The Association for Promoting Retreats exists to encourage more people to go on retreat and to support the ministry of our member retreat houses and retreat leaders.

... Today’s different – death’s airborne. / A murder-minded · mob of rooks / flocks in fury, forty to one ...

A chapel now dedicated to Christ the ServantDaylight from two slit windows falls on the cross above the altar, casts that familiar double shadow, and thereit is again – the shape of my calling.How …

The Association for Promoting Retreats exists to encourage more people to go on retreat and to support the ministry of our member retreat houses and retreat leaders.

What's that knocking? It's the multi-talented Tishani Doshi, sharing her Bloodaxe collection A God at the Door. You'll hear supple, powerful poems fuelled by a controlled rage at the continuing oppres...

A profile of Belfast poet Michael Longley, offering insights into his work and influences.

Silence at the Water’s Edge .. .. Jessamine O’Connor lives on the Sligo Roscommon. Her collection ‘Silver Spoon’ is published by Salmon Poetry, she has chapbooks with Nine Pens Press and the Black …

Come and join Kim Moore and Clare Shaw in a daily Writing Hour throughout January 2025