Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil poet and producer. They are the recipient of the Disabled Poets Prize, the Faber & Andlyn Publisher’s Prize and the RSL Literature Matters Award, and ...

From 1986 to 2016, the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival drew poets from around the world. The Poetry Archive has preserved this unique and fascinating collection, which consists of over 383 hours of ...

We are always truly grateful when poets approach us to help care for and preserve their own archives, and last month we had a truly exciting donation which you get to hear about first. Robert ...

(POSITION CLOSED) We’re Hiring: Professional Archivist (Freelance, Remote, Part-Time) The Poetry Archive is seeking a qualified freelance archivist to help us professionalise and ...

On 31st May, we launched the Poetry of South Asia collection at kslitfest. Thank you to Khushwant Singh Literary Festival for hosting us and to Robert Seatter for chairing the event. We would ...

We’ll be launching our new ‘Poetry of South Asia’ Collection at 11am on 31st May 2025 at the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival, SOAS, London! Immerse yourself in an afternoon of literary ...

Thanks to everyone who applied for this role. We’re currently reviewing applicants and we’ll get in touch with you soon. The Poetry Archive is looking to expand our pool of ...

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 ...