Alban Low retirement from Sampson Low

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Alban Low, 2026

Since 2011, Alban Low has been the creative force at Sampson Low, publishing over 250 books, pamphlets and maps in that time. Alongside his brothers, Sampson, Joshua and Jacob (who are all great-great-great-great grandsons of Sampson Low), they have established Sampson Low as a valuable force for creativity in both the art and poetry worlds.

It’s time for Alban to take a step back from day to day operations here at Sampson Low. He’ll still be involved in publications that use his skills as an artist and designer but for now he’s handing over to the next generation. There will be a new website, fit for purpose in a rapidly evolving online market, and new ideas from the young Lows who are ready to take over the press.

“I’m incredibly proud of the work I’ve done with creative communities across the globe and all the artists and writers who have made Sampson Low such a unique experience over the past 15 years. Thank you to all of you. Even though we have a long and distinguished history, our recent publication have been fresher than ever, exciting, innovative and sometimes unconventional. I’m going to continue working with SJ Fowler and the students at Kingston University, a collaboration that has given many young poets the opportunity to publish for the first time. It’s a project close to my heart, so new and full of surprises.”

This website will list new publications for a while longer but older releases will not be for sale. As soon as the next generation of Lows start new listings we will point you in the right direction.

Canton Mute – Bie Yining

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One of the most extraordinary young voices in world poetry, this debut pamphlet by Bie Yining brings together seven of her early sequences and long poems. Producing texts of a remarkable complexity and intensity while still in her late teens, this slim volume of texts speaks, in all it’s aberration and play, to hope for a new generation of inter-cultural writers.
SJ Fowler

Bie Yining (2005) is a poet and artist. She lives in Guangdong, China.

Canton Mute
Bie Yining
Published June 2026
ISBN 978-1-915505-59-0
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #25
SLB0272
Price – £2.60
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Flight: Art and words reflecting Dagenham’s history of aviation

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In March 2026, CollectConnect artists exhibited a selection of mobiles in the Pink Tardis Gallery, Heathway Shopping Centre, Dagenham.

The theme, Flight, reflected Dagenham’s history of aviation. In the early 1900s, the Royal Aeronautical Society established a test facility for prototypes and experimental flying machines near Dagenham Dock. Several machines were built at Dagenham, including a quadruplane designed by Baden Baden-Powell, brother of Robert, the scouting founder.

A dedicated writer created a response to each of the 17 mobiles exhibited in the Pink Tardis Gallery.

CollectConnect is a caring cooperative of artists who organise art shows along the principle of participation and inclusion. They often exhibit outside of traditional gallery spaces where people can encounter art in public places.

Flight
Art and words reflecting Dagenham’s history of aviation
Francesca Albini, Eskild Beck, Dean Reddick, Alban Low, Bryan Benge, Oscar Newcombe, Melanie Honebone, Stella Tripp, Chris Brown, Alison Stirling, Natalie Low, Ed Arantus, Jack Low, Diya Sengupta, Ginny Reddick, Dom O’Reilly, Bella Weerasinghe, Katerina Koulouri, Simon Tyrrell, Keziah Reddick
Published 2026
ISBN 978-1-915505-60-6
A6 Size
28 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 52
SLB0273
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A special thank you to Katja Rosenberg of Art Catcher.

a zed & two o’s – An anthology of poems on the animals of Shaldon Zoo

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Shaldon Wildlife Trust is a zoo like no other. Nestled on a hill, a stone’s throw from the sea, in a beautiful corner of South Devon. It is a residence to binturongs, loris’, armadillos and poets. In 2024 and 2025, SJ Fowler, as part of his residency in the zoo, organised a series of walking tour events, inviting poets from across the UK, to read to an audience of various animals. This pocket-sized anthology brings together the best of those new poems, each written for and read to an animal of Shaldon. The anthology also includes an introduction by Zoo director Zak Showell.

