Heather Taylor : Writer, Filmmaker, & Speaker

This new bilingual collection in Serbian and English was published by the cultural NGO Treci Trg (Third Square) who also run the Belgrade International Poetry and Book Festival. The book was sponsored by the Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans and BCIF.

Collection – Sick Day Afternoons

With postage (EU) £4.00 With postage (outside EU) £5.00

This is Heather Taylor’s first full collection following the publication of her chapbook “She Never Talks of Strangers” in 2003. Her poetry is darkly comic, moving and unashamedly honest, drawing inspiration from her home, travel and news headlines. This collection marks the development of her poetry to a tighter, more reflective style, yet it still retains an engaging and amusing display of awkward emotions in images, words and phrases honed through her regular spoken-word performances.

Click here to buy in the UK.

For those outside of the UK, you may want to buy through Amazon: click here to buy

Excerpt from the collection:

There are layers between us
The sheets
The walls
The streets
The city
The phone

Your voice crackles over time zones
Sending kisses through fibre optics
To caress my ear

‘I love you’
I say those words
In my vacant apartment
Neat as you last left it
Red wine grown murky
In the bottom of glasses
Your head printed in my pillow
A razor forgotten by the sink
A photograph empty of you.

My last memory seems to end
With waving though terminal gates
Or plodding down long hallways
Greeted by chirpy blonde attendants
And safety procedures.

Can that be enough
In that world of ours
In those moments between
Weekends and phone bills
Can that be enough
Bodies separating us
Water choppy under airplane wings
in the sky turning blue grey

There are layers between us
The sheets
The walls
The streets
The city
The phone

But I still have you.

Innovative literary journal Going Down Swinging is marking its venerable 25th issue by releasing Australia’s first solely audio literary magazine on September 25th, as a double CD. This unique CD format journal is music to the ears of lyric lovers across the country; and a timely celebration of a literary icon.

Click here to buy

A collection from the renowned international writing group, Malika’s Poetry Kitchen.

-”Malika’s Kitchen is a literary movement whose impact on British poetry will be felt for a long time to come. These are writers committed to their craft, committed to expanding notions of Britishness through an engagement with the realities of British society and with the many strands that have come to shape it.”

Click here to buy

A collection of poems, stories and essays about the fallible woman, the sensitive girl-child and the fearless warrior, His Rib, offers an inside look at her story. The written works featured in this project includes women from both the literary field and the performance poetry circuit, creating a symbiotic kinship between the two art forms. After combing several continents, the women within these pages were found scribing folk tales in California, sonnets in New York, producing prose in London and breaking stereotypes with each stanza in Colorado, Texas and Canada. The result, a quilt weaved perfectly of compassion, self-respect, discipline, lust and hunger. Enjoy the crack and thunder of His Rib.

Click here to buy

An anthology of radical anti-corporate poetry including a cd
featuring performances of 19 poems ‘never before seen or heard on TV’.

-“I love these dark, subversive, thrilling, transgressional poems. Sometimes you need a poem to show you what you were seeing but not noticing. It’s a brilliant collection.” – George Monbiot

Click here to buy

A collection from the renowned international writing group, Malika’s Poetry Kitchen.

Click here to buy

An anthology of prose and fiction from Canadian and international writers.

Click here to buy

As part of the Remember Saro-Wiwa campaign, this anthology marks the 10th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwas killing on 10 November 1995 with 100 poems from around the world. The poems, contributed by new as well as celebrated writers, fall under general themes which include freedom of expression; resistance (literary and otherwise); and more.

Click here to buy

Click here to buy

Click here to buy

An international collection of fiction and prose produced by nthposition.

Click here to buy