Diamond Twig is a small press launched in 1992 by Ellen Phethean and Julia Darling, to publish vibrant new writing by women in the North East of England. Our publications include The Ropes, a collection of poems chosen to appeal to young people, and nineteen titles in the Branch Lines series: pocket sized books in stylish black-and-white livery, launching new women writers into print.
Our books have a reputation for style and quality and our authors have a reputation for going far — keep track of them from our site! We are proud to act as a launch pad for our authors, many of whom have gone on to have further work published elsewhere.
Each month the Diamond Twig Editors select a poem that they find wonderful, interesting, challenging, and fresh. We have another summer poem for August: Building a Lion on Weymouth Beach by Joanna Rimmer.
Hold on to The Ropes
We now have our full complement of poets and poems all safely gathered in for our anthology of new poetry for young people - The Ropes: Poems to hold on to. Out of 40 poems, 34 are newly commissioned, never before seen on this earth! What's more, this anthology like no other has two front covers, both shown here.
In the months leading up to publication date, we have been featuring some poems from The Ropes in our Poem of the Month section: for a taste of the good things packed into this little book, have a look at our poems for January 2008, March 2008 and now April 2008.
Or read more about The Ropes: Poems to hold on to, including how to order a copy.
Use the diamonds to find your way around this site: and if you can't find what you are looking for, check the Site Map, which includes a full list of our authors, and our publications, which we hope you'll buy.
Diamond Twig regrets that we are unable to accept new submissions, until further notice. We also started the Blue Room, encouraging new women – and men – writers to read their work, and promoting new audiences for live poetry and prose.
