National Poetry Day competition

To mark this year’s National Poetry Day, the Library is launching a poetry competition for pupils and students. Winners will be recognised by a trophy for their category (either Junior Award or Senior Award), a prize and a certificate. There will be one main prize in each category and several runners up, who will receive certificates and gifts.

The competition will be judged by external sponsors:
- Patrick Malone, Children's Librarian and member of the Wandsworth Libraries Poetry Group - Years 7 and 8 (Junior Award)
- Sarah Bland of Waterstones (Southside store) - Years 9 to 12 (Senior Award)

The rules: The topic of the poems aligns with the National Poetry Day 2020 theme: Vision (See the National Poetry Day website for full details) Each child may enter a maximum of three poems. Each poem should be between 14 lines and 30 lines long. Any form is admissible, so no rules e.g. rhyming, verse length. Poems must be legible though not necessarily written on a computer, and spelling MUST be correct unless it is obviously a stylistic or vernacular effect. This is important. If your poem is designed to be recited/performed aloud as spoken word you can specify this. The poems/spoken word pieces must be entirely your own work. They must be emailed to library@saintcecilias.london or handed in to the Library by no later than the closing date of Tuesday 3rd November, 3.30 p.m.