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...

Big day for awards! The FCBG have revealed the shortlist for this year's Children's Book Award, the only award completely chosen by children. #FCBGCBA26 #kidlituk Find out which favourite children's authors are on this year's list and congratulations to them all🎆 booksforkeeps.co.uk/childrens-bo...

Enjoy an article by Poetry By Heart co-director Julie Blake for Right Start Online on why children benefit so much from poetry, with top tips for finding and sharing poems with children! You'll find plenty of ideas on our brand-new 4+ timeline ❤️ www.rightstartonline.co.uk/features/poe...

We're delighted to share two special recordings by poets Jessica Mookherjee and Kayo Chingonyi of our primary and secondary calendar poems for March - 'The Door' by Miroslav Holub and 'Humming-Bird' by D. H. Lawrence 🗓️❤️ poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/hummin... poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-do...

Feels like a good day to share Mix a Pancake by Christina Rossetti, via @poetrybyheart.bsky.social With only 22 words, you have a good chance of learning it quickly! #poetry poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/mix-a-...

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! 📚✨

Calling all primary school teachers! @poetrybyheart.bsky.social has launched a brand new Key Stage 1 timeline, packed with free-to-access poems by some brilliant children's poets, accompanied by helpful kid-friendly explanations. poetrybyheart.org.uk/timeline/4plus

We’re delighted to share our BRAND NEW timeline of poems to help the youngest school pupils discover the joy of poetry and speaking it aloud! Coinciding with the National Year of Reading, each poem will be accompanied by special notes to help explore the poem ❤️ poetrybyheart.org.uk/timeline/4plus

Three cheers for #poetry at least. Check out @poetrybyheart.bsky.social for outstanding poetry teaching resources

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A really inspiring write up #poetry

Thank you @booksforkeeps.bsky.social for a marvellous article on #PoetryByHeart's national poetry speaking competition by former school librarian Fiona Kirk! Discover Fiona's thoughts on recruiting contestants and seeing students grown in confidence ❤️ booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/brin...

Happy January! first page of the @poetrybyheart.bsky.social calendar.

Welcome to the world🌍 #smallpoemsforbigimaginations by @nealzetterpoet.bsky.social a book that makes its reader feel good. Wishing it well! Some great poems for learning by heart in school comps too! @poetrybyheart.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #NewRelease #UniqueTitle #kidlit #literacy #kidsbooks #ReadAloud

Thanks to @poetrybyheart.bsky.social for highlighting this fund to help primary and secondary #schools develop their #poetry teaching and special activities. Well worth applying! www.chch.ox.ac.uk/tower-poetry...

Join us in the last week of January for a series of events to celebrate our new John Calder Translation Prize. The events are a mix of online and in person and will be held between Tuesday 27 January and Friday 30 January. Find all the events and book your place on our website. buff.ly/5eFR9W2

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...

Enjoy this short and playful poem as part of #PoetryByHeart's Festive Showcase ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ 'Go Snow Go!' by Simon Mole is full of whoops, hoots, and howls - see if you can bring them out in a performance! Visit our website for more tips ✨ poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/go-sno...!

'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...

My Christmas Poetry Quiz is now up! Which poet embroidered a scarf as a Christmas gift? Which poet asked Santa for a chameleon? Which poet loves holly, man? All these and more here:

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!

Start your week with a poem from #PoetryByHeart's Festive Showcase, with all the poems you need to brighten your winter! Today's advent calendar poem is Lois Rock's short and sweet 'Christmas for free' ❄️ Experiment with sounding out these rhymes and find out more about Lois on our website!

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...

Delighted to receive our @poetrybyheart.bsky.social resources today. What a fabulous range to explore

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 Poetry Detective with Vanessa Kisuule is back 4pm today @BBCRadio4 looking for poems that can help us think through the things we wrestle with. Today: Doomscrolling. With help from @carolinebirduk.bsky.social among others. Producer Ellie Richold www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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...

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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...

Yesterday I needed to search for which Shakespeare play a particular passage came from, and was delighted to see it included in Poetry by Heart! You do such valuable work, and it's heartening to see the great breadth on your website. ('With hey, ho, the wind and the rain', if you were wondering!) 💨🌧️

What an amazing #poetry performance! 👏👏👏

schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/child... Books will ignite your child's imagination. A gifted book says a lot about you, so give a book this Christmas. Here's our list of children's books that make great presents.

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...

Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart.bsky.social has opened its annual Festive Showcase, an advent calendar of seasonal poems perfect to learn by heart, share and perform aloud. This year’s list features not the usual 24, but 31 poems, one for each day of December #Poetry poetrybyheart.org.uk/showcase/8

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It's nearly that time again! Join hundreds of festive sightseers for a seasonal poetry reading and the illumination of the Christmas Tree at Trafalgar Square this Thursday 4 December, 5:30pm - 6:30pm. The event is free to attend, no tickets necessary. 🎄 Photo: Hayley Madden

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...

The 2026 @poetrybyheart.bsky.social competition is open! > 128K young people took part last year. See how they did it in a preview of Poetry By Heart:The Movie bit.ly/PBHMoviePreview ⬇️ Great to see teachers Gareth & Alex featured, both part of our school projects! Sign up ➡️ poetrybyheart.org.uk