Since starting Black Bough Poetry in 2018, our message in submission periods has been consistent. As a home to 21st century imagist...

The poetry talent search goes into an extra dimension when your press runs a contest for new poetry pamphlets, chapbooks and collections....

Another hugely rewarding challenge undertaken with the contest for pamphlets, chapbooks and collections in Autumn 2023. Manuscripts flew...

Matthew M. C. Smith reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of John Masefield's 1935 festive classic The Box of Delights...

Matthew M C Smith on making the hard yards on your creative journey So you want to be a poet? You want to get your work widely-published,...

Matthew M. C. Smith on writing a mythical novel - work in progress Over the summer, I bit the proverbial bullet and embarked on writing a...

Matthew M. C. Smith on literary presses and getting a book published. Most poets I speak to want their poems to be published online and...

Our Christmas and winter 2020/21 print edition is out and on Amazon to buy. See our webpage for more information.

Deep Time 2 was released in October 2020 and attained #no2 in the Amazon poetry anthology chart. Social media has been flooded with...

We had hundreds of submissions for the summer 'Freedom/ Rapture' edition and are working through them carefully. The new Guest Readers...

During August, we'll be completing Deep Time II, with a launch planned for September. This will also be a print publication and also free...

We're delighted to release 'Deep Time' volume 1, the anthology of poetry inspired by Robert Macfarlane's prize-winning book 'Underland'...

The final draft of Deep Time volume 1 is being finalised and will be available on Amazon in July 2020. We will have news soon on the...

Trailer time! Our first ever trailer for our first ever print edition is available on youtube. We're proud to show you the talents of...

You can read essential submission info on our summer edition in the 'submissions opportunities' section. We are only able to take work...

We have three guest readers lined up for the summer edition, which will be put a few weeks back because we are completing two print...

We've been working on the Deep Time editions, which will be our first print venture. The team are hard at work editing and formatting and...

Inspired by Robert Macfarlane's 'Underland' (Penguin Books), we invite submissions of poetry for the 'Deep Time' edition (submission...

So happy to have released the Christmas/ winter edition out there on 8/12/19. This was a lot of work for the team with hundreds of...

Congratulations to the following poets, who received the most nominations from readers for the Pushcart Poetry Prize 2020. Thanks to the...