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Take a breath #poemoftheday https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk

Poems on the Underground go online! We're forever grateful to Poems on the Underground for their generosity in allowing us to share their posters on our website. How fantastic to see that they've launched their own site today, go check out this excellent resource

Truly saddened to hear of Eavan Boland's death. What a powerful poet we have lost. We pay tribute with our #poemoftheday 'Legends' by the legend and master storyteller herself https://nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk

Poet Mark Waldron had been set to join us for an evening of poetry inspired by the natural world, in a special Among the Trees edition of National Poetry Librar...y Lates at Southbank Centre. Instead, he's kindly shared his poem with us here as well as his approach to bringing the outside world into our indoor existence. See more

Find out more about the role Edwin Morgan played in the concrete poetry movement as well as details of what we've got coming up to celebrate his centenary #edwinmorgan100 https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk//concrete-world-e