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Our two new pamphlets are by Sean O'Brien and Mark Ford:
MARK FORD, THE MORLOCKS: A FANTASIA
ISBN 978-1-9193077-0-1
NWE 30.2
In this hilarious, haunting venture into social criticism, Mark Ford reconfigures H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) to capture the violence of contemporary social media and the vertiginous political anxieties of our moment. Wells’s predatory Morlocks are here transformed into online trolls ruthlessly hunting down their victims, the child-like, enfeebled Eloi. The sequence charts an updated Time Traveller’s bewilderment at the unleashing of the id made possible by X and other platforms, while also tracing the Eloi’s ‘SAD SAD’ attempts to resist the trumpets and muskets of their enemies. Presiding over the mayhem is the hubristic Père Morlock, a descendant of Alfred Jarry’s Père Ubu, and a character to rival Jarry’s obscene autocrat.
Fusing Brechtian satire and Audenesque fantasy, Ford’s unsettling narrative lays bare the antagonisms and delusions that fissure modern consciousness, creating a dystopian parable not of the future, but of now.
Mark Ford was born in 1962. His publications include four collections of poetry (Landlocked, Soft Sift, Six Children, and Enter, Fleeing), three monographs, and four volumes of reviews and essays. This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray was awarded the Poetry Foundation’s 2015 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism.
'Undoubtedly his sharpest and most sinister work to date.' - Anthony Caleshu
‘Mark Ford’s brilliant, bizarre new poem is at once a bitingly astringent satire – reminiscent of Miroslav Holub or Tomaž Šalamun – and his most melodious and unfettered work yet.' - Oli Hazzard
SEAN O'BRIEN, À LA CARTE
ISBN 978-1-7392812-9-8
NWE 30.1
Like carnivals of fire stoked by jaunty imps,
two trains for which no stop is scheduled meet
head on, and war begins, which leaves the clock
its present task, to decorate catastrophe
with ignorance. Or so the story runs, the one
you’re reading just this minute, when you’ll look up
from the page and hear the sirens screaming.
These poems are often concerned with England remembered, imagined and, latterly, undone. O’Brien’s imagination is shaped by a war that took place before he was born – hence the phantasmal quality of some of what happens. Memory can seem at once tyrannical and without visible means of support, but time and history insist on their due, sometimes in fantastical form, and there are reckonings to be made too with love and friendship.
Sean O’Brien’s twelfth collection of poems, The Bonfire Party, is to be published by Picador in 2026. Recent poetry publications include Embark (2022), Impasse: for Jules Maigret (2023), Otherwise (2023) and Juniper (2024). His collection of short stories The Long Glass appeared in spring 2025. He has translated Dante’s Inferno, Aristophanes’ The Birds, Lope de Vega’s The Sicilian Courtesan, Eye of the Island: Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes (with Daniel Hahn) and the Complete Poems of Abai Kunanbayuli. His poetry has received the Somerset Maugham, Cholmondeley and E.M. Forster awards, and the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. O’Brien is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
'The poems in A La Carte may wear a collective black tie, but they also strike a note of lyric defiance. The compelling music of their lines and their imaginative command offer a love letter – at once plangent and exhilarating – to the past and to ‘"England, England, with all of its failings".' - Katharine Towers
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Pamphlets listed below, A to Z. Please specify which pamphlet you'd like when ordering. There is an option to add an instructional note at checkout, or you can email us after ordering at [email protected] and let us know that way.
* Zayneb Allak - Keine Angst (2017)
'These are reflective, imaginative poems for our time'
Moniza Alvi
* Polly Atkin - With Invisible Rain (2018)
'At once deeply authentic and luminously metaphorical'
Sasha Dugdale
* Mike Barlow - Some Kind of Ghost (2018)
'Poems of a wonderful fluency and scope imbued with a sense of the mystery
that underlies all things'
John Killick
* Penny Boxall, The Curiosities (2023)
'Poems that mesh sound and sense with a sharp and knowing wit.'
