Flapjack Press: 42 books

Love, loss, losing your mind... Perceptive and affecting, intimate and accessible, Anna Percy's first full poetry collection is a passionate declaration featuring many of her prize and slam winning poems (and rummaging armadillos). Born and raised in Norwich, Anna Percy gained...

Transported from the Garden of England to the gay clubs of Manchester's Canal Street, Rod Tame soon finds himself exploring the confounding values of British society. But when encountering murderous denizens of Middle England, fallen saints in Spanish bars, event horizons and perilous next-gen cyborgs,...

The Department of Lost Wishes contains over a hundred poems personally selected by the author from his early works. "Distinctly funny" - Time Out Henry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival)...

Written between August 2017 and January 2019, these poems are concerned with the search for meaning, identity and truth, and other foolhardy adventures. An all-new poetry collection from the creator, writer and performer of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, A Normal… Henry Normal...

This Phantom Breath was written between August 2016 and August 2017. The poems in this collection are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. "Witty and uncannily accurate with his observations" - The Stage Henry Normal is a writer, poet,...

Working Verse Collective are three lads on a mission and their mission statement is this: Eloquence is fine. But "eloquence is irrelevant when nobody in the room knows what you meant..." Join poets Dave Viney, Kieren King and Benny-jo Zahl as they expertly weave humour, insight and the unexpected...

A curse has been imposed on the land of Chromatia by The Shadowfolk: all colours, apart from black and white, have been taken from the world. Frustrated by the curse and the wall surrounding their home, two children, Talia and Aaron, agree to go on a dangerous adventure - a fantastic quest...

"The Vacant Chair echoes throughout my life. They're vibrant, mystical, time-travelling things, telling tales of the end of lives, of invisible families, of no-longer friends, half-written legendary lovers. Story chairs indeed." In his sixth autobiographical collection of poetry and prose...

Gerry's first collection of autobiographical theatre verse is a lyrical journey thrusting you ever forward on a magical history tour, brake-slamming and horn-pounding through the domestic and fantastic. "If you want to visit Planet Young for one last time, you will finally be able to." -...

Because men don't say "poems"... From the drug induced surreal to the gutter sparkle dirty real, Gerry's new collection of domestic fantastic theatre verse delves into all things male, exploring the camaraderie of brothers, the abandonment of fathers and the wit and wisdom of Scousers. It's...

When you are turning fifty, fighting HIV/Hepatitis C co-infections, charged with criminally masterminding the recession and unable to dance - what do you do? Fuelled by Scouse passion and jangle, Fifty charts a year with honest extravagance. It's an anarchic journey shared with...

Before extreme shyness, before understanding trauma, in colourful council of infancy, Folly Butler takes root... The Chronicles of Folly Butler is Gerry's genre defying opus, a three act collection of poetry and plays including an Epilogue to his previous collection, Fifty....

Gerry Potter explores his own love, grief, friendships, family and journey into Planet Middle Age. It's a journey with jostling and lost tickets, the strength and vulnerability of first-hand secrets and seats warm from the strangers that sat there before, and the intensity and passion that takes us...

Part love letter to his adopted home city of Manchester, part critique of the arts and governing bodies (both specific and societal), Gerry’s eighth collection of autobiographical, domestic/fantastic theatre-verse is a socio-political, hard-hittin’ ‘n’ thought-provokin’ collection of poetry,...