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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.

26th April 2021 26th April 2021

We Need Pudding: Experimental explorations of two food texts. A collaboration between Lenni Sanders and Lydia Allison

Lenni Sanders and I have worked together to take two different pieces of food writing and play with experimental poetic ...

6th April 2021 6th April 2021

April Digital Poet-In-Residence Lydia Allison

As part of our new ‘Apart Together’ digital project for 2021, The Poetry Business has partnered up with The Writing Squad to ...

31st March 2021 31st March 2021

Get Inside My Head

As my last contribution to the blog, here is a project I've been working on to share with you......

26th March 2021 26th March 2021

The lyrics of Jonathan Richman: a writing prompt

I love Jonathan Richman. His songs! Which tell such great stories. (And also his incredible dance moves! Which are so loose-limbed, and uninhibited.)...

22nd March 2021 22nd March 2021

Interview with Kim Moore

I’m delighted to be interviewing Dr Kim Moore for The Poetry Business as part of my digital residency......

11th March 2021 11th March 2021

Food Poems – A Short Podcast

Listen to a short podcast by Lenni Sanders, our March Digital Poet-In-Residence, which includes two poems about food......

6th March 2021 12th March 2021

Lenni Sanders and Helen Bowell: a weird dialogue

Helen Bowell & Lenni Sanders, our February & March Digital Poets-in-Residence create a collaborative poem using answers from questions presented to TPB's Twitter followers......

3rd March 2021 12th March 2021

An Introduction & Some Thoughts on Digital Poetry

Hello! For my first post I thought I would tell you a bit about myself. I am a writer and ...

1st March 2021 12th March 2021

March Digital Poet-In-Residence Lenni Sanders

Lenni Sanders is our Digital Poet-In-Residence for March. ...

26th February 2021 26th February 2021

This is my final blog of my residency and it’s been a pleasure! I plan to collaborate with your next ...

24th February 2021 26th February 2021

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 ...

16th February 2021 16th February 2021

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......