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A tour of the Archive with Robert Cole
Poetry springs to life in recordings such as those curated in the Archive. Poems have a perfectly respectable...
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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.