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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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
GLOSSARY
A tour of the Archive with David Almond
I love this archive. It's an important reminder that all literature has its roots in the human voice. Black print on...
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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.