Given Words from Honduras, 2022

Watch this space for the next edition of Given Words — this year the words have been chosen by girls at the Our Little Roses orphanage in Honduras — for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day in New Zealand 2022. On 1 August we will publish here their five words which you have to weave into a poem and send to us by the end of National Poetry Day 26 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 The Cuba 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.