The Poetry Business

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The Poetry Business
Founded1986;39 years ago (1986)
Founder Peter Sansom
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location Sheffield, England
Key people Peter Sansom
Ann Sansom
Ellen McLeod
Publication typesBooks
Pamphlets
Fiction genres Poetry
Imprints Smith/Doorstop
The New Poets List
Small/Donkey
Official website poetrybusiness.co.uk

The Poetry Business are an independent press, and a writer development agency, based in Sheffield. Since 1986, they have run workshops, mentorships, competitions and more. The poet duo Peter and Ann Sansom, are the directors of the Poetry Business. [1]

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About

The Poetry Business were established in 1986, [2] and is now "headquartered just a stone's throw from Sheffield's historic cathedral." [3] They publish The North magazine, which was 70 issues old in August 2024, [4] and several imprints, and their poets "have won or been shortlisted for almost every major poetry prize, including the Forward Prize on 11 occasions and 10 Poetry Book Society awards". [5] In 2016, four of their titles, Mark Pajak's Spitting Distance, Geraldine Clarkson's Dora Incites The Sea-Scribber to Lament, Tom Sastry's Complicity, and Zeina Hashem Beck's There Was And How Much There Was, were named The Poetry School's Books of the Year. [6] The press themselves have won the Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet Publishers in 2012 and 2017. [2]

Alongside Peter and Ann Sansom, Ellen McLeod serves as the third co-director and business manager for The Poetry Business. [3] The press are one of the few in the North or England, alongside And Other Stories in Sheffield, Peepal Tree in Leeds, Valley Press in Scarborough, Comma Press in Manchester and Dead Ink in Liverpool. [7] [8] [9]

The North

The North's name serves as "a clear nod to the firm's regional roots." Its first issue, appearing in the 1980s, which was considered "a key time for Northern poetry", [10] included work by such poets as Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Schmidt, [3] and has since gone on to have great names, including Andrew McMillan and others, as editors. [11]

Activities

The Poetry Business have often participated in local and national events, such as festivals, where their poets have performed their work. [12] [13] [14] In July and August 2024, they organised several online workshops with such poets as Schmidt, who was then 77 years old, Jonathan Edwards and David Constantine. [15] They recently worked with the poet Sarah Wimbush and the National Coal Mining Museum for England, to produce an anthology of poetry to mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike. [16] [17] [18] The COAL Anthology, noted as "a moving and impactful tribute to the resilience and spirit of our mining communities", includes work from poets Simon Armitage, Liz Berry, Helen Mort, and newer voices. [19] [20] In 2012, paying tribute to steel city, the Press published The Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined, which included work from Duffy, Armitage, Mort, Roger McGough, Ian McMillan, and more. [21] In 2021, they announced a call for submissions for two poetry collections "to be edited by [the then] Apprentice Editor-in-Residence Gboyega Odubanjo as part of their 'Apart Together' 2021 project." [22] The two collections published as a result were Helen Seymour's The Underlook, and Sarah Barnsley's The Thoughts.

Since 2021, they've gone on to work with The Writing Squad on a series of digital residencies. The first Poet In Residence, hosted throughout February, was Helen Bowell. [23] The press have often worked with the former and the current poet laureates Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, [24] who were both first published by them, [25] with Armitage's pamphlet Human Geography also being the press's first. [3] In 2016, a Guardian article mentioned the press among some "of the best poetry publishing" in the UK. [8]

Competitions

The Poetry Business run several annual literary competitions, including the International Book & Pamphlet Competition, and the New Poets Prize.

