



Poetry Publishers



There are so many excellent presses and publishers at present. In an effort to measure how high their profile is I have written in blue (from 2021 only) the last time that the press had a listing in the Poetry Book Society (PBS) Bulletin, which is published quarterly. (Winter 2024 update completed.)
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This is supplemented by appearances in reviews of the poetry magazines that I subscribe to. I have listed the priority I give to these at the bottom of the page.
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I have restricted the list to publishers of poetry in the English language, and languages from the U.K. and Ireland.
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(UK followed by Outside the UK)
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UK
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PBS Winter 2023
​Against the Grain Poetry Press
PBS Autumn 2023
PBS Autumn 2022
Allardyce, Barnett Publishers - Allardyce Book - AB
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PBS Winter 2024
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Anvil Press Poetry (Carcanet Imprint)
T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2002
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 1993
PBS Summer 2024
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PBS Winter 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 1995
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PBS Winter 2024
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Birlinn Ltd (Scotland)
PBS Autumn 2024
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PBS Summer 2024
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The Black Light Engine Room Press
PBS Winter 2023
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PBS Winter 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 shortlist, Forward Prize shortlist 2023
T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2004, 2008, 2009
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PBS Autumn 2023, Forward - Felix Dennis Prize shortlist 2023, Forward Prize shortlist 2022
T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2022
PBS Autumn 2021, the North August 2022
Boiler House Press (University of East Anglia)
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(North East England)
PBS Summer 2024
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Burning Eye Books (bigcartel.com)
PBS Summer 2024
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​Butcher's Dog Poetry Magazine | Newcastle (U.K.)
(Though newly adding this the site says it is on a break from publishing in 2025)
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Cape / Cape Poetry - See Jonathan Cape
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PBS Winter 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2023 x 3, Forward Prize 2023 shortlist x 2
T.S.Eliot Prize winner 1996, 2013
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2007, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2023
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PBS Winter 2024, Forward Prize shortlist 2012
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​Chatto & Windus (penguin.co.uk)
PBS Winter 2024, T.S. Eliot shortlist 2021, Forward Prize shortlist 2022 x2
T.S.Eliot winner 2015
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 1994, 1996, 2018
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PBS Spring 2024, Forward - Felix Dennis Prize shortlist 2023,
PBS Autumn 2024
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Poetry London Spring 2023
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Clayhanger Press (North Staffordshire, U.K.)
Forward Prize shortlist 2012
PBS Spring 2023
Corsair (Little Brown Book Group) - Corsair Poetry
PBS Summer 2024, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist 2023, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2020, Forward Prize shortlist (as Little Brown) 2022
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Cultured Llama Publishing | Maria C. McCarthy
​(Ran from 2011-2023, closed now, but still has a webpage)
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PBS Autumn 2024
Michael Marks Poetry Award Winner 2024
Michael Marks Publisher's Award Winner 2024
Dempsey & Windle Publishing now see VOLE Publishing
Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers
PBS Winter 2024
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PBS Winter 2023
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PBS Autumn 2024
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Forward Prize shortlist 2011
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Enneract Editions (Penteract Press)
PBS Summer 2021
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Eyewear Publishing (blackspringpressgroup.com)
PBS Spring 2023
PBS Autumn 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2023, Forward Prize shortlist 2023
T.S. Eliot Prize winner 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 1992, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010
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PBS Winter 2024
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PBS Summer 2024
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fourteen poems (aka Fourteen Publishing)
(LGBTQ+)
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Frosted Fire Press (Cheltenham Poetry Festival)
PBS Spring 2024
(English translation of Catalan language poetry)
FyfieldBooks (Carcanet Imprint)
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(Mostly Suffolk based poets, U.K.)
