Poetry Podcasts List In the order of the newest podcast episode Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast Frank Skinner loves poetry. And he thinks you might like it too. Join Frank each week as he takes you through some of his choice picks of poems. There may be laughter. There may be tears. There will certainly be poetry. Produced bt Sarah Bishop. It is an Avalon production. Click here to visit podcast webpage The Poetry Place Sundays, 3pm with presenters Dawn Gorman & Peter O’Grady The Poetry Place is a monthly poetry magazine programme bringing you news, views, readings and interviews from today’s poetry community, both locally and further afield. Presented by Dawn Gorman and Peter O’Grady, it brings inspiration and food for thought for everyone, from those who enjoy listening to the occasional poem, to people writing and publishing their own work. There's a new episode on the last Sunday of every month, with repeats from the archive on the other Sundays of the month. Click here to visit podcast webpage Gobsh!te A Mostly Poetry Podcast Interviewing poets and writers who have previously read at the Gobshite Spoken Word Open Mic held at the Golden Lion in Todmorden Click here to visit podcast webpage Of Poetry Podcast Kitchen conversations with poets Click here to visit podcast webpage Rattlecast A Livestreaming Poetry Reading and Podcast Every week, we put a new poet into your pocket with the Rattlecast (Mondays at 8pm ET / 5pm PT). Part interview and part reading, it’s a casual way to hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and poetry friends from around the world. Each Rattlecast begins with a Poets Respond Live segment, featuring the poem we published that Sunday about the news. After Timothy Green’s conversation/reading with a poet that has been published in Rattle, we head to the Invited Prompt Lines, where Tim is joined by creative editor Katie Dozier. Then, we hear a selection of curated poems written to last week’s poetry prompt by poets in the Rattle community. To join the fun and energetic chat live, please go to our YouTube channel, click to “Subscribe” and join us Mondays at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. For those that can’t make it to the live show, an audio version is later made available on all major podcasting apps. Click here to visit podcast webpage BBC Poetry Extra with Daljit Nagra Poet, Daljit Nagra, Selects poetry highlights from the BBC's extensive archive. Click here to visit podcast webpage The Hive Poetry Collective Airing on KSQD 90.7 FM most Sundays at 8:00, the Hive Poetry Collective is a buzz of poets in Santa Cruz, California— a swarm of radio conversations, public readings, and writing workshops. Click here to visit podcast webpage Between the Covers Between the Covers is a celebrated literary podcast hosted by writer David Naimon, known worldwide for its generous and in-depth conversations with today’s most vital thinkers. The podcast has garnered international praise in The Guardian, The Financial Times, and Electric Literature for its “incredible and in-depth conversations.” In partnership with Milkweed Editions, Between the Covers continues its mission to create space for immersive literary conversations that illuminate the complexities of contemporary writing. Click here to visit podcast webpage Demystifying Poetry Join poetry prof Tara Stubbs (Oxford) as she talks all things poetry with poets, educators, anthologists and even ‘poetry pharmacists’. In each podcast, Tara asks her guests about their relationships with poetry, their favourite poets, and the ways they use poetry to think about wider issues that relate to the world we live in. The conversations are informal and wide-ranging, but they all try to ‘demystify’ poetry – challenging and removing some of the barriers to poetry that we often find in education, community and society. Click here to visit podcast webpage Poets Talking Bollocks Keith Fenton and Acqueel Parvez discuss poetry, performance, and the open mic scene. Click here to visit podcast webpage Please do contact me if you would like me to add your podcast. Equally do inform me if you would like me to remove your podcast from this page. I have used my photographs that I have taken of the countryside in Yorkshire. This is to get around copyright. I would be happy to replace this with a picture you believe represents your podcast more accurately. The order of the above is based on the most recent podcast release as last checked on: 29th April, 2026

