April Digital Poet-In-Residence Lydia Allison
As part of our new ‘Apart Together’ digital project for 2021, The Poetry Business has partnered up with The Writing Squad to ...
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.
Get Inside My Head
As my last contribution to the blog, here is a project I've been working on to share with you......
The lyrics of Jonathan Richman: a writing prompt
I love Jonathan Richman. His songs! Which tell such great stories. (And also his incredible dance moves! Which are so loose-limbed, and uninhibited.)...
Interview with Kim Moore
I’m delighted to be interviewing Dr Kim Moore for The Poetry Business as part of my digital residency......
Food Poems – A Short Podcast
Listen to a short podcast by Lenni Sanders, our March Digital Poet-In-Residence, which includes two poems about food......
Lenni Sanders and Helen Bowell: a weird dialogue
Helen Bowell & Lenni Sanders, our February & March Digital Poets-in-Residence create a collaborative poem using answers from questions presented to TPB's Twitter followers......
An Introduction & Some Thoughts on Digital Poetry
Hello! For my first post I thought I would tell you a bit about myself. I am a writer and ...
March Digital Poet-In-Residence Lenni Sanders
Lenni Sanders is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for March. ...
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......