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ISOLATION PROMOTION
Dear poetry friends and PBS members,
We hope you're all keeping safe and well in these unsettling times. We just wan...
POEM A DAY: SAFE SPACE
Wash your hands. Rub soap into foamInto lost hands...
- Safe Space II by Mary Jean Chan from her PBS Recommendation ...
POEM A DAY: MAYA ANGELOU
CAGED BIRD
MAYA ANGELOU
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current en...
POEM A DAY: SNOW
Today, snow. ‘World is suddener than we fancy it’. #keepcalmandreadpoems. Check out our isolation promotion and jo...
POEM A DAY: BLACK BEANS
A song for the restless this afternoon by the German poet Sarah Kirsch #keepcalmandreadpoems #stayathome #timeforac...
POEM A DAY: CHERRY BLOSSOM
This short and sweet #poemaday by the French poet Eugene Guillevic was inspired by this blossoming beauty in my ba...
POEM A DAY: ILYA KAMINSKY
‘We lived happily during the war’
Today’s #PoemADay #keepcalmandreadpoems comes from Ilya Kaminsky’s breathtaking co...
ISOLATION PROMOTION
To help you through the lock-down we've launched a special SELF-ISOLATION PROMOTION to bring PBS Members even more po...
POEM A DAY: THE LIGHTKEEPER BY CAROLYN FORCHE
‘Nothing / to be afraid.... Go toward the light always, be without ships’
Today’s #keepcalmandreadpoems #PoemADay c...
ANNOUNCING THE SUMMER SELECTIONS
In these darkening days it brings us so much joy to share this little ray of sunshine... the PBS Summer Selections...
POEM A DAY: THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Today’s #PoemADay is a familiar favourite Robert Frost’s classic ode to social distancing - take the road less trave...
KEEP CALM AND READ POEMS
From Kathleen Jamie's Selected Poems, PBS recommendation.
Dear poe...