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Some poetry websites have a great YouTube page. Follow these links to see some great poetry being read by the poets themselves, book launches, open mics, book readings, poetry films, and programmes about poetry. Please get in touch if you want Bob to add your poetry YouTube page. Regularly checked for broken links. Links to: Poetry on YouTube Click: Bob and Poetry.com: Short poetry clips - YouTube Updated regularly Click: Longer clips such as readings and films. Updated regularly The YouTube Channels Here are some the YouTube Channels worth visiting: Once you go to the Channel's page choose the 'Videos' option to see the upload archive. Click on the underlined title to go to that YouTube page A-Z Putting poets under their surnames looked wrong, so the alphabetisation begins with the Channel's name, not the poet's. Alchemy Spoon 'A new poetry magazine for 2021.' Presently shows the magazine's four launches. A Love In Verse 'Every day for 25 years Peter wrote Alison a poem and put it under her pillow. Alison died in 2016 Peter spent six months sorting through more than 8500 poems and made a selection. These can be found at aloveinverse.com. He continues to write for her.' Anurag Jain Anurag Jain: My channel is to help students revise GCSE and A-Level English. Bamboo Dart Press Bamboo Dart Press is a collaboration between independent publishing company Pelekinesis and independent record company Shrimper. This collaboration will publish a series of unique chapbooks starting in 2021, each accompanied by a short video. Batsirai E Chigama 'Batsirai E Chigama is a name largely associated with spoken word is Zimbabwe. Her work is featured in several poetry anthologies in USA, England and New Zealand.' Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books YouTube channel. Button Poetry 'Button Poetry is a Minnesota-based organization dedicated to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for performance poetry.' Cambridge Literary Review 'The CLR is a UK-based magazine, publishing poetry, stories, essays, and criticism since 2009, with a focus on the avant-garde.' Carcanet Press 'Videos from an award-winning independent literary publisher of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation for over fifty years.' Caroline Hardaker Poet. Chill Pill Shorts A collection of poems from Chill Pill, one of London's finest spoken word collectives. Featuring: Mr Gee (host of Radio 4's Bespoken Word and Rhyme and Reason), Raymond Antrobus, Deanna Rodger, Simon Mole and Adam Kammerling, Chuck the Poet Chuck the Poet is a purveyor of short snappy, some times snippy, sharp witted poems. Themes include bodily fluids, insects and cheese! Most poems end in a punchline. Chuck has circumnavigated the planet, has twenty five years of broadcasting experience. He watches local football, wears socks and prefers the music that no one else likes. Clare's Poetry Circle (Clare Pollard poet) 'Join #ClaresPoetryCircle every Monday 11am GMT for a free, short poetry workshop and exercise. Clare Pollard is a poet, reader and teacher. Latest poetry collection: Incarnation (Bloodaxe).' Coarsemarvelous Videos of poetry being read by the authors. Darren J Beaney 'Me reading some of my poems. I am part of a collective that host a bi-monthly spoken word night in Brighton - Flight of the Dragonfly. I have had poems published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press, Indigo Dreams Publishing, Parthian Books, Dempsey & Windle, Poetry NI, Four Parts Press & The Angry Manifesto.' He has a hamster called Hamirez. Doctor G 'Adventures in the arts.' DREICH VID CHANNEL The visual arm of the Driech universe Edward Thomas Literary Festival Petersfield Museum's YouTube page has a number of videos from the Edward Thomas Felloiwship including the Literary Festival in 2021 Faber and Faber 'Faber and Faber is one of the great independent publishing houses in London. We were established in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber and our first editor was T. S. Eliot. We are proud to publish prize-winning fiction and non-fiction, as well as an unrivalled list of modern poets and playwrights.' Fay Roberts 'Mostly poetry, music, and stuff I find interesting.' Fly On The Wall Press The YouTube channel of Fly On The Wall Press. Fowler Poetry (SJ Fowler poet) Over 2000 videos of contemporary literary and experimental poetry, based around the curatorial and performance work of SJ Fowler www.stevenjfowler.com . This channel has been running for over a decade, documenting the great energy of 21st century live poetries, based in London.' Get Fresh Books - Roberto Garcia 'Get Fresh Books LLC is a cooperative press, where our authors, editors, and the publisher create and pursue a vision for the writer's work. I'm frustrated by the poetry book contest system, the near impossibility of landing a literary agent, and the constant fees for submitting. My goal is to run a publishing press where the publisher and the author work together to edit, publish, promote, and contribute to the literary conversation.' The Gloucestershire Poetry Society 'This is the official brand channel for The Gloucestershire Poetry Society. We provide an all-inclusive space for poets, writers and spoken word performers to share their work, learn through peer support, general and critical workshop and take part in online and offline event and festivals.' The Greek Neek A channel intended to help all Greek to GCSE students out there doing the OCR course. Particular focus on