Our 2024 competitions are open!
We are now accepting entries for our two poetry competitions: the International Book and Pamphlet Competition, open to all poets ...
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.
27th October, Millennium Gallery: Danae Wellington, Silé Sibanda & Warda Yassin
Join us at Millennium Gallery in Sheffield on Friday 27th October at 6pm to celebrate the publication of Spit Out ...
Gboyega Odubanjo
We are shocked and saddened by the news of the death of Gboyega Odubanjo. Our thoughts are with his family ...
Clay sculpture in response to Jane Routh’s ‘Wind and woods’
Watch Karishma Sangtani's response to Jane Routh's poem 'Wind and woods', from Listening to the Night...
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Clay sculpture in response to Jane Routh’s ‘Wind and woods’
Watch Karishma Sangtani's response to Jane Routh's poem 'Wind and woods', from Listening to the Night...
Amanda Dalton’s ‘Notes on Water’: Poetic Review and Response
As I was putting the references for this review/essay/response together, I noticed a common theme in each of the poems I’d picked. Death, renewal, heritage. Lots of these poems encompass much more than just...
Full Time Poets
Part One: Writing under Capitalism by Karishma Sangtani I began working full-time over two years ago and, perhaps naively, believed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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Kayleigh Jayshree
Amanda Dalton’s ‘Notes on Water’: Poetic Review and Response
As I was putting the references for this review/essay/response together, I noticed a common theme in each of the poems I’d picked. Death, renewal, heritage. Lots of these poems encompass much more than just...
Full Time Poets
Part One: Writing under Capitalism by Karishma Sangtani I began working full-time over two years ago and, perhaps naively, believed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Summer Sale
Treat yourself this summer with up to 40% off a huge range of books from our online bookshop! Looking for ...
The Winners of the 2023 New Poets Prize
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 New Poets Prize. Thank you to all entrants for letting ...
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 ...
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....
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Wishing you all a happy and peaceful festive season and a great start to 2023. We’re very excited about what ...