1. NEW TITLES
March - June 2019

2. Hello! Welcome to another year at Burning Eye Books.
From March we’ll be firing out the very best of the UK’s
spoken word scene whilst at the same time remaining
cool and never knowlingly mainstream. Expect more
variety and individuality of our upcoming collections.
We are excited to share it all with you!
This year we have a great balance between returning
Burning Eye artists like Rebecca Tantony, Dan Cockrill,
and introducing new work from Jamie Thrasivoulou,
Rachel Nwokoro, Tyrone Lewis and Maria Ferguson. We
look forward to the collaborative works of Harry Baker
& Chris Read as well as the return of Dan Simpson. We
are also delighted to add the prolific works of Hammer
and Tongue founder Steve Larkin to our portfolio whilst
representing the best of Bristol’s poetry.
We continue to sponsor Leicester’s poetry night Find the
Right Words, Uni Slam, which we have already attended,
The Hip Yak Poetry School and London Writer Awards.
We will feature at Verve Poetry Festival and expand the
press further to support our first time and returning
artists with more events and media promotion. We’d
like to thank Harriet Evans, Liv Torc and Shagufta Igbal
for their wonderful work at Burning Eye, especially in
moving forwards.

3. All the details for our 2019 titles are in this programme
so you can get excited for another year of excellent
spoken word/performance/stand up/slam/ you name it!
We are delighted to see another year with you, too.
Thanks for tuning in.
Clive Birnie & Bridget Hart

4. All our poets from
2011 - 2016 all in one place!
Available in paperback and ebook (£1.99)

5. THE SCHEDULE
March
Only Air by Stephen Lightbown
Amuse Girl by Hannah Raymond-Cox
April
The English Disease by Lydia Towsey
May
Little You by Rachel Nwokoro
Calling This Body Home by Grace Cohen
june
Own by Steve Larkin
Singing My Mother's Song by Rebecca Tantony
Midnight Picnics in Tehran by Leilah Jane King

6. MARCH
Only Air is a deeply personal
collection which explore a life
changing accident and how to re-
exist in a world that is suddenly
unfamiliar. It is a story of a new ways
of surviving, shedding beliefs once
held whilst trying to overcome
barriers, prejudices and labels.
This debut is a constantly moving
biographical, wryly humourous
reflection of a life reconstructed.
It considers what it means to be
part of a family, being alive when
you don’t conform; making your
journey when the way you perceive
yourself is often very different to
the ways others observe you.
At its very core, this is a discovery
of what it means to be ‘normal’ and
to regrow.
‘Nothing can prepare you
for the first time
your toenail falls off
and you feel no pain,
not even a mild itch.
That is, apart from the
phantom in your head.’
from ‘The Woe of Toe’
Introducing:
Stephen Lightbown
£9.99
ISBN 978-1-911570-59-2

7. Amuse Girl is a very bad pun on amuse-gueule, a free small dish
sent out by the chef to awaken the diner’s palate before a posh
meal. It is also unfairly perceived as slightly naughty because
gueule is another word for “gob”. Despite the renaming, the
unpredictable and inherently sensual nature of the amuse-
gueule shines through.
MARCH
Introducing:
Hannah Raymond-Cox
From an elaborate imitation of caviar that turns out to be
mushroom essence to just a blob of wasabi, The following are
poems intended to enliven the palate, satiate the mind, and
make you feel like you’ve been on a weird-ass culinary journey.
Please dig in!
£9.99
ISBN 978-1-911570-60-8

8. APRIL
‘The English Disease’ has been coined as a term to describe everything
from missed penalties and vitamin D deficiency, to no sex please and
rickets. Exploring recent world events, including the international
migration crisis and the British EU Referendum, alongside the lived
experience of becoming a mother in a year of celebrity death and
continental fracture, this eponymously titled collection examines the
condition afresh, post Bowie, Brexit,Truth and Trump. Exploring notions
of Englishness via its title poem and across six sequential chapters,
Second Collection
With zombies, cats, undead
break-ups, pineapples, buses,
breastfeeding, rewritten
nursery rhymes and Gothic,
illustrated re-imaginings of
Beatrix Potter. The English
Disease draws upon British
icons and family histories
- as well as the personal
experience of motherhood,
Englishness, eating disorders
and the undead to explore
these, class, colonialism and
other themes.
£9.99
ISBN 978-1-911570-54-7

9. MAY
Calling This Body Home is a one-for-all-the-senses first collection
which unfolds relationships between womanhood, the body, and
grief, creating a landscape that must be admired and an awe of.
Grace Cohen speaks to the soul with a wry humour infused with
sad girl rage, refusing to remain quiet any longer.
Grace Cohen is a performance poet, perpetual student, and
chronic over-sharer. Originally from Bristol, she has performed in
festivals,bars,andbedroomsaroundtheUnitedKingdom,winning
the annual WOMAD festival slam, and representing Bristol in the
Hammer and Tongue Slam national final at The Royal Albert Hall.
She is currently working towards her MA in English Literature at
Goldsmiths College, London.
Introducing:
Grace Cohen
‘girl is tired of being metaphor
wants to be simple human
is tired of being torn apart
in love letters
wants her breasts, eyes, and thighs
to remain together
with the rest of her
is tired of being asked
about her other half
as if she is not whole
girl is so, so tired’
from ‘Girl’
£9.99
ISBN 978-1-911570-63-9

10. ‘I think this was my first
day of school playing
“kitchen” with Andrew. I
was old enough to terrify
my parents and siblings
but young enough not to
know what a prime age I
was. Often, I struggle to
access love for myself. At
those times, it helps me
to think of Little Rachel.
I feel this duty of care to
this baby girl who has torn
through heaven and earth
and ultimately, faced death
to get me to today. I have a
duty to her, she has done
her best and is tired.
So now it’s my turn.’
MAY
Introducing:
Rachel Nwokoro
Rachel is dedicated to experimenting
across diverse disciplines in order to
discover the awkward, irregular and
miraculous shapes that hide
within our stories -
we are uncontainable creatures.
£9.99
ISBN 978-1-911570-64-6

11. JUNE
This collection started as a whisper, a quiet mouth asking questions.
Over the years it became a coherent voice that kept getting louder.
Now it is a song, sprung from a yearning to fill in the missing parts, to
understand my mother’s story. Singing My Mother’s Song is a way of
shedding in order to change the direction of a past. Sometimes, I think
it has been formed by my imagined daughter, clearing the way ahead
before her own birth. Or by whole generations of women, celebrating a
future, formed from the centre of us.
THIRD COLLECTION
£9.99
ISBN 978-1-911570-62-2

12. JUNE
Midnight Picnics in Tehran: It is a tale of two
countries, three cities and an innumerable amount
of drinks being thrown in people’s faces. Leilah
paints striking imagery of the bustling cities of
Shiraz and Tehran, the former her mother’s birth
place. She conveys a melancholic nostalgia
and love for a culture still novel to her that is
remembered warmly from childhood summers
spent in Iran’s beautiful mountains and parks.
Midnight Picnics does not only focus on Iran takes
us across the sea to Bristol and Brighton. She shares
an open, honest and raw account inviting you to
navigate your way through sexuality, androgyny
and anger.
LeILah Jane KInG is a Bristol-based poet
exploring her Iranian heritage. She grapples
with life’s turmoil making light of family, love,
and sexuality. Her poetry is comedic yet
painfully reflective sharing her experiences
of prejudice, conflict and mental health.
Introducing:
Leilah Jane King
£9.99
ISBN 978-1-911570-66-0

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