Featuring SJ Fowler, Colin Herd, Danica Ignacio, Will Rene, Matt Sokulsky, David Spittle, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Cameron Wade, Eleanor Wilders and Ellen Wiles.

Introduction by Zak Showell, director of Shaldon Wildlife Trust

a zed & two o’s
An anthology of poems on the animals of Shaldon Zoo
SJ Fowler, Colin Herd, Danica Ignacio, Will Rene, Matt Sokulsky, David Spittle, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Cameron Wade, Eleanor Wilders and Ellen Wiles.
Published 2025
ISBN 978-1-915505-54-5
A6 Size
28 printed pages
Colour
SLB0267
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FPPP #1(Found Photo Poetry Postcards) – SJ Fowler

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In theorising what is possible for the photo poem while teaching at the Photographer’s Gallery, SJ Fowler proposed four possible ways the two mediums can interact. With each other, separately. With text upon image, somehow. With text made of image or language evoked with image, in sequence or otherwise. And finally, a photo of language. How would this last method be more than just documentation? When the photo was necessary, when it was intrinsic?

This limited edition set of twelve postcards, Obi wrapped as a bundle, presents photographs of language found in the world, and thus, photo poems. It is a sequence that demonstrates that language found on a high street, when divorced from context, can be more poetic than an ode. It suggests that the language people use and misuse when branding their business is often more creative than the best-selling novel. It is twelve simple photos that insist that conceptual poetry can be relatively funny, and oddly personal.

FPPP #1
(Found Photo Poetry Postcards)
SJ Fowler
12 x A6 Postcards
Colour
Published 2025
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LEVELS OF CARE – KRIŠJĀNIS ZEĻĢIS & SJ FOWLER

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“Expanding the stomach, with water, in a bookshop. Hairdressing while on piggy back, in a university. Olympic wrestling, in the German embassy. Baby carries and leg drags in an arts centre. Human sculptures and gymnastic lifts in the Poetry Society. These are the things of poetry, naturally, if you are Krišjānis Zeļģis and SJ Fowler. In a Latvian-British collaborative duo that has gained it’s own strange kind of fame, through five performances in six years, a collaborative form has been generated, pioneered, that blends, uniquely, laconic, elegiac, dialogic literary poetry with physical, uncanny, generous conceptual performances. This book is then a inversion of the liveness that has made these collaborations whole, it is a return to the written word, an emphasis of that, and evidence all the same, of friendship, and of the potential of collaboration in literature.

LEVELS OF CARE
KRIŠJĀNIS ZEĻĢIS & SJ FOWLER
Published June 2025
ISBN 978-1-915505-52-1
A5 Size
32 printed pages
Colour
Cimera Series #7
SLB0265
Print run of 200
Price – £4.99
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This book was launched at the opening event of the European Poetry Festival 2025. The night celebrated one of the most exciting literary scenes in contemporary Europe – Latvia! In the iconic National Poetry Library, four of Latvia’s most exciting poets performed their work, as well as brand new collaborations made with British poets. It was a brilliant, joyous, energised event of collaborative poetic performance and literary readings, from a nation that champions the spirit of European poetry and collaboration.

39 Steps – An Anthology of Writing inspired by John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps

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An Anthology of Writing inspired by John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps
39 stories of 39 words with an introduction by NG Bristow

The stories in this anthology were selected from a micro-story writing competition for stories of 39 words or under. They were judged by Nick Sayers and Mary Loring, edited by Annemarie Lopez and illustrated by Alban Low.

39 Steps
An Anthology of Writing inspired by John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps
Stacie Bates, Krista Carson, Lesley Cartwright, Jed C, Francisco Cruz, Christopher Cuninghame, Bridget Daly, Lee Dillon, Jaune Evayt, Catherine Girardeau, Peter Isaacson, MJ Malleck, Kitiera Morey, Jacquar Roston, Sarah Royston, Erica Sharlette, Jane Sharkey, Arthur Sparrow, Michael Wahlgren.
Published 2025
ISBN 978-1-915505-51-4
A6 Size
20 printed pages
Colour
Walk Listen Create Chapbook 5
SLB0264
SOLD OUT

The competition was dedicated to Geoff Nicholson, author and former competition judge who sadly passed away in January 2025. We would especially like to thank Caroline Gannon, Geoff’s partner for sponsoring a competition prize.

