One Word Wonders

A deadly disease has wiped out 99% of the world’s population in 24 hours. The remaining one percent survived by chance. As the dead begin to rise, this is the end of the world from over 50 different perspectives.

For bar-owner Shaney Fleet, offending a private garbage hauler has rubbish consequences for his business, and his personal safety, in this parable of 21st century urban life.

This verse-novella charts the post-apocalyptic journey of a cargo ship, captained by Nolan and Nadia, and headed for the temperate climes of Greenland.

Neither forever or a girls’ best friend, but evidently needed by a monster in a child’s game, these poetic diamonds explore divorce, parenting, and midlife on the edge.

This surreal fable unravels as a series of strange scenarios, a stream of consciousness struggle, and a poisoned horse.

Unafraid of tackling life’s big questions, these poems take you on a journey through love, marriage, family, and death, in the company of Coles’s hallmark wit and nimble intelligence.

Leaving behind a wife, two children, and a life of niceness, nice-guy Andreas Doppler heads into the woods with a tent. It’s lonely and boring, and he’s never been happier. But after he kills an elk for meat, he finds an unlikely companion in her calf.

This documentary ‘verse novella’ slowly gathers momentum as skater Kai Carlson-Wee travels the American West finding kinship with strangers on the road.

A comprehensive collection of Sam Hamil’s critical commentaries on poets and poetry from Denise Levertov to John Logan, garnered from over a period of nearly twenty years.

Gentle yet gently unsettling, Knotweed is a story that grows on you: Helena must leave Hackney because something is growing inside her….