‘There are not enough hours in the day to publish all the submissions that we like’
After starting out by running regular open-mic nights, Surrey-based independent poetry publishers Dempsey & Windle have published well over 100 poetry collections over the last five years (including two of mine). In a wide-ranging interview with Write Out Loud undertaken just before they set off on a well-earned two-week break, Janice and Dónall Dempsey reflect on what they are looking for when re...
8th September 2022
From New York, to Chennai, to Bolton: George Wallace on global poetry networks, Walt Whitman, and a NYC anthology
George Wallace (pictured) is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, on Long Island, New York; first poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island; and author of 38 poetry books and chapbooks, published in the US, UK, Italy, Macedonia and India. A prominent figure on the NYC poetry perfor...
5th April 2022
'Poets should never be lost for words': peace campaigner Antony Owen talks about the war in Ukraine and the new nuclear threat
President Putin’s barely-veiled threat at the start of the invasion of Ukraine to inflict a nuclear attack on the West if it took arms against him was a chilling reminder of the mortal danger hanging...
31st March 2022
