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 ...

The next winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize to be announced on Monday!  The judging is over and the T.S. Eliot Prize is about to be announced as John Burnside (as Chair),  Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha ...

We are proud to present our brand new website! Following the success of the new look Children’s Poetry Archive launched in July 2019, our main collections are now getting some well-deserved ...

Michael Rosen, who is a patron of the new site, said: “Fantastic news! A treasure trove of wonderful poems for children available all round the clock for anyone and everyone. The magic of audio ...

The Poetry Archive is pleased to announce the appointment of Tracey Guiry as its new Director. She will join the Archive in November this year from her current role as CEO of Literature Works. ...

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, ...

Richard Carrington and I launched the online Poetry Archive a little under 10 years ago at poetryarchive.org. Our original intention was to combine three things: pleasure for the general ...