Flapjack Press: 42 books

We Are Poets! is Helên Thomas's sparkling collection for younger readers and winner of The Poetry Kit's Book of the Month award. It features a selection of children's poems, ranging from the floor filling anthemic action poem 'Everybody Everywhere Stomp Your Feet!' to the calming,...

With eloquent conviction, Kaleidoscope champions equality and challenges authority, exposing the hypocrisy, iniquity and 'politricks' of the powers that be. A fiery and astute collection, crafted with passion, tenderness and humour, from one of the UK's most incisive performers....

A collection of poems and paintings. It’s no coincidence that Pete Ramskill is also a stone carver, he brings the same tools to his poetry - a hammer and chisel... Pete Ramskill is a poet, artist, designer and sculptor. He used to perform regularly on Terry Christian's Radio Derby...

Vaudavillain is a cornucopia of political and personal vitriol, acerbic humour and points well-made.  Thick Richard has been peddling his potty-mouthed punk poetry since the turn of the century. He has supported John Hegley, Kate Tempest, Jerry Sadowitz, Arthur Smith, The Fall and (sort...

"What goes on in these four walls is none of their concern, shut your mouth and keep it shut is what you need to learn..." Mumb: a personal exploration of the dark side of motherhood and what it means to be a woman. "To read Mumb is to sit at a rickety northern kitchen table with an...

Manchester's full of stories... Tell-tale and multi. In this bountiful collection of 'first draft explosions' the infamous gingham diva and gay icon rides the sound waves of Manchester, revealing the people and places that stir and shape her creative muse. "Ever wondered what...

Pull aside a jam-stained coat or a frilly nightgown in the dark and dazzling jumble and enter a secret, magical world of drunken carebears and narky buses; a world where wisdom is biro'd on the back of everyone's hand, where clowns eat spam, sugar and lard butties, and where if you stand outside Netto...

Men, hey? Rumbustious buccaneers and fallible flotsam. They set sail upon calm seas and weather storms; they love, they long, they grieve and hopefully find safe harbour. From childhood to supposed adulthood, these simple yet complex creatures battle expectation and seek understanding. It's a...

Critically acclaimed playwright Cathy Crabb brings her expert imagination, wit and lucidity to the page in her debut poetry collection. Whether dealing with invasive mind-spam, brain-worms or family, contemplating loss, the inevitability of change or having the odd drink, the corner of her mind's...

Open the door of this book and step into the universe of Dermot Glennon and you may not be able to get out again. You may not want to. You may want to get help. Arranged in broadly thematic chapters with style guide introductions and explanations of the underlying ideas and philosophies that led to...

Tony's debut collection bristles with thought provoking honesty, dry humour and eloquent charm. Including his anthemic, lyrical classics 'The Signed', 'The Gorilla Was On Ecstasy' and 'Brighton Days'. Tony Curry is the host of Word Jam, Manchester's monthly spoken word and music night. A performance...

Entertainment with the emphasis on "tert". Since running away from home at the age of 28, award winning writer Hovis Presley (the award wasn't for writing) has found fame as the inventor of the bra-less strap and the individually wrapped baked bean. His interests include postal kerplunk...

In his highly anticipated seventh autobiographical collection of domestic/fantastic theatre-verse, Gerry navigates an ocean of poems and little splashes. From Scottie Road to saunas, Hammer films to heartfelt and articulate politics, and the lost and found of loves and lives, this is where mythos...

In his first solo collection, a poet called Dave gives his unique insight into a background that rarely pushes poets to the foreground. Exploring the legend of angry dads, the fragility of 'lad's lads' and the condition that threatened his future as a performer, these are poems that turn life on its...