The Poetry Society

David Constantine reads ‘When I Left You, Afterwards…’ from his Popescu Prize shortlisted translation of Bertolt Brecht’... Read more

The Blackbirds Come by Kim Rooney by The Poetry Society

US poet Kim Addonizio talks to Maurice Riordan, Editor of The Poetry Review, about riffing on the canon and traditional ... Read more

Note: This podcast contains some strong language from the start. In this collaboration between The Poetry Society, Poet ... Read more

"Many writers write not because they're fluent or because they have any kind of ability in a language but for the exact ... Read more

"I'm struck by the meaninglessness of words, how slippery they are and yet I also want to believe in them. I'm left stuc... Read more

Each year, the Mayor of Oslo, Norway gifts a Christmas tree to the United Kingdom, in commemoration of the two countries... Read more

Stephen Sexton's debut collection If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin, 2019), navigates childhood, memory, gri... Read more

In an absorbing exchange, acclaimed US poet Mark Doty talks to Richard Scott about some of his most famous poems, the ga... Read more

Colette Bryce reads her poem 'The Full Indian Rope Trick' at the Autumn 2013 Poetry Review launch party in November 2013... Read more

Recorded in his Cornwall home in the 1970s, W.S. Graham, "solitary pioneer at the edge of language", reads his celebrate... Read more

“Poetry is an inner armour available to anyone,” says the celebrated Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson in this latest in T... Read more

‘You listen for the poem to say itself’Emily Berry talks to Gillian Allnutt about meditation, fragmentation and the ‘hin... Read more

“I have so many anecdotes and stories [about] how d/Deaf people are excluded from cultural events and how much harder th... Read more

Don Paterson talks to Colette Bryce, poet and guest editor of the winter 2019 issue of the Review, about the “dark comed... Read more

Will Harris, Poetry Review contributor and the most recent winner of the Arts Foundation poetry fellowship, started writ... Read more

Acclaimed children's poet Joseph Coelho performs his new poem 'Look Into My Lights', with images dreamt up by London sch... Read more

In this bonus festive mini-podcast, poet, comedian, and hair-laden storyteller Rob Auton reads 'Letter From Father Chris... Read more

This poem was specially commissioned by the British Museum, London, in partnership with the Poetry Society. It was inspi... Read more

Adlestrop, read by Katrina Naomi by The Poetry Society