New Poets

Listen to Charlotte Wetton read a series of poems as part of her July Digital residency with The Poetry Business....

As part of our new ‘Apart Together’ digital project for 2021, The Poetry Business has partnered up with The Writing Squad to ...

For the final video of her residency, Hannah talks about being disabled within the poetry community, and writing disability within her poems....

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Watch June Digital Poet-In-Residence Hannah Hodgson read a selection of poems from her new collection, 'Where I'd Watch Plastic Trees Not Grow'. ...

As part of our new ‘Apart Together’ digital project for 2021, The Poetry Business has partnered up with The Writing Squad to host a digital residency with a Squad poet each month. Each poet...

Hey you, isn’t it time you went to therapy or are you still holding out for when you have a career, or a mortgage, a couple of dependants? Congratulations, you are still coming to...

Hey you, the house ghosts overstayed and now I can’t get them out of the bedsheets. They snuck into the gap between the double glazing and I can’t suck them out, they’re upright, sticky,...

Hey you, have you made a writing plan for your universe? Sorry, I mean our universe. Which words are you using? Have you invented new rules for how they mean each other? Is there...

Hey you, the universe is written in pink and blue, universe impersonal and ethereal, weightless and painless. Is this the view you subscribe to? First that book of stories like the one with the...

Hey you, I’ve been out getting terrestrial. It’s harder than I imagined and where I’m dwelling doesn’t always make sense. ...

Hey you. Are you rooted comfortably? It’s Spring again, that hell again. I’m trying to remember the different names for ...