Poet in Residence

Lately, the genre of poetry that has most inspired me is the bhakti poetry of India. Bhakti is an ancient concept in Indian spirituality, meaning worship and devotion....

Starting in February, a group of exciting young writers will be producing digital content for The Poetry Business, including blog ...

Watch Karishma Sangtani's response to Jane Routh's poem 'Wind and woods', from Listening to the Night...

As I was putting the references for this review/essay/response together, I noticed a common theme in each of the poems I’d picked. Death, renewal, heritage. Lots of these poems encompass much more than just...

Part One: Writing under Capitalism by Karishma Sangtani I began working full-time over two years ago and, perhaps naively, believed ...

Kayleigh: Do you incorporate any influences from your hometown into your practice? Karishma: I guess this question begs another, more ...

As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host ...

Em and I wanted to choose something without really choosing. Someone once said to me, you don’t choose experiences, they choose you. They put a real emphasis on the you and it made me...

In our first conversation, we talked about re-reading poems. This is of course something we already do, either without thinking much about it, when the same poems crop up in our reading over time,...

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...

There is a laminated poem inside the staff lift, held up haphazardly by ancient blu-tack. I’m not sure where it came from, but it’s been here long enough that my colleagues and I fondly...

As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host ...