‘Someone’s rhythm sneaking in again. Sharing a language. The osmosis of rubbing up. Communing.’ (Kathleen Fraser)
About Us
Osmosis Press was established in early 2021 with an aim to muddy the boundaries between categorisations of contemporary writing practice. We publish work that resists traditional classification, with a particular commitment to linguistically and formally innovative poetic writing, alongside experimental play with the short story sequence or essay. Osmosis is run in an entirely voluntary capacity, and embraces the community politics of radical small press publishing.
Latest Writing
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain: extract from ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing atRoyal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of two books of poetry,Retroviral* (Veer, 2018) and {Coteries} (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017),and the co-author of House of Mouse with SJ Fowler (Knives Forks and SpoonsPress, 2017). Her critical work includes two monographs,…
FORTHCOMING FROM OSMOSIS PRESS: Grief is a Thing in Pleather by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain (2025)
We’re so excited to announce Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s latest collection will be forthcoming from Osmosis Press this October! This collection is a consideration of and a writing through what it means to live with grief, where Death becomes an embodied figure who runs both literally and figuratively through the text. Borrowing from Emily Dickinson’s figure of…
Samuel Haecker: omnicultural revolution
Samuel Haecker Samuel Haecker is a multilingual poet, musician, and translator. He grew up across the US and Germany and speaks all matter of tongues, purportedly. His work has been published in Drunken Boat, SHIFT, and elsewhere. He is a founding member of the Transletting collective
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