books that give you space to breathe

The word comes from Telugu — the language of Hyderabad, where one of our founders was born — and we've used a slightly altered spelling to make it our own.

 

We chose it because it carries what we want our books to do. A breath is the measure of a line of poetry, the pause before a decision, the small shift that happens when a reader finds something that meets them where they are.

 

Oupri Press is an independent publisher based in Glasgow. We publish poetry, fiction and practical non-fiction, held together not by genre but by a shared temperament: work that adds air rather than weight.

 

We are a small list, deliberately, and will stay that way.