PREORDER: Songs and Sonnets by Shane McCrae is a caustic, formally agile sequence that confronts the psychic and political wreckage of contemporary America through fractured sonnets and sharply enjambed verse. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER: lover / priory by Adrienne Wilkinson is a formally restless and deeply sensuous collection that navigates intimacy, embodiment, and spiritual longing through fragmentary, incantatory verse. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

I'll be reading from my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social book, The Point Is You Are Alive, alongside @marymulholland.bsky.social Wendy Allen and @alicehiller.bsky.social, at The Poetry Cafe, Tuesday 28th October, 7pm-9pm! Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outrageous...

New event for diary planning. Come along to @poetrysociety.org.uk poetry cafe to celebrate the launch of some @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social books and I will read from my beloved Plastic Tubed Little Bird ❤️

We’re baaaaaccckkkk! In The Book Bag this week we’re hovering over the handset ‘Maybe I’ll Call Gillian Anderson’ by Rhian Elizabeth is published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Plenty news/opps/shoutouts and of course the playlist paulwritespoems.com/2025/09/07/t...

PREORDER @lenski666.bsky.social Len Lukowski’s Bodily Fluids is a charged, unflinching examination of desire, transgression, and the shifting boundaries of selfhood. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER: The Indigo Hours by Maria Sledmere is an immersive, radiant text that moves between autofiction, essay, and poetic prose to document the textures of contemporary longing. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER: @laurablomvall.bsky.social Enter Moon by Laura Blomvall is a debut pamphlet of lyrical precision and imaginative reach, charting celestial and earthly landscapes with equal intensity. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

My poetry collection, Bodily Fluids, is now available to preorder from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 💦💘 www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER: New Arts by Nisha Bhakoo is a taut, haunting collection of poems that navigates grief, memory, and survival with stark lyricism. Divided into two parts, 'The Art of Dying' and 'Dark Arts,' www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER: Anna Brook’s Motherhood: A Ghost Story is an unguarded, lyrical excavation of the thresholds between presence and absence, memory and immediacy, selfhood and care. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER (@alexhouen.bsky.social): Geoff Gilbert and Alex Houen’s See You Through: A Novel is a formally restless, genre-collapsing hybrid that inhabits the threshold between poetry and fiction. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

ONLINE LAUNCH: Pay-what-you-want tickets are available for our August Zoom launch, featuring readings from Will Alexander, Lucy Hurst, Jo Morris Dixon, Sam Retallick, Adam Barret, Jonathan Dunne & Yordan Efftimov. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

PREORDER (31.08.2025): Jo Morris Dixon’s Strawberries is a taut, quietly disquieting sequence that traces the intensities of bodily experience, domestic space, and emotional dislocation. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

SEE YOU THROUGH, the poem-novel I wrote with Geoff Gilbert is now available for pre-order at a price cheaper than the RRP💐🙌👇 It dances on the crack between unlived life & what happens 👻🐙🐠🌋🍸 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @godzillakent.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

ONLINE LAUNCH: Pay-what-you-want tickets are available now for our July launch, with readings from Meier, Peter Hughes, Richard Skinner, Sammi Gale, Mary Mulholland, and Luigi Coppola & Mark Shuttleworth. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

PREORDER (31.08.2025): Sam Retallick’s The Winter Wizard is a folkloric sequence that blends whimsy, melancholy, and myth in an imaginative coming-of-age narrative. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

If I can recommend one poetry book for you to buy over these next few months, it's this one by Martin Hayes and published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Just world class, working class writing. As real as it gets. Exceptional. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... #poetsonbluesky #poetry

💙💙 My first full-length poetry collection, 'Bodily Fluids', will be out in November with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ! Excited to share the excellent cover with you, by @godzillakent.bsky.social 💙💙

PREORDER (31.08.2025): Will Alexander’s Texas Blind Salamander Feelings is a recovered early work whose language pulses with hallucinatory velocity and psychic intensity. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER (31.08.2025): Adam Barrett’s The First Thirty Years EP is a taut, propulsive collection that fuses poetic memoir with political indictment, navigating masculinity, class, and grief through the lens of North East England. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER (31.07.2025): Meier’s After the Parting is a vast, intricately composed collection that maps grief, memory, history, and selfhood across layered geographies and deep time. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER (31.08.2025): Lucy Hurst’s Gut Feeling is a fiercely intelligent and formally dynamic collection that interrogates illness, vulnerability, and survival through a visceral, unflinching poetics. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER (31/07/2025): Yordan Efftimov’s The Heart Is Not a Creator, translated by Jonathan Dunne, is a layered and formally restless collection that dissects emotional, political, and existential terrains with satirical precision and lyrical detachment. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

ONLINE LAUNCH: Readings from Martin Hayes, Alice Kinsella, Jim Goar, Sue Vickerman, Kit Ingram, and Eva Aldea. Monday 30th June, 8pm, Zoom. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

