This page contains links to other sites that may be of interest, including: reading projects and publishers in Bristol, Liverpool and the areas surrounding both cities; poetry presses and organisations that support poetry publishing; and our poets' websites. We are happy to exchange links with other organisations whose websites promote similar activities; to let us know about your site e-mail us at

Liverpool and the north west

Carcanet [www.carcanet.co.uk]
Based in Manchester, and now in its fourth decade, Carcanet Press provides a diverse list of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation. Carcanet also publishes a range of fiction, lives and letters and literary criticism.

Liverpool Reads [www.liverpoolreads.com/millions/home.htm]
A website celebrating the second year of Liverpool Reads, during which the city will be reading Frank Cottrell Boyce's novel Millions.

Liverpool University Centre for Poetry and Science [www.poetryandscience.co.uk]
LUPAS is an exciting, new, thought-provoking forum which facilitates discussion between people from all disciplines. LUPAS is for everyone and is not just limited to those people who carry a label of scientist or poet.

The Reader [www.thereader.co.uk]
The Reader exists to promote the good in literature, with the belief that reading can be serious and fun, life-enhancing and creative for everyone. They run three distinct but connected programmes: publication of The Reader magazine, promotion of high quality live literature events, and participation in outreach and educational projects.


Bristol and the south west

Bristol Books and Bristol Publishers [www.bristolpublishers.co.uk]
An organisation of Bristol publishers and Bristol book makers.

University of Bristol Department of English [www.bris.ac.uk/english/cont-ed]
The Lifelong Learning programme at Bristol offers a range of dayschools and short courses in both Literature and Creative Writing. These courses are open to all, and can be taken either for enjoyment and discussion or to gain University of Bristol credits.

Bristol Reads [www.swreads.com]
The south west Great Reading Adventure, which in 2006 focuses on Jules Verne's Eighty Days Around the World.

Moor Poets [www.moorpoets.org.uk]
Moor Poets is a Dartmoor-based group of writers with the aim of encouraging creative writing in people of all abilities.


General

The Arts Council England [www.artscouncil.org.uk]
The national development agency for the arts in England, providing funding for a range of arts activities, including The Brodie Press.

www.signalsmagazine.co.uk [www.signalsmagazine.co.uk]
Signals is a magazine of contemporary poetry featuring commentary, reviews, interviews and poems from an impressive array of contributors and interviewees (including an interview with Peter Robinson).

Beyond the Book [www.beyondthebookproject.org]
Are you a reader? Do you participate in a book club, love the smell of libraries, feel like you’re a kid in a candy store when you enter a bookstore? If so, this site will interest you.

The Poetry Bookshop: Hay-on-Wye [www.poetrybookshop.co.uk]
Whether you are looking for Thomas Campion's Ayres and Observations or Pam Ayres' Some More of Me Poetry, you will enjoy browsing at The Poetry Bookshop, which tries to cover every aspect from the antiquarian and the scholarly to contemporary work: supplying rare, out of print, new and used poetry books.

The Poetry Book Society [www.poetrybooks.co.uk]
The PBS is a specialist poetry bookseller and a book club for everyone who enjoys poetry - dedicated readers, occasional browsers and absolute beginners.

The Poetry Library [www.poetrylibrary.org.uk]
The most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain.

Salt Publishing [www.saltpublishing.com]
Contemporary poetry and poetics, drama and experimental fiction.


Our poets

Peter Robinson's website, click here
Julie-ann Rowell's website [www.jarowell.co.uk]
Andrew Taylor's website [www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com]