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	Item Details: The Golden Hour Book Vol. 2 (with CD) Paperback: 192 pages Published: 25 September 2009 ISBN-10: 0955645638 ISBN-13: 978-0955645631 Description: The Golden Hour Book Volume II is not just a book: it is also a natural resource that may save your life. Its pages will burn without being consumed. It keeps tigers away. The accompanying CD is equally essential: it can be used as a plate, or better still, sharpened and thrown like a shuriken into the throat of your enemy. Even if the end approaches, there is still the consolation of the words and sounds within — fine poems, stories, and songs from over three dozen poets, writers and musicians — all of which are guaranteed to take your mind off things. Read more! Amount: £8 + P&P
	Item Details: The Golden Hour Book Vol. 1 (with CD) Paperback: 90 pages Published: 8 Aug 2007 Language English ISBN-10: 0955645603 ISBN-13: 978-0955645600 Description: The Golden Hour is poetry and prose, it’s acoustic and it’s electric, it’s physical and mental. The Golden Hour Book (and CD) is an effort to distill all the goodness of our live performance – the words, the music, the bottles of beer and wine – into a volume of pure, unrefined Gold, featuring the artists that have performed over the past year. This is Golden. Read more! Amount: £8 + P&P
	Item Details: Stolen Stories Paperback: 240 pages Published: 26 Oct 2008 Language English ISBN-10: 0955645611 ISBN-13: 978-0955645617 Description: Never, ever trust a writer. They cluck and nod and listen and then, three months later, they splash your tragedy/foolishness/very embarrassing incident involving a raspberry jelly and a pair of warm curling tongs over the tawdry pages of a literary quarterly. We feel there is no shame in this. Quite the opposite: we believe this ugly fact deserves to be celebrated with all the pomp and hullaballoo we can possibly muster. Therefore we have compiled an anthology of the finest stolen stories, the anecdotes and overheard conversations that simply demand to be told. We feel that it is time to be honest. This is where our ideas come from. Read more! Amount: £6 + P&P
	Forest Publications Special Deal! Item Details: The Golden Hour Book Vol. 1 (with CD) + Stolen Stories Buy both books today for a special discount price! Save on postage by buying in bulk! Amount: £10 + P&P

Special Limited-Print Projects

	Item Details: Bedtime Stories Multiple Authors, Mixed Genre (Poetry, Short Fiction, Illustration) Introduction: The Forest Book of Bedtime Stories was born in the hours which follow meetings, the hours of liquor and suggestiveness. The hours in which, under a thick cloak of Cockburn’s Reserve Port, we question what it is to be literary: whether we are not, perhaps, suited to something a little more upfront, a little more base. … What lies inside are tales that hang in the tricky balance of smut. These are not the cheap titillation of your newsprint-stained fingers working over Page 3. They are not content to hint, to nudge, to snicker behind palms at what is going on. We come to you honestly and say: … Read more! Amount: £3 + P&P
	Item Details: World Cup 2010 Poems Multiple Authors, Poetry Introduction: …We hope this collection can take that magic, the magic of following your home team or adopted heroes, minnows and giants alike, and bring it to life through poetry. If people take something from a riddling 11-line poem, or climb inside a 22-line narrative and walk around, they may find something that moves them. We hope that both football fans and non-football fans can realise that the World Cup is about more than football, it’s a house party in the global village, and we’re all invited. Read more! Amount: £3 + P&P
	Item Details: red, like our room used to feel (CD) Ryan Van Winkle & Ragland, Mixed Genre (Poetry, Music) Introduction: Released on 1st February 2010, “Red, Like Our Room Used To Feel” is a collaboration between poet Ryan Van Winkle and musical adventurer Ragland. Featuring 18 tracks, merging poetry and soundscapes, the album is a continuation of a performance piece debuted at the Hidden Door festival in Edinburgh . Amount: £3 + P&P

