We were inundated with entries to our first ever Broken Sleep Books competition.

We asked a selection of our authors for their favourite poetry books of 2023.

I am more concerned with “the reader” than with a specific audience, be it geographic, demographic, or stylistic.

I'm inspired by anybody having fun with it, having weird thoughts and running with them, wearing their fascinations on their sleeves.

I learned that poetry can and should be a team-effort: collaboration is the most fun and productive constraint there is.

I was thinking of my relationship to London and how it had shaped and created me in the 27 years I had lived there.

The world is much weirder than we know, than we can learn. It even has people in it.

I wrote the book in pieces over several years, starting in 2017 and finishing in late 2021. It grew out of my obsession with Homer's Odyssey

The book is concerned with innocence, growing up and the cost of becoming experienced.

Protection reckons with the experience of and reaction to attachment trauma and racial oppression in London, England.