• Media

    Audio/visual focussed
    • Archive of the Now
      The Archive of the Now is an electronic and print collection of poetry and text-based work. It is offered as a scholarly, aesthetic, social and political resource for writers and readers of innovative poetry. Based at Queen Mary, University of London.
    • Kootenay School of Writing
      'Since the New Poetics Colloquium in 1985, the KSW has been recording many of the readings, talks and symposia held at our headquarters and elsewhere.'
    • M E S H W O R K S
      Meshworks is a site dedicated to documenting and preserving video and sound recordings of writing in performance.
    • Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
      The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
    • PennSound
      PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives. Based at the University of Pennsylvania.
    • PoemTalk
      A podcast series sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, the Kelly Writers House and PennSound.
    • Resonance FM
      London-based radio station. 'Resonance104.4fm is the world’s first radio art station, established by London Musicians’ Collective... to provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting.'
    • Stem Recordings
      Purchase CDs of poets reading.
    • The Continental Review
      Video-only forum for contemporary poetry and poetics.
    • The Lipstick of Noise
      Collection of links to poetry audio files.
    • UbuWeb
      UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
    • UbuWeb Radio
      Radio station for UbuWeb (requires iTunes).
    • Vispo
      A visual poetry archive. Run by Jim Andrews.
    • Wordsalad
      'Wordsalad is a concept.  For the time being it manifests itself as a weekly radio program. Each one-hour installment includes recordings of contemporary authors performing their own work.' Online playlists also available. Run by Paul Baker.

  • Resources

    Poetry resources / archives
    • AAAARG.ORG
      'AAAARG is a conversation platform - at different times it performs as a school, or a reading group, or a journal.'
    • Artists' Books Online
      Artists' Books Online is designed to promote critical engagement with artists books and to provide access to a digital repository of metadata, scans, and commentary.
    • British Electronic Poetry Centre
      The BEPC serves British poetry's diverse traditions of innovation. It provides a reference guide to contemporary poetry, plus poems, performances, and critical debate.
    • Electronic Poetry Center
      'Our aim is simple: to make available a wide range of resources centered on digital and contemporary formally innovative poetries, new media writing, and literary programming.'
    • Jacket Magazine
      'Jacket magazine was founded by John Tranter in a rash moment in 1997, to showcase lively contemporary poetry and prose. You can’t actually subscribe to the magazine - just drop by every few weeks.'
    • modernpoetry
      Introductory website for contemporary poetry. Created by Peter Philpott.
    • poetrymagazines
      A free access site to the full-text digital library of 20th and 21st century UK poetry magazines from the Poetry Library collection.
    • Selby's List
      Spencer Selby’s list of experimental poetry / art magazines.
    • The Poetry Foundation
      'The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.'