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Burning Eye Books
NEW TITLES 2020

An engaging and intimate exploration of class,
gender and belonging. Alright Girl? is full of
heart and humour. These poems chart the almost
impossible task of living and surviving in an
age of austerity and gentrification. Through the
comfort of old man pubs, the heartbreak of loss,
the search for love and the wonder of female
friendship, Maria Ferguson paints a true picture
of what it means to be a woman in modern society.
From the author of Happiness is an Art Form and
We Need To Talk:
How do you get out of bed and pay the bills and
fall in love and over-water the pot plans - all while
the revolt needs you?
With care and creativity, hope and hilarity,
exhaustion and empathy, Agnes Török’s award-
winning poetry speaks about queer community-
making, collective change and joyful resistance.
This is a book about how we care for ourselves
and each other, all while fighting to make the
world a better place.
TOURING FINLAND/
UK/ EUROPE
APRIL - MAY 2020
MARCH 2020
Producer and performer of award-winning shows Fat Girls Don’t Dance and
Essex Girl, Maria Ferguson releases first full collection.
Alright,Girl?
MARIA FERGUSON
‘A snappy quote that says what a great book this is.’
QUOTE APOET
Publisher: Burning Eye Books
Price: £ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-71-4
Format: Paperback
Size: 129 mm x 192 mm
Published: 1st March 2020
Price: £ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-74-5
Format: Paperback
Published: 1st March 2020

Price: £ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-81-3
Format: Paperback
Published: 15th March 2020
MARCH 2020
...a love story, from it’s first sparks one frosty
bonfire night into day trips to windy Hull and
across the stalemate of dysfunctional domesticity.
Biceps is about the journey undertaken by our
bodies and minds when we fall out of love. Come
rediscover what we’ve all searched for in this tale
of losing, and regaining a sense of self.
“Laurie’s debut collection is full of heart.
I could read it again and again.”
- Laurie Bolger
Debut collection from London based poer Laurie Eaves
witness takes the gospel back to its radical roots in a
time that has poured whitewash over them. A man
executed by the state for saying things they didn’t
want to hear. Those that followed him. Those roots
are cultivated and replanted here.
“Stories made smooth and prosaic from overuse
have their contours and intricacies uncovered,
the near-fabular figures of the disciples restored
to life in all their shabbiness, in all their glory.”
– Dave Coates, poetry critic.
Price: £ 6.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-82-0
Format: Paperback
Published: 1st April 2020
APRIL 2020

APRIL 2020
The playful and irreverent poems in Happiness
FM will take you on a joyful journey that
explores the complexities and contradictions
of 21st century life. Meet uninhibited Russian
grandmothers along with creepy fans of
Professor Brian Cox and learn how to achieve
your bucket list without leaving your sofa.
With wry humour, tenderness and a social
conscienceMaryDickinsinvitesustorecognise
our own lives in her subject matter and themes
and to celebrate with her all that is sublime
and ridiculous about being human.
Price: £ 6.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-83-7
Format: Paperback
Published: 10th April 2020
“Molly makes me laugh and her poetry
makes my heart grow plumper and more
confident. I love her words and her honesty.”
– Sara Pascoe
MollyNayloristheco-creatorofSkyOnecomedy
After Hours. Theatre work includes Whenever
I Get Blown Up I Think Of You, My Robot Heart
and LIGHTS! PLANETS! PEOPLE!. She is the co-
director of storytelling organisation True Stories
Live. Her debut poetry collection Badminton is
published by Burning Eye.
Price: £ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-84-4
Format: Paperback
Published: 30th April 2020
‘Happiness FM hugs you like a warm cup of cocoa.
Full of wit and charm her poetry will make you
chuckle and joyfully reflect on how beautifully odd
this world can be.’
- Peter Hayhoe, Muddy Feet Poetry

Not Dancing with Ingrid Pit is an honest
and personal collection capturing missed
opportunities, those unstructured moments and
nostalgic, half recalled memories which skulk at
theperipheryofanincreasinglyconfusingcurrent
world state. Andrew Graves circumnavigates his
modern worries and presents his own uniquely
crafted narratives which utelise estranged
family members, eccentric strangers and
forgotten Hollywood cast offs in his fascinating
line up of unconventional protagonists. This
is a dark, funny and bewitching paean to the
cult, disregarded and devalued, a chaotic and
comforting monochrome tome inscribed with
both hope, fear and a thinly veiled longing for
something better.
MAY 2020
Author of Light at the End of the Tenner and God
Save the Teen, Andrew Graves returns for a 3rd
Burning Eye collection.
Price: £ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-88-2
Format: Paperback
Published: 20th May 2020
re: desire is a collection of poetry that draws upon
literary traditions and cultural references to flip
the male gaze common in mushairas on its head.
Common themes for mushairas are love, God
and being drunk or intoxicated by love and God
– but is usually seen from a male perspective.
The pieces in re: desire are mainly told from a
female perspective, and question the gender
given to particular acts, objects and ideas.
‘Abeautiful and poignant collection that speaks
to the internal lives of British people of colour.’
– Nikesh Shukla (The Good Immigrant and The
One Who Wrote Destiny)
Price: £ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-85-1
Format: Paperback
Published: 1st May 2020

