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. ...
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.
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 ...
Your favourite poems from The North
As we approach the 40th anniversary of The North, we would like to find out your favourite poem to have ...
Creative multidisciplinarity
Tallulah Howarth and Ruby Lawrence in conversation, discussing their approach to creative multidisciplinarity....
Our Poets in Residence for March 2024
Our Digital Poets in Residence this month have been Ruby Lawrence and Tallulah Howarth. During their residency they have been ...
Video – River Wolton: ’15th March’ from Year
River Wolton reads her poem ’15th March’ from her 2022 collection Year. In River Wolton’s Year, the intention to write ...
Sunday: Skies
During February our Digital Poets in Residence, Liv Aldridge and Thea Ayres, swapped nature writing prompts every Sunday throughout the month. ...