Online Event: Poetry Learn-Along with Poetry By Heart (The English Association)

A shared experience of learning and speaking a poem

This event is for anyone who is intrigued by the idea that poetry is memorable speech, or wants to explore how speaking a poem is different to reading it, or thinks they have a terrible memory and could never learn a line. By the end of the session you’ll be able to join in a shared performance of a poem we’ve learned together, and you’ll have a resource to take away and try for yourself.

Dr Julie Blake, FEA, FRSL(Hon), co-directs Poetry By Heart, the national poetry speaking competition for schools. She researches and writes about the history of poetry for children, creates digital and print anthologies of poems for children and young people, teaches poetry pedagogy and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of poetry in the school English curriculum.

Poetry by Heart is a national poetry speaking competition for schools and colleges in England. It’s also a website for teaching and learning about poetry – by heart and out loud, and with plenty of choice for young people to explore poems and find the ones they love.

This online event is organised by the English Association as part of the #EnglishCreates Week. Tickets are free but please register your attendance in the eventbrite link below to receive details and link.