The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated ...

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Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...

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