Young poets perform prize-winning climate poems at COP26
Young poets from the Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network were invited to respond to Sir David Attenborough’s speech at the opening of COP26 in Glasgow. Inspired by Sir David’s words calling world leaders to action, they created new poems in immediate response to his speech to underline his urgent message about the climate crisis.
Several of the young poets responding to Sir David’s speech were...
6th November 2021
Winners of Foyle Young Poets of the Year award are announced
The Poetry Society has announced the 15 winners of its Foyle Young Poets of the Year award, for poets aged 11-17. They are: Evie Alam, aged 14, from South Shields; Ahana Banerji, 17, Putney, London; Alex Dunton, 15, Cambridge; Hollie Fovargue, 17, Peterborough; Dhruti Halambi, 13, Cupertino, Califor...
7th October 2021
Search for young polylingual poets to help develop skills
The deadline has been extended until midnight Monday 9 August to recruit eight young mixed-heritage people with an interest in polylingual poetry to develop their practice as poets or spoken word perf...
30th July 2021
Deadline nears for Foyle Young Poets of the Year award
The 31 July deadline is nearing for entering the Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year award. It is free to enter and is open to poets aged 11-17 anywhere in the world.
Meanwhile it has b...
26th July 2021
Poetry By Heart finalists perform on stage of Shakespeare’s Globe
On Sunday 18 and Monday 19 July over 300 students, parents, teachers and guests took part in the 2021 Poetry By Heart finalists’ celebration event at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. Children and young pe...
25th July 2021
Get happy! School's My Happy Place poetry party links England - and Nigeria
Children from Lily Lane primary school in Moston, Manchester, shared another of their poetry parties online with other children from schools in the north-west of England, in Oxfordshire, south-west Lo...
28th March 2021
Lear was here: celebrating 150th anniversary of 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'
Grab your runcible spoon, set sail with the Jumblies and learn how to make an amblongus pie with Britain’s beloved master of nonsense humour. Embarking on April Fool’s Day, the community of St Leonard...
14th March 2021
Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition launched
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition for 11-17-year olds was launched on 4 March, World Book Day. The judges this year are Clare Pollard and Yomi Sode, and the deadline is 31 July. More deta...
4th March 2021
Young people's laureate offers writing tips to stay positive during lockdown
The young people’s laurate for London, Cecilia Knapp, has launched a campaign via the organisation Spread The Word to encourage young people to use writing and poetry to keep positive and feel connect...
2nd March 2021
Don't fence us in! Poets prompt pupils at the Giant Poetry Party
A hint of what Write Out Loud – and especially Young Write Out Loud – want to do a lot more of in the future could be seen at the Giant Poetry Party for primary school pupils staged online by Lily Lan...
3rd February 2021
Calling all primary schools and children at home - roll up for a Giant Poetry Party today!
Primary schools and children learning at home during lockdown are being invited to an online Giant Poetry Party on Tuesday 26 January starting at 2pm. Poets Matt Abbott and Louise Fazackerley, assiste...
26th January 2021
Schools to celebrate International Mother Language Day with poetry
Write Out Loud board member Julia Clark, headteacher of Lily Lane primary primary school in Moston, Manchester, and the school’s poet-in-residence Louise Fazackerley will be taking part in an online e...
17th January 2021
