• Smokestack champions poets who are unconventional, unfashionable, radical or left-field and who are working a long way from the metropolitan centres of cultural authority.
• Smokestack is interested in the World as well as the Word.
• Smokestack believes that poetry is a part of and not apart from society.
• Smokestack does not think "difficulty" in poetry is a virtue or that poetry is a place in which to hide.
• Smokestack argues that if poetry does not belong to everyone it is not poetry.

The first two titles from Smokestack:

Dunstanburgh: Katrina Porteous
An epic of the wild Northumbrian coast, invoking history, myth and memory. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Price £5.99

Imagined Corners: Keith Armstrong
A manifesto for the public ownership of poetry, a hymn to a broken internationalism and a bar-stool song for the Geordie nation.
Price £5.99

Order Dunstanburgh and Imagined Corners from Independent Northern Publishers.

You can also purchase Smokestack Books from:

Central Books
99 Wallis Road
London
E9 5LN
Tel: 0845 4589911

Or directly from:
Smokestack
PO Box 408
Middlesbrough
TS5 6WA
Tel: 01642 813997
Email: info@smokestack-books.co.uk