A message from our director
Dear Friends, Poetry has the power to sustain and connect us in times such as these. I’m so proud of the Poetry Archive team, whose commitment and passion to share our poetry collections with ...
Dear Friends, Poetry has the power to sustain and connect us in times such as these. I’m so proud of the Poetry Archive team, whose commitment and passion to share our poetry collections with ...
Poetry Collections 1994, Voes and Sounds, The Shetland Library, Lerwick, Shetland (*) 1997, Wast Wi Da Valkyries, The Shetland Library, Lerwick, Shetland (*) 2002, Plain Song, The Shetland ...
In this interview we talk to Andrew McMillan about his poetry, his recent anthology with Mary Jean Chan (‘100 Queer Poems’), as well as his debut novel, ‘Pity’. ...
In this interview, Robert Seatter, Head of History at the BBC and Chair of the Poetry Archive, discusses the first poem broadcast on BBC Radio, John Drinkwater’s ‘Moonlit Apples’: Transcript ...
Robert Seatter, Head of History at the BBC and Chair of the Poetry Archive, discusses the first poem broadcast on BBC Radio, John Drinkwater’s ‘Moonlit Apples’: To read a full transcript of this ...
Dear Poetry Archive Friends, thank you so much for your continued support of the Poetry Archive! I’m delighted to report that the poetry recordings we share through our website have been ...
All about us The Poetry Archive’s mission is to acquire, record and preserve poetry for posterity. It was started in 2001 by Andrew Motion and Richard Carrington. Since then, it has become ...
Poetry Archive Now! was established in 2020 to enable us to gather recordings from a much wider pool of talented poets from the UK and around the world. It is now firmly established as a premier ...
How we did it The BBC 100 Collection is the result of a collaboration between the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, BBC History and the Poetry ...
A New Millennium As a new millennium began, the BBC had become a significant force in the UK poetry culture. Not only did it give a platform to poets and introduce them to new audiences; now, it ...