Video – Lydia Harris
Lydia Harris reads two poems from her 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition Highly Commended collection. About Lydia Harris Lydia ...
East Of The North
East of the North will showcase The North editorials, features from vintage issues, and additional reviews and excerpts from the current North magazine.
Video – River Wolton: ’19th January’ from Year
River Wolton reads her poem ’19th January’ from her 2022 collection Year. In River Wolton’s Year, the intention to write ...
Video – Lauren O’Donovan
Lauren O’Donovan reads two poems from her 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition Highly Commended collection. About Lauren O’Donovan Lauren ...
Video – Clementine Burnley
Clementine Burnley reads two poems from her 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition Highly Commended collection. About Clementine Burnley Born ...
The Winners of the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition
Congratulations to the winners – Doreen Gurrey for her collection, A Coalition of Cheetahs and Laurie Bolger for her collection, ...
Review – Dynamo by Luke Samuel Yates
During this residency I’ve been thinking about re-reading There’s some guilt attached to it, at least in my experience: a voice that asks, why waste time reading something you’ve read before, when you could...
The Best 21 Books in 21 Years of the 21st Century
Poetry is more than ever necessary to us just now. It would be good to know which books have meant most to you in the first twenty-one years of the 21st Century, and...
“Full of fear and joy and gratitude”: The Equilibrium Line
The Equilibrium Line by David Wilson is winner of the BANFF Poetry and Fiction Award 2019, and is shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award 2019 – the first UK-published book to be honoured in...
The North 63 – Editorial
Most of you of course weren’t able to be with us in person, but Ann and I grew up with patchouli and tie-dye and could feel the love even from you hundreds of absent...
‘A beautiful endeavour’: Hilary Menos on Poetry Pamphlets
A poetry pamphlet is a beautiful endeavour; it is a larger canvas than a single poem, and easier to sustain than a full collection. As a writer, it allows you to approach a thing...
The Result Is What You See Today: poems about running
This affirmative anthology shows that poetry and running have much in common, fulfilling a basic need to live freely, expressively and to feel alive. The poems gathered here reflect this freedom in all its...
33 Years and More: Poetry Publishing and Writer Development in the North of England
In Spring 2019 The Poetry Business sent out an appeal to the poetry community....