[5] In 2016, four of their titles, Mark Pajak's Spitting Distance, Geraldine Clarkson's Dora Incites The Sea-Scribber to Lament, Tom Sastry's Complicity, and Zeina Hashem Beck's There Was And How Much There Was, were named The Poetry School's Books of the Year.
[12][13][14] In July and August 2024, they organised several online workshops with such poets as Schmidt, who was then 77 years old, Jonathan Edwards and David Constantine.
[15] They recently worked with the poet Sarah Wimbush and the National Coal Mining Museum for England, to produce an anthology of poetry to mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike.
[16][17][18] The COAL Anthology, noted as "a moving and impactful tribute to the resilience and spirit of our mining communities", includes work from poets Simon Armitage, Liz Berry, Helen Mort, and newer voices.
[21] In 2021, they announced a call for submissions for two poetry collections "to be edited by [the then] Apprentice Editor-in-Residence Gboyega Odubanjo as part of their 'Apart Together' 2021 project.
"[24] It was launched in 2015, and has since been judged by such poets as Helen Mort, Andrew McMillan, Anthony Anaxagorou, Kayo Chingonyi, Mary Jean Chan, Luke Kennard, Kim Moore and Holly Hopkins.
"[38] It's notable winners have been Peter Daniels and Moniza Alvi in 1991, published together as Peacock Luggage in 1992,[39] Dean Browne in 2021 for Kitchens at Night,[38] Michael Laskey in 1988 for Cloves of Garlic, and Daljit Nagra in 2003 for Oh My Rub!
Earlier, in 2008/2009, losing grant funding from the Council had led them to move from Huddersfield, where the outfit was based in a Victorian arcade for 20 years, to Sheffield.
The Ted Hughes Award in itself was a project which ran alongside Carol Ann Duffy's tenure as Poet Laureate.
Mike Barlow, who published his first collection, Living on the Difference, with the press, won the 2006 National Poetry Competition, and was commended in 2022.
Moore's work has been translated into many languages as part of the Versopolis project, and she won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection for All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021).
Imogen Wade, who won the National Poetry Competition 2023 for her poem 'The Time I Was Mugged in New York City',[71] was a runner-up in the 2023 New Poets Prize.
[72] Sir Andrew Motion, the UK Poet Laureate from 1999-2009, described the press as "one of the most vital and vitalising literary organisations in the country".