After featuring in the BBC Proms Poetry and the Bread & Roses awards, Barry Smith’s debut collection explores the notion of life as performance. The poems examine ideas of change and transformation, of becoming, of disintegration and discovery. There are poems on both classical and popular music, on art, theatre, poetry and clowns. The scope Read More...
It is About Love opens the reader to joy and wonder while not fearing to communicate what is painful and disturbing as it arises. In this wise and graceful debut collection, global injustice and threat are faced with compassionate strength, while the natural world, experienced as sanctuary, grounds and delights. Quietly influenced by William Blake, Read More...
Waterloo Press
The first LIT UP cohort with the WP team, Brighton 2019
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Waterloo Press offers readers an eclectic list of the most inventive and stimulating poetry from the UK and abroad. Our beautifully designed books range from lost modernist classics to translations of senior international poets and vibrant collections by the best young British poets around.
Waterloo Press brings radical and marginalised voices to the fore, mirroring the aesthetic value of their work in outstanding book design, including dust jackets; large font; and original artwork for the covers. As we launch our refreshed website, we are proud to announce that LIT UP, our new mentoring and publishing programme for emerging poets of colour, is now nearing completion with nine titles scheduled to appear in 2019-2020. With its diverse and growing list, Waterloo Press breaks down the borders between contemporary schools of poetry, to forge a new poetics based on respect for craft, innovation, and the music of real communication.
Performance Rites (2021)
£12.00
After featuring in the BBC Proms Poetry and the Bread & Roses awards, Barry Smith’s debut collection explores the notion of life as performance. The poems examine ideas of change and transformation, of becoming, of disintegration and discovery. There are poems on both classical and popular music, on art, theatre, poetry and clowns. The scope Read More...
It is About Love (2021)
£12.00
It is About Love opens the reader to joy and wonder while not fearing to communicate what is painful and disturbing as it arises. In this wise and graceful debut collection, global injustice and threat are faced with compassionate strength, while the natural world, experienced as sanctuary, grounds and delights. Quietly influenced by William Blake, Read More...
