Waterloo Press UK

Waterloo Presses ahead! We're inordinately proud to announce our stunning new website & scintillating new ventures: LIT UP, our ACE-funded mentoring and publishing programme for emerging poets of colour; Waterloo Drama, & a fleet of other new titles! waterlopress.co.uk/latest-news/

Check out this recent review of Maria Jastrzebska's 'Small Odysseys' for London Grip! Paying homage to an incredible and sensitive collection. londongrip.co.uk/2023/02/london…

There’s still time to register for Naomi Foyle’s feminist, eco-critical creative writing workshops! linkedin.com/posts/waterloo…

Maria Jastrzębska’s new book ‘Small Odysseys’. In a bracing medley of everyday rubble amongst flashes of transcendence, her poetics emerges at a stricken site of both pain and recovery. Link in comments to purchase!

Settling down for my evening reading…😇

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An ode from David Pollard's most recent Waterloo collection, 'Broken Voices'. Although that Keatsian poetic thought runs bold and grandiose throughout this book, there are some passages, like this, where I am struck by the moment of texture and particulars.

Returning to this again today...a must have for anyone searching for some lucidity on that hazy period we call the British Poetry Revival... acclaimed Waterloo poet Andrew Duncan's voice is radiantly authoritative.

Welcoming in the New Year ahead and the exploration it has promised, here is an extract from T. S. Eliot's magnificent 'Little Gidding'...

Goodbye Decembering...an extract from Simon Jenner's 'Winstanley'. A brittle edge curls around the infinite - but out protrude those lyric incisors, nipping the royal winter white with the oncoming pulse of an upsurging drill. Happy New Year everybody! Link to purchase below!

"No Sun this morning, but the promise of a tilt" - Holding onto the promise of a tilt in this dark "unspiralling" poem from Jessica Traynor's Pit Lullabies. #midwinter #poetry

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” - Emily Dickinson

"O unstuck eye of light" - An ode to daylight on this the shortest of days, from England's Green by Zaffar Kunial. I love the way this optimistic chink of light fell across the photo too. #solstice #poetry

There is something folding, momentary, in this poem from Naomi Foyle's 2021 collection, 'Importents' - the fleetingness of a desire whisked into the twitch of an eye which reroutes contingency...Blink, and all has changed in the January wind. Link to purchase in the comments!

Loss, reconciliation and a small gasp of hope trapped under Christmas wrap or sighed into a line of poetry. The beauty of crippling potential in a Christmas love lyric from Philip Ruthen's 'Jetty View Holding'. Link to purchase below!

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🌧️Rainy days☔️ So brimming with the mobile and shifting and yet acutely focused on the preindictment of something terminal, Jeremy Reed's 'Black Russian' sits gracefully on the wire brim of a hopeful urban gesture, carved in the pavement during a storm.⛈️