Thank
you to The Poetry Society
for many of the links listed below:
Even if you only have a passing interest in poetry you
should visi their site!
Resources
- How to Write Poetry
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Poetica
This site uses hypertext
to integrate electronic digital course material into the teaching and learning
of poetry and stylistic analysis of poetry.
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Peter
Finch
Some very useful tips on
self-publishing, with topics ranging from ideas for raising money to the
technicalities of running your own press.
Resources
for Young writers
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Listen
and Write
Very entertaining writing
activities, audio poems, and a gallery of children's work. "Listen and
Write" supports the Literacy Hour and is aligned to the BBC Education Schools
radio series of the same name.
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"Los
Gringos"
A delightfully well-designed
website with poems, biographies of poets, lists of children's poetry currently
in print, and information for schools.
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MathsYear2000
Click on 'Numberland' in
this website and you will arrive at the list of integers from 1-100 - click
on any number and find out amazing facts, including a poem (written by
one of the five 'online laureates': Michael Rosen, Grace Nichols, Jackie
Kay, Carol Ann Duffy and John Agard).
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Achuka
A large and extremely informative
site for childrens books in the UK - we give you the direct link to their
Poetry section, but the entire site is worth exploring, and don't miss
their author interviews.
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The
Poetry Zone
Publishes
children's poetry on the net as well as excellent book resources (including
recommended book lists and poetry for 12 - 17 year olds), poetry book reviews
written by children, lesson plans for teachers and interviews with poets.
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poetryclass
The Poetry Society's initiative,
funded by the DfEE, which aims to enthuse and empower teachers, equipping
them with fresh ideas and methods for making the most of poetry in the
classroom.
Poetry
around the World
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Chinese
poems
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Lithuanian
Poetry Page
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Irish
Poetry Page
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Academy
of American Poets
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Poetry
Society of America
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Poets
House (New York)
A 35,000 volume reference
poetry library open to the public. Poets House also runs readings, lectures,
and a dynamic public library program called Poetry in The Branches.
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Poetry
Project (New York)
Including a bi-monthly webzine;
the Tiny Press Center (featuring editors and publishers of chapbooks, journals
and broadsides); and a selective list of literary journals, presses, poets
databases and poetry resources.
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Poetry International
Foundation (Rotterdam)
Poetry International is
a government-sponsored foundation working to promote interest in and foster
love for the art of poetry, and to encourage contacts between poets, poetry
translators, poetry lovers and publishers from all countries. It does so
by organizing the annual Poetry International Festival, the Children's
Poetry Festival, a National Poetry Day and various international exchange
projects.
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The
League of Canadian Poets
Canada's national organisation
for practising poets. Contains an extensive annotated links page, a 'who's
who' of Canadian poets, calendar of readings across Canada, and more.
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British
Council Literature Department
On-line publications and
directories (note their comprehensive directory of literature festivals
in the UK); see also their site on the art and practice of literary translation
at www.literarytranslation.com
Web
publications
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Poetry
Review
Britain's best-selling poetry
magazine. Excerpts from current issue, archives from previous issues.
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Jacket
A free internet quarterly
review of new writing - poetry, interviews, reviews and articles.Includes
a selective list of excellent 'literary links' as well. (See also the Poetry
Review article
about this magazine.)
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Magma
magazine
Includes poetry as well
as writing about poetry. Contemporary, urban publication featuring new
and established poets - based in London.
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The
Rue Bella
Small press poetry and short
story magazine set up in 1998. Includes an audio library.
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Salt
Publishing
Salt
Publishing is an independent literary publisher with offices in Perth,
Australia and Cambridge, England; it has a diverse and growing range of
titles in poetry, fiction, literary criticism and drama.
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The
Times Educational Supplement
General industry news digest,
providing a forum for the development of education policy in Britain.
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Versification
An eclectic magazine dedicated
to prosody - providing an international forum for scholars, students, critics
and writers to explore the role of sound in poetry.
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Lynx
An 'occasional magazine'
with a core of critical articles on poetry.
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Snakeskin
A poetry webzine with themed
issues, archived material and a descriptive links page.
