Publications: The Wisdom of the Jumble Sale
Awarded Best Emerging Poet by The Poetry Kit in 2005 (to go with her Blue Peter badge), Jackie Hagan is a poet, comedian, playwright and compere. She facilitates creative writing sessions for socially excluded adults and was formerly Young Writer in Residence at Contact Theatre, Manchester. The Wisdom of the Jumble Sale is her second poetry collection and she has recently completed a successful run at the Edinburgh Free Fringe Festival, alongside Matt Panesh, with their stand up show Sex and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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The Wisdom of the Jumble Sale
Junkshop-rocketship-poetry for yer ears an' brains
Poetry/Adult | ISBN 9780955509247 | pb | 80pp | Book £6.50 / CD £3.00 / Book + CD deal £8.50
"We know how multicoloured blue is,
how full-bodied grey is
and the very differing personalities
of the letters of the alphabet.
We don't so much question,
as know this answer's one of many."
- from People Like Us
Welcome to this dark and dazzling jumble sale, where If you pull aside a jam-stained coat and a frilly night gown, you can enter a secret magical world of drunken carebears and narky buses, where clowns eat spam, sugar and lard butties and if you stand outside Netto for long enough a rocketship will come and fly you away. A world where the moon is fat on hot buttered toast, wisdom is biro'd on the back of everyone's hand and the weird and broken puff out their chests with giggling pride. Come in and meet Cat Diazepam, Bobby Bookshop, Veronica Pop, Mr Pinstripe and their friends and find out who brought Bambi's mum back to life, in this, Jackie Hagan's latest collection of contemporary folklore.
With b&w illustrations by Brink.
"Amazing. A force for poetry" - Jo Bell, Director of National Poetry Day
"Imaginative and original, a must" - Lemn Sissay MBE, poet
"Sassy and brash. Jackie Hagan's poems are direct aplombs with a brilliant specificity of strains of youthful juice" - Jack Hirschmann, San Francisco Poet Laureate
"Vivid and insightful" - City Life magazine
"Language that leaps with bold panache, sparking sensuous worlds into being" - Lucy Lepchani, poet
"Utterly fantastic. A Jedi of language. A star" - Chloe Poems, poet
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Contents: The Wisdom of the Jumble Sale; A Made-Up Town; Rocket Boy 1; A Soft Spot for Winter; Every Scart Lead I've Not Understood; Weather; Bumblebee Girl; Tiny Dots; The Moon is Fat; Remember a Feeling; Bumblebee Girl and Dixon's; Rocket Boy 2; Zen; My Mum; Broughton; Bumblebee Girl and the Dark; Bus; Veronica Pop; Mr Pinstripe; Rocket Boy 3; Lindy Hop; Keep Talking Chris; Flamingo Girl; Little Wednesdays; Bumblebee Girl and the Dot; In the Day Room; Rocket Boy and the Felt-Tip Pens; The Angry Crocodile; Cat Diazepam's Morning Face; Rocket Boy and Noise; Trash; Big Head, Little Body Syndrome; My Dad; Help Line; Tea and Coffee; Sex Like Sex; Chance; Pre-Loved; The Little That Tells a Story; Rocket Boy and Bumblebee Girl; Deep Down Happy; Deep Down Happy 2; People Like Us
CD contents: The Wisdom of the Jumble Sale; Every Scart Lead I've Not Understood; A Made-Up Town; My Mum; A Soft Spot for Winter; Bumblebee Girl; Rocket Boy 1; Tiny Dots; Tea and Coffee; Deep Down Happy; Bumblebee Girl and Dixon's; Rocket Boy 2; Big Head, Little Body Syndrome; In the Day Room; Bumblebee Girl and the Dark; Rocket Boy and the Felt-Tip Pens; Keep Talking Chris; Rocket Boy and Bumblebee Girl; Veronica Pop; Deep Down Happy 2; Bumblebee Girl and the Dot; People Like Us
Cat no. FPCD001. Recorded & mixed by Vicky Batrak at SSR's Einstein Studio. All tracks written & performed by Jackie Hagan. Reproduction by Flapjack Press.
CD and CD + Book deal available from the online shop [via PayPal or cheque payable to Flapjack Press].
© Flapjack Press, 2011
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