Michael Laskey awarded King’s Gold Medal for Poetry
Congratulations to Michael Laskey, who has been awarded the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry for the year 2025! The announcement ...
TPB Blog
The Staff Room is the Poetry Business’ shared staff blog, where members of the team will write about new projects, publications, events, workshops, our competitions and our favourite new poetry books and magazines. The blog will also feature guest posts from our authors and members of The Poetry Business Writing School.
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 ...
Book & Pamphlet Competition 2025 Online Winners’ Launch
Join us on YouTube to celebrate the winners of the 2025 International Book & Pamphlet Competition, chosen by Kim Moore. ...
Our 2026 competitions are now open!
We are now accepting entries for our two poetry competitions: the International Book and Pamphlet Competition, open to all poets ...
Alan Payne and Shash Trevett shortlisted for The Derek Walcott Prize 2025
We’re delighted that two of our wonderful poets have been shortlisted for this year’s Derek Walcott Prize. Huge congratulations to ...
The Poetry Business at 40: Bookseller interview with Ann and Peter Sansom
Many thanks to The Bookseller and to Tim Relf for this wonderful interview with Ann and Peter as we reflect ...
Ledbury Poetry Festival 2025
Archiving The Body: Yousif M. Qasmiyeh & Shash Trevett Sunday 29th June, 12pmBurgage Hall, Herefordshire, HR8 1DS The body holds memory, ...
Featured Title: National Theatre by John McAuliffe
‘For all the amiable good humour of the voice of these poems, they never stray far from the things that ...
Out now: Caroline Bracken and Jen Feroze
We are delighted to be publishing the two winning pamphlets from our 2024 International Book & Pamphlet Competition, both of ...
A Foreign Country by Nigel Pantling: Online launch (Sunday 13 July)
Join us for a fascinating evening of poetry with Nigel Pantling, who will be reading from his new collection A Foreign Country, which was published in April 2025. Nigel will read from the new collection, and...
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 International Book & Pamphlet Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Congratulations to the two winners, ...