We are open for full length poetry collection submissions until 31st May. Only a very small percentage of people who submit to Broken Sleep Books actually buy a book from us. If every submitter bought just one title, it would make a huge difference to the press. Please consider supporting us in that way, and getting a feel for the kinds of books we publish. Buying a book is entirely optional, and will have no bearing at all on your submission. We have no definitive preference for what are looking for, we enjoy a variety of genres and styles and consider anything. If it's good enough for us we'll take it. We are fine with previously published work in a book, but it isn't essential, and should preferably not be more than 50% of the full MS. We are happy to look at translations - but keep in mind that we do facing-page and would require both the original language and the translated language. If you need to email regarding a query please email aa...@brokensleepbooks.com as the submissions email address is not checked during submission windows. Any submissions sent to aa...@brokensleepbooks.com will be discarded without being read. We hope to respond to all submissions within 8-10 weeks of the closing date. We are sorry but we are unable to give feedback to any submissions we don't take on, this is simply because we get so many submissions that we just don't have the time. You can, however, use the editorial service to pay for feedback if you wish. Please submit using the full guidelines clicking through the link below. |
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Wednesday 29th April: 2000 (8pm) Start Broken Sleep April 2026 releases, with readings from: Adam Crothers (reading from Home to My Cats) Adam Piette (reading from Lies Blurring Here) Casey Garfield (reading from New TikTok Account) Anna Jordan (reading from Decades) Simon Alderwick (reading from reaper in a headlock) Henry St Leger (reading from Occupational Phenomena) Keith Caddy (reading from Autobiology)
All books available to buy at brokensleepbooks.com Minimum payment of £1. For free tickets email: aa...@brokensleepbooks.com |
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| | Casey Garfield - New TikTok Account | | New TikTok Account by Casey Garfield is a brilliant act of digital fieldwork, transcribing the contemporary feed with such exactness that banality curdles … | | £8.99 | | |
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| | Henry St Leger - Occupational Phenomena | | Occupational Phenomena by Henry St Leger is a razor sharp pamphlet that turns the language of job interviews, productivity culture and corporate aspiration … | | £8.99 | | |
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| | Anna Jordan - Decade | | Decade by Anna Jordan is a fierce, intimate debut that refuses the neat arcs of recovery and instead writes grief as lived time, full of bodily recoil, dark … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | Adam Crothers - Home to My Cats | | Home to My Cats by Adam Crothers is a fizzing, formally playful pamphlet that turns feline devotion into a poetics of art, music and mischief. These poems … | | £8.99 | | |
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| | Keith Caddy - Autobiology | | Autobiology by Keith Caddy is a spare, direct collection that treats memory as a case file, returning to formative scenes with a cool-eyed tenderness and a … | | £9.99 | | |
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| | Adam Piette - Lies Blurring Here | | Lies Blurring Here by Adam Piette is a richly textured, formally various collection that thinks through dream, memory, and perception as mutable states where … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | simon alderwick - reaper in a headlock | | In reaper in a headlock, Simon Alderwick writes poems that move like breath, sometimes prayer, sometimes punch, always human. These are pieces rooted in the … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | Monochrome Working-Class Sticker Pack (8 pack) | | A bold monochrome 8-pack of square stickers with striking white line art and text, handmade by Emma Kennedy. Each design is clean, high-contrast, and charged … | | £4.99 | | |
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| | Monochrome Eco-warrior Sticker Pack (8 pack) | | A lively monochrome 8-pack of square eco stickers with bold white line art and text, handmade by Emma Kennedy. Each design is clean, high-contrast, and rooted … | | £4.99 | | |
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| | Monochrome Feminist Sticker Pack (8 pack) | | A punchy monochrome 8-pack of square stickers with bold white line art and text, handmade by Emma Kennedy. Each design is clean, high-contrast, and built … | | £4.99 | | |
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| | Monochrome Slogan Sticker Pack (8 pack) | | A sharp monochrome 8-pack of square stickers with bold white line art and text handmade by Emma Kennedy. Slogans range from the tender to the unruly: ‘LIVE … | | £4.99 | | |
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| | Steph Ellen Feeney - Small Change | | Small Change by Steph Ellen Feeney is a radiant, unflinching collection that distils the seismic transformations of new motherhood into a sequence of poems … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | Stephen S. Mills - Final Slash Boy | | Final Slash Boy is a taut, incendiary collection that melds queer desire, pop horror and personal hauntology into a lyric of resistance and reclamation. … | | £10.99 | | |
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| | James Byrne - The Banality of Power | | POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION In The Banality of Power, James Byrne anatomises the everyday mechanics of harm, tracing how cruelty becomes procedure, how … | | £10.99 | | |
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