THE WORK OF THE
BLACK CAT POETRY PRESS
A small independent press. We publish first collections, pamphlets and anthologies.
If you'd like to get in touch email us on contact@blackcatpress.co.uk
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LATEST NEWS
Thank you to everyone who submitted a manuscript in our 2025 October window. We received a much higher response than usual. The quality was very high which made our shortlisting process challenging. If your name is not on the list please know it has more to do with fit than the quality of your work. We hope you consider Black Cat in the future.
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Shortlist:
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A Century and a Sea - Jennifer McLamb
A Subversive Hunger - Fija Callaghan
Backspeirin - Jacqueline Thompson
Fox Fur - Liz Kendall
Untitled - Lisa O'Hare
Let me pour tea into the hollows of your grief - Pratibha Castle
The Forceless Field - Andrew Giles
Presence - Veronica Beedham
Dead Queen's Watching - L J Ireton
The Earthquake Observatory - Rhian Thomas
Taking After - Emily Tee
Ghost Kingdom - Olivia Dawson
If Only This Was All - Benedicta Norell
I'll Know I'm Home - Vanessa Napolitano
Midolescence - Elizabeth Fevyer
Mother in Orbit - Emma Gawlinski
Portrait of my Daughter as a Harpy - Paul Atten Ash
Microchimerism - Sam Szanto
Safe House - E.M. Davis
The Space Pope's Girl - Sana Omera Rehman
Scale - Lesley Curwen
Squint - Kate Caoimhe Arthur
The Fossil Issue - Cheryl Moskowitz
Unravelling - Ruth Marshall
The Littoral - Ion Corcos
The Many Kinds of Rain - Adele Evershed
The Road to Mcgann - Lynn Caldwell
Uncertain Footing - Tadhg Carey
When Light Breaks Clean - Laurie Koensgen
When the Wind Blows Clockwise - Helen Anderson
Wolf in the Nursery - Rochelle Hanslow
Spoilt Brat of the Barley - Bronwen Evans
​SUBMISSIONS
We are open for pamphlet submissions of up to 40 pages of poetry and first poetry collections of up to 60 pages of poetry during the month of October each year. Please do not send submissions outside of this window as they will not be read. We aim to respond within 6 weeks after the submission window has closed however we are a small press so please give us a nudge if you haven't heard back in this time.
Please send up to 10 poems of your manuscript in word to contact@blackcatpress.co.uk. Please include an introduction of yourself and your book in the body of the email. If your work is a good fit we will ask you to share the full manuscript.
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We are interested in all subjects but have a particular interest in eco poetry. We are not interested in poetry that is bigoted in any way.
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We hold regular competitions. Information and results can be found on our social media pages.