Dialect Press
Dialect Press celebrates collaboration, publishing work by writers and artists working in rural and edgeland spaces.
We are a small independent press based in Gloucestershire, not far from the Cotswold Way overlooking the Severn Vale, Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons.
Our latest Dialect Press titles are Rachel Goodman and Elvire Roberts’ poetry book Knee to Knee (shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards) and enjambments from visual artist duo Nick Grellier and Emily Lucas (both laughing).
Our most recent DIRT ecopoetry collaboration is ‘Hertz,’ created by Hannah Copley and Alycia Pirmohammed.
Our commissioned collaborations for 2025-2026 are: Ella Duffy & Adam Horovitz; Vasiliki Albedo & Lucy Holme; Sean Borodale & Alun Hughes; Alice Willitts, Ilse Pedler & Hilary Watson. Find out more about our authors here.
Please note that Dialect Press is unable to accept unsolicited submissions.
Dialect Press and DIRT titles are available directly from our bookshop.
Our books are all printed in the UK. We aim to use the least environmentally damaging methods we can find, which means 100% recycled paper as a minimum.
Dialect Press is a member of the Indie Press Network, an open network that seeks to help connect independent publishers with each other, with booksellers and with readers.
Dialect Press is edited by JLM Morton
Marketing and PR by Emma Kernahan
DIRT is an ecopoetry imprint of Dialect Press.
DIRT publishes plantable, environmental poetry written in collaboration, and inspired by climate science. Printed on unbleached, compostable paper with vegetable inks, each pamphlet is supplied with a bag of seeds so that the work can be planted and literally go back into the earth.
We raised funds for this project with a fantastic, crowdfunded campaign that enabled R&D for the publications and funded the prototype, a collaboration called Chapel authored by Alice Willitts and JLM Morton.
DIRT’s second collaboration grew from the seeds planted at the DIRT Imaginarium, an event in Cambridge, which brought together poet Clare Pollard and student Freya Sacksen. Their collaboration Loops, is an eerie exchange between a drone and a bird. This was funded by Anglia Ruskin University.
We are excited to have supported a third collaboration between the poets Alycia Pirmohammed and Hannah Copley, funded by the Laura Kinsella Foundation. We launched this new DIRT poem at the StAnza Poetry Festival on 15th March 2025. See our bookshop to purchase all of our titles.
DIRT is edited by Alice Willitts.
