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poem of the week

"That one -
I want to dance through his skin."

Maureen Weldon

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explore the archive

  • Agenda

    Explore poems from the Middle East as part of Poetry International 2015... Read more

  • Agenda

    Celebrate Greek Poetry: New Voice and Ancient Echoes, with this issue of Agenda... Read more

  • Poetry Parnassus

    Celebrate the radical history of Poetry Review with these issues from the 60s, 70s and 80s... Read more

  • Poetry Parnassus

    Read poems from Poetry Parnassus in an issue of Modern Poetry in Translation... Read more

  • Poems About Love

    Read a selection of poems across the site written about love... Read more

  • Festival of Britain

    Read poetry magazines that were published in 1951 during the original Festival of Britain... Read more

  • Poems About Death

    Read a selection of poems across the site written about death and bereavement... Read more

  • Librarians' favourite magazines

    Read a selection of favourite magazines from previous Poetry Librarians as part of the library's 60th celebrations in October 2013...  Read more



This website was archived in March 2018. We won't be making any further updates but the content is still available for you here.

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most recent additions

Here are some of the features we've added most recently...


futura

futura is a series of influential, innovative poetry broadsides published by Hansjorg Mayer between 1965 and 1969  
...Read more





Private Tutor

We're delighted to bring you a full run of Private Tutor,    
including work by Simon Cutts, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Edwin Morgan  ...Read more





Agenda

A special edition of Agenda, guest edited by David
Connolly. This issue 
focuses on Greek
Poetry: New Voices and 
Anicent Echoes. 
The new voices include Yannis Kondos,
Athina Papadaki and Alexandra
 Plastira, 
alongside ancient echoes from Homer
 to 
Sappho 
... Read more