Here’s Landing Press’s new project for 2025: an anthology of poems about FOOD!

We love the idea of poems about food. There are so many ways to think about food – culture, history, memory, rituals, celebrations, growing, foraging, hunting, fishing … there’s a long list. There’s also, particularly at present with the rising cost of living, a shortage of food. Food that can’t be afforded. Foodbanks, social supermarkets, soup kitchens… there’s a long list there too. Food is both a joyful and a tough theme.

Whether you’re an established writer, an in-your-notes-app-midnight-poet or this is your first submission with your first-ever writing, we want to read it. We want your unique eye on this subject of food.

You can send us up to 3 poems. Maximum length of each poem 40 lines. Put each poem on a separate page, and with each poem, include your name and contact details (email address, postal address and ph no).

• You can send poems in languages other than English, but please include an English translation/version.
• Please send your poems in a Word doc, not as a pdf.
• We want poems that have not been published before.
• Send your poems to landingpressfood@gmail.com by Saturday 31 May. Or you can post your poems (including hand-written poems) to Landing Press, 97 Tireti Road, Titahi Bay Porirua 5022.

We are planning to publish this anthology in late 2025. All writers included in the anthology will get a complimentary copy of the book.

Please pass this information on. Thanks.