Penned in the Margins is committed to publishing exciting, risk-taking poetry and literary works. Since 2006 we have published over twenty titles, ranging from debut collections and best-selling anthologies to our limited edition mini-books.
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Hyakuretsu KyakuRoss SutherlandThe mercurial Ross Sutherland's new sonnet sequence Hyakuretsu Kyaku playfully recasts the characters from cult video game Street Fighter 2 as "twelve heroes that span the breadth of the human condition." |
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Speak to StrangersGemma SeltzerLondon is a city full of millions of strangers and Gemma Seltzer wants to meet them all. Speak to Strangers is a brilliant, funny and uplifting sequence of one hundred hundred-word stories. |
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The MethodRob StantonFrom the opening Tuyman's Sonnets, which depict the cultural detritus of recent history as evidence of the severed real, to the sly, deft, minimalist lyrics of the book's second half – The Method is a tour de force which shows Rob Stanton to be a poet to watch. (Rae Armantrout) |
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A Body Made of YouMelissa Lee-HoughtonCharged with sexuality and an uncomfortable sense of the strange, A Body Made of You introduces a powerful new voice in poetry. |
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Love / All That / & OKEmily CritchleyLove / All That /& OK, an anti-confessional by experimental British poet Emily Critchley, brings together a diverse range of work previously published in chapbooks since 2004 |
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