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Em and I wanted to choose something without really choosing. Someone once said to me, you don’t choose experiences, they choose you. They put a real emphasis on the you and it made me feel special, thinking of these nonembodied experience forms, orange jellied figures without names, typing my...

In our first conversation, we talked about re-reading poems. This is of course something we already do, either without thinking much about it, when the same poems crop up in our reading over time,...

During this residency I’ve been thinking about re-reading There’s some guilt attached to it, at least in my experience: a voice that asks, why waste time reading something you’ve read before, when you could...

There is a laminated poem inside the staff lift, held up haphazardly by ancient blu-tack. I’m not sure where it came from, but it’s been here long enough that my colleagues and I fondly...

As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host ...

‘Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen’ Leonardo ...

Saturday 18th March: Join Dean Browne, Jim McElroy, Maya C Popa, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Karen Downs-Barton, Jon Miller, Zoë Walkington and Luke Samuel Yates....

‘Tales such as these flutter round Devon as plentifully as bats flit across the chimneys of an ancient manor house’ ...

As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host three joint digital residencies between February and July 2023....

The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host three joint digital residencies between February and July 2023....

Wishing you all a happy and peaceful festive season and a great start to 2023. We’re very excited about what ...

Treat a poetry lover in your life (or yourself) this Christmas with a book from our Christmas sale. We have ...