Black Sunflowers poetry press

30/04/2026

YAY! We are so happy to have reached the shortlist for the The Michael Marks Awards for Publisher!
More info here:
https://lnkd.in/eyepdS4R
Thank you to everyone who has taken this journey with us 🤎💜🩷

05/04/2026

UK poets - there's this great guide to publishing poetry pamphlets over on The Friday Poem substack - with a lovely mention for us (thank you!) https://thefridaypoem.substack.com/p/where-to-send-your-poetry-pamphlet

26/03/2026

YAY- we're on a very long shortlist for an Indiecon travel grant!
https://www.indiecon-festival.com/travel-grant-2026

24/03/2026

Announcing our next 4 star chapbook poets - due later this year!

16/03/2026

Still time to book your FREE ticket for our 2025 poet launch readings on March 22nd, 6pm at ☝🏽linkinbio

04/03/2026

It's finally here - the chapbook poet launch readings. March 22nd 6pm (GMT), 1pm (EST). Book your FREE ticket now for a delightful hour with our poets.

Join us for our long-awaited chapbook poet launch readings!

01/01/2026

and Sarah Wetzel's Elegies of Herons is reviewed in New Pages, December 30th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/elegies-of-herons-by-sarah-wetzel/
available here:
https://www.blacksunflowerspoetry.com/product-page/elegies-of-herons-by-sarah-wetzel

Wetzel’s poetry in 'Elegies of Herons' fuses ecopoetics and elegy, naming inevitable loss through grief and song.

01/01/2026

Check out Jami Macarty's review of Monica Wang's 'When Sad Ones Go Outside' in New Pages, December 28th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/when-sad-ones-go-outside-by-monica-wang/
available here:
https://www.blacksunflowerspoetry.com/product-page/when-sad-ones-go-outside-by-monica-wang

Wang’s debut blends fabulism and lived experience, transforming grief into journeys through memory, loss, beauty.

01/01/2026

Sullivan Summer's 'Performance Anxiety' is also reviewed in New Pages, December 27th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/performance-anxiety-by-sullivan-summer/
This chapbook is available here:
https://www.blacksunflowerspoetry.com/product-page/performance-anxiety-by-sullivan-summer

Summer interrogates imposed roles, trauma, and agency through experimental poems challenging societal scripts and silences.

01/01/2026

Danny Bellinger's 'More Beautiful Than The Dead' is reviewed by Jami Macarty on New Pages, December 24th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/more-beautiful-than-the-dead-by-danny-bellinger/
The chapboook is available to buy here:
https://www.blacksunflowerspoetry.com/product-page/more-beautiful-than-the-dead-by-danny-bellinger

Bellinger’s 'More Beautiful Than The Dead' blends memory, music, family, and 1960s turmoil, salvaging beauty from loss.

01/01/2026

Next up there's 'Elegies of Herons' by Sarah Wetzel reviewed by Megan Robson in the most recent Poetry Book Society Winter bulletin (see below).
'Elegies of Herons' is available to buy here:
https://www.blacksunflowerspoetry.com/product-page/elegies-of-herons-by-sarah-wetzel