Guillemot Press is a small independent publisher with a preference for the simple, thoughtful and beautiful.

We specialise in short forms, including pamphlets and booklings, and publish poetry, non-fiction and occasionally short fiction too. We use materials of exceptional quality and sustainability, our paper stocks often made from post-agricultural, post-industrial and post-consumer waste, including one made from the skin waste of cocoa beans, another from spent beer grain, and another from ocean plastics. We also work with a team of artists and illustrators who have created some extraordinary designs for us over the years.

Our books have won the Michael Marks Publishers Award as well as Michael Marks Awards for Poetry and for Illustration and a D&AD Award, and have been exhibited at a range of venues, from the British Library to the New York Poets House Showcase. They have appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 and at festivals, galleries, launches, museums and bookshops all across the UK.

Why a Guillemot? The Guillemot, Uria aalge, spends most of its time out at sea, but in Spring we flock landward, clustering on the country’s edges in dense cliff face cities to exchange stories. At Guillemot Press we have a love of the edges, the coasts and moors, woods and sea, and of all the beasts and fishes hidden beneath the surface. We also have a love of abstraction, absence, play and experiment – new ways of looking at where we are and who we are.