Our aim is to equip and inspire you to teach poetry with confidence and enjoyment. Here you’ll find a wealth of tools, strategies and ideas for using our archive recordings to enhance your teaching

There’s have a strong emphasis on hearing and speaking poetry, because this is what the Poetry Archive is all about. But it’s also because we know that’s at the heart of everything to do with poetry.

The resources include Learning Resources to support different aspects of teaching, Classroom Materials structured lessons for individual poems and Classroom Collections curated collections to provide new and exciting ways to explore poetry.

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Perform

Performing a poem is one of the most effective ways to explore its music and its meaning.

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Write

Most people find writing poetry enhances their knowledge of how it works.

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Learn

Learning a poem helps us to better appreciate and understand it and gives us a feel for its rhythms.

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Listen

The more we listen to poetry, the more we become tuned in to the way meaning is conveyed through sound.

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