Forward Arts Foundation Company Profile

Our Mission

Love poetry? Join the Forward Arts Foundation, a charity committed to widening poetry’s audience, honouring achievement and supporting talent, through National Poetry Day on Thursday 2 October 2014, the Forward Prizes for Poetry on Tuesday 30 September and the Forward Book of Poetry, an indispensable annual anthology of the year’s best poems.  

Our Purpose

• to identify and encourage talent
• to inspire a love of poetry in people of all ages and circumstances
• to support poets at all stages of their careers
• to encourage collaboration with performers, musicians, artists, film-makers and social innovators
• to build a sense of community though developing membership
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