Jonathan Davidson
* SOLD OUT! - Kate Bingham - Archway Sonnets (2020) - SOLD OUT!
'Poetry of empathy, celebration, shame and subtle doom'
Kathryn Maris
* Steve Ely, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heauen (2019)
'These poems are blistering in their honesty [and] thread together a new
perspective on fatherhood, masculinity, redemption and guilt'
Kim Moore
* Rebecca Farmer, A Separate Appointment (2022)
'Poems that examine our physical and mortal neuroses but always with a wit and
knowingness that pierce any potential self-pity'
Greta Stoddart
* Mark Ford, The Morlocks: A Fantasia (2025)
'Undoubtedly his sharpest and most sinister work to date.'
Anthony Caleshu
*John Gallas - Aotearoa/angleland: 40+40 Tankas (2021)
'Why is that owl standing on a station platform in Angleland with a paper bag on
its head?'
Fleur Adcock
*John Greening, Europa's Flight (2019)
'Greening fills his crown of sonnets with astounding combinations and varieties of
subject. He confronts borders and that which cannot be confined by borders'
Martyn Crucefix
* Alan Jenkins - Tidemarks (2018)
'Jenkins stands out among his male peers with his uniquely compelling blend of
intense feeling and elegant style'
Carol Ann Duffy
* Lisa Kelly - From the IKEA Back Catalogue (2021)
'Delves into language'
Briony Bax
* Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ghalib: A Diary (2022)
'Each borrowed idiom has left its mark on his own.'
Peter D. McDonald
* Richie McCaffery, Skail (2025)
'There’s a keen intelligence at work here, a sureness of touch, a real mastery.'
Alan Spence
* John Mole, A Different Key (2017)
'Grief is balanced by humour in a way that perfectly conveys the fluctuations of
the mourning process'
Carole Satyamurti
* Blake Morrison, Never the Right Time (2023)
'Lucid but luminous'
Andrew Motion
* Sean O'Brien, À la Carte (2025)
'A love letter – at once plangent and exhilarating – to the past and to ‘England,
"England, with all of its failings".'
Katharine Towers
* D. A. Prince, Continuous Present (2025)
'Here is a world of keen tenderness and humorous certainties.'
Alison Brackenbury
* Graeme Richardson - Last of the Coalmine Choirboys (2024)
'By turns contemplative and disquieting. Punctuated by moments of intense
vitality.'
Julias Copus
* SOLD OUT! - Belinda Rimmer - Holding On (2021) - SOLD OUT!
'Take the reader inside the lives of the damaged but defiant'
David Clarke
* Declan Ryan - Fighters, Losers (2019)
'As memorable as all the haunted boxers who stalk these pages’
Donald McRae
* Derron Sandy, The Chaos (2023)
'These poems are the doctor’s notes of an afflicted people riddled by the distress of social place'
Arielle M. John
* Shannon T. Smith - Sandbound (2024)
'Skilfully manages to render the familiar fresh and new again and again. I am a real fan.'
Lorna Goodison
* N. S. Thompson - After War (2020)
'Succeeds in evoking a whole historical period'
Gregory Dowling
* William Thompson - After Clare (2022)
'Vividly rendering into language those charged moments where the rural
and urban, the traditional and contemporary, blur.'
Rebecca Watts
* SOLD OUT! - Marina Tsvetaeva, trans. Moniza Alvi and Veronika Krasnova - Bitter Berries (2018) - SOLD OUT!
'A significant contribution to Tsvetaeva’s oeuvre in English'
Tiffany Atkinson
* Polly Walshe - Silver Fold (2024)
'On close speaking terms with the ineffable'
Claudine Toutoungi
*Hugo Williams, The West Pier (2022)
'One of Britain’s most accomplished and distinctive poets.'
Kathryn Maris
* William Wootten, Looking for the Horsemen (2021)
'There is nothing, one feels, this poet could not have language do'
Jonathan Edwards
* Linda Stern Zisquit - From the Notebooks of Korah's Daughter (2019)
'Passionate, hectic, sacrilegious'
Rosanna Warren
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