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POET ROBIN ROBERTSON WINS £25,000 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
Posted on June 19 2019
Robin Robertson has been awarded the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the first Scot and poet winner in the award’s ten-year history. His book, The Long Take (Picador),...
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GRIFFIN PRIZE WINNERS 2019
Posted on June 19 2019
Following the Shortlist Readings in Toronto on June 5th, international and Canadian winners of the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize have been officially announced. Encouraging excellence in poetry since 2000,...
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ANDREW MCMILLAN LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE
Posted on June 19 2019
Once again, our selectors have proven themselves gifted at spotting the best new collections! Recommended in Autumn 2018 by the PBS for its raw, intimate, and powerful poetry, Andrew McMillan’s Playtime has been...
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JAY G YING WINS POETRY BUSINESS PRIZE
Posted on June 14 2019
We're delighted to see our recent student poetry prize-winner Jay G Ying has been chosen as one of the winners for the Poetry Business' 2018/19 New Poets Prize by PBS Pamphlet...
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NEW BESPOKE VERSE & NATIONAL POETRY DAY COMPETITION
Posted on June 10 2019
Are you a hidden poet? According to the government’s Taking Part survey, 3.8% of the population write poetry – that’s two million people. Are you one of them? For the...
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LAUNCH OF THE WOMEN'S POETRY PRIZES 2019
Posted on June 01 2019
We're delighted to announce that submissions to the Women's Poetry Competition and Pamphlet Competition are now open! This is the second year we have partnered with Mslexia to bring...
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AUTUMN SELECTIONS
Posted on May 30 2019
We're so excited to announce our PBS Autumn 2019 Selections which will be mailed out to members in late August. Choice: Jericho Brown, The Tradition (Picador)Recommendations: Anthony Anaxagorou,...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: POETS FROM FINLAND
Posted on May 30 2019
Happy Translation Thursday to all our translation fans! To continue our journey across the world through poetry, today we want to put the spotlight on poets from Finland and cross-cultural...
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ALEN MESKOVIC AND FARUK SEHIC ARE COMING TO LONDON
Posted on May 29 2019
Interesting news for fans of translation! Bosnian authors Alen Mešković and Faruk Šehić are coming to London on 6th and 7th June 2019 for two days of events celebrating translation...
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VLOGGER IN RESIDENCE INTERVIEW
Posted on May 23 2019
PBS Vlogger in Residence Jen Campbell has just launched her debut poetry collection with Bloodaxe. The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales, the possession of body and the...
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FORWARD PRIZE SHORTLISTS ARE LIVE!
Posted on May 23 2019
Our PBS Selectors sure know how to spot the future prize winners and best emerging talent, their incredible track record of predicting the next big thing continues with at least 7 recent...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: GALICIAN POETRY IN TRANSLATION
Posted on May 23 2019
The PBS Translation Thursday blog returns with a language-specific focus! Today, we aim to highlight poetry by Galician authors. This regional language, mainly spoken in the Northwest of Spain, boasts...
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PBS POETS WIN PRIZES
Posted on May 21 2019
Our PBS Selectors sure know how to spot emerging talent... recent PBS Winter Choice Raymond Antrobus has been awarded the £30,000 Rathbone Folio Prize! The Perseverance was chosen from a...
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POEM OF THE DAY: LIEKE MARSMAN, TRANSLATED BY SOPHIE COLLINS
Posted on May 16 2019
The PBS Summer 2019 Recommended Translation is The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes by Dutch poet Lieke Marsman, translated by poet and translator Sophie Collins. A work of poetry,...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: POET AND TRANSLATOR IN CONVERSATION. AN INTERVIEW WITH LIEKE MARSMAN AND SOPHIE COLLINS.
Posted on May 16 2019
PBS Translation Members will soon be receiving the Summer PBS Recommended Translation. George Szirtes' choice for Summer 2019 is Lieke Marsman's very personal collection The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes,...
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ANNOUNCING THE NEW POET LAUREATE...
Posted on May 10 2019
We're delighted to announce that Simon Armitage will be the new UK poet laureate! The UK Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the Queen and government. The origins...
