Blueprint Poetry Press

08/08/2025

Submissions Window

1st September ‘25 - 14th September ‘25

We would like to be surprised and delighted by a pamphlet sized collection we didn't see coming.

Our back catalogue is variedly comprehensive, personal and political, local and universal. We include illustration in some of our pamphlets. The pamphlets we publish have a coherence, although not necessarily a theme.

We are looking to publish an authentic voice which knocks our socks off - and if you have ideas about how your work might be illustrated, that's also good (though not essential).

Please send us between 20 and 25 pages of your best work in PDF or Word format to:
[email protected]

The window will be from 1st to the 14th September 2025.

We can't wait to read your work.
Jo Colley and Julie Hogg

07/08/2025

Thanking you Tim Relf for this fascinating ‘wry and revealing’ column in The Bookseller Magazine featuring Blueprint Poetry Press, Broken Sleep Books, Guillemot Press and Charles G. Lauder, Jr, ‘Year of the Rat… showcasing Lauder Jr's unique voice and world view as a writer who grew up in Texas and now lives in Leicestershire.’

A wry and revealing monthly round-up of news from the poetry publishing sector.

15/07/2025

Matthew Caley’s ‘The Sealed Well’ is now also, alongside every sparkling Blueprint title, available to buy from The Poetry Book Society. Shout out to PBS sterling tradition and all they do for this genre we love.

Matthew Caley has seven collections (mostly Bloodaxe), and a previous pamphlet with Blueprint, Prophecy is Easy (2023), in which poems from the French Modernists/Surrealists acted as a starting point. The poets who inspired Prophecy, however, were all male, stemming mainly from a 1950s collection ed...

11/07/2025

Thank you to generous hosts Robin Houghton and Peter Kenny, Planet Poetry, for inviting Charles G. Lauder, Jr and Jo Colley as guests on ‘The Way | The Blueprint’ their latest podcast. Listen here for Charles discussing and reading from his ardent Blueprint ‘Year of the Rat’ and Jo sharing her admiration of the work and all things small press publishing.

It's a tag team episode! With Robin and Peter meeting poet Charles G Lauder, Jr  and publisher poet Jo Colley of Blueprint Poetry Press - who have published his 2025 pamphlet Year of the Rat, a profound collection informed by long engagement ...

28/06/2025

Bien sûr, our latest pamphlet is with companion!

Matthew Caley has seven collections (mostly Bloodaxe) and a previous pamphlet with Blueprint ‘Prophecy is Easy’ (2021) in which poems from the French Modernists/Surrealists act as a starting point. The poets who inspire ‘Prophecy’ however are all male, stemming mainly from a 1950s collection edited by Wallace Fowlie. ‘The Sealed Well’ takes on the challenge of discovering female poets writing in the late 19th and early 20th century, using their work (in translation) as a starting point. No easy task, given that many anthologies of this time were of male poets only, but as Matthew says in his introduction ‘we're in a cultural moment where such injustices are being rectified.’ The poems in this pamphlet are complex, layered, intricate, like the lives led by the original poets, whilst also fresh and light, crisp and bubbling, given a second fermentation, a prise de mousse.

15/06/2025

Thank you, thank you Deborah Finding and The Little Review for this specific and floraltastic review of Fran Lock’s ‘The New Herbal’ where ‘This pamphlet reminds us beauty is not neutral; we must reflect on who gets to nurture it, wield it, or enjoy it.’

17/05/2025

London way? Find Blueprint glitz in the poetry section at London Review Bookshop and John Sandoe Books Ltd 📖

14/05/2025

Bonjour, encore! Matthew Caley deftly pays homage to Surrealist French women poets Louise Colet, Judith Gautier, Marie Krysinska, Marie de Régnier, Nina de Villard and Renée Vivien in his latest Blueprint objet d’art, ‘The Sealed Well.’