Start your Book Publishing Journey here! ShieldCrest is a very experienced company with an impressive track record. Our business has expanded massively over the last 10 years and our authors come from all over the world.

ShieldCrest provides a complete range of services including e-books, book illustrations, reviews, proofreading, editing and press releases. Global distribution is provided through Amazon and other major online retailers and our books are available through all bookshops.

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Stairwell Books is a Small Press publisher who specialises in good writing from new writers. Though we focus on poets and writers in and around Yorkshire we will not turn down a brilliant manuscript that deserves to be published. We have an expensive poetry and prose list as well as novels, memoirs, and biographies. Stairwell Books also publishes Dream Catcher http://www.dreamcatchermagazine.co.uk/

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Postal submissions: no limit on poem length: no submission windows

Dream Catcher is an international arts journal, which offers contemporary readers a terrific mix of poetry, prose, artwork and reviews. Our contributors span the globe, making Dream Catcher a truly international magazine. Dream Catcher’s eclecticism is its strength. The range of literary styles is wide and what began as a magazine for student writers has become a discerning publication keen to attract new work from wherever it might emerge, aimed at readers wherever they might be.

You will find back issues of Dream Catcher on our website. Take a look. The range of work is astonishing and whether you are a writer, a reader, an editor, teacher or librarian, we're sure you'll want to subscribe to this most readable of literary magazines.

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Submit: https://www.parthianbooks.com/pages/contact-us "We are currently accepting submissions with a view to possible publication in 2020."

Based in Cardigan/Aberteifi on the west coast of Wales, Parthian is a literary publishing success story. The company was established in 1993 by Publishing Director Richard Lewis Davies to publish his first novel, Work, Sex and Rugby. Since then, Parthian has risen to become one of the most respected publishers in Wales – and one with international resonance. Our list incorporates an innovative range of new fiction, poetry and drama, from writers as varied as Deborah Kay Davies, Dai Smith, Rachel Trezise, Glen Peters, John Harrison, Stevie Davies, Cynan Jones, Tyler Keevil and Niall Griffiths.

Subscribe: use link above

Submissions: via website or by snail-mail to our office but you MUST read our 'Submissions' section first, at the site.

The word ‘erbacce’ stems from the Italian word for ‘weed’, it rhymes with ‘apache’. Like weeds we intend to spread, to grow where we choose, to take over the garden.
 
We will accept poetry submissions that are radical either in form or content; we won't accept you because you are black, female, disabled or because you are a minority of any kind, we will ONLY accept your work if it is worthy of inclusion in our journal. We are totally independent.
 

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"Unfortunately we receive more proposals than our small team can reasonably consider (roughly 1,200 per year). For this reason, we have taken the decision not to read new proposals from 8 November 2018. Any proposals sent in any form will not be read, and no correspondence will be entered into. We will announce an open call for proposals in 2019 via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and our mailing list."

Penned in the Margins is a literary arts producer and independent publisher. Based in London’s East End, we specialise in contemporary poetry and spoken word, but operate across all artforms.

From small beginnings as a reading series in a converted railway arch in south London, Penned in the Margins has grown over the last decade to be a respected literary arts company producing new work live, in print and online. This unique blend of publishing and production characterises our distinctive model in the cultural landscape. The hallmarks of a Penned in the Margins book or event are curiosity, innovation and openness.

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Submit: www.overstepsbooks.com/submissions "Our submissions window is now closed until September 2019. Please do not send submissions until then."

Oversteps Books publishes some of the best in contemporary poetry, covering a wide range of established and new poets. There is a rigorous editorial policy (see submissions page), and the books are produced to the highest standards both in terms of editorial accuracy and the beauty of the finished books. Oversteps poets also give regular poetry readings at festivals and other events.

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Submit: www.ironpress.co.uk/contact.html "No unsolicited submissions please... If you think you have something that might interest us, firstly email us with brief details. Thanks!"

As publishers become more corporate, global and boring, IRON Press champions new quality writing as it has done since 1973. IRON runs events and launches; it also thinks literature is both serious and fun.

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Submit: https://www.influxpress.com/submissions-2019/ 2019 call for submissions doesn't include poetry

Blog: www.influxpress.com/blog

Influx Press is an independent publisher founded by Gary Budden and Kit Caless. We publish stories from the margins of culture, specific geographical spaces and sites of resistance that remain under explored in mainstream literature.

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Gatehouse Press is a publishing house based in Norwich. Founded in 2006 by Tom Corbett, its mission is to support new writers, primarily through publishing poetry and short stories.

Our aim is to provide a platform both for new writers from across the UK, and for established writers who are seeking to develop new and innovative projects. Whilst we seek to promote the work of writers from a diverse range of backgrounds, we also aim to retain a strong sense of connection with our East Anglian roots. Many of our books deal with themes directly or indirectly related to East Anglian history, culture and landscape, and several of our books on East Anglian subjects have been shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards.

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Submit: www.gallerypress.com/submissions "Please don’t submit to us if you’re not an Irish or Irish based author. (We hope we’ll be able to broaden these lines in the future.)"

About: "Now, forty years later, more than four hundred titles, marked by careful editing and simple, elegant design, record the achievement of Ireland’s outstanding established and emerging literary figures. The Gallery Press is recognized at home and abroad, along with the Cuala and Dolmen presses, as the pre-eminent publisher of Irish writing in the 20th century. It bears the same standards into a new millennium."

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Enitharmon was founded in 1967 and soon established itself as one of Britain's most enterprising independent literary presses. Enitharmon Press specializes in poetry, but also publishes fiction, essays, memoirs and translations.

Enitharmon Editions is one of the few British publishers to commission collaborations between distinguished artists and writers. Recent projects for Press and Editions have involved Tony Bevan, Peter Blake, Jim Dine, Maureen Duffy, Gilbert & George, Seamus Heaney, Jenny Joseph, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Harold Pinter and Paula Rego.

Enitharmon is the name William Blake gave to a character representing spiritual beauty and the inspiration of the poet. The logo of the Press derives from a Blake woodcut.

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Our submissions window is closed. Messages regarding book proposals will not be responded to outside of the submissions window.

Cultured Llama publishes collections and anthologies of poetry and short fiction. We also publish ‘culture’ titles, which may include multi-author works by writers and artists.

From time to time, Circaidy Gregory runs a writing challenge in conjunction with Earlyworks The winner has an opportunity to publish their own book with us, on a royalty contract with a £100 advance. The most recent was a poetry collection competition, which was won by Caron Freeborn.

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Submit:https://burningeyebooks.wordpress.com/about/submit/. Note: currently closed for submissions.

We are a small independent publisher in the South West predominately specialising in promoting spoken word artists. We aim to dispel the assumption that performance poetry does not transfer well to page as well as give emerging and established artist opportunities to be published where they might be rejected from other traditional poetry publishers. As well as poetry, we publish indie fiction, please have a look at our webstore for new release and popular titles.

