Recognition

• A small but enterprising publisher talent-spotting marvellous new poets"
  The Independent

   

• "Smith/Doorstop have been quietly pushing new or developing talent for years now"
  The Guardian

   

• "One of the most vital and vitalising literature organisations in the in the country"
  Andrew Motion

   

• "The quality of the writing in these slim volumes is matched by the high production standards of the publishers Smith/Doorstop"
  Paul McDonald, PQR [on the Competition winners' pamphlets, 1997]

   

• "Dark and true and tender is The North"
  A prescient Alfred Lord Tennyson