THE WORK OF BLACK CAT
A small independent press. We make nice books.
We publish first collections, pamphlets and anthologies.
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NEW RELEASE
Ecotone
"Poignant and sensuous, passionate and searingly well-imagined, the poems of Ecotone enter and claim the reader’s heart as softly and unyieldingly as mycelial threads. Here the lost become ‘sponge-thrumming / willow-bone and mushroom-tooth’, salt ‘splits the tongue’ and a ghost is felt ‘gargling in my throat’. Challenging the binary of human/non-human, the personal and environmental losses mapped here weave together across the pages’ white space, marking Alice O’Malley as a fresh and urgent poetic voice."
John McCullough, author of Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe) winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature and the Polari Prize in 2011
SUBMISSIONS
Our next submission window will open for the month of March 2027 for publication in 2029. We will accept submissions of pamphlets (15-35 poems) and first collections (41-60 poems). Please send us a sample of ten poems from your manuscript as well as an introduction to yourself and your book. We ask that you purchase a book from our shop on submission. This will help us cover our costs as well as help you familiarise yourself with the types of poetry we like to publish. When submitting your manuscript please confirm the book you have bought and what you thought of it. If buying a book will preclude you from submitting due to being on a low income please let us know on submission and we'll be happy to waive the requirement.
We pay real artists to work with us, we do not and will not use AI generated design for our books. We ask that you confirm you have written the work you submit to us yourself.
We are not interested in reading poetry that is bigoted in any way. We have a preference for ecopoetry but we are interested in all subjects.