Books published by Eyewear Publishing

Poetry. PARIS, STAGE LEFT covers Kate Noakes' first five years in the City of Lights, in all its history, tragedy and comedy. Noakes arrived in Paris in 2011 to pursue a job opportunity, and her early days in the city are chronicled here in these lively and nuanced poems.

Poetry. In this startling and energetic debut, Ben Parker explores real and imagined territories and reports back in poems that are both darkly funny and vividly descriptive. Combing conciseness with surreal lyricism, the worlds of THE AMAZING LOST MAN are at once strange and familiar, while the central sequence of Insomnia Postcards is a joyous clash of the quotidian and the bizarre. These poems have a subtle music and a confident voice.

Poetry. Subversive, erotic, and sublime, POETRY FOR PLANES challenges the conventions of airplane reading. Family, faith, technology, celebrity--yes, they are here. But so too is sex as philanthropy, flight as weltschmerz, and grammar as the ultimate loneliness. In a world that often seems to have lost its affinity for wonder, POETRY FOR PLANES reminds us that our greatest sense is our sense of wordplay.

Poetry. As if Catullus and Jarvis Cocker had conjoined with John Betjeman to pen catty, racy, brilliantly-rhyming poem-portraits of an age enthralled with gin, football, sex and surgery, Dhuga's debut collection of poetry is a tour de force -- echoing the formal tautness of Muldoon, the observational nous of Larkin, the mordancy of Eliot. Sinuous yet unfussy, hilarious yet heartbreaking, THE SIGHT OF A GOOSE GOING BAREFOOT pushes at the boundaries of our sentiments without succumbing to sentimentalism. It's no accident that this book takes as its title a nod, paradoxically, both dull and extravagant, towards proverbs whose provenances, however dubious, point up the painfully obvious as it obtains in the banal.

Poetry. "Smith's poems are tiny parcels of benign delightfulness with danger at their centres. A patch of grass, a fresh covering of snow, an old shoe box take a sinister turn if you dare to join the party."--Lorraine Mariner

Poetry. Music. When Thomas Hardy listens to Louis Armstrong, music reaches out to poetry across centuries and oceans. Here, a "dreamer at a loss" passes notes to a classmate, "cards of absolute equivocation" that "run through all the scales in all the keys," from "a man of many hats" to Osip Mandelstam's tambourine, from the dream of a monk to a broken traffic light.

Poetry. LONGSHIP blurs the boundaries between Norse mythology and the modern world. It assumes the voices of the Gods and Goddesses, and weaves them through stories of love, death and nature today. It is set in the now, but calls back to your older self and communications with nature, "feeling the night / come on like a bruise, a gentle harm." LONGSHIP is a book of craft, beauty and vision.

An intriguing and absorbing collection of poems by one of the key poets now writing. Assured yet balanced by a fresh, continued questioning of our histories, current lives, and cultures, this is a brilliantly entertaining, thought-provoking collection sure to delight all readers, and writers.

Poetry. Lyric or narrative in character, these poems are stitched through by the search for significance in the particular, whether at a train-station, draining a radiator, or eating chips, or on the alternative uses of Tipp-Ex, how not to take stairs, the joys of metal-detecting, or the vertigo of jet-lag. This sense of immanence below the surface, just beyond reach, is addressedthrough themes of family, memory, history, illness and recovery, travel, and exploration. This questioning, "sustained gaze," casts a steady, sombre eye over the everyday, but with care, candour and lightness, too.

A brilliant collection of poems exploring ideas of sadness and courage, from the time of the Arthurian legends to Brexit, with Dooley's characteristic poise, wit, intelligence and compassion.

Poetry. THE COLLECTED POEMS OF TERENCE TILLER brings back into print, after more than 40 years, the work of a rediscovered lyric-modernist genius of World War II Poetry -- a shy Cambridge don who became stranded in Cairo in 1940 and wrote for the rest of the war with his friend Keith Douglas. Douglas died while Tiller went on to have a successful career at BBC radio, producing, among other things, the very first adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Always an eccentric, Tiller increasingly fell into obscurity. Now, we can see his achievement for what it is -- unabashedly romantic, rich wordplay, with the Middle East, mythology, love, and desire firmly at its core. Eyewear is pleased to publish this handsome hardcover edition on the centenary of the poet's birth, with a scholarly introduction by Todd Swift, a Tiller Scholar, and a preface by Tiller's grandson. "...arising at the end of his centenary year came as handsome a Collected Poems as any poet could wish for, gathering his six volumes in the order of their original publication, complete with a detailed introductory essay by Todd Swift, a selection of photographs, and...an appendix..."--John Greening, The Times Literary Supplement

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Poetry. SPRING IN NAME ONLY is Todd Swift's first full collection since his 2014 American Selected and marks the first with Black Spring Press. Responding to the age of Brexit and Covid-19, these are lyric modern poems that take their bearings from both Auden and Empson, F.T. Prince and Dylan Thomas--as such, they seek to explore the '40s style of heightened rhetoric, emotion and personal myth Swift has elsewhere celebrated, as in his edition of the Collected Tiller. Fusing irony and sincerity, confession and oratory, they build a bridge of eloquence, with which to address the key themes of Swift's now-36-year career as a published poet of international stature: fear of death, anxiety in life, faith, despair, love, desire, empathy and critique. No other contemporary poet is as willing to push language to the pitch of perverse stylishness, in the services of poetic majesty. Here springs a restorative fluency that raises the bar.

