POSTPONED Unfortunately, due to flooding in Grasmere, we are unable to go ahead with our competition winners' celebration tomorrow. Apologies to everyone who was planning to come along, and please watch this space for the new date for this event.

The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize are NOW OPEN! Enter your poems for a chance to have your pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop. 📚 Deadline 2 November 2025 Enter here: poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨Personal Words with Jacob Polley Mon 6 Oct, 7pm ✨Leading by Example with Kathryn Simmonds Tues 7 Oct, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @picadorbooks.bsky.social @

Join us on Saturday at Wordsworth Grasmere to celebrate the winners of the 2025 International Book & Pamphlet Competition, chosen by Kim Moore! More details and free tickets - wordsworth.org.uk/event-direct... @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social

Get ready! The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize are opening for entries soon. ✍️ OPEN FOR ENTRIES FROM 1 OCTOBER Deadline 2 November 2025 Find out more: poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/ @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @hollyhopkins.bsky.social

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨'This is not a play: mixing up the genres' with Amanda Dalton Mon 29 Sept, 7pm ✨'Self-Portrait, with Poems' with Jonathan Edwards Tues 30 Sept, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social

✨WORKSHOP NEXT WEEK✨ 🎨 Bright Words: Poetry and Colour with Theresa Muñoz 🌈 Tues 23 Sept, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @munozpoems.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social

Join us at Wordsworth Grasmere next month to celebrate the winners of the 2025 International Book & Pamphlet Competition, chosen by Kim Moore. More details and free tickets: wordsworth.org.uk/event-direct... @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social

✨ WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨ Shaping a Collection with Erica Hesketh Tues 9 Sept, 11am ✨ 'After Blackberrying' with Rachel Long Wed 10 Sept, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social

An excellent review of Jayant Kashyap's Notes on Burials, courtesy of eche poetry: www.echepoetry.co.uk/reviews/buri... "...These are poems that stay with you, prompting you to return and search again for meaning in their careful, deliberate lines."‬ @jaydkash.bsky.social @echepoetry.bsky.social

Come join us at Off The Shelf in Sheffield this October! The wonderful Off the Shelf programme is now available. As usual, there are hundreds of exciting events on offer from 10 October to 10 November! offtheshelf.org.uk/events/the-p... @otsfestival.bsky.social @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social

✨The North Online Writing Workshop: a rather special fundraiser for The Poetry Business✨ Saturday 13th September, 11am £35 In this inspirational workshop Ann and Peter draw on outstanding poems from forty years of their and your magazine, The North. More details: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...

Absolutely thrilled to be published in the latest The North after being a runner-up in the 2024 International Book & Pamphlet Competition! Huge thanks to the editors @poetrybusiness.bsky.social and judge @janeclarke.bsky.social - feeling very grateful. 📚✨

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨Tues 2 Sept, 11am Queer Poetry with Clare Shaw ( @clareshawpoet.bsky.social) buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... ✨Wed 3 Sept, 11am Writing Birds with Laurie Bolger ( @lauriebolger.bsky.social) buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Thrilled to have poems in the latest issue of #TheNorth from @poetrybusiness.bsky.social, alongside so many poets whose poems I admire.

I forgot this collection by @poetrybusiness.bsky.social existed, and that poems I actually wrote are in it. Still an interesting collection of poetry if you like that sort of thing! poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/cast...

In #thenorth #issue71 from @poetrybusiness.bsky.social #Tomorrowland by #charliejolley #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #Sundayreading

'Indeed, a joyous collection, full of fun.' Sarah-Clare Conlon on Anthony Vahni Capildeo's collection Polkadot Wounds, for The North Magazine. Read more here: poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/the-...

Get ready! The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize are opening for entries soon. 🏆 Judges: @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social & @hollyhopkins.bsky.social OPEN FOR ENTRIES FROM 1 OCTOBER Deadline 2 November 2025 Find out more: poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

Many thanks to Carol Rumens for selecting Suji Kwock Kim's powerful poem 'Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border' as the Guardian Poem of the Week! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com

Join us for events in Grasmere, Ilkley, Leeds and Sheffield this Autumn! For details and booking links: poetrybusiness.co.uk/2025/08/20/a... @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social

The North 71 is here! Jam-packed with brilliant poetry, articles and features. Our focus feature for this issue is a celebration of Michael Laskey at 80 🎉 See a list of all the poetry and features included in this issue, and order your copy, on the PB website: poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/the-...

More lovely Shash Trevett news! Shash's debut collection The Naming of Names is on the longlist for the 2025 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize! poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/the-... @shashtrevett.bsky.social

A little late with Day 4! #sealeychallenge #thesealeychallenge #southasianheritagemonth Cia Mangat, ‘Lobe’ published by @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

In honour of her recent Walcott Prize shortlisting, we've re-published Shash Trevett reading her amazing poem 'These Were Their Names' on the Poetry Bites podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5j2J... Next week hear a poem from Alan Payne, who is also on the shortlist! @shashtrevett.bsky.social

The #SealeyChallenge is two short days away—and you can pre-celebrate by listening to the special 50th episode of Poetry Centered, hosted by @nicolesealey.bsky.social herself! Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1165454/epis...

Very much looking forward to reading alongside @pimlottkathy.bsky.social and Peter Sansom of the @poetrybusiness.bsky.social at the wonderful Five Leaves bookshop in Nottingham on 16th September: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/poetr...

