Mary Booker 
Nothing Special 

When he first hiked the Don Valley trails / all he heard was river as he strode / beside its glitter of smashing glass Grounded in the local and immediate from Toronto s rivers and ravines to its …

Rochester, incontestably the greatest of the Restoration poets and reprobates, is presented in The Debt to Pleasure both in his own words and in the words of those who loved and loathed him. The book …

This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation”s all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll”s curious ”Jabberwocky” to lesser known and forgotten gems …

Central Avenue Publishing is proud to publish another book by the widely acclaimed poet Iain S. Thomas. As many have noted on various social media platforms, there have been some issues that have l …

Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built …

Arthur Seymour John Tessimond – Jack to his family, John in later life – was born in Birkenhead in 1902 and made his living as an advertising copywriter, but his true writing life was in poetry, …

In Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas leads us on a high-wire act in pursuit of a new kind of communication. By turns political, social, theological, historical and personal, the poems in this debut …

”I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.” Fired by his abiding love of the E …

Confessions of Her is a tale of survival depicting how one young woman found love in herself, rather than searching for it in the arms of another. This autobiographical collection of poetry and pro …