Dial-a-Poem connects you to new poems about the telephone by writers from around the world.
The Dial-a-Poem mobile app is now available free of charge for Android and iOS phones from Google Play and the App Store. See the links below or search for ‘dial-a-poem’.
During our launch period, the Dial-a-Poem poems are only accessible via the app. This is to encourage users to experience the recordings on the phone in the first instance. The text and the recordings of all the poems in our project will be made available on this site at a later date.
The Phone Book
Please use the phone book below to access the numbers for each poem on the app. You can also generate a random poem on the app by dialling ‘0’.
Alexander, Tilly
Phoning Home
6946
Allak, Zayneb
The Woodcutter’s Children
7722
Anaokar, Mehar
GMT +5:30
2001
Antrobus, Raymond
The Mechanism of Speech
5769
Berrueto, Claudia
animals of distance
9687
Boast, Rachael
External Line
4600
Booth, Dylan
Lost in [Google] Translation
8357
Brennan, Rose
The Call
5883
Buchan, Kit
Malcolm Starke Died Today
8693
Callus, Victoria Zoe
Across the Switchboard
8884
Capildeo, Vahni
A Telephone Box is a Time Zone Box
8438
Carver, Aleks
For You, From Me
3783
Carpenter-Hall, Zakia
Fortune Cookie
1108
Coplen, Michaela
Phone Sex Script
2188
Carroll, Amy Sara
‘All the Entertainments of Ordinary Life’
8289
Cooke, Jennifer
Antigone on the Phone
3759
Cornwell, Sophie
Call to Sea
6135
Cullen, Becky
Sunday Call
2952
Dastidar, Rishi
Warhol’s Telephone
1649
Daszkiewicz, Kathryn
Losing Touch
3611
Dharker, Imtiaz
Six Rings
4645
Dickey, Laressa
Paul Celan’s Telephone Number
8363
Dixon, Jo
Haircuts
5862
Dymoke, Sue
Mobile
3820
Etwebi, Ashur
We Entered Tripoli
1897
Field, Victoria
Mont Robin
6935
Galluccio, Bruno
Telecommunications
5467
Garner, Rosie
Bakelite
9743
Haji, Golan
A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know
4625
Hannis, Jodie
Wrists
2774
Joudah, Fady
Textu
4386
Kalid, Phoebe
can you talk?
5623
Kelly, Lisa
Static Currents
8217
Lanseros, Raquel
6 1 7 0 1 4 1 0 5
1651
Levy, Sara
Telephone Calls: a garbled history
3510
Lowe, Hannah
The Stroke
4481
Matsumoto, Lila
Also delicious
4897
McAdams, Janet
Daughter Voice
2012
McKie, Jane
Moon and Lake
1329
McMillan, Andrew
taxi
8613
Mort, Valzhyna
Grandmother
3482
Morton, Lucinda
The Quiet Noise
5516
O’Brien, Richard
Ouija and After
7309
Palmer, Abi
IRL
1788
Pati, Anita
Routed
2408
Ravinthiran, Vidyan
white # flight # shame
9611
Rogers, John
A dial face for John Boot …
2537
Saul, Denise
Minor Variations
4342
Seneviratne, Seni
Full Moon
3676
Shores-Argüello, Jacob
Reception
4730
Slaney, Di
Suheil’s Song
6590
Smallhorne, Ioney
Yamaye – The Land of Wood and Water
5631
Stone, Degna
Perfidia
2468
Sturm, Nick
I Went Outside And Then I Don’t Know
4488
Taylor, Andrew
Sycamore Street
5458
Taylor, Jonathan
Israel Calling
3352
Taylor, Maria
Hanging On
1405
Wadud, Asiya
Syncope [extract]
7785
Waterman, Rory
Five Thirty-Minute Sessions
3478
Welton, Matthew
Poem for Sarah Jackson
3878
Williams, Chrissy
The Call Queue
2318
Woods, Gregory
Messages
2373
Yakimchuk, Lyuba
Press Two
5029
Zia, Ather
in Kashmir all phones are dead
5916