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  • POETIPS 5: CARRIE ETTER

    Posted on August 20 2018

    Looking for some #MondayMotivation? Here's Carrie Etter's Top 3 PoeTips to get you writing! 1. Read outside your "comfort zone" to strengthen your understanding the possibilities of poetry and broaden your appreciation...

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  • AUTUMN RECOMMENDATION: KATE POTTS

    Posted on August 16 2018

    Introducing our Autumn Recommendation, Kate Potts! Feral offers luminous despatches from the charged, porous boundary between ‘animal’ and ‘human’. They pull apart and remake definitions and categorisations of wildness and civilisation,...

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  • WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH

    Posted on August 06 2018

    To celebrate Women in Translation Month (#WITmonth) we're reducing the price of translation membership to only £65! Translation Membership is the perfect way to keep up to date with the latest translated poetry across a...

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  • NATIONAL TRUST LAUNCHES LIMITED EDITION POETRY COLLECTION

    Posted on August 06 2018

      We're delighted to be able to offer Poetry Book Society members an exclusive 25% off Indifferent Cresses, a limited edition pamphlet by National Trust Poet in Residence Holly Corfield Carr....

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  • TOP TWENTY BOOKS TO READ FOR FEMINIST BOOK FORTNIGHT

    Posted on June 13 2018

    Feminist Book Fortnight starts this weekend and we're celebrating with this fierce round up of some of our favourite feisty feminist and/or womanist poetry collections from recent months, in no...

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  • PBS' 100 WOMEN POETS TO READ NOW

    Posted on March 09 2018

    To mark International Women's Day and 100 years of women's votes, we launched a major social media campaign to find the world's favourite 100 Women Poets. The response was incredible with...

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  • VOTE FOR THE TOP 100 WOMEN POETS

    Posted on March 08 2018

    100 Women Poets to read now on International Women's Day To celebrate 100 years of Women's Votes we asked our readers to vote for their favourite 100 women poets to highlight the...

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  • VOTES FOR WOMEN (POETS)

    Posted on February 19 2018

    We've been celebrating 100 years of women's votes by asking our readers to vote for their favourite poetry by women to highlight the wide range of poems by women. The list has grown and we've exceeded...

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  • POEM OF THE DAY

    Posted on February 12 2018

    From Who is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins, PBS Spring Choice, published by Faber. PBS Members will get their copies in the Spring book mail in February.

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  • POEM OF THE DAY

    Posted on February 12 2018

    From PBS Spring Recommendation Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan, published by Faber

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  • 100 WOMEN POETS

    Posted on February 09 2018

    This week marked 100 years since some (*sadly not all) women gained the vote in the UK. We've been celebrating all week by sharing poems from some of our favourite...

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  • WOMEN'S VOTE CENTENARY

    Posted on February 06 2018

    It’s #100years since *some* women got the vote in Britain! We're celebrating with these hugely inspiring PBS women poets & offering a FREE SIGNED copy of The World’s Wife by...

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  • SPRING CHOICE: SOPHIE COLLINS

    Posted on January 31 2018

      In the language of fan fiction, a ‘Mary Sue’ is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism. Such is...

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