Walking 2024 – An Anthology of Writing inspired by “Walking Together” Sound Walk September 2024

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This anthology is published in support of Sound Walk September 2024. Shani Cadwallender and Amelia
Hodsdon, our two Writers-in-Residence, chose the theme of Walking Together for this year’s competition. Entrants were invited to submit fictional poems or stories, and were limited to a maximum of just 250 words.

Walking 2024
An Anthology of Writing inspired by “Walking Together” Sound Walk September 2024
Bronwyn Birdsall, Krista Carson, Daragh Fleming, Rachel Henson, Sarah Leavesly, Annette Lyons, Chantal Lyons, Arthur Sparrow, Damaris West, Leanne Wicks and Matthew Wignall.
Published 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-48-4
A6 Size
24 printed pages
Colour
Walk Listen Create Chapbook 4
SLB0261
Price – £5.99
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The winning poems were judged by R.M. Francis (poet and lecturer), Lydia Kennaway (poet and our 2021 poetry winner) and Shani Cadwallender. The winning stories were judged by Geoff Nicholson (author), Nick Sayers (editor) and Amelia Hodsdon.

hot milky – Sinnead Singson

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Sinnead Singson

Sinnead Singson’s debut poetry pamphlet hot milky was launched at the Poetry Society on 30th February 2025. The event was part of the Writing Cultures’ Festival of Storytelling 2025.

hot milky
Sinnead Singson
Published February 2025
ISBN 978-1-915505-50-7
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #24
SLB0263
Price – £2.60
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Designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students, this series of beautifully designed pamphlets each features a suite of poems, most often on one theme or in one style, by a solo author. The series mark the first publications of many poets who are very likely to be significant presences on the UK scene and beyond in the coming years.
http://www.writerskingston.com

“Kingston University brings together students from all over the world, from as wide a range of backgrounds and cultures as can be found in the UK. It creates a community that cross pollinates influences and ideas, and this is inevitably reflected in the work the students create. The university does not get enough credit for this – it is, I have seen, a vibrant, harmonious environment where originality and difference can be transformed into exciting and innovative expression. The students are hungry for that which is innovative, that which allows them to express the true size and complexity of their experience and their community at the university. This series of poetry pamphlets reflects that. The work is utterly contemporary, it is exciting and energetic. It is, I hope, the best kind of representation of what Kingston University stands for – intelligent, unique and various in its character.”
Series editor, SJ Fowler

Offal – Eleanor Wilders

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Eleanor Wilders’ debut poetry pamphlet Offal was launched as part of the Writing Cultures’ Festival of Storytelling 2025.

Offal
Eleanor Wilders
Published February 2025
ISBN 978-1-915505-49-1
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #23
SLB0262
Price – £2.60
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Designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students, this series of beautifully designed pamphlets each features a suite of poems, most often on one theme or in one style, by a solo author. The series mark the first publications of many poets who are very likely to be significant presences on the UK scene and beyond in the coming years.
www.writerskingston.com

“Kingston University brings together students from all over the world, from as wide a range of backgrounds and cultures as can be found in the UK. It creates a community that cross pollinates influences and ideas, and this is inevitably reflected in the work the students create. The university does not get enough credit for this – it is, I have seen, a vibrant, harmonious environment where originality and difference can be transformed into exciting and innovative expression. The students are hungry for that which is innovative, that which allows them to express the true size and complexity of their experience and their community at the university. This series of poetry pamphlets reflects that. The work is utterly contemporary, it is exciting and energetic. It is, I hope, the best kind of representation of what Kingston University stands for – intelligent, unique and various in its character.”
Series editor, SJ Fowler