grammar and language past paper walkthroughs. More recently, Ted Hughes poetry analysis! Griffin Poetry Prize 'The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language. Each winner receives $65,000 (Cdn).' Hay Festival 'Hay Festival brings readers and writers together to share stories and ideas in sustainable events around the world. The festivals inspire, examine and entertain, inviting participants to imagine the world as it is and as it might be.' Home Stage - YouTube 'Our mission is to bring folk music and poetry to a new generation, making it accessible to all. With support from well-known names in the folk and poetry worlds we showcase talented, undiscovered artists through regular streamed programmes, live events, podcasts, festivals and tours. Using regular Zoom discussion groups we engage the growing creative community.' Ilkley Literature Festival 'Typically, Ilkley Literature Festival is held over 17 days at the start of October in this miniature Victorian spa town at the foot of Ilkley Moor – surrounded by beautiful countryside. The Festival is supported by Arts Council England and Bradford Metropolitan Council and is proud to have University of Leeds Cultural Institute as our Higher Education Partner.' Jackanory (in the merrie city) - YouTube Host of Jackanory. Facilitator of Women's poetry group. Jerwood Compton Poetry Takeover For Autumn 2020 we invited the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellows to take over the Jerwood Arts channels. The Fellows for this edition Hafsah Aneela Bashir , Anthony Joseph and Yomi Sode , celebrated the end of a year of mentorship, reflection and development through the Fellowship programme with a new digital programme of online events, content and social media takeovers. Kae Tempest 'This is Kae Tempest's channel, where you can see performances and videos.' The Keats and Shelly House 'The museum, located at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy, was the last home of John Keats and contains the rooms in which he lived and died in the winter of 1820-1821.' Kelsay Books 'Kelsay Books publishing chapbooks and full-length poetry collections.' Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen 'This is the official Michael Rosen video channel. All videos and playlists on this channel have been approved by Michael Rosen and are safe to watch.' Lannan Foundation 'Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities. Lannan hosts a series of love events each year in Santa Fe, New Mexico.' Lighthouse Writers Workshop 'A nonprofit literary center and beacon for readers and writers in Colorado and beyond.' Live Canon Poetry For fourteen years Live Canon have been publishing, performing, promoting, celebrating and sharing poetry. We publish anthologies, debuts and collections. Our ensemble perform poetry at theatres, festivals and events, and record poetry for radio, digital projects and interdisciplinary collaborations. Magma Poetry Magma Poetry's YouTube channel. Michelle Moloney King Experimental poet and visual poet. Editor of Beir Bua Journal. Likes to ask questions with poets, editors, readers, and maybe share some of my own work. Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Mr Tobin Leaving Cert English 'I am an English teacher making revision videos and materials for the Leaving and Junior Cert exams.' MPT Magazine MPT Magazine's YouTube channel National Poetry Day 'National Poetry Day is a mass annual celebration that brings people together to enjoy, share and discover poetry on the first Thursday in October.' New Writing North Video content by New Writing North, the literature development agency for the north of England Ó Bhéal - YouTube Festival reviews and videos from 2007 to the present can be found here. (Also See Welcome to Ó Bhéal - Fáilte go dtí Ó Bhéal) The On Being Project - YouTube The On Being Project is an independent non-profit public life and media initiative with radio, podcasts, digital, poetry, and live event offerings. We pursue deep thinking and social courage, moral imagination and joy, to renew inner life, outer life, and life together. OrangeApple Press - YouTube OrangeApple is a small press run between Scotland and Canada, founded and edited by T.Person and Meredith Grace Thompson. Pat Boran 'Pat Boran is an Irish poet, living and working in Dublin. