Links to Poetry
Following some attempts to categorise these links into sections, it has been decided to take a more freewheeling approach. All of the following are worth a visit, for different reasons - try one.
Recent Additions - Audio:
- BBC
Poetry Outloud
A wide-ranging collection of audio from Tennyson to Zephania -
Poets in Interview
BBC interviews of various poets -
The Lyrics
Four poems inspired by famous lyric pieces, with audio and interviews. - Readings
in Contemporary Poetry
Audio Archive of mainly US poets. -
Fooling with Words
PBS collection of audio poetry, featuring a range (in all senses) of poetry. - Internet Poetry
Archive
Small audio archive, but includes Milosz and Heaney. - nguyen duc
batngan
Try it. You might like it. - Poetry of
Vietnam
Dreadful auto-loading sound file on front page, but a site worth poking around in. - Paul Celan
Part of the excellent Norton Poets site - readings by the astonishing Paul Celan, with English text translations.
Main List:
- Able Muse
Formal poetry, with an emphasis on metrical, complemented by art and photography, fiction, essays, book reviews and interviews with the same focus. Consistently worth checking. - Al-Imam.Net Sound
Page
Islamic poetry/song sound files - The Alsop
Review
There are many reasons for vi siting The Alsop Review, not least the standard of the poetry, and the excellent Gazebo, a post-and-critique forum. -
Atlantic Monthly
includes an interesting audio anthology. - Bela
Selendy
Mini-collection of one-time AAPC regular Bela Selendy, now curator of everypoet.com - Bindi's
Pages
Poetry by our aapc regular from The Lost Continent. - The Big
Bridge
Chunky site with poetry, art, prose and a whole load of other stuff. - The Blue
Moon
Published continually since 1994, sells its own T-Shirts. These two facts must count for something. - Boston
Review
Describes itself as a 'literary and political forum' and consists of an extensive archive of writing of many sorts. Almost impossible not to find something you'll like. - Central
California Poetry Journal
Poetry by Californians and/or about California. It could be your dream or nightmare. Still, some very strong writing. - Conjunctions
A varied 'audio vault' from this online zine - The Cortland
Review
An online magazine in RealAudio - DAKOTA
Must be visited. But perhaps only once. And not if you don't have/like Flash. - Double
Dactyls
Higgledy Piggledy, everyone needs to read... - duration
BIG entry-point to a number of sites featuring poetry and other literature. - Eclectica
Magazine
Varied writing - of both genre and quality - but often provides a good set of reads. - Electronic
Poetry Center
Mammoth sound file archive. - Electronic Poetry
Review
Electronic Poetry Review is a journal dedicated to publishing experimental and more traditionally formal poetry, as well as interviews, essays on poetics, and book reviews. - Experioddica
Experioddica -- a term originally used for experimental odd periodicals devoted to exotica, but whose meaning seems to have spread to cover all forms of underground art, science & other forms of culture (including, obviously, cyberculture). - Gravity
Always worth a look. - Gumball
Poetry
New media and quirkiness. - Harper
Audio
including Dylan Thomas, TS Eliot - The Waste Land ...and many others. - Jack
Magazine
Poetry, short-stories, essays (general, philosophical, political, ecological), reviews, articles, parodies, road trip logs, personal experience, open letters, etc. Beat-flavoured. - Jacket
Magazine
Again, more full-featured than many online publications. Aussie-based, and a useful resource site for those who are likewise. - JAS
Carter
Some of Julie's work - The
Listening Booth
part of the poets.org site, sound files aplenty. - Magma
Spruced up and with a new address, well worth a trawl-through for some good writing. - Missouri
Review
Solid site, solid work, solid contributors. - The
Moonwort Review
Better t han it appears at first look - scratch around for some good work. - Mudlark
Aims for "accomplished work that locates itself anywhere on the spectrum of contemporary practice." - Mythologies
Joy Yourcenar's site. - Nobody Here
Fascinating site dealing in words presented in strange and beautiful ways. Flash, Java, God knows what else - not an anybrowser site, in any case. - Oasis
This publication started in late 1996 in the form of a newsletter. Poetry and resources, as well as reviews etc. - Oriental
Poetry
AHA! Poetry - descriptions and discussion of many forms of oriental poetry - Perihelion
Thematic issues, clean design, mostly strong writing. - Pif
Magazine
It has calmed down a little from earlier incarnations, and well worth a look for an interesting range of work. - PJR's
Pages
Poems by P.J. Ross with annotations on form. - Poesia
An online publication of Latin-American poetry. - POETRY FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY
Online litzine with poetry of wildly varying quality - but stacks of it. - Project Gutenberg
A searchable database of authors, poetry and collections of poetry - Proof
Quality Uni-based writing magazine. Generally very strong content, coupled with an interest in web technologies for delivering writing. That sometimes means Flash-only - you have been warned ;) - Riding The
Meridian
Lots of poetry (and a lot of other interesting literary stuff, too) - and consistently good quality. - Rik
Roots
Includes Rik's '22 Facets of My Father', which attracted interest on AAPC throughout 2001. - Scrawlmark Press
Dennis Hammes' site of formalism run riot - bordering on the graphomane, but some excellent reading. - Sea Cannibal
Martijn Bender's site. Prepare to have your senses (and browser) comprehensively taken over... - slope 16
Some high quality poetry here. A sizeable online reading resource. - Snakeskin
Poetry Webzine
The serpent whispered unto Eve: / "Think and feel; don't just believ e." / This made the earth's foundations shake. / We are the kindred of that snake. [This verse manifesto continues for several stanzas. Hmm.]. Patchy at times, interested in hyper- and alternate-texts, it's hanging on in there. - somniloquy.org
A beautiful site and the poetry of Preston Mark Stone - what could be better? - Spam
Haiku
Pink tender morsel... - SpokenWar
"No Banners, No Bios, No Bullshit". And...er..the occasional good piece of poetry. - the redneck
review - home
Even the texts are delivered by imagefiles, so it's sloooww. But the names are fun. - Switched-On
Gutenberg
Uni-based 'journal of global poetry', with themed issues. Lots of competent stuff. - Terrain
"A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments". A wide-enough theme to produce a raft of interesting writings, and not just poetry. - Timbooktu
Online resource and repository for African American writing and poetry, or Afrocentric themes. - Transcendental
Friend
Lots of thematic stuff. - University of
North Carolina
mantains an internet poetry archive, with readings by Milosz, Henay, Pinsky and others. - Very Bad Poetry
I
Have you heard of the dreadful fate..." - Very
Bad Poetry II
Seamus Cooney's site. Achieving VBP is not easy. The right combination of lofty ambition, humorless self-confidence, and crass incompetence is rare and precious - Web Del Sol
Very full-featured literary arts site, including...well, just about everything. A portal, of sorts. - Xconnect
Clean, competent, worth a regular read.