‘I have no idea if Pitt Street Poetry is located in Pitt Street, in the centre of Sydney’s CBD, but it has certainly made itself central to poetry publishing in Australia’
Dennis Haskell, Australian Book Review June 2018
Pitt Street Poetry is a specialist publisher of contemporary poetry and selected reprints of modern classics, founded by Linsay and John Knight in Sydney in 2012.
In the past twelve years Pitt Street Poetry has published 60 poetry books by 30 poets, mainly from Australia, but also proudly including poets from less favoured nations. We have published many B format paperbacks, a couple of limited edition signed and numbered hardback editions, some colourful poetry pamphlets and a textbook on how to write poetry. Our books have twice won the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry (in 2014 and 2017) and have won or been shortlisted for an encouraging variety of other poetry prizes.
The founders
Linsay Knight has spent a lifetime in publishing, first with the Macquarie Dictionary where she edited several dictionaries and the Macquarie series of non-fiction books for children, then at Scholastic. For many years she was Head of Children’s Books at Random House Australia, where she participated in the annual Taronga Poetry Prize and published several anthologies of poetry for and by children. She was subsequently Head of Australian Publishing at Walker Books.
John Knight studied English literature and medicine and has pursued a career as an academic renal physician and literateur, with particular affection for contemporary poetry and crime fiction. He works as a medical researcher at the George Institute for Global Health.
Our books are available at the best poetry bookshops in Australia and London:
Abbey’s Bookshop
131 York Street Sydney NSW Australia
Berkelouw’s
19 Oxford St Paddington NSW Australia & 11 other locations
Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Rd Glebe NSW and 5 other locations
Imprints
107 Hindley St Adelaide SA 5000
London Review of Books Bookshop
14 Bury Place, London UK WC1A 2JL
Kinokuniya
Level 2, The Galeries 500 George St Sydney
Readings Bookshop
309 Lygon Street Melbourne Vic Australia
Paperchain Bookstore
34 Franklin Street Manuka ACT Australia
National Library Bookstore
Parkes Place, Canberra ACT Australia