Forward Arts Foundation

Our Mission Forward Arts Foundation promotes public knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of poetry in the UK and Ireland. We are a charity committed to widening poetry’s audience, honouring achievement and supporting talent: our programmes include National Poetry Day, the Forward Prizes for Poetry and the Forward Book of Poetry, an annual anthology of the year’s best poems. Our mission is To deepen appreciation of poetry’s value To celebrate excellence in poetry To increase poetry’s audience We are supported by the BBC, Royal Mail, leading publishers and booksellers and by Arts Council England, which describes us as ‘a coordinating force.’