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.
Writing Prompt
Last year, I kept a poetics diary which I scribbled in every time I researched, wrote or edited any piece of work......
Open Your Mouth
When I first realised my writing had adopted a new taste, I was visiting my mother in her new home......
Putting Together a Competition Collection: Top Tips from our Previous Winners
With less than two months to go until the deadlines for our 2022 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and New ...
January Digital Poet-in-Residence: Jasmine Gray
Jasmine Gray is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for January....
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 ...