Hedgehog Poetry Press - Böcker

The Garden/er is a long poem which contains a sequence of elegies. It follows a year in a garden, month by month, examining flora and fauna, and listening to the author’s experiences and reactions to her father’s death. Anger and bewil...

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Selected from his three collections and various pamphlet publications, Larksong Static offers a first synopsis of Martin Malone's work so far. From his resounding alliances of memory and geography in The Waiting Hillside , through the complicated ...

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This eclectic collection of poetry explores the fragility and impermanence of all that is precious in this world – ourselves, our loved ones, our homes, our familiar places, our countries and more generally life on planet earth and beyond. C...

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Broken Things is a gathered handful of poems formed from quiet curiosity at the ordinary and strange in what is found beneath our feet, at our fingertips, in the air about us...  This, the debut collection from the exciting new talent that is...

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The “chengyu”, Mandarin Chinese for idiom, condenses a feeling , sentence and more often than not a story into four characters. Similarly, each of Leung’s poems is a cross-section; aiming to capture a slice of the world, or a rel...

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Of Gone Fox is a cycle of 13 poems held between two photos of a dead fox...Mark Goodwin is a poet-sound-artist, and speaks & writes in various ways. He has published with various English poetry houses including Intergraphia, Leafe Press, Longbarro...

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A collaboration of ten poems on the theme of TRUTH between two Prize Winning poets Maria Castro Dominguez ( Las Palmas, Spain) and Matt Duggan (Newport, Wales.) In a time of change this pamphlet is essential reading, all the poems are in English w...

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'Psychopathogen' explores the effect of exceptional times on unexceptional people: a reluctant schoolboy; a shielded grandmother; a middle-aged married couple; a pair of home-working parents and their children. This is not life as we know it. Nige...

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Seasons change and life goes on while we grieve - "trees that will soon bear fruit, cast pink shadows" "dandelions feed many wishes" "crab apples fall all night, all day". thoughts while walking with merlyn i s Philippa Hatton-Lepine's debut colle...

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"Reading the poems together is like stepping into a forest where each tree has a highly individual character. Patricia M Osborne does really well to conjure up such a playful range of voices that feel different yet enhance one another, and her shi...

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Zo Sobhan Howarth-Lowe's collection, is a special and quite beautiful debut from an exciting new poetic voice. 'I have Two Hearts' is a collection of poems exploring the complicated emotions, the simplicities of moments and the intricacies of moth...

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There is a house in a forest, where something strange is happening. The birds are quiet, the animals avoid it and it is only spoken of by children in awed whispers, in torchlight around campfires. Featuring Twenty poems from Twenty poets, this spo...

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"Perhaps we were all tall children then, playing games on asphalt under alien stars, the heat boiling up through the cracks." Named after a line in an outtake from his 1996 album  1.Outside , 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' is a collection...

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Reports Come In  is a visceral surrealist collage of scenes from a fracturing world. Corruption, conflict and catastrophe adopt a grotesque beauty as Hardwick holds them up to the light of a bare bulb swinging in an abandoned house, revealing...

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"Julie Stevens speaks with the true voice of feeling, wrestling hope out of pain and celebrating every small instance of joy. Her experience of long-term illness draws her into many unlit areas of emotion. She illuminates these dark places wi...

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" Honey dew is the debut pamphlet by Darren J Beaney a collection of twenty-one powerful love poems, Beaney has written a wonderful and emotionally charged pamphlet that savours the true expressions and empathy in love with all its up's and downs,...

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There is a deceptively simple depth and truth to Kate Young's poetry that speaks of an old soul, but one that can almost divine the streams of common feeling that are cascading below the surface. A Spark in the Darkness  is exactly that, a bu...

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The poems in this collection speak in many voices and touch on many themes: COVID-19, love and loss, uncertainty, well-being, migration, power, violence, nature, superstition, memory, art and faith. They explore connections, separation, nearness a...

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Nigel Kent's collection of ekphrastic poems,"Unmuted", is inspired by a gallery of famous works by artists from the present and the past. Each artwork acts as a frame in a storyboard which he unfreezes and unmutes to reveal the narrative he imagin...

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Gill McEvoy moved from Chester to Devon in 2017.  She has published the following: three pamphlets from Happenstance Press: "Uncertain Days"; 2006, "A Sampler", 2008 and "The First telling" 2014. She won the 2015 Michael Marks Award for "The ...

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In Vexed - Z D Dicks' electrifying new collection, a series of unexpected protagonists face dramatic challenges (a Bodhisattva learns to let go, Diogenes looks at a cynical world, Achilles hears his dead lover), and the human condition, with all i...

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"Reading Robin McNamara's Under a Mind's Staircase is like taking a journey through the human condition. McNamara masterfully conveys the idea of the unreachable: the sense of something forthcoming, acts of grasping at straws, and an eventual fall...

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Our concern for the environment stimulated this short Haiku conversation. With activists on the streets raising voices of truth, we voiced ours in a circular Haiku named life. Intertwining the joys of nature with the worries we observed each Haiku...

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shades of blue is an invitation to be present to life. By turns mischievous, meditative, melancholy and ecstatic, this short collection celebrates the natural world and the mixed and marvellous experience of being human. Though shades of blue feat...

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Vertigo to Go is a timely and searing examination of the current state of the world, seen through the eyes of a young protagonist dealing with grief, addiction, loneliness and madness in the face of invasive technologies, vast systemic inequalitie...

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"In a pamphlet saturated in colour,  Damien Donnelly takes us on an immersive   journey through a landscape of pigments. Written with great lyricism and emotional intensity, these poems contrast darker hues ...

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Partnerships are demanding. Reconciling two sets of expectations, hopes, ambitions, desires and demands is an exacting business. The ideal is surely a mutually agreed balance between give and take, rights and compromises, constraints and freedoms....

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"Sanjeev Sethi's poems are notable for conciseness, for their clarity. Observations, when they are made, are witty, succinct, and relevant. Words are crucial. With them, they carry symbolism, wizardry, enchantment, magic. The more I read him, the ...

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From the sonnet, 'Tournesols' to 'Boutique Hotel,' any joy and relief in this collection of poems are short-lived, reflecting their creator's real-life experiences and those of others she knows well. We are born, we bloom for a while, if lucky, bu...

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'Missing Pieces' is a collection of poems tracing the story of love, loss and relationships, exploring moments, memories and reflections from early childhood to the present day. "Karen Mooney has come to poetry with great honesty and insightfulnes...

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