matt's poetry pocketbook:
poetry signposts

poems and poets

small press, journals and Internet magazines

Some sites have stable print editions (marked by a P) and audio (marked by ).

Taking the biscuit tin and hogging it are two sites:

Jacket: Australian web-based poetry magazine, very high standard - edited by John Tranter, a man with eclectic and far reaching horizons who knows how to write, edit and design.
poetrymagazines.org.uk: From the Poetry Library on the South Bank, London, , which presents recent and archive content: 10th Muse, Ambit, Angel Exhaust, Blithe Spirit, Borderlines, Brando's hat, Dream Catcher, Fabric, Fire, Global Tapestry, Iota, Magma, Modern Poetry in Translation, Monkey Kettle, Neon Highway, Oasis, Obsessed with pipework, Orbis, Painted, spoken, Poetry Nation, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Smiths Knoll, Smoke, South, Staple, The Cannon's Mouth, The Coffee House, The Frogmore Papers, The Interpreter's House, The London Magazine, The North, Thumbscrew. List correct at 22 September 2006.

Some of the rest:

Poetry London P: Poems, high standard - listings, news
Snakeskin: Zine - home of the Arthur Symons pages
Stride: After 33 issues as a poetry magazine, four issues as an 'occasional arts journal', and a few years gap Stride magazine welcomes you back to its new incarnation as a webzine - poems etc, from Rupert Loydell
The Wolf P: A 3 x year publication, The Wolf magazine publishes new poetry by emerging and established writers, plus interviews, reviews. Edited by James Byrne.
Atlantic Unbound P: Respected American journal's online edition has original poems, audio, reviews, interviews, articles - covers more than poetry
Boston Review P: A political and literary forum; Poetry index
Chapman P: Scottish - contraversial, influential, outspoken and intelligent - since 1970, edited by Joy Hendry
Contemporary Poetry Review P: From Michael Neff - er, subscribable archive
Cortland Review: Text and major amount of audio - What an advantage and a delight it is for readers to sit back and listen to the poets read aloud while they follow along in text. The dynamic creates an intimate connection between poet and audience: the kind of connection we had sought for ourselves for so long - Corland, New York, since 1997, online since 1998, ed. Guy Shahar
Diagram: Text and images (perhaps visual poems) - from Ander Monson and others
Island P: I had turned over every stone on the hillside / Without seeing a single scorpion: that was / Which day? Which year of my childhood? - Scorpion, Wang Jiaxin - edited by David Owen
Kaldron: North America's Longest Running Visual Poetry Magazine since 1997 eds. Karl Kempton, Harry Polkinhorn, and Karl Young
The Literary Review P: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing online since 1996
New Delta Review P: Web content from established writers, eg Messrs Armitage and Motion - from Louisiana State University Department of English, editors Ronlyn Domingue & Brock Hamlin
New England Review P: Quartely from Stephen Donadio

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poetry resources, places etc

African poetry: African poetry on the Internet
BBC arts and books: BBC- poets read their own work; BBC News - poetry; BBC Four interviews with poets
Academy of American Poets: Good for internet versions of work from poets in copyright, biographical stuff, pictures and the like
Zipschool: A zip is a short form English language alternative to haiku devised by Pennine poet John Carley
Isle of Lesbos: Lesbian poetry. Elegant and informative. Now archived but maintained intact
The Poetry Kit: UK and international event listings, competition round-up, poet bios, some poems, resources for the poet at large, managed by Jim Bennett
Get Underground: Check the Poetix column and numerous contributions by and about new poets
Poetix: Larry Jaffe's gateway to SoCal spoken word & poetry - useful, readable newsletter
Poetry Society: English poets' trade union and tea-drinking club
Def Poetry Jam: HBO series website, with some poems etc
Sonnet Central: Everything about sonnets from Eric Blomquest
Desperado Poetry: From Professor Lida Vianu at Bucharest University Department of English. Modern poets from U A Fanthorpe to T S Eliot via Liviu Ioan Stociu - many interview transcripts
Electronic Publishing Centre, University of Buffalo: E-poetry; Links A-Z; Links by subject; Audio links; Sound and radio archive
English/UK: British Council contemporary writers; Bartleby verse database - comprehensive collection of classic English verse; British poetry 1790-1910 - dead British poets at the University of Viginia; Representative poetry - from Sarah Flower Adams to Edward Young searchable by author, first line, date and keyword - University of Toronto Department of English; Canonical Verse - eServer poetry collection; English 88 about modern and contemporary American poetry from Al Filreis , Kelly Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania - many resources
The World: Canadian poets - University of Toronto Library; Chinese poetry - classical poems in English and original script by Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Su Shi (Su DongPo) and others; Selected Chinese poems in English translation; Chinese poems: recordings; Francophone African poets - in English
Google: Directory - Arts > Literature > Poetry; Google Groups - poetry; alt.art.limericks; alt.art.poetry; rec.arts.poems; rec.music.hip-hop; alt.rap; Google News - poetry

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matt's poetry pocketbook:poetry signposts

small press, journals and Internet magazines

poetry resources, places etc

matt's poetry pocketbook:
poetry signposts