Flapjack Press: 42 books

Henry Normal's first poetry collection in over twenty years, combining both new and selected poems from his previous performance work. This collection encompasses the subjects of love, death, loneliness, loss, human frailty and other classic conversation stoppers. First published by Five Leaves...

Laura Taylor was born into a working-class family in the North of England and has challenged arbitrary forms of authority all her life. Now in her prime, she understands fully the potency of kindness in a world intent on creating division. “One of the country’s finest poets. A spirit at once empathetic...

Challenging oppression with objectivity and prejudice with passion, feminist activist and poet Steph Pike confronts the politics of social, economic and gender inequality with a viscerally charged and indisputable truth.  Steph Pike is a feminist socialist activist and a committee member...

She combs her hair long, a black sheet / to cover the new mouth at the back / of her neck, where angry stories leak out... Behind the scenes in the life and mind of the award-winning poet, novelist, groundbreaking performance artist and singer with The March Violets, Rosie Garland (as in Judy)....

Geneviève L. Walsh's debut solo collection covers her first five years of performing her punk-song-length poetry about love, hatred, aggressive platitudes, sexual politics, alienation and inebriation. "A collection full of passion and subversion ... keen and urgent with an untamed beauty...

Laced and graced with the energy and ethics he brings to the stage, Ben Mellor's debut poetry collection includes many of the award winning poems which have propelled him to prominence.  Ben Mellor is the BBC Radio 4 Slam Champion 2009, winner of the Diké Omeje Slam Poetry Award 2008,...

Travelling Second Class Through Hope contains seventy poems personally selected by the author from his early works and a Foreword by Lemn Sissay. Better known as co-writer of award-winning TV shows and films as The Royle Family, The Mrs Merton Show, The Parole Officer, Coogan's Run and Paul...

"We are killjoys, painting portraits of tulips in full-bodied growth, when you ask to see us naked we hand you an album of flowers." By turns tender and intimate, forthright and unabashed, the lustful feminist killjoys explore inclusivity, equality and identity to combat imposter syndrome...

In April 2013 Jackie Hagan was commissioned to write a solo show. The following month she was unexpectedly admitted to hospital with a very painful foot. Four months later she left hospital with one less leg and loads more maturity. Along the way she also fell in love, found her Dad and made friends...

Anthropoetry [an"thro-po'ê-tre] n. A poetic, occasionally humorous journey around the human anatomy, attempting to get the measure of modern life. Adapted from his hit show. Ben Mellor is the BBC Radio 4 Slam Champion 2009, winner of the Diké Omeje Slam Poetry Award 2008, and...

Powerfully articulating diverse themes including childhood, relationships, gender and serial-killers, Rosie's first collection since beating throat cancer showcases her thought-provoking and passionate award-winning poetry. Rosie Garland is a writer, poet, novelist and singer with The March...

Raining Upwards is Henry Normal’s first all new poetry collection in over twenty years. These poems explore relationships with science, nature, humanity and other vital matters we are usually too busy to think about. Henry Normal was born in St Annes, Nottingham, in 1956. He now lives in...

"If this collection has a theme, it is that of impermanence. Coping with change, temporality and uncertainty is one of our great struggles. We are deluded if we feel our lives are built on rock solid foundations. Despite this we strive to create some little temporary paradise for ourselves and, quite...

Sarah and Melanie met when they shared a big white house on an island, next to a passing place. They waded out, sang selkie songs to a seal they named Sir Douglas, shared stories, poems, wine and secrets, and decided to create something together.  This is their potent and poetic debut collection....