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WRITE WHERE WE ARE NOW
Former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University hav...
A POEM FOR EARTH DAY
"Remember you are this universe and this universe is you."
- Joy Harjo, Remember
Happy #EarthDay50! Here's an extr...
POEM A DAY: ADONIS
Nighttime nostalgia with Syrian poet Adonis. Let’s walk again in the gardens of our high days but not quite yet #s...
POEM A DAY: THE ROBIN
‘The endOf a day, brightening’
#keepcalmandreadpoems #poemaday
Thanks to The Gallery Press for delivering John...
POEM A DAY: SIMON ARMITAGE
Today’s #poemaday is a new lockdown poem by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage published in the SundayTimes today #keepcal...
POEM A DAY: DEREK WALCOTT
‘Let the day grow on you upward... you can never be dispossessed’
- An evening affirmation from Derek Walcott #poema...
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Thanks to everyone who has already supported our poets and publishers by joining the Poetry Book Society. We're offe...
POEM A DAY: TA PROHM
We've declared Summer at the PBS and we can't wait to showcase each of our summer selections with you over the comin...
DIGITAL POETRY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
We've been so inspired by all the digital poetry happenings springing up online in recent weeks so here's a round up ...
POEM A DAY: ELLA FREARS
Happy book birthday to Shine, Darling by Ella Frears, one of our PBS Summer Recommendations. For those of us in lock...
POEM A DAY: MARY RUEFLE
The
Pen
Was going to try to join us there later
Provided the fever did not break out
- Mary Ruefle, A l...
POEM A DAY: GARDEN
‘You will hear
the curlew's song and it will wake something.
It will be a sort of beginning’
Today’s #keepcalmandrea...