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  • Moon Landings
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    Moon Landings
    Richard C W Palser

    Moon Landings is a rich and evocative collection that journeys through love, memory, loss, and the restless search for meaning. Moving between the intimate and the expansive, Richard C. W. Palser’s poems explore human connection against shifting landscapes – seasonal, emotional, and cosmic.

    From the dreamlike reach of the title poem to the grounded lyricism of Seasonal Songs, these works weave together the personal and the universal. Relationships flicker and fracture, voices overlap, and moments of tenderness sit alongside disquiet and longing. There is music here, too – echoes of earlier traditions reshaped into something immediate and alive.

    By turns reflective, surreal, and sharply observant, Moon Landings invites the reader into a world where the ordinary is unsettled, and where even the smallest moment may open onto something vast.

    £6.99
  • The Sound of Madness
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    The Sound of Madness
    Mark Gardner

    Step into the labyrinth of the mind, where reality bends and the unseen whispers louder than the world outside. The Sound of Silence is a haunting collection of poetry that explores the fragile boundary between sanity and madness. Through vivid imagery, raw emotion, and fractured rhythms, these poems navigate the chaos of inner turmoil, the beauty hidden in despair, and the relentless search for meaning amidst confusion. Each verse is a descent into the mind’s darkest corners—a journey that is unsettling, profound, and deeply human. Perfect for readers drawn to the complexities of mental struggle and the poetic expression of the soul’s most tumultuous storms.

    £6.99
  • Broken Window Pain
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    Broken Window Pain
    Ezra Godson

    These poems come from the places I used to love and hate—from my bedroom to schoolyards to my broken home and bleeding heart. I wrote Broken Window Pain with a shard of glass in one hand and a prayer in the other. This book isn’t about perfect poems. It’s about survival. It’s about telling the truth when your voice shakes. It’s for the kid who learnt to laugh through trials, cover bruises from being bullied and wipe tears away after crying at night. It’s for anyone who’s ever patched their life together through dreams of better times.


    My vignettes and poetry are messy, raw, and full of heart. Some pages weep. Others sigh. A few still hope. But every experience is mine, and maybe, just maybe, some of them are yours too.


    If you’ve ever felt like a stained window, cracked but still catching light—this book is for you.

    £7.99
  • Trapped in Perpetual Motion
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    Trapped in Perpetual Motion
    Katie Hanlon

    Trapped in a cycle,

    Repeating the same behaviours,

    Over and over and over again,

    Like Newton’s Cradle,

    Who controls the motion?


    The answers are inside,

    Closer than you think,

    Open up and explore,

    The unknown isn’t as scary

    As people believe,


    If the answers are close,

    Then why is it so hard?

    To break this cycle,

    One must believe,

    In the light at the end of the tunnel,


    I am no guide,

    No plan to follow,

    One’s path is truly their own,

    A direction will appear,

    Given time and much reflection.

    £6.99
  • Equally True
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    Equally True
    Sandra Soper

    These poems arise from a life shaped by profound love and the long, faithful work of grief. They move through marriage, motherhood, belief, addiction, endurance, and loss with tenderness and clarity, offering not a record of suffering but a listening presence within it. At their heart is the conviction that love does not end and that grief, though costly, can become a place of deep spiritual attention.


    Grounded in lived experience, the poems dwell on the ordinary objects and moments that carry the weight of the sacred. A pair of insoles cut by hand, a jug on a windowsill, a remembered look or phrase. Such details become touchstones, holding what cannot be resolved yet continues to shape the soul. Memory here is active and alive, a form of communion rather than recollection.


    Faith is not assumed or neatly affirmed. It is questioned, tested, and returned to in fragments, gestures, and acts of care. Grief is shown as both breaking and refining, a slow discipline that sharpens compassion and deepens understanding.


    Written with musical sensitivity and brave emotional honesty, these poems offer recognition rather than answers. They speak to those who know that powerful love leaves a lasting imprint and that through loss, the soul may be changed, enlarged, and quietly sustained by grace.

