Books published by Burning Eye Books

Not Dancing with Ingrid Pit is an honest and personal collection capturing missed opportunities, those unstructured moments and nostalgic, half recalled memories which skulk at the periphery of an increasingly confusing current world state.

Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's debut poetry collection 're: desire' explores the yearning to love, be loved and belong from a desi (South Asian) perspective. Her work sits on the intersections of flash fiction, poetry and script, echoing the hybridity of the worlds that many young British desis find themselves occupying.

With wry humour, tenderness and a social conscience Mary Dickins invites us to recognise our own lives in her subject matter and themes and to celebrate with her all that is sublime and ridiculous about being human.

Poetry collection from Arts Foundation Award and Ted Hughes Award winner Hollie McNish. Illustrated by some of her favourite artists and illustrators it includes Mathematics (1.9 million hits on YouTube). Hollie's poetry has received over 3.5 million YouTube views and she is one of Britain's most popular poets.

In this debut collection Caroline Teague addresses ideas of melancholy linked to striving for a sense of belonging and home.

Alright, girl? is a collection of poems centred around being ok. It focuses on working class culture, gender stereotypes, body image, femininity, mental health, recovery and celebration.

`Notes on Loneliness' is a collection of commissioned, unpublished and new writing from poet Daniel Cockrill written between 2008 - 2018.

Three decades of work captured in one multimedia extravaganza of a book. Want a bit of Steve Larkin? You can have it all, and in any order you want!

This collection started as a whisper, a quiet mouth asking questions. Over the years it became a coherent voice that kept getting louder. Now it is a song, sprung from a yearning to fill in the missing parts, to understand my mother's story.

Dive into this anticipated debut from multi award-winning Irish poet Ciaran Hodgers and explore how we celebrate, survive, belong and leave.

Hafsah Aneela Bashir's debut poetry collection is by turns tender, poignant and fierce.

The poems in Very Friendly Weapon run the course of an impossible year, the accumulation of several years' explorations and discoveries: poet James M'Kay travels as far as Turkey and Tennessee while still struggling to leave Tyneside, developing interests in death, flying, and regular metre.

How do you navigate your own path when you have no sense of direction? `Broken Compass' is a collection of poems, vignettes, and journal entries accumulated over a ten year period.

Vanessa Kisuule's second release is a poetry collection with a difference: it is a cathartic explosion, an unspooling of long harboured fears and resentment and a delving into ugly and uncomfortable truths.