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Poetry Week 2021

We are very excited to be celebrating Poetry Week 2021 and we are particularly looking forward to welcoming the poet Neal Zetter to Cathedral School!

  • Neal has won many awards and acclaim for his best selling poetry books

  • Secured major publishing deals with Troika Books in 2015 and Otter-Barry Books in 2020.

  • He has been performing since 1989 in West End comedy and poetry clubs, theatres, pubs, music venues, schools, colleges, the Royal Festival Hall and many more!

  • He has hosted adult comedy poetry evenings featuring John Cooper Clarke, Michael Rosen, Attila the Stockbroker and Kate Tempest and many more.

  • Featured in the London Evening Standard’s `Get London Reading’ literacy campaign in Jan 2012.

  • Written a wide range of poetry books! Here is a selection of some of the books that we will be reading over Poetry Week which have all been written by Neal:

Please click through the PowerPoint slides for some information about our Poetry Week Competition and to give you some ideas about what type of poem you should write!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zN9kVybZN3dISivpEsnXtSO4-3kZgiio/view?usp=sharing

Rules of the competition

  • You can write your poem about ANYTHING you want to
  • You can write any type of poem: limerick, haiku, acrostic, shape poem, free verse, rhyming poem
  • There will only be one winner from each class
  • The entry deadline is Friday 28th May 2021
  • Neal Zetter will be our guest judge for the competition

Entry Form

Poetry Competition Entry Form