In the Artist’s Gaze – the Poetics of Life Modelling
(Alternative Selves numbers 3 and 14!) I’ve been a portrait and life model for several months now, and am still ...
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.
Alternative Selves – Jigsaw Prompts
Tayiba writes: Jenny and I centred our residency around an idea we’ve been calling ‘alternative selves’. It’s essentially the idea ...
Our Poets in Residence for April 2024
Our Digital Poets in Residence this month have been Tayiba Sulaiman and Jenny Danes. They have centred their residency around ...
Teach Yourself Mapmaking – A personal response by Tallulah Howarth
This collection is strongly rooted in place, and in a historical legacy of Routh’s own family tree that runs throughout, ...
Kolme:Tre – A personal response by Ruby Lawrence
Silver Birch trees in winter, especially when they are numerous, remind me of frost-covered cobwebs. They are undeniably rooted in ...
Your favourite poems from The North
As we approach issue 70 of The North, we would like to find out your favourite poem to have been ...
Creative multidisciplinarity
Tallulah Howarth and Ruby Lawrence in conversation, discussing their approach to creative multidisciplinarity....
Our Poets in Residence for March 2024
Our Digital Poets in Residence this month have been Ruby Lawrence and Tallulah Howarth. During their residency they have been ...
Sunday: Skies
During February our Digital Poets in Residence, Liv Aldridge and Thea Ayres, swapped nature writing prompts every Sunday throughout the month. ...
Notes on Haiku
This was made possible by a Penguin Anthology of Haiku translated and edited by Adam L. Kern. I spoke to ...
Bhakti: Indian Poetry of Devotion
Lately, the genre of poetry that has most inspired me is the bhakti poetry of India. Bhakti is an ancient concept in Indian spirituality, meaning worship and devotion....
Ebook Sale! PB ebooks £2 or less
All PB ebooks £2 or less in February! All this month our Poetry Business ebooks are 80% off, meaning that ...