Original Plus chapbooks
authors - Paul Sutton / Paul Murphy / Rupert M Loydell / Andrew Taylor /
Paul Sutton
"Picture any 21st century town and you will find Dave Turnip, sex-starved semi-vegetable, drinking and copulating his way through the world, with occasional literary or social aspirations all too often defeated by his financial or alcoholic state of affairs. Paul Sutton's poems wittily and accurately depict the world we all too often find ourselves - both individually or communally - in. There is cynicism here, despair and warmth, opinion and hard facts, all informed by a clear eye
and a righteous anger: Sutton cares about Dave Turnip and others like him, and this concern is what fuels and underwrites these invaluable texts." Rupert LoydellTo read introduction click here ISBN 978-0-9562433-0-0 £2.50
Paul Murphy
The Sun rises over Arsenal, North London by Paul Murphy "¿Who is Paul Murphy? I don’t know. Although he is a close friend, where his writings are concerned: ¿where the Hell does he comes from? ¿what the hell is his style? ¿who the hell has moulded his art? To put it in a nutshell: how healthy unhealthy (thanks God) is he as a poeitai. Some sort of "enfant terrible", non conventional (bless them), sincere (up to the point of spilling his guts). I like it, in a society that is full of well being and suspicious of correct language (meaning the end of personal, idiosyncratic speech), he likes to dwell at the other side of the mirror. Spring has sprung in his poetry, essays, and all of his queries. ¡Oh yeah!
Rupert M Loydell
Lost in the Slipstream by Rupert M Loydell
"....is a very varied, very large suite of rooms, all of them fit for habitation. In most of them you know precisely where you are because you've read Rupert Loydell before and know something of his preoccupations - his eye, his imagination, his hopes and fears, his inner questings. As I read it now .... it is a diary or record of days or occasions, some of which, conceivably, are still to arrive. Some of the matter is immediate and rendered without interpretation or analysis, whilst others appear to push Loydell into either carefully directed introspection or onward and into a sequence of tenuously related or, as far as the reader is concerned, totally unrelated events, memories and thoughts. Questions are asked, discoveries are related, mysteries - perverse as well as wondrous - play themselves out in almost real time .... " Peter Dent
ISBN 978-0-9562433-2-4 £2.50
Andrew Taylor
Make Some Noise: The Woking Poems by Andrew Taylor
'Exiled from Liverpool in body but not spirit, these restless, memorable poems roam the streets in borrowed sunglasses, hang out in hotel rooms deprived of sleep, and long for home.' Cliff Yates
'From Travelodges to cathedrals, and motorways to village footpaths, these poems work tirelessly to discover the sublime in the suburban. Here we see a poet negotiating the postmodern condition; at once delicate and brutal, lyrical and fractured, these words are essential reading for anyone curious about what it means to be alive right now.' Ursula Hurley
ISBN 978-0-9562433-3-1 £2.50
