Westminster Central Hall, London - Friday 22nd January.
GCSE Poetry Live! is now in its twelfth year and is firmly established as an integral event in the school year for many English departments. Thanks to you and your pupils there has never been anything like it. Good poetry is supposed to be read to tiny audiences in dark basement bars (and there’s nothing the matter with that) but it also works on a large scale. Over these years well over half a million GCSE pupils have seen and heard some of Britain's best poets. The key is the first-hand experience.
Many pupils 'don't like poetry' (although they often have a great interest in song lyrics). After a Poetry Live! Day they are often surprised. Many leave at 3.00 pm with a very different view of poetry to the one they arrived with. Given the sheer hassle of organising trips like this, no teacher would bring groups year after year if the events really didn't help as a foundation for teaching poetry in an exciting and stimulating way.
You will be able to read what our pupils thought about the day on the Culture pages of the VLE.
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