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27 totalOn the slow art of the chapbook
Why small-press poetry collections are having an unexpectedly loud moment — and what the chapbook still does that nothing else can.
Free online workshop: Writing into uncertainty
A two-hour generative session for poets of all experience levels — places are free thanks to our 2026 partners.
Believing in the Planet: a quiet, essential collection
Myra Schneider’s late-career book finds the weight of the world in a sparrow at the window.
Young Writers programme opens for 2026
Applications are now open for our fully-funded mentoring scheme for poets aged 16–24.
The 2026 Pamphlet Prize shortlist
Six pamphlets, six very different rooms. Meet the poets shortlisted for this year’s prize.
Eleni Cay in conversation: writing between languages
The author of Celestial Heteroglossia on code-switching, the music of translation, and why she writes her first drafts in two languages at…
Twenty years of widening the room
Founder Susan Sims looks back at two decades of community readings, prizes and stubborn independent publishing.
Notes from the spring launch
Three readings, one power cut, and a room that stayed anyway. A short notebook from a good night.
Translating silence: on the spaces between words
What a translator owes to the pauses, the line breaks and the white space a poet leaves behind.
What I Treasure: an anthology that earns its title
A generous, surprising gathering of poems about the objects we keep and what they keep of us.