WOL interview: www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=39506

Bx3 is our side project. It is a hybrid publishing service that combines self-publishing with some of the professional benefits of Burning Eye. Unfortunately, because Burning Eye’s core list works on a 12-18 month lead time and submissions cycle which has limited space we just can’t help as many people as we would like to, see: https://thebx3plan.wordpress.com

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"Reality Street is no longer publishing new books but will keep nearly 50 backlist titles in print for the foreseeable future"

Books: www.augurpress.com/books/index.html

Contact: www.augurpress.com/contact.html

FB: www.facebook.com/augurpress

Submissions: "We regret that Awen is not currently able to consider or respond to unsolicited submissions."

Augur Press was established in 2004. We publish books which enable the reader to reflect, and to look beyond or behind that which is immediately apparent.

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Blog: http://sidekickbooks.blogspot.co.uk

We publish collaborative books of poetry and illustration, as well as reviews and articles on and around the subject of contemporary poetry, under the guidance of excommunicated arch-alchemist Dr Fulminare (and his demonic familiar, Bandijcat).

The Crater Press does not accept any unsolicited submissions

Has a subscription scheme, see website

The Crater Press is an independent poetry Press based between London and Brighton. We publish, primarily through letterpress, distinctive pamphlets of innovative British poetry.

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Contact: http://wreckingballpress.com/contact

There is a reason why I have become friends with some writers and not others over the years. I prefer to talk about the things that feed literature rather than literature itself. WORDS. I like them still alive. Jammed in the middle of buckled sentences or spat out before the brain gets time to register the chaos. I look for these qualities in the work I publish. “How would you like your steak cooked, medium, rare or a la Anglais?” (well done with all the life and soul taken from it). I believe this is what happens to much literature. It gets overcooked till it tastes of nothing. I’m not looking for rhyme or metre or how many syllables there are in a line. I’m looking for the words to move on the page. I want to be distracted from the formula. I want the words to do what all good words should do and that’s LIVE.

Silhouette Press

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Silhouette Press is a not-for-profit social enterprise publisher that aims to improve access to the publishing industry.

We publish Here Comes Everyone, a bi-monthly literary magazine of fiction, articles and poetry – read it here: www.herecomeseveryone.me

We carry out creative writing and publishing workshops aimed at helping people to develop their creativity and learn new skills.

We focus upon working in deprived communities and socially-excluded groups who are unable to access traditional routes into publishing. We also provide networking support and publishing experience opportunities for creative people (qualified and unqualified) who are unable to find employment in creative industries.
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Here Comes Everyone Magazine

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Platypus Press is a boutique publisher based in England. We seek to unearth innovative contemporary poetry and prose from a broad variety of voices and experiences.

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Submit: www.pindroppress.com/Submissions.html

Pindrop Press is a small, independent poetry press based in France with its headquarters in Glasgow. We publish collections of exciting, contemporary poetry and select books we feel passionate about, putting effort into each stage of development to create books that are not only beautiful to read but also to handle.

The press was founded in 2010 by Jo Hemmant and was handed over to Sharon Black, a Pindrop poet, in March 2016.

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Submit: melos.press@btinternet.com

Pamphlet publisher.

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Contact: www.laganpress.co/contact

Lagan Press is a Verbal Group company. It was founded in 1991 by Patrick Ramsey and Pol O Muiri (Irish editor).

Dedicated to the ideals of John Hewitt and other writers the press aims to publish works of literary, artistic, social and cultural importance to the north of Ireland (however that region is defined imaginatively).

As a consequence, Lagan Press places great emphasis on those forms of literary expression which have little opportunity to be heard in the marketplace - poetry, drama and literary fiction.

Over twenty years the press has published nearly two hundred titles across all forms of creative endeavour. As well as beginning a process of cultural rediscovery with such writers as Joseph Tomelty, Thomas Carnuduff and Robert Harbinson.

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Submit: https://blackpear.net/submissions

Has submission windows

Black Pear Press (BPP) is a small press dedicated to supporting writers who are interested in publishing their books.

We are not a vanity publisher and will not extract ‘hidden’ sums of money from writers in the process of getting their book to market. What we will (and do) do, is to publish quality books that have been proof read and edited to our standards.

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Submit: https://arachnepress.com/submissions

Arachne Press is a micro publisher of (award-winning!) short story anthologies, poetry and a (Carnegie Medal nominated!) young adult novel. We are expanding our range all the time, but the short form is our first love. We keep fiction (poetry, non-fiction) live, through readings, our regular event The Story Sessions, workshops and all things to do with writing.

Buy: see site

Alba Publishing publishes poetry, haiku and tanka poetry and haibun collections and chapbooks by established writers in these genres. Founder and publisher Kim Richardson has worked in publishing for nearly 40 years and, as Alba Publishing, specializes in short-run editions, aiming to bring the highest standards of design and production to showcase writers' work.

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Submit: www.skylightpress.co.uk/submissions.html

We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in occultism and the Western Mystery Tradition, along with literary fiction and poetry, history and horticulture. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality writing which may have slipped below the radar of bigger publishers.

Note: new website expected August 2016

We'll amend this when it's online.

Waywiser also run the Anthony Hecht Poetry Competition: www.writeoutloud.net/directory/#link_216

Books: www.vanewomen.co.uk/press.php

Submit: www.vanewomen.co.uk/submissions.html

We publish first pamphlets (poetry or short stories) of women who live in the North East.

FB: www.facebook.com/pages/Vane-Women/298958800161474

We are a writing, performing and publishing collective, formed in 1991. We grew from a women's writing class at the late lamented Darlington Arts Centre in Vane Terrace

Buy: http://vpresspoetry.blogspot.co.uk/p/bookshop.html

Submit: http://vpresspoetry.blogspot.co.uk/p/submissions.html

Has submission windows (2016 now closed)

Publishes: poetry pamphlets, poetry collections and flash fiction pamphlets

About: http://vpresspoetry.blogspot.co.uk/p/about.html

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Contact: http://testcentre.org.uk/about/submissions

Independent publisher of the spoken and written word

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Contact: http://telltalepress.co.uk/contact

Telltale Press is a poets’ publishing collective. That means we (the members) share all the tasks, responsibilities, decisions and successes of the press: we are poets who have seized the means of poetry production. It’s a team effort.

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Contact: www.eatmytangerine.com/contact.html

Independent Press established 2006

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Based in London, Sylph Editions publish fiction, monographs, theoretical essays, limited-edition art and photography books, and different forms of experimental writing. The publications are presented either as individual books or as an ongoing series. The emphasis is on works in which image and text coexist, conceived as one. Every work is meticulously produced, care given equally to content and to form.

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Stonewood Press is an independent publisher dedicated to promoting new writing with an emphasis on contemporary short stories, fiction and poetry.

Founded in 2011, Stonewood cares about its authors and its books, nurturing talent from around the world with an aim to develop a list that inspires and delights. We want to publish challenging and high quality writing in English without the pressures associated with mainstream publishing. If you’ve got an idea for a book that you think we’d be interested in, please see: www.stonewoodpress.co.uk/about/submissions

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sine wave peak is a small poetry press specializing in publishing formally innovative and experimental poetry. The press was founded in 2012 by Luke Allan and is currently based in Manchester, UK (before that Edinburgh, and before that Newcastle).

