🤓This is an important panel featuring leading diaspora poets on topics of exile and refuge. We look forward to hearing poets Carolyn Forché, Marjorie Lotfi Charlotte Shevchenko Knight & Yousif M. Qasmiyah on Fri 10 May 12-1pm

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Suji Kwock Kim's brilliant pamphlet Notes from the North won our 2019 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.
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She will be reading with Carolyn Forché and Patricia Smith at Newcastle Poetry Festival this Saturday!

Poetry Press! Can you help us spread the word about Newcastle Poetry Festival next week, including the International Poetry Symposium featuring 20 world class poets at Northern Stage 9th-10th May > poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/northern…

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We had an amazing time with Laurie last night!

Join her again next Wednesday at 11am for 'Writing: The Party' 🥳
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Available to listen to now on BBC Sounds

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I’ve always liked this tragicomic poem by ⁦Cliff Yates⁩ from his Selected Poems published by Smith/Doorstop ⁦The Poetry Business⁩. Fragility, hope, failure, pain all jostling for position.

Wonderful to see translations from Luke Samuel Yates' Dynamo by Sergiy Kuzin!

Luke's collection is on our website here: poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/dynamo/

✨WORKSHOP TOMORROW✨

Mon 6 May, 7pm
Writing The Seven Deadly Sins with Laurie Bolger (Laurie Bolger)
Tickets here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybusin…

Can't make it?
Never fear - Laurie will be joining us again for 'Writing: The Party' on 15 May: buytickets.at/thepoetrybusin…

Do you have a favourite poem from The North? 🤔

With the milestone The North issue 70 just around the corner, we'd love to know what has been your favourite poem you've read in The North so far!

Let us know here: poetrybusiness.co.uk/2024/04/03/you…

🍓 Exciting Poetry Club event at the The Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill on May 9, 7:30 pm! Join for a mesmerizing evening with Mary Jean Chan & charlotte shevchenko knight. Mary's award-winning work & Charlotte's powerful poetry await in the intimate candlelit bar.

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Unfortunately, this event has now been postponed until October.

More details of the new date coming soon.

Some very exciting new themed workshops now open for booking!
Including:
Parties with Laurie Bolger 🥳
Legends with 🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡 🐉
Short stories with #ChristopherWakling 📚
Mindfulness with River Wolton 💭

See them all here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybusin…

'Careful, considered, thoughtful, and full of insight and wisdom.' — Hilary Menos reviews 'On Poetry' by Jackie Wills (smith|doorstop, 2022). buff.ly/3w8X4tX #TheFridayPoem The Poetry Business

Vote for Your favourite poems from The North - The Poetry Business ⁦The Poetry Business⁩
Hmmm your choice but all the same I am suddenly staring deeply into your eyes. 🧱(not a threat just the closest emoji to walls) poetrybusiness.co.uk/2024/04/03/you…

Just been on The Poetry Business zoom workshop on Peter Redgrove Work and Incubation an introduction to his poetry and working methods. Fascinating morning thank you to all involved. Great to have the insider knowledge of penelope shuttle in the zoom room. Big thanks to Neil Roberts

My children’s collection, Blast Off, is available from Smith/Doorstop or from me!

Sheffield poet Warda Yassin (Warda) will join Imtiaz Dharker and Inua Ellams for an amazing evening of poetry with Sheffield University's Centre for Poetry and Poetics on Wed 8 May, 6.30pm

Details here:
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School of English Centre for Poetry & Poetics

'I found real treasure here.' — Hilary Menos reviews 'The Process of Poetry' edited by Rosanna McGlone (Fly on the Wall Press, 2023).buff.ly/3w8X4tX #TheFridayPoem Fly on the Wall Press Rosanna McGlone

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨

✨Mon 6 May, 7pm
Writing The Seven Deadly Sins with Laurie Bolger (Laurie Bolger)
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✨Wed 8 May, 11am
New Ways into Love Poetry with Jonathan Edwards
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I like this poem about the fragility of love and the persistence of time by Ann Sansom from her 2003 ⁦Bloodaxe Books⁩ collection In Praise of Men and Other People.