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BRP is pleased to announce the publication of its second pamphlet,
​The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass, by Mari Ellis Dunning and Natalie Ann Holborow.
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THE WRONG SIDE OF THE LOOKING GLASS

In this collaborative poetry pamphlet, Natalie Ann Holborow and Mari Ellis Dunning stir together myth, legend, fairytale, and iconic female characters to cast a book-length spell and bewitch, as well as beguile, the reader. With intelligence and imagination they question stereotypes, delve into archetypes, and dissect what we think we know, transmuting old stories, through gorgeous language and idiosyncratic imagery, into new and startling tales. Marginalised female voices are brought to the fore, their inner worlds expertly and sensitively realised. Unsettling, evocative, and full of surprise, this is a rich and entirely unique undertaking by two of the brightest young voices in poetry today.

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£7 + £1.50 P&P

"The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass is a fabulous re-imagining of a series of female characters from literature, folklore and myth. The Queen of Hearts is bored with chopping off heads, the Big Bad Wolf wants to try on a dress or two, while Gothel, the witch who has Rapunzel under lock and key, only has the girl’s best interests at heart, honest. In the tradition of alternative histories, as opposed to merely fake ones, and with a refreshingly subversive take on some hoary old certainties, Mari Ellis Dunning and Natalie Holborow get under the skins of their chosen subjects with bravura and chutzpah, extending them in unexpected directions and expanding our own understanding in the process. If you want to know what happened to Dorothy in the decades after she took a trip on a Kansas tornado, or how Leda felt about that swan, then this is the book for you. The language sings too, matching the coruscating narratives at every step – try ‘petticoat titmouse blue’, ‘ells’ and ‘rampion’ – as these two young poets leave the ‘promising’ tag behind and emerge in this marvellous collaboration as poets of mature and significant achievement." - John Goodby

"The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass is a wunderkammer of reflections, refractions and uncanny glimpses of the myths and legends we all think we know.  But, as in the best tradition of adaptation, these re-visionings awaken the uncanny power of the familiar to surprise, provoke, and address even the most contemporary concerns from unexpected angles.  In the best tradition of collaboration, too, the work fizzes with ingenuity and wit, bringing the best of two bright new voices into a unique and richly enjoyable dialogue both with each other and with our oldest storytelling traditions." - Tiffany Atkinson
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Things only borderlines know

Things Only Borderlines Know is a vivid, vital, and very affecting book of poems by Olivia Tuck. It is published by new poetry pamphlet publisher Black Rabbit Press, which is founded and run by Mab Jones and which aims to publish new, unique, and diverse voices. This is a book that is as profound as it is personal; zings with honesty and energy; is both concise and yet compelling, with striking, often highly visceral, imagery. It is the work of a writer of great feeling and imagination. 

Things Only Borderlines Know features a gorgeous paper cut cover, on black recycled card with a red inner paper, and is limited to a run of 100 copies. It contains 20 poems / prose pieces by Olivia. Black Rabbit Press is proud to showcase the work of this brilliant new poetic voice.

£7 + £1.50 P&P

“In these raw, urgent poems, Olivia Tuck vividly evokes lives askew. This is brave, original work, at once unsettling and compelling.” - Carrie Etter
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“You know when you come across the poetry of Olivia Tuck, either in her startling performances, or on the page - you have been struck! She’s exciting, unsettling, truthful, and raw - her poems strut about to confront the world in new and powerful ways with themes of mental health, growing, sex, body image and identity. The speaker is giving us a traumatic-mind-view from a therapeutic seat opposite psychiatrists and parents, tin nurses, Vera, the devil, and from the corner bed in the A&E observation ward - and these poems strike right through us like an 'ECT storm crackling through the skull’. This is amazing work from an astonishingly talented new poet.” - Hilda Sheehan


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