Stutter & LiSp – A Reckoning in Poetry & Paint

The countdown to the release of Stutter & LiSp – A Reckoning in Poetry & Paint has begun.

The collection drops on Amazon on 15 October 2026.

The chapbook consists of twenty poems and five paintings, bringing together raw, autobiographical outsider poetry and art brut painting.

Punk-inflected, raw, autobiographical outsider poetry combining working-class experience, dark humour, social observation, everyday absurdism and confessional free verse.

The blurb reads:

Simon J. Houlton’s poetry collection is a raw, unfiltered reckoning in poetry and paint. Written firmly from an outsider perspective, Stutter & LiSp confronts childhood shame, institutional violence, pharmaceutical betrayal, and complicated grief with brutal honesty.

Interwoven with visceral art brut paintings, Stutter & LiSp is an unflinching, occasionally profane howl from the margins of British society.

The book comes in at 53 pages and is available as a paperback only.

I did consider releasing it as an e-book, but the formatting stripped away too much of the aesthetic quality. I see Stutter & LiSp as a physical artistic object, something to be held rather than simply read on a screen, so I opted to release it as a paperback only.

ISBN: 9798185361627

Release date: 15 October 2026