Hazel Press is an independent publisher focusing on the environment, the realities of the climate crisis, feminism and the arts. We publish short books of poetry, essays, journals and fictionalised explorations. Our books are all printed in the UK using pioneering eco-print processes and materials. We try to use the least environmentally damaging methods we can find, which means 100% recycled paper and vegetable-based inks. Hazel titles are available directly from us and through independent bookshops and galleries.
Our latest title is Pear Trees, a short story by Laura Beatty.
In 2024 we published The Seafarer, a retelling by Matthew Hollis of the classic Anglo-Saxon poem with photographs by Norman McBeath, Greencombe: a poem in paths by Ella Duffy, Daughter Wound by Nkateko Masinga, an o an x, a poetry collection by Maria Isakova Bennett and On Earth, as it is, a collection of poems by Jane Lovell.
In 2023 we published Burnt Rain by eco-campaigner Roc Sandford, and Ruth Padel’s Watershed, a collection of poems about water and climate denial, featuring a cover by the painter Maggi Hambling. Maggi also provided the cover painting for an o an x.
Hazel Press Catkins are a series of occasional chapbooks, printed in limited editions of 50 copies, in response to specific places and events. Bindweed by Anna de Waal and An Alfoxden Journal by Katrina Naomi and Sara Hudston, have now sold out in print.
In autumn 2022 we published Edmund de Waal and Norman McBeath’s meditative text and photographic collaboration Perdendosi, Martin Shaw’s essayistic bricolage s t a g c u l t and Maggie Wang’s debut poetry pamphlet The Sun on the Tip of a Snail’s Shell.
Julia Blackburn’s book of small pieces The Wren, Maria Isakova Bennett’s psychogeographic Painting the Mersey in 17 Canvases, Ella Duffy’s international anthology of poetry about plants, Seeds & Roots, and Kate Fletcher and Helen Mort’s Outfitting, a freewheeling collection of poetry and lyrical essays about clothes were also published in 2022.
In 2021 we published Alys Fowler’s first work of fiction The Woman Who Buried Herself, Jess McKinney’s debut pamphlet Weeding, Gillian Beer’s memoir Stations Without Signs, Anna Selby’s international anthology of women’s erotic poetry O, Helen Mort and Katrina Naomi’s lockdown poetry collaboration Same But Different, John Clegg’s poetry sequence Pinecoast.
We began in 2020 with Sean Borodale’s essay Re-Dreaming Sylvia Plath as a Queen Bee, Ella Duffy’s poetry collection Rootstalk, Anna Selby’s poetry collection Field Work, and part of Matthew Hollis’ long poem Leaves.
Click here to see a list of our hand-picked selection of wonderful independent bookshops and galleries who stock Hazel Press books. Do support them if you can.
Hazel Press Blog
Honey Hunters
Rachel Bower discusses "Honey Hunters", a poem about the Cuevas de la Arana figures from her Hazel Press collection, 'Bee'
Myth-tangled
Steve Nash explores the ways in which land holds story, trauma, and resilience long after human narratives have decayed
