Performing Belonging – Town
I took my starting point from Richard Scott’s poem ‘Oh my Soho!’ in so much as I wanted to insist ...
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.
Performing Belonging – Queerplatonic Love Poems
I present these three poems here without additional commentary: >PART 4 – Performing Belonging – Town...
Performing Belonging – Queer Belonging & Place
Performing queer belonging means finding a sense of community. It is difficult, although perhaps not impossible, to perform belonging on ...
Performing Belonging – Counting the Ways
If these are unfamiliar terms, AVEN and AUREA have you covered. There’s also some great stuff on alternative relationship models ...
Performing Belonging – Introduction
To us, it is a sense of affinity, for a place, a person, or a situation. It might involve tangible, ...
2Lies2Furious
Gregory: Slightly weird that we both gravitated toward the dream sequence in the film. I guess we’ll get back to ...
The Lyric Lie
In fact, we happened to have seen the same obscure student film. Admittedly we both had fairly sketchy memories of ...
Gregory Kearns and Jade Prince
Find out a little more about our next pair Digital Poets in Residence, and keep your eye on the blog ...
In Defence of Abandoned Work
I am a notorious under-editor. I’d love to cry perfectionism but I’m sure it’s largely laziness. Under that, though, I ...
scraps, prompts, poems, spells
Content Warning: this essay makes references to sexual violence and abuse. At my first Barbican Young Poets session fifteen years ...
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 ...