The New Poets Prize

The New Poets Prize is "an annual pamphlet prize that creates new publishing and mentoring opportunities for poets between the ages of 17 and 24." [24] It was launched in 2015, and has since been judged by such poets as Helen Mort, Andrew McMillan, Anthony Anaxagorou, Kayo Chingonyi, Mary Jean Chan, Luke Kennard, Kim Moore and Holly Hopkins. The Prize runs annually alongside the renowned Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition. [26] One of the press's imprints, the New Poets List, [27] is dedicated to publishing the New Poets Prize winners, which include:

The Poetry Business's digital residencies, or the 'Poet in Residence' programme, has included New Poets Prize winners Jenny Danes, Hannah Hodgson, Chloe Elliott, and more. [23] Kashyap is the only India-based winner of the Prize. He was shortlisted for the Prize twice, in 2021 and 2022. [36]

The International Book & Pamphlet Competition

Established in 1986, the International Book & Pamphlet Competition is an older competition, and hailed as "the first of its kind in Britain." [37] It's notable winners have been Peter Daniels and Moniza Alvi in 1991, published together as Peacock Luggage in 1992, [38] Dean Browne in 2021 for Kitchens at Night, [37] Michael Laskey in 1988 for Cloves of Garlic, and Daljit Nagra in 2003 for Oh My Rub! [39] Judged by the poet Kim Moore in 2025, the competition is in its 39th year. [40]

Below is an incomplete list of poets who have won the Competition over the years:

Before 2002/03 α

  • 1988: Michael Laskey, for Cloves of Garlic
  • 1989: Mimi Khalvati, for Persian Miniatures [41] β
  • 1989: David Morley, for A Belfast Kiss β
  • 1990: Liz Cashdan, for Troublesome Cattle γ
  • 1990: Julia Casterton, for Troublesome Cattle γ
  • 1991: Moniza Alvi, for Peacock Luggage δ
  • 1991: Peter Daniels, for Peacock Luggage δ
  • 1993/94: Bob Cooper, for Light From The Upper Left [42] ε
  • 1993: Jo Haslam, for Light From The Upper Left ε
  • 1994: Katherine Frost, for The Sixth Channel
  • 1994: Selima Hill, for My Sister’s Horse
  • 1994: Mandy Sutter, for Game
  • 1995: Stephen Knight, for The Sandfields Baudelaire
  • 1996: Jane Draycott, for No Theatre
  • 1996: Diana Syder, for Hubble
  • 1997: Marlynn Rosario, for Larvae
  • 1998: Kath McKay, for Anyone Left Standing
  • 1998: Stephanie Norgate, for Fireclay
  • 1998: Susan Utting, for Something Small is Missing
  • 1998: Cliff Yates, for Henry’s Clock
  • 1999: Peter Daniels, for Through The Brushes
  • 1999: Brenda Lealman, for Time You Left
  • 2000: Dennis Casling, for Endorphin Angels
  • 2000: Bob Cooper, for Pinocchio’s Long Neb
  • 2000: Robert Hamberger, for The Rule of Earth
  • 2000: Catherine Smith, for The New Bride
  • 2000: Tim Dooley, for The Secret Ministry
  • 2001: Anne-marie Austin, for Debatable Land
  • 2001: Jennifer Copley, for Ice

2002/03 (Judge: David Constantine)

2003/04 (Judge: Gillian Clarke)

  • Mike Barlow, for Living on the Difference [43]
  • Tim Dooley, for Tenderness
  • Stephen Duncan, for Ghost-Walking
  • Sam Gardiner, for The Picture Never Taken
  • Kathryn Simmonds, for Snug

2004/05 (Judge: Gerard Benson)

2005/06 (Judge: Simon Armitage)

  • Paul Batchelor, for To Photograph a Snow Crystal
  • Ed Reiss, for Now Then
  • Padraig Rooney, for The Escape Artist
  • Pam Thompson, for Show Date and Time

2006/07 (Judge: Vicki Feaver)

  • Andrea Holland, for Borrowed
  • Judith Lal, for Flageolets at the Bazaar
  • Patrick McGuinness, for 19th Century Blues
  • Allison McVety, for The Night Trotsky Came to Stay [43]

2007/08 (Judge: Alison Brackenbury)

  • Julia Deakin, for The Half-mile High Club
  • Yvonne Green, for Boukhara
  • Padraig O'Morain, for You've been Great
  • Ann Pilling, for Growing Pains

2008/09 (Judge: Michael Longley)

  • Carole Bromley, for Skylight
  • Sally Goldsmith, for Singer
  • Michael McCarthy, for At the Races
  • Anna Woodford, for Party Piece

2009/10 (Judge: Andrew Motion)

