Elizabeth Gibson: My February Diary
As part of my residency, I wanted to set myself a challenge that would span the month of February, and ...
New Poets
February Digital Poet-in-Residence: Elizabeth Gibson
As part of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered up with The Writing Squad to host ...
Diagnosing the Dead: A Collage Poem
For my final post, I wanted to revisit the last 12 months of The Writing Squad’s residencies with The Poetry ...
Writing Prompt
Last year, I kept a poetics diary which I scribbled in every time I researched, wrote or edited any piece of work......
Open Your Mouth
When I first realised my writing had adopted a new taste, I was visiting my mother in her new home......
January Digital Poet-in-Residence: Jasmine Gray
Jasmine Gray is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for January....
2022 New Poets Prize: Karl Knights’ Advice for First Time Entrants
With less than two months until the 2022 New Poets Prize deadline, you may be starting to get serious with ...
Ritual as Practice // Ritual as Inheritance – in conversation with Malika Booker
Prerana Kumar speaks to poet and writer Malika Booker about the complicated inheritance of rituals, writing about collective historical trauma and personal identity through rituals, and her forthcoming PhD project....
Project Spotlight– Writing The Archive
A conversation with Fahad Al-Amoudi, Lydia Hounat and Prerana Kumar...
Ritual as Drape // Ritual as Desire
Prerana Kumar writes about how the ritual of draping sarees functions as an ambiguous intergenerational inheritance- symbolizing beauty, queer desire, and femininity but also veiling the gendered violence brown women are subjected to....
‘I hear you hearing everything’: An autistic reading list
Why this post? Trawling through the Internet in search of autistic writers, I found it really hard to come across ...