UK-based small press Eyewear Publishing announced on Twitter that “In light of the decision by several Eyewear poets to happily announce new books with rival presses today without warning Director @toddswift_dr has suspended all poetry projects. Poets who abandon their debut presses do severe damage in terms of sales and funding to them.” That post drew a lot of criticism online, and both the tweet and the Eyewear Twitter account were deleted. In contrast, this week an Eyewear author, Jenna Clarke, was one of the winners of UK Society of Authors’ 2018 awards for a collection of poems by a […]
