2025 Online Workshops
Digital poetry workshops are back for 2025! If you’re looking to write more poems in the new year, why not ...
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.
Video – River Wolton: ‘7th December’ & ’31st December’ from Year
River Wolton reads her poems ‘7th December’ & ’31st December’ from her 2022 collection Year. In River Wolton’s Year, the ...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Wishing you all a happy and peaceful festive season and a great start to 2025. We’re very excited about what ...
Caleb Leow: Winner of the New Poets Prize 2023
The Hoarders resounds with a subtle and unsettling music which creates its own complex, multilingual logic, even as Leow brings ...
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Poet in Residence
The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next DoorBy Helen Mort First, she came to borrow sugar. Sunday afternoonsshe’d cadge a pint of milk, sometimes ...
The alternative life of Byron Wordsworth
I’d spent a morning trying to pull my second-year notes on the Romantic poets into order: a largely pointless pursuit. ...
In the Artist’s Gaze – the Poetics of Life Modelling
(Alternative Selves numbers 3 and 14!) I’ve been a portrait and life model for several months now, and am still ...
Alternative Selves – Jigsaw Prompts
Tayiba writes: Jenny and I centred our residency around an idea we’ve been calling ‘alternative selves’. It’s essentially the idea ...
Our Poets in Residence for April 2024
Our Digital Poets in Residence this month have been Tayiba Sulaiman and Jenny Danes. They have centred their residency around ...
Teach Yourself Mapmaking – A personal response by Tallulah Howarth
This collection is strongly rooted in place, and in a historical legacy of Routh’s own family tree that runs throughout, ...
Kolme:Tre – A personal response by Ruby Lawrence
Silver Birch trees in winter, especially when they are numerous, remind me of frost-covered cobwebs. They are undeniably rooted in ...
Creative multidisciplinarity
Tallulah Howarth and Ruby Lawrence in conversation, discussing their approach to creative multidisciplinarity....
Poet in Residence
Tayiba Sulaiman
The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next DoorBy Helen Mort First, she came to borrow sugar. Sunday afternoonsshe’d cadge a pint of milk, sometimes ...
The alternative life of Byron Wordsworth
I’d spent a morning trying to pull my second-year notes on the Romantic poets into order: a largely pointless pursuit. ...
Alternative Selves – Jigsaw Prompts
Tayiba writes: Jenny and I centred our residency around an idea we’ve been calling ‘alternative selves’. It’s essentially the idea ...
Further Articles
Caleb Leow: Winner of the New Poets Prize 2023
The Hoarders resounds with a subtle and unsettling music which creates its own complex, multilingual logic, even as Leow brings ...
Freya Bantiff: Winner of the New Poets Prize 2023
Nothing is truly ordinary in this extraordinary pamphlet, where owls are ‘light as an eyelash blown for luck’ … These ...
The 2025 International Book & Pamphlet Competition is Now OPEN
The Poetry Business is delighted to announce that the 39th International Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Kim Moore, is now ...
Video – River Wolton: ’2nd November’ & ‘7th November’ from Year
River Wolton reads her poems ‘2nd November’ & ‘7th November’ from her 2022 collection Year. In River Wolton’s Year, the ...
Video – River Wolton: ’31st October’ from Year
River Wolton reads her poem ’31st October’ from her 2022 collection Year. In River Wolton’s Year, the intention to write ...
Launch of the COAL anthology @ NCMME
Saturday 9 November 2024, 2pm -
The National Coal Mining Museum for England...