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2020 FORWARD PRIZE SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED
The shortlists for the Forward Prizes for Poetry were announced this week to honour excellence in contemporary poe...
OPEN ACCESS: JERICHO ON THE TRADITION
In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement we've been opening up our archives to share some incredible arti...
STATEMENT: WE STAND TO DENOUNCE RACISM IN ALL ITS FORMS
We stand to denounce racism in all its forms.
We, the undersigned from the cultural sector of the North East,...
POEM A DAY: BULLET POINTS BY JERICHO BROWN
Bullet Points
I will not shoot myself
In the head, and I will not shoot myselfIn the back, and I will not hang mys...
NEXT INSTA LIVE BOOK CLUB: 10th JUNE
Join us on Wednesday 10th June for the next PBS Insta Live Book Club with Andrew McMillan and special guest Bhanu Ka...
LOVE POETRY? JOIN THE PBS
We're so excited to reveal this sneak preview of the PBS Summer Bulletin, which is on its way to members alongside B...
POEM A DAY: DANEZ SMITH
‘I’m going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense’- Danez Smith
Todays #dailypoem was selected by PBS Member An...
POEM A DAY: ST JOHN'S WORT
'Something akin
To happiness'
More copies of Tongues on Fire by Seán Hewitt just arrived! Available to order here ...
PASSPORT TO HERE AND THERE
From Passport to Here and There by Grace Nichols, published by Bloodaxe Books, PBS Summer Special Commendation....
MEET GRACE NICHOLS: SUMMER SPECIAL COMMENDATION
In Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childh...
HUG POEM CARDS
Our friends at @oneplumpoem have created a beautiful card featuring this poem hug by Grace Nichols to cheer up you...
POEM A DAY: PAUSE
They’ve come: a few birds and a black thought... life flows on, resembling life - Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot ...