Prose Reading (6-8 Years)
Tell us a story! Read to us from a novel, short story or your favourite picture book.
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Tell us a story! Read to us from a novel, short story or your favourite picture book.
Prose Reading (6-8 Years) Read More »
“Thou dost speak masterly!” Shakespeare’s sonnets are revered for a reason: infinities are explored in just fourteen lines …
In this category, you can perform any of Shakespeare’s sonnets (including complete sonnets from his plays) from memory.
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“Thou dost speak masterly!” Shakespeare’s sonnets are revered for a reason: infinities are explored in just fourteen lines …
In this category, you can perform any of Shakespeare’s sonnets (including complete sonnets from his plays) from memory.
Shakespeare Sonnet (12-14 Years) Read More »
Whether your role model is George (Lord Byron) or George (the Poet), this is your chance to shine with your original words!
Devise and perform your own composition lasting up to 4 minutes.
Your Original Poetry (15-18 Years) Read More »
Excite us! Or inspire us! Or move us with your words!
Create and deliver your own composition lasting up to 3 minutes.
Your Original Poetry (12-14 Years) Read More »
Do you love to create your own poems to perform?
Create and deliver your own composition lasting no more than 2 minutes.
Your Original Poetry (9-11 Years) Read More »
Sometimes performing other peoples’ words just isn’t enough. What do you want to say through the spoken word?
Perform your own composition lasting no more than 2 minutes.
Your Original Poetry (6-8 Years) Read More »
Perform one of the following:
(a) ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen
(b) ‘An Arundel Tomb’ by Philip Larkin
(c) ‘To Autumn’ by John Keats
(d) ‘Female Fashions for 1799’ by Mary Robinson
(e) ‘the root word of babble is babel’ by O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
Poetry Recital from memory (15-18 Years) Read More »
Perform one of the following:
(a) ‘Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou
(b) ‘The Thought Fox’ by Ted Hughes
(c) ‘A Dream Within a Dream’ by Edgar Allan Poe
(d) ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ by William Wordsworth
(e) ‘How to Cut a Pomegranate’ by Imtiaz Dharker
Poetry Recital from memory (12-14 Years) Read More »
Perform one of the following:
(a) ‘Please Mrs Butler’ by Allan Ahlberg
(b) ‘Good Morning, Dear Students’ by Kenn Nesbitt
(c) ‘The Language of Cat’ by Rachel Rooney
(d) ‘Pumberley Pott’s Unpredictable Niece’ by Jack Prelutsky
(e) ‘Poetry Means the World to Me’ by Tony Medina
Poetry Recital from memory (9-11 Years) Read More »