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The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce that the Poetry Archive’s landmark 100th recording is now on sale.

The Poetry Archive is a unique project dedicated to bringing poetry to a wider audience and to recording today’s poets for posterity.

Derek Walcott has become the 100th poet to join what co-director Andrew Motion calls 'the world's most remarkable online collection of poets reading their own work: a treasure house of information, insight and pleasure'.

Click here for a full list of Poetry Archive CDs available for sale.

District and Circle

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Winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2006

Seamus Heaney's momentous twelfth collection was described by the judges of the 2006 T S Eliot Prize as "a commanding, exhilarating work." The T S Eliot Prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new collection of poetry published in the UK or Ireland. Click here for more information on the T S Eliot Prize or click here to see more prize-winning poetry collections.

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Welcome to Poetry Bookshop Online - the home of poetry on the internet. From Beowulf to Birthday Letters - Poetry Bookshop Online is, quite simply, the best place to buy poetry. Why trek to the shops when all the poetry books currently in print in the UK are just a mouse click away?

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T S Eliot Prize 2007

The winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2006 is Seamus Heaney for District and Circle. Click here for more information.

The winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2005 was
Carol Ann Duffy, for Rapture.

The PBS is the sole online distributor of the Poetry Archive CDs, a unique collection of contemporary poets performing their own work. Click here for more information.

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Arts Council England

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