Making the Invisible Visible

Wheelsong Books has been publishing and selling books since 2020. What started as a very small operation in South West England has now blossomed into a multi-platform movement of online groups, live roadshows, video broadcasts and global publishing including two very successful anthology series. All of the efforts are focused on raising funds for the global relief work of Save the Children. 

The charity delivers aid to children in some of the most poverty and disaster stricken areas of the world. Save the Children not only provides aid in the form of food and medicine, as most other relief agencies do, but it also goes an extra mile, and builds capacity through educational provision in hard-to-reach areas, greening and building projects and protection from human trafficking. It's a huge operation, and requires a constant stream of revenue on a day-to-day basis. 

At Wheelsong Books we are now stepping up our activities to help raise some of this revenue. We have created merchandising in the form of t-shirts, hoodies and baseball caps. If these are successful, we will venture further into other items (share your wish-list please in the comments below). It's great to see these being worn at our live, in-person events such as Invisible Poets roadshows. 

Our most popular item to date is the iconic white Invisible Poets (Poetry Against Poverty) t-shirt. We can raise three times as much money with the sale of each t-shirt as we can with the sale of a book. It makes sense, and it seems that wearing one of these t-shirts is a tribal statement. It means 'I belong' to Invisible Poets. It is becoming a part of the culture of being in the group for those who are serious about their involvement in our fundraising. Thank you to all those who have supported us by purchasing merchandising. 

The baseball caps are high quality, and come in several colours. They are stylish because they are embroidered with 'Invisible Poets' and 'Live Poets Society'. The image above is of one of our published poets, Gregory Richard Barden, with his own bespoke design of a white cap with purple embroidered text.

We also now stock black t-shirts with a unique Poetry Against Poverty text design, and our crowning glory, the black zipped hoodie with a similar text design. These, as with the baseball caps, are available in several different colour combinations. 

If you are interested in owning any of these items, please email wheelsong6@gmail.com with your full postal delivery address for prices in your own currency. Poetry Against Poverty! That's why we do this. 

Steve Wheeler

Top image by Gregory Richard Barden

Other images by Wheelsong Books Ltd