    £6.99
  • Years in Fear
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    Years in Fear
    Zuivere Mamgain

    Years in Fear is a compelling collection of poetry that vividly portrays the deep-seated fear brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The poems delve into the uncertainty and internal struggles that became part of our lives during this time. Through powerful imagery and raw emotion, each poem explores themes of isolation, loss, and the unsettling unknown. Despite the fear, the collection also offers glimpses of resilience and hope, capturing the strength found in vulnerability. Experience the emotional release of Years in Fear and uncover the beauty that can emerge from the darkness. This collection serves as a powerful reminder of our shared humanity in times of crisis, inviting readers to confront their fears and find solace in the written word.

    £6.99
  • Later Sonnets
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    Later Sonnets
    Brian Hignett

    The present volume, entitled Later Sonnets, continues the writer’s exploration of the classical form. If the earlier work drew upon the eighteenth century and the language of the law, here the hand is surer, the voice more seasoned, and the reflections more tempered by experience.


    The poems remain serious in their general cast, yet moments of wit and humanity are not absent. They range across the landscape of the human spirit, considering with candour its trials, renewals, and quiet revelations. Once again, the writer respectfully submits this collection to the discernment of his readers, whether they approach in sympathy, in judgement, or perhaps both.

    £11.99
  • When the Gates of Hell Sprung Open
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    When the Gates of Hell Sprung Open
    Declan Acton

    I was dying on my feet, not even realising the devil had me in his grip. On a downward spiral toward an early grave, I needed a miracle—and fast. My mind was shattered. I was facing prison, locked away against my will, yet I still believed I was a good person. Then, the impossible happened. A miracle.

    £6.99
  • You Speak to Me
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    You Speak to Me
    Nilab Azimi

    You speak to me is about how something we come across or encounter resonates with us in different and diverse ways, can be part of our internal dialogue, or where we find ourselves being in two minds, feeling conflicted, or emotionally torn between what choices, decisions, and actions to make and take.

    This book intends to serve as a medium in promoting expression and connection through a collection of topical and theme based poetry in dialogue with one another highlighting metaphorically speaking, what speaks to us and what we need to tune into, attend, and respond to.

    £9.99
  • The Bliss of the Glory of the Grace of My Soul
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    The Bliss of the Glory of the Grace of My Soul
    Yaki Ocean

    This book has been inspired by the divinity within me to spark the consciousness of mankind with the light of sanity. This light will reawaken humanity’s eternal souls from the slumbering of vanity into the light of wisdom. This wisdom leads the mind to eternal, higher-dimension reasoning and to perceiving the glory of the soul’s eternal, heavenly, universal perceptions of the bliss that divine love advocates through the winds of change.

    Through these winds, our minds can be set free from the iniquity of mental slavery that prevents the soul from embracing the eternal opulence of bliss which the universe has conceived in our spirits with joy, eternally.

    £9.99
  • Yarns and Threads
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    Yarns and Threads
    John Barnett

    What makes a good yarn? Is it spun with a strong thread running through it, or does it need more than one thread? And how do you know a real yarn from a fake one? Does the difference really matter? After all, as soon as you open this book and start reading it, all the yarns and threads, the short stories and poems, they become yours. You can make of them what you will.


    Everything in this book comes from the heart. All the stories and poems were written with the hope that they will make you, the reader, smile or laugh, reflect or be moved. Perhaps the poems and stories will even encourage you to think about which yarns and threads you might like to spin as well.

    £12.99
  • Love Loves Leaving
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    Love Loves Leaving
    Easha Kaur

    This collection speaks to those who have ever felt abandoned, unseen or misunderstood. How does one feel when love leaves? What’s the aftermath of transient love? These poems explore how it arrives unexpectedly, transforms us and sometimes leaves just as quickly.Whether it’s unrequited love, emotional neglect, or the deep sadness of being unheard. This collection does not aim to romanticise heartbreak but rather to witness it—and in doing so, remind readers that there is power in feeling deeply and that healing begins with honesty.May this find anyone who has ever felt too much.

    £6.99

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