Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' and 'Plait' | Then & Now by The Poetry Society

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Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' and 'Plait' | Then & Now

Mark Fiddes: Then & Now by The Poetry Society

Mark Fiddes: Then & Now

Marvin Thompson: Then and Now by The Poetry Society

Marvin Thompson: Then and Now

Freya Bantiff: Then and Now by The Poetry Society

Freya Bantiff: Then and Now

Vicki Feaver: Then and Now by The Poetry Society

Vicki Feaver: Then and Now

John Wedgwood Clarke: Then & Now by The Poetry Society

John Wedgwood Clarke: Then & Now

Martha Sprackland reads 'The Small Picture' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Martha Sprackland reads 'The Small Picture' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch

Kaveh Akbar reads 'Love Poem with Lines from Jesus and Muhammad' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Kaveh Akbar reads 'Love Poem with Lines from Jesus and Muhammad' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch

Bonnie Hancell reads 'Generations of Destroyers' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Bonnie Hancell reads 'Generations of Destroyers' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch

Jacob Polley reads 'Dust' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch by The Poetry Society

Jacob Polley reads 'Dust' at The Poetry Review Summer 2025 launch

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The Poetry Society was 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. Today it has more than 4000 members worldwide and publishes the leading poetry magazine, The Poetry Review.

With innovative education and commissioning programmes and a packed calendar of performances, readings and competitions, the Poetry Society champions poetry for all ages. 

"The Poetry Society is the heart and hands of poetry in the UK – a centre which pours out energy to all parts of the poetry-body, and a dexterous set of operations which arrange and organise poetry's various manifestations. It has a long distinguished history, and has never been so vital, or so vitalizing as it is now." Sir Andrew Motion