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Leeds Playhouse, A Tale of Two Theatres

Leeds Playhouse, A Tale of Two Theatres

You can buy Leeds Playhouse, A Tale of Two Theatres here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. Leeds Playhouse, A Tale of Two Theatresby Dave Stannard The bookThis captivating book blends personal anecdotes, in-depth research and behind-the-scenes stories to take readers on a comprehensive journey through the history and transformation of one of Yorkshire’s most acclaimed cultural institutions.  Dave […]

Listening, listening

Listening, listening

You can buy Listening, listening here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. Listening, listeningpoetry by Bob Cooper ‘turns the ordinary world into an extraordinary book… captivating’John Gorman This is Bob Cooper’s third full collection of poems after a five-decade career which has also seen the publication of six pamphlets, some of which have been award-winning. True to form these […]

Dangerous Caprices

Dangerous Caprices

You can buy Dangerous Caprices here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longerOscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray Nora Iuga created her title from this half-remembered quotation. Already at the age of 67 when Iuga brought out […]

Being The One

Being The One

You can buy Being The One here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. Being The Onepoetry bySarah Littlefeather Demick “My intention in sharing this with you is that you understand a little better. And if you understand a little better you might want to, or be able to, respond a little more confidently to people in your community […]

The social decline of the oystercatcher

The social decline of the oystercatcher

You can buy The social decline of the oystercatcher here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. Passionate, painful, witty, loving, long-sighted Sue Vickerman’s eerily prophetic poems describe Nature and the old normal before flood and famine, wildfires and too-close war. Scottish landscapes, seabirds and fresh air provide the setting for innocuous pre-pandemic behaviours: beach-combing, bird-watching, bickering. But the […]

The day that didn't happen

The day that didn’t happen

You can buy The day that didn’t happen here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. The bookA small Norwegian town in August 1975. A heatwave. A 12-year-old girl, who is no longer a child. An incident that no one must know about. A dark secret – and an extraordinary love story.As an adult, and apparently for the first […]

Marseillaise My Way

Marseillaise My Way

You can buy The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. a monologue by Darina Al Jounditranslated by Helen Vassallo ‘A stunning manifesto for freedom’ Zybeline Noun, the heroine of The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing, has left Lebanon to make a life for herself in Paris. Marseillaise My Way follows Noun’s adventures […]

Always Too Many Miles

Always Too Many Miles

You can buy Always Too Many Miles here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. The poems in Jean Stevens’ latest collection range from long held memories: who is this girl running towards me out of the past to present day concerns in a time of uncertainty when loved ones are far away: knowing I might never see you again, I’m deep […]

The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing

The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing

You can buy The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. a monologue by Darina Al Joundi translated by Helen Vasallo ‘a story that flows like a surging river’ (Le Monde)I’ve been waiting for you to tell you this story. A true story. My story. On the evening of her father’s funeral, while […]

Its Over. Don't go there.

Its Over. Don’t go there.

SHORT STORIES by Kathrin Schmidt, translated by Sue Vickerman You can buy It’s over. Don’t go there. here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. These are tales of small, damaged lives that unfold towards sometimes deadly ends. Desolate or downright funny, often they are about women: single and lonely, or ordinary and kind, or who neglect their children, […]

Somewhere a blind child

Somewhere a blind child

You can buy Somewhere a blind child here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. Ion Cristofor’s poetry leaves the door open to possibilities. There is always more beneath the surface of these poems. He “discovers the world as he discovers the poem”, which he creates “obsessively” in an imaginary laboratory. Sensuality and spirituality coexist in a recurring natural […]

The distance between us

The distance between us

You can buy The distance between us here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. A painter’s eye and a poet’s heart! In this final collection of poems Jean Harrison’s hallmark style of concise and careful observation invites us into a world where buses glide like angels and silence is a lightweight fleece, her wry humour often at work […]

You're not dying

You’re not dying

A new English translation by Christina Les of Kathrin Schmidt’s prize winning novel Du Stirbst Nicht  You can buy You’re not dying here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. Helene Wesendahl wakes from a post-aneuryism coma paralysed, speechless and devoid of memory. With each re-learned movement, remembered word and returned fragment of forgotten biography, a life comes to light […]

