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The Poetry Book Awards - our 2025 entries have gone in…
January 2025. It’s exciting to enter a competition and we’ve sent three of our chapbooks off to one of the best!
The Poetry Book Awards is an annual, international book award given to the best poetry books produced by indie writers, self-published authors or books published by small, truly independent presses.
We have high hopes for our three entries:
Simon Bowden’s ‘Gifts of the Dark’
Helen Kay’s ‘It Was Never About the Kingfisher’
Louise Walker’s ‘From There to Here’
Good luck, guys. There may be better indie publications out there, but we’ve yet to read them…
We’re listed by the National Poetry Library…
December 2024. Wonderful news this month! Our application to be listed by the National Poetry Library was accepted. You can find us on their publisher listing between Dedalus Press and Emma Press. (What great company!) Each of our publications will now be available to loan from the collection - such a thrill for us to look them up in their catalogue!
We’d love those of you who are National Poetry Library members to throng to the South Bank (forming an orderly queue, of course!) and borrow our books.
Of course, if you’re not a member, you can always obtain a copy by visiting our store. (Helen Kay’s collection, ‘It Was Never About the Kingfisher’ is our next book out - it’s at the printers now and will be launching early next year).
Our 2024 Pushcart Nominations
November 2024. Dithering Chaps is proud to announce our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominations:
Louise Walker’s ‘The Swing’, published in ‘From There to Here’
Louise Walker’s ‘Pilgrimage’, published in ‘From There to Here’
Anne Peterson’s ‘Catching the Early Coach From Elhovo’, published in ‘Going Home’
Partridge Boswell's 'Georgic', published in 'Lines in the Sand'
Julia Rapp's 'To My Future Ex-Husband, With Love', published in 'Lines in the Sand'
Tessa Foley's 'Where All the Vibrators Go', published in 'Lines in the Sand'
‘Proud’ is the right word for how Gena and I feel as editors of our small, indie press. We’ve worked with each of these authors to make their poems the best they can be and we know how excited our poets are to see their poems winging their way across the pond to participate in this prestigious judging round.
Good luck, everyone!
‘From There to Here’ launches…
On 15th October 2024, Dithering Chaps held a launch for our latest publication, From There to Here, by Louise Walker, at the London Welsh Centre.
The event was very well attended and the audience thoroughly enjoyed readings from the collection by the poet herself.
The mood was celebratory, as friends, family, student and colleagues gathered to acknowledge Louise’s poetic talents.
A wonderful evening was had by all!