Poetic license

Access India; January 16, 2006

Sound recordings of a wide range of English language poems read by their authors have been compiled into an archive by a charity co-founded by UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. The Poetry Online Archive contains recordings from as early as 1932.

The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. The Children’s Poetry Archive is full of poems chosen specially for children. Meet old favourites and make new discoveries for children in this section.

You can enjoy listening here, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and of poets from the past. The Archive is growing all the time.

The Archive can be accessed at: www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do