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.
Four Centos From Your Reading
Last week, you sent in lines from books that have meant something to you in this last difficult year. I’ve ...
The Doctor, the Murderer and the Wolf: Three Writing Prompts on Characters and the Surreal
Since 2018, I have been writing poems about a character called ‘the barman’. He doesn’t have a name, and neither does anyone else in the world of the poems......
On [silence], reading in a pandemic and a cento call-out
On , reading in a pandemic and a cento call-out......
February Digital Poet-In-Residence Helen Bowell
Helen Bowell is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for February 2021. ...
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....
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....
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 ...
Apart Together: 2021 Digital Poetry Project
Welcome to 'Writing Together' – The Poetry Business' digital writer development programme, featuring virtual workshops, audio & blog content, eBooks and writing exercises ......
“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 ...