The Poetry Society

'Glow' by Coral Rumble: The Look North More Often Project 2025

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Each year for our Look North More Often project, The Poetry Society commissions a new children’s poem celebrating the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Sq...

Fawzia Muradali Kane: Then & Now

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fawzia Muradali Kane: Then & Now by The Poetry Society

Mary Jean Chan on 'Play'

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Jean Chan on 'Play' by The Poetry Society

Katie Griffiths: Then & Now

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Griffiths: Then & Now by The Poetry Society

Mark Fiddes: Then & Now

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Fiddes: Then & Now by The Poetry Society

Marvin Thompson: Then and Now

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marvin Thompson: Then and Now by The Poetry Society

Freya Bantiff: Then and Now

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Freya Bantiff: Then and Now by The Poetry Society

Vicki Feaver: Then and Now

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vicki Feaver: Then and Now by The Poetry Society

John Wedgwood Clarke: Then & Now

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John Wedgwood Clarke: Then & Now by The Poetry Society

Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' and 'Plait' | Then & Now

01 Sep 2025

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Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' and 'Plait' | Then & Now by The Poetry Society

Martha Sprackland reads 'The Small Picture' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Martha Sprackland reads 'The Small Picture' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Kaveh Akbar reads 'Love Poem with Lines from Jesus and Muhammad' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kaveh Akbar reads 'Love Poem with Lines from Jesus and Muhammad' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Bonnie Hancell reads 'Generations of Destroyers' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bonnie Hancell reads 'Generations of Destroyers' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Jacob Polley reads 'Dust' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jacob Polley reads 'Dust' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Taking the Temperature with Jess Chandler, Niall Munro, Amy Acre, and Tristram Fane Saunders

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Taking the Temperature is a panel where brand-new and seasoned editors and publishers will discuss how independent poetry publishing is changing, with...

Polylingual Poetry with Ghazal Mosadeq, Fiona Larkin, and Leo Boix

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Polylingual Poetry: a panel on how poetry containing more than one language, and poetry in translation, is speaking to new audiences and welcoming new...

Tiffany Atkinson reads 'Patrick' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tiffany Atkinson reads 'Patrick' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Joe Carrick-Varty reads 'Almost Back Where We Left Now' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Carrick-Varty reads 'Almost Back Where We Left Now' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Rashed Aqrabawi reads 'Poem' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rashed Aqrabawi reads 'Poem' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Inua Ellams reads 'Reminisce of tongues' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch

15 Apr 2025

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Inua Ellams reads 'Reminisce of tongues' at The Poetry Review Spring 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Fiona Larkin reads 'Absence has a grammar' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

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Fiona Larkin reads 'Absence has a grammar' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Matt Barnard reads 'Two Boys at Midnight' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

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Matt Barnard reads 'Two Boys at Midnight' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Sorrel Briggs reads 'Heaven Down' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

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Sorrel Briggs reads 'Heaven Down' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Hannah Perrin King reads 'Inheritance' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah Perrin King reads 'Inheritance' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Yong-Yu Huang reads 'Living as My Mother' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

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Yong-Yu Huang reads 'Living as My Mother' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Kit Buchan reads 'Hallowe'en Ghazal' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kit Buchan reads 'Hallowe'en Ghazal' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Andrew Dennison reads 'Courgettes' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

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Andrew Dennison reads 'Courgettes' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Lee Knapper reads 'Plums' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

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Lee Knapper reads 'Plums' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Chris Beckett reads 'The broom upside down' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

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Chris Beckett reads 'The broom upside down' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Lesley Sharpe reads 'Eyewitness' | National Poetry Competition 2024

01 Apr 2025

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Lesley Sharpe reads 'Eyewitness' | National Poetry Competition 2024 by The Poetry Society

Jay Bernard Reads 'After Him' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Bernard Reads 'After Him' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

Denise Saul Reads 'The White Room' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Denise Saul Reads 'The White Room' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

Crispin Best Reads 'In This Economy' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Crispin Best Reads 'In This Economy' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

(EXCERPT) Susannah Dickey Reads 'Sex Horse' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

(EXCERPT) Susannah Dickey Reads 'Sex Horse' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

Chen Chen Reads '2pm in provincetown—' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chen Chen Reads '2pm in provincetown—' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

Young Critics review the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist - part 2

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the final five of this year's Young Critics reviews in podcast form. You can watch all ten reviews on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/Yo...

Young Critics review the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist - part 1

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the first five of this year's Young Critics reviews in podcast form. You can watch all ten reviews on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/Yo...

'A Baby and A Tree' by Valerie Bloom - The Look North More Often Project

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Each year, The Poetry Society commissions a new children’s poem celebrating the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, which is a gift from the city of...

Foyle Young Poets of the Year Top 15 Winners 2023

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a podcast created by The Poetry Society. This podcast features the Top 15 winning poems read by the winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Ye...

Peter Gizzi & Richard Scott

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

‘We’ve always been here. As long as there has been soldiers, there have been poets. And it’s a long sad, venerable tradition.’ (Peter Gizzi) ...

