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NATIONAL POETRY DAY

FROM SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS TO THE EPIGRAMS OF OSCAR WILDE, POETRY, IN ITS MANY FORMS, HAS BEGUILED MANKIND SINCE ANCIENT TIMES. PRE-DATING WRITTEN TEXT, THE EARLIEST COMPOSITIONS WERE PASSED DOWN THE GENERATIONS VERBALLY. NATIONAL POETRY DAY, WHICH TAKES PLACE ON THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER, CELEBRATES THIS RICH LEGACY THROUGH EVENTS ACROSS THE UK. TAKING PLACE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES, BOOKSHOPS AND EVEN BUSES, THEY INVOLVE THE READING, WRITING AND PERFORMANCE OF POETRY, ALL FOCUSING ON THIS YEAR’S THEME OF ‘CHANGE’. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT NATIONALPOETRYDAY.CO.UK OR SEARCH FOR #NATIONALPOETRYDAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA.