Poets Who Edit: Featuring Luke Thompson

Poets Who Edit is a new reading series sponsored by Poetry Research @ Manchester Met and MA Publishing, which invites award-winning poets who are also editors at influential presses from across the UK’s diverse publishing scene, for readings and workshops at Manchester Poetry Library. Visiting poet-editors include Sarah Howe (Chatto & Windus), Rachael Allen (Fitzcarraldo Editions, Granta) and Luke Thompson (Guillemot Press).

Luke Thompson is a writer and publisher from Cornwall. He is the founder of Guillemot Press, a national award-winning publisher with a list of writers that includes established figures such as Selima Hill, Jen Hadfield, David Harsent and Fiona Benson, as well as exciting new and debuting poets Petals Kalule, Maia Elsner, Prerana Kumar, Suzannah V Evans, and many more. Luke’s books include D o m a d o m a d o m a d o m a - B l u m b l u m b l u m : Conversations with Other Animals (Ortac, 2024), Treasures of Cornwall (Macmillan, 2023), A Guillemot Guide to Very Small Press Publishing (Guillemot Press, 2022), Rhinoceros (Broken Sleep, 2020), and Singing About Melon (Shearsman, 2020). His interests include human?animal relationships, small press publishing, creative non-fiction, environmental literature, poetry and South West writers.