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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Abstraktion und Einfühlung is Percival Everett's collection of seventeen poems on modern art, first published in 2008, moving among the work of Picasso, Manet, Gauguin, and Van Gogh and the museums that house it. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It seems oddly fitting to read these 2 fine books from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in a dimly lit pub, forgetting a looming appointment... I particularly recommend @jakeareynolds.bsky.social 's dream-like journeys & G B Clarkson's imagined holiday with George Eliot!

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Do check out our latest review! @timrelf.bsky.social is 'in Praise of' @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social's '55 Devotionals (Against Erasure)' @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, finding a 'vein of joy, gratitude and wonder'. inksweatandtears.co.uk/tim-relf-rev... #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Reviews

Image of the cover of Andrew McDonnell's '55 Devotionals (Against Erasure)' which shows a painted dark green horizon against a deep sky blue. The border is grey blue.

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'a hugely insightful book with much to say about class, masculinity and family’

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Strangers gathers a three-year collaboration between twelve Syrian mothers and caregivers displaced in Beirut's Shatila camp, the practitioners of Laban Theatre Company, and the project's researchers and filmmaker. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bowl of Grapes by Lenni Sanders is a pamphlet of appetite and its embarrassments, where the body is at once the site of pleasure and a problem to be managed. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Ballad of Malady Nelson is a poetry comic that builds with momentum, each panel swallowing the lines before it until a single sentence has grown into a catalogue of chronic illness, botched surgery, and care that never arrives. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

After a Short Illness is John Whitehouse's meditation on aphasia, written from the aftermath of a stroke that almost severed his speech. The poems work in short, image-dense stanzas that measure the distance between talk and utterance. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Discredited Universe Models gathers poems that test frameworks and find them wanting. Fallas moves between prose blocks, litany, and the clipped drift of the shipping forecast, tuning his attention to faulty instruments and misheard signals. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Viewings works through the many senses of its title: flats seen but not secured in a hostile Dublin rental market, the interior of a body read through scans and symptoms, and the cartography of an island off Galway that was never there. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My Last Address, Horses, Horses, Horses is a raw, propulsive book of poems and lyric prose that moves through teenage motherhood, addiction, poverty, care work, violence, and the long afterlife of classed shame with furious clarity and bruised humour. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Radiant Ordinary, edited by Gavin Goodwin, celebrates the poet John Freeman, whose work has pursued across more than five decades the illumination latent in ordinary experience. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Invertebrate by E Walker turns its attention toward desire, faith, and the strangeness of embodied life, finding in slugs, scorpions, and cicadas both an unlikely erotics and an unlikelier theology. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Depth of Previous Working Is Unknown takes a disused Northumberland coal mine, sunk in 1900 and abandoned by 1926, as the ground for a poetics of trespass and return. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Cathedral by Elontra Hall takes the basketball court as a site of devotion, where sweat, craft, and repetition become forms of prayer. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Paper Skin and Wooden Bones gathers the commended and winning entries from a CND Peace Education competition marking the eightieth anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, edited by Aaron Kent and Antony Owen. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Borrowed Ground is JLM Morton's second full collection, a reckoning with land, climate grief, and the entanglement of human and more-than-human life. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Stick Woman by Jean Stevens turns the constraints of an ageing body into a record of restless imaginative motion. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover on a plain white background with black serif text. The title "Stick Woman" appears in bold at the upper left, with "Jean Stevens" beneath it in lighter type. A detailed black-and-white line engraving fills the centre, showing a long-billed wading bird with mottled, barred plumage standing among tufts of grass on marshy ground. "Broken Sleep Books" is printed at the lower left

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

FLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night. If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time. Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us. www.brokensleepbooks.com/books

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For 3 days only
Poetry, pamphlets, anthologies, the lot
No code needed. Discounts show on site.
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Ends Sunday night

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

104 posts. c.4500 words…& a #poemsaloud recording Reaction to my thread on JH Prynne👇has been wonderful. Especial thanks to @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social You can find Prynne work at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social & @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

At the end of my thread about JH Prynne, there’s a sequence of 4 posts👇about the terrific poetry of Aaron Kent, editor of Broken Sleep Books. Prynne’s legacy is best secured by those who, like Kent, match his daring without being mere imitators @godzillakent.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This arrived today. HOTEL PETROLEUM by Mark Fiddes. Published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Very much looking forward to it @fiddes.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

The front cover of HOTEL PETROLEUM by Mark Fiddes published by Broken Sleep Books. On a white background, six white pillows in two columns of three in varying degrees of dishevelment, one of which, the middle pillow of the right-hand column, has a small lipstick smudge on it

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Motherhood: A Ghost Story By Anna Brook @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My new @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection drops in 2.5 weeks! Here are the titles of all the poems out of context: Establishing Shot. Local Lore. Abstract Mode. Exterior Swamp Dusk. i wrote about the new trend they're calling 'psycho goblin pop' for old man yells at cloud dot com

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Stefan Mohamed - The Revelation Tapes | Broken Sleep Books | Poetry

