This page contains details of our titles that might be considered to stretch across or combine Poetry and Flash. This includes titles where all of the individual pieces might potentially be considered prose poetry/flash by some readers and titles which contain a mix of poems and flash fiction/CNF (creative non-fiction) flash. They may also be found in at least one of the poetry or flash fiction sections of the V. Press website, depending on the author's own main classification of their work.
To find pamphlets/chapbooks or books by a particular writer, please visit our
Writers/Illustrators page, where authors are listed alphabetically according to their surname. Further information about selected individual titles may also be found in
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Chez Nous page.
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DREAMING BACKWARD
“Who would have thought forty-nine short pieces about Butlin’s holiday camps could be so touching? A kaleidoscopic look at the past, Dreaming Backward is an enchantment – together all the vivid, intense parts create strange patterns, catching the light of memory. Reading it, reality shifts and we are taken by surprise, travelling in time, nearer the tumble and drift where we forget we live.”
Linda France“In this exhilarating poetic documentary, Alex Reed transports us to the ‘brightly hued reality’ of Butlin’s holiday camps with the All-Star Redcoats’ Show and the Lovely Legs competition. Dreaming Backward is a compelling social history of a pre-digital era. But it is also a musing on perceptions of time, how we choose to fill our leisure hours, and how that might be judged by others. In its playful hybrid form, reminiscent of the Japanese zuihitsu tradition, incorporating myriad sources and using fragments, collage techniques, and occasional tracts of white space that provide interpretative space for the reader, Reed’s movement on the page echoes the shifting, fragmented nature of memory. This startling mosaic of 49 passages numbered backwards will leave you interrogating your personal history– choices not taken, lives that might have been, and decisions yet to be played out.” Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana
Dreaming Backward is very evocative and very resonant.
ISBN: 978-1-7394122-7-2
36 pages
R.R.P. £7.50
A sample from
Dreaming Backward can be enjoyed
here.
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SUM OF HER PARTS
“Laura Besley’s tiny, enormous, sharp, dark, witty, surreal, moving, brave, joyous hybrid pieces will slip and slice into your heart, your mind, your softest parts and leave you feeling as if you have been deliciously dissected, seen, heard and put back together. Here is pain, here is insight, here is redemption.”
Tania Hershman
“Laura Besley's sum of her PARTS is satisfying and jarring. I love the sparsity of her language and her ability to bring so much to the page. Her words are surprising, absurd at times, but also full of the contradictory feelings many women have on a day-to-day basis. It's easy to see parts of you in these pages; it's both beautiful and unnerving.”
Nikki Dudley
Sum of her PARTS is very tiny and very fierce.
ISBN: 978-1-7394122-8-9
36 pages
R.R.P. £7.50
A sample from
sum of her PARTS can be enjoyed
here.
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THREE MEN ON THE EDGE
Three Men on the Edge is a flash fiction novella by Michael Loveday featuring three men living on the edge of London.
The story of the three men – Gus, Denholm and Martyn – is narrated in three distinctive sections: Denholm – Cause for Alarm; Gus – The Invisible World; Martyn – Chewing Glass.
“A beautifully crafted novella-in-flash, small and perfect slices of
life written with skill and heart.” Kit de Waal
“In his debut novella Michael Loveday sketches with a
delicate brush the colourful lives of three troubled men living on the edge of
London. With poetic language and emotional precision, Loveday writes like a
cartographer about the wilderness we call ‘the human heart’.” Meg Pokrass
“This is a novella full of the aches and bruises left by
loneliness. It's written in fragments, like a bottle smashed during a solitary
boozing session, but it coheres around the vividly captured edgeland that
haunts the three men. This a heart-felt book, but its prose is controlled by a
steely intelligence. It's funny, too – and moving and scary. Michael Loveday is
a name to watch. He's writing a new kind of fiction.” David Swann
Three
Men on the Edge
is very richly shaded and very unconventional.
Shortlisted in Saboteur Awards 2019 Best Novella category!!!
ISBN 978-1-9998444-1-7
92 pages
R.R.P. £9.99
Sample flashes from each of the three sections of the novella may be enjoyed here.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNDROME
“There could be no more apt title for Meg Pokrass's collection of brilliant and brilliantly disquieting flash fictions than 'Alice in Wonderland Syndrome', a condition in which objects appear larger or smaller than they should. Pokrass's stories are so much greater than their word count, entire worlds, but they also make the tiniest moments vital, enormous. Here, people – and, once, a rat – are on the edges of things; there is no settling in these worlds, as in ours, and animals are often more reassuring than humans. Is the ‘she’ who recurs in the stories Alice herself, or many Alices? Or is she us, trying to find our footing, to shrink and to grow, to restore some balance in a world that is forever tilting?”
Tania Hershman
“‘…there is always a story inside a story inside a dog…’ With dreamlike clarity, these beautifully choreographed stories slip, delve and spiral in and out of the quotidian and the surreal with such deftness and precision that like Alice in her wonderland, suddenly you find yourself catching your breath in the light and dark of a world both familiar and yet deliciously unsettling. Pokrass has once again produced an exquisite collection for our enjoyment.”
Mary Jane Holmes
Alice In Wonderland Syndrome is very tender yet very naughty.
ISBN: 978-1-9161096-3-6
36 pages
R.R.P. £6.50
A sample flash can be enjoyed
here.
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