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, many of them translated into other languages. He has worked as a presenter of poetry programmes on radio, as a creative writing tutor and as a literary editor.' The YouTube page has his poetry films. Poem Analysis 'Are you a fan of poetry or just curious and drawn to learn more? Well, you’re at the right place. Here are ten cool, fun and interesting facts about poetry that will intrigue and ignite your interest.' Poet in the City 'Poet in the City exists to explore how poetry can develop understandings of complex socio-political issues. We do this through producing an ambitious programme of multi-disciplinary events and commissioning projects that bring poets and communities closer together.' Poetry Archive 'The Poetry Archive is a not-for-profit organisation that makes and acquires recordings of poets from around the English-speaking world and makes substantial excerpts from them freely available online.' Poetry Book Society 'Set up by T S Eliot and friends in 1953 ‘to propagate the art of poetry’, the Poetry Book Society is a unique poetry society, providing information, reviews and discounts on the best contemporary poetry for an international community of readers.' Poetry London 'Poetry London is an arts charity and leading international poetry magazine where acclaimed contemporary poets share pages with exciting new names. Published three times a year in February, May and September, each issue contains new poetry, incisive reviews and features.' The Poetry Society (vimeo.com) 'Founded in 1909 to 'promote "a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry". Since then, it has grown into one of Britain's most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. It publishes the leading poetry magazine, Poetry Review.' Poetry Translate The Poetry Translation Centre gives the best poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language, working with diaspora communities for whom poetry is of great importance. Poets & Players Poets & Players was started in 2004 by poet Linda Chase (who died in 2011) with Musical Director Chris Davies and is run by volunteers. It is known for its programming of complementary arts — poetry with music, dance and visual art, in Manchester, UK. All the events are free to attend. Poets and Writers International Studio - Don Krieger See videos for recordings of the past Poets and Writers International Conclave. Poets.org (Academy of American Poets) 'The Academy of American Poets is a non-profit organization with a mission to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Our membership is nearly 9,000 strong and growing.' Pop Up Poet 'Meet The Voices After Dark Interviewing poetry night hosts and the poets themselves. Finding out what they feel and why they write?' Puzzle Poetry Puzzle Hall Poets is one of West Yorkshire’s longest running monthly spoken word events. We meet every first Monday each month (with the exception of Bank Holidays in which case it’s the second of each month). Entry is completely free and we have a featured guest as well as a welcoming and varied open mic. We meet at the Navigation Inn, Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire Rattle Poetry 'Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the practice of poetry, and is not affiliated with any other organization.' Sign up to join in the Rattlecasts, which are all later archived on this page. The Reader 'We are the pioneers of Shared Reading – a simple idea that changes lives. By bringing people together to read great literature aloud we are improving well-being, reducing social isolation and building stronger communities across the UK and beyond. We want to make Shared Reading so widespread that everyone, can access one of our groups.' Royal Society For Arts 'We are RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. We unite people and ideas to resolve the challenges of our time.' Salmon Poetry (Fergus Tighe's channel) Look at the videos to see the Salmon Poetry Garden, Ennisymon, County Clare Saqi Books 'Saqi Books are a publishing house based in Bayswater, West London where they've been creating international fiction and non-fiction titles across three imprints - Saqi, Telegram and the Westbourne Press - since 1983. Championing minority voices and progressive thinkers from the start, Saqi means 'waterseller' in Arabic.' Sandra Rennie Re-purposing, Re-imagining and Reviving with Art SarahJamespoet The poet, Sarah James Sasha Volokh (See his playlist Sasha Reads) Every Monday Sasha reads a classic poem which is added to his playlist. Seamus Heaney HomePlace 'Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy. A home for inspiration, echoing the life, literature and legacy of Seamus Heaney, poet, Nobel Laureate and one of Ireland's literary greats.' Sheaf Poetry 'Sheaf Poetry Festival is an annual poetry festival based in Sheffield, UK. We bring exciting poetry events to Sheffield as well as celebrating the city's brilliant & vibrant poetry scene.' Stay-At-Home! Literary Festival 'A digital event that brings together writers and readers to celebrate their love of books, without judgement or criticism. Now in its second year, the festival hosts workshops, panels, readings and talks. Here you can watch recordings of #SAHLF2021 events.' Steve Pottinger (poet) 'Here is where you'll find videos of some of (his) poems. I hope you enjoy them. If you do, please, share them with your friends.' Studio 3 Arts Barking 'Studio 3 Arts is a non-profit organisation that puts local people at the centre of everything that we do. Our mission is to be ambitious and create brilliant, challenging, relevant work that acknowledges and responds to the barriers that prevent arts