive enough to see by moonlight if you happen to be an owl. Clearly I am not...
View ArticleEmergency Window
My love, I feel like this print of Rothko. I am small and glassy and I want to impress you, even if it means murdering one of your work colleagues. You think if you stare long enough at your noodles...
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Holophin
The hardback is sold out, but Holophin is now available as an e-book. IT IS 2031 and the must-have gadget is the Holophin: a tiny, dolphin-shaped microprocessor which cures your worst impulses and...
View ArticleBeautiful Girls
“Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted. The reader has been invited to a sleepover at the asylum, a night in which five-year old girls drift alone through the wards, where the mentally...
View ArticleThe Story of No
In The Story of No Emma Hammond delivers an experimental lyric that is wild, weird and full of the errata of modern life. Her poems reappropriate the language of brands, pornography and instant...
View ArticleAstéronymes
Astéronyme, n. (French). A sequence of asterisks used to hide a name or password. In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut, The Shipwrecked House (Guardian First Book Award longlisted), Anglo-Breton...
View ArticleCain
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...
View ArticleCain
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...
View ArticleThe Girl Who Forgets How to Walk
In this remarkable first collection, tarns, limekilns and abandoned pits become portals into a dark, interior world. A woman levitates above a building site; earth slips and fault-lines open up beneath...
View ArticleThe Triumph of Cancer
In this powerful new collection, presented as a museum of artefacts, Chris McCabe returns to the site of personal trauma to confront disease head-on. Elegies for his father, poets and celebrities...
View ArticleReckless Paper Birds
These exuberant poems welcome you into a psychedelic, parallel world of ‘vomit and blossom’ where Kate Bush mingles with a weeping Lady Gaga, a ‘fractal coast’ full of see-through things: water,...
View ArticleSanatorium
On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an £80 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an...
View ArticleThe Book of Naseeb
In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero’s struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service stations of modern Britain to the desert and mountains of...
View ArticlePanic Response
These poems put personal and cultural anxiety under the microscope. They are full of things that shimmer, quiver and fizz: plankton glowing at low tide; brain tissue turning to glass; a basketball...
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