GCSE Bitesize - Detailed, easy-to-follow recordings and discussions of a selection of poems.

Way With Words - Some classic poems with flash animation, audio, quizzes and games.

http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/alevel/alevel.acds Aspirations English Literature A Level Resources for practical criticism, close reading of poetry and Shakespeare.

http://www.poets.org Poets: Exhaustive resources on poetry and poets.

Sonnets Resources for studying sonnets.

http://www.bookrags.com/sonnet/ Create your own Shakespearean sonnet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/poetryplease.shtml Poetry Please] Poetry on the radio - an archive of webcasts of actors reading poems requested by the audience of this popular BBC Radio 4 programme.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ Poetry Foundation The archives of poetry accompanied by refreshingly unpretentious discussion of poets' backgrounds and of the themes and style of their work are terrific. There's also featured essays about how to write, about the difference between poetry and doggerel verse, about why poetry is still relevant to everyday people's lives, about children's poetry... and lots, lots more.

http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/ Poetry Magic] Resource centre for the theory and craft of writing poetry.

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/ Wandering Minstrels] A poem a day by e-mail service. Get a poem sent to your inbox every day accompanied by critical commentary - for free. The commentaries are insightful and entertaining, and the choices of poems range from canonical classics to contemporary song lyrics - from Keats to Cole Porter. There's a big archive, too.

http://americanpoems.com American Poems] Large archives of poems and discussion boards - some users' comments are helpful but some are rather trivial.

http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/chaucer/chaucer.acds Chaucer4All: Lots of stuff on Geoffrey Chaucer including video and audio recordings of the Tales retold as hip-hop raps.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Literary_Criticism/Contents/Poems_for_Close_Reading_with_Questions Open Source Wikibook for Collaborative Practical Criticism Practice

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/topic_index.asp?subject_id=4 S-Cool A-Level Literature] Revision notes for unseen criticism.

http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/ Teaching Haiku]

http://www.sfu.ca/~finley/discussion.html Limerick discussion page]

http://www.poetry4kids.com/howto Poetry4Kids: How to write a poem]

http://www.gigglepoetry.com Giggle Poetry]