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Links to all the top U.K. poetry publishers and presses, as highlighted in reviews in magazines, and as Bob spots them. Links to many Worldwide publishers, too. Please do get in touch if there is a Publisher you would like added. Links to: 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 most recent time that the press had a review in a poetry magazine. I have restricted the list to publishers of poetry in the English language, and languages from the U.K. and Ireland. I have now added some prize winners in blue . I list all the prize wins, but only the most recent shortlist. Click on the underlined titles to go to that magazine's website A to Z (UK followed by Outside the UK) UK 14 Poems - see Fourteen Poems 404 Ink The North August 2022 the87 press PBS Spring 2025 Aark Arts Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2006 Acid Bath Publishing – CORROSIVE FICTION & POETRY Against the Grain Poetry Press PBS Autumn 2023 Agenda Editions PBS Autumn 2022 Allardyce, Barnett Publishers - Allardyce Book - AB Amethyst Press And Other Stories PBS Spring 2025 Anvil Press Poetry (Carcanet Imprint) T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2002 Forward Prize Best Collection winner 1993 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2003 Arachne Press PBS Summer 2024 Arc Publications PBS Winter 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 1995 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2020 Atlantic Books PBS Summer 2023, The Poetry Review Spring 2024 Awen Publications Bad Betty Press PBS Summer 2025 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets w inner 2022 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2022 Bennison Books The High Window Spring 2022 Birlinn Ltd (Scotland) PBS Autumn 2024 bitter melon poetry (Poets from the Asian diaspora) The Poetry Review Spring 2025 Black Bough Poetry The Black Cat Poetry Press PBS Summer 2024 Black Eyes Publishing UK The Black Light Engine Room Press The High Window Summer 2021 Black Pear Press acumen May 2021 The Black Spring Press Group PBS Winter 2023 Black Sunflowers Poetry Press Bloodaxe Books PBS Summer 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2004, 2008, 2009, shortlist 2024 x 2 Forward Prize shortlist 2023 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 1999, 2024 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets w inner 2023 (with MsLexia) Blood Pudding Press Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) PBS Summer 2025 Forward Prize shortlist 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2022 Blue Diode Publishing PBS Autumn 2024 Blueprint Poetry Press PBS Autumn 2021, Magma Poetry Spring 2024 Boatwhistle Books PBS Summer 2021 Boiler House Press (University of East Anglia) PBS Spring 2024 The Braag (U.K) (North East England) PBS Summer 2024 Broken Sleep Books PBS Summer 2025 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2021 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2020 Burning Eye Books (bigcartel.com) PBS Summer 2024 Butcher's Dog Poetry Magazine | Newcastle (U.K.) (Though newly adding this the site says it is on a break from publishing in 2025) PBS Winter 2024 Cacafuego Press Calder Valley Poetry the North January 2021 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets w inner 2017, shortlist 2018 Candlestick Press PBS Autumn 2024 Canongate PBS Spring 2021 Cape / Cape Poetry - See Jonathan Cape Carcanet Press PBS Summer 2025 T.S.Eliot Prize winner 1996, 2013, 2023 shortlist 2024 x 2 Forward Prize Best Collection w inner 2007, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2023 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2018 Won a Lammy in 2023 CB editions (Central Books) PBS Winter 2024 Forward Prize shortlist 2012 Cerasus Poetry The High Window Summer 2021 Chatto & Windus (penguin.co.uk) PBS Summer 2025 T.S.Eliot winner 2015, shortlist 2021 Forward Prize Best Collection winner 1994, 1996, 2018, shortlist 2022 x 2 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2014 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2018 Cheerio Publishing (Cheerio Poetry) PBS Spring 2025 Cinnamon Press PBS Autumn 2024, Magma Poetry 2025 Cipher Press (LGBTQIA+) Poetry London Spring 2023 ClairObscur Zine Clayhanger Press (North Staffordshire, U.K.) The High Window October 2023 The Clutag Press Forward Prize shortlist 2012 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2015 Contraband Books PBS Spring 2023 Corsair ( Little Brown Book Group) - Corsair Poetry PBS Summer 2024, Poetry Review Winter 2024, Poetry London Spring 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2020 Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist 2023 Crooked Spire Press Cultured Llama Publishing | Maria C. McCarthy (Ran from 2011-2023, closed now, but still has a webpage) Culture Matters Currock Press Cyhoeddiadau'r Stamp (In Welsh) Michael Marks Poetry Award For Poetry Pamphlets Shortlist 2020 Dare-Gale Press PBS Autumn 2024 Michael Marks Poetry Award For Poetry Pamphlets winner 2024 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2024 Dark Mountain Dempsey & Windle Publishing now see VOLE Publishing Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers PBS Winter 2024 Dialect Press PBS Summer 2024 Dialogue Books | Hachette UK T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2024 Doire Press PBS Autumn 2024 Donut Press Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2012* Doomsday Press - Facebook PBS Winter 2023, The Poetry Review Spring 2024 Dreich PBS Autumn 2021 Elephant Press The Emma Press PBS Spring 2025 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2018 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2016, shortlist 2024 Enitharmon Editions Forward Prize Best Collection shortlist 2011 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 1995 Enneract Editions (Penteract Press) PBS Summer 2021 Equipage Poetry London Autumn 2021 Exiled Writers Ink Eyewear Publishing (blackspringpressgroup.com) PBS Spring 2023 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2015* Faber & Faber (Faber) PBS Summer 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize winner 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, shortlist 2024 Forward Prize Best Collection winner 1992, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, shortlist 2024 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 1992, 1993, 1996, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada) Shortlist 2024 Fair Acre Press PBS Winter 2024 Fevers of the Mind Press Fish Publishing Fitzcarraldo Editions PBS Spring 2025 Five Leaves Publications PBS Summer 2024 Flight of the Dragonfly Press PBS Spring 2023 flipped eye publishing PBS Winter 2024 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2015 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2014* Fly On The Wall Press PBS Autumn 2024 fourteen poems (aka Fourteen Publishing) (LGBTQ+) PBS Spring 2025 Frosted Fire Press (Cheltenham Poetry Festival ) PBS Spring 2024 Fum d'Estampa Press (English translation of