We were very sad to hear of the passing of the great Benjamin Zephaniah recently and want to celebrate his life and wonderful poems. We are very proud to have his recordings on the Archive and to be able to preserve…

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Celebrate Summer with a collection dedicated to the season, comprised of poems about love, desire, insects and heat.

To celebrate Pride and the publication of 100 Queer Poems, edited by Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan, ‘Speak its name’ is a collection of contemporary and twentieth-century voices by queer poets and poems with queer themes through a transhistorical…

Why not celebrate Shakespeare Week (21-27 March) and the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth (and death) on April 23rd by taking a deep dive into The Bard’s sonnets? By turns cheeringly familiar and strikingly subversive, Shakespeare’s Sonnets endure due to their…

In these challenging times we’ve curated a collection of poems which reflect different aspects of war, conflict and loss. Whilst highlighting the human cost of war by representing individual and shared grief, these poems affirm our collective humanity and speak…