The Academy of American Poets website contains essays, interviews, biographies, poems and many other resources.
Apples & Snakes is England's leading organiser of performance poetry. Education is at the core of its mission, and it runs a highly successful Poets in Education Scheme.
The Archive is home to over 100 poets producing work of exhilarating insight, scope and attack.
The Arvon Foundation provides tailor-made residential courses for school groups, with subsidies and even full funding in certain circumstances.
A variety of video clips of poetry being read, performed and animated, selected for Primary pupils.
Video clips of readings, performances and dramatisations of poetry from wider cultures, and some poet interviews.
The British Council Literature Department promotes innovative and contemporary work from the UK around the world. Their site features a wide range of publications and resources including an extensive database of contemporary writers.
Vote here for the Nation's Favourite Poet, and enjoy a wealth of other resources, including video poetry guides presented by Ian McMillan, Caroline Bird and Dreadlock Alien.
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Their site contains news of events, exhibitions and details of collections including the British Library Sound Archive which holds many poetry recordings.
The Discovering Poetry Project is a multimedia website aimed at helping children write poems about their own experiences.
The Lannan Foundation offers access to over 300 hours of readings and conversation with poets and writers.
At lyrikline.org you can hear recordings of poems, both in their original languages and in translation.
The Northern Poetry Library is kept at Morpeth Library and is the largest collection of contemporary poetry in England outside London. It currently contains around 15,000 books with new ones being added all the time.
Recordings, often by poets themselves, of poems from the Middle Ages onwards
PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems - currently 1,500 and fast growing - mostly as song-length singles.
Poetry 180 is an American project, designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year. The poems you will find here were selected by Billy Collins during his time as US Poet Laureate, with high school students in mind.
The Poetry Book Society has a special membership scheme for schools, providing information and discounts on newly published books, together with classroom resources.
Poetry by Heart is brought to you by a partnership between The Poetry Archive and The Full English. The website hosts an interactive timeline anthology with over 200 poems selected by poets Andrew Motion, Jean Sprackland and education specialist, Julie Blake. Offers a lively blog plus classroom resources and links to CPD workshops.
Poetryclass is the Poetry Society's 'online poetry classroom'. The website includes teaching ideas, interviews with poets and information about training and support.
The Poetry Foundation website offers an archive of more than 300 poets and 3,000 poems, as well as engaging literary journalism profiling poets, reviewing readings, reporting on poetry as it intersects with other art forms and with the culture at large.
Poetry International is a worldwide forum for poetry on the internet.
The Poetry Library is the major library for modern and contemporary poetry, housing the most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain.
Poetry Live provides opportunities for GCSE pupils in England and Wales to see and hear live performances from a great selection of the poets they are studying.
The Poetry School provides structured, high quality teaching programmes for adults to develop their poetry from its beginnings through to advanced level.
The Poetry Society has an outstanding reputation for its exciting and innovative education work. For nearly thirty years it has been introducing poets into classrooms and providing training and resources for teachers.
The Scottish Poetry Library is the place for poetry in Scotland, for the regular reader, the serious student and the casual browser.
Tower Poetry aims to stimulate enjoyment and critical appreciation of poetry, particularly among young people in education, and to encourage people to write their own poetry. The annual Christopher Tower Poetry Prize is open to students aged 16-18, and Tower Poetry also runs a Summer School at Christ Church College, Oxford.
The T. S. Eliot website is the mission of the late Valerie Eliot: to bring her husband’s life and work to as wide an audience as possible.
Ty Newydd is the National Writers' Centre for Wales. Residential courses are held on all aspects of creative writing in both English and Welsh.
The Lamont Library houses the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room Collection, which includes contemporary poetry and poetics from the entire English-speaking world, as well as poetic works in other languages translated into English.
This unique app is a self-contained poetry anthology by contemporary and classic poets, with 76 poems linked to locations scattered across the United Kingdom.
The Writing Room is the Arvon Foundation's website specifically for under-18s.
Information on poetry opportunities for young people; weekly tips and links for young poets and aspiring artists.