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OXFORD PROFESSOR OF POETRY
Posted on May 10 2019
Three poets are in the running for the distinguished post of Oxford Professor of Poetry: Andrew McMillan, Todd Swift and Alice Oswald. The candidates include two recent Poetry Book Society Selections: Andrew McMillan,...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: JOIN US TONIGHT TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE AND POEMS OF BERTOLT BRECHT
Posted on May 02 2019
Join us tonight at the Northern Poetry Symposium to learn more about the life of the great German writer Bertold Brecht and how the socio-political developments of his time are...
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THE POETRY TRANSLATION CENTRE’S NEW WORLD POET SERIES
Posted on April 25 2019
The Poetry Translation Centre is pleased to announce its new World Poet Series. The four forthcoming attractively designed pocket-sized bilingual editions offer an unrivalled introduction to some of the world’s most...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: PORTUGUESE-LANGUAGE POETRY FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
Posted on April 25 2019
Let’s travel across the world (and through time) through the means of poetry – and, in this Translation Thursday Blog, through the means of language. This month, two pioneering women...
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SYMPOSIUM EVENING EVENTS
Posted on April 23 2019
For the first time ever, you can also get a combined daytime and evening ticket so that you can enjoy an evening of music and poetry at the Sage, after...
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SYMPOSIUM PANEL REVEAL #4
Posted on April 23 2019
Join us at the PBS NCLA Northern Poetry Symposium on the 2nd May at Sage Gateshead. Here's s sneak preview of the speakers on 4th panel and final showcase of the...
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SYMPOSIUM PANEL REVEAL #3
Posted on April 23 2019
Don't miss the Northern Poetry Symposium on the 2nd May at Sage Gateshead. Here's a sneak preview of the speakers in our panel reveal #3: Inter/Ruptions: Playful Forms/Transforming Poetry | 13.20...
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SYMPOSIUM PANEL REVEAL #2
Posted on April 23 2019
PANEL REVEAL #2 Meet the speakers behind the second panel of our Northern Poetry Symposium on the 2nd May at Sage Gateshead. Inter/Active: The Digital Frontier and Pioneering Poetry | 11:20 –...
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SYMPOSIUM PANEL REVEAL #1
Posted on April 23 2019
MEET THE SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERSWe can't wait for the NCLA/ PBS Northern Poetry Symposium on INTER/PLAY on the 2nd May in Sage Gateshead's Barbour Room. This week we're throwing a spotlight...
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£10 SYMPOSIUM TICKETS FOR STUDENTS
Posted on April 23 2019
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NEW YOUNG PEOPLE'S LAUREATE
Posted on April 18 2019
THE NEW YOUNG PEOPLE'S LAUREATE FOR LONDON We're delighted to hear that rising star Theresa Lola has been announced as Spread the Word's new Young People’s Laureate for London. Theresa was recently published by...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: AWARD-WINNING POETRY IN TRANSLATION
Posted on April 18 2019
Great news for readers of poetry in translation! Two translated poetry titles have made the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize International Shortlist! One is a recent PBS 2018 Spring Translation Choice:...
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EASTER GIFT INSPIRATION
Posted on April 17 2019
Looking for the perfect Easter gift? How about giving this beautiful One Plum Poem card featuring William Wordsworth's famous "host of golden daffodils" and a PBS Gift membership for a...
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TRANSLATING POETRIES: A SYMPOSIUM FOR TRANSLATION PRACTITIONERS
Posted on April 16 2019
Be part of the future of poetry translation. In September the Poetry Translation Centre will be running Translating Poetries: A Symposium for Translation Practitioners. This event will gather 50 leading...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: THE TRANSLATOR’S (INTER)VIEW. MEET OUR TRANSLATION SELECTOR, POET AND TRANSLATOR GEORGE SZIRTES
Posted on April 11 2019
An insight into poetry and/in translation and into the PBS translation Choice selection process. What does it mean to be a poet and a translator? How does one become a...
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JOHN AGARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK
Posted on April 09 2019
Great to hear recent PBS Special Commendation John Agard on Radio 4's Start the Week reading from his new Bloodaxe collection The Coming of the Little Green Man. You...