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Polygon publishes literary fiction and poetry, both classic and modern, from Scottish writers such as Robin Jenkins, George Mackay Brown and the author of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, as well as selected music and film titles. International writers including Jan- Philipp Sendker, Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti are also published under this imprint. Polygon was originally set up by students of Edinburgh University in the late 1960s.

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Blog: www.peepaltreepress.com/blog

Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK. Our goal is always to publish books that make a difference, and though we always want to achieve the best possible sales, we're most concerned with whether a book will still be alive in the future.

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email submissions preferred: no limit on poem length: no submission windows

Editorial policy is '...to try to publish those poems — from wheresoever they may come — written with thought to what the poem is saying and to how it is being said. Also welcomed are poems that can travel, that can cross boundaries, that do not assume in their readers a shared knowledge nor a shared set of beliefs. And it will be a rare day when I take a poem about being a poet or about the writing of poems. Also, because my aim is to keep The Journal secular, any poem containing religious terminology will not be considered for publication....'

For Original Plus books see end of homepage of Journal

Books: www.micapress.co.uk/books.aspx

Submit: see end of 'about' page

About: www.micapress.co.uk/about.aspx

Books: https://longbarrowpress.com/current-publications

Submit: no unsolicited

About: https://longbarrowpress.com/in-conversation/brian-lewis-paul-evans

Buy: http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/search?q=pavilion

Contact: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/contact-us

General University Press: suggest use contact link for more info on poetry publishing

Homepage details books (eBooks) for sale

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Submit: closed for submissions

Leafe Press was launched at a reading in Nottingham in April 2000, and has published a wide range of poetry, though our main interest at present is in innovative or experimental poetry.

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Submit: www.freewebs.com/lapwingpoetry/submissiondetails.htm

Lapwing Publications is a poetry press based in Belfast. It was founded by Dennis and Rene Greig in 1988. Since then it has published some of Ireland’s best known authors.

Note: also publish GB poets

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Contact: https://ifpthenq.co.uk/contact

Experimental Poetry

Unfortunately if p then q is not taking submissions at the moment

Buy: www.honestpublishing.com/independent/books/poetry

Submit: We are currently closed for submissions

Honest Publishing is a British independent book publisher of both fiction and non-fiction. Founded by three friends in 2010, the company strives to publish alternative, original voices, and to provide an audience for unique writers neglected by the mainstream.

At Honest Publishing, we are proud of our commitment to producing and promoting high quality literature, and take great care to ensure that honesty and integrity lie at the heart of our business practices.

Hafan Books was founded by Tom Cheesman, Eric Ngalle Charles and Sylvie Hoffmann in 2003.

Currently Tom runs the project, working with John Goodby, who is editing the Boiled String Poetry Chapbooks series.

Publishes mainly poetry, some in translation

Books: see homepage

Contact: t.cheesman@swansea.ac.uk

HAFAN is a Welsh word meaning haven, sanctuary, asylum.

All proceeds go to Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group: www.swanseabassgroup.org

Our books are lovely to have and hold. Most include original b/w photographs and artwork. Downloads are mostly free, but don't include covers. The books are perfect bound, and mostly in a large format.

Authors: www.gomer.co.uk/index.php/authors

Contact: www.gomer.co.uk/index.php/contact-us

Gomer Press is a printing and publishing company based in west Wales. Established in 1892 and specializing in books which have a distinctive Welsh identity. Publishes books for adults and children in both Welsh & English. Manuscripts without a strong Welsh background or dimension will not be considered.

Flapjack Press is an independent publisher of north-west performance poetry and poetry theatre

For books see homepage

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Current publishing and design projects at Five Seasons employ three different printing processes.

We continue to publish occasional individually-designed books of poetry, graphics, essays and translation — which are printed by offset litho. The two latest titles are Hariot Double by Gavin Selerie and Bread and Caviar by Paul Merchant.

For the Five Seasons Broadsides series we have now revived our letterpress office.

New work by Gary Snyder, Alan Halsey and others is now available, together with some ‘lost’ earlier Snyder broadsides.

Some of our publisher-customers require high-quality design and typesetting combined with digital printing. For these customers we are now sending our press-ready files to a supremely good digital printer.

For the latest Five Seasons publications for your bookshelf rather than your wall, see www.fiveseasonspress.com/index.htm#newtitles. For all available publications see www.fiveseasonspress.com/InPrintList.htm.

Publishes single-author pamphlets and themed anthologies

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Submit: http://theemmapress.com/about/submissions

About: http://theemmapress.com/about

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Submit: The Press regrets that it cannot undertake to consider unsolicited scripts or collections and will neither acknowledge nor return any it receives.

Blog: www.clutagpress.com/category/blog

Clutag Poetry publishes pamphlets and book collections. We pride ourselves on high but not precious production values. Especially, we seek to resist with our books the tendency in established and large lists towards a homogenised one-design-fits-all approach. We seek in an unaffected foursquare way to respect poetry and the individuality of those who make it.

email queries: tamar@herculeseditions.com
shop: http://herculeseditions.blogspot.co.uk

Small Lambeth-based independent press launched by poet Tamar Yoseloff and designer Vici MacDonald in 2012. Hercules produces chapbooks which combine poetry and visual art. Books are normally commissioned by the editors, but unsolicited manuscripts are occasionally considered. Previous authors include Tamar Yoseloff, Sue Rose, Hannah Lowe and Claire Crowther.

Buy: www.serenbooks.com/shop/Poetry

Submit: www.serenbooks.com/seren/submissions-policy

Seren Books Advertising Blog: www.seren-books.com

Since its beginnings in 1981, Seren has developed into one of the most interesting publishing houses in Britain. Based in Bridgend, Seren continues to nurture and publish new talent whose quality is recognised around the world.

Buy: www.ninearchespress.com/shop.html

Submit: www.ninearchespress.com/submissions.html

We now operate a bi-annual submissions window for poetry collections. The submissions window will be open between the following dates in 2016:

4th November - 30th November 2016

Note: April window in past

NINE ARCHES PRESS was founded in 2008 and emerged from an awareness of the local literary landscape and a desire to provide a platform for new and emerging poets. Having just set up Under the Radar magazine, our ideas were quickly demanding more and more space to lay down their roots. We moved into publishing pamphlets by October of that year, and by the following year we had brought out our first two full-length poetry collections.

Since 2008, Nine Arches has continued onwards and upwards, publishing poetry and short story collections (under the Hotwire imprint) and continuing to develop Under the Radar magazine. In 2010, two of our pamphlets (The Terrors by Tom Chivers and The Titanic Cafe closes its doors and hits the rocks) were shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet prize and Mark Goodwin's book Shod won the 2011 East Midlands Book Award. In 2012, Nine Arches launched the Debut New Poets Series of first collections and the press has now published more than 30 collections of poetry and 10 issues of the magazine. We continue to build a reputation as a publisher of well-crafted and innovative contemporary poetry and short story collections.

Nine Arches Press places a high value on good, concise editing and in working closely with all of our authors and poets to ensure high-quality publications that we will both be proud to put our names to. Our status as an independent press gives us freedom to take risks and to closely support the writers whose work we really believe in. Nine Arches’ aim as an independently-minded press is to produce books that similarly independently-minded readers will enjoy and appreciate.

