The Poetry Society
by The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to promote "a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry". Since then, it has grown into one of Britain's most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has more than 4000 members worldwide and publishes the leading poetry magazine, The Poetry Review.With innovative education and commissioning programmes and a packed calendar of performances, readings and competitions, the Poetry Society champions poetry for all ages. "The Poetry Society is the heart and hands of poetry in the UK – a centre which pours out energy to all parts of the poetry-body, and a dexterous set of operations which arrange and organise poetry's various manifestations. It has a long distinguished history, and has never been so vital, or so vitalizing as it is now." Sir Andrew Motion
Episodes
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'Glow' by Coral Rumble: The Look North More Often Project 2025
Each year for our Look North More Often project, The Poetry Society commissions a new children’s poem celebrating the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, which is a gift from the city of Oslo to London, as a thank you for helping the King of Norway in World War 2. This year, Coral Rumble wrote a...
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Fawzia Muradali Kane: Then & Now
Fawzia Muradali Kane: Then & Now by The Poetry Society
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Mary Jean Chan on 'Play'
Mary Jean Chan on 'Play' by The Poetry Society
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Katie Griffiths: Then & Now
Katie Griffiths: Then & Now by The Poetry Society
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Mark Fiddes: Then & Now
Mark Fiddes: Then & Now by The Poetry Society
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Marvin Thompson: Then and Now
Marvin Thompson: Then and Now by The Poetry Society
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Freya Bantiff: Then and Now
Freya Bantiff: Then and Now by The Poetry Society
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Vicki Feaver: Then and Now
Vicki Feaver: Then and Now by The Poetry Society
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John Wedgwood Clarke: Then & Now
John Wedgwood Clarke: Then & Now by The Poetry Society
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Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' and 'Plait' | Then & Now
Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' and 'Plait' | Then & Now by The Poetry Society
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Martha Sprackland reads 'The Small Picture' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch
Martha Sprackland reads 'The Small Picture' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society
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Kaveh Akbar reads 'Love Poem with Lines from Jesus and Muhammad' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch
Kaveh Akbar reads 'Love Poem with Lines from Jesus and Muhammad' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society
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Bonnie Hancell reads 'Generations of Destroyers' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch
Bonnie Hancell reads 'Generations of Destroyers' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society
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Jacob Polley reads 'Dust' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch
Jacob Polley reads 'Dust' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society
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Taking the Temperature with Jess Chandler, Niall Munro, Amy Acre, and Tristram Fane Saunders
Taking the Temperature is a panel where brand-new and seasoned editors and publishers will discuss how independent poetry publishing is changing, with Tristram Fane Saunders (GRAVY and The Little Review), Niall Munro (ignitionpress), Jess Chandler (Prototype) and Amy Acre (Bad Betty) in the…
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Polylingual Poetry with Ghazal Mosadeq, Fiona Larkin, and Leo Boix
Polylingual Poetry: a panel on how poetry containing more than one language, and poetry in translation, is speaking to new audiences and welcoming new poets, with National Poetry Competition winner Fiona Larkin (Pindrop Press), Ghazal Mosadeq (Pamenar Press) and Leo Boix (Poetry Translation…
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Tiffany Atkinson reads 'Patrick' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch
Tiffany Atkinson reads 'Patrick' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch by The Poetry Society
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Joe Carrick-Varty reads 'Almost Back Where We Left Now' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch
Joe Carrick-Varty reads 'Almost Back Where We Left Now' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch by The Poetry Society
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Rashed Aqrabawi reads 'Poem' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch
Rashed Aqrabawi reads 'Poem' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch by The Poetry Society
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Inua Ellams reads 'Reminisce of tongues' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch
Inua Ellams reads 'Reminisce of tongues' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch by The Poetry Society
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Fiona Larkin reads 'Absence has a grammar' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Fiona Larkin reads 'Absence has a grammar' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Matt Barnard reads 'Two Boys at Midnight' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Matt Barnard reads 'Two Boys at Midnight' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Sorrel Briggs reads 'Heaven Down' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Sorrel Briggs reads 'Heaven Down' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Hannah Perrin King reads 'Inheritance' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Hannah Perrin King reads 'Inheritance' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Yong-Yu Huang reads 'Living as My Mother' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Yong-Yu Huang reads 'Living as My Mother' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Kit Buchan reads 'Hallowe'en Ghazal' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Kit Buchan reads 'Hallowe'en Ghazal' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Andrew Dennison reads 'Courgettes' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Andrew Dennison reads 'Courgettes' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Lee Knapper reads 'Plums' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Lee Knapper reads 'Plums' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Chris Beckett reads 'The broom upside down' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Chris Beckett reads 'The broom upside down' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Lesley Sharpe reads 'Eyewitness' | National Poetry Competition 2024
Lesley Sharpe reads 'Eyewitness' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society
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Jay Bernard Reads 'After Him' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch
Jay Bernard Reads 'After Him' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society
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Denise Saul Reads 'The White Room' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch
Denise Saul Reads 'The White Room' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society
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Crispin Best Reads 'In This Economy' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch
Crispin Best Reads 'In This Economy' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society
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(EXCERPT) Susannah Dickey Reads 'Sex Horse' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch
(EXCERPT) Susannah Dickey Reads 'Sex Horse' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society
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Chen Chen Reads '2pm in provincetown—' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch
Chen Chen Reads '2pm in provincetown—' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society
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Young Critics review the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist - part 2
Listen to the final five of this year's Young Critics reviews in podcast form. You can watch all ten reviews on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/YoungCriticsReviews Tallulah Howarth pulls at the many threads of Rachel Mann’s ‘tapestry of alternative visions’, Eleanor Among the Saints, while...
