As publishers become more corporate, global and boring, IRON Press champions new quality writing as it has done since 1973. IRON runs events and launches; it also thinks literature is both serious and fun.
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We are delighted to announce a second print of Animal Magic, Poems on a disappearing world by Liz Brownlee, illustrated by Rose Sanderson.
The book features poems with a playful lightness in the face of climate change devastation. More than forty poems include the well known (skylark, panda and bumblebee) and the little known (gastric brooding frog, cave racer snake and skink) and other species under threat.
>Rebirth is a collection of poems by a mother (Fran Edwards) and daughter (Jennifer Jones). During the physical separation of lockdown, they began exploring how they related, the one to the other, through the light and the dark. They spoke to each other through poetry; uncovering, holding and feeling all of the complexities that can come with mother-daughter relationships.
In the sharing of their words, they hope that others too can feel the pleasure of discovery, insight and healing that they found on this journey.
Fran and Jennifer read from the collection at a crowded Lit & Phil launch event in Newcastle on July 3rd 2025, with some musical accompaniment from singer/songwriter Ryan Syddall.
2023 marks a continuous half-century of publishing from IRON Press. When we began in 1973, a gallon of petrol (4.5 litres) cost 39p. Over these fifty years we have brought out 83 editions of IRON Magazine, around 200 separate books, run four IRON Press festivals, various residential writing courses at Arvon and maintained a regular critical dialogue with the many authors we have been involved with. Our first festival in 2013 was voted Best Event Tyneside in The Journal Culture Awards.
To celebrate this half century, on Sunday October 29th at the Watch House on Cullercoats sea front, we staged a twelve hour poetry session, 8.00 am to 8.00 pm, featuring fifty poets linked to the press over fifty years. All free and lots of live music too.
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Photo of the IRON gate © 2015 Dylan Mortimer; IRON gate made by John Charlton, from the original logo design by Geoff Laws.
