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POET OF THE WEEK: LAYLI LONG SOLDIER
The PBS Summer Special Commendation WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its ...
AUSTRIAN POETS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Last month we drew your attention to the big translation achievement by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn – The Collecte...
WRITING TIPS - HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR WRITING
To celebrate National Writing Day, we’ve compiled a handy list of #WriTips to help you improve your writing. Keep rea...
WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR WON BY AILBHE DARCY
Cardiff-based Irish poet Ailbhe Darcy has won the English Language Roland Mathias Poetry Award (the English language...
NATIONAL WRITING DAY POETRY PROMPTS
Suffering from writer's block this National Writing Day? Don't worry, here at the Poetry Book Society we've been work...
ALICE OSWALD NEW OXFORD PROFESSOR OF POETRY
Succeeding Simon Armitage, Alice Oswald has been announced as the new Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. The...
THE SUMMER VLOG IS LIVE
PBS Vlogger-in-Residence Jen Campbell has been reading her way through our sensational PBS summer selections includi...
TRANSLATION THURSDAY: TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH POETS IN TRANSLATION
We were very excited to see our PBS Bulletin in Shakespeare & Company last week!
Our Translation Thursday blog...
ERIC GREGORY AWARDS ANNOUNCED
The winners of the Eric Gregory Awards were announced at the 2019 Society of Author’s Awards night. The awards were ...
JERWOOD COMPTON POETRY FELLOWS 2019 ANNOUNCED
The three recipients of the 2019/2020 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships have been announced: Hafsah Aneela Bashir, ...
JOY HARJO FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN US POET LAUREATE
Joy Harjo, a member of the Muskogee Creek nation, has become the United States' first Native American Poet Laureat...
POET ROBIN ROBERTSON WINS £25,000 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
Robin Robertson has been awarded the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the first Scot and poet winner in ...