OUT NOW – Day & Night In The Damaged Goods Factory by Mike Watts

This second collection from Mike Watts confirms why, for some, he is the British Bukowski. But, while there is booze, bookies and sex here, Mike’s is a view from the very British streets of Hull. The streets of real life, populated by ordinary people living ordinary lives. This is the poetry of ordinary triumphs and ordinary tragedies. Sexual triumphs and bedroom tragedies. About as far from the poetry of dusty university libraries  as you can get, Day and Night in the Damaged Goods Factory is brazen, humour laden, gobby, unapologetic poetry from a poet with his own voice and the knack of telling it how it is.

 

“Love is a dog from Hull” Steve Black

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James Wheale’s Maskboy. Wardrobe Theatre Bristol. Weds 22 May. Be There.

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?

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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Tony Walsh stole the show at the 2013 Strokestown International Poetry Festival

 

 

 

 

 

Tony’s blockbuster collection Sex & Love & Rock&Roll is out now and available direct from Burning Eye. Full details right here.

 

 

“Rhyming Thunder… cannot be ignored… and Burning Eye are to be commended for publishing it”

There is probably some arcane publishing world rule about not responding to reviews or even acknowledging them. To do so is gauche, a school-boy error, not something one would have done at Oxford.  So what, we don’t care, we come from the rough end of town – we can take it! And in any case we don’t get so many reviews round these parts that we take them lying down!

So look at this review of our big red book of young poets Rhyming Thunder that has appeared on Sabotage Reviews.

Amongst other good things the reviewer says:

“Rhyming Thunder is a well-produced introduction to a world of poetry that cannot be ignored and deserves to be taken seriously and Burning Eye are to be commended for publishing it”

Quite right we hear you cry!

He goes on to praise Rob Auton, Ray Antrobus, Jodi-Ann Bickley and Deanna Rodger in particular whist emphasising that the Rhyming Thunder poets:

“…are not too far removed from much of the poetry you might find in an Oxbridge professor’s anthology, once you allow for the different worlds the two groups inhabit. However, theRhyming Thunder poets write with far greater energy and commitment than most of their better-reared academic cousins, and their poetry, while perhaps not signalling the kind of revolution that the editors might wish for, certainly represents a clear alternative to the dreary conformity that characterises far too much contemporary verse.”

We will fight anyone who says it ain’t so and have broken into the local off licence in celebration.

Rhyming Thunder remains in print at this very moment. You can buy it from us HERE or from Amazon or Waterstones all priced at or around the £10 mark.

4 x 5* Reviews for Tony Walsh on Waterstones.com

Barely 10 days from publication and Tony Walsh’s Sex & Love & Rock&Roll has already racked up four 5 star reviews at Waterstones.com, so that’s twenty stars, yes?

 

 

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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