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Jackie Hagan is a Manchester-based performance poet, originally from Skem. Awarded Best Emerging Poet 2006 by The Poetry Kit, The Wisdom of the Jumble Sale [Flapjack Press, 2009], is Jackie’s second poetry collection, following Shut Your Eyes and Put Out Your Hand [Citizen32, 2007]. She has also edited several poetry anthologies and guest edited Citizen32 magazine. She facilitates creative writing sessions for adults with mental health needs and peforms poetry round the UK. Her play, Help, has been performed at Contact Theatre and Mark Thomas once called her a genius (although this has nothing to do with poetry and more to do with her suggestion that all bailiffs should be middle class).

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Titles by Jackie Hagan

The Wisdom of the Jumble Sale

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 collection of adult contemporary folklore.

JUNK-SHOP-ROCKET-SHIP-POETRY FOR YER BRAIN!

vivid and insightful - City Life / sassy and brash
- Jack Hirschmann, San Francisco Poet Laureate /
language that leaps with bold panache, sparking
sensuous worlds into being - Lucy Lepchani /
a star - Chloe Poems

Price £6.50

Details

• ISBN 9780955509247
• Publisher Flapjack Press
• Genre Poetry
• Extent 98pp