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Good Press (Glasgow, Scotland)
PBS Summer 2023
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PBS Autumn 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2020
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PBS Winter 2022, The Poetry Review Autumn 2023
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Grey Suit Editions UK (U.K. link)
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PBS Autumn 2023
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Hamish Hamilton | Penguin General
Poetry London Autumn 2022
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Hamish Whyte – Mariscat Press & Hamish Whyte
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PBS Winter 2022, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2018
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HVTN Press (aka Haverthorn Press)
Poetry London Summer 2023
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PBS Winter 2023
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The Hendon Press (Russian Translation)
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Hen Run - pamphlet imprint of Grey Hen Press
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PBS Winter 2023
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acumen May 2021
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Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine
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(Dutch authors in English language)
PBS Winter 2023
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If a Leaf Falls Press (Sam Riviere)
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ignition press - Oxford Brookes University
PBS Autumn 2024
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Magma Poetry Winter 2021, The High Window December 2023
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The Irish Pages Press Cló An Mhíl Bhuí
PBS Autumn 2022
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Istros Books (Books from the Balkans translated into English)
PBS Autumn 2023
Jonathan Cape (penguin.co.uk) - Cape Poetry
PBS Autumn 2024, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist 2023, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2023, Forward Prize shortlist 2020
T.S. Eliot Prize winner 1995, 2000, 2001, 2011, 2012, 2017
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2006, 2011, 2013, 2019
Forward - Felix Dennis Prize winner 2023
Knives Forks and Spoons Press (KFS)
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Lapwing Publications or see Facebook
acumen May 2023, The High Window Autumn 2023
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Tears In The Fence November 2021
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Legitimate Snack (Broken Sleep Books)
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Lifeboat Press (Northern Ireland)
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Lintott Press (Carcanet Imprint)
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​Little Betty - Bad Betty Press
PBS Autumn 2024
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Lolli Editions (Translations into English)
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PBS Autumn 2023
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Little Island Press (Carcanet Imprint)
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The High Window December 2023
PBS Winter 2023
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The Poetry Review Autumn 2021
The North January 2022
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PBS Autumn 2024
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PBS Autumn 2022 / The Poetry Review Summer 2023
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Mariscat Press (Mariscat Press & Hamish Whyte)
PBS Winter 2022, The North August 2023
PBS Autumn 2023
Macmillan Collector's Library - Pan Macmillan
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PBS Autumn 2023
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PBS Summer 2024
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​Mudfog Press
PBS Autumn 2024
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​​​​The New Menard Press
(UK imprint of Amsterdam based indie publisher HetMoet)
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The North January 2022, The High Window July 2023
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PBS Winter 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2021
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PBS Winter 2024
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The North January 2022, T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlist 2020
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PBS Winter 2024, Forward - Felix Dennis Prize shortlist 2023
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acumen September 2022
Forward Prize winner 1995. 1997, 1999
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The High Window Autumn 2023
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The High Window Spring 2023
Pamenar Press (U.K., Canada, Iran)
The Poetry Review Summer 2023
Papillote Press | Books from the Caribbean
Parthian Books (Wales)
Pariah Press - Infernal Editions
PBS Summer 2022, Poetry London Summer 2023
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​Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
PBS Summer 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2023, Forward Prize shortlist 2017
T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2020
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PBS Winter 2024
T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2019
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PBS Winter 2022, T.S.Eliot Prize shortlist 2022, Forward Prize shortlist 2021
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2015
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PBS Autumn 2023
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PBS Summer 2022, Poetry London Summer 2023, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2019
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2021
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Picador Books - Pan Macmillan) Picador Poetry
PBS Winter 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2022, Forward - Felix Dennis Prize shortlist 2023, Forward Prize shortlist 2016
T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2007, 2016
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004
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Pindrop Press (Glasgow/France)
acumen September 2022, The High Window Winter 2023
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The Poetry Business - see Smith|Doorstop
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Poetry Translation Centre (PTC)
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('we publish queer voices (&) other marginalised groups')
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(Scotland)
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PBS Winter 2024
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PBS Winter 2022, The High Window October 2023
PBS Winter 2023
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PBS Autumn 2024
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Tears In The Fence August 2021
Poetry London Spring 2021
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acumen September 2022
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Callum Macdonald Memorial Award winner 2021
PBS Summer 2024
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PBS Autumn 2023, Forward Prize shortlist 2023
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Sampson Low (Kingston University Creative Writing students)
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the North August 2022
PBS Autumn 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2019
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2022
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PBS Autumn 2024, Forward Prize shortlist 2015
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Sheep Meadow Press (Carcanet Imprint)
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Poetry London Summer 2023, The High Window December 2023
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Silhouette Press (Coventry)
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Singing Apple Press - Camilla Nelson
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PBS Winter 2023
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Smith|Doorstop (The Poetry Business)
PBS Autumn 2024, T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 1999, Forward Prize shortlist 2008
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Some Roast Poet (Manchester, UK)
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​​SPAM Press
The Poetry Review Summer 2023
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(Based in Scotland)
PBS Winter 2023
Stichill Marigold Press – the private press of Leonard McDermid
Callum Macdonald Memorial Award shortlist 2021
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The High Window July 2023
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PBS Summer 2024
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PBS Winter 2023
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PBS Autumn 2024
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TLM Editions - The London Magazine
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PBS Summer 2021
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PBS Summer 2024
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​​Valley Press
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PBS Winter 2023
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(Birmingham based press)
PBS Winter 2024
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Poetry London Spring 2023
Magma Poetry Winter 2022
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VOLE Publishing (Formerly Dempsey and Windle)
PBS Spring 2024
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PBS Autumn 2024
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PBS Summer 2024, The High Window October 2023
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PBS Summer 2024
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The Waywiser Press (Based in the U.K. and U.S.)
