Karishma Sangtani in conversation with Kayleigh Jayshree
Kayleigh: Do you incorporate any influences from your hometown into your practice? Karishma: I guess this question begs another, more ...
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.
Introducing our Poets-in-Residence for June and July 2023
As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host ...
The Winners of the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Thank you to all of ...
John Foggin 1943-2023
We were very sorry to hear of the death of John Foggin. He was an outstanding poet and a very ...
Em told me about the podcast, The Worst Idea of All Time.
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...
Re-reading ‘Dear Faye’
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,...
Review – Dynamo by Luke Samuel Yates
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...
Lift Poem: On Re-reading and Meaning
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...
Introducing our Poets-in-Residence for April and May 2023
As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host ...
Passing the essence of our knowledge on; where does poetry begin and end?
‘Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen’ Leonardo ...
Competition Winners at Wordsworth Grasmere
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....
How writing from folklore could help save our land
‘Tales such as these flutter round Devon as plentifully as bats flit across the chimneys of an ancient manor house’ ...