Happy to see a shout-out to our brand new #PoetryByHeart 4+ timeline anthology in The Poetry Society's Poetry News! These new materials will help young school pupils discover the joy of speaking poetry out loud ❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/timeline/4plus
For #WorldBookNight, Poetry By Heart is encouraging everyone to join in the special #ReadingHour from 7-8pm on 23 April. Want to include poetry? Host a poem swap: find your favourite poems on the #PoetryByHeart website and exchange favourites with friends or colleagues! 📖❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk
🌟 Poetry by Heart – Cluster Celebration 🌟
So proud of our pupils (and all the children across Pinner schools) who performed at yesterday’s Poetry by Heart event 👏
Confidence, courage and brilliant speaking all round!
#PoetryByHeart #Oracy #PinnerParkLife #PinnerSchools
Heartening to see 118 students from schools and colleges in Colchester honoured at the Jack Petchey Foundation Achievement Awards, including Amelia who is recognised for her extracurricular achievements and participating in #PoetryByHeart!
www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2588218...
Photo of a teenager performing a poem at the Poetry By Heart finale. Black text in yellow boxes reads Poetry By Heart North Yorkshire Showcase, Ripon Library 18 April, Scarborough Library 25 April. Logos for North Yorkshire Council, Poetry By Heart and The Poetry Society at the bottom.
Schools in North Yorkshire! We're partnering with @poetrybyheart.bsky.social North Yorkshire Council School Improvement Service & North Yorkshire Libraries on 2 showcases!
Ripon Library, 18 April
Scarbrough Library, 25 April
Free to take part! #PoetryByHeart
How wonderful to see this by Junior Journalists celebrating the opening of the brand-new Benjamin Zephaniah Library at William Murdoch Primary School! After speeches students performed Zephaniah's poems aloud - good practice for taking part in the #PoetryByHeart competition! 📚✨
Listen out for the 'tinkle, tinkle, tinkle' of bells in Edgar Allen Poe's poem 'The Bells' for the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase today! 🔔 The poem is packed full of sounds that bring the wintry scene to life. Can you play around with voicing the repeated words?
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-be...
'Sitting under the mistletoe . . . One last candle burning low' - enjoy Walter de la Mare's poem 'Mistletoe' as a Boxing Day treat on the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase! Discover how all the associations of mistletoe mingle in this marvellous poem 🌿❄️ 🌟
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/mistle...
Merry Christmas from #PoetryByHeart! It's time for the Festive Showcase reveal - our Christmas Day poem is Langston Hughes's 'On a Pallet of Straw', which imagines the very first Christmas 🌟 ❄️ Experiment with performing the repeated lines in different ways!
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/on-a-p...
It's Christmas Eve! Time for a #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase poem by G. K. Chesterton, 'A Christmas Carol' ⭐ Think about how you could gesture to the brackets in a performance - do they indicate different voices? See our website for more! 🎄 ❄️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-chri...
Today's #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase poem is the musical 'and a tree' by Kate Wakeling 🎄 ❄️ Say the poem aloud and feel the beat as you read. Head over to our website to watch a special video performance by students at Soho Parish Primary School ✨
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/and-a-...
New day, new poetry window to open on the #PoetryByHeart advent calendar! Today's poem is the gentle 'Snowflake Song' by James Carter, which sees a snowflake tumble in 'downward spirals' as night falls ❄️
Head to our website to explore the poem ❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/snowfl...
Today's #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase poem is 'In the Bleak Midwinter' by Christina Rossetti! Perhaps you've heard this poem sung as a carol at Christmas time 🎶 ❄️ ✨ Practice speaking the poem out loud and see if you can capture its moving simplicity ❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/in-the...
The countdown to the festive season is truly on, and what better way to get in the mood than with a poem! Today's poem for the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase is 'Merry Christmas' by Dorothy Brown Thompson - containing greetings in five different languages! ❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/merry-...
