This is a guide for any poet struggling with the baffling business of getting a collection published, at a time when poets outnumber poetry publishers by several thousand to one. It doesn't come up with all the answers, but it certainly outlines what not to do. It even suggests ways of swinging the odds...

By Helena Nelson, founder and main editor of HappenStance Press, an independent Scottish publisher specialising in poetry pamphlets. A bestseller.