ignitionpress

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Buy the pamphlets now

 News New pamphlets by Eve Ellis, Ian Farnes, and Patrick Romero McCafferty are available from 3 March! Check out our Pamphlets page for more details.

Pamphlets page

Established in 2017, ignitionpress is an award-winning poetry pamphlet press with an international outlook which publishes original, arresting poetry from emerging poets.

Pamphlets published by the press have so far received six Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice selections (for A Hurry of English by Mary Jean Chan, Alycia Pirmohamed’s Hinge, Ripe by Isabelle Baafi, Fathima Zahra’s Sargam / Swargam, When the Flies Come by Fahad Al-Amoudi, and Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick & Easy by Janine Bradbury).

Five pamphlets have also been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award: Hinge, When the Flies ComeRadical Pairings by Clementine E Burnley, Whetstone by Eira Murphy, and Exposure by Eric Yip. The press won the Michael Marks Publishers' Award in 2021.

You can find out more about the press and how we work in this interview on the Friday Poem website with our Managing Editor, Les Robinson, or watch this short video that we produced for the Michael Marks Awards, 2021.

About our pamphlets

Our most recent pamphlets by Eve Ellis, Ian Farnes, and Patrick Romero McCafferty are available to buy from 3 March 2025! You can find out more about them on the Pamphlets page.

You can watch recent pamphlets launches at the bottom of this page or on our YouTube channel.

Each of our pamphlets costs either £5 or £6, and you can buy three for £13. Find out more about the poets, and the pamphlets on their dedicated pages. You can also sign up for our Newsletter, and follow the Poetry Centre on Facebook, X, and Instagram.

Please be aware that, owing to new tax rules, we, like other small presses, are currently unable to ship to EU countries, unless you are happy for us to send the pamphlets 'delivered duty unpaid', which may make you liable for import costs. If so, please let us know when ordering. We are very sorry about this and hope to be able to resume regular postage to the EU soon.

The ignitionpress list

All of the pamphlets published by ignitionpress that are currently in print are available from our online shop

  • When the Flies Come by Fahad Al-Amoudi
  • Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick & Easy by Janine Bradbury
  • Radical Pairings by Clementine E Burnley
  • He Said I Was a Peach by Katie Byford
  • Finishing School by Michaela Coplen
  • Spit Valve by Eve Ellis
  • Glean by Patrick James Errington
  • Burntisland by Ian Farnes
  • Lung Iron by Daniel Fraser
  • Naming Bones by Joanna Ingham
  • Trimming the Wick by Laboni Islam
  • City Poems by Mia Kang
  • Hush by Majella Kelly
  • Glass Knot Sun by Patrick Romero McCafferty
  • Whetstone by Eira Murphy
  • Hinge by Alycia Pirmohamed
  • Kitchen Boombox by Jacob Anthony Ramírez
  • Staircase by Zein Sa'dedin
  • The Bullshit Cosmos by Sarah Shapiro
  • Ephebos by Kostya Tsolakis
  • Shadow Dogs by Natalie Whittaker
  • Exposure by Eric Yip
  • Sargam / Swargam by Fathima Zahra
  • Small Inheritances by Belinda Zhawi

Four pamphlets have sold out:

  • Ripe by Isabelle Baafi
  • There's No Such Thing by Lily Blacksell
  • A Hurry of English by Mary Jean Chan
  • Kismet by Jennifer Lee Tsai

The website has specific pages about our poets and their pamphlets.

Our most recent launch

The most recent ignitionpress launch of pamphlets by Janine Bradbury, Eira Murphy, and Eric Yip is available to watch on this page and via our YouTube channel.

If you have any questions about the video, please let us know: ignitionpress@brookes.ac.uk

Previous launch events