Poets Laureate are appointed as an honorary representative in their country, region, or group and often represent an eminent writer of their time. Laureates capture prominent moments or moods for ...

Celebrating voices we lost in 2019 The role of the Poetry Archive is to capture recordings of poets reading their own work so we can share them with you and keep them safe for future generations ...

From Alfred Lord Tennyson to Alice Oswald, Andrew Motion chooses his favourite recordings of poems read aloud by those who wrote them Hear and download all of the recordings at poetryarchive.org, ...