Foyle Young Poets celebrate huge rise in number of poems entered as winners announced
The Poetry Society has announced today the top 15 winners and 85 commended poets of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020 at a virtual prize-giving ceremony.
The top 15 Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2020 are: Imogen Beaumont, 15, Weston-Super-Mare; Linnet Drury, 17, Oxford; Victoria Fletcher, 17, Harrow, London; Anna Gilmore Heezen, 17, Milnathort, Kinrosshire; Preesha Jain, 17, Chelmsfo...
14th November 2020
Poetry by Heart launches seventh national recitation competition for pupils
The Poetry by Heart organisation has launched its 2021 national poetry recitation competition for pupils. The competition is free to enter. Students aged 7-18 (key stages 2, 3, 4 and 5) choose a poem from hundreds available in online anthologies on the Poetry By Heart website. Poems making up the an...
10th October 2020
Deadline nears for Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition
The Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition, for poets aged 11-17, is being judged this year by Maura Dooley and Keith Jarrett. The deadline is 31 July. More details
20th July 2020
Poet in residence Louise Fazackerley reads at school's VE Day event
Pupils of Lily Lane primary school in Moston, Manchester, on Thursday marked the 75th anniversary of VE Day with an event in which poetry was well to the fore. At the livestream event the school’s poe...
10th May 2020
