Poems deservemore than a drawer.
PoemsPoetry helps poets turn what they have written into a book worth holding, and gives every published poet a permanent home online.
You do not need to learn publishing to be published.
Most poets arrive with a folder and a feeling that it should be a book. That is the right place to start. The rest is our job.
You bring
- The poems, in whatever state they are in
- A sense of what the collection is about
- Any order or shape you already have in mind
We handle
- Manuscript preparation and sequencing
- Interior formatting and trim size
- Cover design and production files
- ISBNs, metadata and distribution setup
If none of those words mean anything to you, that is fine. They are not your job.
From a folder of poems to a book in the world.
Five steps, at whatever pace the work needs. Nothing moves forward until you are happy with it.
Your manuscript
You send what you have. A finished collection, a stack of drafts, or something in between.
Editing and preparation
We read it closely and talk about shape, sequence, and what the collection is trying to do.
Design and formatting
Interior typesetting and a cover made for this book, not pulled from a template.
Publishing
Production files, ISBN, metadata and distribution. The technical work happens out of your way.
Your book in the world
A printed book, a listing readers can buy from, and an author page here that is yours to keep.
We publish poets, not just books.
Every poet published with us gets a permanent home on PoemsPoetry: a page for their biography, their work, and the books that come after this one.
An American poet whose work confronts power, inequality, war, racism, and the erosion of empathy, treating poetry as an act of witness.
Wherever the work is, that is where we start.
There is no correct stage to arrive at. Poets come to us from all of these places, and all of them are welcome.
A finished manuscript
Ordered, revised, and ready for a reader. We take it from here.
A collection of individual poems
Written over years, never gathered. We help find the book inside them.
Handwritten or scattered material
Notebooks, loose pages, files across three devices. It can be organised.
A first book
You have never published anything and do not know how it works. Most poets start here.
A previously published writer
You have done this before and want a considered home for the next one.
Writing to us is not a commitment. It is a conversation about what you have made and what it could become.