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.
TAKE A TOUR
POET IN RESIDENCE
FIND POETS
FIND POEMS
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
GLOSSARY
A tour of the Archive with Rachel Smith
Visiting the Poetry Archive feels like browsing through your favourite bookshop and finding that all the books are...
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Featured downloads
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.