Once again Hard Rain by Tony Hoagland graces the number 1 position on the UK Chapbook Chart. Hard Rain is consistently the most popular of chapbooks in the UK and remains a favourite amongst readers throughout the world.
Tony Hoagland is still little known in Europe and yet he made his way into the prestigious British encyclopaedia Contemporary Poets at a very early stage. Since then he has also published Donkey Gospel and What Narcissism Means to Me, books that have won him a swathe of awards in North America. As these titles suggest, Hoagland’s characteristic tone is marked by a deep devotion to hedonism in all its manifestations, humour being one of its mainstays.
1 (3) Hard Rain – Tony Hoagland (Hollyridge Press, Oct 2005)
2 (2) Poems for Political Disaster –
3 (1) A Chapbook Of Poems – Prince Unsworth (Independently published, Oct 2017)
4 (New entry) Poem – Timmy Read (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Feb 2018)
5 (4) On The Kitchen Table From Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed – Olena Kalytiak Davis (Hollyridge Press, July 2009)
6 (New entry) The Sky is Green, The Grass is Pink – MD Weems (Independently published, Feb 2018)
7 (8) Soul of Man Under Socialism – Oscar Wilde (Pluto Press, Jan 1987)
8 (New Entry) Ballad of Reading Gaol – Oscar Wilde (Pluto Press, Jun 1978)
9 (New entry) The Wedding Vows Chapbook: Sample Wedding Vows and Inspiration – Katharine Coggeshall (Independently published, May 2017)
10 (New entry) The Stories of Eva Luna – Isabel Allende (Atheneum, 1990)
Official UK Chapbook Chart 