Creating bold, beautiful books and audio projects that promote and celebrate independent and emerging voices.
Dust Sucker
Dust Sucker is a remarkable new book-length poem by writer and translator Jen Calleja. Clear-eyed, expansive, and intoxicating, this exhilarating work deftly blurs disparate themes including time and mortality, communication and translation, intimacy and infertility.
In this beautiful book, Jen Calleja conjures desire and loss, depth and wistfulness, through her signature hypnotic melodies. We see her plucked blackberries, her antique photos, her infant gulls, and we recognise the pained loss of “sunset/on the toilet paper”. Longings dwell here, as wondrous and abundant as dust.”
Lobsters
In Lobsters, Wayne Holloway-Smith turns his innovative poetics towards an exhilarating new work that is part songbook, part elastic melodrama.
The first 100 orders ship with an exclusive Lobsters print in hand-stamped book wrap!
Strangers (Expanded Edition)
Published in deluxe paperback, March 2022. Repackaged for 2022 with an additional essay and new design elements!
In Strangers, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times.
Ships in hand-stamped book wrap.
Bursting with intellectual generosity. Deep wide roots and radical shoots”
Introducing Makina Audio!
This month we are launching our first audio programme. The project, a collaboration with access and inclusivity consultant Caroline Dawson, brings together three debut poets (originally from India, Ireland and Birmingham) reading their books in full, with additional audio descriptions illustrating the look and feel of each front cover, back cover, flaps and spine. This work is generously supported by a project grant from Arts Council England.
Glass - Cover Audio Description by Caroline Dawson
Glass
In Glass, Emily Cooper’s poetics masterfully create a compelling space that deliberately excludes wide views—instead bringing her pen up close to a dilapidated house in a small rural town with its own personality.
Ships with an exclusive Glass print in hand-stamped book wrap.
Cooper is a poet of impressive deftness and idea”
HYPERLOVE
Hyperlove burns with frustration and fervour as Naomi Morris explores heteronormative ideals, romantic happily-ever-afters and the historical oppression of women and their right to agency and expression.
Ships with an exclusive Hyperlove print and large vinyl sticker in hand-stamped book wrap.
Disruptive and extrasensory as a crush, Morris’ work summons us back into our own reflections.”
The Yak Dilemma
In The Yak Dilemma, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal ventures out of the mountain ranges of Palampur and across vast distances of land and sea.
Ships with an exclusive The Yak Dilemma print in hand-stamped book wrap.
