Poetry Resources

Here’s a list of things that have helped me with poetry (as opposed to more general Writing-Resources or Publishing-Resources.

• The National Poetry Library offers free ebook access if you are in the UK. Just email them and give them proof.
• Loud Poets have a really excellent series called Return to Form to help withPoetic-form

Websites

• The Poetry Foundation has huge amounts of poems to read for free (they will also send you a poem a day if you want them to, and they also have an app that generates a random poem.)

Books

• The Craft edited by Rishi Dastidar is a good collection of essays looking at poetry, featuring different ways to approach writing. It includes lots of essays on Why-use-poetry-formform</a> as well as Starting-a-Poemstarting a poem</a> and Editing-A-Poemediting it.</a>

Podcasts

• The Lunar Poetry Podcast has fascinating interviews with established poets and is a treasure trove of advice.
• Dead Darlings Podcast features interviews with poets and book reviews.
• Helen Shepherd has a brilliant podcast called Health Beat Poets focusing on the intersection of health and poetry
• Vs is an unusual interview series with predominantly American poets.

Videos

• Josie Alford’s youtube channel has lots of clear advice for writing poetry
• Apples and Snakes Youtube has bitesize conversations with poets with good advice