Resources
Poetcasting works with poets throughout the UK to podcast their work. The project features with performance poets, published poets, new poets, established poets and everything in between.
The Rise Poetry Slam – London performance poetry competition and events.
The Foyle Young Poets competition – the mothership. For young poets aged 11-17, and cannot be recommended highly enough.
The Poetry Society – runs the Foyle Young Poets competition, the Rise Slam, and much more besides.
The Poetry Café – The place to be in London for readings, events, vegetarian food, a “small but interesting selection of wines”, and soaking up the writerly atmosphere.
Tower Poetry, home of the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition (and more).
Poetry Kit – A worldwide database for poetry events, publications, news and competitions.
Welsh Poetry – information about the Welsh Poetry Competition.
The Arvon Foundation – Where good poets go when they die.
The Scottish Poetry Library – A library. Filled with poetry and advice for poets. Based in the beautiful heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town. It’s a shrine, and we must all make a pilgrimage there at least once.
South Bank Poetry Library – the slightly larger, London-based, more mainstream equivalent. Great for information about magazines, competitions, jobs, writers’ groups etc. Can help you find books even if you remember almost nothing about them.
Tall Lighthouse – an independent poetry business publishing full collections, pamphlets, chapbooks and anthologies of poetry, and organising poetry readings, workshops & events in and around London, South East & South West England. Currently involved in the “Pilot” project to publish eighteen poets under 30 over a three year period, so we approve.
Poetry Foundation – “An independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.” Sounds good.
Poets.org (from the Academy of American Poets)
FuseLit – The cure for writer’s block. A small indie magazine that encourages poetry, fiction, art and sound submissions inspired by a “spark” – a theme for an issue that they release in advance. It’s small, it’s cheap, it’s very high quality and it comes with a CD!
The Cadaverine, an awesome online poetry journal with a similar outlook to us.
Read This – A small-scale, volunteer-run literature magazine based in Edinburgh. Run by poets but accepting poetry, short fiction, prose and drama, with an emphasis on publishing unknown writers.
Gists and Piths – A blog with its finger on the pulse of the current poetry scene, dedicated to the discussion and (occasional) publication of contemporary poetry. Book reviews, poetry news, new poetry and lots more.
The Chiamaera – a literary miscellany (in other words, a literary journal that contains an exciting mix of poetry and prose).
Shit Creek Review – here there be dragons. An Australian poetry ezine with a good sense of humour.
The Pygmy Giant – the best of new British flash fiction, poetry & other things besides.
youngpoets.ca a Canadian website with helpful biographies
Poets on Fire forums – A place where lots of poets gather to talk about poetry events, goings-on and opinions about poetry today.