Digital Poetry Reading with Hannah Hodgson
Watch June Digital Poet-In-Residence Hannah Hodgson read a selection of poems from her new collection, 'Where I'd Watch Plastic Trees Not Grow'. ...
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June Digital Poet-in-Residence: Hannah Hodgson
As part of our new ‘Apart Together’ digital project for 2021, The Poetry Business has partnered up with The Writing Squad to host a digital residency with a Squad poet each month. Each poet...
Scary World Theory
Hey you, isn’t it time you went to therapy or are you still holding out for when you have a career, or a mortgage, a couple of dependants? Congratulations, you are still coming to...
The World has 4 Walls
Hey you, the house ghosts overstayed and now I can’t get them out of the bedsheets. They snuck into the gap between the double glazing and I can’t suck them out, they’re upright, sticky,...
World-Building
Hey you, have you made a writing plan for your universe? Sorry, I mean our universe. Which words are you using? Have you invented new rules for how they mean each other? Is there...
Out of this World
Hey you, the universe is written in pink and blue, universe impersonal and ethereal, weightless and painless. Is this the view you subscribe to? First that book of stories like the one with the...
Un-Earthing
Hey you, I’ve been out getting terrestrial. It’s harder than I imagined and where I’m dwelling doesn’t always make sense. ...
Down To Earth
Hey you. Are you rooted comfortably? It’s Spring again, that hell again. I’m trying to remember the different names for ...
May Digital Poet-In-Residence: Ila Colley
As part of our new ‘Apart Together’ digital project for 2021, The Poetry Business has partnered up with The Writing Squad to ...
April Showcase
I wanted to use the last day of my residency as a way to share poetry (what else!) I reached out to people who came to writing times and the sharing event earlier in...
We Need Puffins: Experimental explorations of two food texts. A collaboration between Lenni Sanders and Lydia Allison
These treatments are all treatments of the full texts from the previous posts. We used Google translate for two of these approaches, and an N+7 algorhythm for the other. ...
We Need Pudding: Experimental explorations of two food texts. A collaboration between Lenni Sanders and Lydia Allison
Lenni Sanders and I have worked together to take two different pieces of food writing and play with experimental poetic ...