Starting points
Not sure where to start? Who to listen to? What to read? The links below will help to get you on your way.
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GLOSSARY
A tour of the Archive with Clive James
The writer and broadcaster Clive James introduces a few of his favourite poems in the Poetry Archive.
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The Poetry Archive’s vision is to acquire and make recordings of contemporary English-language poets reading their own work, collect and preserve recordings of great poets from the past, and make extracts from all these recordings available free of charge.