Ben Barton
Ben Barton is a poet and journalist from Folkestone in Kent. Previous work has appeared in Chroma, Harlequin, Parameter, Pyramid, The Ugly Tree and X Magazine. Since featuring in the BBC Video Nation programme (No One Reads Poetry, March 2004) he has held an exhibition at the Ashford Gallery and released his first collection The Red Book, which brings together his small-press poems published from 1996 to 2006. See more at benbarton.co.uk
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Coffee and Chocolate
(Poems and Stories)
A Short Story & Poetry Anthology
Price £6.99 (p&p £1 per book)
Format: Demi. 108 pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-33-2
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‘I line them up in a neat symmetrical row, edges equidistant from the boundary of the coffee table before me: a work of modern art. Three times two hundred grams; three times a thousand calories. It’s day one of my week-long crash course.
Body Beautiful guarantees success…’
Extract from ‘The Conspiracy of Thinness’
Coffee and chocolate are goodly things, in turn stimulating and soporific and generally remarkably alluring in cakes. This anthology contains a mix of 31 winning poems and short-short stories from Leaf Books’ Coffee and Chocolate themed competitions. We hope you find them delectable and invigorating and seething with endorphins.
Razzamatazz & Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: A5 44 Pages
ISBN: 1905599-27-7
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The Leaf Books Short Poetry Competition 2006 invited entrants to submit poems up to sixteen lines in length on any topic imaginable. 525 poems were received on subjects as diverse as love, jazz, the internal monologue of a captive orang-utan and, in the first-prize winning ‘Tundra’, the plight of an obscurely-realised and unnamed refugee.
The competition was judged by prize-winning poet Sheenagh Pugh. This eminently readable anthology houses thirty-seven selected entries by both previously published and first-time poets.
