Interview: Inua Ellams and the clash of language.
Poets Rachel Long and Inua Ellams discuss how Inua names his poems, his writing process, and why he cherishes language. Listen to the conversation here or read the transcript. ...
Poets Rachel Long and Inua Ellams discuss how Inua names his poems, his writing process, and why he cherishes language. Listen to the conversation here or read the transcript. ...
Nick Makoha talks to Malika Booker, Keith Jarrett and Raymond Antrobus about their inspirations and what keeps them going as poets. Listen to the audio of their conversations here, or read the ...
Notes from our Director, Dr Tracey Guiry When a poet dies without being recorded, a unique voice and slice of social history is lost forever and that loss is felt more keenly as time passes. Our ...
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...
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