In our inaugural anthology, The Dizziness of Freedom, 50 of contemporary poetry’s most exciting voices speak out about mental health. Publication: September 2018.

Between January and March 2018, we had an open call for submissions. We received over 1,000 entries, from which we picked 14 poets to join our list of contributors.

We can now reveal that the selected poets are Dominic Berry, Iris Colomb, Kat François, Anne Gill, Gabriel Jones, Katie Metcalfe, Gboyega Odubanjo, Abi Palmer, Bobby Parker, C.E. Shue, Claire Trévien, David Turner, Pascal Vine and Reuben Woolley.

Full list of contributors: Amy Acre • Raymond Antrobus • Mona Arshi • Dean Atta • Joel Auterson • Rob Auton • Dominic Berry • Mary Jean Chan • Sean Colletti • Iris Colomb • Jasmine Cooray • Dizraeli • Caleb Femi • Maria Ferguson • Kat François • Anne Gill • Salena Godden • Jackie Hagan • Jake Wild Hall • Emily Harrison • Nicki Heinen • Gabriel Jones • Anna Kahn • Malaika Kegode • Luke Kennard • Sean Wai Keung • Cecilia Knapp • Melissa Lee-Houghton • Amy León • Fran Lock • Rachel Long • Roddy Lumsden • Katie Metcalfe • Rachel Nwokoro • Kathryn O’Driscoll • Gboyega Odubanjo • Jolade Olusanya • Abi Palmer • Bobby Parker • Deanna Rodger • C.E. Shue • Lemn Sissay MBE • Ruth Sutoyé • Rebecca Tamás • Joelle Taylor • Claire Trévien • David Turner • R A Villanueva • Byron Vincent • Pascal Vine • Antosh Wojcik • Reuben Woolley

“He whose eye happens to look down the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eye as in the abyss, for suppose he had not looked down. Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of finiteness to support itself.” Søren Kierkegaard