Buy: www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/bookshop.html
Submissions: closed for now

Knives, Forks and Spoons Press is an independent publishing house based in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, United Kingdom. It was established by Alec Newman in April 2010.

Specialising in avant-garde and experimental poetry, the press publishes full collections, pamphlets and anthologies. A typical year’s output is 24 titles, by new poets and artists, as well as many already internationally recognised writers. Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, also known as KFS, prides itself on being a forum for an extraordinary range of diversity and risk-taking artistic experiment.

Reliquiæ is an annual print journal of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, translations and visual art, edited by Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton and published by Corbel Stone Press. Each issue collects together both old and new work from a diverse range of writers and artists with common interests spanning landscape, ecology, folklore, esoteric philosophy and animism. Submission is by invitation only.

Magazine: www.shearsman.com/shearsman-magazine

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Submit: www.shearsman.com/shearsman-magazine-submissions

postal submissions, abroad email response: no limit on poem length: submission windows, March & September

In terms of the magazine's position with regard to contemporary poetry, there is a clear inclination towards the more exploratory end of the current spectrum. Notwithstanding this, however, quality work of a more conservative kind will always be considered seriously, provided that the work is well-written. What I do not like at all is sloppy writing of any kind; I always look for some rigour in the work, although I will be more forgiving of failure in this regard if the writer is trying to push out the boundaries. I tend to like mixing work from both ends of the spectrum in the magazine, and firmly believe that good writing can, and should, cohabit with other forms of good writing, regardless of the aesthetic that drives it, and regardless of whether the practitioners are happy about such cohabitation.

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Books

Buy: www.shearsman.com/browse-poetry-books-by-title

Ebooks: http://www.shearsman.com/browse-poetry-books-by-title-ebooks-poetry-books

Shearsman Books is a very active publisher of new poetry, mostly from Britain and the USA, but also with an active translation list. Founded in 1981 as a magazine, with some occasional chapbooks, the press has grown rapidly in recent years. 2011 marked the 30th anniversary of the magazine's first issue, but it will keep going for some years yet, along with the press.

Buy books: www.banipal.co.uk/banipal_books

Subscribe: www.banipal.co.uk/subscribe

Submit: www.banipal.co.uk/submissions

Postal submissions + email enquiries: no limit on poem length: no submission windows

Banipal magazine showcases contemporary Arab authors in English translation, from wherever they are writing and publishing. An independent magazine, founded 17 years ago, in 1998, by Margaret Obank and Iraqi author Samuel Shimon, Banipal's three issues a year present both established and emerging Arab writers through poems, short stories or excerpts of novels, plus the occasional features of LITERARY INFLUENCES, TRAVELLING TALE.

The magazine features interviews with authors, publishers and translators, book reviews and photo-reports of literary events. From Banipal 41 – Celebrating Adonis each issue includes a Guest Literature or Guest Writer feature on non-Arab, non-Arabic literature as part of Banipal’s mission to promote intercultural dialogue. Each issue has a main theme, as well as being illustrated throughout with author photographs

Subscribe: http://prolebooks.co.uk/prole%20shop.html

Submit: http://prolebooks.co.uk/submissions.html

email submissions: no limit on poem length: no submission windows

Competitions: http://prolebooks.co.uk/poetry%20competition.html

Prole is a print magazine that publishes high quality, accessible poetry and prose. We aim to challenge, engage and entertain - but never exclude.

Submit: psr@poetrysalzburg.com

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postal or email submissions, but read requirement on the site: no limit on poem length: no submission windows

Founded in 2001 after the demise of The Poet’s Voice (ed. Fred Beake, Wolfgang Görtschacher, James Hogg, 1993-2000), and appearing regularly ever since, the magazine publishes poetry, long poems, review essays, articles about poets and poetic issues, translations, and interviews. Each issue contains work by 50-60 poets, a range of poems in translation by usually three poets not well known on the English poetry scene, and three in-depth review-essays focusing on 10-12 recently published collections. Once a year a poet-critic is commissioned to review 4-5 pamphlets.

The editorial policy is catholic – David Miller, a member of ther Editorial Board from No. 1 to No. 18 – summarised our beliefs in the following way: “[We] wish to highlight and promote those poets and poetic writers whose work [we] find challenging, singular, exciting – whatever, if any, their allegiances may be.” Present-day poetry would do well to recur to poetry as rhythmic structure and patters of sound instead of chatting along amiably in what is only nominally verse.

The experience of poetry as sound demands craftsmanship, a training in rhythm, metre, and phonology (the colour of Rimbaud’s vowels!), something to be recommended to young poets if they want their poems to move beyond the page. We want to do all this in a way that is accessible to the general reader, but is nevertheless not simplistic.

Editors: Wolfgang Görtschacher, Andreas Schachermayr

Editorial Board: Ally Acker, William Bedford, Robert Dassanowsky, John Mateer, Caitriona O'Reilly

www.mptmagazine.com/page/subscribe

Submit: www.mptmagazine.com/page/submit

email submissions: no limit on poem length: no submission windows: note, closed for submissions at present so check with website

We want the best of the world's writing. We discover it and welcome it.

MPT is the magazine of the international Republic of Letters. We publish the best of world poetry, from Siberia to Chile, from Wales to Japan.

MPT seeks to widen and vary the whole idea and practice of translation. There are essays, discussions, and any number of examples.

Readers and contributors move among and between the languages.

MPT crosses frontiers of space and time. It publishes lively and up-to-the-minute versions of the poetry of any language in any age.

MPT publishes long-established poets and translators alongside others who are just beginning to make their way.

Subscribe: www.agendapoetry.co.uk/latest-issue.php

Submit: www.agendapoetry.co.uk/submit.php

Email submissions: no limit on poem length: submission windows

Agenda is one of the best known and most highly respected poetry journals in the world, having been founded in 1959 by Ezra Pound and William Cookson.

It is edited by Patricia McCarthy, who co-edited the magazine with William Cookson for four years until his death in January 2003. She is continuing, as Seamus Heaney said, ‘to uphold the lofty standards of Agenda’.

"Agenda is one of the two literary periodicals in Britain. I admire it for its attentiveness to all kinds of contemporary poetry… and its consistent stress on the importance of poetry in translation from other languages." Thom Gunn

"Agenda, as the title insists, does several things that need to be done if literary culture is to stay in good shape. First of all, it stimulates and sponsors new poetry by poets whose writings and espousals have given the magazine its personality from the beginning. Agenda has a second important function which it discharges by doing work of critical advocacy for poets of marked or under-rated achievement, living and dead." Seamus Heaney

Purchase: www.worplepress.com/category/publications

Submit: www.worplepress.com/submissions

About: Worple Press was founded in 1997 and is co-directed by Peter and Amanda Carpenter.

Our list is dominated by collections of poetry, but we also produce arts titles.

We like to showcase new writing and we welcome diversity of format and approach (anthologies, translations, interviews, dictionaries).

Above all, we look for excellence.

Some of our authors are justly world famous: Iain Sinclair, Elizabeth Cook, Clive Wilmer and Kevin Jackson, for example.

