Writing and Reading, with Jonathan Davidson (5-week course)
Online Poetry Short Course – led by Jonathan Davidson This short course will offer a group of around a dozen ...
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.
ARVON: Developing Your Writing Practice with Ann and Peter Sansom
The Poetry Business at Arvon, The Hurst, Shropshire Afternoon of Monday 29th June to Midday Friday 3rd July 2026 Drawing on inspirational contemporary poems, chosen to move your ...
Gregory Kearns and Jade Prince
Find out a little more about our next pair Digital Poets in Residence, and keep your eye on the blog ...
In Defence of Abandoned Work
I am a notorious under-editor. I’d love to cry perfectionism but I’m sure it’s largely laziness. Under that, though, I ...
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Poet in Residence
Gregory Kearns and Jade Prince
Find out a little more about our next pair Digital Poets in Residence, and keep your eye on the blog ...
In Defence of Abandoned Work
I am a notorious under-editor. I’d love to cry perfectionism but I’m sure it’s largely laziness. Under that, though, I ...
scraps, prompts, poems, spells
Content Warning: this essay makes references to sexual violence and abuse. At my first Barbican Young Poets session fifteen years ...
Digital Residencies with The Writing Squad
We’re delighted to be partnering with The Writing Squad once again for our upcoming digital residency programme. A group of ...
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 ...
Poet in Residence
Kit Byford
scraps, prompts, poems, spells
Content Warning: this essay makes references to sexual violence and abuse. At my first Barbican Young Poets session fifteen years ...
Digital Residencies with The Writing Squad
We’re delighted to be partnering with The Writing Squad once again for our upcoming digital residency programme. A group of ...
Further Articles
Book & Pamphlet Competition 2025 Online Winners’ Launch
Join us on YouTube to celebrate the winners of the 2025 International Book & Pamphlet Competition, chosen by Kim Moore. ...
Our 2026 competitions are now open!
We are now accepting entries for our two poetry competitions: the International Book and Pamphlet Competition, open to all poets ...
Alan Payne and Shash Trevett shortlisted for The Derek Walcott Prize 2025
We’re delighted that two of our wonderful poets have been shortlisted for this year’s Derek Walcott Prize. Huge congratulations to ...
The Poetry Business at 40: Bookseller interview with Ann and Peter Sansom
Many thanks to The Bookseller and to Tim Relf for this wonderful interview with Ann and Peter as we reflect ...
Ledbury Poetry Festival 2025
Archiving The Body: Yousif M. Qasmiyeh & Shash Trevett Sunday 29th June, 12pmBurgage Hall, Herefordshire, HR8 1DS The body holds memory, ...
Featured Title: National Theatre by John McAuliffe
‘For all the amiable good humour of the voice of these poems, they never stray far from the things that ...
Out now: Caroline Bracken and Jen Feroze
We are delighted to be publishing the two winning pamphlets from our 2024 International Book & Pamphlet Competition, both of ...