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2025

FOUR WINDOWS ON THE MALE  
by Veronica Aaronson, Steve Day, Roger Philip Dennis, Kerry Priest
ISBN 978-0-9545479    
84 poems   107 pages
RRP £10  in  BOOK SHOP

“FOUR WINDOWS ON THE MALE is a striking collection by four very individual poets. It opens many different windows on attitudes and behaviours around maleness and explores them with a glorious thoroughness. The reader is constantly surprised and delighted by the freshness of their vision, their innovative ways of looking. 
These poems are by turns devastating, playful, political, wry, angry, tender and everything else in between. 
What is it to be male? These thought-provoking poems offer succinct visions or versions of the complex ideas around masculinity, and how toxic masculinity affects women and girls. They look at youth and age, family relationships, history, story, longing, grief. 
They look both slant and straight on and in doing what all good poems do, they crack open their subject and make it sing.”
    Janet Sutherland, author of The Messanger House, and four other poetry collections (Shearsman Books.)

"I certainly feel educated and entertained by the two female and two male poets whose creativity we see through these four windows. I hope you have a similar experience."
   Andy Williamson, Arts Director, Ashburton Arts Centre

2024

BETWEEN NEW YEAR AND OLD
by Roger Philip Dennis    
ISBN 978-0-9545474-4-8  
64 poems     97 pages
RRP £12.00  in BOOK SHOP

This is the first solo collection of work by Roger Philip Dennis.
The poems move from the boat people of today to orphans in Ancient Greece, from ’50’s Teddy-boys to red shoes and Sidhe abductions beneath magic hills; fictitious figures of Arthurian legend wander into the 21st century or sit alongside historical leaders and saints; the outer regions of intergalactic space meet sub-atomic dance; where the biodiversity of an oak tree relates to the memory of a passer by.
A fox gets his chance to reply to the renowned poet Charles Causley. An old man is ostracised from a city and murder is committed in a lighthouse. Catkins are golden in hillside hedges and romance is remembered -– or in the air; chocolate is eaten by a river; lovers wake up to spiders and hot porridge.
And much more:
     ….was it ….
     too many borders crossed?
     That we wait here
     deep in oak and ash and sycamore, this nowhere,
     lacking passport from Old Year to New?
             from In Gawain’s Footsteps (page 31 in the collection)

RECONSTRUCTING A BROTHER  
by Jennie Osborne        
ISBN 978-0-9545474-6-2      
22 poems     30 pages
RRP £7.00   CONTACT to purchase
A pamphlet in the form of a poignant family memoir:

"In Reconstructing a Brother, I return to themes of memory and family explored in my first two collections, circling in on the subject from a variety of fragment; changeable, unreliable, fleeting as polaroid photograph."

Jennie Osborne

THE TEMPERATURE IN THE ROOM
by Steve Day    
ISBN 978-0- 9545474-5-5
66 poems       96 pages 
RRP £10.00  CONTACT to purchase
His first full collection of new work in three years.

Occasionally the world will
turn on such a pageant of philosophy.
They sucked uncertain faith through their
teeth, asked to hear due process rather than
entertain the possibility that as idiosyncratic
as it might appear, silence provides a better way.
Shhhh, in the quiet of stupor, interpret an itinerant
poet at the end of a spirit level's margin of error.

from Portrait Of A Meeting 1650 by Steve Day

2023

UNTAMED
A collaborative anthology of South West poets and visual artists
ISBN 978-0-9545474-3-1  
32 poems  73 pages
68 illustrations in full colour 
RRP £12.00  in BOOKSHOP

This thoughtful, beautiful collection of poems and associated images is, at its heart, about relationships. It explores our relationships with nature, with society, individuals and crucially ourselves. Furthermore, the format of each poem being paired with an image encourages the reader to undertake their own exploration, alongside considering how the narrative and corresponding visual art relate to one another.

Each selected poem is an individual response to the idea of being wild, free and untamed. The images have been selected by the poets as representing an essence of the thoughts behind their writing.

Editor's statement.

INVOCATIONS AND PORTRAITS
by Roger Phillip Dennis and Steve Day
A joint production of co-operatively paired poems.
ISBN 978-0-9545474-2-4   RRP £10.00

Day On Dennis
"...we tentatively swapped writings ...(later) our poetry sharing took on epic proportions. It became obvious... here was a writer of immense resources... Roger is the real thing; his visionary poem, The New Taliesin opens our collection, it literally is a breathtaking trip into the extent of his depth of vision... Though our writing is different, perhaps extremely so, we felt a synergy between each other's intention, precision (or lack of it) and musicality. The two of us hold to the central tenet of reaching an understanding of humanity through examination of 'self"."

Dennis on Day
"...fizz, ....a term... well describing the bone-tingling excitement I got from my first experience of Steve's music-and-word performance; from the quality of his music as well as that of his words; ...also the conviction and animation of his stage-delivery. A conviction only reinforced when I turned to reading his work off the printed page, particularly (aside from this collection) in Diamonds In Streams. Are Steve and I coming from the same place? - Wrong question, as the answer is either, "Obviously, yes," or alternatively, and just as appropriately, "No way!" ...in this collection, the leap from one poem to another is just, so it seems to me, music."

Author statements selected from the 'Two Preludes' introduction to the  collection.

For more information about Invocations and Portraits, and its EXTRAVAGANZA performance, see the HISTORY page.

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Earlier Wylde publications that maybe available from their respective authors or compilers, but out of print and no longer in stock.
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