5 Islands Press Welcomes Eight New Poets
Selection of manuscripts from our call for submissions now complete: eight fine new poets added to our 2025 list
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Steep Curve by Robyn Rowland: out now!
Robyn Rowland's new book, "Steep Curve" is now available from our bookshop and selected bookstores
Congratulations to Newcastle Prize Winners
Managing Editor Mark Tredinnick amongst the winners in the Newcastle Prize
Wistawa Szymborska: a dark kind of joy
There are poets whose work, when we first encounter it, changes our conception of what poetry can be and do. Wistawa Szymborska was one...
Winner, "Rimas Dissolutas" Competition
Congratulations to Richard Perin, the winner of our "Rimas Dissolutas" competition. Richard's tender and affecting short poem manages...
Robyn Rowland reads "This Dusk"
Here is your chance to get a foretaste of Robyn Rowland's new book, Steep Curve , which will be published by 5 Islands Press in September....
"The Marrow" publishes its first edition
Our congratulations to Audrey Molloy, Daragh Byrne and Natalie Bührer on the publication of the first issue of their new online poetry...
Michael Leibowitz reads "Fugitive Flesh"
We are delighted to announce that Michael Leibowitz's new book of poems Wardrobe of Secrets is now with the printer. This is Michael's...
Drinking from the source
I don't think that you can listen to Dylan Thomas reading Poem in October, Seamus Healey reading Blackberry Picking or Alice Oswald...
Remembering GMH
IS there a poet who has changed your life in ways no other has? Whose work has radically changed the way you see the world, and your...
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