Bring poetry to life in your school! These pages are specially designed to help you and your students to get the most out of the Poetry Archive.
Students
The Poetry Archive is a great place for students to research and learn about poetry.
Librarians
Support and practical ideas to help you and your readers enjoy the Archive.
New to Poetry?
Tips on using the Archive for less confident readers, and for those who are unfamiliar with reading poetry.
Many of the books and recordings featured in the Archive can be bought at the Poetry Bookshop Online
Chris Pearson
When choosing poems for my tour, I had just one criterion in mind: that each poem must allow me to comment on the quality of the spoken word (after al...
- Andrew Motion
- Jean Sprackland
- Monica Ali
- Stephen Fry
- Dr Rowan Williams
- Stephanie Anderson
- Clive James
- Helen Gray
- Rachel Smith
- David Almond
- Connie Ruzich
- Sarah Tremlett
- Catherine Olver
- Sherrie Talgeri
- Mark Grist
- Robert Cole
- Rachel Redford
- Roger Stevens
- Julia Copus
- Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Danielle McShine
This part of the Archive is full of poems chosen specially for children. Meet old favourites and make new discoveries.
Andrew Fusek Peters and Polly
Peters
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My Archive
Create lists of your favourite poems and poets and share them with friends.
Browse all poems by form
- allegory,
- anapaestic,
- animals,
- apostrophe,
- ballad,
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