participation.' S ee the open mic poetry podcasts. Sue Finch Sue Finch is a poet. She loves all kinds of coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. Tom Priestley - YouTube Poet based in Leeds. T.S. Eliot Prize Check out the videos and playlists of the many poets who have been shortlisted for the prize, reading their own poetry. UCD Press 'Publishers of the best contemporary non-fiction writing. Peer-reviewed for academic excellence. North American sales, marketing and distribution representation with University of Chicago Press' VerseCycle (Ecopoetry) 'Caroline Burrows @VerseCycle is a writer of poetry, prose: fiction and non-fiction, thematically ranging from cycling; trying to be environmentally friendly; comedy, fairy tales, love and heartbreak; and mental health.' VerseFirst VerseFirst is a Media project, dedicated to showing the world the best of what West Midlands Poetry has to offer. Via our YouTube Channel, VF Poetry Podcast and The Brand New Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal. Wet Grain Poetry 'Wet Grain is a new journal interested in the lyric grooves that channel and redirect our apprehension of the world and the ideas implacably fankling themselves within it' Writers' Kingston Writer’s Kingston is Kingston University's literary cultural institute dedicated to creative writing in all its forms, with an annual programme of events from talks to workshops and festivals. YourShelf The official YouTube channel for YourShelf, The YourShelf Podcast and The YourShelf Press. P.S. Not a YouTube site, but for many links to poetry in film - see Moving Poems | The best poetry videos on the web Last minor update 5 March 2026

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What about Bob? Find out more about Bob Dunning the founder and curator of www.bobandpoetry.com. Read his biography and find some of his poetry that appears online. Bob's Poetry Online Bizarre Objects - I Love Russians! | Thee Objects (bandcamp.com) Currently I am regularly collaborating with Thee Objects to create this unique mix of poetry and avant-garde music. For the latest release see the Bizarre Object E.P. at the bottom of every page. More Bizarre Objects releases can be found at the Thee Objects Bandcamp site. (Note: This link will take you from this site to Bandcamp.) Poetry Archive 2023 My Name is Tyre Poetry Archive entry 2022 I Love Russians Poetry Archive 2021 Sweep up the Wood Poetry Archive 2020 with lockdown hair!

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www.bobandpoetry.com is site which brings together links to poetry sites all around the world, and well as news of live poets, open mic, and spoken word events and opportunities available in Leeds and the surrounding area. It lists links to poetry news, poets, poetry podcasts, poetry magazines, poetry publishers, poetry competitions, and poetry and literature festivals, and offers 20 poetry things that you could do today! Welcome to Bob's Poetry Page For ONLINE poetry links, please Click Here For LIVE poetry events, please Click Here See twenty poetry things that you could do TODAY! Enjoy your visit and do get in touch! Click Here

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The more you learn about poetry, the less you realise you know! Here are some links to pages on literary devices, figures of speech and poetry terms. Please don't get in touch with Bob if you want to know more, he is too busy learning about it all himself. Please do get in touch if you feel a crucial link is missing. Wordy Word Words When I am reading poetry I come across a number of terms which extend beyond my English O' Level from 45ish years ago. This page offers links to websites that explain all things to do with words and language that interests me. Click the underlined words to go to that website. Literary Devices Cummings Study Guides - Literary Terms 50+ Common (& Not So Common) Literary Devices for 2024 Literary-Devices.com literarydevices.net literarydevices.com Poetry Terms Outdoor Lessons: Writing Poetry at the Playground (thank you to Haley for this suggestion) Poetry Analysis Poetry at Harvard Poetry Foundation Poetry Out Loud Washington State University - Poetry Terms - why not do the quizzes?! National poetry - Wikipedia (I am keen to expand the list if you do have further suggestions) Arabic poetry | al-bab.com Japanese Poetry - Wiki Nabati Poetry in the UAE: Origin, Themes & More - MyBayut (many thanks to Amelia) Welsh poetry - Wikipedia Wikipedia Pages I Like To Go Back To (I accept there is some overlap between these links). Figure of Speech Glossary of Literary Terms Glossary of Poetic Terms Greek and Latin metre Linguistics Metrical foot Phonetics see The International Phonetic Alphabet Poetry - Wikipedia Rhetorical Device Sanskrit prosody - Wikipedia Syllable Traditional Welsh poetic metres - Wikipedia Vedic metre - Wikipedia Word play - List of forms of word play Also see this Venn diagram that helps to distinguish Homophone, Homograph, Homonym, Heteronym, Heterograph, and Synonym!