Poetry Space

06/07/2025

The deadline for the Poetry Space Prize is at the end of July. This is a competition for poets wanting to publish a pamphlet collection. Take a look below at the details. I will be shortlisting entries. Rosie Jackson will be selecting the winners. Cash prize plus publication for the winners.

Poetry Space Prize 2025 Pay for your entry here This is the second year of our poetry pamphlet competition and I am delighted to announce that award winning poet, Rosie Jackson wil read the shortlisted entries and select the winners. ROSIE JACKSON lives in Teignmouth, Devon. Widely...

18/06/2025

So pleased to announce that the first of our prize winning pamphlets, Anchored in Green by Denni Turp is now up for sale on the Poetry Space website. It will be available in the next week or so on Amazon and for ordering through any bookshop.

If you can buy direct from Poetry Space this helps us enormously. Poetry Space is run as a ‘not for personal profit’ enterprise and when small profits are made they are ploughed back into the company so that we can publish more poets and further our mission of widening participation in poetry.

At just £5 this is very affordable and will make a great present for not only poetry lovers but for anyone with an interest in the survival of our beautiful planet.

Entries are open now too for Poetry Space Prize 2025.

Denni's Turp's debut pamphlet collection, joint winner of Poetry Space Prize 2025 (Category A) ISBN 978-1-909404-54-0

25/03/2025

The Spring edition of Poetry Space Showcase is now live and features poems by Lizzie Ballagher, Patricia Brody, Eileen Carney Hulme, Nick Cooke, Judy Dinnen, Rosie Jackson, Andrew Scotson and one by editor, Susan Jane Sims. Photograph by Rhiannon May.

Edited by Susan Jane Sims. Poems by Lizzie Ballagher, Patricia Brody, Eileen Carney Hulme, Nick Cooke, Judy Dinnen, Rosie Jackson, Andrew Scotson and Susan Jane Sims. Photograph Rhiannon May.

28/02/2025

Poetry Space publishes ten poems every quarter in our online showcase and this year every poet published will receive their choice of book from the Poetry Space bookshop.

Do send in up to four poems for consideration. The next showcase will go online on March 10th. Further showcases will be in June, September and December.

In the mean time take a look at last Winter’s edition.

Edited by Susan Jane Sims. Poems by Johana Boal, Judy Dinnen, Leela Gautam, Betty Hasler, Julie King Rustin Larson, Daphne Milne, Andrew Scotson and Susan Jane Sims

15/10/2024

Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Poetry Space Prize Competition.

POETRY SPACE PRIZE 2024 - now closed for entries UPDATE: 3rd October 2024 Thank you to everyone who entered this brand new competition. We were delighted to receive 32 entries for Category A and 25 entries for Category B. JOINT WINNERS: CATEGORY A Marion Horton and Denni Turp Both have now been...

25/09/2024

I had a bumper crop of poems submitted for this Autumn’s Poetry Space Showcase so thank you to everyone who submitted. It’s always a pleasure to read such a variety of poems. Do start sending in now for our Winter Showcase, due online in December.

In the meantime enjoy this selection with beautiful cover photograph by Chris Sims from his travels in Georgia. He is still there…..

Edited by Susan Jane Sims. Poems by Alan Bush, Lindsey Calvert, Leela Gautam, Marion Horton, John Christopher Johnson, Ann Preston, Andrew Scotson, and Susan Jane Sims

25/09/2024

If you are in the West Dorset area this week then there are still a few places for our exciting Poetry Night tomorrow - September 26th. Just £5 to see three award winning poets!!

28/08/2024

Currently welcoming submissions for the Autumn Poetry Space online showcase. Send poems on any theme to [email protected]

Edited by Susan Jane Sims. Poems by Judy Dinnen, Leela Gautam, Marion Horton, Julie Sampson, Andrew Scotson, Susan Jane Sims

26/07/2024

Thursday 26th September at 7pm. Tickets £5 . Tel Tangerine Cafe, 01308 281110 or buy online:

This is a wonderful opportunity to meet award winning poets, Helen Ivory, Rosie Jackson and Martin Figura and to hear them read their work.

25/06/2024

Looking for a wonderful gift for a poetry lover? Then take a look at the Poetry Space website. We have a great selection of contemporary poetry. Or why not take out a poetry space membership for a friend.

  Poetry Space a platform for contemporary poetry from around the world, widening participation in poetry, empowering people     Established in 2010, Poetry Space is a social enterprise, with all profits being used to widen participation in poetry and other creative writing.  Please take time ...

25/06/2024

Just a short time left to enter our new pamphlet competition. It’s open to poets who already have a collection and to those who have yet to have a short collection published. Just send us 10 sample poems. I will be shortlisting and American poet, Patricia Brody will be selecting winners. Winners in each category will receive £100 prize plus the invitation to send in a finished pamphlet length manuscript to published by Poetry Space.

POETRY SPACE PRIZE 2024 - Enter here   This is a new annual competition with two categories: A - for poets who would like to have their first pamphlet  collection published B- for established poets looking to publish a new pamphlet collection  Guidelines: Please submit 10 poems of up to 30-40...

24/06/2024

Poetry Space Prize 2024 . Deadline 1st July.

POETRY SPACE PRIZE 2024 - Enter here   This is a new annual competition with two categories: A - for poets who would like to have their first pamphlet  collection published B- for established poets looking to publish a new pamphlet collection  Guidelines: Please submit 10 poems of up to 30-40...