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Young Critics review the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist - part 1
Listen to the first five of this year's Young Critics reviews in podcast form. You can watch all ten reviews on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/YoungCriticsReviews Priyanka Moorjani reviews Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus, guiding the viewer through the speaker’s ‘avalanche’ of emotions upon...
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'A Baby and A Tree' by Valerie Bloom - The Look North More Often Project
Each year, The Poetry Society commissions a new children’s poem celebrating the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, which is a gift from the city of Oslo to London, as a thank you for helping the King of Norway in World War 2. This year, Valerie Bloom wrote a magical new poem is called ‘A Baby…
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Foyle Young Poets of the Year Top 15 Winners 2023
This is a podcast created by The Poetry Society. This podcast features the Top 15 winning poems read by the winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2024. The top 15 winners represent some of the very best young poets in the world. This podcast includes strong language and themes...
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Peter Gizzi & Richard Scott
‘We’ve always been here. As long as there has been soldiers, there have been poets. And it’s a long sad, venerable tradition.’ (Peter Gizzi) A Poetry Review podcast between Richard Scott and Peter Gizzi to accompany the Poetry Review Summer 2022 issue. Richard co-edited the issue with Andre…
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'T is for Tree' by Isabel Galleymore
Each year, The Poetry Society commissions a new children’s poem celebrating the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, which is a gift from the city of Oslo to London, as a thank you for helping the King of Norway in World War 2. This year, Isabel Galleymore wrote a magical new poem is called ‘T is...
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Jameson Fitzpatrick talks to Andre Bagoo
Guest editor of The Poetry Review Summer 2022, Andre Bagoo talks to his contributor Jameson Fitzpatrick. Andre co-edited the summer issue with Richard Scott. You can read more about their issue here: poetrysociety.org.uk/publications/vol-112-no-2-summer-2022/ You can buy the issue here:...
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Reading of 'Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, with an unknown girl [...]'
This poem was written by Fred D'Aguiar and Sarah Howe in 2021 as part of the TIDE research project, as a collaboration between the University of Oxford, The Poetry Society and the National Portrait Gallery. It is written as a response to the painting in the National Portrait Gallery Louise de...
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Ilya Kaminsky reads at the launch of The Poetry Review Summer 2019
Ilya Kaminsky reads at the launch of The Poetry Review 109:2, Summer 2019, held at The Poetry Café, London. Ilya Kaminsky will be giving this year's Poetry Society Annual Lecture / Liverpool University Allott Lecture on Poetry in a Time of Crisis on Monday 15 May 7:30pm. You can book to attend…
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and a tree by Kate Wakeling
Kate Wakeling's new poem ‘and a tree’ was commissioned as part of The Poetry Society's annual Look North More Often programme and celebrates the 2022 Trafalgar Square Christmas tree. This is the 75th tree given to London from Oslo as thanks for keeping their king safe during World War Two, and is...
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Roger McGough Reading 'God Rest The Queen'
After the announcement of the death of Her Majesty the Queen on 8 September 2022, The Poetry Society invited Society President Roger McGough to write a response to the unfolding news. The Poetry Society is very grateful to him for writing a personal and immediate reflection the same evening, as…
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Dzifa Benson speaks to Clementine E. Burnley and Zakia Carpenter-Hall
Dzifa Benson speaks to Clementine E. Burnley and Zakia Carpenter-Hall. Clementine E. Burnley and Zakia Carpenter-Hall are both alumni of the Obsidian Foundation writing retreat. Their poems were published in The Poetry Review, Winter 2021. The Obsidian Foundation is a writing retreat, a week-long...
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Shane McCrae talks to Emily Berry
Spend 30 engrossing minutes in the company of the award-winning US poet Shane McCrae and Review editor Emily Berry as they discuss Sylvia Plath’s ‘Lady Lazarus’ as the trigger, when he was just 15, of McCrae’s poetry career; John Keats and the Gothic; George Herbert; and McCrae's conversion from...
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The Fourth King by Sinéad Morrissey
Sinéad Morrissey's new poem ‘The Fourth King’ was commissioned as part of our annual Look North More Often programme and celebrates the 2021 Trafalgar Square Christmas tree. Here, it's performed by Isobel Chappell, Leon Ganje Day and Vasilis Vasiliou, three Year 6 children from St Saviour’s…
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National Poetry Competition 2021 judges podcast: Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long
Ben Rogers of The Poetry Society speaks to this year's National Poetry Competition judges Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long in a wide-ranging conversation that contemplates the perpetual dynamism of reading, where to find inspiration, poems as little creatures, the nature of poetic...
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The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to promote "a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry". Since then, it has grown into one of Britain's most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has more than 4000 members worldwide and publishes the leading poetry magazine, The Poetry Review.With innovative education and commissioning programmes and a packed calendar of performances, readings and competitions, the Poetry Society champions poetry for all ages. "The Poetry Society is the heart and hands of poetry in the UK – a centre which pours out energy to all parts of the poetry-body, and a dexterous set of operations which arrange and organise poetry's various manifestations. It has a long distinguished history, and has never been so vital, or so vitalizing as it is now." Sir Andrew Motion
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