News ignitionpress is open for submissions from 7 April - 5 May 2026. See the Submissions page for more details.
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 Come, Radical 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 erstwhile Managing Editor, Les Robinson, or watch this short video that we produced for the Michael Marks Awards, 2021.