This month, we caught up with Rushika Wick. After a stellar poetry year and the release of her collection Afterlife...

After a (slightly) quieter Summer, Verve Poetry Press are hitting the ground running with a jam-packed Autumn, full of wonderful...

Just half a year after we published her pamphlet Tree, Natalie Whittaker’s life looks very different. We sat down to...

Three months on from the publication of her gorgeous pamphlet Mexica Mix, we tracked down the elusive Marina Sánchez to...

In an exciting turn of events, we’ve managed to pin down not one but TWO of our amazing Verve Poetry...

With her pamphlet’s six-month anniversary coming up as well as a guest spot reading at our upcoming launch event, we...

Ahead of our upcoming submissions window, we sat down for a chat with Verve co-founder and editor Stuart Bartholomew...

Ahead of our upcoming submissions window, we sat down for a chat with Verve co-founder and editor Stuart Bartholomew...

2020 was a strange year for everyone, and as a press that thrives on live events, we were definitely faced...

Publisher/ Editor - Stuart Bartholomew Stuart Bartholomew is Director and Programmer of VERVE: a Birmingham Festival of poetry and spoken...

  Verve is beyond proud to announce that we will be publishing 21 new pamphlets and collections in 2021 from...

Scarlett Ward’s incredible debut collection ache was published last year, and quickly became one of our best selling titles of 2019. With...