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Our twentieth birthday in review
2025 celebrates the birthday of our website, marking 20 years of bringing poetry free-of-charge to our visitors. We’ve worked hard to remain open to the public, and we are delighted to have ...
Interview with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, overall winner of Poetry Archive Now! Wordview 2025
Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil poet and producer. They are the recipient of the Disabled Poets Prize, the Faber & Andlyn Publisher’s Prize and the RSL Literature Matters Award, and ...
Archiving The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival workshop series
From 1986 to 2016, the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival drew poets from around the world. The Poetry Archive has preserved this unique and fascinating collection, which consists of over 383 hours of ...
Coming soon to the Archive
We are always truly grateful when poets approach us to help care for and preserve their own archives, and last month we had a truly exciting donation which you get to hear about first. Robert ...
We’re Hiring: Professional Archivist
(POSITION CLOSED) We’re Hiring: Professional Archivist (Freelance, Remote, Part-Time) The Poetry Archive is seeking a qualified freelance archivist to help us professionalise and ...
Robert Seatter on poetry and place making
Chair of the Poetry Archive Robert Seatter has recently been Poet in Residence at two very special places – Sir John Soane’s Museum in central London, an extraordinary 19th century cabinet of ...
The Poetry of South Asia launch
On 31st May, we launched the Poetry of South Asia collection at kslitfest. Thank you to Khushwant Singh Literary Festival for hosting us and to Robert Seatter for chairing the event. We would ...
Thank you to our copywriters
Our copywriters provide our visitors with accessible information about the poet’s life and career and introduce them to the poet’s work. Thank you to all the copywriters who worked with us on ...
Wishlist: Discover the poets we’d still love to bring into the Poetry of South Asia collection
“The Poetry Archive depends on our Membership and fundraising to make and preserve recordings of poetry, and we are hugely grateful to the National Heritage Lottery Fund for enabling us to ...
Celebrating the Volunteers Behind the ‘Poetry of South Asia’
As the Poetry of South Asia collection goes live to the public, we want to shine a light on the incredible community of volunteers who’ve made this vast project possible. From our ...