‘Whose bodies are blanketed? Whose bodies blanked out?’ asks Naomi Foyle’s searching fourth collection, Salt & Snow. Lamenting personal and collective loss, this triptych of elegies contains tributes to departed family members, friends and writers including John Berger, Judith Kazantzis, Niall McDevitt and Gwendolyn Leick; and pays homage to victims of political violence from George Read More...
Arcadian Rustbelt is a restitutive attempt to answer the question: Was there a second generation of the English poetic underground? All too often the answer has taken the form of the comforting Cambridge-centric myth that meaningful activity ceased at some point between the lost battle for the soul of the Poetry Society at Earl's Court Read More...
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Waterloo Press offers readers an eclectic list of the most inventive and stimulating poetry from the UK and abroad. Our beautifully designed books range from lost modernist classics to translations of senior international poets and vibrant collections by the best young British poets around.
Waterloo Press brings radical and marginalised voices to the fore, mirroring the aesthetic value of their work in outstanding book design, including dust jackets; large font; and original artwork for the covers. As we launch our refreshed website, we are proud to announce that LIT UP, our new mentoring and publishing programme for emerging poets of colour, is now complete, with nine titles having appeared 2019-2022. With its diverse and growing list, Waterloo Press breaks down the borders between contemporary schools of poetry, to forge a new poetics based on respect for craft, innovation, and the music of real communication.
The first LIT UP cohort with the WP team, Brighton 2019
Salt & Snow (2025)
£12.00
‘Whose bodies are blanketed? Whose bodies blanked out?’ asks Naomi Foyle’s searching fourth collection, Salt & Snow. Lamenting personal and collective loss, this triptych of elegies contains tributes to departed family members, friends and writers including John Berger, Judith Kazantzis, Niall McDevitt and Gwendolyn Leick; and pays homage to victims of political violence from George Read More...
Rustbelt (2024)
£12.00
Arcadian Rustbelt is a restitutive attempt to answer the question: Was there a second generation of the English poetic underground? All too often the answer has taken the form of the comforting Cambridge-centric myth that meaningful activity ceased at some point between the lost battle for the soul of the Poetry Society at Earl's Court Read More...
