2018 National Competition Poems
What Makes Us Human: National Poetry Recitation Contest, 2018
Please note: you can pick a poem from the list provided for a higher form (7th form can pick 8th form poems and so on). There will be NO extra points for this, but it gives your students more choicele
7th Form Poems
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Daily Life, Susan Wood
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Melinda Mae, Shel Silverstein
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Only Breath, Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi (Rumi)
8th Form Poems
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(i carry your heart with me(i carry it in], E.E. Cummings
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Solomon Grundy, Alice Oswald
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The Farmer, W.D. Ehrhart
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"Untitled", Rupi Kaur
9th Form Poems
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At The Gate, Henrik Nordbrandt
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Dirge Without Music, Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Brown Penny, William Butler Yeats
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Time and the Child, Hone Tuwhare
10th Form Poems
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Blackberry-Picking, Seamus Heaney
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Expect Nothing, Alice Walker
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History Lesson, Natasha Trethewey
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The Locust Swarm, Hsu Chao
11th Form Poems
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A Boy Steps Into Water, Kaveh Akbar
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Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
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For The Foxes, Charles Bukowski
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Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
12th Form Poems
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Beethoven, Shane Koyczan
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Child in Red, Rainer Maria Rilke
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Entirely, Louis MacNeice
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Kindness, Naomi Shihab Nye