Online launch with Alan Payne and Shash Trevett
Join us for an amazing evening of poetry will two highly talented and respected poets. Hosted by Poetry Business co-directors ...
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.
Luke Worthy
From a jellyfish like a ‘tumour of salt and sand’ to a meditation on Putin’s penis and toxic masculinity – ...
Imogen Wade
We are delighted to showcase four poems from Imogen’s pamphlet Fire Safety which was runner up in the 2023 New ...
Our 2024 competition winners!
We are delighted to announce the winners of our two annual poetry competitions! Click the links below to find out ...
Geoff Hattersley: 1956 – 2024
We were shocked and saddened to hear that Geoff Hattersley has died. He was 68. Geoff was a truly remarkable ...
The Miners’ Strike: Programme of workshops and events
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, The Poetry Business is working with Sarah Wimbush and the National Coal Mining Museum ...
John Lyons: Carnivalesque
The first major retrospective exhibition of Caribbean British artist and poet John Lyons is taking place at the Whitworth in ...
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 ...