The Miners’ Strike: Programme of workshops and events
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, The Poetry Business is working with Sarah Wimbush and the National Coal Mining Museum ...
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.
John Lyons: Carnivalesque
The first major retrospective exhibition of Caribbean British artist and poet John Lyons is taking place at the Whitworth in ...
Yvonne Green: 1957 – 2024
We are sorry to say that the poet and translator Yvonne Green has died. Yvonne was important to The Poetry Business, as an outstanding ...
Video – River Wolton: ’26th May’ from Year
River Wolton reads her poem ’26th May’ from her 2022 collection Year. In River Wolton’s Year, the intention to write ...
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 ...
Video – River Wolton: ’18th April’ from Year
River Wolton reads her poem ’18th April’ from her 2022 collection Year. In River Wolton’s Year, the intention to write ...
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 ...