Welcome to The Poem web site, showcase for 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:
thepoem is up and running again after a period of dormancy. Isabel Villavecchia has kindly come on board as our new webmaster, and we will be adding new poems ans issues of Limelight in thr coming months.
The dicussion board is also working again, and ready for use. Please do keep in mind the boards rules of web etiquette.
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.