Last week we were delighted to hear that two of our poets have been shortlisted for this year's Derek Walcott Prize! Huge congratulations to all the shortlistees, but especially to Alan Payne and Shash Trevett! www.arrowsmithpress.com/walcott @shashtrevett.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social

As a storyteller and translator, Trevett demonstrates a remarkable ability to choose her words with precision, ensuring that each one serves the larger purpose of the poem – Thembe Mvula, Poetry London poetrylondon.co.uk/they-were-he... @poetrylondon.bsky.social @shashtrevett.bsky.social

Join us this evening at 7pm! youtube.com/live/3-aR_W7...

Thank you very much to The Yorkshire Times for choosing Cia Mangat's 'inventory of aunties' as Poem of the Week! Cia's pamphlet Lobe was a winner of our New Poets Prize, and is out now: poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/lobe/ @jalebibaby.bsky.social

Join us online on Sunday for a fascinating evening of poetry! Nigel Pantling will read from his new collection A Foreign Country, and discuss with writer Tom Connolly and PB co-director Ann Sansom. Register to get FREE P+P on all of Nigel's books on our website: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...

Poems from ‘Notes on Burials’ have appeared in good places, incl. Couplet Poetry and Poetry London. From mid-July, I’ll be sending out signed copies to everyone interested (₹474 / £5.5 + postage) — please get in touch if you’d like one, or two. Comment. Text. Email. 🥂☺️ @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

✨WORKSHOP THIS WEEK✨ 'Family in dreamscape' with Rachel Long Wed 25 June, 11am buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... Rachel Long’s debut collection, My Darling from the Lions (Picador, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection & the Costa Book Award. @picadorbooks.bsky.social

Hear Serena Alagappan read her amazing poem 'After the Mushroom at the End of the World' on our Poetry Bites podcast now! open.spotify.com/episode/6FCO... This poem is from her pamphlet Sensitive To Temperature, which was a winner of the 2022 New Poets Prize and was published in June 2023.

Thanks to Tim Relf and The Bookseller for featuring us in this week's issue! It's been a wonderful 40 years 🎉 www.thebookseller.com/trade-interv... @thebookseller.com @timrelf.bsky.social

Only a couple of spots left on Alexandra's online workshop this Monday evening! Poetry's Makeshift Shelter: Contemporary Haiku Monday 16 June, 7pm buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @corrintachibana.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com

Join Tara Bergin and Michael Schmidt this Wednesday for a fascinating in-depth discussion of the legendary American poet Emily Dickinson: www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo... @carcanet.bsky.social

You can now hear the awesome Laurie Bolger reading her poem 'After Class' on our Poetry Bites podcast! spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/pavgosYaXTb @lauriebolger.bsky.social

Head over to Shash Trevett's page on The Poetry Archive's website to hear her read some of her amazing poetry, which she recorded especially for them earlier in the year: poetryarchive.org/poet/shash-t... @shashtrevett.bsky.social

It's nearly time! Join us on YouTube this afternoon at 2pm: youtube.com/live/FBl9s4r...

Always an exciting day in the office when the new books arrive! 👀 Don't forget to join us on Sunday afternoon for the online launch of these two amazing pamphlets: youtube.com/live/FBl9s4r... @jaydkash.bsky.social @jalebibaby.bsky.social

Join us online this Sunday to hear excellent new poetry from Jayant Kashyap and Cia Mangat as we celebrate their new pamphlets! buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @jaydkash.bsky.social @jalebibaby.bsky.social

I’ll be launching NOTES ON BURIALS with Cia (@jalebibaby.bsky.social) whose pamphlet LOBE also won the New Poets Prize last year. The launch is online: 8 Jun 2:00 – 3:00 PM BST: www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo... Come see us, and say hello to the @poetrybusiness.bsky.social team. It’ll be fun! 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Matthew Paul will be launching his new collection The Last Corinthians (Crooked Spire Press) with readings in Doncaster, London and Nottingham, plus an online launch, over the next few months! First up: Doncaster Brewery Tap, Saturday 7 June More here: crookedspirepress.com/the-last-cor...

Had a wonderful morning recording my poems for @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social with the lovely #PaulBaily at Re:Sound Studios resounduk.co.uk Paul was amazing and so good at what he does. I am thrilled to have my poems recorded: thank you Paul and The Poetry Archive 🙏🏽🙏🏽 @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

The wonderful poet and translator Shash Trevett joins us again next week for an online workshop on 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary' The Archive of the Mundane: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary Wednesday 4 June, 11am www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo... @shashtrevett.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to Deepa Bhasthi, Banu Mushtaq and fellow Sheffield publishers @andotherstories.bsky.social on their amazing Booker Prize win! 🥳🥳🥳

Join us for an amazing evening of poetry with the two winners of our 2024 New Poets Prize, Jayant Kashyap and Cia Mangat, whose pamphlets are published this month! Hear them read their new work live on our YouTube channel on Sunday 8 June, 2pm BST: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...

Romalyn Ante joins us on Monday evening for an online workshop looking at childhood memories! buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... Romalyn is an award-winning Filipino-British poet & editor. Her second collection, AGIMAT (Chatto, 2024) was a PBS Recommendation and Observer Poetry Book of the Month.