In Memory of Jean Harrison
Jane Routh remembers Jean Harrison – poet, novelist, teacher, and founder of Settle Sessions....
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.
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 ...
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 ...
“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...
The North 63 – Editorial
Most of you of course weren’t able to be with us in person, but Ann and I grew up with patchouli and tie-dye and could feel the love even from you hundreds of absent...
‘A beautiful endeavour’: Hilary Menos on Poetry Pamphlets
A poetry pamphlet is a beautiful endeavour; it is a larger canvas than a single poem, and easier to sustain than a full collection. As a writer, it allows you to approach a thing...
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...