CHAPBOOKS

	Forest Publications 3 for £5 Special Deal! Item Details: A selection of three chapbooks from the Forest Publications Chapbook series for a bargainous £5! Choose which ones you want and we’ll ship them right to you. (Or leave it blank and we’ll send you our favourites!) Save on postage by buying in bulk! Choose THREE Issues: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.51, 1.52, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 Amount: £5+ P&P
	Item Details: Vol.2 Iss.5 ‘Mosquitoes’ Author: Krystelle Bamford from The House at Westerly, Rhode Island The house was the sea. Or a ship on the sea. Or a deer-blind deep in the woods. From the deck, they watch bitterns skulk at the hem of vernal pools, while green-heads bomb through the dusk. Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.2 Iss.4 ‘Chicks Dig Scars’ Author: Katie Craig Excerpt I will never pull hair from a plug-hole without thinking of the ovarian cyst Celia had. It was made entirely out of hair and teeth – apparently that’s what cells find it easiest to mutate into… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.2 Iss.3 ‘Snow’ Author: Chloe Morrish Excerpt bare trees, a crow shape neatly cut out of the snow behind it, the dark the snowflake symbols on the weather forecast are all identical… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.2 Iss.2 ‘Parallax (For Justin)’ Author: Helen Mort From While You Weren’t Listening I heard the glass say to the tabletop: I like the way you hold me. I heard the table answer back: I like the way you feel. The barstools thanked the floor for all the nights it propped them up… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.2 Iss.1 ‘The Ones You’ve Had, The Ones You Get & The Ones You Want’ Author: Lawrie Clapton Excerpt: There are plenty of great ways to introduce a story; you can start with a death, like Albert Camus, or you can start with rainfall, like Edgar Allen Poe, or a wedding, or an introduction, or an elaborate pratfall, drunk, down a set of stairs. Being original and being clever were never my strong suits – besides it should probably be with what you remember best that you start off a story. I remember the songs the best. This song is My Generation, by The Who, and… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.10 ‘Vignettes from Below’ Author: Julia Boll Excerpt: When the fires broke out, I was so high on endorphins I didn’t even notice the overwhelming stench of smoke. We had been sleeping on the roof of a warehouse, and Sean had woken me up by crawling into my sleeping bag and pushing up my shirt, his hair still smelling of the river, of oil and amphibian nightmares. But his hands were warm and insistent, and what he said was so filthy I momentarily forgot where we were. So, yes. While the government set fire to its capital city, I was being fucked silly on top of the bonded store,… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.9 ‘Dreams of the City’ Author: Kirsti Wishart Excerpt: The final straw was lying in wait for them on the doormat when they came back after a fortnight’s holiday. Both of them had taken turns trying to barge the door open until James brought out the thin wooden spatula Chris had laughed at him for taking. ‘See. Told you this would come in handy.’ After a good two minutes of shoving, the wad of paper jammed in the gap between door and floor, gave and… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.8 ‘The Island’ Author: Craig Bayne Excerpt: As the plane descended through clouds, and geometric wisps of coastline opened up before us, I looked down, taking in the enormity of the bible-black sea. We lowered, and the sharp colourless rocks of the cliff edge swung into view, stabbing up from the breaking waves. When I was a child, my father told me stories of brave seamen who, having disrespected the water with boasts of their own brilliance, had been wrecked upon these very rocks and drowned only metres from the island’s shore. I believed him, in the way a child always believes his father, and even today the fear lingered in me. Looking down from the sky, I still felt my own inferiority to the waves. Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.7 ‘Old and New’ Author: Jason Harrison Morton Excerpt: I then drank in relative peace, until the requisite thoughts when I’m alone in any crowded place kicked in: What the hell am I doing here? Who are these people? Look at that guy – he looks like a dick. Wandering around the room, stirring around these unanswerable questions, and arguing with myself – maybe he just LOOKS like a dick – brings me back round, and the two girls both look at me and laugh – this time I’m certainly being fucked with – when I realize they’re right in front of me… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.6 ‘The Last Refuge’ Author: Russell Jones Excerpt: from Ghazal Jigsaw From the small, closed window of our study table the stars are set like the pieces of your space jigsaw. I ask if you’re any closer. The stars are set you mutter as you slot another nook into the realised corner, and yet you seem unsure which cosmos you’ve just pieced together. The stars are set upon like foxes: your hands are hungry dogs. Your eyes are ready trumpets…Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.5.2 ‘Find It In The Dictionary’ Author: Fiona Morrison Excerpt: dandelion, dan’di-li-en, n. a common yellow-flowered composite (Taraxacum officinale) with jagged-toothed leaves. [Fr. dent de lion, liontooth] It was the first word she’d looked up in the dictionary and the first flower she’d ever picked. How the white whiskers that floated softly through the wind were anything like lions’ teeth she did not know. As she lay on the ground to reach the mass of white flowers that strained upwards to break free from the edge of the towering cliff, she had leaned in for the kill and blown them completely bare. All except one… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.5.1 ‘Cover Story’ Author: Dave Coates Excerpt: from Train to London I give you birchwood. I give you the white flowers of hawthorn. I give you witchhazel and alder with sunlight strobing through their branches. You give me the fuzz-yellow buzzcut fields, heather like coral, gaps in stone walls, a scarecrow, faces of cliffs like ellipses, the sea, the sea… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.4 ‘The Cats’ Gravity’ Author: Jane Flett Excerpt: Suddenly you realize that if you could dare to hold eye contact, you could begin anything. There are entire subways packed with people with whom that is all it would take; catch their eye and hold it tight in your fists, keep it. Once you have it they will follow you anywhere, perhaps, leap headfirst into clouds that smell of burnt hair and insanity, that curdle like plastic in flames. Can you feel the incredible surge of opportunities, multiplying ferocious and exponential like amoebas? Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.3 ‘Here’s To Wang’ Author: Sandra Alland Excerpt: from Sliced 1/ Amy Winehouse sits on a patio in Camden Town. She is drinking. Amy Winehouse is in love again 2/ In the recording studio, the sound man sheds a tear. This woman can sing. She also has fresh scabs up and down her left arm… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.2 ‘The Succubus’ Author: Ericka Duffy Excerpt: Annika absentmindedly inspects the tear in the center of the cushion. She trails her fingernails down it, feeling, abstractly, as though the vinyl is skin, and the sponge inside guts, when she notices a crumpled piece of paper wedged down the side of the booth. She pries it out. It resembles a white carnation before she smooths the page against the tabletop… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
	Item Details: Vol.1 Iss.1 ‘The Wolves’ Author: David Gow Excerpt: Arch couldn’t rest. There was a wolf on the mountain that took his grouse and killed his deer and sometimes came down murderously amongst his farmer’s sheep. It was not a real wolf but an animal descended from the dogs he’d turned out to die or go feral, so it was no mystery why it knew and despised him especially… Read more! Amount: £2 + P&P
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