“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 ...

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 ...

Shannon Kira McMillan“Volunteering with The Poetry Archive on the Poetry of South Asia collection has been a fun and rewarding experience. It’s helped me develop research and data management ...

Former BSL poet Kabir Kapoor performing his BSL poem:        

Written by Devi Chatterjee   Poetry recitation and textile weaving share a rich intimate history rooted in South Asian craft and oral narratives. In rural communities, not only would the weavers ...

anna (n) – an old monetary value of India and Pakistan, equal to one-sixteenth of a rupee  ashram (n) – religious retreat  bacilli (pl. n) – rod-shaped bacterium, found ...

The minute, true-to-life details, from which many of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra‘s poems are comprised, give his poetry a candid, documentary-like quality. The imagery which appears within ...

A Departure from Convention The BBC began the new decade with a new format for poetry programmes. ‘The Living Poet’, which ran until the early 1990s, would feature a single poet ...

The Early Years We sometimes imagine, looking back, that change happens overnight. The BBC’s first Director-General John Reith, predicted that ‘broadcasting is a development with which the future ...

Year One of a New Era The year that the BBC was founded was also a famous year for modern literature, seeing the publication of Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Both ...