Price: Free
Time: 14:15 - 15:15
BSL Interpreted ✓

Featuring panelists Ghazal Mosadeq (Pamenar Press), Jacob Sam-La Rose (flipped eye publishing), Amy Acre (Bad Betty Press), Anthony Anaxagorou (Out-Spoken Press), Dr Leire Barrera-Medrano (Girasol Press).

Poetry on the page is changing. With the rise of the internet, the landscape for sharing work is shifting rapidly, with more independent publishers and more opportunities to become a published poet. What does this mean for new and emerging writers? For historically underrepresented voices? Or for the future of poetry in print? If you’re curious about the inner workings of independent publishers, getting your own work published and meeting fellow poets, this event will bring you insight from experts in the field today.

The event will be BSL interpreted.

Ghazal Mosadeq is a poet, editor and translator. She is the founder of Pamenar Press, an independent publisher producing books of poetry, hybrid and critical writing which are cross-cultural and multilingual. Her own work has been published internationally by gammm Press, Tamaast, Litmus Press, Poetry Wales, Firmament, WD40, Revista de poesía, ensayo y crítica, Oversound and Blackbox Manifold, among others. She is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.

Leire Barrera Medrano is Lecturer in Spanish Studies at the University of Bath and co-editor of Girasol Press, a small publisher of experimental translation. She wrote a PhD thesis on Decadence and the Anglo-Spanish encounter at Birkbeck College, University of London. Interests include translation, linguistic resistance and radical herbalism. She was raised in the Basque Country and lives in Bristol.

Amy Acre is a poet and freelance writer, and the editor of award-winning indie publisher, Bad Betty Press. Her pamphlets And They Are Covered in Gold Light (Bad Betty, 2019) and Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads (flipped eye, 2015) were both chosen as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her debut collection, Mothersong, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing. Amy was born in London and lives in Nottingham.

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. He has published three volumes of poetry, one collection of short stories, along with a craft book entitled How To Write It. He is the founder and artistic director of Out-Spoken Live, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre. He’s also the publisher at Out-Spoken Press and founder of Propel Magazine.

Jacob Sam-La Rose is a poetry editor for flipped eye publishing and leads the Barbican Young Poets programme. He has served as poet-in-residence for Raffles Institution (Singapore), poetry professor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and artistic director for the Spoken Word Education Programme (Goldsmiths University). His poetry has been translated into Portuguese, Latvian, French and Dutch. His collection Breaking Silence is required reading for the OCR English Language/Literature A-level syllabus and was shortlisted for a Fenton Aldeburgh award and a Forward Poetry prize.

Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.

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