The Poetry Society’s platform for young poetry-lovers, Young Poets Network, and charity People Need Nature have teamed up for the second year running to challenge young writers to explore their relationship with nature. The free-to-enter challenge received over 100 impressive entries from poets aged 8 to 25 from countries as far afield as Canada, New […]
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New People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry challenge: “Namedropping”
For many thousands of years, before language was written down, poetry was created, recited and passed on from one generation to another – as a way of remembering great events and people, and of belonging. Nature inspired poets then as it does now – and it feels to me like there is a real […]
Winning Poems of the “Ways to be Wilder” Poetry Competition: Summer Photograph by Amy Wolstenholme
This is the first in a series of pages publishing the winning and highly commended poems in our “ways to be wilder” poetry competition. We’re also publishing our competition Judge, Jen Hadfield’s comments for each poem. Summer Photograph Amy Wolstenholme (18) Bluebells bloom from the refuse heap, Plait a crown for broken pots […]
“Ways to Be Wilder” Poetry Competition: The winning poems
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Young Poets Network/ People Need Nature “Ways to be Wilder” poetry competition for young people. Over 200 young people from across the world entered the competition, which is far more than the hosts of the challenge YPN usually receive. So the challenge really inspired everyone to […]
John Cleal’s Door
This door of an old chapel was made by the artist and poet John Cleal and represents his own family. He took up residence in Lower Fishguard in the 1960’s and ran a workshop and gallery and raised his children here. Cleal wrote this poem, which embodies something very important to People Need Nature: “We […]