Catalan language poetry) Magma Poetry Summer 2021 FyfieldBooks (Carcanet Imprint) Garlic Press (Mostly Suffolk based poets, U.K.) Gatehouse Press - Story Machine Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2017 Goldsmiths Press (Goldsmiths, University of London) Good Pres s (Glasgow, Scotland) PBS Summer 2023 Graft Poetry The High Window Spring 2022 Granta Poetry PBS Autumn 2024, Poetry London 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2020 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2020, 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada) finalist 2024 Green Bottle Press PBS Winter 2022, The Poetry Review Autumn 2023 Grey Hen Press The High Window Summer 2021 Grey Suit Editions UK (U.K. link) The High Window Autumn 2021 Grove Press – Atlantic Books (U.K. imprint of U.S. publisher) Poetry London Summer 2024 Guillemot Press PBS Autumn 2023, The Poetry Review Spring 2025 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2019, shortlist 2022 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2018, shortlist 2024 Hamish Hamilton | Penguin General Poetry London Autumn 2022 Hamish Whyte – Mariscat Press & Hamish Whyte HappenStance Press PBS Winter 202 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2018 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets w inner 2015, shortlist 2016 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2010 HVTN Press (aka Haverthorn Press) Poetry London Summer 2023 Hawkwood Books PBS Summer 2024 Hawthorn Press Hazel Press PBS Summer 2022 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2021 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2022 Hedgehog Poetry Press PBS Winter 2023 The Hendon Press (Russian Translation) PBS Winter 2022 Hen Run - pamphlet imprint of Grey Hen Press The High Window Summer 2021 Hercules Editions PBS Spring 2022 Hesterglock — Penteract Press HetMoet | ItMust Publishing (Amsterdam based Press) PBS Winter 2023 The High Window Press acumen May 2021 Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine Holland Park Press (Dutch authors in English language) PBS Winter 2023 If a Leaf Falls Press ( Sam Riviere) IF P THEN Q ignition press - Oxford Brookes University PBS Summer 2025 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2024 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2021 Ignota Books Indigo Dreams Publishing PBS Spring 2025 Ink Sweat and Tears Poetry Review Spring 2021 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets Shortlist 2020 The Irish Pages Press Cló An Mhíl Bhuí PBS Autumn 2022 Iron Press PBS Summer 2024 Istros Books (Books from the Balkans translated into English) PBS Autumn 2023 Jonathan Cape (penguin.co.uk) - Cape Poetry PBS Summer 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize winner 1995, 2000, 2001, 2011, 2012, 2017, shortlist 2023 Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2006, 2011, 2013, 2019, shortlist 2020 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2004, 2005, 2017, 2023 Griffin Poe try Prize shortlist 2023, finalist 2025 Knives Forks and Spoons Press (KFS) PBS Spring 2024 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2011 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2011* Kater Murr's Press Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2011* Lapwing Publications or see Facebook acumen May 2023, The High Window Autumn 2023 Leafe Press Tears In The Fence November 2021 Leamington Books PBS Spring 2021 LegalHighsPress The High Window Spring 2023 Legitimate Snack (Broken Sleep Books) Poetry London Autumn 2021 The Letter Press Lifeboat Press (Northern Ireland) Lily Poetry Review Press Lintott Press (Carcanet Imprint) Little Betty - Bad Betty Press PBS Autumn 2024 Lolli Editions (Translations into English) PBS Summer 2023 The Lifeboat Press PBS Autumn 2023 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets w inner 2020 Little Island Press (Carcanet Imprint) Littoral Magazine Press The High Window December 2023 Live Canon PBS Winter 2023 Liverpool University Press The Poetry Review Winter 2023 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2015 Longbarrow Press The North January 2022 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2015 Luath Press (Edinburgh) Lucent Dreaming PBS Autumn 2024 Magma Poetry PBS Spring 2024 Makina Books PBS Autumn 2022 / The Poetry Review Summer 2023 Mariscat Press (Mariscat Press & Hamish Whyte) PBS Winter 2022, The North August 2024 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2011, s hortlist 2023 x 2 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2015, 2023 Maytree Press PBS Autumn 2023 Macmillan Collector's Library - Pan Macmillan PBS Summer 2024 Mica Press PBS Summer 2023 Modus Arts PBS Autumn 2023 MOIST PBS Spring 2023 Monitor Books PBS Summer 2024 Mudfog Press PBS Autumn 2024 Muscaliet Press Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2022 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2022 Naked Eye Publishing The High Window Winter 2023 The New Menard Press (UK imprint of Amsterdam based indie publisher HetMoet) PBS Summer 2025 New River Press New Walk Editions The North January 2022, The High Window July 2023 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2019 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2024 New Writing North PBS Winter 2022 (with Faber) Nine Arches Press PBS Summer 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2021 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2010 x 2 Nine Pens PBS Winter 2024 Offa’s Press acumen May 2021 Offord Road Books The North January 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2020 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2019 Original Plus chapbooks Osmosis Press The Poetry Review Winter 2023 Out-Spoken Press PBS Winter 2024, Poetry London 2025 Forward Prize shortlist 2024 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2023 Oversteps Books acumen September 2022 Oxford University Press (OUP) Poetry London Spring 2024 Forward Prize winner 1995. 1997, 1999 Paekakariki Press The High Window Autumn 2023 Palewell Press The High Window Spring 2023 Pamenar Press (U.K., Canada, Iran) The Poetry Review Summer 2023, Poetry London Autumn 2024 Pan Macmillan PBS Spring 2022 Paper Swans Press PBS Summer 2023 Papillote Press | Books from the Caribbean PBS Autumn 2024 Parthian Books (Wales) PBS Summer 2024 Pariah Press - Infernal Editions PBS Summer 2024 Partus Press PBS Summer 2022, Poetry London Summer 2023 Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press) PBS Summer 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2020, shortlist 2024 Forward Prize Best Collection shortlist 2017 Peepal Tree Press PBS Winter 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2019 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 1994, 2016 Penguin Books Penguin Poetry PBS Winter 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2024 Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2015, shortlist 2021 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2019, 2021 Penguin Press - Penguin Books PBS Spring 2025 