Residencies

In fact, we happened to have seen the same obscure student film. Admittedly we both had fairly sketchy memories of ...

Find out a little more about our next pair Digital Poets in Residence, and keep your eye on the blog ...

Content Warning: this essay makes references to sexual violence and abuse. At my first Barbican Young Poets session fifteen years ...

We’re delighted to be partnering with The Writing Squad once again for our upcoming digital residency programme. A group of ...

The Girl Next DoorBy Helen Mort First, she came to borrow sugar. Sunday afternoonsshe’d cadge a pint of milk, sometimes ...

I’d spent a morning trying to pull my second-year notes on the Romantic poets into order: a largely pointless pursuit. ...

(Alternative Selves numbers 3 and 14!) I’ve been a portrait and life model for several months now, and am still ...

Tayiba writes: Jenny and I centred our residency around an idea we’ve been calling ‘alternative selves’. It’s essentially the idea ...

Our Digital Poets in Residence this month have been Tayiba Sulaiman and Jenny Danes. They have centred their residency around ...

This collection is strongly rooted in place, and in a historical legacy of Routh’s own family tree that runs throughout, ...

Silver Birch trees in winter, especially when they are numerous, remind me of frost-covered cobwebs. They are undeniably rooted in ...