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  Of the Subcontract - Or...

  Nick Thurston

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  Of the Subcontract is a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service. The collection is ordered according to cost-of-production and repurposes metadata about the efficiency of each writer to generate informatic typographic embellishments. Those one hundred poems are braced between two newly commissioned essays; the whole book is threaded with references to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wolfgang von Kempelen and the emerging iconography of cloud living.
     
  Of the Subcontract reverses out of the database-driven digital world of new labour pools into poetry’s black box: the book. It reduces the poetic imagination to exploited labour and, equally, elevates artificial intelligence to the status of the poetic. In doing so, it explores the all-too-real changes that are reforming every kind of work, each day more quickly, under the surface of life.
     
  'The first "computers" were people, hired to do the tedious work of creating accounting systems and tax roles for the administration of newly created bureaucratic structures in post-Revolutionary France. Of the Subcontract presents the poems of their descendants. While this imaginative project extends a line of conceptualist practice that shows us how forms of aesthetic expression take root in the broader culture and what the continuum of amateur and professional work is, it also shows us how poetic acts, like other modes of production, conceal the contradictions and inequities of labour and value in a global world.'
     
  – Johanna Drucker, artist, author and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, UCLA
     
  'In an expanded field of writing Nick Thurston is changing the literary landscape. Unlike Francis Alÿs’ workers, who were moving mountains in the desert by shoveling sand, Thurston’s underpaid writers are moving (one spadeful at a time) Robert Smithson’s heap of language from one place to another, leaving us with language to be looked at / things to be read.'
     
  – Kenneth Goldsmith, poet and founding editor of Ubu Web

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  Gnosis Knowledge Of Self

  Justin Wesenberg

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  Gnosis is a channeled poetry book about knowledge of the divine through direct personal experience.  
  This poetry book is for those who are ready to connect with Universal Consciousness. 
  Gnosis is the truth 
  The knowledge of Self 
  It is from this place 
  You find infinite wealth 
  The knowledge and wisdom 
  Of beauty untold 
  Through the sacred tomes 
  Of the masters of old 
  Lie the ancient secrets 
  Of the mystery schools 
  You can decipher them 
  Now that you have the tools 
  To unlock the sacred 
  Song of your soul 
  The voice inside 
  That will make you whole 
  To guide you through 
  The mystery within 
  So that you can decide 
  What you believe in 
  This channeled poetry book was inspired by the ancient gnostic texts in the search for Truth. 
  If you’re on a search for truth, allow Gnosis Knowledge Of Self to guide you back to the truth that lies in your soul!

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  A Ghost In Your Ear

  Jamie Armitage

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  'The ghost is not real, it is only in your ear…'
  An actor arrives late at a sound studio for a last-minute job for which he is yet to see the script: an audiobook recording of a particularly chilling ghost story. But as the evening progresses, the horrors start to escape the pages of the story, and haunt the studio itself.
  A Ghost In Your Ear is a gripping and spine-tingling exploration of terror, uncertainty and storytelling. It premiered at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London, in 2025, written and directed by Jamie Armitage in collaboration with multi-award-winning sound designers Ben and Max Ringham.

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  From My Eye To The Sky

  J.V. Sadler

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  From the author of Licking comes a collection of poetry filled with raw verses that expose a piece of J.V. Sadler’s heart.  
  From My Eye to the Sky places a magnifying glass on U.S. society and forces it to take a look at itself. Unrestrained and unabashed, this collection is a call not only for hope but organized and passionate action toward a better world.  
  Dare to put your eye to the sky. 
  “We shall be free 
  . . . one day 
  We will walk on water 
  . . . one day”

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  Born in England – Exploring...

  William Wordsworth, John Dryden,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series, we take a look at poetry through the prism of individual regions of England, or sometimes more quaintly known as ‘Albion’, or ‘Blighty’, through the centuries of its gloried history. 
   
  England, despite its perception of reserve and under-statement has, in reality, strode the global stage at various time in many things, both good and bad, from Empire to long distance running. Here our focus in on its literature.  Famed for its fiction and dramas, it is equally admired for its plethora of gifted poets and the dazzling verse which has added so much to its artistic legacy.  These classic poets are wonders of their age and of their art.  Genius is written in their names. 
   
  In this volume we explore the poets of Cambridge.  A small city, with its famed university, with an enviable historical grandeur and roll-call of poets who dazzle, humble and inspire us all in ways that only a poet can.  Our poets include Christopher Marlowe, Lord Byron, Rupert Brooke, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Donne and the talents of very many others.

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  My Grandfather's God

  David Somerfleck

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  In My Grandfather's God, David Somerfleck invites readers into a poetic journey through the vast landscape of human experience—where love and loss, spirituality and skepticism, pain and transcendence intersect. 
  Each poem is a revelation—sometimes tender, sometimes unflinching—exploring how belief, memory, and identity shape our understanding of self and the cosmos. Within these pages, the divine is questioned, confronted, and occasionally found in the quiet corners of everyday life. 
  Themes range from the generational weight of faith and family to the scars left by abuse, the solace of love, the ache of loss, and the elusive beauty of truth. These poems move between the intimate and the infinite, where personal wounds echo against the backdrop of cosmic thought and hard-won wisdom. 
  My Grandfather's God is at once deeply personal and universally resonant—a collection for anyone who has wrestled with the unseen, questioned what they were taught, or sought meaning amid both deception and revelation.

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