Penned In The Margins PBS Summer 2022, Poetry London Summer 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2019 Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2021 Penteract Press PBS Autumn 2021 Picador Books - Pan Macmillan ) Picador Poetry PBS Summer 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2007, 2016, shortlist 2024 Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, shortlist 2016 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 1997, 1998, 2001, 2011 Pighog Press - Red Hen Press Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2012 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2013* Pindrop Press (Glasgow/France) acumen September 2022, The High Window Winter 2023 PlaySpace Publications The Poetry Business - see Smith|Doorstop PBS Autumn 2024 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets w inner 2021 (as New Poetry Prize) Poetry London Editions PBS Summer 2025 Poetry Space Poetry Translation Centre (PTC) PBS Autumn 2024 Poets House Pamphlets acumen May 2021 Polari Press ('we publish queer voices (&) other marginalised groups') PBS Summer 2024 Polygon | Birlinn Ltd (Scotland) PBS Autumn 2024 Prole Books Prototype Publishing The Poetry Review Spring 2025 Pushkin Press PBS Autumn 2024 Rack Press Poetry PBS Winter 2022, The High Window October 2023 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets w inner 2012, Shortlist 2014 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2014 The Red Ceilings Press PBS Winter 2023 Red Squirrel Press PBS Spring 2024 Renard Press PBS Autumn 2024 Repeater Books Tears In The Fence August 2021 The Rialto Poetry London Spring 2021 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2000 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets w inner 2014, 2016, shortlist 2021 x 2 Rockingham Press acumen September 2022 Roncadora Press Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2010 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2011* Callum Macdonald Memorial Award winner 2021 Rough Trade Books Forward Prize shortlist 2024 Salò Press PBS Summer 2024 Salt Publishing PBS Autumn 2023, the North August 2024, Poetry London Summer 2024 Forward Prize shortlist 2023 Salamander Street Sampson Low (Kingston University Creative Writing students) Saqi Books the North August 2022 Second Light Publications acumen May 2022 Seren Books PBS Spring 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2019 Forward Prize Best Collection winner 2022 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2008, 2010 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets s hortlist 2023 Serpent's Tail Shearsman Books PBS Spring 2025 Forward Prize Best Collection shortlist 2015, Griffin Poetry Prize (Canada) finalist 2024 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2014* Sheep Meadow Press (Carcanet Imprint) Shoestring Press Poetry London Summer 2023, The High Window December 2023 Skear Zines: to sing in unconventional forms Sidekick Books PBS Autumn 2024 Silhouette Press (Coventry) Singing Apple Press - Camilla Nelson Silver Press PBS Winter 2023 The Sixty Odd Press Shop - by Mike O’Brien - Sixty Odd Poets Smith|Doorstop (The Poetry Business ) PBS Summer 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 1999, Forward Prize Best Collection shortlist 2008 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2022 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2012, 2017 Smokestack Books PBS Autumn 2024 Some Roast Poet (Manchester, UK) SPAM Press The Poetry Review Summer 2023 Stairwell Books Forward Prize shortlist 2024 Steel Incisors Stewed Rhubarb Press (Based in Scotland) PBS Winter 2023, the North August 2024 Stichill Marigold Press – the private press of Leonard McDermid Callum Macdonald Memorial Award shortlist 2021 SurVision Books The High Window July 2023 tall-lighthouse PBS Summer 2024 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2013 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2009* Taproot Press Magma Poetry Spring 2021 Tapsalteerie PBS Summer 2024 Templar Poetry PBS Winter 2023 Michael Marks Poetry Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2016 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2010* Tenement Press The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Tilted Axis Press PBS Autumn 2024 TLM Editions - The London Magazine acumen January 2022 Trickhouse Press Troika Books PBS Summer 2021 Two Rivers Press PBS Summer 2024 Valley Press PBS Autumn 2024 Vane Women Press PBS Winter 2023 Veer Books Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets shortlist 2010* Veer2. Verve Poetry Press (Birmingham based press) PBS Winter 2024 Michael Marks Publisher's Award F or Poetry Pamphlets winner 2019 Vintage - Penguin Books Poetry London Spring 2023 Virago Books Magma Poetry Winter 2022 VOLE Publishing (Formerly Dempsey and Windle) PBS Spring 2024 V. Press Poetry PBS Autumn 2024 Waterloo Press PBS Summer 2024 , The High Window October 2023 Wayleave Press PBS Summer 2025 The Waywiser Press (Based in the U.K. and U.S.) The Westbourne Press – Saqi Books T.S. Eliot Prize winner 2021 The WILD PANSY PRESS PBS Spring 2023 WiId Pressed Books (No longer being updated, but back catalogue available to view) Wiley (U.K. base of U.S. publisher) (John Wiley and Sons) The High Window Spring 2023 Wordville Press PBS Spring 2023 Worple Press Wrecking Ball Press Write Bloody UK (U.K. base of US publisher) PBS Spring 2023 Wylde Publications PBS Autumn 2024 Yaffle Press Yale University Press London ) (UK, Europe and overseas) PBS Autumn 2021, Poetry London 2023 Yew Tree Press PBS Winter 2022 Y Lolfa (Welsh books from Wales) PBS Summer 2023 zarf editions poetry pamphlets Zeno Books — CHRISTIAN PATRACCHINI zimzalla.co.uk (Literary objects) Last full update of all links above 2/2/2025 Outside the UK 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, or major prize winners. T he A3 Press (Based in Spain) Able Muse Press (U.S.) Acre Books (University of Cincinnati) Magma Summer 2022 Action Books (U.S.) (Books translated to English) Akashic Books (U.S.) Alfred A. Knopf - see Knopf Doubleday Alice James Books (U.S.) Won a Lammy in 2022 American Poetry Review (U.S.) AngelHousePress (Canada) Animal Heart Press (U.S.) Anstruther Press (Canada) Anvil Press (Canada) The High Window June 2023 Archipelago Books Griffin Poetry Prize finalist 2024 Argos Books (U.S.) Won a Lammy in 2021 Arlen House (Republic of Ireland) Arrowsmith Press (U.S.) Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist 2024 Auckland University Press (New Zealand) The Poetry Review Spring 2024 Augury Books (U.S.) Won a Lammy in 2020 Bamboo Dart Press (U.S) Tears In The Fence July 2021 Banipal Books (UK) (Contemporary Arab authors in English translation) PBS Summer 2024 Banshee Press (Republic of Ireland) PBS Autumn 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist 2024 Baylor University Press (U.S.) Beatnik Publishing (New Zealand) Belladonna (U.S.) Bitter Oleander (U.S.) BLP Black Lawrence Press (U.S.) Won a Lammy in 2024 Black Widow Press (U.S.) BOA Editions, Ltd. (U.S.) Won a Lammy in 2024 Breakwater Books Ltd (Canada) Griffin Poetry Prize Canada First Book Winner 2024 Brick Books (Canada) Griffin Poetry Prize Canada Shortlist 2022 Broadstone Books (U.S.) The High Window Autumn 2023 Buckrider Books ( Wolsak & Wynn) (Canada) The North January 2021 Caitlin Press (Canada) Griffin Poetry Prize Canada Shortlist 2020 Cajun Mutt Press (U.S.) Canarium Books (U.S.) CavanKerry Press (U.S.) Tears In The Fence May 2021 Chax Press (U.S.) Chicago Review Press (U.S.) Cholla Needles (U.S.) Tears In The Fence June 2021 City Lights Publishers (U.S.) (Pocket Poet Series) Won a Lammy in 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist 2024 Clare Songbirds Publishing House (U.S.) Coach House Books (Canada) The Poetry Review Winter 2023 Cold Hub Press (New Zealand) Contra Mundum Press (U.S., translations) Copper Canyon Press (U.S.) Poetry London Summer 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Winner in 2020 and finalist in 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist 2024 The Cuba Press (Aotearoa New Zealand) acumen May 2023 Curbstone Books (Northwestern University Press) (U.S.) Dedalus Press (Republic of Ireland) PBS Summer 2024, Magma Poetry Autumn 2024 Dos Madres Press (U.S.) acumen May 2021 Driftwood Press (U.S.) Drunk Muse Press (Republic of Ireland) Dusie Books (U.S.) Ecco – HarperCollins (U.S.) Fallen Tree Press (US) (Specializing in Poetry Chapbooks) The Poetry Review Spring 2025 Fish Publishing (Republic of Ireland) FSG (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (Macmillan) (U.S.) Poetry London Spring 2024 Pulitzer Poetry Prize winner 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize International winner 2021, shortlist 2025 Flood Editions (U.S.) Fonograf Editions (U.S.) Poetry London Autumn 2023 Four Way Books (U.S.) Poetry Daily July 2021 FutureCycle Press (U.S.) The High Window June 2023 The Gallery Press (Republic of Ireland) PBS Winter 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize winner 1993, shortlist 2023 Forward Prize Best Collection w inner 2003, shortlist 2015 Forward Prize Best First Collection winner 2002 Gazebo Books (Australia) Georgia Review Books - Georgia Press (University of Georgia Press) Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner in 2024 George Braziller (U.S.) Get Fresh Books Publishing A Non-Profit Corp. (U.S.) Ghost City Press (U.S.) Graywolf Press (U.S.) Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner in 2021, 2022 Won a Lammy 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist 2025 Grey Suit Editions (The U.S. link) GRIEVELAND (U.S.) The Poetry Review Spring 2024 Hopkins Press - John Hopkins University Press (U.S) The High Window October 2023 Inhabit media (Canada) (Inuit owned independent press) The Poetry Review Spring 2024 Invisible Publishing (Canada) The Poetry Review Winter 2023 Isobar Press - English Writing from Japan Kelsay Books (U.S.) acumen May 2023 Knife Fork Book (Canada) The Griffin Poetry Prize finalist 2025 Knopf Doubleday (Penguin Random House) (U.S.) Poetry London Autumn 2024 The Griffin Poetry Prize finalist 2023 The Last Books (English books based in Netherlands/Bulgaria) Tears In The Fence June 2021 Life Before Man – (Gazebo Books) (Australia) Liveright | W. W. Norton & Company Ltd (U.S.) Lost Horse Press (U.S) Griffin Poetry Prize International Shortlist 2022 MadHat Press (U.S.) The High Window July 2023 McClelland & Stewart (penguinrandomhouse.ca) (Canada) Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian winner 2021, 2020, shortlist 2023 Poetry London Spring 2023 McGill-Queen's University Press | McGill-Queen’s University Press (Canada) The North January 2022 McSweeney’s (U.S.) Pulitzer Poetry Prize nomination 2023 Milkweed Editions (U.S.) Won a Lammy in 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist 2025 New Directions Publishing (U.S.) The Poetry Review Spring 2025 Pulitzer Prize Nominee 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize winner 2024, finalist 2025 New Island Books (Republic of Ireland) PBS Spring 2024 NYRB Poets – New York Review Books (U.S.) The Poetry Review Winter Spring 2021, The High Window May 2023 Nightboat Books (U.S.) The Poetry Review Spring 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize International Winner 2020 Won a Lammy in 2020 (x3), 2023 and 2024 Nightingale & Sparrow (U.S.) (No updates since 2022) Tears In The Fence June 2021 Nightwood Editions (Canada) Griffin Poetry Prize Canada First Book Prize winner 2023 Nion Editions (U.S.) Noemi Press (U.S.) Poetry London Autumn 2023 Nomadic Press (U.S.) (Closed in February 2023, but site still available) Won a Lammy in 2022 Northwestern University Press (U.S.) - TriQuarterly Poetry London Summer 2024 Won a Lammy 2024 Nostrovia! Press (U.S.) Archive available on pdf at Nostrovia! Catalog - Nostrovia! Press Still has a presence on Facebook Ó Bhéal Press (Republic of Ireland) Omnidawn (U.S.) The Operating System and Liminal Lab (U.S.) Otago University Press (New Zealand) Otoliths: Mark Young / Otoliths (Australia) Palimpsest Press Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian winner 2022 Paperwall Publishing (India) Passager Books (U.S. for over-50s) Penguin Random House (U.S.) (See above for the U.K. link) Pulitzer Prize in Poetry finalist in 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist 2024 Persea Books (U.S.) Perugia Press - Publishing new women poets since 1997 (U.S.) Pitt Street Poetry (Australia) acumen May 2023 Plum White Press | Poetry Nook (U.S.) Poetry Bus Press (Republic of Ireland) T.S. Eliot shortlist 2023 Poetry Salzburg Pamphlet Series - PSPS (University of Salzburg) (Austria, English poetry) PBS Winter 2022, the North August 2024 Poetrywala – Paperwall (India) Poets Choice (India) (English language) (Registered in the U.S., books can be purchased in U.K. currency) The High Window October 2023 The Porcupine's Quill (Canada) Princeton University Press (U.S.) (They do have a U.K. base, too) The North August 2023 Pushcart Press : Publishers of The Pushcart Prize Rattle (U.S.) Red Hen Press (U.S.) Magma Poetry Winter 21 Revival Press – Limerickwriters (Republic of Ireland) River River Books (U.S.) Salmon Poetry (Republic of Ireland) PBS Winter 2023 Saturnalia Books (U.S.) Griffin Poetry Prize International shortlist 2022 Schaffner Press (U.S.) Scribner Books (simonandschusterpublishing.com) (U.S.) The Poetry Review Spring 2024 Sea Crow Press | Independent Book Publisher (U.S.) acumen September 2022 Seagull Books (Books o f English translation, India) Poetry London Spring 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist 2025 Sheep Meadow Press (U.S.) Sídhe Press (English language press based in Berlin) SIR Press (Southern Indiana Review Press) (U.S.) Sixteen Rivers Press Skein Press (Republic of Ireland) PBS Spring 2025 Soft Skull Press (U.S.) The Song Cave (U.S.) Poetry London Spring 2023 Won a Lammy in 2022, Southword – Munster Literature Centre (aka Southword Editions) (Republic of Ireland) PBS Autumn 2024 Speaking Tiger Books (Mostly English books, India) Steel Toe Books (U.S.) Strange Light (Penguin