Guillemot Press
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Small press publisher of beautiful books.
“Becca Drake explores the very roots of being ... and how nature proceeds in making connections within us and between us. It’s the special journeys she makes that are exciting.” Daljit Nagra on BBC Poetry Extra. Unstill Landscapes is Book of the Month on Poetry Extra. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Poetry Extra - In The Studio - Nikita Gill: Imagining Hekate - BBC Sounds
Daljit Nagra selects a highlight from the BBC World Service poetry archive.
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August 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“Becca Drake explores the very roots of being ... and how nature proceeds in making connections within us and between us. It’s the special journeys she makes that are exciting.” Daljit Nagra on BBC Poetry Extra. Unstill Landscapes is Book of the Month on Poetry Extra. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Considering my project fieldwork, undertaken on my local landfill site, as a poetic 'waste archaeology', and how this influenced the poetics of my forthcoming poetry collection 'Wastelands' out soon from @guillemotpress.bsky.social
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Waste Archaeology
in the making of 'Wastelands'
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August 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Considering my project fieldwork, undertaken on my local landfill site, as a poetic 'waste archaeology', and how this influenced the poetics of my forthcoming poetry collection 'Wastelands' out soon from @guillemotpress.bsky.social
Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/susiecam...
Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/susiecam...
Out now! It's Time, a chronomemoir by @taniahershman.bsky.social is a beautiful book blending memoir, play and poetry, with this glorious cover by CF Sherratt and it's released today. Come and take a look on our website for more information and a few sample pages: www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction
July 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Out now! It's Time, a chronomemoir by @taniahershman.bsky.social is a beautiful book blending memoir, play and poetry, with this glorious cover by CF Sherratt and it's released today. Come and take a look on our website for more information and a few sample pages: www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction
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🌊’I sway / like the ocean is my ballroom’
🏊♂️ well worth jumping in to the vigorous oceanic swells of Becca Drake in this handsome volume from @guillemotpress.bsky.social - it might sometimes knock you off balance, but the whole thing is exhilarating, and commendably adventurous!
🏊♂️ well worth jumping in to the vigorous oceanic swells of Becca Drake in this handsome volume from @guillemotpress.bsky.social - it might sometimes knock you off balance, but the whole thing is exhilarating, and commendably adventurous!
May 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🌊’I sway / like the ocean is my ballroom’
🏊♂️ well worth jumping in to the vigorous oceanic swells of Becca Drake in this handsome volume from @guillemotpress.bsky.social - it might sometimes knock you off balance, but the whole thing is exhilarating, and commendably adventurous!
🏊♂️ well worth jumping in to the vigorous oceanic swells of Becca Drake in this handsome volume from @guillemotpress.bsky.social - it might sometimes knock you off balance, but the whole thing is exhilarating, and commendably adventurous!
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'the walkative revolution', by Alec Finlay - a personal review
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the walkative revolution, by Alec Finlay
a personal review
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May 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
'the walkative revolution', by Alec Finlay - a personal review
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@alecfinlay.bsky.social
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@alecfinlay.bsky.social
Out now! A new collection on walking and 'not-walking' by @alecfinlay.bsky.social: The Walkative Revolution. This incredible body of work was developed when chronic illness constrained Alec's ability to move through the world. Meditative, inventive, ambitious - read more Guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
April 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Out now! A new collection on walking and 'not-walking' by @alecfinlay.bsky.social: The Walkative Revolution. This incredible body of work was developed when chronic illness constrained Alec's ability to move through the world. Meditative, inventive, ambitious - read more Guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
Guillemot Press has been helping the new Launceston Poetry Festival happening at the end of May in Cornwall. The list of performers is amazing...
For more info and to buy tickets visit causleytrust.org/the-launceston-poetry-festival/
For more info and to buy tickets visit causleytrust.org/the-launceston-poetry-festival/
April 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Guillemot Press has been helping the new Launceston Poetry Festival happening at the end of May in Cornwall. The list of performers is amazing...
For more info and to buy tickets visit causleytrust.org/the-launceston-poetry-festival/
For more info and to buy tickets visit causleytrust.org/the-launceston-poetry-festival/
Two celebrations today. Firstly, this new bookling from John F Deane & the artist Tony Martin is out now! Red Gate is beautiful and you can read a few pages or pick up a copy on our website. guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry. Secondly, this is our 100th title. Guillemot Press is a hundred books old today.
