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"Comic Timing", Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and resistant act. These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique, fragmentary and illusory turns of phrase. Holly tackles marginal bodies, landlords, bog butter, desire, domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice. She chronicles the prevailing mood of our times, mining radical and anarchic histories to offer a collection of political resistance with both absurdity and seriousness.

Joining us at Audible is Hollie McNish, the Ted Hughes Award-winning author and poet. Her latest collection, Slug, covers topics from birth to death, sex to sexism and many other everyday challenges we face in the 21st century. We'll be talking to Hollie McNish about her approach to poetry, what she’s most looking forward to about her next gig, and how she has come to feel comfortable discussing things that no one else does.

Lunar Honey is a collection of poetry about evolving. The book is divided into three sections with thematic waves of love in various forms, culminating in self-empowering truths. In Lunar Honey, Holly Toomer highlights romance, authenticity, social disparity, resilience, spirituality, and purpose. The poems in this book reflect how an infatuated and unhealthy love can almost be trance-like, so much so, that it is easy to understand how a person can lose theirself in another.