Enitharmon Press Limited (Directors Stephen Stuart-Smith and Isabel Brittain) was a publisher of poetry books with an extensive list or authors and titles. Enitharmon Editions Limited (Director Stephen Stuart-Smith) is a publisher of art books, most of which are available in signed limited or deluxe editions as collectors’ items. Anne provided both companies with a bookkeeping service on a freelance basis until late in 2013.
In 2005, she founded poetry p f, with the idea of creating a focussed and organised space to showcase today’s poets and to provide them with a searchable and contactable internet presence, with the overall aim of promoting poets and poetry to a wider audience. The site membership of poets and poetry organisations numbers circa 300.
The poetry p f website is the basis of collaborations with project partners in Romania – poetry pRO (translation into Romanian) – and RoPRo (translation from Romanian) and a similar project took place with translations into German – poetry tREnD.
The online shop went ‘live’ in 2008, principally selling Poem Cards and books published by those publishers with whom there is some association. The Poem Cards were published by poetry p f with the idea that more ‘real’ poetry can be put in front of a wider readership by using a medium that’s generally well-received, being borne out of a spirit of generosity and good wishes. They featured poems by members, some with commissioned artwork, and paid royalties. Until the card sales were withdrawn in 2023, there were over 50 designs for a range of Anytime, Special occasions, Christmas and New Year cards and the ‘12 poems, 12 poets’ Christmas and New Year set, which included poems by Mimi Khalvati and Carole Satyamurti, who generously supported the poetry p f project from the outset.
poetry p f’s publishing imprint is yet to find its true direction, but has published one collection, "Talking of Pots, People & Points of View", by Leicester poet Alice Beer (1912 – 2011), and, in 2009, a bilingual anthology (English/Romanian) of poetry by poetry p f members with translations by MA and PhD students at the University of Bucharest. The anthology, "And the Story Isn’t Over…", and its companion CD, "And the Story So Far…" present, between them, the work of 49 poets (a representative selection of work recently published by both mainstream publishers and in literary journals) and 46 translators. Also see Romanian Connections.
Alice Beer’s collection, and the And the Story… anthology (the CD is sold out) can be bought from the poetry p f online shop.
Anne is the Kent North West ‘Stanza’ Rep for the Poetry Society. The Stanza group holds 8 meetings a year – discussion, readings, workshops – in The Cricketers in Orpington on the 3rd Wednesday of the month (excluding Dec, Jan & Aug/Sep).
Poetry Society
events listing at poetry p f
Anne was the Administrator for Second Light Network, a network for women poets, founded by Dilys Wood. She (Anne) served on the Committee, created and managed the SecondLightLive website and assisted with the technical aspects of managing the membership. She co-edited, with Dilys Wood, several issues of the twice-yearly publication ARTEMISpoetry, and carried out the design and layout work.
Shortlands Poetry Circle was formed by Miss Catherine Punch in 1911 with the aim of encouraging appreciation and enjoyment of poetry (and isn’t that what every poet wants?) The group meets regularly to read and share poems new and modern, themed topically or by focus on particular poets. Anne’s Presidential terms: 2011 to 2013, 2020-2023, and currently from 2024. She manages their webpage at poetry p f and their e-mail list, and helps with some of the administration work. She is also a member of the Circle’s writers’ group.
Shortlands Poetry Circle webpage at poetry p f
events listing at poetry p f.
The poetry p f poetry pRO project continues and Anne is one of many poets working with Romanian translators as ‘polisher’. She was the polisher for, amongst many other things, Lucian Vasilescu’s book-length poem, close. so far away (2010), Robert Serban’s what’s left of life (2022) and Theodor Damian’s Words longing for silence (2025). She is also Adviser to Prof. Dr. Lidia Vianu for her own books, including her award-winning long poem series Bumble Bea (2024) and her Lidia Vianu Translates series of competition anthologies.
Copyright © 2008 Anne Stewart. All rights reserved.
