Wandering & Writing : What I’ve Learnt
2022 will mark a decade since I first moved to Manchester from Wigan. I came foruniversity, stayed for work, and ...
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.
Shadows and Sky: Elizabeth Gibson & Jasmine Gray in Collaboration
Hello! I’m Elizabeth, and I am really excited to be the Digital Poet-in-Residence for February. I will be documenting and ...
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....
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....
Notes on Ritual As Haunting // Ritual As Healing
November’s Digital Poet-in-Residence Prerana Kumar writes poetry and experimental prose about being away from home, and how despite the failure of language everyday rituals hold space as conduits of memory, connection, and tenderness that...