What is the Point of Poetry?
When I accepted this residency, I initially had no idea what I wanted to do. Narrowing down the possibilities for ...
PB Online
A new Digital Poet-in-Residence will occupy the Poets Room each month, posting exciting and inspiring material including blog posts, audio downloads, interviews with poets, suggested reading and downloadable writing prompts. Brand new material will be uploaded regularly to help you to keep active and engaged with your writing.
May Digital Poet-in-Residence: Maia Brown
As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered up with Hive South Yorkshire to ...
Coming Soon: Digital Residencies with Hive Young Writers
We are thrilled to announce the return of our digital residency programme. In our upcoming run of residences, we are partnering ...
Elizabeth Gibson: My February Diary
As part of my residency, I wanted to set myself a challenge that would span the month of February, and ...
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Poet in Residence
What is the Point of Poetry?
When I accepted this residency, I initially had no idea what I wanted to do. Narrowing down the possibilities for ...
May Digital Poet-in-Residence: Maia Brown
As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered up with Hive South Yorkshire to ...
Coming Soon: Digital Residencies with Hive Young Writers
We are thrilled to announce the return of our digital residency programme. In our upcoming run of residences, we are partnering ...
Elizabeth Gibson: My February Diary
As part of my residency, I wanted to set myself a challenge that would span the month of February, and ...
Wandering & Writing : What I’ve Learnt
2022 will mark a decade since I first moved to Manchester from Wigan. I came foruniversity, stayed for work, and ...
Shadows and Sky: Elizabeth Gibson & Jasmine Gray in Collaboration
Hello! I’m Elizabeth, and I am really excited to be the Digital Poet-in-Residence for February. I will be documenting and ...
February Digital Poet-in-Residence: Elizabeth Gibson
As part of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered up with The Writing Squad to host ...
Diagnosing the Dead: A Collage Poem
For my final post, I wanted to revisit the last 12 months of The Writing Squad’s residencies with The Poetry ...
Poet in Residence
Lenni Sanders
Get Inside My Head
As my last contribution to the blog, here is a project I've been working on to share with you......
The lyrics of Jonathan Richman: a writing prompt
I love Jonathan Richman. His songs! Which tell such great stories. (And also his incredible dance moves! Which are so loose-limbed, and uninhibited.)...
Interview with Kim Moore
I’m delighted to be interviewing Dr Kim Moore for The Poetry Business as part of my digital residency......
Food Poems – A Short Podcast
Listen to a short podcast by Lenni Sanders, our March Digital Poet-In-Residence, which includes two poems about food......
Lenni Sanders and Helen Bowell: a weird dialogue
Helen Bowell & Lenni Sanders, our February & March Digital Poets-in-Residence create a collaborative poem using answers from questions presented to TPB's Twitter followers......
An Introduction & Some Thoughts on Digital Poetry
Hello! For my first post I thought I would tell you a bit about myself. I am a writer and ...
March Digital Poet-In-Residence Lenni Sanders
Lenni Sanders is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for March. ...
Further Articles
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 ...
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 ...
The Best 21 Books in 21 Years of the 21st Century
Poetry is more than ever necessary to us just now. It would be good to know which books have meant most to you in the first twenty-one years of the 21st Century, and...
Charlotte Wetton interviews Ella Frears
As part of her July digital residency, Charlotte Wetton interviews Ella Frears on her writing process, recommended reading, and her ...
Catheters and Cannulas: Ann Gray & Hilary Menos in Conversation on Poetry & Illness
Ann Gray & Hilary Menos...
Poetry Surgeries with The Poetry Business
Book a poem surgery and receive one-to-one mentoring with poet, tutor and editor Suzannah Evans....