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First in this list is the Poetry Society, already mentioned on the homepage, but worth mentioning again. This will be found at www.poetrysociety.org.uk/

Here you may catch up on the news in the poetry world and discover the benefits of membership. Events at the Poetry Cafe are also listed here.
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A new and very interesting website is the Poetry Archive. This is the brainchild of former Poet Lauriate Andrew Motion and it contains some rare and valuable recordings of poets reading their own work as well as biographies of the poets in question. There is much more else besides and it is well worth a visit.

If you are interested in a particular poet, go to http://www.poetryarchive.org.uk/ and find out what you want to know.

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Another extremely useful site is The Poetry Kit. This is an excellent website for any poet looking for information on magazines, poetry publishers, writing groups and poetry events. The Poetry Kit is an international site, dealing with poetry from every continent, not just the UK and USA. It is funded by the Arts Council of England and has won awards within the poetry world for its accessibility and wide range of advice and information.

It may be found on www.poetrykit.org/ and is a must for anyone interested in poetry.
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As part of its 50th anniversary in 2003, the Poetry Library launched its new website: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/. Here, a selection of poetry magazines may be viewed. Related to this is the Poetry Library's own website: www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/. This is a mine of useful information concerning the latest poetry competitions, plus most of what has been published in the poetry world; books, collections, anthologies, etc.
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The paumanok Review is a quarterly e-zine. It publishes high quality writing in various genres including poetry, short fiction and essays. Each issue has an interview with a leading writer as its feature. The bias of the magazine is towards writing from America, but writers from other parts of the English speaking world are also included. The paumanok Review can be read by going to: www.paumanokreview.com/
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Poetry London is a well known magazine with an excellent website that is extremely useful for surveying the current poetry scene in and around London. There is also a good, comprehensive list of poetry venues in the London area so, if you want to know what is happening on the poetry circuit, log onto www.poetrylondon.co.uk/
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One very useful website is http://rhyme.poetry.com/ This is an on-line rhyming dictionary and thesaurus, and is handy for those who write rhyming verse, but it does not stop there. With it, you can also find synonyms, definitions, related words, similar sounding words and homophones. It will also match consonants and letters. A very useful tool.

Incidentally, it failed to find a rhyme for orange!
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A most useful site for inspiration is the Guardian newspaper. Here you may find a series of workshops, all set by established poets and really handy if you are stuck for an idea. To find some good inspiration, go to http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetryworkshop/
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Survivors Poetry is an organisation essentially dealing with poetry written by survivors of mental distress, together with issues related to mental health. Their magazine, Poetry Express, formally a paper magazine, is currently available only on-line and may be downloaded as a PDF. Survivors Poetry may be visited on www.survivorspoetry.com/
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Great Works is an interesting e-zine. To quote their own introduction:

"Great Works is a site for innovative writing: modernist, postmodernist, archaic. It proclaims the need to let a thousand flowers bloom, and rejects any single definition of what writing is, It welcomes alternative poetries and other writing. It proudly offers no retrieval of coherence at a higher interpretative level."

It does contain a selection of innovative and experimental poetry and is regularly updated by its editor Peter Philpot. It may be viewed on www.greatworks.org.uk/
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An interesting on-line e-zine is Zafusy. According to its homepage, it will soon be available in print form - in association with 14 Hour and Littlest Birds. New work is invited for this. Zafusy is an attractive site with an open layout that does not distract the reader and its pages are uncluttered, the emphasis being on content alone. There is a page with submission guidelines for those thinking of sending their work in for possible publication. It is important that you view the content of the magazine before submitting work.

It may be viewed on www.zafusy.com/. It is worth a visit.

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Another interesting magazine is erbacce. The name is Italian for Weed and, like a weed, they intend to spread. While it is a 'radical' magazine, the accent is firmly on good,well-crafted poetry. Find out more about erbacce on www.erbacce.com or www.erbacce-press.com. They also have a site on Myspace. Go to www.myspace.com/erbacce. The co-editor, Andrew Taylor's own website is www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com

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OK, I cannot leave this section without putting in another plug for Letchworth poetry group Poetry I. D. This group has two websites, the main one being www.poetry-id.co.uk/. They also have a Wetpaint wiki at http://poetry-id.wetpaint.com/. Enjoy!