Niche by Ford Dagenham

About the book

Niche gathers poems written from the estuary edge of London — from front garden walls, café counters, cracked patios, and the space between a deathbed and a punchline. Ford Dagenham writes in a voice that refuses to sit still. Grief folds into humour, a mercury spill stands in for pain, and a record player opens a portal to a knock-off trouser stall behind a market in nineteen eighty something.

These poems are lowercase, unpunctuated, and utterly themselves. They shift between childhood, loss, sky-watching, and the stubborn need to make something be here that wasn't here before.

Edition details

• Catalogue: ASP 004
• Published: 20 May 2026
• Edition: 26 copies
• Copies for sale: 20, numbered by hand
• Format: Small square, 148 × 148 mm
• Extent: 40 pages
• Binding: Saddle-stitched
• Interior: 100 gsm recycled uncoated paper
• Cover: 250 gsm recycled natural stock
• Production: Designed, printed, assembled, numbered, and stamped by Analog Submission Press in York

About the author

Ford Dagenham, last published by Crying Heart Press, appears online in the usual places and lives London-adjacent, estuary-close. Cat adopter, curtain twitcher, gift card illustrator, nascent leathersmith, nightcrawler, painter, photographer, perpetuator, poet warrior, sibling, son, spouse, and sky watcher.

The Small Run

Read a conversation with Ford Dagenham about memory, hospice journeys, overlooked details, and poems written as field reports from the world in The Small Run 004.