Alternate Endings is a collection of poems made
of worry and hope. With wit and warmth,
Erin looks for the beginnings in endings as she
confides her stories of living, loving, feeling and
fretting. These are poems with huge hearts and
wry smiles, they are hugs for the days when it’s
all a bit much and energy for the days that you
can change the world.
Erin Bolens has performed across the country
with Boat Poets Collective and The Poetry
Takeaway, she has been commissioned for
various projects with Nationwide and the NHS.
MAY 2020
Price: £ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-86-8
Format: Paperback
Get Over Yourself is a biographical delve into
belonging, exclusion, and the relationship between
self-awareness and self-delusion, the rejection of
social norms, and the ways in which we accept and
question implied cultural rules. Using humour,
spoken word poetry and storytelling Leanne
Moden takes us through the familiar - teenage
rebellion, grief, sex, self-esteem and self-discovery
in a personal political narrative that always reminds
us of the uncertain world we are growing into.
Price: £ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-87-5
Format: Paperback
“Leanne has a razor-sharp eye for detail and a
turn of phrase that'll stay with you. These po-
ems are joyous, uplifting and filled with lines
that jump out and grab you by the heart.”
- Jess Green

As a mixed heritage, biracial, neuro-diverse
writer (and middle child), Rick Dove has
generally avoided being put in boxes, and while
many books could be written in an attempt
to answer to the question “Where are you from?”.
Tales from the Other Box attemps to reconcile the
question itself with deflty constructed poems,
and a narrative of many paths.
Farrago UK Slam Silver Medallist (2019), a Highly
Commended Semi-Finalist BBC Edinburgh Fringe
Slam (2018) and the Hammer & Tongue Hackney
2018/2019 Winner
Price: £ 9.99
ISBN: 978-1-911570-89-9
Format: Paperback
Published: 1st June 2020
JUNE 2020
JULY - NOVEMBER 2020
TITLES >>>

JULY - NOEMBER 2020
Manatomy is a collection of wry, witty and cheeky poems
exploring how nature, nurture, pop culture and politics have
shaped the identity of twenty six year old camp gay man James
McDermott. Structured in three parts – ‘Boy’, ‘Youth’and ‘Man’
– ‘Manatomy’ interrogates how the childhood and adolescent
experiences of growing up gay in rural millennial England
affect a gay man’s relationships with himself, his partners, the
LGBTQ community and the wider world.
Release: 1st July 2020
More information avalable soon
Manatomy by James McDermott
City Shanties: Collected Lyrics 2001 - 2019
by MC Dizraeli
Release: 1st July 2020
Spirograph by Pauline Seawards
Spirograph poetry explores patterns in life and language.
The quest to stay ordered and in control versus the
urge for change. What happens when change is forced
and unwelcome? It is also about seeing beauty in the
unremarkable. The collection is packed with stories,
landscapes and musicality. The poems are illustrated
with watercolour pictures by the artist Aaron Joseph
Sewards, the author’s son.
Release: 1st September 2020
Songs, scribblings and bars from the notebooks and al-
bums of Dizraeli, from about the moment when things
became worth reading through the years to the end of the
decade.

Meanwhile by Cynthia Rodriguez
This is a book about being trapped in the Meanwhile. Walking
through seemingly perpetual journeys between borders,
genders, nationalities and social status. As a product of
mixing races, yet not mixed race. Inhabiting a large body of
before with no clear sense of an after. Set to a time of one’s
own, decades lost and found in the way, at the mercy of socio-
political circumstances, legal procedures and test results.
Cyclically prone to fail and start again.
Release: 7th September 2020
Complete and Utter Cult by Elvis McGonagal
Stand-up poet, comedian and walking shortbread tin
Elvis McGonagall returns with Complete and Utter Cult a
new volume of satirical verse imbued with anarchic wit
and dazzling Weltschmerz. This follow-up to 2017’s Viva
Loch Lomond! captures Elvis’ongoing futile exasperation at
the dismal trajectory of our post-truth world as it trundles
along the primrose path to Beelzebub’s bottomless pit. Fake
news. Artisanal novichok. Piers Morgan. Yes, the good
ship lollipop is sailing down the shitter. Climb aboard with
Elvis as he bellows into the void of our burning planet and
we all drift towards a giant melting iceberg.
Release: 20th September 2020
Funny, wise, honest and a bit ranty, 79% Satisfaction is a
book about minding the gap between the people we are
and the people we want to be.
Ostensibly a series of poems and jokes salvaged from
incomplete spoken word shows, this book contains
everything a superintelligence needs to know about
the human talent for ignoring what matters and
overcomplicating what doesn’t.
79% Satisfaction by Tom Sastry
Release: 1st October 2020

JULY - NOVEMBER 2020
NEON by Bethany Rose
NEON softly lights the shadowy path of LGBT issues,
mental health, school, grief and longing. Delve into a
mind of swimming pools and hospitals, planets and
supernovas, classrooms and therapy offices, playgrounds
and the sky - all bound together in tight prose spliced
with light.
This collection is dedicated to anyone lost along the way.
Release: 1st November 2020

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performance/ slam poetry in the UK. Offering a unqiue inside perspective
on the poetry publishing world, Bridget is available for Publishing
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workshop on how to take your work from the stage to the page.

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