Other Poetry

LINKS

Funded by:

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/ - Arts Council England.

Poetry Organisations

http://www.poetrysoc.com - The Poetry Society.

http://www.poetrysociety.org - The Poetry Society of America.

http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk - The Poetry Book Society.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dul0www1/index.html - Basil Bunting Poetry Centre. Promoting and researching poetry.

http://www.philiplarkin.com - The Larkin Society.

http://www.newwritingnorth.com - New Writing North. Literary development agency for the North East.

http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/?flash=no - Poetry Library on the South Bank.

http://www.chapter.org/2096.html Sampler: Poetry Now - Welsh poetry promotion.

http://www.wordsworth.org.uk - The Wordsworth Trust.

Poetry Resources

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/litlinks/ - Vast, well-organised repository of web-based literary material.

http://www.artistresource.org/poetlinx.htm - Poetry links and resources. Magazines, electronic journals, calls for submission, agents, organisations, audio/video possibilities, and so on.

Poetic Forms

Blank Verse

http://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

http://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

http://www.geocities.com/suzstina/sestina.htm - Long page devoted to the history of the sestina, with many examples and links.

Sonnet

http://www.sonnets.org - Everything you could possibly want to know about the sonnet, with myriad examples.

Tanka

http://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 31 October 2007.