Micro-Chap eBooks 2023-4

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If you missed our 2023-4 run of poetry and prose micro-chapbooks, here they are in digital formats (.PDF & .ePub)!

 

I eat with wasps. I climb a
children’s frame.
I avoid spiky green
conkers. I sketch a skyline.
I furrow a watermelon with my
fist. I climb the hill in simulation.
I eat the entirety.

—From ‘DREAMFEAST’

DREAMSIMULATION is a surreal sequence of poems steeped in the odd logic of dreams. People, places and events shift, griefs resurface and at all times we are guided by Elliott’s precise and uncanny voice. Elliott’s images enthral, full of clear night air and the feeling you might’ve left something behind.

Chloe Elliott is a winner of the 2022 New Poets Prize as well as the 2020 Creative Future Writers’ Award. Her writing features in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, bath magg, Bedtime Stories for the End of the World, Magma, The North and Strix, amongst others. Her pamphlet Encyclopaedia is published with Smith|Doorstop.

 

Night

Nobody
talks in it, and over there
is a grey candle shotup like the Palace
of Culture and Science
in Warsaw. I look through the jungle grid
of window and smile at the friends who litter it —
eggshells in sinks, green glittercorns
rubbed from a nail. I smile
and run a bath
fit for a small horse.

 

BAD AIR is surrealist portrait of Kraków, filled with lush imagery and small human moments. Perfect for fans of Selima Hill, Liv’s poetry is sharpely observed and delicately formed.

Liv Aldridge is a Swedish poet living in Durham where she studies English Literature and edits The Gentian Journal. She spent the past year living in and travelling around Poland and Central Europe.

 

He climbs past bright shells and rotting shrimp, past crumbling sand castles and figureheads on creaking shipwrecks. He climbs through clouds, he crests a vast knee, and then he follows the frightened gulls even further, higher and higher and higher still. He has passed the nets entirely, and now uses grease-slippy pores as footholds to aid his ascension. His fingers freeze and his eardrums are battered into ringing by the terrible wind, but still he climbs.

Fishnet is about one man’s quest to stop a giant from crying, and all that comes after it. A fairytale about beauty, the ocean, and human greed. Fishnet is a lush little pearl of a book.

Ask Asad Kably Vestergaard is half Danish, half Pakistani, and studied English with Creative Writing and the University of Aberdeen. They have been published sporadically in smaller magazines and online exhibits like Leopard Arts, Lucent Dreaming, and Re-Analogue. They like thinking about writing, but they don’t actually do it nearly as much as they ought. Their sentences are too long, they use the thesaurus profligately, they have trouble keeping everything that they write relevant to the subject at hand, and they can play the kazoo with their nose.

 

An unrequested daughter is just a daughter. But an asked for daughter is a saint, especially when she’s dead. And saints can go anywhere there’s belief. 

sweet tooth is a lyrical horror short story about mothers and daughters, generational poverty in rural America, and haunted houses. A gut punch packed into 12 a6 pages, sweet tooth is visceral, beautiful and will stay with you long after reading.

Amelia K. is probably what you’d get if Johnny Cash had a hand in raising Wednesday Addams. She has lived around the Appalachian Mountains her whole life, and currently lives in Georgia with her son. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Dirt, Cordite, ctrl+v, and others. Her website is bio.site/ameliak.