We are thrilled that our funding application for 2021 has been successful, allowing us to launch our full programme of work for the year ahead. This includes digital writing workshops led by Ann & Peter Sansom and guest-tutors, digital residencies, the recruitment of an Apprentice Editor-in-Residence, an open call for submissions, and poetry readings, as well as our usual schedule of excellent new poetry titles from the bookshop.
We publish books, pamphlets, audio and eBooks under the smith|doorstop imprint; edit a literary magazine, The North; and run Writing Days, masterclasses, residential courses, and a Writing School for published poets. We also run the annual Book & Pamphlet Competition.
We publish books, pamphlets, audio and eBooks under the smith|doorstop imprint; edit a literary magazine, The North; and run Writing Days, masterclasses, residential courses, and a Writing School for published poets. We also run the annual Book & Pamphlet Competition.
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The Poetry Business is a publisher and writer development agency with a strong reputation for discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poets.
Our poets have won, been shortlisted for or highly commended in almost every major poetry prize, including the Forward Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the National Poetry Competition, and in both 2012 and 2017 The Poetry Business won the Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet Publishers.Over the last three decades we have nurtured the writing and developed the careers of hundreds of poets.
Our poets have won, been shortlisted for or highly commended in almost every major poetry prize, including the Forward Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the National Poetry Competition, and in both 2012 and 2017 The Poetry Business won the Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet Publishers.Over the last three decades we have nurtured the writing and developed the careers of hundreds of poets.
The Poetry Business is a leading writer development agency and an outstanding independent press. Established in the early eighties, we now have over three decades of experience in nurturing the writing and developing the careers of hundreds of poets. Our teaching, mentoring and editorial work is widely regarded as the benchmark in writer development provision.
When I Think of My Body as a Horse is about trauma, recovery and the powerful, animal instincts embedded in the act of creating a family. These poems explore motherhood and body identity within the context of baby loss, when there is no 'rainbow baby' to add closure to the narrative.
When I Think of My Body as a Horse is packed with images of the body in transformation of one kind or another, from the very first 'nothing to me now / but a sudden startle of feathers' to the title poem, 'another thing / I need to love and care for.These are powerful, heartbreaking but ultimately transcendent poems about loss, grieving and recovery.
When I Think of My Body as a Horse is packed with images of the body in transformation of one kind or another, from the very first 'nothing to me now / but a sudden startle of feathers' to the title poem, 'another thing / I need to love and care for.These are powerful, heartbreaking but ultimately transcendent poems about loss, grieving and recovery.
Talking to Stanley on the Telephone rummages through the desires, frustrations and waning faculties of old age. The stories it tells add up to a vivacious celebration of life-spans and the darkening comedy of growing old. Age has not diminished Michael Schmidt's boyish wonder at the world but rather made his bemused questioning of the foibles of its fickle folk all the merrier and more poignant.
The North 65 showcases 148 poems by 66 outstanding poets, including poems by Rebecca Althaus, David Borrott, Alison Brackenbury, David Constantine, Ian McMillan, Michael Schmidt, Kathryn Simmonds, Pam Thompson, Luke Samuel Yates, and many more. This issue's 'Featured Title' is Birmingham Canal Navigation by Cliff Yates (Knives Forks and Spoons Press).
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Hilary Robinson
May 28, 2017
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Yvonne Green
Dec 02, 2014
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Winning The Book And Pamphlet Competition, getting the phone call, was an unparalleled event. It meant a collection, a book, a place for poems on a shelf, in computers and Kindles latterly. It meant I could write and separate the question of being read from that, share that question with others, stand back from it and its place. At aged 50, my… published poems, dwarfed by rejection slips, the poems I'd felt compelled to recite since I was 5 went somewhere, or some of them did. The growing stacks of rejections, drafts, scraps around me still feel as solitary as my pen, hand, computers, as