And shamelessly jumping on this to say it directly inspired my latest thing from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

ONLINE LAUNCH: Broken Sleep June 2025 releases, with readings from Martin Hayes, Alice Kinsella, Jim Goar, Sue Vickerman, Kit Ingram, and Eva Aldea. Minimum payment of £1. For free tickets email: [email protected] www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

‘Exit Strategy explores how a surviving partner might navigate an afterlife, one that has to adjust to a major loss, while trying to make sense of that loss and respond to bereavement.’ Many thanks @emmalee1.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

December 2025 Sound on! @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #poetsonbluesky #poetry #poems

PREORDER (31.07.2025): Even God Gets Distracted Sometimes is a playful yet incisive collection that interweaves poetry and visual art to explore contemporary life through surreal fables, sharp satire, and speculative reimaginings. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER (30.06.2025): Martin Hayes’ A Few More Sunrises Yet Before It Ends gathers together decades of sharp, unsparing poetry that documents the underpaid, overworked lives of Britain’s contemporary working class. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

FLASH SALE ENDS TODAY! Get 25% off on our books at our website! Sale ends at midnight tonight, so grab some books while you can. Thank you for supporting independent publishing. 👉 Shop now and save 25% brokensleepbooks.com

FLASH SALE! For a limited time, you can stock up on our latest titles — all at 25% off. But hurry — this offer won’t last long! Sale ends at midnight tomorrow. Thank you for supporting independent publishing. 👉 Shop now and save 25%: brokensleepbooks.com

PREORDER (31.07.2025): Mary Mulholland’s the elimination game is a candid, sharply observed pamphlet that confronts ageing, mortality, and memory with wit, lyric clarity, and occasional surrealism. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

I've just pre-ordered my copy 😍 Congratulations @richardnskinner.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏 xx

Launch week! Me and @steveeely.bsky.social will be at Cnoc Soilleir to talk about Orasaigh this Thursday. #Orasaigh #Poetry #Photography @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

‘This book … is immensely powerful and immensely ambitious; its ambition held in the way it maintains, with real deftness, both the centripetal and the centrifugal.’ - Ian Pople www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social

PREORDER (31.07.2025, @richardnskinner.bsky.social): Richard Skinner’s Undercurrents is a hybrid essay collection that brings together literary criticism, memoir, cultural commentary, and music writing in a loose, associative structure. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Delighted that 'girls etc' by Rhian Elizabeth is up for The Wales Book of the Year Award 2025! You can vote for Rhian by following the link below! nation.cymru/culture/vote... #poetry #poetsonbluesky

PREORDER (30.06.2025): Sue Vickerman’s a suitcaseful of dog is a sharp, darkly funny, and unsentimentally lyrical collection that captures life’s absurdities and devastations with equal intensity. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Wherein Raymond de Borja reads from FACTURE, a finalist for the 2024 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry! youtu.be/2CNkb4fMzL8 Cc: @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

Thanks very much to Spellbinder Magazine for including my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection New Famous Phrases on the Celebrate Success page of their Spring issue!

PREORDER (30.06.2025): Eva Aldea’s (@towritelikeadog.bsky.social) Forced Swimming Test is a fiercely intelligent, unflinchingly honest meditation on mental health, neurodivergence, and the uneasy interplay between personal distress and systemic forces. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER (30.06.2025): Kit Ingram’s X Coranto is a layered, formally inventive work that reanimates the history of a single South London street through fractured reportage, fictional memoir, and archival collage. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER (31.05.2025): Alec Finlay’s Not Sealions but Lions by the Sea is a remarkable, clear-sighted act of poetic attention—tender without evasion, quietly radical in its form and feeling. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Spring is the season for poetry. Perfect time to be on @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ‘s ‘get a manuscript together’ course. Highly recommend to poet friends. Amazing tutors and supportive group. Need this framework so much. ✨🌟🤍💛✨ Lyra fest was ace and vagabond poets visited the city too.

ONLINE LAUNCH: Come along our May online launch, with readings from Rhian Elizabeth, @alecfinlay.bsky.social, David Ball, @gilestwriter.bsky.social, Elenia Graf, and Patrick Paridee Samuel. Pay-what-you-want tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

NEW MERCH: Featuring a bold, minimalist red line drawing of a masked, open-mouthed figure surrounded by the provocative phrase "FUCK GENDER," this shirt is a striking expression of gender defiance and identity fluidity. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

PREORDER (30.06.2025): Jim Goar’s Iron Lung is a recursive, disorienting interrogation of language, ideology, and the mechanisms of control that shape personal and collective narratives. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

And if you have a spare few moments tonight, it'll be lovely to see you at the online launch this evening. I'll be joining straight after teaching, so a night of poet-ing fun awaits: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...