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Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018

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Authors include Will Alexander, Scout Tzofiya Bolton, Geoff Hattersley, Martin Hayes, Rishi Dastidar, Rhian Elizabeth, Aaron Kent, Shane McCrae, Rushika Wick, Richard Skinner, Maria Sledmere, Stuart McPherson, Daragh Fleming, and more!

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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It offers a sharp snapshot of contemporary literature while reflecting a working-class ethos & a commitment to degentrification, community power & accessible culture. A vibrant, dynamic & award-winning independent press distilled into one compelling volume.

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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
These poems probe and worry syntax into a frank and absorbing poetic
— Jack Underwood

Jake Wild Hall’s voice has a clarity that will break you
— Clare Pollard

painful and beautiful to read
— Caroline Bird

A welcomed return from Jake Wild Hall.
— Yomi Ṣode

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November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Hall balances absurdism and sincerity with remarkable control, moving between domestic & digital, sacred & profane. What emerges is a lyric mode that is generous, self-questioning, and defiantly alive to the emotional contradictions of contemporary manhood.

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November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The poems resist singular narrative arcs, instead offering refrains, fragments, and abrupt tonal pivots that echo the dislocation of memory and the loops of online life.

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November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Lose yourself in it and retrace the steps you never took, this is a poem that understands that any convulsion of desire is part of a greater game of absence.
— David Spittle

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October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The book is both critique and enactment of representation: a work pursued by its maker, stalked by its forms, and shadowed by Christine. Elle is a hauntological lyric, a summoning that won’t let the archive lie still.

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October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Blending procedural method with pulp volatility, Sheppard mines and retools the idioms of violence, sex, media, and myth, threading the ghosts of Buñuel, Jeff Keen, and the tabloid unconscious into a shattered, many-voiced delirium.

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October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
From start to finish, language in Divided Tongues is used as a tool of egress: brought down like a whip, drawn through us like a saw, or saved for a final spear-thrust to the side.
— Kirsten Irving

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October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Davidson Roberts’ gift is for letting a story tell itself, while a clarifying music emerges to redeem or illuminate the journey.
— Sean O’Brien

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October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
With motifs of exile, fractured lineage, & cultural inheritance, Roberts interrogates the weight of language as burden & possibility. The result is a poetic landscape where borders, geographic, linguistic, emotional, are repeatedly crossed & contested.

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October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Drawing on scriptural echoes, historical figures, and contemporary disaffection, the poems assemble a polyphonic lyric that shifts between reportage, lament, and surreal invocation.

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October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Visceral and precise
— John Campbell

Hassan writes from a space that nobody else stands in; a space borne of deep understanding and lived experience.
— Tusiata Avia

opened my eyes to the extraordinary power of slam poetry.
— Lynda Chanwai-Earle

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October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
With tonal dexterity and narrative precision, Hassan dissects the personal impacts of structural violence while preserving a grounded lyric voice. This is a work attentive to grief, satire, inheritance, and the quiet weight of diasporic memory.

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October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Structured around refrains of migration, loss, racialisation, and belonging, the poems shift across geographies—from Aotearoa to Cairo to Istanbul—interrogating identity in the wake of empire, terrorism, and assimilation.

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October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Formally unstable & ideologically untethered, this work spirals around its own impossibility, issuing recursive proclamations, cancelling itself, & insisting on its singularity at every turn. It is a text as trap, provocation, & joke, all of them serious.

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October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM