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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 2d

✨WORKSHOP NEXT WEEK✨

☀️ 'Finding and expressing joy, contentment & happiness in our work through divinations of the everyday' with Jane Burn
Tues 14 Oct, 11am

Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...

@ninearchespress.bsky.social @janeburn.bsky.social

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 5d

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 Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 10d

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

The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 7d

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/

The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 9d

✨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 @

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 10d

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

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 14d

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

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 16d

✨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

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 23d

✨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

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨ 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

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 27

✨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...

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Dale Booton @dalebooton.bsky.social · Aug 26

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. 📚✨

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 26

✨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

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Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Cover of issue number 71 of The North poetry magazine

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · Aug 23

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...

CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets - The Poetry Business

Thirty-two of the brightest writing talents in one briliantly-curated anthology. With a preface and introduction by the editors. CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets is a stimulat...

poetrybusiness.co.uk

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Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social · Aug 24

In #thenorth #issue71 from @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

#Tomorrowland by #charliejolley

#poetry #poem #poetrycommunity
#Sundayreading

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · Aug 22

'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-...

The North – 71 - The Poetry Business

The North is a literary magazine published twice a year by The Poetry Business, and is essential reading for anyone who loves contemporary poetry.

poetrybusiness.co.uk

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 21

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/

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 19

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-...

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · Aug 5

A little late with Day 4!
#sealeychallenge
#thesealeychallenge
#southasianheritagemonth

Cia Mangat, ‘Lobe’ published by @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

Poem ‘inventory of aunties’ by Cia Mangat.

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