Creating bold, beautiful books and audio projects that promote and celebrate independent and emerging voices.
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 preorders ship with an exclusive Lobsters print and badge in hand-stamped book wrap!
Lobsters seems both to capture, and be caught up in, the peculiarly powerful and reckless energy of deep hunger. This poem is freewheeling and intoxicating.”
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.”
Strangers
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.
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Bursting with intellectual generosity. Deep wide roots and radical shoots”
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.
Dhaliwal writes with a rich fluency of tongues, evoking pathos and pleasure in equal measure.”