A wide range of poetry magazines and ephemera from all over the world are kept along with cassettes, records and videos for consultation, with many available for loan. There is a children's poetry section with a teacher's resource collection. An information service compiles lists of poetry magazines, competitions, publishers, groups and workshops, which are available from the Library on receipt of a large s.a.e. or direct from the library s web site. It also has a noticeboard for lost quotations, through which it tries to identify lines or fragments of poetry which have been sent in by other readers. General enquiry service available.
Membership is free, proof of identity and address are essential to join.
Open 11.00am to 8.00pm, Tuesday to Sunday. The Library s web site is one of the best poetry resources on the net. Beside the Library is The Voice Box , a performance space especially for literature. Poetry London includes poetry by new and established writers, reviews of recent collections and anthologies, features on issues relating to poetry, and an encyclopaedic listings section of virtually everything to do with poetry in the capital and the South East. The magazine also carries a limited coverage of events elsewhere.