Monday 1 July 2019

Given Words for National Poetry Day 2019

Watch this space for the next edition of Given Words — this year in collaboration with Landing Press and the poets of More of Us — for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day in New Zealand 2019. On 1 August we will publish here our selected five words which you have to weave into a poem and send to us by the end of National Poetry Day 23 August.



We will be awarding a prize for the Best Poem and a prize for the Best Poem by Under-16s. The winners will receive prizes courtesy of Landing Press. In addition the winning poems will be translated into Spanish and published on the Spanish version of the project Palabras Prestadas.

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In the meantime you can enjoy the poems from last year in the previous posts.