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.
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 ...
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. ...
Catheters and Cannulas: Ann Gray & Hilary Menos in Conversation on Poetry & Illness
Ann Gray & Hilary Menos...
Poetry Surgeries with The Poetry Business
Book a poem surgery and receive one-to-one mentoring with poet, tutor and editor Suzannah Evans....
In Memory of Jean Harrison
Jane Routh remembers Jean Harrison – poet, novelist, teacher, and founder of Settle Sessions....
Launch: Online Premiere of Ella Duffy’s ‘New Hunger’
We’re delighted to bring you this exclusive premiere of Ella Duffy reading from her debut pamphlet collection New Hunger. Alas ...
Apart Together: 2021 Digital Poetry Project
Welcome to 'Writing Together' – The Poetry Business' digital writer development programme, featuring virtual workshops, audio & blog content, eBooks and writing exercises ......
Meet the Judge: Luke Kennard
"Reading for a competition is similar to browsing a bookshop, except hopefully more thorough. I suppose I look for the poems that surprise me, trouble me, challenge or console me; the ones I wish...
‘A beautiful endeavour’: Hilary Menos on Poetry Pamphlets
A poetry pamphlet is a beautiful endeavour; it is a larger canvas than a single poem, and easier to sustain than a full collection. As a writer, it allows you to approach a thing...