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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...