A poetry competition is being run in the Secondary Phase to coincide with this year’s National Poetry Day in October.
Students from Years 7 – 11 are being invited to take part in a poetry writing contest for the national day celebrating poetry and verse taking place on Thursday, 8^th October.The theme for 2015 is light.
The library at KSA is inviting students to write poems around this theme and to use their creative imaginations to come up with their own poems for the day.
Head librarian at the Secondary Phase, Mrs Heidi Economou said: “We are hoping students will join with us in celebrating this national day by putting pen to paper to compose their own poems about light. The theme is open to their own interpretation of the meaning of light; whether it is about natural light, artificial light or the poem taking the reader on a journey into light. It is entirely left up to the students how they incorporate the word light into their written work.”
Proprietors of power stations and lighthouses, opticians, photographers and firework- producers are among the professions helping to celebrate the day by pledging to display poems about light.
The poetry day is co-ordinated by the Forward Arts Foundation, a charity that actively celebrates poetry and promotes it as part of everyday life.
Students have until National Poetry Day to hand in their poetry into library staff.
For more information about National Poetry Day visit: http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poetry-day/