The Westbourne Press – Saqi Books
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​(No longer being updated, but back catalogue available to view)
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Wiley (U.K. base of U.S. publisher) (John Wiley and Sons)
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Write Bloody UK (U.K. base of US publisher)
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Yale University Press London) (UK, Europe and overseas)
PBS Autumn 2021, Poetry London 2023
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Y Lolfa (Welsh books from Wales)
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​zarf editions poetry pamphlets
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Zeno Books — CHRISTIAN PATRACCHINI
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Last full update of all links above 2/2/2025
Outside the UK
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I accept the links below are rather haphazard and random, it is mostly based on publishers that are referenced in reviews by U.K. poetry magazines that I subscribe to.
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I have also added publishers of books that have won the following prizes since 2021:
Finalists & Winners - Griffin Poetry Prize.
The Lambda Literary (Lammy Awards)
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When I have listed a publisher based on a prize win, I only include their most recent win.
(Based in Spain)
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Acre Books (University of Cincinnati)
Magma Summer 2022
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Alfred A. Knopf - see Knopf Doubleday
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Won a Lammy in 2022
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Animal Heart Press (U.S.)
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Argos Books (U.S.)
Arlen House (Republic of Ireland)
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Arrowsmith Press (U.S.)
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Tears In The Fence July 2021
(Contemporary Arab authors in English translation)
PBS Summer 2024
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Banshee Press (Republic of Ireland)
PBS Autumn 2024
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Beatnik Publishing (New Zealand)
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​Belladonna (U.S.)
Bitter Oleander (U.S.)
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BLP Black Lawrence Press (U.S.)
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Brick Books (Canada)
Griffin Poetry Prize Canada Shortlist 2022
Buckrider Books (Wolsak & Wynn) (Canada)
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City Lights Publishers (U.S.) (Pocket Poet Series)
Clare Songbirds Publishing House (U.S.)
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Contra Mundum Press (U.S., translations)
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Griffin Poetry Prize nomination 2021, Poetry London Summer 2022
The Cuba Press (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Curbstone Books (Northwestern University Press) (U.S.)
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Dedalus Press (Republic of Ireland)
PBS Summer 2024
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Dos Madres Press (U.S.)
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Drunk Muse Press (Republic of Ireland)
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Fish Publishing (Republic of Ireland)
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FSG (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (Macmillan) (U.S.)
Pulitzer Poetry Prize winner 2023, Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist 2023
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The Gallery Press (Republic of Ireland)
PBS Winter 2024, TS Eliot shortlist 2023, Forward Prize shortlist 2015
T.S. Eliot Prize winner 1993
Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2003
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George Braziller (U.S.)
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Won Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2022
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Grey Suit Editions (The U.S. link)
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Hopkins Press - John Hopkins University Press (U.S)
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Isobar Press - English Writing from Japan
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acumen May 2023
Knopf Doubleday (Penguin Random House) (U.S.)
The Griffin Poetry Prize finalist 2023, Poetry London Autumn 2023
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The Last Books (English books based in Netherlands/Bulgaria)
Life Before Man – (Gazebo Books) (Australia)
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Griffin Poetry Prize International Shortlist 2022
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​McClelland & Stewart (penguinrandomhouse.ca) (Canada)
Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist 2023, Poetry London Spring 2023
McGill-Queen's University Press | McGill-Queen’s University Press (Canada)
Pulitzer Poetry Prize nomination 2023
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​New Directions Publishing (U.S.)
New Island Books (Republic of Ireland)
PBS Spring 2024
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NYRB Poets – New York Review Books (U.S.)
The Poetry Review Winter Spring 2021, The High Window May 2023
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Won a Lammy in 2023
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Nightingale & Sparrow (U.S.)
(No updates since 2022)
Griffin Poetry Prize Canada First Book Prize winner 2023
(Closed in February 2023, but site still available)
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Northwestern University Press (U.S.)
Archive available on pdf at Nostrovia! Catalog - Nostrovia! Press
Still has a presence on Facebook
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Ó Bhéal Press (Republic of Ireland)
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The Operating System and Liminal Lab (U.S.)
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Otago University Press (New Zealand)
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Otoliths: Mark Young / Otoliths (Australia)
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Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian winner 2022
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Passager Books (U.S. for over-50s)
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(See above for the U.K. link)
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Pitt Street Poetry (Australia)
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Plum White Press | Poetry Nook (U.S.)
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Poetry Bus Press (Republic of Ireland)
T.S. Eliot shortlist 2023
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Poetry Salzburg Pamphlet Series - PSPS (University of Salzburg) (Austria, English poetry)
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Poetrywala – Paperwall (India)
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Poets Choice (India) (English language)
(Registered in the U.S., books can be purchased in U.K. currency)
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The Porcupine's Quill (Canada)
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Princeton University Press (U.S.) (They do have a U.K. base, too)
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Pushcart Press : Publishers of The Pushcart Prize
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Red Hen Press (U.S.)