Random House, Canada) Syracuse University Press (Also distributer for Sheep Meadow Press) (U.S.) Tin House (U.S.) Poetry London Summer 2024 Won a Lammy 2024 TriQuarterly - See Northwestern University Press Tupelo Press (U.S.) Daily Poem February 2022 Turas Press (Republic of Ireland) Two Lines Press (U.S.) Ugly Duckling Presse (U.S.) University of Alberta Press (Canada) Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Prize winner 2025 University College Dublin Press (UCD Press) (Republic of Ireland) University of California Press (ucpress.edu) (U.S.) The High Window November 2023 University of Chicago Press (U.S.) The Poetry Review Autumn 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist 2025 University of Georgia Press (U.S.) University of Iowa Press (U.S.) Griffin Poetry Prize finalist 2025 University of Nebraska Press (U.S.) University of Pittsburgh Press (U.S.) Won a Lammy in 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist 2025 University of Tampa Press (U.S.) Wave Books (U.S) The Poetry Review Spring 2024 Pulitzer Poetry Prize nomination 2023, Griffin Poetry Prize winner 2022, finalist 2024 Wesleyan University Press (U.S.) Griffin Poetry Prize International Shortlist 2022 Wild Honey Press (Republic of Ireland) World Poetry Books (Poetry in English translation) (U.S.) The High Window Spring 2023 Write Bloody (U.S.) W. W. Norton & Company (U.S.) Pulitzer Prize in Poetry finalist in 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize winner 2023 The Poetry Review Spring 2024 Yale University Press (U.S.) Yes Yes Books (U.S.) Poetry London Summer 2023 Won a Lammy in 2021, 2023 Zephyr Press (U.S.) Includes Russian and Eastern Europe translations The North August 2023 Lists of Publishers 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: Contemporary Small Press : Directory Indie Press Network National Poetry Library Comprehensive list of all U.K. publishers Online Poetry Resources - Poetry Super Highway Tears in the Fence: Links The most recent review, is based on these magazines : Poetry Book Society Bulletin (Spring 2021 to Summer 2025) The Poetry Review (Spring 2021 to Spring 2025) Magma Poetry (Spring 2021 to Spring 2025) Poetry London (Spring 2021 to Spring 2025) The North (January 2021 to August 2024 - issue 70) The High Window (April 2021 to December 2023) Tears in the Fence (from the website only) acumen magazine (occasional) Daily Poem website (occasional) Competitions reported are: The T.S. Eliot Prize: all the winners, then the most recent shortlist (1993-2024) Forward Prize Best Collection: all the winners, then the most recent shortlist (1992 - 2024) Forward Prize Best First Collection: all the winners only (1992 - 2024) Michael Marx Poetry Awards for Poetry Pamphlets: all the winners, then the most recent shortlist (2009- 2024) Michael Marx Publisher's Awards for Poetry Pamphlets: all the winners, then the most recent shortlist (2009- 2024)* The Pulitzer Poetry Prize: all the winners and the most recent nominee (2020-2024) The Griffin Poetry Prize: all the winners, then the most recent shortlist or finalist (2020-2025) (Except 2025 winner, which hasn't been announced yet) The Lambda Poetry Prize: all the winners (2020-2024) The following is for full nerd completists (like me) * I have no information on the shortlist for Michael Marx Publisher's Awards for Poetry Pamphlets for 2016 to 2021, unfortunately, only the winners. Award winners no longer publishing are: Arete Books (Forward shortlist in 2009) Aussteiger Publications (No longer appear to do poetry, Michael Marx Poetry Award winner 2013) Galdraon Press (Michael Marx Poetry Award winner 2009) Flarestack Poets (Michael Marx Poetry Award winner 2010 & 2013, shortlist 2014, and Publisher's Award winner in 2014) Oystercatcher (Michael Marx Publisher's Award 2009, shortlist 2010) Peterloo Poets (Forward shortlist in 1996) Self-published (- just one so far Michael Marx Poetry Award 2009) Waterflag Press (Michael Marx Poetry Award 2016) Hopefully I'll extend the Lambda, Griffin and Pulitzer Poetry Prize lists over time. 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. 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Some poetry websites have an excellent Soundcloud page. These links will take you there. Listen to some great poetry by read by the poets, interviews with poets, and general programmes about poetry. Please get in touch if you want a link to your poetry Soundcloud page added here. Regularly updated to clear broken links. Links to: Poetry on Soundcloud A to Z Click the underlined titles to go to the homepages. Burning Eye Podcast We are a small independent publisher in the South West (U.K.) 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. Chestnut Review Many individual poets recordings from Chestnut Review. Culture Recordings Spoken word on Soundcloud. Faber Books at Soundcloud Scroll down the Faber Book page to see the specific poetry podcast. Fay Roberts on SoundCloud 'Fay has performed poetry in pubs, clubs, theatres, tents, shopping centres and stately gardens, in Open Mic, showcases, features, support, collaboration, competition and costume. Sometimes she bangs a drum, and sometimes she performs in silence, while the words flutter in front of her...' Gillian Clarke 'Here, in the order in which they were first published between 1978 and 1993, are readings of the fifteen poems featured in the Cambridge IGCSE exam syllabus. I introduce each poem with a brief introduction.' Lunar Poetry Podcasts (soundcloud.com) A series of discussions, interviews and live recordings with poets from the UK and abroad in which we examine the writing process. Now hosted by Peter deGraft-Johnson a.k.a The Repeat Beat Poet, the series was founded by David Turner in October 2014 in south east London. Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine - Free Listening on SoundCloud When Ted Hughes & Daniel Weissbort founded MPT in 1965 they had two principal ambitions: to get poetry out from behind the Iron Curtain into a wider circulation in English and to benefit writers and the reading public in Britain and America by confronting them with good work from abroad. For more than 50 years MPT has continued and widened that founding intent. Moonstone Arts Center music | SoundCloud Moonstone Arts Center podcast series, from Philadelphia, U.S. The Arts Center produces about 100 programs, mostly poetry readings and publishes about 30 books a year. NAWE (National Association of Writers in Education): SoundCloud Poetry read by the authors. See here for organisation's homepage. National Poetry Library on SoundCloud The National Poetry Library is the largest public collection of modern poetry in the world. Founded by the Arts Council in 1953 and opened by poets T.S. Eliot and Herbert Read, we have been at the heart of the nation’s poetry community ever since. New Writing North 'New Writing North is a development agency for creative writing and creative reading based in the north east of England. We specialise in the development of talent and act as a dynamic broker between writers, agents and