January Digital Poet-in-Residence: Jasmine Gray
Jasmine Gray is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for January....
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.
2022 New Poets Prize: Karl Knights’ Advice for First Time Entrants
With less than two months until the 2022 New Poets Prize deadline, you may be starting to get serious with ...
Ritual as Practice // Ritual as Inheritance – in conversation with Malika Booker
Prerana Kumar speaks to poet and writer Malika Booker about the complicated inheritance of rituals, writing about collective historical trauma and personal identity through rituals, and her forthcoming PhD project....
Project Spotlight– Writing The Archive
A conversation with Fahad Al-Amoudi, Lydia Hounat and Prerana Kumar...
Ritual as Drape // Ritual as Desire
Prerana Kumar writes about how the ritual of draping sarees functions as an ambiguous intergenerational inheritance- symbolizing beauty, queer desire, and femininity but also veiling the gendered violence brown women are subjected to....
Notes on Ritual As Haunting // Ritual As Healing
November’s Digital Poet-in-Residence Prerana Kumar writes poetry and experimental prose about being away from home, and how despite the failure of language everyday rituals hold space as conduits of memory, connection, and tenderness that...
‘I hear you hearing everything’: An autistic reading list
Why this post? Trawling through the Internet in search of autistic writers, I found it really hard to come across ...
November Digital Poet-in-Residence: Prerana Kumar
PPrerana Kumar is an Indian poet who has recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at UEA. She has recently been shortlisted for Nine Arches Press' Primers scheme and has been published or has...
What is the relationship between being neurodivergent and your creative practice? Mini interviews with autistic and neurodivergent writers and artists: Jon Adams, Debs Cooper, Kate Fox, Victoria Gray, Penny Kiley and Charles Wheeler
Welcome to the second post in this mini-series about neurodivergent writers and creativity. Seehere for the first post, ‘Kinship and ...
Kinship and community: In conversation with Karl Knights, winner of the 2021 New Poets Prize
Winner of the 2021 New Poets Prize, Karl Knights is a fellow of Zoeglossia, the first writing fellowship for disabled ...
Slow Poetry: In Conversation with Jonathan Davidson about ‘A Commonplace’
Poems – my own and other people’s – are scattered across my life. They are in books and notebooks, folded ...
Cavendish, Hughes, Swift, Whiteley and Grandma: People who inspire
For Black History Month, at my workplace, we were encouraged to write 150 words about an inspiring Black person. I ...