Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford. ...

Missing Person

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Heavenly lidos, the siren call of the Doctor Who theme tune, the tender melancholy of early mothe...

Exciting, accomplished, and shimmering with ideas, Dear Life is the work of an exceptional talent...

A Guided Tour of the Ice House

In Your Absence is a response to a year of bereavement, a murder and a trial, estrangements, depa...

Flageolets at the Bazaar

The Laureate's Choice Anthology brings together substantial selections from each of the 20 poets ...

Spitting Distance

Blast Off! is aimed at 7-10 year olds but lower secondary school children will also enjoy the poe...

The Mechanics of Love explores the impact of medicine on personal experiences and the human condi...

When I Think of My Body as a Horse centres around the experience of infertility and baby loss wit...

Ugly Bird

A Square of Sunlight

Cast: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets

The Day of the Flying Ants is about home and leaving home. Much of this entertaining pamphlet foc...

From a Borrowed Land

Threadbare is about witnessing and experiencing sexual violence against women from a young age, a...

Warda Yassin's poems cross borders and cultures, combining the family storytelling of a home in S...

In Rosalind Easton's lively and inventive debut collection, everyday objects are invested with gl...

Sharp and observant, Louise G. Cole's poems use wry humour to balance the pathos arising from pic...

In this moreish collection Welsh cakes come to represent secrets and things which remain unsaid i...

Takeaway

A Commonplace is a dialogue about how poetry is made and how it makes a difference to our lives. ...

Judder Men

The First Five Storms

Talking to Stanley on the Telephone rummages through the desires, frustrations and waning faculti...

The Laureate's Choice is an annual pamphlet publication project from The Poetry Business working ...

Have a nice weekend I think you're interesting is a collection of poetry about hometowns and dist...

By Degrees

The Underlook balances precariously between the real and the surreal. Informed by experiences of ...

Queen of Hearts

Karl Knights' Kin meet inside hospitals and grow up in waiting rooms and hospital cafeterias wher...

Kitchens at Night exists in the space between domesticity and imagination, the dreamt and the act...

We begin with a drive to write something that's never been said before, to protest, to offload, t...

Too Much Mirch

Award-winning poet Kim Moore studied music and was a trumpet teacher for several years. What the ...

The Rake

Year

Didicoy offers a window into the colourful, precarious world of a multiracial Romany family, and ...

In these rich and witty poems, we encounter a gallery of characters, voices and situations in var...

Tom Branfoot''s This is Not an Epiphany examines inner and outer landscapes that have become inho...

Sensitive to Temperature seeks out the precariousness and sensitivities of language, as well as t...

Beth Davies'' The Pretence of Understanding explores loss, not just of loved ones but of youth an...

The North is a literary magazine published twice a year by The Poetry Business, and is essential ...

The Butcher's Hands

This anthology brings together three Sheffield poets, Danae Wellington, Silé Sibanda and Warda Ya...