Open to all GCSE students attending Poetry Live! Sixteen prizes
of an intensive week’s residential course at the Tyˆ Newydd
Writers’ Centre in north Wales with Gillian Clarke and Daljit
Nagra. To enter you need to do one thing: write an interesting
poem and send it to us by 27th March 2009.
Entry requirements
The only entry requirement is that each applicant
is a GCSE students who has attended Poetry Live!
with their school in the academic year 2008/2009.
To enter, a student must submit by post a
single poem of not more than 25 lines. Only a
poem on paper will be accepted – not an e-mail.
It should be accompanied by the following details
which must be on a separate sheet of paper (not
on the same sheet as the poem):
• Full name
• Full address including postcode
• Age
• e-mail address
• Name of school
• Name of English teacher who organised
the Poetry Live trip.
• Date of the Poetry Live! trip.
All entries must be received by
Friday 27th March 2008.
The address is:
Poetry Live Ltd.,
PO Box 29,
Denbigh,
North Wales LL16 3YE
Every entry will be read by the judging panel –
all distinguished poets – a short list drawn up and
from this a short list of sixteen will be chosen.
The winners will be announced on Monday 8 June.