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MARY JEAN CHAN WINS THE COSTA PRIZE
We're delighted that recent PBS Recommendation Mary Jean Chan has been awarded the Costa Book Award in the poetry cat...
T S ELIOT PRIZES THIS SUNDAY
All ten shortlisted poets will be taking part in the fabulous T. S. Eliot Prize Readings at 7pm on Sunday 12th Jan...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP WENDY ORR
Last but certainly not least, Malika writes that runner-up Wendy Orr's found poem A Parliament of Members 'captured p...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP JS WATTS
Malika comments that she was 'compelled by taunt, controlled verse paragraphs' in runner-up JS Watt's The Undertaker'...
BOXING DAY BLUES? TREAT YOURSELF TO POETRY!
Didn't get enough poetry this Christmas? Santa didn't get your letter, so why not join the PBS for a whole year of po...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP KATE POTTS
'Bloom by Kate Potts pops with alliteration like: Blood-black clots, womb ends, blossom and stain. It makes surprisin...
LAST ORDERS FOR CHRISTMAS
Don't miss our incredible PBS Gift Guide with 25% PBS Member discount! Peruse through our poetic present ideas and ge...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP LEAH LARWOOD
'‘Gold Divers’ by Leah Larwood feels mythical, fresh and strange. I was completely seduced by this epic and folkloric...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP KATIE HALE
'The way the syntax twists and turns like a river constantly expanding makes ‘A 17th Century Guide to Beauty in Virgi...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP CLAIRE DYER
'There was a Walcott quality to the quiet poem ‘Like This’ by Claire Dyer, where language becomes a visual painting d...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP NICOLA DALY
Malika describe's Nicola Daly's runner-up poem The Woman Who Cut My Mother as a 'masterfully articulated poem of witn...