Books published by Out-Spoken Press

Debut poetry pamphlet by Helen Quah

Poetry pamphlet. Associative, sensuous, and unstable, Caviar explores the line between decadence and depravity. In Fletcher's third pamphlet, investigations of power and violence are no longer limited to the domestic and romantic. She interrogates all dark spheres of influence

poetry pamphlet

Poetry collection by Beirut based British and Syrian poet Lisa Luxx exploring themes of love, violence, queerness

Debut poetry collection by award-winning poet, MC and theatre maker, Adam Kammerling. He has written poetry commissions for the BBC, The Orwell Prize and Nationwide. Recent works include Inside!, a piece of poetry/rave theatre commissioned by Centrepoint and the Saatchi Gallery.

Poetry pamphlet of 7 new poems by National Poetry Competition 2018 winner Wayne Holloway-Smith

âEURœArji Manuelpillai hits the ground running with this debut and I freaking love it. His poems are funny, irreverent, hugely affecting. HeâEUR(TM)s fidgety, darts moment to moment âEUR" youâEUR(TM)ll rush after him, then suddenly find heâEUR(TM)s stopped, spun on his heel and youâEUR(TM)re face-to-face with his good-natured grin. Manuelpillai will dial up the volume just to whisper something damn beautiful beneath its surface. Every page of Mutton Rolls is tasty, and announces by increment a highly enjoyable new voice.âEUR? âEUR" Wayne Holloway-SmithâEURœThe poems in this brilliant, playful debut are multifarious though gratifyingly interlinked, addressing the subjects of Sri-Lankan British identity, masculinity, friendship, grief and love. The tone is sometimes satirical, but there is no hiding behind satire in Arji ManuelpillaiâEUR(TM)s work âEUR" great tenderness and beauty characterise these poems, and the poetâEUR(TM)s voice is completely original, entirely his own.âEUR? âEUR" Hannah Lowe

Contains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language; it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate ‿ political, environmental, economic ‿ engenders its own nervy music. These poems channel this collective apprehension in ways both deeply personal and instantly familiar. It is a collection that abounds in loss, in a sense of being lost, and in the gnawing fear of losing, yet its speakers address us with urgency. This is language in the throes of fighting back.

Set in the immediate aftermath of the most catastrophic storm to strike the British Virgin Islands Epiphaneia grapples with loss, trauma, and the resilience of the human spirit. The reader may not find certainty, but they will find wonder, gratitude, and joy amidst the devastation.

Songs My Enemy Taught Me is a collection of back alley poetry and flick knife tales detailing women's struggle against sexual terrorism and colonisation. Songs of independence. Songs of survival. Songs of uprising. Comprised of poetry, text messages, landays, letters and news flashes these are stories plucked from women's lips across the globe and re-imagined by award-winning poet, playwright, and author Joelle Taylor. Some stories are her own. Others are yours.

What is a neighbour? What makes a community? In this themed collection, Hannah Lowe focuses on a small urban district, and finds a rich complexity of neighbourliness under extreme pressure. Nowhere is more at stake than the circle of home the author draws around her infant son, who must learn the fragile meanings of the neighbourhood.

A Greek Verse for Ophelia and Other Poems contains one hundred poems taken from renowned Colombian poet Giovanni Quessep's entire oeuvre, including his last published book of poetry, Abyss Unveiled. The poems contained have been selected by his translators Felipe Botero Quintana, Ranald Barnico and the poet himself.

The Games is a book of play with language. In Scots and English, it mucks about with sound poetry, found poetry, computer-generated poetry, dirty poetry and others ways to blur and bust the borders of genre.

Heterogeneous is Anthony Anaxagorou new and selected collection of poetry. The book is a distillation of writing which features from several previous collection as well as new writing.

Examining taboos, surprising sexual encounters, the politics of desire, the vastly differing viewpoints on sex work and most prominently, the status of women's equality in the UK today

After the death of his father, Raymond returns to Jamaica but restless questions begin to unearth inside him (Who I am now is something I need to remember). Upon returning to the UK Raymond travelled to Bristol, Liverpool, Hastings, Hull and around London to meditate in the places where the pain and grief of history is bigger than his own.