The Poetry Society is a membership-based and Arts Council England-funded registered charity, whose stated aims are to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry. It was founded in 1909 and is due to celebrate its centenary in 2009.

The world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. You can enjoy listening here, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and of poets from the past. The Archive is growing all the time. Please come back regularly to enjoy our latest recordings.

Online poetry contests voted for by other uses, prizes to be one for most popular poems, publishing also offered.

If you are looking for something in particular, a listing of poetry competitions for example, you will find it listed in the home page. Each of the links goes to a page with information and listings about the topic.

The most famous poems by the most celebrated poets can be found on this website. Classic information regarding the works of Shakespeare, Browning, Eliot, Joyce, Tennyson and Butler are fully featured here.

The most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry in Britain. It is the major library for modern and contemporary poetry funded by the Arts Council England and is available in many formats: books, pamphlets, audio cassette, cd, video for reference and loan; magazines, press cuttings, photographs, posters and postcards for reference.

Online poetry magazine acclaimed by some as one of the best English language poetry publications.

Modern poetry: an extensive guide to the theory and craft of writing poetry. A resource centre for the theory and craft of writing poetry. As patrons will note, the site has been redesigned to allow for representative references to be added, and for articles to be shorter and more relevant.

This is a free access site to the full-text digital library of 20th and 21st century UK poetry magazines from the Poetry Library collection. This site was launched on 22nd August 2003 and was made a Guardian Site of the Week shortly after.

A resource from the Academy of American Poets with thousands of poems, essays, biographies, weekly features, and poems for love and every occasion

Since its foundation in 1984 it has amassed a remarkable collection of written works, as well as tapes and videos. The emphasis is on contemporary poetry written in Scotland, in Scots, Gaelic and English, but historic Scottish poetry and contemporary works from almost every part of the world feature too.

The CPB was set up by the Poetry Book Society to support poetry written for children. Its aim is to encourage children to read and enjoy it operates as a book club. The books we offer are chosen by a panel of expert Selectors.

Provides space for opinion, plus a complete Index to the contents, a Language/ Dialect Map, Contributor information (Poets' Portraits), and information on how to submit poems to the broadsheet. It also tells you how to get hold of back issues - Poetry Scotland Back Issues.

Your one-stop portal to the world of poetry in the South West of England. Still based in Bristol but now supports the development of poetry in South Gloucestershire and through its websites across the whole of the South West region.

An independent literary publisher, specialising in English-language writing from Wales. Our diverse and eclectic list has something to offer anyone with an interest in excellent writing. Our aim is not simply to reflect what is going on in the culture in which we publish, but to drive that culture forward, to engage with the world, and to bring Welsh literature, art and politics before a wider audience.

Founded in 1997 by three poets - Mimi Khalvati, Jane Duran and Pascale Petit to teach poetry to adults. The Poetry School offer a comprehensive range of courses and workshops exploring key elements of poetic practice, complemented by stimulating lectures, discussions and seminars with some of the most renowned poets working today.

organises a wide range of activities, including: Britain’s largest Poetry Festival, brimming with events over ten days every summer. A substantial Community Programme of literature development events with schools, community and voluntary organisations. An international Poetry Competition. A year-round programme of activities in and around the organisation's home of Ledbury in Herefordshire in the West Midlands. A poet-in-residence, who provides workshops and one-to-one sessions during the Summer Festival.

Aims are to explore, interpret, document, preserve and archive 'poetry' in its myriad, and hybrid, forms, expressions and states, and to provide access to such artistic expressions through the physical and digital realms to as wide an audience as possible.

Poetry and poets of the First World War including biographical information, plus contemporary war poetry from the Second World War to Iraq, including Vietnam, the Falklands War, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone.