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Visual poetry press & film poem platform | trickhousepress.com | Est.2020 | Editor: @danpower.bsky.social
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Quick reminder that we're open for submissions! Send your visual poetry manuscripts to the email address below before the end of this month!
April 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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⏰ SUBMISSIONS OPEN ⏰

We're taking submissions of visual poetry collections for one month only! If you have a project that's inventive, experimental, hard to define - we want to see it!
Black text on a white background. It reads as follows: Submissions info. Trickhouse Press is currently open for submissions! We're looking for book-length visual poetry manuscripts, in colour or black and white, for publication later in 2025 and 2026. Manuscripts should be your own original work, and you should have all of the relevant permissions if you're including images or text from other sources. We're interested in work that combines visual and literary techniques inventively, to create novel and engaging effects. Our aim is to publish work which is surprising, playful, and hard to categorise. If this sounds like you, please send your work to the email address below before 11:59pm on April 30th! Seperately, we're always open for submissions to our Trickhouse Film film-poetry series, which is hosted on YouTube. Click on the 'Film' tab at the top of this page for more info. ...for any other queries, or just for a chat, please contact us on Twitter, or at trickhousepress [at] gmail [dot] com.
March 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Here's what Scotland's Makar had to say about our latest release!

'What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability' by Iona Lee is available to order from our website:

trickhousepress.com/product/-what-i-love-about-a-cloud-is-its-unpredictability-by-iona-lee/20
A quote, black text on a plain white background. It says: “A fascinating exploration of how we make meaning, or seek meaning in patterns, shapes and coincidences - and how erratic the connections are between language, the natural world and unpredictable humans. Probing and playful, lingering and always refusing culmination.” The quote is attributed to Peter Mackay. Cover image for the book, What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability', by Iona Lee. The cover shows a swirling black and white cloud, circled in white in the centre of the page.
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Thank you to everyone who came to see us at the StAnza poetry market yesterday! It was lovely to meet you all and share our excitement for visual poetry 🙏🙏🙏
A poetry market. In the foreground, a stall with Trickhouse books. In the background, people wandering around and talking to other stallholders
March 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Our 'Winter' issue might be an especially good fit for this cool crisp season.... ❄️

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Cover of The Oulipo Puzzle Book's winter edition Contents page, showing 40+ pages of unique puzzles including "Wordoku", "Combinate", "Rhyming Crossword", "Kintsugi", "Network", "Vowel Play", "Octoplot" and more A word-fit in which there are no blank spaces in the grid Two pages, side-by-side, showing the puzzles "Beehive" and "Octoplot"
January 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Our Oulipo Puzzle Books are packed with inventive, hand-made word games and puzzles! The perfect thing to keep you entertained on a drizzly winter night 😄

Visit trickhousepress.com and get one today!
Image of a puzzle titled 'Smorgasbord', in which dingbats serve as the clues to a wordsearch Four fanned-out copies of an issue of the Oulipo Puzzle Book. Below them a copy is open, showing two puzzles: a 3D maze, and a word-fit puzzle with a twist.
January 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Are you in a reading funk? Looking for something exciting to get stuck into? Something poetic, playful, visually stimulating 🤔

Our books may be exactly what you're looking for!! 😁

Visit our website, link in bio, and browse today!
January 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Hello folks! We are now closed for the holidays, and won't be posting any orders or sending any emails until next year.

Thank you for all your support and good will over this year - see you again in 2025!

Merry Christmas one and all! 🎅💖🎄🎁
Santa Clause standing in a snowy field, waving goodbye. A speech bubble reads "See you next year!"
December 20, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Copies of Iona's new collection are available to purchase from trickhousepress.com ☁️✨
Many copies of What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability, lined up on the counter at Typewronger Books
December 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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Thank you to everyone who came to our launch for What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability by Iona Lee

Thank you also to our fantastic performers, and to Typewronger Books for having us!! 😁
Harriet French reading at Typewronger Books Murid Laly reading at Typewronger Books Colin McGuire reading at Typewronger Books Iona Lee reading at Typewronger Books
December 17, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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Launch event for our latest publication happening on Monday 16 in Edinburgh! Check the poster for full lineup and details :D
Poster shows a blue background with soft white clouds. Text reads: Launch Event. 'What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability' by Iona Lee. With readings from Dan Power, Harriet French, Murid Laly, Colin McGuire and Iona Lee, Plus a workshop lead by Iona. 16 December, 7pm. Typewronger Books, Edinburgh.
December 6, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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The decision is yours....
December 4, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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We had a blast selling books at the Scottish Poetry Library today - thank you to everyone who came by!
December 1, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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OUT NOW

'What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability' by Iona Lee

A playful exploration of language, place, and dislocation. Words drift like clouds, dissipating one moment & condensing the next...

trickhousepress.com/product/-what-i-love-about-a-cloud-is-its-unpredictability-by-iona-lee/20
Book cover for 'What I Love About A Cloud Is Its Unpredictability' by Iona Lee. Depicting a swirling dark cloud in a sharp circle, on a backdrop of plain white. A poem from the collection imitating the pew-wit-te-woo sounds of a lapwing in flight.
November 21, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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Hello Bluesky! We are a poetry press, specialising in full-length collections of visual poetry. We're particularly interested in vispo that embraces play, colour, chance, and innovation.

There's a lot of gems in our store, be sure to check it out while you're here!! Visit trickhousepress.com!
November 19, 2024 at 11:04 AM