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Content Warning: this essay makes references to sexual violence and abuse. At my first Barbican Young Poets session fifteen years ...
Poet in Residence
Every month, a group of exciting young writers will be producing digital content for The Poetry Business, including blog posts, audio recordings, writing prompts and more.
Digital Residencies with The Writing Squad
We’re delighted to be partnering with The Writing Squad once again for our upcoming digital residency programme. A group of ...
The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next DoorBy Helen Mort First, she came to borrow sugar. Sunday afternoonsshe’d cadge a pint of milk, sometimes ...
The alternative life of Byron Wordsworth
I’d spent a morning trying to pull my second-year notes on the Romantic poets into order: a largely pointless pursuit. ...
In the Artist’s Gaze – the Poetics of Life Modelling
(Alternative Selves numbers 3 and 14!) I’ve been a portrait and life model for several months now, and am still ...
Alternative Selves – Jigsaw Prompts
Tayiba writes: Jenny and I centred our residency around an idea we’ve been calling ‘alternative selves’. It’s essentially the idea ...
Our Poets in Residence for April 2024
Our Digital Poets in Residence this month have been Tayiba Sulaiman and Jenny Danes. They have centred their residency around ...
Teach Yourself Mapmaking – A personal response by Tallulah Howarth
This collection is strongly rooted in place, and in a historical legacy of Routh’s own family tree that runs throughout, ...
Kolme:Tre – A personal response by Ruby Lawrence
Silver Birch trees in winter, especially when they are numerous, remind me of frost-covered cobwebs. They are undeniably rooted in ...
Creative multidisciplinarity
Tallulah Howarth and Ruby Lawrence in conversation, discussing their approach to creative multidisciplinarity....
Our Poets in Residence for March 2024
Our Digital Poets in Residence this month have been Ruby Lawrence and Tallulah Howarth. During their residency they have been ...
Sunday: Skies
During February our Digital Poets in Residence, Liv Aldridge and Thea Ayres, swapped nature writing prompts every Sunday throughout the month. ...