Poetry Links

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Tower Poetry
Tower Poetry exists to encourage and challenge everyone who reads or writes poetry. The Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes, launched in 2000, offer young people a major opportunity to write poetry.

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ABC Tales
Discussion forum about stories and poems.

ATLAS
An international paperback book[maga]zine of ‘new writing, art and image’.

Akerbeltz
Collection of Scottish Gaelic resources, with English translations available for much of the content.

Apples and Snakes
London-based performance poetry organisation with a programme of events.

BBC Poetry
Visual and audio poetry, poet in residence, reviews, author and book information.

Bloodaxe Books
Major poetry publisher site with reviews, interviews and features. The British Council Literature Department produces a series of tapes of contemporary poets in partnership with Bloodaxe Books.

Bridport Prize
The Bridport Prize is an annual international creative writing competition for poetry and short stories.

Carcanet
Poetry publishers with books and author information.

Complete Review
Reviews of books that have recently been published, re-published, are in the news, or archives.

Electronic Culture
Canadian and international poetry sites and hypertext writing in poetry

English Service Collection
Complete works online - plays, poetry, fiction, short fiction and criticism.

Guardian Poetry
Guardian newspaper poetry site.

Literary Consultancy
Details of how to send in poems and stories for professional evaluation for a fee.

Literature Online
Subscription service with full texts of classical literature and some contemporary poetry.

Magma
Poetry magazine with subscription and contents online.

P N Review
Carcanet's long-running critical journal.

The Poetry House
Comprehensive poetry guide.

Poem Hunter
Poems from different poets all around the world. All indexed. Plus links

Poems on the Underground
Read the current Poems on the Underground selection online at the Poetry Society web site.

Poet in the City
Poet in the City is a philanthropy charity committed to attracting new audiences to poetry.

The Poetry Archive
Offers a comprehensive online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.

Poetry Bookshop online
This is an online niche poetry bookseller which makes all the poetry books in print in the UK available online.

Poetry Book Society
Membership organisation and specialist book club for British and Irish poetry.

Poetry Ireland
The national organisation for poetry in Ireland serving all 32 counties.

Poetry Kit
Packed with resource for poets, including a handy list of ezines.

Poetry Library
Information on collections and new developments as well as poetry events.

Poetry London
Poetry magazine with samples and listings online.

Poets of London
Group hosting workshops, discussions and other events in the capital.

Poetry Magic
Resource centre for writing poetry.

Poetry Society
Membership organisation supporting British poets. Good resources online, including sample pages from Poetry Review.

The Poetry Trust
The Poetry Trust promotes the reading, writing and enjoyment of poetry to a wide variety of children and adults.

Poetry Worm
This site includes the Poetry Worm archives.

Poetrymagazines.org.uk
A free access site to the full-text digital library of English poetry magazines from the Poetry Library collection.

Reg Brewer Website
This website documents the poetry of Reg Brewer.

Route Online
Combines music and Flash-based e-texts (including fiction and poetry).

Scottish Poetry Library
The library catalogue plus details on publications, services, membership and events.

UNESCO Poetry
World poetry directory. Includes festivals, prizes, magazines and organisations.

WATCH File
Writers, Artists, and their Copyright Holders (WATCH) is a database of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the UK.

Words Words Words
'Words Words Words' contains articles, fiction, short stories, poems and links to further resources.

The British Council is not responsible for the contents of any external sites.