producers across the creative industries.' There is a number of poetry podcasts here. Pamenar Press on Soundcloud Regular posts of poems by the poets by Pamenar Press. Poetry Ireland | Free Listening on SoundCloud 'Poetry Ireland connects poetry and people. We are committed to achieving excellence in the reading, writing and performance of poetry throughout the island of Ireland.' PoetryJukebox Quotidian | Free Listening on SoundCloud 'We want to create the opportunity to encounter poetry in surprising ways and unexpected places.' Poetry Non-Stop on SoundCloud Poetry Non-Stop is a poetry podcast presented by Patrick Widdess The Poetry Society Soundcloud Page Essential places to visit for plenty of poetry programmes and clips. Including, podcasts from The Poetry Review. Rattle Poetry The Soundcloud archive of the Rattlecasts made by Rattle Magazine. Small Machine Talks music The Small Machine Talks is a monthly conversation that explores the poetry scene of Central Canada and beyond. Its hosts are Ottawa poets, Amanda Earl and a.m. kozak. The Soundscape Poetry Project (soundcloud.com) 'Pairing spoken word poetry with bespoke audio environments, The Soundscape Poetry Project showcases thirteen exhilarating new performances by five of the UK's most innovative and exciting poets. This ground-breaking album pushes the boundaries of how poetry can be experienced and sets a new standard for the future of recorded spoken word poetry.' Sugar House Review 'In an effort to avoid verbosity, we'll put it succinctly: we love poetry. Our name is based on both our location and desire to publish sticky, heart-racing, sweet, sweet addictive poetry. Sugar House is a neighborhood within Salt Lake City. It was named after the sugar beet factory of the Deseret Manufacturing Company which operated in Sugar House from 1851–1855.' Most recent full update 5 April 2026

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Every month Bob chooses a poetry quotation based on things read over the previous month. This is a full archive of every quote since the website began. Home Poetry Events Poetry Online Poets Wordy Word Words About Bob Contact Search Please Read More Quote of the Month (archive) July 2026 "You know the truth You wish you didn't have it " From 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Poet' in Motormouth by Tom Priestley, Great Britain, 2021. See Motormouth: Amazon.co.uk: Priestley, Tom: 9798767834211: Books June 2026 "aunties chopping ginger; aunty licking haldi off her finger " From 'inventory of aunties' by Cia Mangat. Seen in the North issue No.71 , page 88 May 2026 "We're drowning in our paradise. " From ' Driftwood' by Ian Curtis (1979). Seen in Touching from a Distance. Ian Curtis and Joy Division by Deborah Curtis Faber abd Faber, London, 2001 April 2026 "TAKE. UP. SPACE . " From 'Witch Club' in Invocation by Izzy Brittain. Yaffle's Nest, Horsforth, 2025 See Shop — I Z Z Y B R I T T A I N March 2026 "She wore her world in possibilities Just like Pelé's final pass . " From 'Mexico '70' by Ralph Dartford in House Anthems Valley Press, Scarborough, 2024 House Anthems – Valley Press February 2026 "Haiku # 34 Dear enthusiast, thank you for contributing . You will not be paid. " From Killing the Piano by Joe Williams Half Moon Books, Otley 2017 Killing the Piano – Joe Williams: Writer, Poet, Performer With thanks to Joe Williams for allowing the use the whole Haiku. January 2026 "I asked a sea-gull on a see-saw what's it all for?, what's it all about? He said nowt and flew away." From 'An unkindness' by Matt Nicholson in Side-Eye Yaffle, Leeds 2025 www.yafflepress.co.uk With thanks to Matt Nicholson for allowing the use the longer quote. December 2025 "( ... and no one wears halos due to carbon concerns) . " From 'Revelations 1:14-16 from the Book of the After Life Circus (Illustrated Parenthetical Edition)' by Airea d. Matthews in Bread and Circus Picador, London, 2023 November 2025 "He sees beyond her face another face. " From 'Hesitant' by Brian Patten Collected Love Poems Harper Perennial, London, 2007 R.I.P. Brian Patten October 2025 "He aerosolled his name. And it was mine . " From V. by Tony Harrison Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2nd edition, 2nd impression 1991. R.I.P. Tony Harrison September 2025 "Girassol Rasga a tua indecisão E liberta-te." "Sunflower Renounce your indecision Free Yourself" From 'Girassol / Sunflower' by Corsino Fortes Translated by Daniel Hahn and Sean O'Brian in Poetry London Spring 2025 Issue 110, pp 24-25 August 2025 "Strike it down, that other boughs may flourish Where that perished sapling used to be; Thus, at least, its mouldering corpse will nourish That from which it sprung - Eternity. " From 'Death' by Emily Brontë No Coward Soul Is Mine Penguin Classics, London, 2025 July 2025 "A thousand people I could be for you and you hate the ****ing lot " From 'Messy' by Lola Young and Connor Dickinson, single from the album This Wasn't Meant For You Anyway Island, 2024. (I promise I won't over do lyrics, poets get little enough exposure as it is!) June 2025 "She'd rather weep all day than never weep again, and for some folk that really is a straight choice . " From 'Feeling Things' by Don Paterson in Zonal Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 2020 May 2025 "Love is to be full in all that needs filling. " From 'wicked she wicked [Benny's Ballad]' by Caleb Femi The Wickedest 4th Estate, London, 2024 April 2025 "If I eat Jesus will he want to eat me? " From 'Second Communion' by Victoria Kennefick Eat Or We Both Starve Carcanet, Manchester, Great Britain 2021 March 2025 "I must become a menace to my enemies . " From 'I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies' by June Jordan in Haruko/Love Poems Serpent's Tail, UK, 2023 February 2025 "beyond the light of memory behind your life there might be other lives, waiting - . " From 'So I step inside' by Seán Hewitt in Rapture's Road Cape Poetry, UK, 2024 January 2025 "You were not there only everything else was yours: saris in the alna, lipstick, hair clips, hairbrush on the dressing table, finger marks on the mirror... " From 'To Have My Sister Back' by Mir Mahfuz Ali Midnight, Dhaka December 2024 "That our bodies are dangerous things." From '6.' by Kim Moore in All the Men I Never Married Seren, Bridgend, Wales, 2021 November 2024 "you were a boy. i was a boy." From 'You: The Many Adams of Adam' by Gboyega Odubanjo in Adam Faber and Faber, London, 2024 October 2024 "and the wind can't unwind itself from the rose" From 'Mural' by Mahmoud Darwish Translated by John Berger and Rema Hammami in Mural Verso, London, 2024 September 2024 "We all have lives that go on without us. " From 'England' by Zaffar Kunial in England's Green Faber and Faber, London 2022 August 2024 "Everyone is writing about a country as if a country existed." From 'The Invention of America' by Katie Farris in Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, UK, 2023 July 2024 "I want to tell him how, minutes from here, someone else's child, made of the same material as me, was made immaterial." From 