2024 marks the tenth anniversary of an imprint which includes winners of the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year.
Pavilion Poetry is celebrating its tenth year in 2024. Edited by Deryn Rees-Jones, Pavilion Poetry seeks to publish the very best in contemporary poetry and has proven itself successful with several award-winning collections since its first releases in April 2015.
An imprint of Liverpool University Press – a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Liverpool – Pavilion Poetry has not only published 29 beautiful collections but, uniquely, has also supported third-year students interested in the publishing industry by collaborating with the university on an incredibly successful work placement module. Three students are selected each year to work directly with the poet on the production and marketing of their new collection as part of a year-long placement, supported by Editorial Director Alison Welsby and Professor of Poetry, Deryn Rees-Jones. Every year’s cohort has included students who have gone on to work in the publishing industry, with several working at Liverpool University Press.
Alison Welsby, Editorial Director at Liverpool University Press, said: “Pavilion Poetry has been one of the greatest success stories at LUP. Not only has it brought to the press the opportunity to work with Professor Deryn Rees-Jones and publish exhilarating, award-winning poetry by remarkable poets, it has provided an invaluable platform to provide undergraduates at the University of Liverpool with a genuine publishing work placement. I speak on behalf of everyone at LUP when I say it is one of our proudest achievements over the last ten years.”
With winners of poetry prizes such as the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prize and countless shortlistings in the series, the Pavilion Poetry imprint continues to go from strength to strength as it reaches its tenth year. The 2024 collections include QuickFire, Slow Burning by Janette Ayachi, Feeling All the Kills by Helen Calcutt, and Poetry Book Society Recommendation Lapwing by Hannah Copley.
Deryn Rees-Jones, Series Editor for Pavilion Poetry, said: “It’s been an immense privilege to work closely with some of the decade’s finest poets, who, at all stages of their publishing careers, have shown that poetry still has vital work to do to enlarge and refine our capacities for thinking and feeling in the contemporary world. None of the poets we have published shy away from experiment or risk, and many of them have addressed difficult subject matter in groundbreaking ways. From books that speak to ecology and the current crisis, to explorations of the rich, and sometimes painful complexities of sexuality and desire, daughterhood and motherhood, race and belonging, there has been celebration as well as mourning. The poetry on the Pavilion list has never failed to remind me of the power of language to change us, and to demand that we see ourselves and the world anew.”
The 2024 collections published in April 2024 and are each available in paperback or in ebook format (£10.99). For more information on the collections or to order with a direct purchase discount visit the Liverpool University Press website.
For more information, please contact:
Catherine Pugh, Books Marketing Manager: catherine.pugh@liverpool.ac.uk
About Pavilion Poetry
Pavilion Poetry seeks to publish the very best in contemporary poetry. Always international in its reach, Pavilion Poetry is poetry that takes a risk. Whether by new or established and award-winning writers, this is poetry sure to challenge and delight. Deryn Rees-Jones (University of Liverpool) is the series editor for Pavilion Poetry. @PavilionPoetry
About Liverpool University Press
Liverpool University Press is the UK’s third oldest university press, with a distinguished history of publishing exceptional research since 1899, including the work of Nobel prize winners. LUP has rapidly expanded in recent years to become an award-winning academic publisher that produces approximately 200 books a year, around 50 journals, and a number of digital collections, specialising in languages, history, literary and film studies, and urban planning. In 2024, LUP will be celebrating its 125th anniversary with a focus on friends of LUP and our wider scholarly publishing community. @LivUniPress #LUP125
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