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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...