“New Nonfiction from the winner of the Dublin Literary Award”
Paradise and Other Hells
Blending excerpts from his diary with columns published in the press, Paradise and Other Hells is an intricate book that still allows for stop-start reading. In the short article, God is Sick, José Eduardo Agualusa asserts that ”people who are sure that their beliefs are based in good sense are open to discussion. They put forth arguments. They defend a certain line of thinking…” That is precisely what Paradise and Other Hells does, it opens a discussion of the world with the world, and that is the secret of its timelessness.
“Out Now”
26 Connections
13 alumni from the Barbican Young poets, team up with 13 writers from 26, to demonstrate the power of people coming together to explore the potential of creative collaboration.
“inner, symbolic theater”
Yellow Things: A Family Operetta
Caroline Fernelius retraces a childhood of “round and rounding days” in the Texas Gulf Coast, uncovering a string of alternate family histories in the process.
“love, life and everything in between”
Amittere
“Charlotte Ansell writes with remarkable clarity about change and catastrophe. Using poetry as a cipher for contemplation, resilience, and reckoning, she unpacks the upheavals that echo from one’s own life to the wider world.” – Roger Robinson
“Frank, tender poems, that worry at the world with skew and invention” – Jack Underwood
“[Ansell’s] generosity of heart combines with expert technique and powerful storytelling to make sure the impetus never lapses.” – Rosie Johnston, London Grip
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Gabriel Gbadamosi Sings You A Song Of A World Gone Wrong In Abolition
Set in 1792, amongst the merchant princes and cut-throat backstreets of Liverpool, in the Palace of Westminster in London and aboard the Blackamoor Jenny, Abolition gives us the voices of people caught up in the original sin of slavery and fighting to survive it, profit from it, ignore it, or end it. We had the distinct pleasure of sitting […]
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Help the #FECrew stay “in office”
The #FECrew is asking for your help. One of the longest running small presses in the UK, flipped eye publishing has been running with a not-for-profit model since 2001 and is recognised globally as an incubator for exciting talent, being the original home of leading contemporary writers such as Roger Robinson, Malika Booker, Jacob Sam-La […]
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Party with the flipped eye crew! It’s been an amazing year for flipped eye. We survived COVID, introduced new imprints, hired an amazing intern, celebrated our 20th Anniversary with fascinating conversations with and between our authors, and it was all thanks to our phenomenal #FECrew, and you, our #FEFolk. Now what better way to culminate […]
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Before Them, We
Before Them, We is an anthology that explores the lives of grandparents and elders before the families they went on to establish, digging deep into those narrative of their lives that are lesser known: who they loved, where and why they migrated, why they had families. The result of a collaborative effort of poets of African descent to bring their personal stories in conversation with each other, the anthology is a poetic meditation on how we engage with the practice of memory.
…having discovered a poet’s work we are always delighted to find that they have been published by flipped eye… It means we can be confident that the poet has been rigorously edited and will have a book that’s beautifully designed and produced with care and attention.
Naomi Jaffa