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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You can buy Being The One here with free worldwide delivery from Blackwell’s. Being The One poetry by Sarah 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sue Vickerman has received three Arts Council (UK) awards for her poetry, novels and short stories. Shag, the first of her four poetry collections to date, was published during the half-decade she spent living in a Scottish lighthouse. This is a new Naked Eye edition. ‘Keenly observed birds punctuate the poems in this collection – […]
The second part of Suki’s autobiographical trilogy opens a year on from the end of her long-term love-affair with Ilka. After another doomed fling with a dissatisfactory male Suki is alone again, still earning her keep as a model for a motley crew of artists, still doggedly pursuing her quest for literary success. With lonely […]
For unavoidable reasons Naked Eye has been somewhat in abeyance for some time. However we […]
Ane ePub version of this book is available from wherever you buy your ebooks. a […]
An ePub version of this book is available from wherever you buy your ebooks a […]
Naked Eye has published a Kindle edition of Sue Vickerman’s second poetry collection, The social […]
Naked Eye has published a Kindle version of Sue Vickerman’s first poetry collection Shag (originally […]
True Life Nude, Part III of Suki’s autobiographical trilogy, is now available to read online […]
Two Small Lives, Part II of Suki’s autobiographical trilogy, can be read online here. It […]
A Small Life, Part I of Suki’s autobiographical trilogy, is available online. You can read […]
