It is almost a year since Brendon Booth-Jones was one of the winners of our White Label, Debut Poetry Collection Competition, but seeing his quite brilliant Vertigo To Go here in front of me, the Deluxe edition with it’s vivid scarlet end papers and everything else, makes me feel as though there might be something magic in this publishing lark.
Because Brendon is a truly gifted writer, I’m really not sure that he knows quite how good he is and for a debut, this is astonishing.
So today is a special day, as a new book and a new poet are launched onto the poetry scene with style. This matters and you really need to read it.
You will also be able to take part in a Zoom launch on the 16th of October. Contact Brendon via his web site for further details.
About Vertigo To Go:
Vertigo to Go is a timely and searing examination of the current state of the world, seen through the eyes of a young protagonist dealing with grief, addiction, loneliness and madness in the face of invasive technologies, vast systemic inequalities and environmental crisis. Vertigo to Go is a lyrical hymn to the power of poetry to sublimate pain and fear into art that is unafraid to confront the problems of the world.
As ever, we want you to read our books and totally encourage you to support our poets by buying their work directly from them and Brendon has Vertigo To Go listed on his web site HERE
As a bonus, if you buy this direct from Brendon in the next fortnight, you will also be eligible for a FREE ENTRY to any one of our competitions.
But you need to be quick.
To enter the competition, by the 14th of October 2020 you need to:
- Buy Vertigo To Go direct from Brendon Booth-Jones HERE
- Email your Competition entry along with the payment receipt to the email address on the relevant competition page.
It is as simple as that.
About Brendon Booth-Jones
Brendon Booth-Jones is the Editor-in-Chief of Writer’s Block Magazine at the University of Amsterdam. Brendon’s photographs, poems and prose have appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Amaryllis, As It Ought To Be, Botsotso, The Blue Nib, The Bosphorus Review, Fly on the Wall, Ghost City Review, The Night Heron Barks, Odd Magazine, Otherwise Engaged, Peeking Cat, Scarlet Leaf Review, Zigzag and elsewhere. Vertigo to Go won the 2019 White Label Trois Competition. Find him on Facebook @brendonboothjoneswriter and Twitter
- Title: Vertigo To Go
- ISBN: 978-1913499259
- Pages: 64
- Order from Amazon HERE
- Order signed copies direct from Brendon at his web site HERE
Reviews
Vertigo to Go offers a fast-paced and arresting snapshot of adolescence, exploding at the same time any comfortably nostalgic remembrance of a youth culture haunted by a deluge of microplastics and escalating species extinction. Booth-Jones skilfully combines humour with a genuine sense of pathos about the current environmental crisis and multinational capitalism.
-Dr. Emelia Quinn, Co-editor of Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture
Vertigo To Go is a tender and intimate, but also visceral and thought-provoking, testament to Booth-Jones’ exquisite ability take us on a journey of growth and reflection. It will force you to confront parallels in your own lives, may even floor you with emotions you had not expected to feel, but will definitely leave you satisfied at the end.
-Dr. Cyren Wong, Founder of NatureTalksBack
The stage set in Vertigo to Go is NOW but the song is a timeless one. I hear my own voice in every line.
-Charlie Calder-Potts, creator of Singing Some Endless Song