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  2. Poetry Archive - Wikipedia

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    The Poetry Archive was founded by recording producer Richard Carrington and poet Andrew Motion, during his appointment as UK Poet Laureate in 1999 and is now led by Director Tracey Guiry. [1] [2] Recordings of contemporary work began in 2000 and the first website went live in 2005. The Poetry Archive is a not-for-profit registered UK charity. [3]

  3. Poetry Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The foundation is the successor to the Modern Poetry Association (previous publisher of Poetry magazine), which was founded in 1941. [2] The magazine, itself, was established in 1912 by Harriet Monroe. Monroe was its first publisher and editor until her death in 1936. The Poetry Foundation is one of the largest literary foundations in the world ...

  4. The Poetry Society - Wikipedia

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    The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry". The society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society in 1912. Its first president was Lady Margaret Sackville. [1]

  5. National Poetry Competition - Wikipedia

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    Carol Ann Duffy, the UK poet laureate, winner in 1983. The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. [1] It is run by UK-based The Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition each year. Winning has been an important ...

  6. National Poetry Library - Wikipedia

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    The National Poetry Library is a free public collection housed at Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre. Situated on the fifth floor of the Royal Festival Hall, overlooking the river Thames, the library aims to hold all contemporary UK poetry publications since 1912. It houses the largest collection in Britain, numbering over 200,000 ...

  7. Poet laureate - Wikipedia

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    In modern times a poet laureate title may be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which designates a Young People's Poet Laureate, unconnected with the National Youth Poet Laureate and the United States Poet Laureate. [5] The office is also popular with regional and community groups.

  8. National Poetry Centre - Wikipedia

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    The National Poetry Centre of the United Kingdom is a charity, registered in 2022, which plans to open a centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 2027. Its trustees include Poet Laureate Simon Armitage , who has said "My highest ambition when appointed Poet Laureate was to create a national home for poetry in my native West Yorkshire."

  9. T. S. Eliot Prize - Wikipedia

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    The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For many years it was awarded by the Eliots' Poetry Book Society (UK) for "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" [1] in any particular year.