Students – enter our Poems Aloud! competition
Do you love poetry? Want to win £100? Enter the University Library’s Poems Aloud! competition, run with the StAnza International Poetry Festival. Open only to University of St Andrews students.
Email [email protected] to enter by Friday, February 19.
Last year’s winner Megan McFadyen-Mungall who recited ‘Too much time looking up’ by Lacey Roop
This year you can choose to recite a poem you’ve memorised from one of the headline poets taking part in StAnza 2016:
Pascale Petit
Don Paterson
Lemn Sissay
Nora Gomringer
Jane Yolen
Thomas Lynch
Jo Bell
Jo Shapcott
Matthew Sweeney
Sean O’Brien
Andrew McMillan
Fiona Benson
John Burnside
We’ll send you a set of poems (two per poet) to choose from. Or you can make your own separate choice from their works.
A panel of judges will rate the best delivery and pick a winner during the live recital in the University Library on March 4 at 3.30pm.
If you have questions or are interested in entering, drop us a line: [email protected]