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Magazines

Ambit
completely unsolicited poetry, short fiction, art and reviews

Arete
a tri-quarterly based in Oxford featuring fiction, poetry, prose, reportage and views from literary heavyweights

Granta
very well established; published four times a year

The London Magazine
arts and literature review since 1732

Magma
dedicated poetry magazine with a different editor each issue

Mslexia
for women who write

The North
high quality independent magazine

Poetry London
a leading international magazine publishing new and acclaimed poets

Poetry Wales
an essential poetry quarterly for over 40 years

The Rialto
one of Britain's leading poetry magazines; designed to promote 'the republic of poetry'

Contemporary Poetry Review
ezine of poetry criticism

Poetry Orgs and Other Sites

Tower Poetry
poetry publications, workshops and prizes

Web del Sol
a literary hub

PoetCasting
features published, performance, emerging and established poets in the UK reading their own work online and out loud.

Poetry Archive
a collection of contemporary and historic recordings of poets reciting their poetry, the result of a collaboration between Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and record producer Richard Carrington. Engaging and informative, with resources for teachers, children and those new to poetry

The Poetry House
is a website in which you can explore the many rooms of a poetry house, some devoted to the poetry of a particular era, others to geographical areas. Includes articles discussing contemporary poets and their works. Based at St Andrew's University

The Poetry Library
holds the most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain. Events include readings and workshops. The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London.

Poetry Press

"And that is Strand’s characteristic jest, to start singing when about to be cut-off." Donald Brown on Mark Strand • Quarterly Conversation

"Carson consent[s] to love's absolute dare and . . . displaces herself from the centre of the writing." James Pollock on Anne Carson • Contemporary Poetry Review

"The day I visited Wheeler Hall, Gunn was lecturing on Fulke Greville." Joshua Weiner on Thom Gunn and Fulke Greville • Ploughshares

"Our words seem to us to resonate in a present moment more present than those we normally live. Comparable with moments of making love, of facing imminent danger, of taking an irrevocable decision, of dancing a tango." John Berger on Mahmoud Darwish • Threepenny Review

"Perhaps after years of testing the edges of his mind, stringing out his voice and stretching it to encompass others’, [Bin] Ramke now feels he can incorporate more of the character of other voices with fewer of their words." Craig Morgan Teicher • Boston Review

"Work in the middle space by now should have added up to an important and fruitful development in contemporary poetry." Michael Theune on Kent Johnston • Pleiades (PDF)

"[Heather McHugh's] poems about these subjects, and many others, offer a refreshing return to—and reinvention of—staple poetic devices like wit and metaphysical speculation." Stephen Ross • The Oxonian Review

"''A most affecting scene of poverty and distress—For the service of the present year.'" Giles Goodland on the cross-readings of Caleb Whitefoord • Intercapillary Space

"Awakened expectations can build the strongest of cages. [Mahmoud] Darwish baffled those expectations as often as he satisfied them." Eric Ormsby • Bookforum

"Military references are everywhere, though at one point we seem to be at Wimbledon watching tennis." Daisy Fried on Ciaran Carson and others • Poetry

"[H]e would rather have been returned to his own library than hope his works would feature in someone else’s, even two or three hundred years hence." Steve Donoghue on Ovid • Open Letters Monthly

“'Classic Poems' loom in the text like roadblocks: there’s Seamus Heaney on the bogland, Derek Mahon in the churchyard, Paul Muldoon contemplating the hay." Tim Keane on The New North • Rain Taxi

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