Books
Postcard Stories
By Jan Carson
ISBN 978-1-910139-68-4
Every day in 2015, Jan Carson wrote a story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. This is a collection of the highlights.
Pisanki
By Zosia Kuczyńska
ISBN 978-1-910139-72-1
In 1940, a young girl is taken from her home in Eastern Poland. Seventy years later, her journey is reimagined by her granddaughter.
Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real
By Padraig Regan
ISBN 978-1-910139-74-5
Padraig Regan’s poems delight in the sensual and the visual: this pamphlet is alive with the textures of paint, sugar and overripe fruit.
Meat Songs
By Jack Nicholls
ISBN 978-1-910139-62-2
The voices of humans and animals clamour for attention in Meat Songs.
Dragonish
By Emma Simon
ISBN 978-1-910139-64-6
Loss, love and various severed body parts are scattered throughout Dragonish.
Anthology of Aunts
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978-1-910139-66-0
Poems which explores what it means to be – and feels like to have – an aunt, historically and today.
First fox
By Leanne Radojkovich
ISBN 978-1-910139-70-7
A collection of short stories set in an everyday world tinged with the dreamlike qualities of fairy tales.
The Dragon and the Bomb
By Andrew Wynn Owen
ISBN 978-1-910139-58-5
A long poem about Don Armando, a man who wants to be a saint, and Haplo Nous, an alchemist who wants to split the atom.
This Is Not Your Final Form: Poems about Birmingham
Edited by Richard O’Brien and Emma Wright
ISBN 978-1-910139-60-8
A tough, unsentimental love letter to Birmingham. With poems from the 2017 VERVE poetry competition.
The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea
Edited by Eve Lacey
ISBN 978-1-910139-45-5
Poems which bear witness to storms, naval history, ocean creatures and the human desire for freedom.
Watcher of the Skies: Poems about Space and Aliens
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978-1-910139-43-1
A sparkling collection of poems about the outermost possibilities of space. Aimed at children aged 8+.
Moon Juice: Poems for Children
By Kate Wakeling
ISBN 978-1-910139-49-3
Kate Wakeling’s poems are full of curious characters and strange situations. Aimed at children 8+.
Urban Myths and Legends
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978-1-910139-24-0
A lively collection of poems by modern poets who have taken inspiration from the Metamorphoses.
Mackerel Salad
By Ben Rogers
ISBN 978-1-910139-41-7
The poems of Mackerel Salad lure the reader into a series of disorientating situations, via space, seas and a medieval medina.
Trouble
By Alison Winch
ISBN 978-1-910139-39-4
Alison Winch’s debut pamphlet looks at different kinds of intimacy via nightingales, betting shops, and the Canterbury Tales.
Goose Fair Night
By Kathy Pimlott
ISBN 978-1-910139-35-6
Pimlott’s debut pamphlet take us on a tour of the Midlands, bustling central London and the seaside.
DISSOLVE to: L.A.
By James Trevelyan
ISBN 978-1-910139-37-0
A tender collection of poems about minor characters in 1980s and 90s action films.
Mildly Erotic Verse
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978-1-910139-34-9
An anthology which celebrates modern eroticism in all its messy, sexy glory.
Malkin
By Camille Ralphs
ISBN 978-1-910139-30-1
A sequence of poems set during the 1612 Pendle witch trials.
True Tales of the Countryside
By Deborah Alma
ISBN 978-1-910139-26-4
Deborah Alma writes vividly about sex, love and ageing in rural Shropshire and Wales in her debut pamphlet.
AWOL
By John Fuller and Andrew Wynn Owen
With illustrations by Emma Wright
ISBN 978-1-910139-28-8
Letter poems on the subject of travel, between John Fuller and Andrew Wynn Owen. Fully illustrated with black ink and watercolour.
The Emma Press Anthology of Age
Edited by Sarah Hesketh
ISBN 978-1-910139-31-8
A collection of poems which challenge, celebrate and give age a voice.
Slow Things
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978-1-910139-16-5
An anthology which celebrates taking life at a leisurely pace.
Falling Out Of The Sky
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978-1-910139-18-9
A treasury of poems which retell myths, legends and fairytales from across the world. Aimed at children 9+.
The Emma Press Anthology of Dance
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978 1 910139 02 8
What makes us start dancing? Why do we ever stop?
Campaign in Poetry
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978 1 910139 02 8
A powerful anthology about political and social issues in the UK.
Best Friends Forever
Edited by Amy Key
ISBN 978 1 910139 07 3
A celebration of the transformative power of female friendship.
Myrtle
By Ruth Wiggins
ISBN 978-1-910139-05-9
Ruth Wiggins celebrates the primal forces of nature and the human heart in her heady debut pamphlet, which is full of dry humour and wisdom.
If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women
By Jacqueline Saphra
With illustrations by Mark Andrew Webber
ISBN 978-1-910139-06-6
Jacqueline Saphra constructs an eerie, sensuous world of eccentric parents and step-parents. Illustrated with linocut prints by Mark Andrew Webber.
Rivers Wanted
By Rachel Piercey
ISBN 978-1-910139-04-2
Rachel Piercey charms and disturbs in this beautiful, frequently heart-breaking collection of poems about love, identity and home.
Oils
By Stephen Sexton
ISBN 978-1-910139-03-5
Stephen Sexton’s poems pulse with nervy melancholy and twang with a dark wit. A PBS Pamphlet Choice Award winner.
Homesickness and Exile
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978 1 910139 02 8
How does it feel to be a foreigner? Can you choose where you call home? A collection about the fundamental human need to belong.
The Dead Snail Diaries
By Jamie McGarry
ISBN 978 0 9574596 9 4
A collection of observational poems and literary parodies which explore snail culture, as told by a prematurely-crushed snail poet.
The Emma Press Anthology of Fatherhood
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978 1 910139 00 4
A collection of poems about fathers and fatherhood, exploring themes of joy, masculinity, expectations, disappointment and love.
Captain Love and the Five Joaquins
By John Clegg
ISBN 978 1 910139 01 1
An adventure story about bounty hunter Harry Love on his tour of California with the supposed head of a horse-thief in a jar.
Ikhda, by Ikhda
By Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi
ISBN 978 0 9574596 6 3
Characters and landscapes leap off every page in Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi’s dazzling first pamphlet.
Raspberries for the Ferry
By Andrew Wynn Owen
ISBN 978 0 9574596 5 6
A stunning debut pamphlet of gorgeous, tart, juicy poems grounded in the past and bubbling with modern verve.
The Held and the Lost
By Kristen Roberts
ISBN 978 0 9574596 8 7
Kristen Roberts sketches portraits of characters and relationships in her debut pamphlet.
The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978 0 9574596 7 0
A moving collection of poems about mothers and the state of motherhood.
The Emmores
By Richard O’Brien
ISBN 978 0 9574596 4 9
Richard O’Brien deploys every trick in the love poet’s book in this irresistible mix of tender odes, introspective sonnets and exuberant free verse.
A Poetic Primer for Love and Seduction
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978 0 9574596 3 2
The Poetic Primer is an instructional anthology containing all you need to know about love, relationships and heartbreak.
The Emma Press Anthology of Mildly Erotic Verse
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
ISBN 978 0 9574596 2 5
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The Flower and the Plough
By Rachel Piercey
ISBN 978 0 9574596 0 1
Love poems which capture everything from the extravagant surrender of early love to the raw ache and pain that can follow.