We are thrilled to say that during the latter half of the year we were able to return to our plan of publishing that was set out in a pre-Covid world.

We were thrilled to welcome three new poets to The Jawbone Collective with their first publications.

June 2022 - Tia Meraki
- Home in Our Own Skins
August 2022 - Kate Gold
- Eight Buzzards Rising
August 2022 - Estelle Phillips
- Motherhoodlum

We have also been talking to a number of SouthWest poets and are planning to bring collections to Jawbone in early 2023 for two more Devon poete, Poppy Jayne Jones and Claire Morris. 

The first issue of Jawbone Journal should appear in April along with details of a chapbook competition to find and publish two more Jawbone Poets.

ISBN: 9-781916-427822

Prize Winning poet Peter Roe presents his first collection of Performance Poetry. A funny, life affirming, heart warming, collection that covers Coffee, Vegetable Boxes, and Revolution as he takes us on a whistlestop tour of Middle England.

Peter has been The Deputy Bard of Caer Dur (Dorchester) and has been actively ‘slamming’ on the South-West poetry circuit. He was a finalist in the Apples and Snakes South-West Slam in 2018, Long listed in the 'Writing Without Limits' category for The Yeovil Literary Prize 2017 and winner of The Western Gazette Best Local Writer 2017 for his poem War of The Words.

Published: 1st July 2019. Now Available. Third Printing - gluten free edition.
Price UK £6.00 post free to UK addresses.

Copies available
Books Beyond Words, Dorchester,
The HIgh Peak Bookstore, Briarlow Bar, Buxton,

This title was so popular it sold out twice in the last two years. We have started to use a new printer. It gave us the opportunity to tweak some design elements to our satisfaction and the new print is a high quality with a laminated cover.