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What do you like about National Poetry Day? We're fundraising for this year's programme and would love to know why you think it is valuable. Send us your comments ✉️ [email protected], and if you'd be willing to go on camera for our campaign! buff.ly/lJVV5hu

Roger McGough, ‘patron saint of poetry’, will chair the 2025 judging panel for the CLiPPA, the UK’s foremost award for published poetry for children. CLPE Joined by Lucy Bannerman, Annette Brook, Saira Bano, and Matt Goodfellow 🌟 More info here! buff.ly/akm7E07

Write? Aged 16-22? Live work or study in the north of England. The Writing Squad is recruiting! Details here! writingsquad.com/join-the-squad/ The Writing Squad

It's BIG GIVE week! This week, every donation we receive will be doubled through the #ArtsForImpact campaign 💓 We need your help to support young people discovering poetry on NPD — your donations make a real difference. Help us reach our target 🔗 buff.ly/DdE6iwE

🚨 24 HOURS LEFT! 🚨 It’s Big Give Week, and we need YOUR help! From now until 12 noon tomorrow (Tuesday 25 March), every donation you give will be matched and *doubled* by Big Give!💓 Donate now via buff.ly/cdoA9Gc before time runs out! ⏰ #BigGive #NationalPoetryDay›

🚨 FINAL DAY! 🚨 We need YOU to reach our target — but time is running out! ⏰ From now until 12 noon tomorrow (Tuesday 25 March), every donation you give will be matched and *doubled* by Big Give!💓 Donate at: buff.ly/JSSzwzw #BigGive #NationalPoetryDay

There is still 17 hours left to donate! 💓 buff.ly/m7K0ggN Here is a small gift of encouragement and thanks. Here's to the transformative power of poetry! And Remember every donation you give will be matched and *doubled* by @BigGiveOrg! Photo: ©1965 by Renate Ponsold

Big Give Week has now come to a close. With your help, we managed to raise an impressive £5,010 in donations! Thank you all for your support and to Big Give for matching and doubling every donation to help us reach this goal! 💓 THANK YOU ALL!

The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025 is now open! The competition is open to anyone aged 11-17. The deadline to enter your poem(s) is midnight BST 31 July 2025. More info: buff.ly/qMZw9jy The Poetry Society Young Poets Network

Join us at the Forward Arts Foundation as a Marketing & Development Coordinator! Drive our growth with creative strategies and elevate our educational and cultural impact. Apply by May 12, 2025. More details in this link: buff.ly/KrmbCdV

Join the Rebecca Swift Foundation Rebecca Swift Foundation for an inspiring Women Poets’ Webinar on Thursday, 8 May, from 7–8:50 pm. Learn to build a poetry career while breaking creative norms with Joy Francis, Alice Willitts, and Maya Chowdhry. Link here: buff.ly/oU8FpxT.

Empathy is crucial for a kinder world, nurtured through reading and stories. Join the Empathy Day Festival from 2-12 June by EmpathyLabUK. Access free resources at empathylab.uk to help raise an empathy-educated generation. #EmpathyDayFestival

Queer-led writing workshops in London start May 21. 7 weeks of creative exercises, new texts, & community with poet Toby Campion Toby Campion. All levels welcome, all forms too. £155–£185 📍Opificium, N16 9DA Book: buff.ly/PjAh1R9 Follow: @verse.london

This joyful blog from the 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 @Teresa Cremin is a perfect reminder that poetry isn’t just for the page — it’s for the playground too, which aligns beautifully with this year’s National Poetry Day 2025 theme… more on that soon! 👀 Read it here: bit.ly/3EZD3dT

We’re proud to announce that the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) alcs.co.uk is our sponsor for National Poetry Day — and we’re so grateful to you and all our funders who make NPD possible. Thank you!

We’re deeply grateful to Bloomberg Philanthropies Bloomberg Philanthropies one of our brilliant funders of National Poetry Day. Their belief in the power of poetry helps make this day – and all the work around it – possible. Thank you!