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WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP MARLO BESTER-SPROUL
Malika Booker highlighted the way Marlo Bester-Sproul's Therapy uses tightly controlled tercets to mirror the power d...
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Time for another Christmas offer! To tie with today's festive feature on the occult lyricism of the 2020 Ignota Diar...
PBS GIFT GUIDE #6: IGNOTA DIARY
And now for something completely different! One for the astrologically aligned, the Ignota Diary is a poetic and occ...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP SUSAN UTTING
Susan Utting's Reconstructing my Father's Mother was described by judge Malika Booker as 'illusive, strange and hypno...
PBS GIFT GUIDE #5: POEMS FOR CHRISTMAS
Time for us to reveal another festive beauty in our PBS Gift Guide. With these beautiful end papers and bookmark ri...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP ISLE PEDLER
The next poem featured amongst our runners-up is Haibun of the Remembered by Isle Pedler. Malika Booker comments: 'll...
CLASS OF 2019: THE PBS POETS OF THE YEAR
What a year it's been for poetry! We've been looking back at the incredible range of poets in the PBS Class of 201...
PBS GIFT GUIDE #4: GYLES BRANDRETH'S ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS TO READ, RELISH & RECITE
Next up in The PBS Gift Guide's Top 10 Poetry Book Gifts for this Christmas is Dancing by the Light of the Moon by G...
PBS GIFT GUIDE #3: CAROL ANN DUFFY'S COLLECTED POEMS
The next gift in our Poetry Book Society Gift Guide is this beautiful hardback Collected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy ce...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER-UP SARAH WIMBUSH
Our next runner-up is Sarah Wimbush, who previously won the 2016 competition. Malika writes that The Ring is 'an evoc...
PBS GIFT GUIDE #2: SNOW POEMS
The appeal of snow must have something to do with childhood – the excitement of waking up to a white world and placi...
WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION: RUNNER UP ELOISE BIRTWHISTLE
We're very pleased to present runner-up Eloise Birtwhistle's Metastasis. Malika Booker writes: 'Eloise Birtwhistle de...