John Harrison is Artistic Director Emeritus of The West Yorkshire Playhouse. He began his career as an actor and worked with Peter Brook at Stratford on Avon. In a long career he has been an actor, director, playwright and poet.

“So help me when I say your poems read in closeness and silence 'brought tears to my eyes' – a well worn phrase, but the only way of expressing a feeling in which joy and sadness were inseparable... Bless you and carry on writing!”
Peter Brook

Paperback: £5.00

Elspeth Brown's collection, "A Crab in the Moon's Mouth", gathers work created for performance, special occasions as well as representing her deeply felt personal reflections on life, its suffering and joy. 

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Greedy for Mulberries by Chrys Salt offers the reader the distillation of a woman’s hunger for life, her belief in humanity, her vulnerability in love, her fears and hopes for the future and her celebration of the past. It refuses consolation, concentrating on the truth of experience and in so doing brings compassion, nobility and joy to life. Read More.
(112 pages)

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John Hudson’s The Pumpkin Lantern takes us on a geographical, cultural and linguistic journey from his origins in the East End of London through his confrontation with death to the questioning of the value of permanence and the beginnings of a love affair with transience.
(136 pages ) Paperback: £7.00

Adrian Mitchell, who sadly died just before Christmas 2008 was one of poetry's heroes. The Bakehouse and Markings are proud to publish this anthology of poetry to celebrate his life.

£9.95

Chrys Salt’s new collection has a wonderful warmth and immediacy- sometimes elegiac, always imbued with humour and humanity. Grass addresses big themes about the value and purpose of poetry through everyday observations of society, politics and family, offering a perfect prelude to the central poem, Weaver of Grass which questions the meaning and purpose of the act of creation itself. Seriously good. Read more

£7.99