  • Jane Aspinall, for American Shadow
  • Nina Boyd, for Dear Mr Asquith
  • Sue Boyle, for Too Late for the Love Hotel
  • Alan Payne, for Exploring the Orinoco

2010/11 (Judge: Simon Armitage)

  • Paul Bentley, for Largo
  • Christy Ducker, for Armour
  • Maitreyabandhu, for The Bond
  • David Tait, for Love's Loose Ends

2011/12 (Judge: Carol Ann Duffy)

  • Suzannah Evans, for Confusion Species
  • Julie Mellor, for Breathing Through Our Bones
  • Kim Moore, for If We Could Speak Like Wolves [44]
  • Rosie Shepperd, for That So-Easy Thing

2012/13 (Judge: Simon Armitage)

  • David Attwooll, for Surfacing [45]
  • Emma Danes, for Dress of Shadows
  • David Grubb, for Ways of Looking
  • Kim Lasky, for Petrol, Cyan, Electric

2013/14 (Judge: Carol Ann Duffy)

  • James Caruth, for The Death of Narrative
  • Rebecca Farmer, for Not Really
  • Holly Hopkins, for Soon Every House Will Have One
  • Ben Wilkinson, for For Real

2014/15 (Judge: Billy Collins)

  • Basil du Toit, for Old
  • Paul Stephenson, for Those People
  • David Tait, for Three Dragon Day
  • Luke Samuel Yates, for The Flemish Primitives

2015/16 (Judge: Billy Collins)

  • Stephanie Conn, for Copeland's Daughter
  • John Foggin, for Much Possessed [46]
  • John Eppel, for Landlocked
  • Mary King, for Homing [47]

2016/17 (Judges: Ian Duhig & Mimi Khalvati)

  • Josephine Abbot, for The Infinite Knot [48] [49]
  • Katy Evans-Bush, for Broken Cities [48] [49]
  • Ruth McIlroy, for Guppy Primer [48] [49]
  • Lesley Saunders, for Angels on Horseback [48] [49]

2017/18 (Judges: Liz Berry & David Constantine)

  • Rebecca Cullen, for Majid Sits in a Tree and Sings
  • Ann Gray, for I Wish I Had More Mothers
  • Christopher North, for The Topiary of Passchendaele [50]
  • Madeleine Wurzburger, for Sleeve Catching Fire at Dawn

2018/19 (Judges: Neil Astley, Michael Schmidt & Amy Wack)

  • Suji Kwock Kim, for Notes from the North
  • Hilary Menos, for Human Tissue [51]
  • Nick On, for Zhou
  • Emma Simon, for The Odds

2019/20 (Judges: Imtiaz Dharker & Ian McMillan

  • Rosalind Easton, for Black Mascara (Waterproof) [52]
  • Jill Penny, for In Your Absence
  • Wendy Pratt, for When I Think of My Body as a Horse
  • Sarah Wimbush, for The Last Dinosaur in Doncaster [52]

2020/21 (Judges: Pascale Petit & Daljit Nagra)

2021/22 (Judges: Jonathan Edwards & Romalyn Ante)

  • Karen Downs-Barton, for Didicoy [55]
  • Jon Miller, for Past Tense Future Imperfect
  • Zoë Walkington, for I Hate to Be the One to Tell You This
  • Luke Samuel Yates, for The Mystery Shopper

2022/23 (Judge: Hannah Lowe)

  • Laurie Bolger, for Spin
  • Doreen Gurrey, for A Coalition of Cheetahs

2023/24 (Judge: Jane Clarke)

  • Caroline Bracken, for Boy, Mother
  • Jen Feroze, for A Dress With Deep Pockets

Luke Samuel Yates, a four times Poetry Society Foyle Young Poet and lecturer in Sociology, is one of the seven entrants who have won the Competition twice. [56] He won it most recently, in 2015 and 2022. The first was Peter Daniels, to win in 1991 and 1999. The others are Bob Cooper, who won in 1993 and 2000, Time Dooley, who won in 2001 and 2005, [57] Carole Bromley, in 2005 and 2009, Hilary Menos, in 2005 and 2019, and David Tait, who did in 2011 and 2015.

