John Lyons: Carnivalesque
The first major retrospective exhibition of Caribbean British artist and poet John Lyons is taking place at the Whitworth in ...
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.
Yvonne Green: 1957 – 2024
We are sorry to say that the poet and translator Yvonne Green has died. Yvonne was important to The Poetry Business, as an outstanding ...
The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next DoorBy Helen Mort First, she came to borrow sugar. Sunday afternoonsshe’d cadge a pint of milk, sometimes ...
The alternative life of Byron Wordsworth
I’d spent a morning trying to pull my second-year notes on the Romantic poets into order: a largely pointless pursuit. ...
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 ...
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 ...