Project Spotlight– Writing The Archive
A conversation with Fahad Al-Amoudi, Lydia Hounat and Prerana Kumar...
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.
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...
‘I hear you hearing everything’: An autistic reading list
Why this post? Trawling through the Internet in search of autistic writers, I found it really hard to come across ...
November Digital Poet-in-Residence: Prerana Kumar
PPrerana Kumar is an Indian poet who has recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at UEA. She has recently been shortlisted for Nine Arches Press' Primers scheme and has been published or has...
What is the relationship between being neurodiverse and your creative practice? Mini interviews with autistic and neurodiverse writers and artists: Jon Adams, Debs Cooper, Kate Fox, Victoria Gray, Penny Kiley and Charles Wheeler
Welcome to the second post in this mini-series about neurodiverse writers and creativity. See here for the first post, ‘Kinship ...
Kinship and community: In conversation with Karl Knights, winner of the 2021 New Poets Prize
Winner of the 2021 New Poets Prize, Karl Knights is a fellow of Zoeglossia, the first writing fellowship for disabled ...
Slow Poetry: In Conversation with Jonathan Davidson about ‘A Commonplace’
Poems – my own and other people’s – are scattered across my life. They are in books and notebooks, folded ...
Cavendish, Hughes, Swift, Whiteley and Grandma: People who inspire
For Black History Month, at my workplace, we were encouraged to write 150 words about an inspiring Black person. I ...
October Digital Poet-In-Residence: Ruth Yates
Ruth Yates is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for October......
Nasim Rebecca Asl in conversation with Kevin Mclean of I AM LOUD
September's Digital Poet-in-Residence Nasim Rebecca Asl interviews Kevin Mclean, the Creative Director of Edinburgh-based Production & Entertainment company I AM LOUD....
In conversation with poet and performer Kevin Gilday
Digital Poet-in-Residence Nasim Rebecca Asl talks to Kevin Gilday about the coolness of Poetry, his upcoming collection, and other new projects....