Poetry

LitFinder: Search more than 126,500 full-text poems and 850,000 more poem citations, thousands of essays, speeches, plays and stories.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre: A comprehensive electronic gateway to poetry resources in New Zealand and the Pacific region for a local and international audience of students, scholars, poets and interested members of the public.
Poetry Archive: Listen to contemporary poets, both past and present, reading their own work. Also included is a wealth of background material on each poet and some filmed interviews.
Poetry Links: Links to selected web sites on poetry provided by Christchurch City Libraries.
Poetry Writing Tips: A bunch of tips for writing poetry from the Writer's Resource Center
SparkNotes Study Guides Poetry: SparkNotes provides the context (personal and social) from which the poetry was derived, analysis, a summary and commentary. May require you to join but membership is free.