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....
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.
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’ ...
Introducing our Poets-in-Residence for February & March 2023
As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host three joint digital residencies between February and July 2023....
Digital Residencies with The Writing Squad
The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host three joint digital residencies between February and July 2023....
The PB Christmas Sale
Treat a poetry lover in your life (or yourself) this Christmas with a book from our Christmas sale. We have ...
‘What is animal about love?’ – An Animal Exegesis of Song of Songs
His banner over me is love. – Song of Songs For the final post of my digital residency, I wish ...
Poites-Historikos: C.P. Cavafy inspired writing prompts
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933), a Greek poet living in Alexandria, described himself as a ‘poietes historikos’, a poet-historian. When remarking ...
‘Not the Same River’: Imagining the Poets of Ancient Ephesus
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same ...
“Trees that look like they grant wishes”: Poetry using your contributions
In my first post for this residency, I talked about the power of poetry to draw attention to the significance ...
Angel Pee, Toad Shields, and Dead Cats: the Poetry of Dutch Words & Idioms
If poetry is made stronger by imagery that forces us to see the world differently, offering unfamiliar angles and distinctive ...
July Digital Poet-in-Residence: Luke Worthy
As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered up with Hive South Yorkshire to ...
In Praise of the Bullet Point
In my posts so far for this residency, I’ve been thinking about using poetry to celebrate small things, firstly in ...