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World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker's latest collection is his most ambitious yet. Following on from the success of Unashamed (Burning Eye, 2022), Harry Baker combines the insight of a mathematician and the vulnerability of the poet to find wonder in the little things that make life so precious. From a poem about wellies becoming an exploration of masculinity, a poem planning his own funeral inspiring thousands around the world to do the same, or a poem about his favourite German wheat-beer literally just being a poem about his favourite German wheat-beer, The combination of grief and joy in recent poems has led to Harry being described as the Barbenheimer of the poetry world (by himself, but he is hoping it catches on).

From school bullying through climate change, via a healthy obsession with falafels and a 10,000th birthday, Harry Baker's love of language and logic has got him through literal marathons, a cancer diagnosis and potentially ruined his wife's chances of getting a job in an ice cream shop. This is Unashamed.

Fontanelle is Helen Sheppard's debut collection about 'soft spots', birth, women and those whose voices are often unheard. Helen has long family connections to care: aunt a midwife from 1941, her mum worked at a Transplant hospital, and her Dad passed down a quirky nature. All these influence her reasons to become a nurse and midwife.

Harry Baker combines the nerdiness of being a mathematician with the hopefulness of being a human.

Part memoir, part essay, part prose poem, Angry Yellow Woman is the debut poetry collection from Good Immigrant co-author Vera Chok

~ the heart is a holding~ is a visceral journey through birth, life and death cycles across personal, intergenerational and ancestral time. A journey to call in states of repair and collective liberation.

My Achilles is the debut pamphlet by performance poet and writer, Stanley Iyanu. It explores vulnerability through the myth of Achilles. Focussing on four pivotal characters within his life: Thetis, Achilles, Patroclus and Hector.

In this yurning debut Taher Adel draws from his own life, heritage, religion and culture to map a remarkable journey.

In Late Shift at the Pickle Factory Mary Dickins presents the reader with an intensely crafted patchwork of stories, reminiscences, observations and whimsy. These poems are tender, sad, joyful, surreal and ridiculous and always characterised by Mary's distinctive blend of wordplay, humour, poignancy and politics.

Supervillain Origin Story is a mischievous, seditious, and often incendiary exploration of trauma, loss, and erasure. Drawing strength and forging defiant triumph from the myriad provocations that could spin a soul into darkness, but somehow didn't.

Power walks in dressed like your best friend, offers to pay the bills and buy the drinks. Tells you to get some sleep because they've got this, they'll keep watch, stop anyone getting in. Then Power leaves in the night and clears out your house. This is where this book begins. When Power's taken everything. How do you get it back?

The King of pop culture poetry returns with his second collection! As the great Dominic Toretto once said, 'I don't have friends, I have family'. 2 Black 2 Furious largely looks at both what family can be: linked by blood, heritage, found and chosen.

In his second poetry collection Solastalgia, Irish poet Ciaran Hodgers explores the intersection of environment and mental health. Considering the effects of climate change on the wellbeing of our world and ourselves.

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

Leyla Josephine dances between her private and public lives, her inner thoughts and outer performance, dipping into each side of herself with humour and reverence. In Public/In Private ends up in a stranger¿s flat on a one night stand, an awkward lunch with a politician, raves in dark sweaty clubs and midnight mass in Ireland. Some poems read like public proclamations but in others we are invited to listen through the crack of a bedroom door. There is a sense that everything firmly belongs here, the opposing sides of herself do not discount each other.Leyla Josephine's first collection of poetry unmasks secrets, faith, shame, lust,and death unapologetically. She fearlessly reaches through every page and asks ¿Have you felt this too?¿.

More Mixed Messages is courageous, unflinching, authentic, informed and indefatigable. Mark doesn't look away, or speak in whispers. The work sits well in the rich vein of protest poetry; confronting the reader and society with visceral truths wrapped in humour and righteous anger.

For younger years and ageless imaginations, this collection pulls together the most fitting pieces from Ash's two Burning Eye releases, plus others. In 2018, Ash saw eighty-eight different schools, the majority of the pupils being too young for either Slinky Espadrilles or Strange Keys. This collection is for them.

This is a collection of poems reflecting bipolar disorder (or manic-depression). Figurative rather than confessional, sideways rather than straightforward, far up high, way down low, and sometimes somewhere in between.

Jonny Fluffypunk's second collection, Man Up, Jonny Fluffypunk contains poetry, flash fiction and the transcript of the eponymous solo show Man Up, Jonny Fluffypunk: One Man's Struggle With Late-Onset Responsibility. The collection is fully annotated, enabling the reader to recreate the live performance experience from the comfort of their own toilet seat.