LibGuides: English Literature and Creative Writing: Poetry

Poetry in the Feel Good Hub

We have a great selection of poetry books in our main collection - have a look through recent additions here - but also in our FeelGood Hub on A Floor (behind the Main Staircase, to your left as you enter the library).

NAXOS Spoken Word Library This link opens in a new window
Literature and poetry, best sellers and classics from medieval times to the twenty-first century; many original productions supplement a range of non-fiction; a variety of unabridged and skillfully abridged audiobooks.
Over 750 titles and 350 authors
Search by famous quote or phrase with Text Search.
Access is available for up-to 5 consecutive users.

Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window

Books from the Faculty

Access Poetry online

African Poems - Searchable collection of African oral poetry
Archive of the Now - Archive of over 100 contemporary poets reading their work (mainly British, some American)
Poetry Archive - Modern and contemporary poetry
Poetry Foundation - publisher of Poetry magazine
Poetry Library Southbank Centre - Archive of modern and contemporary poetry journals
Poetry Society - National arts organisation. Publisher of The Poetry Review

Romanticism : Life, Literature & Landscape This link opens in a new window
A collection of literary sources on William Wordsworth and his contemporaries of the Romantic period.
In addition, this collection makes available the writings of Dorothy Wordsworth through her much celebrated Grasmere Journals, Alfoxden diary and travel journals. Verse manuscripts and correspondence from leading literary lights of the Romantic period such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey are also made available in this digital resource.

Free Spoken Word / Poetry Slam events