Poetry Bites
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, offering you regular bite-size poetry treats from some of our favourite writers. The Poetry Business is a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
Episodes
Alan Payne introduces and reads 'Home' from his collection Mahogany Eve, which was published in May 2024, and was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize!
This recording is taken from the online launch event for the collection, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to ...
Shash Trevett reads 'These Were Their Names' from her collection The Naming of Names, which was published in August 2024, and was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize!
This recording is taken from the online launch event for the collection, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development a...
Tristram Fane Saunders reads 'The Rake Packs Up His Troubles in an Old Kitbag and Smiles, Smiles, Smiles' from his pamphlet The Rake, which was published in May 2022. This recording is taken from the online launch event for the pamphlet, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated...
Chloe Elliott reads 'Water' from her pamphlet Encyclopaedia, which was a winner of the 2022 New Poets Prize and was published in June 2023.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
Beth Davies reads 'Rat Dissection' from her pamphlet The Pretence of Understanding, which was a winner of the 2022 New Poets Prize and was published in June 2023.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
David Tait reads 'Remembering Glen Torridon' from his pamphlet By Degrees, which was published in October 2021. This recording is taken from the online launch event for the pamphlet, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding ne...
Tom Branfoot reads 'Lodgings' from his pamphlet This Is Not An Epiphany, which was a winner of the 2022 New Poets Prize and was published in June 2023.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
Serena Alagappan reads 'After the Mushroom at the End of the World' from her pamphlet Sensitive To Temperature, which was a winner of the 2022 New Poets Prize and was published in June 2023.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
Laurie Bolger reads 'After Class' from her pamphlet Spin, which won the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and was published in March 2024. This recording is taken from the online launch event for the pamphlet, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast byThe Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering,...
Chrissy Banks reads 'Ola' from her pamphlet Frank, which was published in May 2021. This recording is taken from the online launch event for the pamphlet, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
Thirza Clout reads 'Aunts', the title poem from her collection Aunts Come Armed with Welsh Cakes, which was published in May 2019. This recording is taken from a Poetry Business online reading in December 2023, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing an...
Ben Bransfield reads 'Bread' from his pamphlet Judder Men, which was published in April 2021. This recording is taken from the online launch event for the pamphlet, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
Meg Cox reads 'The Law of Unintended Consequences' from her collection A Square of Sunlight, which was published in July 2021. This recording is taken from the online launch event for the collection, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing ...
Alan Payne reads the title poem from his collection Mahogany Eve, which was published in May 2024. This recording is taken from the online launch event for the collection, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
Ian McMillan introduces and reads 'Tone Found in Sonnet' from his pamphlet Yes But What Is This? What Exactly?, which was published in October 2020.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
Nigel Pantling introduces and reads 'Night Reconnaissance' from his new collection, A Foreign Country, published in April 2025 and available now from the Poetry Business website.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.
Rosalind Easton reads 'Closet'
Rosalind Easton's pamphlet Black Mascara (Waterproof) is a glamorous and lively debut exploring relationships, popular culture, and the enduring power of teenage memories. It was a winner of the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition 2020.
Poetry Bites is a podcast by The Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing ...
Dale Booton reads and introduces 'E'
Dale was Highly Commended in the 2024 International Book & Pamphlet Competition.
Dale Booton (he/him) is a queer poet from Birmingham. His poetry is published by The North and Magma, and anthologised by Broken Sleep Books, Verve, Muswell Press, and Pan Macmillan. He has two pamphlets out: Walking Contagions (Polari Press) and On This Stretch of Queerland (Fourteen Poems).
James Appleby reads and introduces 'The Man I Saw Dead in the Road Reproaches Me'
James Appleby (b. 1993) is the author of the upcoming pamphletSpurious Language, commended in the 2024 International Book & Pamphlet Competition. He lives in Edinburgh and is the editor ofInterpret, Scotland’s new magazine of international writing.
Poetry Bites is a podcast byThe Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agen...
Cliff Yates reads 'Tonight in Kidderminster' from his 1999 collectionHenry Clock, also included in hisNew & Selected Poems (2023). This recording is taken from the online launch event for theNew & Selected Poems, which can be watched in full on our YouTube channel.
Poetry Bites is a podcast byThe Poetry Business, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, devel...
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