Magma Poetry Winter 21
Revival Press – Limerickwriters (Republic of Ireland)
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Salmon Poetry (Republic of Ireland)
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Griffin Poetry Prize International shortlist 2022
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Schaffner Press (U.S.)
Scribner Books (simonandschusterpublishing.com) (U.S.)
Sea Crow Press | Independent Book Publisher (U.S.)
Seagull Books (Books of English translation, India)
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Sídhe Press (English language press based in Berlin)
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SIR Press (Southern Indiana Review Press) (U.S.)
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​​The Song Cave (U.S.)
Won a Lammy in 2022, Poetry London Spring 2023
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Southword – Munster Literature Centre (aka Southword Editions) (Republic of Ireland)
PBS Autumn 2024
Speaking Tiger Books (Mostly English books, India)
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Strange Light (Penguin Random House, Canada)
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Syracuse University Press (Also distributer for Sheep Meadow Press) (U.S.)
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Tin House (U.S.)
Magma Poetry Autumn 2023
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Daily Poem February 2022
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University College Dublin Press (UCD Press) (Republic of Ireland)
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University of California Press (ucpress.edu) (U.S.)
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University of Chicago Press (U.S.)
The Poetry Review Autumn 2021
University of Iowa Press (U.S.)
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University of Nebraska Press (U.S.)
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University of Pittsburgh Press (U.S.)
University of Tampa Press (U.S.)
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Pulitzer Poetry Prize nomination 2023, Poetry London Summer 2023
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Wesleyan University Press (U.S.)
Griffin Poetry Prize International Shortlist 2022
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Wild Honey Press (Republic of Ireland)
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World Poetry Books (Poetry in English translation) (U.S.)
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Griffin Poetry Prize winner 2023
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Yes Yes Books (U.S.)
Won a Lammy in 2023, Poetry London Summer 2023
Zephyr Press (U.S.) Includes Russian and Eastern Europe translations
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Lists of Publishers
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I am not in the habit of mopping up other people's excellent lists, rather here is a little list of other people's lists:
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​National Poetry Library Comprehensive list of all U.K. publishers
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​Online Poetry Resources - Poetry Super Highway
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The order of magazine or prize updates (that appear in light blue) is as follows:
(Note: For magazine reviews I delete all updates in favour of a new update of the same or higher priority. I plan to permanently list the selected prize winners, but only the most recent prize shortlisting.)
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Priority 1.
Poetry Book Society Bulletin (Spring 2021 to Winter 2024)
Forward Prize Best Collection shortlist and winner (1992 - 2023)
The Lambda Poetry Prize (2021-2023)
The Griffin Poetry Prize (2021-2023)
The Pulitzer Poetry Prize (2021-2023)
The T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist and winner (1993-2023)
Michael Marx Awards for Poetry Pamphlets shortlist and winner coming
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Then it is based on book reviews in magazines I subscribe to.
Priority 2.
The Poetry Review (Spring 2021 to Autumn 2023)
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Priority 3.
acumen (January 2023, issue 105, after which there are no further updates.)
Magma Poetry (Spring 2021 to Autumn 2023)
Poetry London (Spring 2021 to Autumn 2023)
The North (January 2021 to August 2023 - issue 69)
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Followed by online magazines I like to read:
Priority 4.
The High Window (April 2021 to December 2023)
Tears in the Fence
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Priority 5.
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Other occasional sources Including:
Daily Poem
Forward Prize First Collection - Felix Dennis Prize
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N.B. Only Arete Books (Forward shortlist in 2009), and Peterloo Poets (Forward shortlist in 1996) are not still going of every T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted book since their inception.
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Disclaimer:
I have absolutely no connection with any of the sites reported above and only pass them on because they sounded interesting to me. I do not gain financially or in any other way from any of the sites I have offered links to. If the sites fail to deliver in some way, this will need to be taken up with that site. I cannot guarantee the safety of the sites I link to, though I do test every site out prior to listing it here; if you do follow the link you do so entirely at your own risk. So what I am saying is please don't sue me, or shoot me as the messenger, though I absolutely would love to hear any positive or negative feedback about any of the sites I link to.
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If you are the owner of a site that I have linked to and object to me including a link here please do let me know and I will remove it as soon as possible. Equally if you want to be linked then just ask and I will be very happy to do so.
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The page/site is getting us first update in nearly a year, so bare with me whilst I make the above page more accurate again.
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The last complete check of links was on 3 February 2025, and the last nearly complete update was on 14 December, 2023. Most recent minor update 4 February 2025