Megan Young Poetry Prize 2024
A poem about the sun by the winner of the Megan Young Poetry Prize 2024
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Megan Young Poetry Prize 2020
Poetry Becomes a Covid Casualty It seems that poetry has become a casualty of Covid 19. Schools are being advised they can drop poetry from the GCSE syllabus, at least for the next 12 months. What a shame! Children are natural poets. They are uninhibited. They express their thoughts and feelings as they find them. They love rhythm and are fascinated by word play. They don’t just read poetry – they write it. I know this as the mother of a child who wrote poetry from the moment she could write. I know it also because in recent years I … Read more …
In Poetry Every Word Counts
Misprints in poetry I was reading an article in the magazine of the Society of Authors the other day about the extra care that is needed to avoid misprints in poetry. ‘In poetry, every word counts,’ wrote the poet John Greening. Misprints can be brought about by the need to transcribe a poet’s hand writing or, these days, by an over enthusiastic spellchecker. John Greening’s article struck a chord with me. When my daughter died at the age of 32 I took on the task of transcribing her poetry, mostly handwritten, contained in a scruffy old folder. Subsequently I published … Read more …
Cancer of Unknown Primary Awareness Week 2018
Many people do not know that you can be diagnosed with cancer and yet doctors cannot tell you what type of cancer you have. This is known as Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP). A charity is working to raise awareness of this form of cancer and promote research in order to improve diagnosis and treatment.
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A poem about a blue tit by Daisy Godbold, a Year 7 pupil at the Stephen Perse Foundation school in Cambridge, has won the 2018 Megan Young Poetry Prize
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