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Macha Press has been founded by seven poets, each with manifold areas of practice. All founders are currently based on the island of Ireland but each has a visionary reach that is integral to the trans-cultural character of Macha, whose name resounds with the eponymous goddess sprinting the Ulster Cycle; Scottish makar (poet); and Irish and Scottish Gaelic for geographic “plain”.

Our ethos is both grounded and soaring. Attuned to marginal and endangered poetries, including work that is experimental, formally hybrid and / or interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and in translation, or that which requires recovery, our aim is to thoughtfully publish and promote the appreciation of work by emerging, established and recovered poets within and outside of Northern Ireland.

All activity is conducted by Macha Press’s Editorial Collective and in coaction with innovational creative practitioners.