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National Poetry Day – the UK’s biggest mass-participation celebration of poetry takes place in October each year and is a fantastic resource for poetry fans. For 2021, the National Poetry Day theme is CHOICE. Poetry Archive has curated this superb collection of our…

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Obsidian Collection

New to the Obsidian Collection Community & Culture History & Identity Family & Relationships Writing & Inspiration Coming Soon This collection is a collaboration between The Poetry Archive and the Obsidian Foundation to recognise the importance of the inspirations, stories…

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BBC 100 Collection

1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 View as TimelineTake a guided tour with Simon Armitage The BBC has long been a champion of poetry, and over the last 100 years has had a major influence in…

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Poets Laureate Collection

United Kingdom Scotland, Ireland & Wales USA Canada Barbados & Jamaica New Zealand The honorary title of Poet Laureate is given to writers generally considered to be pre-eminent in their time. Poets Laureate sometimes write to capture national moods and…

Guided Tour

National Poetry Library Favourites

We’ve teamed up with the National Poetry Library to bring you this guided tour of The Poetry Archive. In this tour, members of the National Poetry Library team, Chris McCabe, Lorraine Mariner and Will René, walk you through their favourites within our collections.

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Bloom Collection in the Poetry Archive

This collection of poems was specially selected for Bloom: Exeter Phoenix’s Festival of Mental Health Awareness.

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Earth Day Poetry Collection

Earth Day is a day to celebrate our planet. Poets have long explored the fragility of the environment in ways which enable a deep, lasting appreciation and understanding of our world. We’ve put together a collection of poems which help…

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World Poetry

Celebrate common humanity, diverse cultures and the importance of poetry in the arts. We’ve put together a collection of recordings which travel widely across continents, histories, and languages. Together they demonstrate the amazing poetic talent drawn from international backgrounds which the Poetry Archive is proud to have in our keeping.

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Other worlds

Poetry also has the power to take us to new places, lifting off from the known world to explore beyond earth’s horizon, or making what we think we know strange again.