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….

From mother-daughter relationships and cancer, to racial prejudice and 9/11 Clifton’s voice is one of empathy and knowing. Her twelfth poetry collection explores the weight of Western materialism and technology upon America’s lost and forgotten where “the only mercy is memory”.

From the Anti-Apartheid Movement to chemotherapy, these deceptively simple and powerfully moving poems from the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist, and Robert Frost Medal winner, Lucille Clifton continue to have cultural resonance.

Exposing the precarious relationship between thought and feeling, Heather McHugh addresses empathy and how much we feel and do for other people’s misfortunes.

When an earthquake unleashes a magical plague in Kyrkata, what was once a free natural resource becomes a lucrative commodity. But Diz and her friends have an illegal method of syphoning magic or ‘maz’ — until a powerful new variant points to a potential spellplague conspiracy.

Private Jack Lucas was only seventeen when he saved the lives of his fellow soldiers at the Battle Of Iwo Jima in 1945. Throwing himself over two enemy grenades, his body received 250 entrance wounds. Initially left for dead, Jack miraculously survived and became the youngest World War 2 serviceman to receive the medal of honour.

Overweight, out of gin and without a gun, gumshoe Ralph Poteet gets a late night call from call girl Lyla Dane and there’s a dead priest in her bed.

Through this medically-proven programme from Alejandro Junger, learn how to remove toxins, rejuvenate your body and restore your natural health.

They’ve been friends since childhood but now she works on a farm and he lives in the city. On the brink of a referendum, she’s voting YES but will she say YES to the ring in his pocket?

Cog is an ordinary twelve-year old boy except that his name is short for “cognitive development” and he’s a robot. When Cog wakes up in a strange lab, he’s presented with an unexpected mission — to rescue his creator from the evil clutches of the corporation which controls them.

In a world without lies, where news is fact and textbooks are truth, Meri Beckley’s life takes an unexpected turn when her mother is suddenly killed. Does Meri accept the truth she’s been told or embrace a new world where words have the power to change...and the wrong word can get you killed?