The Revelation Tapes by Stefan Mohamed unfolds as a salvaged transmission: a film-show remastered from corroded cassettes, screened in the ruins of a drowned future, its overture barked by a game-show...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

pH tagada is a maximalist collection that runs language through the debris of contemporary life: brand names, dating apps, and the clinical prose of public-health letters. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover with a pale cream background. The title "pH tagada" appears in bold brown serif type at the top left, with the author "Amaury Wonderling" beneath it in lighter brown. Centred slightly below the middle is a loose, sketchy watercolour illustration of a spiral or concentric circular form in soft brown and sepia tones, with visible brushstrokes and a few scattered flecks. The publisher "Broken Sleep Books" appears in brown at the lower left.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@PSTORALS runs the pastoral tradition through the textures of the contemporary internet: a single sequence in five movements and an envoi where shepherd swains, lambs, and burbling brooks share the frame with Depop alerts, dropshipping, and crypto futures. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover with a mid-blue background. The title "@PSTORALS" appears in bold black serif type at the top left, with the author "Alex Glynne" beneath it. Centred below is a pixel-art illustration of three overlapping retro computer windows, each with a coloured title bar and pixelated control icons: the front window has a yellow bar, the middle a red bar, and the back a pink bar, all outlined in dark navy with blank white panels. The publisher "Broken Sleep Books" appears in black at the lower left.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Random Walk gathers modern Hungarian verse translated by Peter V. Czipott and the late John Ridland, and edited by Johanna Domokos. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover with a dark green background. The title "Random Walk: a wayward collection of modern Hungarian verse" appears in yellow serif type at the top left, followed by "Translated by Peter V. Czipott & John Ridland" and "Edited by Johanna Domokos" in orange. Centred below is a vertical floral illustration in a folk-art embroidery style, featuring a large dark red bloom, a pink tulip, a blue flower, purple bells, pink berries, and yellow dots among green leaves and vines. The publisher "Broken Sleep Books" appears in yellow at the lower left.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Serpent and Stone, a poetry collaboration between Mari Ellis Dunning and Natalie Ann Holborow, gathers women from fairy tale, Greek myth, Shakespeare, biblical narrative, and the Mabinogion into a sequence of paired dramatic monologues. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover with a bright red background. The title "Serpent and Stone" appears in bold dark navy serif type at the top left, with the authors "Mari Ellis Dunning & Natalie Ann Holborow" beneath it. Centred below is a detailed dark navy engraving-style illustration of a Medusa's head with elaborate curling hair and serpents coiled at the neck, rendered in fine cross-hatched line work. The publisher "Broken Sleep Books" appears in dark navy at the lower left.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Delighted, excited, stoked, jazzed, chuffed and semi-levitating to reveal the cover for my forthcoming poetry collection The Revelation Tapes, out at the end of the month with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social AND you can pre-order it now, from this very link - www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

the cover of The Revelation Tapes, the third poetry collection by Stefan Mohamed, from Broken Sleep Books - a vivid purple background with shimmering semi-abstract multi-coloured cosmic imagery

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

4 poets launching their books at the bluecoat Liverpool, Wed 8 July: including Jesse Hill, whose new book is out from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social : www.thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/four...

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Four Poets at the Bluecoat

Join us at the Bluecoat for an evening of live poetry with James Byrne, Jesse Hill, Chris McCabe, and Robert Sheppard.

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Delighted to be launching my new book from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in Cork, along with @leeannequinn.bsky.social's phenomenal Landscape with Question. Waterstone's, July 28th, 6.30 💙

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Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Thrilled to announce that I have won the UNESCO international Bridges of Struga Award for a debut poetry book from Struga Poetry Evenings for my collection New Famous Phrases published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. Thanks so much to all of the judges for their kind words about the book!

