Canopy: Secrets of the trees

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This anthology is published to coincide with the Urban Tree Festival in May 2023. The pieces included were selected from over 160 entries to a competition run over the winter months of 2022/3. Entrants were asked to write about “Secrets of the Trees” as poems or stories in 250 words or fewer.

The theme of “Secrets of the Trees” was set by our previous winners: M.L. Grieve for poetry and Joanna Walworth for prose. They chose the theme as they felt that “Our urban trees have stood central to the story of urban development and urban living for centuries. What human stories have they witnessed? Time to give the urban trees a voice!”

Canopy: Secrets of the trees
An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2023
Galia Admoni, Julian Bishop, John Bowen, Adam Elms, Em Gray, Lizzie Gwinnell, Andrew Halsall Smith, Rayna Haralambieva, Cheryl Markosky, Arthur Sparrow, Penny Walker, and Kyra Williams.
Published 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-17-0
A6 Size
24 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 13
SLB0230
Price – £4.99

The Book of Matthew – Matthew J. Sokulsky

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In Matthew Sokulsky’s brilliant debut publication, religion remains unsimple. Revealed in a suite of poems as strange, jarring and complex as its namesake. Questioning, while enveloping religious realities, this booklet of surreal admiration celebrates the essentially human, eccentric and faith-ish in poems from a new voice in Australian and British literature.

The Book of Matthew
Matthew J. Sokulsky
Published March 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-16-3
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #19
SLB0229
Price – £2.60

Matthew Sokulsky is poet and writer, born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales in 1999. He currently lives in London, having studied at Kingston University and … he has been commissioned by The National Gallery and this is his debut publication.

I Smell Metal – Cameron Wade

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I Smell Metal
Cameron Wade
Published March 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-15-6
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #18
SLB0228
Price – £2.60

Designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students, this series of beautifully designed pamphlets each features a suite of poems, most often on one theme or in one style, by a solo author. The series mark the first publications of many poets who are very likely to be significant presences on the UK scene and beyond in the coming years.
www.writerskingston.com

Emptpy Poems – Martin Wakefield

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“Martin Wakefield’s ravishing sequence of ‘Emptpy Poems’ is elegant, spare and haunting. And haunted. The spectral traces of Apollinaire’s poems are still just visible beneath Wakefield’s enigmatic creation. There seems to be a strange attraction between the poems on the surface and the ghost poems beneath such that, in places, the surface poems shiver into italics to mirror the font change of the trace poems. Sometimes this becomes an ‘interference’ caused by the spectral poems, mysteriously pushing at words within the poems above, or pulling them into new spellings, compressions and splittings. This resonates powerfully with the operations of the mind itself and how it responds to the energies and interruptions of its memories, its subconscious, and its physical embodiment, as well as reflecting on the way all language is similarly shaped and inhabited by ghosts.”
— Susie Campbell

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Emptpy Poems
Martin Wakefield
Published December 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-14-9
A6 Size
28 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 47
SLB0227
Price – £3.60
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Rouen – Wayne Sleeth

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Old master of sleight-of-hand,
conjuring cathedrals
out of thin air

Inspired directly by Monet’s sublime series of paintings of the façade of Rouen Cathedral, Sleeth has composed thirty new haiku on the subject to accompany a selection of his numerous paintings and ‘pola-paintings’ of ‘Notre Dame de Rouen’. This limited edition chapbook, published in an ongoing collaboration with Sampson Low, marks a chapter in a body of work which Sleeth will present to the public in a series of exhibitions starting in 2023…

Rouen
30 haiku and artworks
Wayne Sleeth
Published November 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-13-2
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 46
SLB0226
Price – £2.80

Anglo-french artist and writer Wayne Sleeth has since 2018 been painting, sketching, photographing (with a battery of polaroid cameras) and writing haiku about the Cathédrale de Rouen, an iconic presence since the Middle Ages, especially for Sleeth’s mentor in art—the impressionist Claude Monet.

Amniotic City – Lucy Furlong

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A City awash with feeling, topography of the Goddess. History in the cracks, a glimpse of green between the earth and sky still exists through an open door, where X marks the spot for a conversation with Her. The River Fleet runs deep under the City of London, carrying the hopes and dreams of the workers scurrying across its surface, held in the belly of a sleeping female, waiting to be reborn.

