The anthology, titled Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs, will be published in Spring 2019. It will be the fourth in the publisher’s series of themed anthologies of poetry for children, following anthologies about myths and legends, space and aliens, and, due out in Autumn 2018, British and Irish kings and queens.

Richard O’Brien is a poet, academic and playwright who co-edited This is Not Your Final Form: Poems about Birmingham (Emma Press, 2017) and won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2017.

Call for submissions runs from 18 September to 29 October 2017

 Please see The Emma Press website for more information.