The annual Poetry Prom in August offered an unforgettable evening in the company of Seamus Heaney. He held the hugh Snape Maltings concert hall audience spellbound - reading a dazzling selection of poems old and new, and discussion his writing life. Early in their conversation, Michael Laskey (fellow poet & Co-Founder of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival) asked Heaney about his first poetic influences. Read online or  Order your FREE copy of The Poetry Paper.

With three accliamed collections. Marie Howe is one of America’s most vital and intimate poets. She’ll make her UK reading debut at Aldeburgh in 2010 and by way of introduction, we asked her the how, what and when of her life as a poet. Read online or ordering your FREE copy of The Poetry Paper 

Don Paterson interviewed by Lavinia Greenlaw at this year’s Spring Literary Festival at the Univeristy of East Anglia. Read online or ordering your FREE copy of The Poetry Paper.

Hot off the press – Issue 8 of The Poetry Paper
Featuring exclusive interviews with Alice Oswald about her approach to Homer in Memorial, and with Helen Dunmore and Jackie Kay about their poetry/prose balancing act as writers; essays by former US Poet Laureates Robert Hass and Kay Ryan; Jane Draycott on her approach to Pearl; Luljeta Lleshanaku’s development as a poet in Albania; new poems by Fleur Adcock, Fergus Allen, Roger McGough and Oliver Reynolds. Plus lots more. The Poetry Paper is back and it’s the richest one yet. Aldeburgh Poetry Festival audience members were the first to get their hands on this perfectly packaged triumph of content and style. But if you didn’t make it to the Festival, you can still enjoy The Poetry Paper online through an INTERACTIVE FLIPBOOK. Or you can email to request a hard copy (UK addresses only).

Did we mention that The Poetry Paper is completely free – in print & online – ? Well, it’s free!