Catheters and Cannulas: Ann Gray & Hilary Menos in Conversation on Poetry & Illness
Ann Gray & Hilary Menos...
PB Online
A new Digital Poet in Residence will occupy the Poets Room every three months, 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.
Poetry Surgeries with The Poetry Business
Book a poem surgery and receive one-to-one mentoring with poet, tutor and editor Suzannah Evans....
In Memory of Jean Harrison
Jane Routh remembers Jean Harrison – poet, novelist, teacher, and founder of Settle Sessions....
Pamphlet Launch Premiere – The New Poets’ Prize 2019/20
Join us tonight, 1st June 2020 at 7pm for our online première of the New Poets' Prize pamphlets 2019/20....
Poet in Residence
David Tait
David Tait lives in Guangzhou, China, where he works as a teacher.
His poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies including Ambit, Magma, Poetry Review and The Rialto and his pamphlet Love's Loose Ends won the Poetry Business pamphlet competition (as judged by Simon Armitage) in 2010.
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“Jack Daw” by Polly Atkin
This week’s writing exercise invites readers to write about a living thing (be it animal, bird, plant, insect etc) that ...
David Tait interviews Polly Atkin
In early 2017 I had the good fortune to come back to the UK to undertake a Clarissa Luard Award ...
Writing Exercise using Caroline Smith’s poem “Lime Tree Honey”
This week’s writing exercise invites readers to write about the journey of a significant object or personal family heirloom, using ...
David Tait Interviews John McCullough
In early 2017 I had the good fortune to come back to the UK to undertake a Clarissa Luard Award Residency at The Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere...
Digital Poet in Residence Profile
David Tait is the author of four Smith|Doorstop collections: 'Love's Loose Ends'; 'Three Dragon Day'; 'Self Portrait with The Happiness' and 'The AQI'....
Winter is Coming: Smog Sketches
A number of my students love watching Game of Thrones and a number of the younger students quote from it directly....
Nanjing: A Walk to the Supermarket
I walked to the supermarket in Nanjing this morning to pick up some groceries....
Further Articles
Pamphlet Launch Premiere – The New Poets’ Prize 2019/20
Join us tonight, 1st June 2020 at 7pm for our online première of the New Poets' Prize pamphlets 2019/20....
Launch: Online Premiere of Ella Duffy’s ‘New Hunger’
We’re delighted to bring you this exclusive premiere of Ella Duffy reading from her debut pamphlet collection New Hunger. Alas ...
Writing Together: Virtual Poetry Workshops
Welcome to 'Writing Together' – The Poetry Business' digital writer development programme, featuring virtual workshops, audio & blog content, eBooks and writing exercises ......
Update on our March Writing Days
An update on our Writing Days this month, plus three writing exercises from Ann & Peter Sansom......
“Full of fear and joy and gratitude”: The Equilibrium Line
The Equilibrium Line by David Wilson is winner of the BANFF Poetry and Fiction Award 2019, and is shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award 2019 – the first UK-published book to be honoured in...
Meet the Judge: Luke Kennard
"Reading for a competition is similar to browsing a bookshop, except hopefully more thorough. I suppose I look for the poems that surprise me, trouble me, challenge or console me; the ones I wish...