Libraries can subscribe to one or both poetry databases for BCR's discounted price at the end of the trial period. Significant periods, from early English to Elizabethan to post-modernism and contemporary poetry, are fully represented. The databases include important schools and movements, the complete works of hundreds of poets from every continent, all in English translation. Both databases are constantly updated. Subject Navigator, in both databases, provides a subject hierarchy organizing more than 8,500 specific subject headings to facilitate efficient searching.
Users can also print or download poems.
Both Web- based databases offer explanations of more than 750 poems along with thousands of detailed biographies, many with pictures. Complete coverage is provided of world poetry from antiquity to the present. The database includes poem explanations, biographies, pictures and study guides. The curriculum-oriented collection is compiled by Roth's Editorial Board and Advisory Board, composed of librarians, teachers and poets. Teachers will find the study guides, with suggested assignments and discussion points, a useful lesson planning tool.