thepoem

Welcome to The Poem web site, showcase for contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland.

We've been fortunate to get permissions for a number of significant contemporary poems, including Carol Ann Duffy's 'Prayer' and Derek Mahon's 'A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford'. We hope you'll find many other poems here equally memorable.



Updates:

6 May 10 - Limelight 16: Poems by Judy Brown, Jane Draycott, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Amy Key, Heather Philipson, John Stammers.

30 March 10 - Other Englishes....poems from
Kim Addonizio, John Ashbery, Margaret Avinson , David Berman
Tess Gallagher, August Kleinzahler....


Poems - 41 British and Irish poets. And Other Englishes...

Limelight - web magazine.

Offshoots - opinion, reviews and criticism.

About us - aims, objectives and contact details.

Links - useful poetry resources on the web.

Discussion - poetry discussion forum.

 

News:

thepoem is up and running again after a period of dormancy. Isabel Villavecchia has kindly come on board as our new webmaster, and we will be adding new poems and issues of Limelight in the coming months.

The dicussion board is also working again, and ready for use. Please do keep in mind the boards rules of web etiquette.