Entries welcome for this year's English Faculty Poetry Competition

To celebrate National Poetry Day this term, the English Faculty invite poems for their Poetry Competition 2022 on the theme of the environment.

The competition is open to all year groups, with a Community Prize open to all parents and staff. 

The entries will be judged by Edward Ragg, poet, critic and wine writer and Professor at Tsingua University Beijing. 

“We are delighted that the whole school can come together to celebrate the power of poetry and autumn is a wonderfully inspiring time to explore the theme of our changing and imperilled environment,” says James Fraser-Andrews who heads Creative Writing.

“In the English Faculty, pupils have been busy responding to a range of creative stimuli, as diverse as acrostic elegies for Her late Majesty The Queen, explosions of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 to anti-colonial indigenous poetry of Australia. I hope as the mists descend and fruitfulness mellows, there will be plenty of opportunity to channel our inner Keats and capture the fragility of the Shropshire environment, and elsewhere, that so inspires and consoles.”

For further stimulus, the organisers of National Poetry Day have collected contemporary poems which can be found here. 

Entries must be send to [email protected] or [email protected] by Saturday, November 5th.