Sideways Press was set up in 2025 by a poet and translator, Anna Blasiak, and a photographer and artist, Lisa Kalloo. Anna translates between Polish and English and is a long-term member of the European Literature Network where, together with Lisa, she runs a blog devoted to poetry in translation, Poetry Travels. Lisa creates visual responses to poetry and we want to explore this further in Sideways Press, bringing words and images together in our books.

Also Sideways Press furthers Anna’s previous work of bringing translated writing – and especially poetry – to English-language readers. There are so many literary voices in other languages which don’t easily find their way into English. Sideways Press aspires to change that, even just a little bit.

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