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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 was made possible by a Penguin Anthology of Haiku translated and edited by Adam L. Kern. I spoke to ...

Lately, the genre of poetry that has most inspired me is the bhakti poetry of India. Bhakti is an ancient concept in Indian spirituality, meaning worship and devotion....

Watch Karishma Sangtani's response to Jane Routh's poem 'Wind and woods', from Listening to the Night...

As I was putting the references for this review/essay/response together, I noticed a common theme in each of the poems I’d picked. Death, renewal, heritage. Lots of these poems encompass much more than just...

Part One: Writing under Capitalism by Karishma Sangtani I began working full-time over two years ago and, perhaps naively, believed ...

Em and I wanted to choose something without really choosing. Someone once said to me, you don’t choose experiences, they choose you. They put a real emphasis on the you and it made me...

During this residency I’ve been thinking about re-reading There’s some guilt attached to it, at least in my experience: a voice that asks, why waste time reading something you’ve read before, when you could...

‘Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen’ Leonardo ...

‘Tales such as these flutter round Devon as plentifully as bats flit across the chimneys of an ancient manor house’ ...

As a continuation of our ‘Apart Together’ digital project, The Poetry Business has partnered with The Writing Squad to host three joint digital residencies between February and July 2023....