'T is for Tree' by Isabel Galleymore

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Each year, The Poetry Society commissions a new children’s poem celebrating the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, which is a gift from the city of...

Jameson Fitzpatrick talks to Andre Bagoo

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Guest editor of The Poetry Review Summer 2022, Andre Bagoo talks to his contributor Jameson Fitzpatrick. Andre co-edited the summer issue with Richar...

Reading of 'Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, with an unknown girl [...]'

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This poem was written by Fred D'Aguiar and Sarah Howe in 2021 as part of the TIDE research project, as a collaboration between the University of Oxfor...

Ilya Kaminsky reads at the launch of The Poetry Review Summer 2019

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ilya Kaminsky reads at the launch of The Poetry Review 109:2, Summer 2019, held at The Poetry Café, London. Ilya Kaminsky will be giving this year's...

and a tree by Kate Wakeling

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Wakeling's new poem ‘and a tree’ was commissioned as part of The Poetry Society's annual Look North More Often programme and celebrates the 2...

Roger McGough Reading 'God Rest The Queen'

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After the announcement of the death of Her Majesty the Queen on 8 September 2022, The Poetry Society invited Society President Roger McGough to write ...

Dzifa Benson speaks to Clementine E. Burnley and Zakia Carpenter-Hall

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dzifa Benson speaks to Clementine E. Burnley and Zakia Carpenter-Hall. Clementine E. Burnley and Zakia Carpenter-Hall are both alumni of the Obsidian...

Shane McCrae talks to Emily Berry

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spend 30 engrossing minutes in the company of the award-winning US poet Shane McCrae and Review editor Emily Berry as they discuss Sylvia Plath’s ‘...

The Fourth King by Sinéad Morrissey

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sinéad Morrissey's new poem ‘The Fourth King’ was commissioned as part of our annual Look North More Often programme and celebrates the 2021 Traf...

National Poetry Competition 2021 judges podcast: Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Rogers of The Poetry Society speaks to this year's National Poetry Competition judges Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long in a wide-ra...

Mary Ruefle talks to Emily Berry

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In their funny and thought-provoking conversation by telephone, celebrated American poet Mary Ruefle and Review editor Emily Berry discuss starting po...

Gail McConnell talks to Emily Berry

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest Poetry Review podcast, Gail McConnell talks to Emily Berry about loss, parenthood and the resource of language in her debut collection T...

Foyle Young Poets 2020 Top 15 Winners Podcast

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a podcast created by The Poetry Society. This podcast features the Top 15 winning poems read by the winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Ye...

Selima Hill talks to Emily Berry

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a searching, wide-ranging and often very funny exchange, Selima Hill talks to Review editor Emily Berry about being both a prolific writer and a pr...

Eithr Ffrwyth yr Ysbryd yw, Cariad (Galatiaid 5:22)

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An audio recording of the Welsh translation of the National Poetry Competition 2020 winning poem 'The Fruit of the Spirit is Love (Galatians 5:22)' by...

Luke Kennard talks to Emily Berry

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Review editor Emily Berry and poet and novelist Luke Kennard, for an exhilarating unravelling of the prophetic voice and its uses for poetry, the...

Rachel Long talks to Emily Berry

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Long, whose brilliant debut My Darling from the Lions (Picador) has been shortlisted for the Forward, Costa and Rathbones Folio prizes, talks t...

The Christmas Pine by Julia Donaldson

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

'The Christmas Pine' by Julia Donaldson, commissioned by The Poetry Society for the 2020 Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, is performed by Reinfrancis ...

Sandeep Parmar talks to Mary Jean Chan

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Review contributor Sandeep Parmar talks to Mary Jean Chan, guest co-editor with Will Harris of the spring 2020 issue of The Poetry Review. Sandeep rea...

Nick Makoha talks to Will Harris

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Will Harris and Nick Makoha, prizewinning poets both, talk about Nick’s poems in the spring 2020 issue of The Poetry Review and how these poems exem...

Poems from the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Spring 2020, winning poets of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award recorded themselves reading their entries from lockdown in the UK, the USA an...

Don Paterson talks to Colette Bryce

24 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Don Paterson talks to Colette Bryce, poet and guest editor of the winter 2019 issue of the Review, about the “dark comedy” of his forthcoming coll...

The Gift by Clare Pollard

11 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Each year, the Mayor of Oslo, Norway gifts a Christmas tree to the United Kingdom, in commemoration of the two countries' co-operation in the Second W...

Mark Waldron talks to Emily Berry

04 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In a conversation that will lighten spirits and fire up brain cells, Emily Berry talks to Mark Waldron in the latest Poetry Review podcast. They discu...

Stephen Sexton & Kirsten Irving talk poetry and video games

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Sexton's debut collection If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin, 2019), navigates childhood, memory, grief and loss through the prism ...

Mind the caesura: Poems on the Underground readings

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mona Arshi, Imtiaz Dharker, Maura Dooley and John Hegley read poems of theirs all of which were published onto the walls of London's Tube carriages as...

National Poetry Competition: Mona Arshi and Wayne Holloway-Smith on writing a prize winning poem

11 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mona Arshi, one of three judges in the 2019 National Poetry Competition, joins Wayne Holloway-Smith, the winner of the 2018 National Poetry Competiti...

