and if you collar James after the show and buy him a drink he might just sell you a signed copy of his rather beautiful book. What? Yes of course you can buy one now. Just go here. My, you are impatient aren’t you?
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OUT NOW – In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh by Rob Auton
Ladies & Gentlemen…
In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh is the debut collection of poems, stories and illustrations from York born writer and comedian Rob Auton. This book is the result of a person having ideas who finds the world a magical/beautiful/ridiculous/horrific place to live. There is a poem about a grey cat in it, so if you like grey cats you might like that one. There is a short story about going round to Hitler’s house at Christmas, so if you did that then this could bring the memories flooding back. Dust, the sky, jury service, a rollerball pen, the devil, a Satsuma, tarmac and David Attenborough also feature.
It also includes the acclaimed A Footballer’s Life For Me which was filmed by Bang Said The Gun and broadcast as part of Channel 4′s Random Acts series.
“Charming, eccentric and uplifting, Auton is a talent to watch”
The Independent
“Surreal and Fantastic.”
Poejazzi
“A strange and magical experience.”
BroadwayBaby
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Read a sample of the book below:
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Maskboy Video Showcases James Wheale’s Triumphant Debut
This video shows a slightly earlier version of Maskboy – the title poem from James Wheale’s recently released Burning Eye collection. Enjoy.
Maskboy is available from Burning Eye or from Amazon or Waterstones.com.
Maskboy Goes to London
After successfully outings in Leeds and Bristol, James Wheale takes his live performance of his new Burning Eye book, Maskboy to London. He is just one of the amazing acts at Flea Circus at the Dogstar. Doors 7.30 only £5! Full details here
And in case you need a taster to either persuade you to see James live or to purchase a copy of this fine book here is a sample:
OUT NOW – Maskboy by James Wheale. This book is a Time Machine…
Here at Burning Eye we know how to round off a week. No better way than with a book. so here its is Burning Eye book number TEN. Yes ten, and it is a beauty and it goes by the name of Maskboy by James Wheale.
Maskboy is an autobiographical story of time machines, magical masks and loss. James Wheale relates the harrowing journey into his own personal heart of darkness, from time traveller to amateur caped crusader, through award-winning poetry. From reading tarot with a witchdoctor to going cold turkey on his past, Maskboy is a funny, brave and honest work that delves into the alter-egos we create to rescue, and ultimately become, ourselves.
“Beautiful, very beautiful” Jacob Denno, Popshot
“A rare triumph.” Byron Vincent
Watch the trailer and meet Maskboy…
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Sex & Love & Rock&Roll by Tony Walsh – Now Available to Pre-Order
‘Fabulous stuff…’ Irvine Welsh
Ten years in the making? Pretty much. Long overdue? For sure. 168 pages packed with Tony’s unique brand of Poetry for the People? Damn right.
Whether dealing with sex, love or rock & roll; heartbreak, grief or Glastonbury, Tony’s poetry consistently packs a powerful emotional punch and then kisses it better. Be warned: these poems contain scenes that may resemble your life.
Sex & Love & Rock&Roll hits the streets next week and you can make sure you bag a copy early doors by positioning your mouse cursor over that buy now button below and giving it a tender loving click.
“‘Too much poetry speaks to too few people’, but Tony Walsh’s poetry speaks to the many. In SEX & LOVE & ROCK&ROLL, words leap off the page: urgent and immediate, like his poetry performances. They tell us how it feels when the needle goes in, / when the bass, when the bass, when the bass, when the bass…” Helen Mort
‘Tony Walsh’s poetry picks you up by the scruff of the neck and shakes you until your teeth rattle. Brilliant stuff!’
Felix Dennis – poet, publisher, Oz trial defendant.
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OUT NOW: Monkey Poet – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Simian
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Simian combines Monkey Poet’s acclaimed Murder Mystery Double Bill, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2012, with Requi, a Libretto, written for full choir commissioned by Classical Revolution, on the subject of genocide.
Part satire, part stand up poetry show, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Simian features TS Eliot, Homer, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker, Gil Scott Heron and tackles democracy, religion, homophobia, pornography, the blogosphere, drugs, ATOS Assessments and the unrelenting tendency for human beings to butcher each other.
“Mixes righteous frustration and educated reason in one hyperactive, occasionally sweary, often very funny bundle.”
THE SCOTSMAN
“Furious, funny & filthy. Dominates the stage.”
JERSEY EVENING POST
“The darkest, rudest and funniest thing you will see.” BROADWAY BABY
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FREE Burning Eye E Book: WEST OF CENTRE – A Taste Of Burning Eye
We made this! You should get it now because it is FREE until about 8am on Tuesday! What is it? A bloody amazing eBook with 25 writers and a cartoonist. Not to mention a brilliant cover by Bristol based artist Tim Ulewicz. From Tues it will cost about one of your pounds sterling but until then NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING. It rocks. It is probably the best FREE book that you will get EVER! Do it now. Get it for your kindle or download the relevant app and get it on you pc, mac, tablet, iphone, android or other robotic humanoid of your choice. We are not mucking about. What are you waiting for! Look at all these amazing people that are in it:
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OUT NOW: Shapes & Disfigurements Of Raymond Antrobus
This third book in the Burning Eye pamphlet series (following Sally Jenkinson’s Sweat-borne Secrets and Mairi Campbell-Jack’s This Is A Poem…) HAS ARRIVED and the first copies have been shipped, so come on in because the water is like a holiday in July and it is cold outside!
If you are not already aware of Raymond Antrobus, you should be. Raymond is a poet from Hackney with a talent for plucking poetry from the mouths of ordinary people. Whether a strawberry seller in Sweden, a homeless man on a London street or a taxi driver in South Africa, Raymond channels their voices through his own. This is the work of a confident young poet with an exceptional ear for language.
“…all you need / are the right words,” writes Raymond Antrobus, but as this all-too-brief collection, demonstrates, the best poets need also compassion, insight, craft, taste, and a pitch-perfect ear to the cadence and tones of the human voice and mind. Antrobus has these gifts in buckets. His monologues are stunning studies of voice and substance, and his lyric poems are graceful and finely crafted. Yes, he is a poet to watch, for sure.
Kwame Dawes
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Alastair Cook’s Film of “-ed” from This Is A Poem
No one films poetry quite like Alastair Cook, as this film of Mairi Campbell-Jack’s poem -ed, from her freshly published Burning Eye collection This Is A Poem b/w A Violation Of Expectation, demonstrates. -ed has also been translated into Spanish by Jesus Ge. More of Alastair’s films can be seen at www.filmpoem.com
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