Poetry Archive

>> Poetry Archive
This fantastic new resource is the brainchild of current poet laureate Andrew Motion. The site celebrates the fact that poetry is as much an oral tradition as a textual one, by streaming free recordings of leading poets reading their own work. In addition to contemporary poets like Margaret Atwood, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, and Roger McGough there are a growing number of historical recordings, which already include readings from Kipling, Ginsberg, Betjeman and Browning. You can click Lucky Dip to hear a random poem from the collection, or browse the archive by poet name, title, theme or poetic form.