Black Sunflowers poetry press

10/09/2023

we're portable!

04/09/2023

Join us!

Join us in person/online for a small poetry press symposium on Friday 13 October, featuring an exciting line-up of publishers: Gunpowder Press, Two Rivers Press, The Poet's House Oxford Pamphlets, Bad Betty Press, Black Sunflowers poetry press & ignitionpress.

We'll discuss topics like how you set up a press & keep it going, funding, & building community.

Free to attend & all are welcome. Please register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/infinity-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-a-symposium-in-person-attendance-tickets-706703498187

01/09/2023

and we're closed - thank you all

20/08/2023

Our poetry chapbook submissions are still open until the end of August!

07/08/2023

Q & A with Harryette Mullen on nature, poetry and Open Leaves:

Harryette Mullen, celebrated poet, literary scholar and professor in the UCLA Department of English, has a singular way of connecting readers with the world around them.

01/08/2023

3 wonderful poets performing under the Black Sunflowers poetry press umbrella at New York City Poetry Festival at the weekend - Sienna Liu, Morgan Christie and Lorraine Schein

29/07/2023

21/07/2023

our next readings - now booking on eventbrite - FREE https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-sunflowers-chapbook-poet-readings-tickets-663916400827?

19/07/2023

love to see our chapbooks going far and wide! Here's Leo Smith @ City Books, Pittsburgh where they are one of the Writers-in-Residence until Nov - with The Body's Owner Speaks 💙

14/07/2023

Happy Publication Day to Leo Smith
& Yuu Ikeda
- head over to our TikTok or IG to win
these new chapbooks!

12/07/2023

Look - one of ours! 😊👇🏾

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in July 2023 from CLMP members.   Nothing and Too Much to Talk About by Nancy Patrice Davenport Roadside Press | July 1, 2023 According to Bill Gainer, Davenport “offers a glimpse o...

10/07/2023

We are now on threads: blacksunflowerspoetry & Instagram plus TikTok. Don't miss out - join us!

28/06/2023

Virginia Chihota will discuss some of her artworks as part of our Poet & Artist readings 🧡🤎 July 18th 6pm - see above for where to

22/06/2023

Introducing the delightful 'Phantasmal Flowers in The Garden Where Only I Know' by Yuu Ikeda with lucious cover collage by Cathy Greenhalgh & designed by Tiziana Lardieri to our chapbookstore.

'a curious, poetic directory of what it is to be a bloom. From being rained on, to proffering a delicate fragrance, to the sorrow of being overlooked - the fragile simplicity of Yuu Ikeda's hyperreal poems, distils human experience through flora.'


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20/06/2023

Finally we bring you the Poet & Artist launch readings on 18th July 6pm GMT with Harryette Mullen, Tiffanie Delune, Morgan Christie and Virginia Chihota https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poet-artist-readings-tickets-662924423797? Tickets from £5

Join us online for an enchanted hour of art and poetry in the company of extraordinary black women poets and artists.

19/06/2023

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08/06/2023

Cover reveal! We are delighted to bring you this gorgeous cover for ‘The Body’s Owner Speaks’ by poet Leo Smith. The artwork is by Mario Pierre Louis of Atis Rezistans and design by Tiziana Lardieri

“The Body’s Owner Speaks is a stunning chapbook to the somatic testament of survival and authentic joy. Leo Smith’s poetry shines with sharp, visceral imagery and illuminating vulnerability. Through trauma and loss, these poems pulsate with brilliant reclamation and hope.”

Tiana Clark

https://www.blacksunflowerspoetry.com/product-page/the-body-s-owner-speaks

06/06/2023

Meet our (remote) intern: Lola Anaya. "I am a rising senior at Smith College studying English and Art History. I love to read contemporary poetry and essay collections and I am also very interested in the intersections of art and poetry. I am so excited and grateful to work with Black Sunflowers Press and to learn more about the publishing industry this summer!"

01/06/2023

A mention for 'loving the alien' and 'Laika'! 🌈

For Pride Month, observed annually during the month of June, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature by authors identifying as LGBTQ+ that they recommend reading in celebration.   Poetry   Saltwater Demands a ...

25/05/2023

The Body's Owner Speaks

06/05/2023

South London Gallery book shop stock

05/05/2023

à genoux - is this a Chatgpt write up? https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/273817319/author-morgan-christie-explores-the-act-of-kneeling-in-new-poetry-chapbook--genoux

12/04/2023

Friday 14th April is *official publication day* of our first 2 Poet & Artist chapbooks - 'Open Leaves - poems from earth' by Harryette Mullen and 'à genoux' by Morgan Christie. Look out for our publication day chapbook giveaways - on twitter and on instagram for a chance to win! This page one now reserved for a more receptive day 😁

03/04/2023

à genoux by Morgan Christie responds to artworks by Virginia Chihota in the 2nd of our Poet & Artist chapbook series - now available here https://www.blacksunflowerspoetry.com/product-page/%C3%A0-genoux - see covers in comments

22/03/2023

Find out more about the Poet & Artist chapbook series here:

We are pleased to launch these gorgeous, full-colour chapbooks that pair the work of acclaimed, contemporary poets with that of extraordinary artists.

10/03/2023

First up in our Poet and Artist chapbook series is 'Open Leaves / poems from earth' by Harryette Mullen featuring artwork by Tiffanie Delune £7 available here: https://www.blacksunflowerspoetry.com/product-page/open-leaves-poems-from-the-earth

03/03/2023

Last day to grab one third off the price of any of our chapbooks - see below (use caps!)

28/02/2023

on the horizon

21/02/2023

Yes we are three years old round about now! To celebrate we are offering ONE THIRD off any chapbook in our store! Use code BIRTHDAYTHIRDOFF at checkout. Offer ends March 3rd 2023. (does not apply to anthologies)