We have an established reputation for high quality publication standards:

Worple aims to produce books that are a pleasure to handle as well as to read.

We have an international outlook: Worple publishes writers based in Japan, France, the USA and Ireland as well as from the UK.

We acknowledge previous funding assistance from Arts Ireland and the Arts Council and have worked with the Arvon Foundation and the Jerwood Trust.

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Submit: www.cinnamonpress.com/online-shop/envoi-poetry

email submissions: restriction on overall length: submission windows (February, May, October)

Competitions: www.cinnamonpress.com/competitions

Cinnamon Press is proud to publish Envoi now in its 55th year.

Envoi has high production values – published in February, June and October as a 96 page, large format, perfect bound matt laminate journal with an eye to presenting the poetry well on the page. We include a substantial section of reviews in the magazine and carry occasional poetry related articles and poetry in translation.

Submissions to Envoi

We aim to provide a platform for new work from both established and new poets.

We generally try to select a small group of poems that represent a poet’s voice so please send a group of poems (they do not have to be related)

Submissions will be reviewed in batches in November/December (for February), March/April (for June) and July-early September (for October).

We welcome submissions from Wales, the UK or from anywhere in the world

All submissions by email.Please send poems in the body of the email to jan@envoipoetry.com.

Please include name and address. You can submit up to six poems at any one time.

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Submit: Offa’s Press is not currently looking for submissions

Offa’s Press was set up in 2010 and is dedicated to publishing and promoting the best of contemporary West Midland poetry and poets. It does this through a series of publications and performances where the watchword is ‘good on the page and good on stage’.

Among our best-sellers so far are Dave Reeves’s Black Country Dialectics and Jane Seabourne’s Bright Morning.

It has received some funding from Arts Council England and is run as a co-operative by a number of regional writers and poets with Shropshire-based Simon Fletcher the editor/ manager.

Poets have performed at Ledbury Poetry Festival, Wenlock Poetry Festival, Birmingham’s ‘Poetry Bites’, Wolverhampton’s ‘City Voices’, Lichfield’s Coffee House Poetry, other venues and arts festivals and libraries across the region.

Offa’s Press hopes to publish a couple of books/ pamphlets/ CDs a year and submissions’ guidelines are published on the website when ‘the window is open’.

We also offer a reading service for those who want some honest feedback at a reasonable price and run regular workshops.

Please see our website for a couple of brilliant videos, further news and events.

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Contact: info@cbeditions.com

CB editions publishes short fiction, poetry, translations and other work which, as the Guardian noted, ‘might otherwise fall through the cracks between the big publishers’. The first four books were published in November 2007. CBe titles have won a fiction prize and three poetry prizes and have been shortlisted for a translation prize and other awards. An overview of CBe (‘if it began as a publisher of last resort, it has become one of first-class tastes’), part of the online Guardian’s continuing series on small presses, can be read here.

CBe titles – like those of many other small presses – are not usually stocked by the big chainstore bookshops and are only intermittently available on Amazon. CBe benefits most from purchases made direct from this site; delivery within the UK is free and the books are usually sent within 24 hours of ordering.

CBe receives no external funding, public or private, and relies entirely on sales of the books to stay alive.

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Note: Barque Press is not accepting manuscripts for publication. Manuscripts received will neither be acknowledged nor returned. Apologies, but we just don't have the time or the resources to respond to everyone.

Barque Press was founded by Andrea Brady and Keston Sutherland in 1995. Since then, we have published over 40 chapbooks and six perfect bound books. One of these, 100 Days, was reviewed in The Guardian and recommended as a Book of the Year for 2001 in the New Statesman. Barque has published poets from the UK, US, France and Canada.

In addition to these text-based publications, Barque has produced four CD-Rs, which include spoken word performances by a variety of artists alongside improvisational music. These are an offshoot of our magazine, Quid, which regularly includes poetry, prose, and critical essays. Formerly print-based, the magazine is now distributed gratis as Adobe Acrobat files from our website.

In August 2005, Barque was given a grant by Arts Council England to support the publication of three new perfect-bound books, fifteen new chapbooks, and a multi-media anthology of new writing. This grant has also enabled us to host a series of events in Cambridge, London and Brighton, to celebrate our new publications. To receive regular e-mail announcements about Barque's activities, and related news, please sign up via the form on our SUBSCRIBE page. Here, you can also become a supporter of Barque Press, by signing up for one our our subscription packages.

Buy: www.awenpublications.co.uk/books.html

Awen Publications is not currently able to consider or respond to unsolicited submissions or proposals.

Awen Publications was founded by Kevan Manwaring in 2003 with the publication of our first title, Writing the Land. Kevan ran the press with dedication for more than a decade, publishing an ever-expanding list of titles and organising numerous launch parties as well as two ambitious series of live literature events: the Garden of Awen in Bath, the Awen Forum in Stroud. The press is today run by Anthony Nanson, a co-author of An Ecobardic Manifesto.

Since the beginning, Awen has sought out writing that is imaginative, boundary-pushing, eco-conscious, enchanting, and challenging of received wisdoms. ‘Awen’ is a Welsh word meaning ‘inspiration’ or ‘flowing spirit’; the work Awen publishes has such inspiration at its heart. The time of transition in which we live, like all times of crisis, is a profound opportunity for change: change in how we do things and also how we perceive things. Awen believes in the need to bring spiritual and ecological values into contemporary writing, and that literature can help us understand that none of us need make this journey alone.

Nearly all of Awen’s authors are experienced and skilled performers, whether as poets or storytellers. Performance of the spoken word elicits a communion of understanding in which we can realise together more of what it means to be human, opening our hearts and minds to all that living words in the shared moment can bring us – which we then take back with us into life.

Twitter: @RackPressPoetry

The Rack, Kinnerton, Presteigne, Powys, Wales LD8 2PF

Founded in the Welsh Marches in 2006 Rack Press is an award-winning poetry press that produces attractive limited edition pamphlets of contemporary poetry. You can learn more about current events, publications and readings on the Rack Press blog where you can also download the current catalogue.

“Rack Press ever impresses” - Poetry Review

“The consistently reliable Rack Press” - Times Literary Supplement

We publish around four to five pamphlets a year so we often have to turn away very good work because we don’t have the capacity but if you want to submit please read these instructions very carefully: http://nicholasmurray.co.uk/rack-press

Submissions which ignore these guidelines will not be read.

Booklist: www.oystercatcherpress.com/books.html

Not accepting submissions at present.

Submissions: http://smithereenspress.com/submissions/submissions.html

Smithereens Press was set up to give poets the space to produce a chapbook of their work and to make these chapbooks widely available to a community of readers and poets. This press intends to act as a venue for work from emerging and established poets across different poetic styles in order to represent the infinite fragments which compose contemporary poetry.

Smithereens Press endeavours to produce chapbooks of the highest quality of various forms of poetry. These publications may be complete mini-collections, stepping stones toward a more established volume of poetry, or transient texts which embrace a condition of open-endedness.

Smithereens Press produces online publications presented as static texts hosted on this site to be accessible online but also to be downloaded in chapbook format bearing all the marks of traditional poetry texts.

