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 ...

The Poetry Archive is looking to expand our pool of copywriters in the lead up to our new Poetry of India collection. All copywriting will need to be completed between January and February 2024, ...

Hear from some our Poetry Archive Now! Wordview winners this year on what the Archive and winning has meant to them. Click here to explore this year’s winning collection.   From ...

Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone who has supported our work this year – we really could not preserve this wonderful collection of poetry recordings without your help. It has been a very ...

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 ...