What is the Point of Poetry?
When I accepted this residency, I initially had no idea what I wanted to do. Narrowing down the possibilities for ...
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.
May Digital Poet-in-Residence: Maia Brown
As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered up with Hive South Yorkshire to ...
Coming Soon: Digital Residencies with Hive Young Writers
We are thrilled to announce the return of our digital residency programme. In our upcoming run of residences, we are partnering ...
Elizabeth Gibson: My February Diary
As part of my residency, I wanted to set myself a challenge that would span the month of February, and ...
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 ...
Writing the Spaces Between: Writing Prompt Series
Our February Digital Poet-In-Residence, Elizabeth Gibson provides some resplendent writing prompts to encourage and inspire… Hi, this is Elizabeth with ...
The North 68 — Guest Edited by Andrew McMillan & Stephanie Sy-Quia
lighted to announce that Issue 68 of the North (Summer 2022) will be guest-edited by Andrew McMillan and Stephanie Sy-Quia. Andrew and Stephanie will be overseeing the contents of the issue - selecting poems,...
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......