Released August 31st, 2025 // 40 pages // 978-1-917617-25-3 // RRP: £9.99 / $13.99 / €11.99
 
Adam Barrett’s The First Thirty Years EP is a taut, propulsive collection that fuses poetic memoir with political indictment, navigating masculinity, class, and grief through the lens of North East England. Structured like a concept album, the poems track a coming-of-age amidst institutional neglect, inherited violence, and economic precarity. Barrett writes with formal agility and emotional charge, drawing lines between private collapse and public failure without sacrificing lyrical control. The result is a work of cultural reckoning, where place and politics are inseparable from the body, and memory is an act of resistance.
 
ABOUT Adam Barrett:
Adam Barrett is a poet and novelist from the North East of England. His poems have been published across anthologies, zines, online magazines and journals. Adam’s work is inspired by class, masculinity, history, punk culture and the North East landscape. The First Thirty Years EP is his debut pamphlet. He was the recipient of the Sid Chaplin Award at the 2024 Northern Writers’ Awards for his novel in progress.