History

An almost four-decade old firm, they're now "one of the most respected in publishing." [3] For over 20 years, Peter Sansom and Janet Fisher served as The Poetry Business's co-directors. After Fisher's retirement, Ann Sansom took over as co-director as the team were first moving to Sheffield. [7]

In the past, "for several years", they had the poet Suzannah Evans as assistant editor working on their New Poets list. Evans published her first pamphlet in 2012, after winning the Poetry Business pamphlet competition, judged by Carol Ann Duffy that year. [58] [7] The current assistant editor, at The Poetry Business and The North, is the poet Holly Hopkins, who won the 2014 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for her debut pamphlet, Soon Every House Will Have One. [59] [60] [61]

In 2019, an unsuccessful Arts Council grant bid caused a funding crisis, putting the firm in jeopardy. The year otherwise had been one of great success, considering increased book and magazine sales, and a thriving teaching programme. McLeod has mentioned that "the absence of regular funding brings continuing challenges" in the field. Earlier, in 2008/2009, losing grant funding from the Council had led them to move from Huddersfield, where the outfit was based in a Victorian arcade for 20 years, to Sheffield. They first moved to Bank Street Arts, and are now based in Campo Lane. The Poetry Business, which has relied on two-year Arts Council grants, was saved in 2019 by crowdfunding from 380 supporters. The appeal attracted donations of £19,047 against the amount of £14,000, required to cover the cost of The Poetry Business's planned work. [3] [7]

Impact

Poets first published by the press have gone on to win major awards. Both Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, respectively from 2009-2019 and 2019-present, have served as the Poet Laureates of the UK. Armitage and Mimi Khalvati have won the King's/Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2018 and 2023, respectively. [62] Khalvati founded the Poetry School in 1997 with poets Jane Duran and Pascale Petit. Selima Hill, while not first published by the press, also won the Gold Medal in 2022. [41] David Morley, whose A Belfast Kiss was published in 1991, received the 2015 Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry. The Ted Hughes Award in itself was a project which ran alongside Carol Ann Duffy's tenure as Poet Laureate. Mike Barlow, who published his first collection, Living on the Difference, with the press, won the 2006 National Poetry Competition, and was commended in 2022. [63] Allison McVety, who published her debut with the Press in 2007, won the 2011 National Poetry Competition for her poem 'To the Lighthouse'. [64] In 2009, Paul Batchelor won the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for his poem 'Comeuppance'. [65]

Kim Moore was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Poem in 2015, and won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her debut The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015). She later served as a judge for the 2018 National Poetry Competition and the 2020 Forward Prizes. Moore's work has been translated into many languages as part of the Versopolis project, and she won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection for All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021). [66] In 2003, Jane Routh's Circumnavigation was shortlisted for the Forward First Collection Prize. [67] Dominic McLoughlin, who was placed second in the National Poetry Competition 2005, was shortlisted for the Book & Pamphlet Competition the same year. Imogen Wade, who won the National Poetry Competition 2023 for her poem 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City', [68] was a runner-up in the 2023 New Poets Prize. The actor Kate Rutter was highly commended in the 2021 Competition, and a runner-up in 2024. [69]

Sir Andrew Motion, the UK Poet Laureate from 1999-2009, described the press as "one of the most vital and vitalising literary organisations in the country". [3] [7] Dame Duffy has said that “The Poetry Business is undoubtedly among the most important initiatives in UK literature, bar none”. [70]

Notes

1. ^α Several winners of the International Book & Pamphlet Competition have not been mentioned here because of a lack of availability of reliable data. Same for any information about the judges during the said years.
2. ^β Khalvati was a co-winner of the 1989 Competition with David Morley, and their respective collections Persian Miniatures and A Belfast Kiss were published as one book.
3. ^γ Troublesome Cattle is the work of Liz Cashdan and Julia Casterton, joint winners of the Poetry Business Competition 1990.
4. ^δ Peacock Luggage was a double pamphlet, comprising the Book & Pamphlet Competition winning collections of Moniza Alvi and Peter Daniels.
5. ^ε Light From the Upper Left included work from Bob Cooper and Jo Haslam, who were joint winners in The Poetry Business Competition 1993.

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