“Of course!

Gena and I attend poetry groups and open mic events across Dorset and have always been struck by how many poets are deserving of publication but are unable to place their work with publishers. 

Many choose to self-publish and, while this is a great way of seeing your work in print, we believe there’s an additional cachet in being selected for publication. Our first couple of publications were local poets whose work we wanted to validate in this way. 

We expanded our reach and ambitions through our involvement with the Bournemouth Writing Festival – publishing their competition anthologies in 2024 and 2025 and acting as poetry judges.

While ‘going global’ as a result has reduced our focus on local poets, we retain our commitment to emerging writers by reserving one of our three publication slots a year to a poet who has not previously published a collection of their work. Where we can, we also support two local charities that empower marginalised writers to find their voice. 

It is great that you picked up on the ‘family run’ side of our business. Here’s what one of our published poets recently wrote to us: “Back when we were first publishing the book, when I was speaking to other members of my local poetry group about the process, many of them were very complimentary about you and your practices, and said that it was so rare to see a publisher that cared as much as you guys did. They were definitely right.”