Four Centos From Your Reading
Last week, you sent in lines from books that have meant something to you in this last difficult year. I’ve ...
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.
The Doctor, the Murderer and the Wolf: Three Writing Prompts on Characters and the Surreal
Since 2018, I have been writing poems about a character called ‘the barman’. He doesn’t have a name, and neither does anyone else in the world of the poems......
On [silence], reading in a pandemic and a cento call-out
On , reading in a pandemic and a cento call-out......
February Digital Poet-In-Residence Helen Bowell
Helen Bowell is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for February 2021. ...
Pamphlet Launch Premiere – The New Poets’ Prize 2019/20
Join us tonight, 1st June 2020 at 7pm for our online première of the New Poets' Prize pamphlets 2019/20....
“Jack Daw” by Polly Atkin
This week’s writing exercise invites readers to write about a living thing (be it animal, bird, plant, insect etc) that ...
David Tait interviews Polly Atkin
In early 2017 I had the good fortune to come back to the UK to undertake a Clarissa Luard Award ...
Writing Exercise using Caroline Smith’s poem “Lime Tree Honey”
This week’s writing exercise invites readers to write about the journey of a significant object or personal family heirloom, using ...
David Tait Interviews John McCullough
In early 2017 I had the good fortune to come back to the UK to undertake a Clarissa Luard Award Residency at The Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere...
Digital Poet in Residence Profile
David Tait is the author of four Smith|Doorstop collections: 'Love's Loose Ends'; 'Three Dragon Day'; 'Self Portrait with The Happiness' and 'The AQI'....
Winter is Coming: Smog Sketches
A number of my students love watching Game of Thrones and a number of the younger students quote from it directly....