The quarterly literary magazine Popshot, which has been publishing poetry, flash fiction and short stories for over 10 years, has announced that it is ending print operations. The magazine said that “recent increases in production costs sadly mean that the print publication is no longer viable”. 

It hopes to continue in a digital form, updating its app and website with fresh material over the next few months “if there is sufficient appetite from readers”.

The glossy illustrated magazine originated as the result of “a feeling that the world of poetry was driving itself into an elitist and fusty no-through road, and we wanted to do something about it”, according to the magazine’s website. “Combining illustration with poetry in a neat and beautifully designed format, in April 2009 the first issue of Popshot launched, thumping its chest and quoting Adrian Mitchell’s ‘Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people’. With black pages, a sans serif typeface, and filled with vibrant illustration work, the magazine didn’t look like a poetry magazine and we were thrilled with it.”