Nothing But Words

Nothing But Words

Poetry by Jean Stevens Words a lifetime’s freight of wordsslippery wordswords across deep valleysdevoting a life to wordswords of helplost wordsmagical wordsthe air full of wordswords inside a child’s headanchoring wordsalive with wordsa serpent’s wordsfinished with wordsall human wordsblack-lettered wordsgrappling with wordsall those words that might have been The poems in Jean Stevens’ latest collection […]

Suki Illuminated

Suki Illuminated

Suki Illuminated is the first in our Illustrated Books series. The book contains photographs by Bel the photographer of Suki the life-model. The book was produced to accompany the Suki Project exhibition as part of the Three Peaks Arts trail in 2019. Bel and Suki are fictional characters created by Sue Vickerman. Two parts of […]

Speak to the Earth

Speak to the Earth

The poems in Jean Stevens’ latest collection are reflections on our relationship with the earth. They express delight in nature but also lament its loss in the uncertain times in which we live. There is a longing for more connection: that night in my cage of sleep I dreamt of hares in the wild; and a […]

True Life Nude

True Life Nude

True Life Nude is the third part of Suki the life-model’s autobiographical trilogy. It was published in January 2020. A Small Life and Two Small Lives are the first two parts of Suki’s life-story. At the opening of this final part of the trilogy Suki has escaped to Berlin to try and pick up the […]

Du Stirbst Nicht

Du Stirbst Nicht

Naked Eye is delighted to announce that it has obtained the translation rights from the German publishing house Kiepenheuer und Witsch to Kathrin Schmidt’s prize-winning novel Du Stirbst Nicht (You’re not going to die). Du Stirbst Nicht won the German Book Prize in 2009 and has since been translated into thirteen other languages, but never […]

Kick-off

Kick-off

Naked Eye is pleased to publish David Pendleton’s book Kick-off; The start of spectator sports as the first in its Potted Theses series. “It is to be hoped that David Pendleton’s wonderfully readable and entertaining vision of a past which remains central to the way we still perceive ourselves, will become a staple of sporting […]

Driving in the Dark

Driving in the Dark

Naked Eye is pleased to publish Jean’s latest collection of poems Driving in the Dark in February 2018. The poems in Jean Stevens’ latest collection range through everything from a pub on the North York Moors on a black cloaked night, an encounter with a stranger in the dead hours in Soho and jackdaws who […]

Adventus

Adventus

Do Christmas and all the build-up to it affect you emotionally, whether you were brought up in a Christian background or not? As Sue writes, “Advent was at one time a dour season of prayer, fasting and penitence. For me a distinct melancholy hangs over our grey rainy islands during December’s darkening days. Some people […]

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  • True Life Nude
    True Life Nude

    True Life Nude is the third part of Suki the life-model’s autobiographical trilogy. It was […]

  • Du Stirbst Nicht
    Du Stirbst Nicht

    Naked Eye is delighted to announce that it has obtained the translation rights from the […]

  • Kick-off
    Kick-off

    Naked Eye is pleased to publish David Pendleton’s book Kick-off; The start of spectator sports […]

  • Illustrated books
    Illustrated books

    Naked Eye will soon be publishing a range of art books and exhibition catalogues featuring […]

  • True Life Nude
    True Life Nude

    ‘True Life Nude’, Part III of Suki’s trilogy, A Small Life and Two Small Lives […]

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Events

Adventus - book signing
Jean Stevens - book launch
The Suki Project - events
Corner Art and Books poetry reading
Record Cafe lunchtime lectures
The big screen at Bradford City Park
Ilkley Literature Festival
The Poetry Translation Centre
Settle Library event
Jean and Sue at Keighley Library
Three Peaks Arts event
Keighley Library poetry event
Jean at Victoria Hall, Settle
Settle Sessions with Jean Stevens and Mike Harding
ADVENTUS at Hettie's in Skipton
Reviews of <em>Adventus</em>
ADVENTUS – What is to come? Shipley Triangle
Sue Vickerman at Settle Sessions
Beehive poetry reading
<i>True Life Nude</i>  now online in serialised form
Launch of print edition of <i>Two Small Lives</i>