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

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Missing Person

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

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

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

A Guided Tour of the Ice House

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

Shortlisted for the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize

Queen of Hearts

A Coalition of Cheetahs

Flageolets at the Bazaar

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

Winner of the 2025 International Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Kim Moore

By Degrees

The Rake

Spitting Distance

Night Orders: Poems from the Arctic and Antarctic

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

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

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

Ugly Bird

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

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

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

A Square of Sunlight

100 Poems on the Underground

An anthology celebrating the 40th anniversary of The North poetry magazine, featuring favourite p...

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...

Five

From a Borrowed Land

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

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

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...

Year

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

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

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

Lobe

The Hoarders

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

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

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

Judder Men