11 years after its first publication, Lucy Furlong revisits Amniotic City in a series of new explorations, once again poking her nose in the nooks, passageways and liminal spaces therein. She discovers new terrain and new stories in this second edition of her poetry map.

Amniotic City – 2nd Edition
Lucy Furlong
Designed by Mel Hetherington
Published October 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-12-5
Folded – 14cm x 10cm
Flat – A2 (2 sides)
Colour
SLB0225
Price – £12

“ Furlong’s poems are recognisably sited; potential liturgies for re-enactment. They are proposals, less bent on cutting passages than on following clues to alignments of desire in patterns immersed in the terrain; an interweaving of intimacy and otherness.”
Phil Smith, The Routledge International Handbook of Walking

City! Oh City – Potcake Chapbook 12

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City! Oh City! – poems on the light and dark of urban life. Thirteen of the best contemporary English-language poets present their wildly differing takes on the glamour and squalor, the joy and heartbreak, the varied people and the hidden wildlife of our modern cities.

City! Oh City
Poems on the light and dark of urban life.
Amit Majmudar, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Maryann Corbett, Michael R. Burch, Kate Bingham, Quincy R. Lehr, Pino Coluccio, Francis O’Hare, J.D. Smith, Jerome Betts, Terese Coe, Marcus Bales, Martin Elster
Series Editor Robin Helweg-Larsen
Illustrated by Alban Low
ISBN 978-1-915505-11-8
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Potcake Chapbook 12
SLB224
Print run of 250
Price – £2.60

FRACTURED LIGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY – Victoria Kaye

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With a background in the visual arts, I take a huge delight in the mysteries of colour. How white light refracts into seven glorious hues within the visual spectrum, bounded on either side by infra-red and ultra-violet is a wonder and an endless fascination. So I invited a few like-minded poets who I knew would share my passion to join me and contribute to this collection. All I asked of them was that they use the colours of the rainbow (as identified by Sir Isaac Newton) to act as a catalyst for their work and to take that forward in whatever way they wished and they have certainly done that. Subjects range from Bodmin Moor to debates about Newton’s classification system to the artist, Yves Klein’s patent for international blue to political/ecological concerns and more. I have been aware of some of these poets for a lot longer than others – often through a myriad of family links but I feel a very close connection to all of them and I must thank them for taking the time to support me in this project. Another ‘thank you’ also goes to my fellow writer/poets who have kindly provided introductory essays to the contributing poets.
VICTORIA KAYE

FRACTURED LIGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY
Victoria Kaye
Published June 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-09-5
A5 Size
40 printed pages
Colour
Poem Brut Series #3
SLB0222
Print run of 100
Price – £4.99
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Launched at the European Poetry Festival on 27th June 2022

An anthology of poetic collaborations from across Europe

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From its inception the European Poetry Festival has worked in partnership with the Austrian Cultural Forum London to present remarkable events that celebrate live literature, innovation in poetry and collaboration. Since 2018 poets from across Austria have visited the UK annually, to present new works made in pairs with local, British-based counterparts. These live poems, made for these nights, find themselves in print, for the first time, for this special, limited edition anthology. From the multi-lingual to the visual, from the the theatrical to the conceptual, these poems are as dynamic on the page, newly fashioned for that purpose, as they were when shared live, in the remarkable venue of the
ACF London.

An anthology of poetic collaborations from across Europe
Hannah Bründl and Han Smith, Fabian Faltin and SJ Fowler, Cornelia Hülmbauer and Ollie Evans, Max Höfler and Iris Colomb, Sophie-Carolin Wagner and Vilde Bjerke Torset, Robert Prosser and SJ Fowler, Daniela Chana and Phoebe Power, Verena Dürr and Magdalena McLean
Published June 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-08-8
A5 Size
40 printed pages
Colour
European Poetry Festival Series 8
SLB0221
Print run of 200
Price – £4.60

The European Poetry Festival celebrates, in the UK and beyond, the grand resurgence in avant-garde and literary poetry that has marked the 21st century in Europe. It aims to not only innovate what a live poetry experience might be, but to inculcate community and engagement between poets across the continent, as well as between new audiences and complex poetries.

https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com