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Useful Websites for Adults
This one is for the Adults! Find out all you need to know about the exciting world of poetry. Read great poems, get to know the poets, build on your skills to understand and interpret poems. Give it a go; write your own poetry!
About Poetry
Delve into this comprehensive collection of poets and poetry, learn how to understand and interpret poems and learn how to become a published poet yourself!
BBC Arts Poetry Out Loud
Watch and listen to poets performing their own work.
Bartleby
Search anthologies and volumes for that elusive poem!
Britannica Online
Discover all you need to know about the world of poetry. Create your own set of search results and stumble upon fascinating facts!
British Electronic Poetry Centre
Discover poetry, poets, performances, news, critical debate and opinion.
Love Poems?
The poetry appreciation site.
National Poetry Day
Discover what is happening around Britain for National Poetry Day. Make sure you keep up to date and celebrate the joy of poetry.
Oxford Art Online
Discover all you need to know about the world of poetry. Create your own set of search results and stumble upon fascinating facts!
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Discover all you need to know about the world of poets. Create your own set of search results and stumble upon fascinating facts!
Oxford Music Online
Discover all you need to know about the world of poetry. Create your own set of search results and stumble upon fascinating facts!
The Poetry Archive
Delve into the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets performing their poems. This site is treasure trove of poets and poems through the ages. Get to know the Poet in Residence!
The Poetry Book Society
Discover poetry reading groups and find that poetry book you will always treasure!
Poetry Foundation
Offering new ways to find poems and discover poetry.
The Poetry Library
Why not become a member? Ask questions about poetry, discover reading groups and enter competitions. In 2004, The Poetry Library was shortlisted for the RNIB's Simply the Best Awards for services to visually impaired people. Check out the exhibitions!
The Poetry Society
Why not become a member? Enter competitions, get involved in events and muse in the poetry cafe!
Poetry in Translation
Discover poems from around the world now translated into English!
Poets
From the Academy of American Poets.
The War Poetry Website
For war poetry of the First World War (and information about its poets), plus poetry about, Iraq, Falklands, Sierra Leone, Palestine/Israel, Holocaust and Vietnam.
