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Poetry publishers

Here you’ll find a list of all the UK’s major and independent poetry publishers.

Each entry contains details about the publishers and, where possible, contact information.

Shearsman Books

A specialist poetry publisher with an interest in what might loosely be termed the 'modernist tradition', but also with an open mind as to other directions in contemporary writing.

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Shoestring Press

An independent publisher based in Nottinghamshire, specialising in poetry usually by established but unfashionable poets, or by poets new to British readers, though they may be well known elsewhere.

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Sidekick Books

Award-winning publisher of hybrid and experimental multi-author treasuries and pamphlets.

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Smith Doorstop

The Poetry Business publishes books, pamphlets, audio and eBooks under its smith|doorstop imprint.

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Smokestack Books

Smokestack Books is committed to poetry that is unconventional, unfashionable, radical, left-field or written a long way from the metropolitan centres of cultural authority.

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Southword Editions

The publishing arm of the Munster Literature Centre, Cork, Ireland

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Steel Incisors

Steel Incisors is dedicated to innovative visual poetry, across a wide range of media and styles.

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Tangerine Press

Publishing misfits, mavericks and misanthropes since 2006.

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Templar Poetry

An independent publisher originally founded in Scotland in 2005 and based in England, that publishes poetry, fiction and IOTA Magazine.

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the87press

A South London independent publisher of experimental, anticolonial, and anticapitalist literatures with a focus on late modernist poetry.

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Trickhouse Press

An anarchic visual poetry press, with an emphasis on play and new techniques.

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Troika

A children’s independent press set up by veteran publisher Martin West.

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For your visit

National Poetry Library Southbank Centre

The National Poetry Library is open six days a week.

Tuesday, 12 noon – 6pm
Wednesday – Sunday, 12 noon – 8pm
Monday, closed.