Winners of Poetry Archive Now! Wordview 2020 have sent us their thoughts on what it has meant to them to have poems in the collection and by way of encouragement to other poets.   Ankh Spice ...

Our Poetry Archive Now! Wordview 2021 Panel of Judges, Imtiaz Dharker, Robert Seatter and Lavinia Singer worked long and hard to arrive at this year’s winning entries. Each were blown away by the ...

The Poetry Archive loves to see new poetry projects flourish and we were very happy to be able to support Poetry Screen pilot their new Film-making/Poetry project. Poetry Screen encouraged young ...

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 ...

The Poetry Archive is a freely accessible, living archive of recordings of contemporary poets with a mission to acquire, produce and care for a unique digital collection of recordings of poems ...

Did you know that one of our member’s benefits is that you can leave a dedication message on any public poem within the Archive. Use your dedication as a special surprise or sentimental ...

Welcome to the annual review of our year – and what a year it was! We hope this finds you and yours safe and well. Like many others, the Poetry Archive team has been working from home to ensure we...

The Poetry Archive Now! WordView 2020 project launched in March 2020 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Poetry Archive’s first poetry recording session. For the first time the Archive ...

This is the 20th anniversary of our first Archive recording! We are opening up to all poets to join the Archive and share your work with the millions of people who visit and love our ...

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 ...