New Zealand poetry resources
New Zealand electronic poetry Centre
A feast of written and spoken word, essays, interviews, bios and archives.
http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/ 
  New Zealand Book Council's site lists poetry groups:
www.vuw.ac.nz/nzbookcouncil
Profiles on famous kiwi poets and submit your own work:
www.cybonet.co.nz/nzpoetry/index.html
  Palmerston North poetry
www.streetwomen.co.nz
Places to submit your own work:
www.nzscribble.net
Poetry, reviews, resources, email discussion group
www.nzwriters.co.nz
Professional services for writers by writers
www.poetry.org.nz
Local poets, submit your poem and links
  Creative New Zealand
http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/
New Zealand Writers on the Web
http://www.zeroland.co.nz/new_zealand_literature.html

   
                                                           
New Zealand Poetry Society
Te Hunga Tito Ruri o Aotearoa
The New Zealand Poetry Society meets on the third Thursday of the month (from February to November) at Turnbull House, Bowen Street, Wellington, at 8pm. All welcome. For more information contact Margaret Vos email: nzps@hotmail.com

Each year the society publishes an anthology with a selection of poems and haiku from the entries to their annual International Poetry Competition. The Society distributes a monthly newsletter packed with information about poetry groups, new publications, workshops and competitions. 
The editor is Kay Wall, kaywall@paradise.net.nz 
For general information contact: 
The Secretary
PO Box 5283
Lambton Quay
Wellington
                                                           
General poetry resources
The Age of the Sage
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org 
  Poetry resources
http://www.bookwire.com/psa/psa-links.html
  Contemporary poetry links
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~nagahata/Poetry.html
  Poetry daily
http://www.poems.com/welcome.htm
Different types of poetry
http://library.thinkquest.org/3721/poems/forms/learn.html 
  Rhyming dictionary
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html
  Roget’s Internet Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/
  The National Library of Poetry
http://www.poetry.com/NLP/links/links.html
  Haiku links
http://www.lennartz.com/haikulinks.htm
  Positively poetry for kids
http://advicom.net/~e-media/kv/poetry1.html
  Pause a moment poetry
http://www.js.spokane.wa.us/poetry/
  The Electronic Poetry Centre
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
  Live poets society
http://www.linda.com/links.htm
  Writing on the Web
http://www.writing.org/wpoet.htm
  Australian poetry on-line
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~awol/home.htm
  Poets workshop
http://cac.psu.edu/~dmp137/makar.html

                                                           
Christian Poets
 Rhema Poetry Corner
Poetry presented on-air by Keith Newman with host Rob Holding on Thursdays at 4.10pm.
Some of it is archived here.
http://www.rhema.co.nz/homerun_poetry.html
Utmost Christian Writers
A Canadian organisation dedicated to developing and publishing Christian writing
http://www.utmostchristianwriters.com/utmost.htm
Writer’s Information Network
Helpful information for writing and submitting poetry
http://www.bluejaypub.com/WIN/poetry.htm
Christian poets Webring
http://i.webring.com/hub?ring=christianpoets
The poetry of Tom Hoomstra
http://www.tinidril.com/poetry/tomhoornstra.html
Colleen Keating (Quetzalphoenix)
http://www.geocities.com/quetzalphoenix/poetry/HolyRhythms.htm
Dead poem society
Give that old poem a decent burial and last rites get an official certificate
to prove that it simply died even after CPR (Chronic Poem Rewrites)
and MRI (Meter & Rhyme Infusions).
http://www.utmostchristianwriters.com/deadpoemsociety.htm

                                                           

Famous poets & perspectives
  William Shakespeare
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
  Robert Frost
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/frost/
  John Donne
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors/donne.html
  T S Elliot
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/eliot.htm
  Argentine & Latin American poetry
http://www.poesia.com/index.html
  Medieval Irish poetry
http://www.dnaco.net/~mobrien/irishptr/biblio.html
  British Poetry 1780-1910
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html