Live From The Hellfire Club (Egg Box 2005)

Welcome. Leave your coats at the door,
give the speaker the floor
and solicit no whores before ten,
when the men have all safely retired
for fat bulbs of port by the drawing room fire,
their whiskers to gravely, sagaciously rub.
Welcome, my friends, to The Hellfire Club.

(From Live From The Hellfire Club by Joel Stickley)

Aisle16 was created for a new breed of British poetry.

The Aisle16 style is a mutant hybrid of the highs and lows of modern culture: accessible, acerbic, beautiful and funny.

After four years ranting, spitting, flirting and strutting at the microphones of some of the UK’s most disreputable venues they’ve put pen to paper to produce the most exciting poetry collection of 2005. The Hellfire Club has a new resident band.

Live From The Hellfire Club is published by Egg Box, the UK’s boldest new publishing house, and features over sixty of the best Aisle16 poems with illustrations by graphic artist Sam Ratcliffe. The astute combination of barbed literature and beautifully grotesque illustration will establish Aisle16 as a serious literary force as well as the UK’s most sought after live poetry act.

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