LINKS
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www.artscouncil.org.uk/ - Arts Council England.
Poetry Organisations
www.poetrysoc.com - The Poetry Society.
www.poetrysociety.org - The Poetry Society of America.
www.poetrybooks.co.uk - The Poetry Book Society.
www.dur.ac.uk/basil-bunting-poetry.centre - Basil Bunting Poetry Centre. Promoting and researching poetry.
www.philiplarkin.com - The Larkin Society.
www.newwritingnorth.com - New Writing North. Literary development agency for the North East.
www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/?flash=no - Poetry Library on the South Bank.
www.chapter.org/2096.html Sampler: Poetry Now - Welsh poetry promotion.
www.wordsworth.org.uk - The Wordsworth Trust.
Poetry Resources
www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/litlinks/ - Vast, well-organised repository of web-based literary material.
www.artistresource.org/poetlinx.htm - Poetry links and resources. Magazines, electronic journals, calls for submission, agents, organisations, audio/video possibilities, and so on.
scribblepad.co.uk - Scribblepad contains over 140 articles on creative writing, written by experts who continually update and add new content.
Poetic Forms
Blank Verse
www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/blankverse.html - Nice technical note, with links, by Damon McLaughlin.
Free Verse
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/perloff/free.html - An authoratative article on the history of free verse, by Marjorie Perloff.
Haiku
www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm#basho - How-To Haiku. Useful compendium of haiku and haiku-related information.
Prose Poem
http://webdelsol.com/tpp - The Prose Poem: An International Journal.
Sestina
www.geocities.com/suzstina/sestina.htm - Long page devoted to the history of the sestina, with many examples and links.
Sonnet
www.sonnets.org - Everything you could possibly want to know about the sonnet, with myriad examples.
Tanka
www.americantanka.com - American journal specialising in the tanka.
Villanelle
http://web.archive.org/web/20020804130928/http://pages.prodigy.com/Firesheets/villanl.htm - Nice - short - explanation of the form, with two famous examples. (Rescued from obscurity via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
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Links checked and updated by Roger Cornwell on 5 September 2008.