Buy: www.veerbooks.com/filter/veer-books

Veer Books comes out of the activities at Birkbeck College’s Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC), and aims to publish a range of unconforming writing in poetry and poetics, including some texts that other publishers might view as experimental.

Operating between Birkbeck College and the University of Surrey, Veer Books have been encouraging new work in poetry and poetics since 2003. We have been seeking to create an audience for the now nearly 100 titles we have published through conferences, workshops and readings in a variety of contexts and locations. We remain open to work that challenges without preconceptions.

Veer Books are William Rowe, Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Aodán McCardle, Piers Hugill, Adrian Clarke and Carol Watts.

Contact: theblacklightenginedriver@hotmail.co.uk

The Black Light Engine Room. Literary mag & live event based in Middlesbrough. The mag aims to give a focus for the best in North East art/poetry, while also publishing poets - both Name (Sheenagh Pugh, W.N. Herbert, Sam Hamill) & first-timers from everywhere else - England, Wales, Scotland, Spain, U.S., Mexico etc. The mag comes out 3 times a year & in 2013 we published the first of our Dark Matter series of chapbooks, featuring 2 poets previously in the mag.

Buy: www.redsquirrelpress.com/SquirrelCAT.html

Submit: www.redsquirrelpress.com/SquirrelSUB.html

Red Squirrel Press is an independent publisher based in Northumberland.

It was formed in April 2006 by Sheila Wakefield and has published over 80 titles to date and many more are in production.

It publishes poetry (full collections and pamphlets) and short fiction (short story collections and novellas).

Buy: www.brimstonepress.co.uk/authors.htm

Contact: www.brimstonepress.co.uk/contact.php

Brimstone Press enables writers to self-publish and market their books within an environment of shared expertise and experience.

Buy: www.salmonpoetry.com/bookshop2.php?c2=2

Submissions: www.salmonpoetry.com/advice-for-writers.php

Salmon Poetry, taking its name from the Salmon of Knowledge in Celtic mythology, was established in 1981 as an alternative voice in Irish literature. The Salmon, a journal of poetry and prose was a flagship for writers in the west of Ireland, and Salmon's first books, Gonella by Eva Bourke and Goddess on the Mervue Bus by Rita Ann Higgins broke new ground for women poets. Since then over 300 volumes of poetry have been produced, and Salmon has become one of the most important publishers in the Irish literary world. By specialising in the promotion of new poets, particularly women poets, Salmon has enriched Irish literary publishing.

Books: http://hearingeye.org/?page_id=15

Hearing Eye has a rich history as a small independent press.

Over 200 publications by poets range from selections of haiku to translations of epic works.

Buy: www.blackheathbooks.org.uk/8.html

Submit: www.blackheathbooks.org.uk/5.html

Note: presently closed for submissions: "We hope this is just a temporary measure and we are able to accept open submissions at some point in the future."

Welcome to 'blackheath books', artisan printing, publishing & bookmaking for discerning bibliophiles, a celebration of ordinary things.

'blackheath books' was established in the year two thousand and five, as the rest of the world seemed to be forsaking the printed medium. In an age of kindles, podcasting and blogging, as our local bookshops are either being squeezed or being taken over by Borderstones and filled with bargain bucket loss leaders that are literally not worth the paper costs, we decided to return to basics.

We realised that mainstream publishing wasn't doing or saying anything of relevance to us so decided to reclaim publishing by publishing the books we wanted to read.

In the great tradition of the independent small press 'blackheath books' provides a home for literary outsiders, mavericks who swim against the flow of incessant mainstream specialness.

Here at 'blackheath books' we have decided to keep it small. With very limited print runs, of signed and numbered editions. From chapbooks to novels all are made by hand and with love. We make books because we like books.

'blackheath books' receives no external funding and is a 'not for profit' organisation. Any profits we make are ploughed back into the press and fund future publications. We refuse to play the profit game and ask no one (apart from our readers) to underwrite our independence. If you have enjoyed our publications and share our ideals please spread the word about 'blackheath books'.

'blackheath books' are hand printed using vintage equipment and techniques on 100% recycled paper and card that contains a high percentage of post consumer waste.

'blackheath books' are based in rural West Wales.

Buy: http://corruptpress.net/index.shtml

Submit: http://corruptpress.net/info/submissions.shtml

Corrupt press puts poetry into heads.

It’s a limited company run by me, Dylan Harris. When I came to Paris in December 2009, I found many interesting anglophone poets, a lively scene, magazines, but no small press. Worse, some British, Irish and American poetry presses seemed unwilling to publish poets from their abroad. In consequence, good poets weren’t getting published. So, in 2011, I set the press up.

Non-anglophone English can be an interesting source of new language. The poetry may sometimes seem odd to native speakers, but is it error, a style that’s not yet established, a different grammar, an effect a native speaker would struggle to achieve, or what? That’s why I want poetry from poets whose mother tongues exclude English.

Those poetry sects, civil warriors lobbing creosotic grenades, farting in general directions: I don’t care for them. I do care for interesting poetry, high quality poetry, from anywhere. I do care for different poetry, doing things well I’ve not seen done before. I do care for traditional poetry, doing the same again, very well indeed. I want to be excited by poetry, and I don’t care if it’s Stockhausen or Stock Aitken & Waterman.

Books are tools for putting poems into heads. It’s the poetry, not the tool, so corrupt press books are simple. No tool is perfect; books lose sound, speech loses sight, ebooks need fuel. Corrupt press is considering other tools, but want to get it right—right for putting poems into heads, right as business practice.

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Paekakariki Press was established in 2010 to continue the tradition of letterpress printing that is in danger of disappearing in the digital age. In its search for some material worth printing it found itself drawn to poetry and as part of its remit to bring poets and artists together, Paekakariki Press has already published several unique poetry pamphlets incorporating original artists' images alongside the poems.
Paekakariki is a town in New Zealand at the bottom of the North Island, the name meaning the perching place of the little green parrot in Maori.

Buy: www.mudfog.co.uk/publications.asp

Submit: www.mudfog.co.uk/submissions

Mudfog Press works to promote new writers and writing from the Tees Valley and surrounding area. The Press is run by a voluntary editorial board and is non-profit-making. We currently have financial support from Middlesbrough Council and Arts Council England.

We mostly publish poetry and short fiction, but will consider submissions in other genres. We put particular emphasis on the production of short pamphlets, which give writers a first opportunity of individual publication. In selecting work for publication, we aim to include a wide variety of voices and styles.

Mudfog Press was established in 1993 and has to date published over 40 pamphlets and six full length books. Several Mudfog authors have gone on to be published more widely and to establish their reputations regionally and nationally.

Buy: www.mariscatpress.com/ordering.html

Submit: www.mariscatpress.com/submissionguide.html

Mariscat Press was founded in Glasgow in 1982 by Hamish Whyte and has gone on to publish over 50 poetry books and pamphlets over the past 30 years by writers including:

The aim has always been to publish poetry in affordable editions, with attention paid to presentation.

Mariscat is now one of the longest running self-funded small presses in Scotland, known for its tastefully designed publications and a quality backlist which includes work by figures such as Douglas Dunn, Diana Hendry and Brian McCabe, as well as numerous publications by Edwin Morgan, Whyte’s friend for over 30 years.

