The Poetry Business - Misplaced Pages

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)

The topic of this article may not meet Misplaced Pages's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "The Poetry Business" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.
Find sources: "The Poetry Business" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2025)

(Learn how and when to remove this message)

The Poetry Business is an independent press, and a writer development agency, based in Sheffield. Since 1986, they have run workshops, mentorships, competitions and more. The poet duo, Peter and Ann Sansom, are the directors of the Poetry Business.

About

The Poetry Business was established in 1986. They publish The North magazine, which was 70 issues old in August 2024, and several imprints, and their poets "have won or been shortlisted for almost every major poetry prize, including the Forward Prize on 11 occasions and 10 Poetry Book Society awards". The press themselves have won the Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet Publishers in 2012 and 2017.

The press have often worked with Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage.

Competitions

The Poetry Business run several annual literary competitions, including the International Book & Pamphlet Competition, and the New Poets Prize.

The New Poets Prize

The New Poets Prize, "an annual pamphlet prize that creates new publishing and mentoring opportunities for poets between the ages of 17 and 24." One of the press's imprints, the New Poets List, is dedicated to publishing the New Poets Prize winners, which include:

2016: Phoebe Stuckes, for Gin & Tonic
2016: Theophilus Kwek, for The First Five Storms
2016: Jenny Danes, for Gaps
2016/17: Lizzie Hawkins, for Osteology
2016/17: Sarah Fletcher, for Typhoid August
2016/17: Ian Burnette, for Wax
2016/17: Stefan Kielbasiewicz, for Stealing Shadow
2017/18: Warda Yassin, for Tea with Cardamom
2017/18: Emma Jeremy, for Safety Behaviour
2017/18: Joe Carrick-Varty, for Somewhere Far
2017/18: Tristram Fane Saunders, for Woodsong
2019: Abbie Neale, for Threadbare
2019: Ben Ray, for The Kindness of the Eel
2019: Jay Gao, for Katabasis
2019: Callan Waldron-Hall, for Learning to be Very Soft
2020: Lucy Holt, for Have a nice weekend I think you’re interesting
2020: Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith, Ugly Bird
2020: Georgie Woodhead, for Takeaway
2020: Gboyega Odubanjo, for Aunty Uncle Poems
2021: Charlotte Shevchenko Knight, for Ways of Healing
2021: Karl Knights, for Kin
2021: Hannah Hodgson, for Queen of Hearts
2021: Safia Khan, for Too Much Mirch
2022: Beth Davies, for The Pretence of Understanding
2022: Tom Branfoot, for This Is Not an Epiphany
2022: Chloe Elliott, for Encyclopaedia
2022: Serena Alagappan, for Sensitive to Temperature
2023: Caleb Leow, for The Hoarders
2023: Freya Bantiff, for All Appears Ordinary
2024: Jayant Kashyap, for. Notes on Burials
2024: Cia Mangat, for Lobe

References

"Our Team". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
^ "History". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
"The North Magazine". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
"Press + Awards". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
^ "About". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
"New Poets List". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 2025-01-12.

External links

The Poetry Business website

Categories: