Liza Costello is a writer to watch.
— Irish Times

A truly gifted writer.
— Andrew Rosenheim

Shot through with a wry humour that edges towards the savage.
— Christina Patterson

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Unfolding with a cinematic sense of rhythm and control, this is fiction that unsettles gently but decisively, refusing neat resolution in favour of truth’s more fragmented shapes.

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Costello renders each interior crisis, postpartum psychosis, betrayal, estrangement, grief, with stark clarity and devastating calm, allowing meaning to accrue in gesture, omission and atmosphere.

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Traversing psychiatric institutions, troubled relationships, sunlit piazzas and Guatemalan backroads, the narratives centre voices negotiating memory, trauma and desire in language that is spare yet quietly propulsive.

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Set against the salt-bright textures of water and sand, the work stages a quiet, radical reclamation of identity, intimacy and myth, yielding a poetics that is both elemental and deeply personal.

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Hale's language is fluid and precise, attuned to the tensions of embodiment and the lyric potential of refusal.

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Braiding poetic narrative, essay and mythic retelling, the sequence reimagines the selkie as a figure of in-betweenness, a creature of thresholds, shaped by longing, breath, and change.

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Authors include Will Alexander, Scout Tzofiya Bolton, Geoff Hattersley, Martin Hayes, Rishi Dastidar, Rhian Elizabeth, Aaron Kent, Shane McCrae, Rushika Wick, Richard Skinner, Maria Sledmere, Stuart McPherson, Daragh Fleming, and more!

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It offers a sharp snapshot of contemporary literature while reflecting a working-class ethos & a commitment to degentrification, community power & accessible culture. A vibrant, dynamic & award-winning independent press distilled into one compelling volume.

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These poems probe and worry syntax into a frank and absorbing poetic
— Jack Underwood

Jake Wild Hall’s voice has a clarity that will break you
— Clare Pollard

painful and beautiful to read
— Caroline Bird

A welcomed return from Jake Wild Hall.
— Yomi Ṣode

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Hall balances absurdism and sincerity with remarkable control, moving between domestic & digital, sacred & profane. What emerges is a lyric mode that is generous, self-questioning, and defiantly alive to the emotional contradictions of contemporary manhood.

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The poems resist singular narrative arcs, instead offering refrains, fragments, and abrupt tonal pivots that echo the dislocation of memory and the loops of online life.

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Lose yourself in it and retrace the steps you never took, this is a poem that understands that any convulsion of desire is part of a greater game of absence.
— David Spittle

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The book is both critique and enactment of representation: a work pursued by its maker, stalked by its forms, and shadowed by Christine. Elle is a hauntological lyric, a summoning that won’t let the archive lie still.

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Blending procedural method with pulp volatility, Sheppard mines and retools the idioms of violence, sex, media, and myth, threading the ghosts of Buñuel, Jeff Keen, and the tabloid unconscious into a shattered, many-voiced delirium.

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