Buy: www.kettillonia.co.uk/newtitles.html

Kettillonia is a publisher of pamphlets based in Angus, Scotland. It aims to put original, adventurous, neglected and rare writing into print.

Buy: www.katabasis.co.uk/order.html

Katabasis has published pamphlets since 1967 and books since 1989, both poetry and prose. We publish English poetry and bilingual editions of Latin American poetry. The latter may have introductions, notes and pictures to set the poems in context. Besides publishing two of the best known Chilean poets now living in London, we are enthusiastic publishers of the poetry of Nicaragua, a country famous for its poets. From Mexico Katabasis publishes the best-selling Zapatista Stories by Subcomandante Marcos

As well as looking abroad, Katabasis is strongly attached to its home in London and to its native English language, landscape and radical tradition. We publish a distinctive list of English poetry and prose. We are local and internationalist, wanting down-to-Earth poetry, that is both rooted in a particular place and history, and speaks beyond them.

eBooks: www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/ebook13.html

chapbooks: www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/chaps13.html

Limited edition poetry chapbooks, free poetry ebooks and blog.

Welcome to the Red Ceilings Press where we publish contemporary poetry in the form of limited edition chapbooks and free ebooks.

The Red Ceilings originally started out as a poetry blog for both new and established contemporary poets and quickly expanded into publishing an ebook series of online and downloadable booklets. We have now started our latest venture - a series of limited edition A6 pocket sized chapbooks.

submissions

In general we tend to use the ebook series to publish world poets and the chapbooks to show UK poets. Translations are very welcome.

Send your submissions to theredceilings@gmail.com in either rtf or doc format, or if submitting for the blog then in the body of an email will do.

Buy: http://tworiverspress.com/wp/category/catalogue

Two Rivers Press has been publishing in and about Reading since 1994. Founded by the artist Peter Hay (1951-2003), the press continues to delight readers, local and further afield, with its varied list of individually designed, thought-provoking books.

Buy: www.wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/titles-poetry.htm

Submit: www.wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/manuscripts.htm. Note: submission is by invitation.

Ward Wood Publishing was set up in 2010 run in partnership by Adele Ward and Mike Fortune-Wood. We have an exciting list of poetry and fiction which are not only good reads, but they also represent fine additions to the literary scene from both previously published authors and also others new to the UK and international readership.

Our aim is to provide innovative good reads of a high literary standard in a variety of forms while also encouraging aspiring authors to work towards publication.

You can find out more about us and also order books here: www.westhousebooks.co.uk/about.asp

Second-hand books: www.westhousebooks.co.uk/books_shnd.asp

We are publishers of poetry and poetry-related work, mainly contemporary and in the modernist tradition. Here we list both our own books and pamphlets, and also titles distributed for other publishers and our stock of books and pamphlets by Bill Griffiths.

Our second-hand booklist is updated regularly, and features many books of 20th/21st century British and American poetry which are now out of print.

There is also a gallery showing graphic books & sequences by Alan Halsey and writing by Geraldine Monk.

Note: no longer publishes new work.

Buy (poetry): www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/hikashop-menu-for-products-listing/poetry

Submissions: www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/about-cinnamon-press/submissions. Presently closed for submissions

For competition guidelines, see homepage

Cinnamon Press is a small, independent publisher run by a family team and based in North Wales. We select books that we feel passionate about and concentrate on a small list of titles into which we put maximum effort at every stage of development.

Cinnamon is an innovative publisher, publishing fiction, poetry and selective non fiction books. Cinnamon Press books are not defined by genre, but by their unique ability to be thought-provoking and to say something new.

As a small press operating in North Wales, we aim to include a significant list of Welsh writing in English amongst our titles.

Wales has a tradition of providing a centre of excellence for literature and we also aim to attract books from across the UK and the world. Our list includes books from Wales, Scotland and England and also titles from Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, America and China etc.

We also run Envoi poetry magazine: www.writeoutloud.net/directory/#link_35

Buy: see Titles option on homepage

Submit: www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?showinfo=ip002

Carcanet enjoys Arts Council support and can range more widely than commercial publishers dare to do. Its list includes, alongside new writers from all over the world, major authors from the twentieth and earlier centuries, figures about whom readers and writers need to know if they are to get a hold on the Modern and its aftermaths. Our commitments involve the mammoth Ford Madox Ford, Robert Graves and Hugh MacDiarmid projects.

We have forged strong Anglo-European and Anglo-Commonwealth links. Our focal interest is in literature in English -- all the Englishes now spoken and written. In 1999 the Press acquired Oxford University's fine poetry list. OxfordPoets now emanate from Manchester. Latterly we have forged close links with Glasgow, where Carcanet has an editorial office in the School of English and Scottish Literature and Language.

The poetry magazine PN Review is produced from the same office: see www.writeoutloud.net/directory/#link_133"

Buy: www.valleypressuk.com/books

Contact i/c Submissions: www.valleypressuk.com/contact

Blog: http://emmavalleypress.blogspot.co.uk

Valley Press is an independent publishing house based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK. Established in 2008, our mission is to bring the best new poetry, fiction and non-fiction to bookshelves and e-readers around the world.

Buy: use drop-down lists on homepage
Submit: see next

"Bloodaxe is one of Britain's leading poetry publishers with an internationally renowned list of writers. We do not publish anyone who has only recently started writing. Every poet we take on already has a track record of magazine or small press publication. (These opening comments are set in bold type because 90% of the people who read this page to check our submissions procedure ignore the advice given below.)

Bloodaxe now publishes over 300 poets, and we need to keep up with their collective output. This won't be possible if we take on too many new authors, so we are only able to pursue publication in very few cases."

Buy: http://dedaluspress.com/bookshop

Submit: http://dedaluspress.com/submissions

Blog: http://dedaluspress.com/blog

The Dedalus Press is one of Ireland's best known and longest running literary imprints, specializing in the best in contemporary Irish poetry and poetry from around the world in translation. We also publish occasional prose titles by poets, or books which survey or explore aspects of the world of poetry.

Founded in 1985 by poet John F Deane, the press is now run by poet / broadcaster Pat Boran and publishes an average of ten new titles per year. It is widely recognized as one of the most proactive Irish literary publishers, particularly in relation to reaching new audiences in Ireland and abroad.

Buy: see links on homepage
Submit: www.arcpublications.co.uk/submissions

Arc publishes contemporary poetry from new and established writers from the UK and abroad, specialising in the work of international poets writing in English and the work of overseas poets in translation. (Arc also has a music imprint, Arc Music, for the publication of books about music and musicians.)

Buy: http://deadinkbooks.com/shop

Submit: http://deadinkbooks.com/submissions but "General submissions of work to Dead Ink are now closed"

Dead Ink is a digital-only publisher of poetry, short fiction and review as ebooks and online. We take risks on challenging, anti-literary literary work by emerging writers and use digital platforms to develop their work in new ways.
Some of our titles are also available in print, as part of our imprint with Valley Press called Ink Lines.

