Beware: poet at work!

Poetry is all the rage:
They’ve recently had it on telly.
So where should you go to find out more?
Look below: feed your mind (and your belly)!

Not the wasteland

The Poetry Society
Has all the latest news
Of poets meek and poets fierce
And poets with radical views.

Discover the Poetry Café
And buy a new volume or two.
Attend their frequent readings
And feast on their veggie ragout.

This website’s tone is friendly:
Nothing snooty or precious here.
So if you need any encouragement,
Seek their help with a smile, not a sneer.

(From the Gateway to websites, select “Books”. The Poetry Society is under “Poetry”.)

South Bank scribblers

The shelves of the Poetry Library
Groan with books and CDs, also mags
Full of poems from 1912 onwards
By beginners and old also “old lags”.

The library’s a physical entity
In the bowels of the Festival Hall,
But the Poetry Magazines Archive
Is a database open to all.

They invite you to write your own poem,
Using words they had left on the shelf.
But unless you’re as good as what I am,
You should not write a poem yourself!

(From the Gateway to websites, select “Books”. The Poetry Library is under “Poetry”.)