Clutag is a small independent press. It publishes poetry and memoir, and the magazine ARCHIPELAGO. It has a marked but not exclusive interest in the margins and the marginal, in nature and place, in the British and Irish Archipelago.

Clutag began in a very small way late in 2000, issuing hand-printed poetry leaflets. Then followed a series of pamphlets, notably by Geoffrey Hill, and by Seamus Heaney, John Fuller, Tom Paulin, Anne Stevenson, Mick Imlah and others. Some of these, along with Tim Dee, Douglas Dunn, James Macdonald Lockhart, Michael Longley, Robert Macfarlane, Les Murray, and the artist Norman Ackroyd have been regular contributors to ARCHIPELAGO.

Clutag has also published books – a memoir by Ian Niall, and a biography of Niall, as well as poetry collections by Geoffrey Hill and by Andrew Motion. We plan to continue with our book and pamphlet publishing and to bring out two issues a year of ARCHIPELAGO.

We regret that we are not able to accept unsolicited submissions.

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Clutag-Archipelago Poetry Prize

We are pleased to announce on the day of our tenth birthday – 11.11.11 – a new prize of £1,000.00 to be awarded in a year’s time for a poem, group of poems, or a collection. Preference will be given to work that speaks to our wider archipelagic project.

The prize is this year jointly sponsored by: Paul Abbott, Norman Ackroyd, Fiona Stafford and the Clutag Press.

Conditions: this is emphatically not a poetry competition. Writers must not submit work for consideration, on pain of disqualification. The sponsoring judges will pursue their own researches and reading. They will decide a short-list for their own discussion. The winner will be notified by cheque and named in a brief announcement on the website.