This year, we have two fantastic subscriptions available for lovely readers to get their hands on for a discount price than if they purchased each title separately.
The poetry subscription features 7 (yes - 7!) international titles. It includes both chapbooks and full poetry collections.
Here's what's included in the Fly on the Wall poetry subscription for 2022:
A Dedication To Drowning by Maeve McKenna (poetry chapbook, 36 pages)
Flame by Sundra Lawrence (Aryamati Poetry Prize winner, chapbook, 36 pages) Comes with signed postcard
Brave Little Sternums by Matt Broomfield (full poetry collection, with photography) Comes with signed postcard
Cracked Asphalt by Sree Sen (poetry chapbook, 36 pages)
(un)interrupted tongues by Dalbinder Kular (poetry chapbook, 36 pages)
Exposition Ladies by Helen Bowie (poetry chapbook, 36 pages) September 16th 2022
Climacteric by Jo Bratten (poetry chapbook, 36 pages)
To give you an idea of the quality writing you can expect to receive throughout the year, we're treating you to an excerpt from the first title. ‘A Dedication to Drowning’ is a debut poetry chapbook full of intimate examinations of one's most vulnerable self. ‘A Dedication to Drowning is due for release on 18.2.22.
Here's a sample poem, the titular 'A Dedication to Drowning':
Stretched like a drum
a coating of me covers
my skeletal frame.
For now, I am crouched
at the shoreline, the night
grips, my back a fist.
Out past the cut of land and sea —
where everything
was once you and nothing
was me —
a kind of balance prevails.
Not here, though. Not among
the creeping pull lapping
at my toes, luring me back
inside the silence of water,
the idle current a mouth
full of promises, echoing closer.
Now, I can’t trust my feet,
they are traitors, like my mind,
like your face.
Sand is under everywhere you are not
as I think of you then, swimming to shore,
your wide shoulders an Orca’s
tail slicing the surface,
your head rising through
the ripples.
You asked me once why I never swim.
I told you, drowning
twice takes dedication.
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