April 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Two celebrations today. Firstly, this new bookling from John F Deane & the artist Tony Martin is out now! Red Gate is beautiful and you can read a few pages or pick up a copy on our website. guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry. Secondly, this is our 100th title. Guillemot Press is a hundred books old today.
Tomorrow morning, 9am, we'll be talking about some short animations in response to this new Selima Hill title. Part of StAnza Festival. We'll be live online. For links visit byretheatre.com/shows/stanza-25-online-slug-at-midnight-selima-hill-in-animation-2/
March 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Tomorrow morning, 9am, we'll be talking about some short animations in response to this new Selima Hill title. Part of StAnza Festival. We'll be live online. For links visit byretheatre.com/shows/stanza-25-online-slug-at-midnight-selima-hill-in-animation-2/
This ought to brighten up the weekend. It's always exciting to introduce new poets with new work, so please welcome Unstill Landscapes & Becca Drake. It's a beautiful little bookling with additional images by the brilliant @katewaltersartist.bsky.social Come see here eguillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
March 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This ought to brighten up the weekend. It's always exciting to introduce new poets with new work, so please welcome Unstill Landscapes & Becca Drake. It's a beautiful little bookling with additional images by the brilliant @katewaltersartist.bsky.social Come see here eguillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
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This plum-coloured little beauty is latest title from
@guillemotpress.bsky.social
(Selima Hill/Moby Hill), paired with the first Guillemot book I ever bought (Rosemarie Waldrop) - a reminder of much these beautiful books are cherished and well-thumbed!
@guillemotpress.bsky.social
(Selima Hill/Moby Hill), paired with the first Guillemot book I ever bought (Rosemarie Waldrop) - a reminder of much these beautiful books are cherished and well-thumbed!
February 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This plum-coloured little beauty is latest title from
@guillemotpress.bsky.social
(Selima Hill/Moby Hill), paired with the first Guillemot book I ever bought (Rosemarie Waldrop) - a reminder of much these beautiful books are cherished and well-thumbed!
@guillemotpress.bsky.social
(Selima Hill/Moby Hill), paired with the first Guillemot book I ever bought (Rosemarie Waldrop) - a reminder of much these beautiful books are cherished and well-thumbed!
Out today. SELIMA HILL, The Blessed Virgin Mary of My Dreams, with artwork by Moby Hill.
A little plum-coloured hardback bookling. Available on our website - guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
A little plum-coloured hardback bookling. Available on our website - guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
February 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Out today. SELIMA HILL, The Blessed Virgin Mary of My Dreams, with artwork by Moby Hill.
A little plum-coloured hardback bookling. Available on our website - guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
A little plum-coloured hardback bookling. Available on our website - guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
Today Guillemot is with John Kilburn and his team of talented young illustrators making poem animations for StAnza Poetry Festival...
January 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today Guillemot is with John Kilburn and his team of talented young illustrators making poem animations for StAnza Poetry Festival...
'I think I’m probably more of a sort of human vapour, possibly a flammable one...'
Second in our interview series is Camille Ralphs talking to Elliot Ruff about the Daydream College for Bards, as well as her new Faber collection, After You Were, I Am. www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal
Second in our interview series is Camille Ralphs talking to Elliot Ruff about the Daydream College for Bards, as well as her new Faber collection, After You Were, I Am. www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal
December 18, 2024 at 5:53 PM
'I think I’m probably more of a sort of human vapour, possibly a flammable one...'
Second in our interview series is Camille Ralphs talking to Elliot Ruff about the Daydream College for Bards, as well as her new Faber collection, After You Were, I Am. www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal
Second in our interview series is Camille Ralphs talking to Elliot Ruff about the Daydream College for Bards, as well as her new Faber collection, After You Were, I Am. www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal
'I wondered if language could be used in the same way and if I could recreate a spider web using language.'
In the coming week or so we'll have a few new interviews on our Journal, beginning with this chat with Ceda Parkinson by Elliot Ruff:
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal
In the coming week or so we'll have a few new interviews on our Journal, beginning with this chat with Ceda Parkinson by Elliot Ruff:
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal
December 16, 2024 at 11:35 AM
'I wondered if language could be used in the same way and if I could recreate a spider web using language.'
In the coming week or so we'll have a few new interviews on our Journal, beginning with this chat with Ceda Parkinson by Elliot Ruff:
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal
In the coming week or so we'll have a few new interviews on our Journal, beginning with this chat with Ceda Parkinson by Elliot Ruff:
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal
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Wonderful Poets' Cafe event Reading on Fri, thanks to organisers, brilliant MC @a.f.harrold, and a host of very cool open mic poets. Thanks to audience who bought so many copies of Tenter and The Sleeping Place @guillemotpress.bsky.social I was able to make generous donation to Choose Love charity.