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PBS POETS & LEONARD COHEN ON THE VERB
Posted on April 05 2019
It was great to hear PBS poets Raymond Antrobus and Tara Bergin at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at the Sage Gateshead last weekend. Led by the inimitable Ian McMillan...
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THE SPRING VLOG IS LIVE
Posted on April 05 2019
The PBS Spring Vlog is here! Our Vlogger in Residence, Jen Campbell, has been getting stuck into the seasonal PBS selections in her latest insightful video review. "It is dark,...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: POEMS FROM GREECE. FROM CLASSICAL VERSES TO DARING MODERN VOICES
Posted on April 04 2019
A word that has been on everyone’s lips in the last couple of years is “Europe”: a concept at times simple, at times deeply complex. Regardless of your view on...
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INTER / PLAY NORTHERN POETRY SYMPOSIUM
Posted on April 03 2019
We're delighted to be co-hosting the Northern Poetry Symposium with NCLA Newcastle University at the Sage on the 2nd May again this year. Check out the full programme here and...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: WORLD POETRY DAY
Posted on March 21 2019
In 1999, UNESCO decided to declare 21 March as World Poetry Day. Today is a day dedicated to the promotion of poetry, human creativity in its various forms, and also...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: THE TRANSLATOR’S (INTER)VIEW. TERENCE DOOLEY ON THE YEAR OF THE CRAB
Posted on March 21 2019
“Mariano Peyrou’s El año del cangrejo/The year of the crab came out in Spain only a little over a year ago and was immediately recognised by Tony Frazer of Shearsman...
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W S MERWIN REMEMBERED 1927-2019
Posted on March 19 2019
We are saddened to hear of the poet W.S. Merwin's death, aged 91. W.S. Merwin (1927-2019) was Poet Laureate of the United States in 2010-11. He received most of the...
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THE 2019 RATHBONE FOLIO PRIZE LONGLIST
Posted on March 19 2019
We're delighted to see recent PBS Selections Raymond Antrobus and Zaffar Kunial on the 2019 Longlist for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Here are the twenty titles on the Longlist: Can...
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HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!
Posted on March 18 2019
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We hope you have all enjoyed celebrating Irish culture yesterday, and particularly the Irish language, which may not always get the visibility it deserves. Today, we...
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WORLD POETRY DAY EVENTS GILGAMESH
Posted on March 14 2019
21st March - World Poetry Day 12.30—1.30pm Barbican Library Gilgamesh Retold Poet Jenny Lewis takes a fresh look at the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh Retold (Carcanet Press) relocates Gilgamesh...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: LONDON BOOK FAIR WEEK-INSPIRED POETRY
Posted on March 14 2019
After three days of showcases, business appointments, seminars, performances and networking, the 2019 London Book Fair ends today. For the publishing world, including that of translation, one of the highlights...
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CELEBRATING WORLD BOOK DAY ON 7TH MARCH
Posted on March 07 2019
It's World Book Day today! World Book Day celebrates reading and highlights the work of World Book Day charity which aims to provide every child and young person in the UK...
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TRANSLATION THURSDAY: POEMS BY WOMEN. CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!
Posted on March 07 2019
Happy international women’s day to all our readers. To celebrate all women and diversity, we are highlighting today four feminist poetry books by Tilted Axis Press, building up their remarkable...
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PBS & MSLEXIA WOMEN'S POETRY PAMPHLET WINNTER: THIS TILTING EARTH
Posted on March 06 2019
We are delighted to announce the winner of the PBS & Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Prize. Jane Lovell's This Tilting Earth was hailed by judge Amy Wack of Seren Books as "...haunting...
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Posted on March 05 2019
The 8th March is International Women's Day and we're proud to have represented so many phenomenal women in our recent PBS Selections. Here's a brief round up of a few of...
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SUMMER SNEAK PREVIEW
Posted on March 04 2019
We're very excited to reveal this sneak preview of our sensational Summer Selections. SUMMER 2019 Choice: Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky (Faber) Recommendation: Surge, Jay Bernard (Chatto) Erato, Deryn Rees-Jones (Seren)...
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