Celebrate National Poetry Day

• History and Love: On Writing a National Poetry Day Villanelle
• Why we chose to share ‘The Story of Squiddly Diddly’ by Theodora Shillito
• Why we chose to share ‘Drifted Away, Together’ by Jacob Hill
• Why we chose to share 'More Pointless Questions' by John Agard
• Ten Troika Poets Collaborate for National Poetry Day 2021
• Life & Rhymes
• Poetry of the Everyday
• Why National Poetry Day matters
• From our Founder
• The 24 Hour Poetry Lock In
• Does Humour Belong In Poetry?
• Poetry Bubbles
• How Poetry (and Semi-Rural South Wales) Saved Me
• Why I love libraries
• LOCKDOWN LAWYERS – a Pandemic of Poetry
• Sparking A Poetry Fire In Your School
• LIGHTING THE SPARK: Three Childrens’ Poets Share Their Secrets
• Verse novels – a gateway drug?
• Side by side with our selves
• #Haiflu - the next steps
• Poetry Summit 2020
• Celebrating Rhyming Picture Books
• The power of making poetry together
• Rudyard Kipling, Truth & Fiction
• Shakespeare and Truth
• Let's share poetry with the very young
• Why learning Poetry Together is good for us
• Truth-telling in Primary Schools
• When children and teachers retreat into poetry
• Lancashire #HomeTruths for BBC Radio Local Poets
• I Never Thought I Was Going to Write a Novel
• Speaking the Unspeakable through Poetry
• Spike Milligan and me
• Copyright: Do You Know The Basics?
• Hidden Voices Poetry Competition 2019
• Books Are My Bag - poets pick their favourite bookshops
• Practical Cats and Inconsequential Dogs
• Comfort/Conflict zones - poetry in military training

National Poetry Day Blog