Poetry in the landscape: Felicity's lament for ruined castle
This poem, written by Felicity Lance, at the age of eight in 1997, won a national writing competition for young people that was judged by the poet laureate, Ted Hughes. Felicity’s poem, ‘The Sad Castle’, is about the nearby remains of Harbottle castle, and I stumbled upon it at the start of a walk in the Northumberland hills on Sunday.
Felicity’s poem was carved into this stone next to the ca...
17th November 2017
Foyle Young Poets top 15 winners are named
The Poetry Society has announced the top 15 winners and 85 commended Foyle Young Poets of the Year. The top 15 are:
Aisha Mango Borja, aged 15, from Oxford; Eira Murphy, 17, Liverpool; Irina Petra Husti-Radulet, 15, London; Lucy Thynne, 16, London; Cia Mangat, 15, London; Lyra Davies, 14, Caerph...
21st October 2017
Magazine for young poets wants submissions
Hebe, a poetry magazine that publishes poems by those aged 18 and under, is inviting submissions for its third issue on the theme of “patterns”. They say: “We encourage poets to be creative in their i...
10th October 2017
Deadline nears for Foyle Young Poets competition
Kayo Chingonyi and Sinead Morrissey will be judging the 2017 Foyle Young Poets competition, organised by the Poetry Society for poets aged 11-17. Kayo Chingonyi said: “I will be looking for poems that...
29th July 2017
This was the place to be: primary pupils inspired by Manchester poem perform with panache
This is the place where our future begins; this is the place where hope is alive, in a north Manchester primary school in Moston, just two miles from the Manchester Arena bombing. This is the place wh...
3rd July 2017
Penelope Wilton lends a hand at launch of poems written by pupils in literacy project
TV, film and stage star Dame Penelope Wilton was at Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax to launch and read from a collection of poems written by Halifax schoolchildren who had taken part in the PoetryQ...
30th June 2017
Create a poem to mark Dylan Thomas Day
Young people aged seven to 25 from all over the world are being invited to take part in Love the Words, an online competition to celebrate International Dylan Thomas Day. How to take part? Download th...
19th April 2017