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Remora gathers four decades of poetry from Stuart Inman across four chronological sequences, spanning 1988 to 2023. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for Remora by Stuart Inman, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is white, with the title and author name in bold black serif type at the top left. A single black-and-white woodcut-style illustration of a remora fish is positioned centrally, rendered in dense hatched lines against the plain white background.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Notes on Swimming, Arthur Lawson's debut pamphlet, draws the queer self into a sustained nautical idiom in which bodies dissolve into sand, sink like whales, or wake feathered as swans. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for Notes on Swimming by Arthur Lawson, published by Broken Sleep Books. The title and author name appear in white serif type at the top left against a black background. A photograph shows several jellyfish glowing in vivid electric blue against the dark water, with one large jellyfish dominating the centre of the cover and smaller ones visible at the top right and bottom.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Cosmic Sadness gathers five sequences in which Jean Portante's imagination expands to an interstellar scale, Zoë Skoulding's facing-page translation carrying the French of La Tristesse Cosmique into the English language without settling its restlessness. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for Cosmic Sadness by Jean Portante, translated by Zoë Skoulding, published by Broken Sleep Books.Book cover for Cosmic Sadness by Jean Portante, translated by Zoë Skoulding, published by Broken Sleep Books. The title, author name, and translator credit appear in gold serif type at the top left. The full cover is filled with an abstract painting in deep blue and teal, scattered with yellow and gold splashes and dots, with an intense burst of orange, yellow, and red impasto at the bottom, suggestive of flame or explosion.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The Psamathe Centre Journal is the poetry edition of a centenary arts journal from Psamathe, a fictional inverted underwater city built upon the bones of a whale fall & populated by those displaced by the catastrophic failure of the Atlantropa dam. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Strange sons, dangerous daughters: Four Branches of the Mabinogi by Imogen Russell Williams is a sustained poetic engagement with the medieval Welsh prose tales, refracted through a contemporary feminist intelligence. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for Strange Sons, Dangerous Daughters: Four Branches of the Mabinogi by Imogen Russell Williams, illustrated by Chris Riddell, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is black, with the title and credits in white serif type at the top. A framed monochrome pen-and-ink illustration depicts a hooded figure in medieval dress kneeling on a tiled floor, with a small dark animal at their side and ornate floral decoration visible in the background.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Swimming with Horses gathers poems of travel, witness, and working-class memory across a wide geographical and historical reach, moving from a Pembroke College room once occupied by Ted Hughes to the radioactive deep-time of a nuclear waste repository. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is deep teal, with the title in gold serif type and the author name in white beneath it at the top left. A framed photograph in the centre shows an underwater view of a horse in silhouette, moving through turquoise water with sunlight streaming in from the upper left, its mane and tail visible at the water's surface.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Lamentation by Linda Kemp is a sustained poetic indictment of austerity and the financialisation of care, structured across seven long sections moving through workforce precarity, the NHS, adult social care, foodbanks, and the self-care industry. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for Lamentation by Linda Kemp, published by Broken Sleep Books. The title and author name appear in bold magenta pink type at the top left against a very dark navy background. A photograph shows a swan on dark water, lit in deep blue tones, with its neck curved downward and wings slightly raised. The overall image is dark and atmospheric.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Eternal Worm by Ezra Chiu is a short, unnervingly intimate pamphlet that works through compressed lyric fragments to examine the textures of dependency, disordered embodiment, and queer attachment. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for Eternal Worm by Ezra Chiu, published by Broken Sleep Books.Book cover for Eternal Worm by Ezra Chiu, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is solid black, with the title in bold white serif type and the author name beneath it at the top left. Centred on the cover is a white circular form created from overlapping fine curved lines, suggesting a loosely wound coil or scribbled sphere, with several stray lines trailing outward.

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm so proud of this one, and happy to see it in the world. Available now from Broken Sleep. There will be a launch event with @leeannequinn.bsky.social 's wonderful Landscape with Question at Waterstone's Cork on July 28th 🎣

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Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I’m pleased to announce my next poetry pamphlet, coming out in February 2027 from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. COTERIE emerges from a challenge I set myself in April last year, to write a poem almost every day of the month in response to ‘commissions’ from my friends. People gave me requests [1/3]

A mock-up cover to advertise a poetry pamphlet. It's two facing pages: on the right, an early modern title page for 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia' from 1590-something. On the left it says 'Coterie. Written by Richard O'Brien for his mates. Broken Sleep, Feb 2027'

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Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics @futch-journal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Tuesday 30th June 8:00 PM Readers: John Kinsella, Mark Fiddes, Linda Kemp, Ezra Chiu, Arthur Lawson, and Jack Bennett. Tickets: www.brokensleepbooks.com/events

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David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is such an unbelievably good exploration of writing, translation, and so much else. Deep and wide as a lake, one of my books of the year tbh.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hotel Petroleum by Mark Fiddes is structured as a journey in three movements, Arrival, Occupancy, and Departure, through a world of expat dislocation, geopolitical emergency, and the absurdist textures of late-capitalist life in the Middle East and beyond. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for Hotel Petroleum by Mark Fiddes, published by Broken Sleep Books.Book cover for Hotel Petroleum by Mark Fiddes, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is white, with the title in bold dark grey serif type and the author name beneath it. Six white pillows are arranged in three rows of two across the cover, each slightly crumpled or creased; one pillow in the middle row bears a small pink stain. The overall effect is clinical and plain.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Limbo — The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella is a long poem in thirty-four cantos, each accompanied by a sub-canto and a subscript, structured as a sustained meditation on suspension: ecological, political, spiritual, and creative. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for Limbo — The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is mid-grey, with the title and author name in white serif type at the top left. A framed monochrome engraving occupies the centre of the cover, depicting two small robed figures standing on clouds, viewed from behind, gazing up into a vast swirling vortex of winged figures surrounding a brilliant central light.

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a hybrid lyric-essay that moves between elegy, translation, & ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Book cover for How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net by Ellen Dillon, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is deep teal, with the title and author name in lighter blue serif type at the top. A framed painting in the lower half depicts a large whale surrounded by a shoal of small sketched fish, with a small seated human figure visible inside a glowing cavity in the whale's body. The artwork has a dark, chalky, hand-drawn quality.

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