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The British Council project, Poetry Quartets, in partnership with Bloodaxe Books consists of a series of contemporary poetry recordings featuring poets reading and talking about their work. You can listen to the poems here. For biographical, bibliographical and critical reviews of poets use our Contemporary Writers website. To help you choose poetry to suit your mood use the enCompassCulture site poetry compass or for children and young people select the pot luck compass. Poems on the Underground are distributed and displayed in our overseas offices.

Poetry Quartets

The British Council, in collaboration with Bloodaxe Books, have produced a series of contemporary poetry recordings featuring poets reading and talking about their work. Each recording is available for purchase on cassette. You can also listen to free audio extracts of the recordings via our Poetry Quartets home page.

Poems on the Underground

Poems on the Underground is a long-running project that publishes a selection of poems on posters in London Underground tube trains and stations. The project has grown in size since its inception and the idea has been adopted by several other countries. We help to finance Poems on the Underground, distribute the posters to our offices overseas three times a year and collaborate with the organisers on overseas versions of the Poems on the Underground posters.

enCompass Culture

enCompassCulture is a world-wide online book group where you can select from the best of contemporary UK and Commonwealth literature. The site covers a wide range of literary genres, including poetry. For poetry-specific links, click-through to the Poetry section for Adults, or for children and young people, navigate to the section 'Pot Luck' and then 'Poetry'.

Contemporary Writers

The Contemporary Writers website contains UK and Commonwealth author information with biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs. The website has information on over 500 authors, with 5 - 10 new authors being added monthly. Constantly updated as new books are published and prizes won. Searchable by author, genre (including poetry), nationality, gender, publisher, book title, date of publication and prize name and date. The site also contains news about major British Council literary events.

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