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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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A tour of the Archive with Helen Gray
As a secondary schoolteacher in London for the past thirty years, it has been my privilege to have had a job which...
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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.