Buy: www.shoestring-press.com/download-order-forms

Distributor: www.centralbooks.com

Note: Shoestring Press regrets that it is unable to consider unsolicited TSS for the foreseeable future.

We specialise in publishing poetry sequences and collections, usually by:

Established but unfashionable poets.

Poets we are introducing to British readers for the first time, though they may be well known elsewhere.

We pay particular attention to layout and illustrative material which is legitimately part of the verbal text or vigorously enhances it.

As well as publishing works by UK poets, we have a selection of poetry and fiction by Greek and Australian authors.

Publisher: Mr John Lucas

Note: new website coming 'mid-August'

Buying: http://waywiser-press.com/orderoptions.html

Submitting: http://waywiser-press.com/authors.html

The Waywiser Press is a small independent company, with its main office in the UK, and a subsidiary in the USA. It was founded in late 2001, and started publishing in 2002.

Waywiser is a literary press, first and foremost, with a special interest in modern poetry and fiction. From time to time, however, we also issue books belonging to other literary genres – e.g. memoir, criticism, history.

We are keen to promote the work of new as well as established authors, and would like to rescue still others from undeserved neglect.

For most recent Anthony Hecht competition see: www.writeoutloud.net/directory/#link_216

"09.08.15: Tall Lighthouse is taking a hiatus from publishing new titles until 2017"

But open for sales: www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk/publications.html

An independent poetry business publishing full collections, pamphlets, chapbooks and anthologies of poetry.

Atlantean Publishing consists of Awen, Awen Online, Bard, Garbaj, Monomyth and The Supplement; also solo-poet broadside series (The Bards, Xothic Sathlattae and Yellow Leaves), poetry chapbooks, fiction chapbooks, non-fiction chapbooks and anthologies.

http://atlanteanpublishing.blogspot.co.uk. Atlantean Publishing produces five print magazines, a webzine, three regular broadside poetry series and various booklets and anthologies. Almost any style or topic of poetry, fiction and non-fiction is considered with the exception of outright erotica and novel-length fiction.

Ordering and prices: http://atlanteanpublishing.blogspot.co.uk/p/ordering-and-prices.html

Advice: http://atlanteanpublishing.wikia.com/wiki/Guidelines

Support: www.poetrytranslation.org/support_us

Downloads: www.poetrytranslation.org/downloads

Events: www.poetrytranslation.org/events

Welcome to the Poetry Translation Centre’s website. We’re a small organisation dedicated to translating contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America. To date, we’ve translated 420 poems written in 27 different languages by 92 poets from 40 countries. On our website you’ll find all these poems both in translation and in their original language, plus photos and videos of our events and information about what we do and how we translate.

Shop: http://hollandparkpress.co.uk/books.php

About submitting: http://hollandparkpress.co.uk/submissions.php.

Holland Park Press Ltd publishes literary fiction and poetry and places special emphasis on bringing the work of Dutch authors to the English language market.

We work in partnership with our authors. We use the latest technology and the internet to power our innovative publishing process and to encourage the interaction between authors and readers.

We nurture new talent through our creative writing courses and workshops which are written and run by published authors.

Buy: www.smokestack-books.co.uk/catalogue.php

Submit: www.smokestack-books.co.uk/publish.php

WOL interview: www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=38864

Smokestack is an independent publisher of radical and unconventional poetry run by Andy Croft. He lives in Middlesbrough, where he has been active for many years in community writing projects. Writing Residencies include the Hartlepool Headland, the Great North Run, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, HMP Holme House and HMP Moorland. His verse–play about the history of Middlesbrough, Smoke! was shown at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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The Poetry Business is a poetry publisher and writer development agency.

We publish books, pamphlets, audio and eBooks under the Smith/Doorstop imprint; edit a literary magazine, The North; and run Writing Days, masterclasses, residential courses, and a Writing School for published poets. We also run the annual Book & Pamphlet Competition.

Our poets have won or been shortlisted for almost every major poetry prize, including the Forward Prize on 11 occasions and 10 Poetry Book Society awards, and Smith/Doorstop Books was awarded the 2011 Michael Marks Award. Andrew Motion described The Poetry Business as "one of the most vital and vitalising literary organisations in the country".

Our priorities are:

The spreading of interest in contemporary poetry

The encouragement of new writers

The publishing of work of new and established writers

The setting of high artistic standards.

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Candlestick Press is a small, independent publisher based in Nottingham. Since 2008 we have been publishing poetry pamphlets aimed equally at people familiar with poetry and those who are not.

Our pamphlets make an ideal alternative to a mainstream greetings card. They have matching envelopes and bookmarks left blank for your message and are excellent companions on boring journeys or good for a bedtime read.

Poetry Pamphlets

We publish pamphlets because we love their historical associations with literature, politics, philosophy, radical thought and social welfare. They are the real thing – short, thoughtful and to the point.

By supporting us, you will be helping a small, independent press at the same time as treating yourselves, your friends and family to some wonderful poems.

From Mike Barlow

I started Wayleave Press in 2014 as an independent venture publishing between 6 and 8 poetry pamphlets a year, small distinctive collections in an attractive format. My plan is that the contents of each pamphlet should have some thematic cohesion, or be a selection by poets whose work I admire but who have not yet had their own publication.

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I am unfunded and my aim is to cover costs and support poets. I’m doing this for pleasure, the reward and excitement of seeing a collection of poems turn into a finished pamphlet ready to go out there in the world.

However I don’t want to risk getting carried away and becoming so busy and pressured that fun is replaced by stress, so I won’t, I’m afraid, be able to respond to unsolicited submissions. I’ll confine myself to approaching poets as and when I am ready. (I am nonetheless open to third party suggestions and recommendations and will, of course, be keeping my ears to the ground.)

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Submissions: FLARESTACK POETS IS NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS. THE NEXT SUBMISSIONS WINDOW WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FLARESTACK POETS WEBSITE

The organisation aims to facilitate the wider dissemination of work by writers in exile and to ensure they have a platform.
It aims to raise awareness of literature by writers in exile by organising events such as seminars, workshops, conferences, interactive performances and festivals.
It aims to facilitate the publication of work by writers in exile including addressing translation issues. It aims to give a high profile to translators who enable the work of exiled writers to become accessible.
It aims to develop literary creativity in the broadest sense within the refugee communities.
It aims to work in an education context in schools, colleges etc.
It aims to form links with other literary/arts groups.
Through literature and literature events, it aims to act as a pressure group against racism and the abuse of human rights worldwide.
It aims to develop dialogue through literature.

We publish poetry collections, occasional anthologies and three poetry/prose magazines.

We also run the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize where two winners are published in June each year.

Under our Tamar Books imprint, we publish non-fiction that is relevant to the Southwest of England, where we are based. We no longer publish fiction, but have a varied selection of current publications in our shop.

Salt was founded in 1999 and our current administrative base lies in Cromer on the North Norfolk Coast — we don't have offices, so that we can focus all our money on effectively publishing more books.

Since the beginning of the new millennium we have published over 1,000 books in the UK and sold them internationally.

Initially focussing on international poetry in English and in translation, we now concentrate on contemporary fiction.

Produce annual anthology of Best British Poetry