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A Certain Koslowski: The Director's Cut

Michael Augustin

A Certain Koslowski: The Director's Cut

Koslowski is everyone and no one, a tragic figure who stumbles through life in resigned bewilderment at the trials and bizarre coincidences thrown in his path. These brief prose pieces have a style and attraction all their own, by turns wonderfully surreal and laugh-out-loud funny.

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Approximately in the Key of C

Tony Curtis

Approximately in the Key of C

"...humour and charm, and the ability to turn a poem with the seemingly simplest of images, and that understanding of how words will play over the listener's ear..."

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The Spanish-Italian Border

Róisín Tierney

The Spanish-Italian Border

As the title suggests, this is a book that contorts the world we know, oddly fluid and yet grounded in subjects that range from rural Eire to sub-maritime journeys to Southern Spain, from unheard of languages to ghost dogs.

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Speech with Humans

Glen Baxter and Clark Coolidge

Speech with Humans

The grim account of Monty Girard's one-way journey into the unknown, told in words by Glen Baxter and Clark Coolidge, and illustrated with 54 of Baxter's distinctive line-drawings.

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The Right Thing

C. K. Stead

The Right Thing

The collection has a distinctly international feel with poems about time spent in Oxford, France, Crete, and his travels through the United States. Throughout, Stead's erudition and knowledge of the classical canon combine with his laconic wit and keen powers of observation, to produce poems of great energy, humour and irreverence.

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Astronaut

Brian Henry

Astronaut

Astronaut abounds with an unflagging energy, an exuberance of language and a humour that is by turns savage and deadpan, all of which leave the reader encountering Brian Henry's poems for the first time gasping for air. But so compelling is his cleverness with words and exploitation of the poetic form that the reader will be only too happy to take the plunge again. Already a rising star in his native US, Brian Henry will undoubtedly make his mark in the UK with this, his first published full-length collection.

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Straw Into Gold

C. K. Stead

Straw Into Gold

Straw into Gold is C K Stead's first UK poetry publication and is a substantial selection of his poetry from the five decades up to the millennium, plus a significant body of new work. The great range of Stead's voices and tones, his unflagging energy, his elegance and wit make this a compelling book of poems.

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Unthinking

Les Coleman

Unthinking

Just my right up my cup of tea street.

Roger McGough

Les Coleman’s cocked hat is a pistol of uncommon sense levelled at those treacherous concepts which infiltrate our neat mental suburbs crowing like cocks and so on…

George Melly

Repair man to our tired thoughts, Les gets our sentences up on to his bench, tinkers about with them and puts them back together — just off, out of sync, skew-whiff.

Patrick Hughes

Humour and Truth having a ‘quickie’ in some Holy Place.

Peter Blegvad

Unthinking flips the silver spoon from memory’s mouth.

Tom Raworth

I think there is nothing wrong with his pictures.

Art Spiegelman
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A Certain Koslowski

Michael Augustin

A Certain Koslowski

The author confesses to having been influenced by Zbigniew Herbert and Flann O'Brien at the same time. Whatever their origin, they constitute a delightfully amusing collection, and the whole is enhanced by a series of apposite illustrations by Hartmut Eing.

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Meet the Arts Students

Les Coleman

Meet the Arts Students

From his humble beginnings in the graphite mines of Letchworth, Les Coleman went on to publish his savage critique of the sinister cult of vegetarianism Tofu Walk With Me. After years of research exploring the darker side of the human psyche he has returned with this current volume in which he proves conclusively that viridian, if deftly applied, need no longer be a source of embarrassment.

Glen Baxter

With unfaltering good humour, even a kind of grace, Les Coleman depicts the hapless victims of our failing art education system.

Simon Cutts

Everyone laughed at me when I called the teacher ‘Sir’, instead of ‘Les’.

Chris Donald, Viz Comics

I look forward to its inevitable sequel, Meet the Art Professors.

Professor Roy R. Behrens

Anyone who has been an art student in the last twenty years will recognise this wickedly accurate file of posers, tossers, blaggers and nerds as the other people in their class.

Chris Garrett, Biff

I see myself in all of these self-portraits.

Patrick Hughes

I wish I were a first year art-student!!

‘Larry’
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