December 15, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Wonderful Poets' Cafe event Reading on Fri, thanks to organisers, brilliant MC @a.f.harrold, and a host of very cool open mic poets. Thanks to audience who bought so many copies of Tenter and The Sleeping Place @guillemotpress.bsky.social I was able to make generous donation to Choose Love charity.
Okay, take a look at this marvel. Almost 300 pages of new and selected poetry by Eleanor Rees, wrapped up as a gorgeous hardback with cover art by Rebecca Freeman. Portents and Portals is quite something and it's out now. See more, including new poems by Eleanor, here www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
December 13, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Okay, take a look at this marvel. Almost 300 pages of new and selected poetry by Eleanor Rees, wrapped up as a gorgeous hardback with cover art by Rebecca Freeman. Portents and Portals is quite something and it's out now. See more, including new poems by Eleanor, here www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
Congratulations to Nadira Wallace for the shortlisting and reading this evening @michaelmarksawards. And congratulations to all the winners. Flying for the last train back to Cornwall now...
December 9, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Congratulations to Nadira Wallace for the shortlisting and reading this evening @michaelmarksawards. And congratulations to all the winners. Flying for the last train back to Cornwall now...
While at the printers yesterday we found boxes of our dies for foiling. Love these little bits and pieces. Here's the die for Michael Marks Award Best Poetry Pamphlet shortlisted poet Nadira Wallace. Congratulations on the shortlisting Nadira. See you at the British Legion Library.
December 7, 2024 at 9:16 AM
While at the printers yesterday we found boxes of our dies for foiling. Love these little bits and pieces. Here's the die for Michael Marks Award Best Poetry Pamphlet shortlisted poet Nadira Wallace. Congratulations on the shortlisting Nadira. See you at the British Legion Library.
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A lovely little book! Every detail considered and beautiful! I love my copy… thank you Guillemot…
November 20, 2024 at 1:19 PM
A lovely little book! Every detail considered and beautiful! I love my copy… thank you Guillemot…
Spiders! Our latest bookling is this beautiful spiderly essay by Ceda Parkinson, with illustrative details by Martha Harris. THREADWORKS is Ceda's debut and is out now. Available guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction
November 20, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Spiders! Our latest bookling is this beautiful spiderly essay by Ceda Parkinson, with illustrative details by Martha Harris. THREADWORKS is Ceda's debut and is out now. Available guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction
We'll be packing up more Christmas orders this weekend. We've had a huge year of amazing books, poetry and non-fiction, featuring Maia Elsner, David Harsent, Prerana Kumar, Dorothy Lehane, Astra Papachristodou, Susie Campbell, Selima Hill and lots more. See it all guillemotpress.co.uk
December 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM
We'll be packing up more Christmas orders this weekend. We've had a huge year of amazing books, poetry and non-fiction, featuring Maia Elsner, David Harsent, Prerana Kumar, Dorothy Lehane, Astra Papachristodou, Susie Campbell, Selima Hill and lots more. See it all guillemotpress.co.uk
A little poetry Christmas gift. The next ten orders of Nine will be signed by David Harsent. Available at guillemotpress.co.uk
December 4, 2023 at 11:32 AM
A little poetry Christmas gift. The next ten orders of Nine will be signed by David Harsent. Available at guillemotpress.co.uk
NEW BOOK! Out now - EIGHT SONGS OF [MOTHERING] & [CAPACITY] by Dorothy Lehane. Delving into motherhood and the demanding journey of raising children as a single parent. (Cover art by Chloe Bonfield.) For more information and to pick up a copy please visit www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
November 5, 2023 at 7:32 AM
NEW BOOK! Out now - EIGHT SONGS OF [MOTHERING] & [CAPACITY] by Dorothy Lehane. Delving into motherhood and the demanding journey of raising children as a single parent. (Cover art by Chloe Bonfield.) For more information and to pick up a copy please visit www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry
'dazzling' - Malachi Mukisa reviews Prerana Kumar's debut poetry pamphlet Ixora in the Autumn Poetry Review. Pamphlet available www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry. Poetry Review available poetrysociety.org.uk/publications...
November 2, 2023 at 7:02 AM
'dazzling' - Malachi Mukisa reviews Prerana Kumar's debut poetry pamphlet Ixora in the Autumn Poetry Review. Pamphlet available www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry. Poetry Review available poetrysociety.org.uk/publications...