Broken Sleep Books was founded in 2018 to degentrify the arts. Publishing has long been shaped by money, connections and postcode, and too many people end up on the outside of it, both as writers and as readers. We exist to change that. We are a working-class-run press with a focus on writers from working-class and low socioeconomic backgrounds, alongside voices the industry has historically overlooked. We don’t care where you went to school, who you know, or how much money you have. We care about the work. This extends further than who we publish. It’s also about who poetry is for. Our books are for readers who have been told, one way or another, that poetry isn’t meant for them. It is.