Books published by Prototype Publishing Ltd.

Written in 1971 and published here for the first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman's only piece of narrative fiction; a surreal, fable-like, lyrical tale which echoes throughout his later work.

Journeys Across Breath collects poems from across the extraordinary career of Stephen Watts. Gathering all of Watts' published works between 1975 and 2005 - as well as a number of unpublished pieces - this collection is an astonishing journey through the life and eyes of a remarkable writer of place and people.

Our Last Year is a book about change, transformation and metamorphosis; through the internal narration of its two characters, the novel follows the disintegration and renewal of a marriage, in synthesis with a much wider natural reality.

The fourth instalment of Prototype's annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between.

Emblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poet's Prize. This is a book of ecological poetics, interested in exploring the changing symbols of the natural world in literature.

Deltas is the first collection by Leonie Rushforth. Her poems are provisional landscapes which lead to unexpected encounters and startling revelations.

The Weak Spot, the debut novel by Lucie Elven, is a fable about our longing for cures, answers, and an audience-and the ways it will be exploited by those who silently hold power in our world.

Home, the latest collection from Emily Critchley, is part experimental confession, part elegiac plea. It is an exploration of the damage done by, in and to the different manifestations of 'home'.

Lorem Ipsum is the debut novel by Oli Hazzard, consisting of a single, 50,000-word sentence. An epistolary fiction to an unidentified email recipient, the novel is modelled after the Japanese prose genre of the zuihitsu, an unfolding sentence in which resolution and closure are endlessly deferred.

microbursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go.

A crime novel inspired by a real-life incident, and distinguished by its sensitivity to subtleties of language and dialogue, Along the River Run is a story of guilt and retribution played out amid the streets, sounds and sights of Lisbon.

An interdisciplinary book by poet and visual artist Ahren Warner. It is a sequence of lyric poems, a narrative, voice-over and compendium of notes-to-the-self about the veneer of dialogue, narcissism and pleasure, about contemporary economies of capital, human movement and desire.

Safe Metamorphosis is the debut poetry collection from from Hip-Hop artist and spoken word poet Otis Mensah. Mensah's work challenges dominant modes of masculinity, and disrupts the elitism of poetry through its accessible, honest, raw and intimate language and rhythms.

The debut short story collection from acclaimed poet and translator Jen Calleja.

An experimental collaboration inspired by and dedicated to the poets', artist's and publisher's children. Surreal, imaginative, playful and unlike any picture book of poetry you've read or seen before, alphabet poem is absolutely for kids! no matter how old they really are.

The debut novel from Caleb Klaces, combining prose and poetry in an experimental work of verse fiction. Moving between history, memory and autobiography, its shifting form captures a life and language split open by fatherhood. An experiment in rewriting masculinity, it asks how bodies can share both a house and a planet.