Welcome to The Poem web site, a taster of contemporary poetry in Britain
and Ireland.
We've been fortunate to get permissions for a number of significant contemporary
poems, including Carol Ann Duffy's 'Prayer' and Derek Mahon's 'A Disused Shed
in Co. Wexford'. We hope you'll find many other poems here equally memorable.
Updates:
23 Jun 07 - Ian Duhig's 'The Speed of Dark' reviewed by Katy Evans-Bush.
10 Feb 06 - Limelight 14: Poems by Matthew Caley, Tim Cumming, Valeria Melchioretto, Kathryn Simmonds, Mark Waldron, and Tamar Yoseloff.
10 Jan 06 - Limelight 13: Poems by Simon Barraclough, Dean K Farrow, Valerie Josephs, John Stiles, Tim Wells, and Dean Wilson.
Poems - 41 British and Irish poets.
Limelight - web magazine.
Offshoots - opinion, reviews and criticism.
About us - aims, objectives and contact details.
Links - useful poetry resources on the web.
Discussion - poetry discussion forum.
News:
Submissions are invited from publishers or individual poets for The Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection prize, 2007/8. This annual prize is awarded to the author of what in the opinion of the judges is the best first full collection of poetry published in Great Britain and Eire in the preceding year. For more info, visit The Poetry Trust.
The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition 2006 is now open for entries – from all around the world. For more info, visit The Poetry Society.
George Szirtes - full text of the T.S. Eliot Lecture 2005.
