We are thrilled to announce that local universes by Nick Allen is now available online and from our store. In local universes, Nick describes the poems as the things seen or experienced within walking distance of his house. ‘I guess you could say it began with the first lockdown and the recommendation for an hour’s walk each day in your neighbourhood, combined with Blake’s idea of seeing the world in a grain of sand’. local universes will be available direct from the author during the following events: Saltaire Arts Trail, 27 and 29 May 2023 – taking place throughout the village ..read more

To celebrate our forty fifth publication, we are very excited to release details of a special collaboration between poet, Pauline Rowe and photographer, AJ Wilkinson. Vestige was first conceived as a multimedia exhibition curated by Thomas Dukes at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool. Initially titled, Sleeping in the Middle, the exhibition included AJ’s photographs taken during a period when his long term relationship of 25 years was coming to an end and poems written by Pauline in response to these images. Vestige is a continuation of this special collaborative process and continues the respon ..read more

We are delighted to reveal our first cover of 2023. The Undoing by Elizabeth Stott features the sublime painting, Spooky Action at a Distance by Cumbrian based artist Alison Critchlow. Elizabeth describes the poems in The Undoing as a diverse selection linked as an exploration of selfhood and our place in the universe. The Undoing will be released on the 28 April 2023 and we’ll have news of launch events coming very soon. Knowing She slips the loose dress right off when the young doctor comes to examine her. She wears nothing underneath and the doctor can see everything. Coyly, she looks up at ..read more

Welcome to 2023 at Maytree. We can’t quite believe that we’re now beginning our fourth year of poetry publishing and preparing to launch what will be our forty second publication out into the world. If you’ve signed up to our newsletter then you will have already received our email inspired by the colour blue featuring news of new publications for spring and details of some of the many wonderful books already available in our online store. It’s easy to sign up and don’t worry about spam as we’re really not that sort of operation – you’ll receive a newsletter with offers and news approximately ..read more

We are delighted to confirm the release of the winning entry of the 2022 Three Trees Portfolio Award. How it will happen by Lisa Blackwell was chosen from ten shortlisted entries for its compelling and memorable set of mainly prose poems that explore various formative experiences across several years. Discussing the poems, guest editor, Roy Marshall, described how the form amplified the intensity of the narrative voice. A collection of emotionally engaging work, giving a sense of deeply felt experience, at various times shocking, brutal, darkly- funny and tender. A book for our times – don’t m ..read more

We are thrilled to release details of the poets (and photographer) who will be joining Maytree in 2023. Thank you to everyone who submitted during our recent open submissions window. It is very humbling that writers continue to trust us with their work as we move into our fourth year. For all those who we’ve had to say no to (and everyone should have received a reply), we wish you all the best with your search for publication. Our portfolio award will open again in the spring, so please don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter to avoid missing out on future opportunities. This year, the qua ..read more

We are delighted to announce that we will be working with the newly formed Marsden Community Poetry group to bring you an anthology that promises to be one of the most entertaining reads of 2023. Celebrating art and poetry from the diverse and inclusive communities of Kirklees and the South Pennines, Village Voices will be an inspiring collection of poetry and art that celebrates diversity, inclusivity, and equality. This is a post-pandemic anthology – a book that gives a voice back to our communities. It’s often said that people just don’t read poetry. Well, Marsden Community Poetry want to p ..read more

Today, in our regular feature, we are joining in with the BBC’s centenary celebrations by sharing two poems from The Sound Recordist by Seán Street. The sequence of poems in The Sound Recordist is based on Seán’s lifelong career within the radio industry. It is an exploration of sound, described by Kevin Gardner of the The Wild Court Review as a primer on the nature of hearing. Seán is a poet, radio practitioner, teacher, and a writer of many prose works that explore the philosophical nature of sound. He spent his schooldays in Sheffield and student years in Birmingham where he embarked on a c ..read more

We are delighted to reveal the cover for our 2022 Three Trees Portfolio Award winning entry, How it will happen by Lisa Blackwell. Regular readers will notice the newly designed cover, still with the distinctive Three Trees black and white imagery but now with a nod to our more traditional covers. Featuring an early photograph of the author’s mother, How it will happen will be released worldwide on the 2 December 2022. If you’d like to be part of our story, don’t forget that our submission window is currently open and the Three Trees Portfolio Award will return again next year. Please read our ..read more

We are delighted to unveil the cover for our coming of age pamphlet, Olivia Dawson’s Unbottled. Unbottled features the stunning artwork of Maytree favourite, Samantha Read who previously worked on Nicola Warwick’s collection, Naming the Land. Unbottled is Olivia’s second pamphlet with Maytree and we’re absolutely delighted to be working on this thought provoking collection. Originally titled, Spitting into Bottles after the poem, in this collection of poems we join the author on a journey of discovery as she digs beneath the truth to discover the roots of her ancestry. Provisional release date ..read more