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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.

Burning Eye Books

Burning Eye Books is small independent publisher in the South West predominately specialising in promoting spoken word/performance artists.

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Candlestick

Candlestick Press is a small, independent poetry pamphlet publisher in Nottingham.

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Canongate Books

Canongate Books nurtures and publishes new talent from around the world, whilst retaining the essence of the Scottish Canon.

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Carcanet Press

Carcanet publishes a comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation, as well as inventive fiction, Lives and Letters and critical writing.

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Chatto and Windus

Chatto has continued its long tradition of publishing outstanding literary fiction and contemporary international writers as well as the best literary biography, memoir, history, cultural comment and poetry.

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Cinnamon Press

Cinnamon Press Books is a small, independent publisher run from a hamlet in a forest in Brittany.

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Culture Matters

Culture Matters promotes cultural democracy: cultural ownership and production for the many, not the few.

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Dedalus Press

One of the major poetry imprints in Ireland, specialising in contemporary Irish poetry and poetry from around the world in English translation.

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Dithering Chaps

Dithering Chaps is a small, indie press, based in Dorset, and specialising in poetry chapbooks. They are on the look-out for thematically-linked sequences of poems or collections that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice.

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The Emma Press

A small independent press which takes a personal approach to publishing and produces beautiful, thought-provoking books.

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erbacce-press

A poetry cooperative and pamphlet publisher based in Liverpool.

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Faber and Faber

Since 1929, Faber has published T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Ted Hughes, Mary Jean Chan, W.H. Auden, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, and many more notable poets.

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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.

Saturday 2 May,  Saturday 9 May  – The Royal Festival Hall is closed for an event, but the library remains open  – access via the Royal Festival Hall Artists Entrance.
Sunday 3 May,  Sunday 10 May – The National Poetry Library is closed.