'Someone Else's Child' by Kostya Tsolakis in Greekling Nine Arches Press, Rugby, UK, 2023 June 2024 " another leaf uncomplicates" From ' I. The Infant ' by Katharine Towers in Oak Picador, London, 2021 May 2024 "At the award shows they are dancing gender." From 'Third Gender Sonnet' by Kandace Siobhan Walker in Cowboy Cheerio Poetry, Great Britain, 2023 April 2024 "On Silence: The deaf don't believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing. " In the end notes of Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky Faber and Faber, London, 2019 March 2024 "the way you say I enter a room: deer-like, tentative then definite." From 'Rain Twice: II. NIGHT RAIN' by Helen Mort in The Illustrated Woman Chatto Poetry, Penguin Random House UK, 2022 February 2024 "Dick's duck dived as deep as Dick's dog dug" From 'Dick's Dog' by Trevor Millum in Read Me and Laugh Poems chosen by Gaby Morgan, Macmillan Children's Books , London, 2005 January 2024 "Schnee ist gefallen, lichtlos. (Translation: Snow fell, lightless.) From the poem 'Schwarze Flocken (Black Flakes)' by Paaul Celan. See “Black Flakes / Schwarze Flocken:” Celan & Ukraine – Nomadics (pierrejoris.com) December 2023 "We can all be refugees Nobody is safe " From 'We Refugees' by Benjamin Zephaniah RIP 7 December 2023. See Three poems by Benjamin Zephaniah | Books | The Guardian November 2023 "Terror is incredibly pedantic ." From 'Utterance Shared Only with the Dishwasher She Sinks Her Hands Into' by Momtaza Mehri in The Poetry Review Volume 113:2, Summer 2023 . October 2023 ... "it is forbidden to love where we are not loved." From 'Material Ode' by Sharon Olds in Stag's Leap . Jonathan Cape, London, 2012 September 2023 " i could call a cat a meowopotamus, who would care?" From 'Day 71: Honiton' by Stephen Lightbown in The Last Custodian Burning Eye Books, Portishead, 2021 August 2023 ..."the minutes crawl the way dust gathers on its victims. " From Pepper Sed by Malika Booker Peepal Tree, 2013 July 2023 "It's easier with instructions; Moses would tell you. But he wasn't the poet." From 'If asked to write an elegy - ' Shannon Smith-Meekings in The Poetry Review Vol. 113:1, Spring 2023 June 2023 'It's not true that our shadows disappear at at night. They're released like a breath.' From 'A Shadow on the House' by Philip Gross in The Thirteenth Angel Bloodaxe Books, Hexham, 2022 Quote of the Week Archive Week Commencing 24th April 2022. 'not one of my friends was allowed to live in her body unaccompanied' 'C+nto' by Joelle Taylor in C+nto & Othered Poems The Westbourne Press, London, 2021 Week Commencing 17th April 2022. 'They're looking people at the factory,' you tell me, 'to put the crying in the crying dolls' 'Headcheese' by Scott McKendry in The Poetry Review: Volume 112:1 Spring 2022 Week Commencing 10th April 2022. 'I often regret the time that I've devoted to regret: thereby sustainably re-wasting wasted time time and again ' 'My Plans for the Past' by Sam Willetts in The Poetry Review: Volume 112:1 Spring 2022 Week Commencing 3rd April 2022. 'One fine thought makes more light than bare fire' Ramayana A Retelling by Daljit Nagra Faber and Faber, London, 2013 Week Commencing 27th March 2022. 'All my favourite flowers are weeds spreading from stone slab crack to tumbling wall to road edge to bed, a long string of common names, and when they are torn at their stalks they spring back green with more cunning and wit. 'All my favourite flowers' by Mish Green in Magma Poetry 81 Winter 2021 Week Commencing 20th March 2022. 'But who would stand in hempen band Upon a scaffold high, And through a murderer's collar take His last look at the sky? It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!' 'From The Ballad Of Reading Gaol' by Oscar Wilde see Poetry Foundation Week Commencing 13th March 2022. 'now literate with demolition. how sinister and reverent, the touch that builds a new bohemian amenity. raised, from the silence of your seizures. everybody singing: attrition, contrition, mass- market ambition.' 'Délire' by Fran Lock in Hyena! Jackal! Dog!' Pamenar Press, 2021 Week Commencing 6th March 2022. 'Alone with their songs and calls, birds could hear one another at greater distances. They began to chirp more softly, astonished by how loud they had become. ' 'Distancing' by Laboni Islam in Magma Poetry 81, Winter 2021 Week Commencing 27th February 2022. 'Hold your ear to the ground: you can hear the voices caught in the earth, chattering, and the rain typing on puddles and the wind wiping them clean .' 'I Sit and Eavesdrop the Trees' by Seán Hewitt in The Poetry Review Vol. 104: 2 Summer 2014 Week Commencing 20th February 2022. 'I never liked Mr Carmichael, who seemed to be made from pale grey plasticine and stretched too much. His fingers fluttered. He oozed words and always stayed too long.' 'Through the Letterbox' by Chrissy Banks in The Rialto no.97 Winter 2021 Week Commencing 13th February 2022. 'Randy Rhoads and Kurt Cobain, Patsy Cline and Ronnie Laine. Poly Styrene, Teena Marie. Timor mortis conturbat me.' (Translation: fear of death disturbs me) 'Not Fade Away' by Michael Robbins in The Poetry Review Vol. 104:1 Spring 2014 Week Commencing 6th February 2022. 'The months and the seasons just slip by. My diary's blank on every page. We follow rules; try to comply. Now Rishi pays most of each wage.' 'Pandemic Poem' by John Miles in acumen Literary Journal No. 100 May 2021 Week Commencing 30 January 2022 'And Johnson says it hasn't happened, so it hasn't. Hospitals are as safe as houses and our graves are rose gardens.' '54' by Owen Lowery The Crash Wake Carcanet 2021 Poem featured in Poetry Book Society Winter Bulletin 2021, issue 271 Week Commencing 23 January 2022 'This flat, Too small to hold both you and your anxiety. One must go.' 'Countdown' by Hibaq Osman Poetry London Autumn 2021. No.100 Week Commencing 16 January 2022 'I can't help but learn again, the dirty truth, hatred brings pleasure to multitudes .' 'Alas, My Compass' by Stanley Moss The Poetry Review Vol. 111:4, Winter 2021 Week Commencing 9 January 2022 'With tomahawk and knife we hacked the flyblown tatters of old meat, gagged at their carcass-smell, and threw the scraps and watched the hungry eat .' 'To Another Housewife' by Judith Wright 101 Poems by 101 Women edited by Germaine Greer Faber and Faber 2001 edition Week Commencing 2 January 2022 'I know not what to do: will the sound break, rending the night with rift on rift of rose and scattered light? will the sound break at last as the wave hesitant, or will the whole night pass and I lie listening awake?' Fragment Thirty-Six by H.D. S ee poetrynook.com Week Commencing 26 December, 2021 'The Greeks thought of language as a veil which protects us from the brightness of things. I think poetry is a tear in that veil.' Alice Oswald in an interview in Poetry Review Vol 103: 4 Winter 2013 Week Commencing 19 December, 2021 'So tired, so tired, my heart and I ! Though now none takes me on his arm To fold me close and kiss me warm Till each quick breath end in a sigh Of happy languor. Now, alone, We lean upon this graveyard stone, Uncheered, unkissed, my heart and I.' See: 'My Heart and I' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poetry Foundation Week Commencing 12 December, 2021 'as now, we lie together, after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies, familiar touch of the long-married, and he appears—in his baseball pyjamas.' 