The effect is one of both snapshot and blur, of a summer re-refracted, like uneasy summer light in the surface of a photograph.
— Imogen Cassels on Oscar Nearly's Fragile July |
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Tuesday 31st March. 2000 (8pm) start. Broken Sleep March 2026 releases, with readings from: Tom Snarsky (reading from MOUNTEBANK) Alex Innocent (reading from Balloons) Joseph Persad (reading from The War of Leeroy Jenkins' Ear) Oscar Nearly (reading from Fragile July) Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç & Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi (reading from Prinzenbad) Mirko Boncaldo (reading from Subverses) All books available to buy at brokensleepbooks.com Minimum payment of £1. For free tickets email: aa...@brokensleepbooks.com |
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| | Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, translated by Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi - Prinzenbad | | Set in the charged atmospheres of Kreuzberg, airports, waiting rooms, bedrooms, and prayer spaces, Prinzenbad moves through hunger, desire, surveillance, … | | £11.99 | | |
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| | alex innocent - balloons | | In Balloons, alex innocent writes into the body’s most private rooms and the world’s most public violences. These poems move through harm and aftermath, … | | £11.99 | | |
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| | Mirko Boncaldo - Subverses | | Subverses by Mirko Boncaldo is a collection that treats the poem as a site of refusal, resisting authorial entitlement and inviting interpretation as a … | | £8.99 | | |
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| | Tom Snarsky - MOUNTEBANK | | MOUNTEBANK is a book of bells and bodies, of vows made in a kitchen and broken in public, of love that keeps asking for water and coffee and proof. Tom … | | £11.99 | | |
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| | Oscar Nearly - Fragile July | | Fragile July by Oscar Nearly is a prose-poem of obsessive reconstruction, circling a single childhood summer in which the ordinary textures of suburbia, … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | Joseph Persad -The War of Leeroy Jenkins' Ear | | The War of Leeroy Jenkins’ Ear is a restless, intellectually charged sequence that threads a cut-off ear through histories of empire, cultural inheritance, … | | £8.99 | | |
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Monochrome Feminist Sticker Pack (8 pack) | | A punchy monochrome 8-pack of square stickers with bold white line art and text, handmade by Emma Kennedy. Each design is clean, high-contrast, and built … | | £4.99 | | |
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Monochrome Slogan Sticker Pack (8 pack) | | A sharp monochrome 8-pack of square stickers with bold white line art and text handmade by Emma Kennedy. Slogans range from the tender to the unruly: ‘LIVE … | | £4.99 | | |
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| | Steph Ellen Feeney - Small Change | | Small Change by Steph Ellen Feeney is a radiant, unflinching collection that distils the seismic transformations of new motherhood into a sequence of poems … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | Stephen S. Mills - Final Slash Boy | | Final Slash Boy is a taut, incendiary collection that melds queer desire, pop horror and personal hauntology into a lyric of resistance and reclamation. … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | Henry St Leger - Occupational Phenomena | | Occupational Phenomena by Henry St Leger is a razor sharp pamphlet that turns the language of job interviews, productivity culture and corporate aspiration … | | £8.99 | | |
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| | James Byrne - The Banality of Power | | POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION In The Banality of Power, James Byrne anatomises the everyday mechanics of harm, tracing how cruelty becomes procedure, how … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | Anna Jordan - Decade | | Decade by Anna Jordan is a fierce, intimate debut that refuses the neat arcs of recovery and instead writes grief as lived time, full of bodily recoil, dark … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | Adam Crothers - Home to My Cats | | Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers is a fizzing, formally playful pamphlet that turns feline devotion into a poetics of art, music and mischief. These poems … | | £8.99 | | |
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