Templar Poetry
 | |
| Parent company | Templar Poetry |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Derwent Valley, Derbyshire |
| Distribution | Templar Poetry |
| Publication types | Templar Poetry Iota magazine |
| Fiction genres | Poetry, Fiction, Prose, Essays |
| Imprints | Templar Poetry,Delamide & Bell |
| Official website | http://templarpoetry.com/ |
Templar Poetry, based in the heart of Derbyshire, England is an Independent Press publishing poetry by new and established poets alongside other occasional works. Fifteen or more new print titles are published each year. The Templar Poetry periodical iOTA includes new poetry from open submissions, commissioned work, Reviews and features on poetry and related themes and issues.
Founded on the island of Bute, Scotland in 2005, Templar Poetry is composed of practitioners drawn from literature, art, the music industry, design and the broadcast and print media. The collective and mutual aim is to publish excellent poetry and to ensure the work published reaches a wide audience and readership. Templar Poetry is committed to innovative and experimental modes of publishing and transmitting poetry in oral and textual formats, and has a specific interest in developing cross genre partnerships.
Now, beginning its second decade the organisation continues to grow and has published over one hundred titles - poetry pamphlets, collections, anthologies, monographs and poetic biographies. Many Templar poets feature in major poetry competition prize lists and several have their work read and studied in primary, secondary and tertiary education. Templar titles have been recognized by a range of awarding bodies including The Forward Foundation, The Poetry Trust, The Poetry Book Society and The Michael Marks Charitable Trust. The organisation has been recognized for the quality and aesthetics of its book design and production in the British Book Design and Production Awards administered by the BPIF (British Print Industry Federation).
Templar Poetry administers a range of publishing awards each year open to both new and established poets writing in English anywhere in the world. Detailed submission information is posted on the Templar Poetry website.
Templar titles are available from bookshops, online directly from the Templar Poetry website and from mainstream online sources of books. Templar Poetry is a Not for Profit organisation and acknowledges receipt of Grants for the Arts funding provided by Arts Council England which contributed to its initial establishment as a publisher, the development of an archive of recorded work, the establishment of the Derwent Poetry Festival in Derbyshire and the development of regular Templar Poetry Live readings at Keats House in London and other venues across the British Isles.