Poetry. In this genre-bending debut, Mariah Whelan tells the love story of 'He' and 'She.' Once lovers and now... something else, in this collection of sonnets the poems roam across the UK, Europe, Japan and South Korea to explore the oldest of lyric subjects--love, desire, friendship and betrayal. By turns painful, playful and sensual, these poems explore the bonds that tie lovers and friends together in a collection of startling formal energy and emotional candour.

Poetry. Little Grape Jelly is the poetry collective of Lily Ashley, Grace Pilkington and James Massiah, and this is their project: HELL-P ME. Lily first sent these words "Hell-p Me" in an email to Grace and James in July 2016, establishing an online space where anything could be shared through the medium of poetry. This is their book of their correspondence: unedited, uncensored and spontaneous, via email and social media over the past ten months. In free verse and other poetry forms, the work details the ups and downs of life and love in the digital age and explores the benefits and limitations of communicating online. Immediate, honest and fleeting, here is what happens when three different worlds collide on one page.

Dee Rickwood lives in London, having run away from an apparently idyllic life with her uncle, a celebrated haute couture designer, after the intrusion on the scene of Rohan's 'muse', model Stella Avery. Years later Dee is forced by Rohan's death to look again at her past, to dig beneath the surface of the idyll.

In this work, Todd Swift pursues his exploration of how art, fantasy, and desire can console, or inflame, the heart - andhow, against the vastly more powerful claims of reality, the imagination can do no more than offer its impulsive, fragileand poignant gifts. Love and lust, fear and trust, hope and despair are tangled.

Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award 2020 for General Fiction and Silver Medalist at the Independent Publisher Book Awards. When Titus Horace, successful African American author, inherits a large tract of land, he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950.

A guide to life, singing and mindfulness by a world famous singing coach, aimed at students, parents and teachers.

Literary Nonfiction. Aimed at the more discerning gourmand, EDIBLE PLEASURES offers an irresistible guide to the unbreakable bond between food and love. From the poetic to the philosophical, the absurd to the abstruse, indulge in scientific, gastronomic and cultural histories, accompanied by an A-Z of aphrodisiacs with a side order of seductive recipes. Lovingly combining delicacies from The Taste of a Kiss by Martial to Madame Pompadour's Asparagus Tips, by way of South Park's "Salty Chocolate Balls," EDIBLE PLEASURES is the definitive textbook on food, passion, love and desire.

Literary Nonfiction. Celebrating forty years of the Sir Misha Black Awards--the world's only major awards recognising and promoting excellence in design education--FITNESS offers a treasure trove of thoughtful essays by some of the world's leading design educators, some reproducing their previously unpublished award acceptance lectures, some with entirely new contributions.

Fiction. Beginning in 1931, amongst the dreary slums of London's Docklands, THE OTHER SIDE OF COMO takes us on a journey across mid-century Europe as it suffers the greatest war ever known. Based on true events, this is the story of Vivian, a young woman lost by the poor prospects available to her in England, leaves home and family for love. Love of a man, but also love of Northern Italy -- the rich landscape of the Grigna mountains; the lakes Como, Maggiore, Lugano; and the prosperous industrious city of Milan. As the shadow of Fascism draws over Italy, Vivian must watch as her happiness is gradually destroyed. "Fox has the gift to describe public and private matters, people who act bravely and others who, for complex reasons, get into fascist uniforms and become enemies. I recommend it to English-speaking readers for its richness, humanity and uniqueness as a story."--Jonathan Steinberg

Poetry. This is an exciting debut collection from a young poet who is part of the Instapoet revolution, and a must have for all those fascinated by the medium. Elisa Matvejeva's powerful and shocking poems are combined with illustrations exploring love, hate, sex, abuse and passion. These poems explode from the page with their raw energy, taking the reader through a whirlwind of psychedelic landscapes on the way. The creativity and honesty of these will be an inspiration for many young readers and writers.

Fiction. Who is that mournful man in the painting? THE AFTERLIVES OF DOCTOR GACHET tells the story of Paul Ferdinand Gachet, the subject of one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous portraits: one that shows what the artist called "the heartbroken expression of our times." But what caused such heartbreak? This thrilling historical novel follows Doctor Gachet from asylums to art galleries, from the bloody siege of Paris to life with van Gogh in Auvers, and from the bunkers of Nazi Germany to a reclusive billionaire in Tokyo, to uncover the secrets behind that grief-stricken smile.