Ilya Kaminsky talks to Emily Berry

16 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest Poetry Review podcast, Emily Berry talks to Ilya Kaminsky, author of the astonishing and internationally acclaimed collection Deaf Repub...

The 2019 Poem-A-Thon: Part 5

25 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday 18 May 2019, The Poetry Society hosted an all day poetry fundraising extravaganza, including a 10 hour sponsored poetry reading from a lin...

National Poetry Competition 40th Anniversary Readings: Part 2

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A live recording of the National Poetry Competition 40th Anniversary Readings at Kings Place, held on 20th March 2019 featuring, featuring Caleb Park...

National Poetry Competition 40th Anniversary Readings: Part 1

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A live recording of the National Poetry Competition 40th Anniversary Readings at Kings Place, held on 20th March 2019 featuring, featuring Caleb Park...

Rachel Long, Chicago Youth Poet Laureates and Foyle Young Poets

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Long speaks to recent Foyle winners Em Power and Fiy Oladipo, and Chicago Youth Poet Laureates Kara Jackson, Natalie Rose Richardson and Patric...

The Poem-A-Thon Part 4

28 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday 18 May 2019, The Poetry Society hosted an all day poetry fundraising extravaganza, including a 10 hour sponsored poetry reading from a lin...

Denise Riley talks to Emily Berry

06 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In a brilliant, wide-ranging discussion with Emily Berry, Editor of The Poetry Review, the celebrated poet Denise Riley talks about the art of composi...

The 2019 Poem-A-Thon: Part 3

29 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday 18 May 2019, The Poetry Society hosted an all day poetry fundraising extravaganza, including a 10 hour sponsored poetry reading from a lin...

The 2019 Poem-A-Thon: Part 2

28 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday 18 May 2019, The Poetry Society hosted an all day poetry fundraising extravaganza, including a 10 hour sponsored poetry reading from a lin...

The 2019 Poem-A-Thon: Part 1

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

*Soundcloud listeners: please tag poets/readings/poems using the comments feature during playback - this will help us create an index people can use t...

Mary Jean Chan reads 'The Window'

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate the poem's shortlisting for the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, Mary Jean Chan reads 'The Window', which was first published as ...

Will Harris talks to Emily Berry

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Will Harris, Poetry Review contributor and the most recent winner of the Arts Foundation poetry fellowship, started writing poetry when it wasn't cool...

W.S. Graham reads 'The Constructed Space'

01 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded in his Cornwall home in the 1970s, W.S. Graham, "solitary pioneer at the edge of language", reads his celebrated poem 'The Constructed Space'...

W.S. Graham reads 'I Leave This At Your Ear'

01 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded in his Cornwall home in the 1970s, W.S. Graham, "solitary pioneer at the edge of language", reads his poem 'I Leave This At Your Ear'. Graham...

Look Into My Lights by Joseph Coelho

19 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Acclaimed children's poet Joseph Coelho performs his new poem 'Look Into My Lights', with images dreamt up by London schoolchildren. This poem was com...

sam sax & the 2018 SLAMbassadors masterclass in conversation with Joelle Taylor

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

sam sax, American poet and queer Jewish icon, chats to Joelle Taylor about starting out performing in loud bars, reads his poem 'Haematology', and sha...

Chelsey Minnis talks to Emily Berry

15 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Listen in on influential US poet Chelsey Minnis, author of Poemland, Zirconia, Foxina, Bad Bad and the just-published Baby, I Don’t Care, in a highl...

Raymond Antrobus talks to Emily Berry

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“I have so many anecdotes and stories [about] how d/Deaf people are excluded from cultural events and how much harder they/we/I have had to work to ...

Will Harris reads 'SAY'

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Congratulations to Will Harris, who reads here his poem 'SAY'. First published in The Poetry Review, Winter 2017, it has been shortlisted for the Forw...

Fiona Benson talks to Emily Berry

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“I think shame is very unhelpful, that taboos can be very unhelpful – maybe we should try and be as brave as our poems.” Fiona Benson, author of...

Joelle Taylor in conversation with Danez Smith, Anthony Anaxagorou, Jay Bernard and Imani Robinson

08 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Note: This podcast contains some strong language from the start. In this collaboration between The Poetry Society, Poet in the City and Out-Spoken, ...

Rob Auton - Letter From Father Christmas

18 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this bonus festive mini-podcast, poet, comedian, and hair-laden storyteller Rob Auton reads 'Letter From Father Christmas'. This reading is taken...

Julian Stannard talks to Emily Berry

12 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In our most festive podcast yet, Julian Stannard reads his poems ‘Boxing Day’, ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Pigs in Suffolk’, and talks about the stran...

Emily Berry talks to Ishion Hutchinson

22 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

“Poetry is an inner armour available to anyone,” says the celebrated Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson in this latest in The Poetry Review podcast s...

Joelle Taylor in conversation with Rob Auton

19 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

SLAMbassadors Artistic Director Joelle Taylor speaks to poet, comedian and all-around stagesmith Rob Auton about becoming one of the spoken word scene...