For the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase today, enjoy a special recitation of 'Father Christmas sent me to the Moon' by @domconlon.bsky.social, and see what twist you can put on the poem by speaking it! 🌙 ❄️ Dom also offers tips for writing your own poem 🖋️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/father...
Open up the window for today's #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase advent calendar and you'll find the funny festive poem 'Just Doing my Job' by Clare Bevan ⚔️ ✨ 🎄 Enjoy the humour and see if you can bring out the comic punchline in your performance of this poem!
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/just-d...
Our festive elves have been busy preparing #PoetryByHeart competition kits! New poem posters, calendars, poetry booklets and more will be hitting school letterboxes 📮📦✨ Have a look at this video where you can see Ms Vos and her colleagues from Darrick Wood School open our secondary poetry pack!
New day, new poetry window to open on the #PoetryByHeart advent calendar! Our seasonal poem is Benjamin Zephania's 'Talking Turkeys', and you might never look at a plate of turkey in the same way after reading it! 🎄 ❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/talkin...
Our advent calendar poem from the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase today is translated from a twelfth-century carol into modern English by Robert Davis 🎄 ❤️ Strongly rhythmic, the poem is called 'The Friendly Beasts' and features a dove, donkey, sheep, and more!
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-fr...
The #PoetryByHeart team have been busily and enthusiastically packing up the last of the competition packs to send out to schools! 📦❤️✨ That’s packs and packs and sacks and sacks of poem-a-month calendars, poem posters, poetry booklets, and exciting leaflets from our partners 🗓️
The #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase continues with the opening of today's poetry advent window. Our poem is Laurence Smith's 'Christmas Tree' with its 'glitter and glow' 🎄💫 See if you can clap out the rhythm of this poem with the tree 'Appled with baubles'!
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/christ...
Our opening of the #PoetryByHeart advent calendar continues with our Festive Showcase! Today's poem is Doherty's 'The Sky Is Black Tonight' - enjoy the wonderful sound play of 'A bell-wish, a well-wish' 🔔🎄 Head to our website for tips on performing the poem!
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-sk...
The #PoetryByHeart Christmas elves are back at it, busy with our competition packs which will be winging their way to schools! Each pack is chock-full of poetry goodies, including a special poem-a-month calendar with stunning images for each month 🗓️ Don't forget that there's still time to register!
New treats on the #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase! Our seasonal poem of the day is Edwin Morgan's playful 'The Computer's First Christmas Card' 🎄 This is a fabulous but challenging poem to perform - give it a go and enjoy this exuberant performance!
More here: poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-co...
The #PoetryByHeart festive elves have been busy packing up our competition packs to send out to schools. That's over 2,000 packs bursting with resources! If you haven't registered for our 2026 competition, there's still time ❤️
Head over to our website for more - poetrybyheart.org.uk/register
The #PoetryByHeart Festive Showcase is here! Today's #poem is Liz Lochhead's 'How I'll Decorate My Tree' - enjoy the 'tinsel in tangles' and 'Sparkles, sequins and spangles'! Head to our website to hear Liz perform the poem and explore the full advent calendar.
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/how-il...
Lovely insight into the #PoetryByHeart competition and why performing a poem by heart is so rewarding ❤️ #poetry
After record-breaking numbers of entries to the 2025 #PoetryByHeart competition, we can't wait to celebrate our finalists at @The_Globe 7 July! #Poetry won't just be lifted off the page, it will be blasted off! 🚀 poetrybyheart.org.uk/the-competit...
A fantastic afternoon for our KS2 pupils! Huge congratulations to everyone who took part in the @poetrybyheart.bsky.social competition—your dedication and hard work truly shone. Well done! #PoetryByHeart
Last week, Sarah Bonnell hosted an unforgettable Poetry By Heart competition for all of our NCL schools + Dersingham and Carpenter's!
Huge thanks to our hosts, judges & incredible performers—you should be so proud! 👏🎉 #PoetryByHeart @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
