Poetry

Roddy Lumsden outlines the route to getting a volume of poetry published and advises poets on when and how to approach a publisher.

Benjamin Zephaniah is known as a performance poet, but that’s only one of his talents – he’s also a reggae artist, children’s writer, novelist and...

George Szirtes is a poet and translator. He has published several books and won various prizes including The Faber Memorial and the TS Eliot prizes. 

Poet and anthologist John Foster writes about the difficulties involved in getting children’s poetry published and offers some practical advice.