'After Making Love We Hear Footsteps’ by Galway Kinnell See: Poems | poets.org Week Commencing 5 December, 2021 'And anyone who begins a sentence, "As a poet I...", can't possibly be one. That's like calling yourself a saint.' Michael Longley in interview. Poetry Review Volume 103:3, Autumn 2013. Week Commencing 28 November, 2021 'Love is the boy I broke up with years ago. He lived on a grey estate in Upton Heights. He bought me tins of cider and Marlboro Lights...' 'Love' Hannah Lowe The Kids Bloodaxe Books, 2021 Week Commencing 21 November, 2021 'I want to be friends with everyone, and yet know I must have enemies too, if only in order to maintain my friendships.'.' 'Cities and Memories' Richard Gwyn in Poetry Review 103:2 Summer 2013. Week Commencing 14 November, 2021 'The clock's reached six and you know what that means it means the end of the working day. Not for us. I place my hand on the radiator - and nothing: nothing has changed.'.' 'In Memory of My Lack of Feelings' Tara Bergin in Poetry Review 103:2 Summer 2013. Week Commencing 07 November, 2021 'Let the sky rain potatoes!' Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor , Act 5, Scene 5. William Shakespeare. Week Commencing 31 October, 2021 'Absorbed was righteousness As of the raging flood; Satan in his excess Sucked up the guiltless blood ' 'The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate' Anne Askew (1546) in 101 Poems by 101 Women Edited by Germaine Greer Faber and Faber, 2001. Week Commencing 24 October, 2021 'In this pain I was a charred donkey in the office chair - stupid and unusual' 'from God Complex' Rachael Allen in The Poetry Review , Volume111:3 Autumn 2021 Week Commencing 17 October, 2021 'To walk away from poetry Is poetry, too ' 'Różewicz: A Farewell' in Invisible (Bilingual Edition) Jacek Gutorow, translated by Piotr Florczyk. Week Commencing 10 October, 2021 'When the weather comes on, we'll feel the sweet relief and sorrow at seeing all the days of snow that lie ahead.' ' Ganfer', Roseanne Watt in Poetry London, Summer 2021, Issue 99. Ganfer: the apparition of a living person thought to be a portent of that person's death... Week Commencing 3 October 2021 'but i feel i will never be fluent in bureaucracy so all i have is a tesco tortilla, spotify playlists and my name in an english accent ' 'My Name In An English Accent', by Carmina Masoliver in The Rialto , no 96. Week Commencing 26 September 2021 'and the devil said no god isn't the ice he's under the ice but you have to be very very very hot to burn your way through to him '' 'Witch and the Devil', in Witch by Rebecca Tamás Penned in the Margins, 2019. Week Commencing 19 September 2021 'I grab the fellow by his tail, but he still escapes through the gap in my throat.'' 'A Lizard by my Hospital Bed', Mir Mahfuz Ali in Poetry Review Vol 102:4 Winter 2012. Week Commencing 12 September 2021 'And then it was all over, the rain stopped, the earth drank, and the lawn steamed in the sun: all of it tut-tutting.' 'The Storm (Coleshill 2013)', Neil Rollinson in Talking Dead Cape Poetry, 2015. Week Commencing 5 September 2021 'Better than Batman's robin Rougher than Robin's bat Faster than Spiderman's spider Cooler than Catwoman's cat' 'Superman's Dog', Paul Cookson in Read Me (Collection of poems chosen by Gaby Morgan) MacMillan Children's Books, 1998. Week Commencing 29 August 2021 'The Swan hisses, hisses. Even her neck is a twisted S. She's resident, common, depressed. She was once a princess.' 'Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe', Clare Pollard in Changeling Bloodaxe Books, 2011. Week Commencing 22 August 2021 'Ponder mulled it over Wonder merely thought Whilst Maybe didn't commit And Stubborn wouldn't try.' 'One Morning', by John Linney in Huddle of Poems Amazon , 2013. Week Commencing 15 August 2021 'In my fantasy I am badly hurt but not so bad that I cannot text her, from the ambulance, "I've just been hit by a car." ' 'Filter', by Luke Kennard in Truffle Hound Verve Poetry Press, 2018. Week Commencing 8 August 2021 'and so we mark up bench or skin or book with blade or blood or ink, for good; come look.' 'Dymock vi', by Antony Dunn in Take This One To Bed Valley Press, 2016. Week Commencing 1 August 2021 ' so she brings down birds and tears from the sky mourns them, transforms them, relearns how to fly.' 'Sonnet for a twelve year old', by Sonya Smith in every robin i never quite saw tall-lighthouse, 2021. Week Commencing 25 July 2021 ' I just stopped running and my soul grew calmer as the air grew cleaner.' 'Brigaki Djilia: Sorrow Songs', by Karen Downs-Barton in the North Issue 65 January 2021. Week Commencing 18 July 2021 'Given a month of outrageous privacy what a mouthy collection of cells I am.' 'Phallus Impudicus', Tiffany Atkinson in Poetry Review Volume 102:3, Autumn 2012. Week Commencing 11 July 2021 'I am lucky not to be absent from my mind like a baldhead.' 'King David Cooks Ital in Port Antonio', by Fred D'Aguiar, in Letters to America , Carcanet, Manchester 2020. Week Commencing 4 July 2021 'It's coming home It's coming home It's coming Football's coming home. ' 'Three Lions' Song composed by Ian Broudie; lyrics by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner. (Indulge me, poetry and football are my two passions.) Week Commencing 27 June 2021 'It's my turn Tagay! When I get home my bag will burst with Toblerone and Cadbury' 'Tagay! [Drinking Lambanog with my Filipino Colleagues]' by Romalyn Ante, in Antiemetic for Homesickness , Chatto & Windus, London, 2020. Week Commencing 20 June 2021 'Look, the flamingos have returned to Bombay. Look how this carpet of pink brightens the day.' 'Hope is the Thing' Tishani Doshi in Magma Poetry 79. Week Commencing 13 June 2021 'Maybe your too-hasty breath flustered the tea leaves' 'Everything you told me came untrue' Geraldine Clarkson in The Poetry Review Vol 111: 1 Spring 2021.) Week Commencing 6 June 2021 'They bleat and bleat and bleat as if they were men. They blather nonsense, and we believe them.' 'This is an age of goats' Barbara Cumbers in Acumen: A Literary Journal January 2021. Thank you to Barbara Cumbers for allowing the use of the whole final verse on request. Week Commencing 30 May 2021 'i love it when cows eat the floor' 'Hello' Crispin Best (the opening line) in Hello Partus Press, Oxford, 2020. Week Commencing 23 May 2021 'and weed and warm and warm and weed - ' 'Nudibranch' by Jen Hadfield in The Stone Age Picador Poetry, London, 2021. Week Commencing 16 May 2021 'One day. One day. One day. One day.' 'The One Day Plan' by Ramona Herdman in The Rialto 95 Click: Bob and Poetry.com: Short poetry clips - YouTube Updated regularly Click: Longer clips such as readings and films. Updated regularly