Anthony Anaxagorou, Joe Carrick-Varty, Isabelle Baafi, Jane Commane

How to Get Your Poetry Published

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Are you a budding poet struggling to get your work published? If so, then acclaimed poet Anthony Anaxagorou might just be able to help.

An acclaimed poet himself, Anthony launched Propel Magazine to help give unpublished poets a springboard to success. His work has been widely published and taken him all over the world, and now he is helping others get their literary careers off the ground.

Join Anthony and a panel of fellow poets, editors and critics as they discuss the touring networks open for poets, share insights into the journey towards seeing your own work in print and offer tips on how to get your name out there.

About the Poets

Anthony Anaxagorou

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, New Statesman, Granta, and elsewhere. His work has also appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize, along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year.
In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction along with the wider publishing industry. He was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. His poetry collection Heritage Aesthetics was published by Granta in 2022.

Joe Carrick-Varty

Joe Carrick-Varty

Joe Carrick-Varty is a British-Irish poet, writer and founding editor of bath magg. In 2018 he won the New Poets Prize and in 2022 he won an Eric Gregory Award. His work has appeared in New Statesman, Granta, POETRY, The Poetry Review, The Forward Book of Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review and Poetry London. He is the author of More Sky (Carcanet Press, 2023), 54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father (Out-Spoken Press, 2020) and Somewhere Far (The Poetry Business, 2019). Joe is currently the 2023 Anthony Burgess Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester.

Isabelle Baafi

Isabelle Baafi is the Reviews Editor at Poetry London. Her debut pamphlet Ripe (ignitionpress, 2020) won a Somerset Maugham Award and was a PBS Pamphlet Choice. Her writing has been published in the TLS, The Poetry Review, The London Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, bath magg, and elsewhere. She is a Ledbury Poetry Critic, an Obsidian Foundation Fellow, and an editor at Magma. She is currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Oxford, and writing her debut collection.

Jane Commane

Jane Commane

Jane Commane is director/editor at Nine Arches Press, and Arts Council England NPO founded in 2008 and Midlands-based publisher of over 120 poetry publications. She is also co-editor of Under the Radar magazine and co-author (with Jo Bell) of How to Be a Poet. Her debut poetry collection, Assembly Lines (Bloodaxe, 2018) was longlisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Her poetry has featured on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 2, has been projected onto the walls of Coventry Cathedral and published in Staying Human (Bloodaxe) and in The Guardian, Butcher’s Dog and Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal. She is a Writing West Midlands’ Room 204 writer, and in 2017 was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship.

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