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Living
Poets
A multimedia (and extremely
lively) site providing numerous selection of poems, 'Living Poets TV',
an art gallery, artist books, etc.
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The
Poetry Kit
This well-structured bulletin
board of poetry activities includes articles, competitions, courses, funding,
how-to books, magazines, organisations, and of course - poetry.
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Tim
Love's Literary References
A definitive list of magazines
that publish poetry and prose; poetry archives, presses information; theory;
writers' groups and writers' resources.
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E-Zine
List
A well-maintained alphabetical
list of e-zines - our link shortcuts directly to those that publish poetry.
Internet
poetry
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ArtsOnline.com
The Arts Council of England's
web site for and about the arts (launched December 2000). Streaming audio,
video, and 'ArtsGuide' calendar.
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Cats
Night Out
The website for the series
of poetry readings at the Poetry Cafe in London; Cats Night Out promotes
the work of women poets.
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Contemporary
Poetry Review
Devoted exclusively to the
criticism of poetry, it also contains interviews with distinguished critics
and poets, lists of newly published collections, and an exclusive chatroom.
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Electronic
Poetry Center (EPC)
Resources for innovative
writing - produces the literary journal RIF/T, hosts interactive spaces
and comprehensively archives poetry-related electronic resources.
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Isaac
Rosenberg - a hypertext poem
An excellent example of
working with hypertext in critical reading of a poem. This site allows
you to read and comment (optional), then explore the hypertext version.
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Living
Poets
An internationally-attended
website with an extremely useful competition database, chat area and public
message board.
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Poetry Daily
A daily anthology of poetry,
chosen from books or journals currently in print, along with information
about featured poets and publishers, news from the poetry world, and occasional
special features. Poetry Daily's mission is to broaden access to and foster
appreciation for contemporary poetry. Sign up for the free weekly e-mail
newsletter.
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trAce
A 24-hour virtual writing
community, with conferences, residencies, and reports on poets' on-line
and virtual text-creating experiences.
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Yahoo
Poetry Listings
A shortcut to the extensive
poetry directory within the Yahoo search engine.
Bookshops
and publishers
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amazon.co.uk
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Anvil
Press Poetry
"A specialist publisher
of both contemporary English-language poets and poets in translation."
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Bloodaxe
"Poetry with an edge."
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Carcanet
"Carcanet came to birth
in 1970 as an inventive, quixotic and resourceful house, chronically impecunious.
It publishes English-language writers from around the world, an ambitious
translation list, and has launched the careers of some outstanding younger
writers."
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Chapman
"Chapman publishes the best
in Scottish writing - new work by well-known Scottish writers in the context
of lucid critical discussion."
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Faber and
Faber Ltd.
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Flambard
Press
"A small, independent press
offering opportunities to new and neglected writers, especially in the
North of England"
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Oxford
University Press
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Penguin
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Poetry
Book Society
A specialist book club and
a not-for-profit registered charity; members can buy books and memberships
over the Internet at a discount and the general public may also buy goods
at full price.
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Salmon
Publishing
"Salmon has become one of
the most important publishers in the Irish literary world. By specialising
in the promotion of new poets, Salmon has enriched Irish literary publishing
and now has the most representative list of women poets in Ireland."
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Stride
Publications
"Stride books inhabit the
divide between the avant-garde and the traditional, the secular and the
sacred, the mysterious and the everyday, the modern and the postmodern."
Interesting
sites
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poetryclass
The Poetry Society's DfEE-funded
project on teaching poetry in schools.
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The
Shiki Internet Haiku Salon
A description of the art
form, haiku contests, links and mailing lists (including a haiku workshop
list). Features scrolling haiku on the first page.
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Unholy
Island
A collection of artistic
works by various artists and poets; visit Imaginary Leeds, a joint venture
between Leeds Word Arena and Unholy Island.
Twentieth
century poets
Links
to other poets
Twentieth
Century Poetry
Individual poets listed below have websites
of note:
Pre-twentieth
century poets
British
Poetry 1780-1910
English
Poetry Full-Text Database
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