Released June 30th, 2025 // 44 pages // 978-1-917617-14-7 // RRP: £10.99 / $14.99 / €12.99
 
Kit Ingram’s X Coranto is a layered, formally inventive work that reanimates the history of a single South London street through fractured reportage, fictional memoir, and archival collage. Spanning centuries, it stitches together newspaper clippings, personal fragments, and imagined monologues to expose the recurring violences—domestic, institutional, economic—that shape a place and its people. Ingram balances satire and sorrow with unsettling fluency, excavating both the spectacle and the banality of lived experience. The result is a portrait of urban life as palimpsest: ghosted, unstable, and persistently unresolved.
 
PRAISE for X Coranto:
A bloody and dizzying tapestry of lives that echo eerily through the centuries. Gothic, Sublime and utterly enchanting. This is a master at work.
— Karina Lickorish Quinn
 
A compelling mediation between past and present... poetry aglow with the strangeness of living.
— Andre Bagoo
 
Thick with collapsed ceilings, antique porn and historical injustice... haunted by the unsayable, lit by compassion for the missing and the silenced.
— John McCullough
 
Cohesive and constantly dismantling... Ingram reminds us that we are far from alone.
— Troy Cabida
 
Impish meditations on a London simmering with sex crime and social disaster... a broadsheet collage of urban historicity, tuned to the scale of a razor.
— Kirsten Norrie
 
ABOUT Kit Ingram:
Kit Ingram is an author of poetry and fiction. His illustrated novel-in-verse Alice and Antius was a BookLife Editor’s Choice by Publishers Weekly. His work has appeared in Ambit, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review, and The North, and has been recognised by the National Poetry Competition, the Out-Spoken Prize, and the Bridport Prize. Originally from Canada, he now lives in London and runs Ingram Literary, a development studio supporting writers emerging later in life.