In the academic year of 2022/2023, 2,747 children and young people across the UK took part in 32 school poetry slams to celebrate World Poetry Day, with over 1,500 audience members cheering them on.
Check out some of our highlights below.
PAST PERFORMANCES
Check out some of our highlights below.
Home Country
Home Country
St Marylebone CE School
Loving Wildlife in a Dream-Like Place
Loving Wildlife in a Dream-Like Place
Shortbrook Primary School
Home Country
Home Country
Loving Wildlife in a Dream-Like Place
Loving Wildlife in a Dream-Like Place
READ POWERFUL POETRY FROM LAST YEAR'S ANTHOLOGY
Every school who joins Spoken Word Power is eligible to submit one poem per participating class group for publication in our annual anthology – and will receive a free copy of the anthology to take pride of place on classroom and library bookshelves!
...More children can have more
playdates.
Less people will be in.
The world will be happy and
safe again...
playdates.
Less people will be in.
The world will be happy and
safe again...
St Lawrence's CofE Primary School (Essex)
...Towering bookshelves whispered the upcoming
Books I may read next
As they surround me
Like Soldiers
Everywhere...
Books I may read next
As they surround me
Like Soldiers
Everywhere...
Herringthorpe Junior School (Rotherham)
...I am a thunder cloud waiting to blow over. I am an unfinished book with lots of chapters. I wonder if a lemon can turn into a lime. Wonder if scientists can stop time...
Broad Square Primary School (Liverpool)
...do what you please, paint me over with the brush called discrimination
colour me in with the colours called generalisation...
colour me in with the colours called generalisation...
The Compton School, London
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