Welcome to the Poetry By Heart Performance gallery where you can watch some of the recitations by students competing at the national finals since 2013.
Performance Gallery
Georgina Watkiss - 2015 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Finalist
Georgina Watkiss - 2015 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Finalist
Adam Vale - 2015 - Invictus (W.E. Henley) - Finalist
Annie Green - 2015 - A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
Annie Mae Wright - 2015 - A Mother to her Waking Infant
Nathania Ewruje - 2013 - The Destruction Of Sennacherib
Jennifer O’Sullivan - 2014 - Kubla Khan
Pavel Poloskin - 2015 - Remembrance
Samuel Jackson - 2015 - There is No God
Josephine Obeng - 2015 - Envy
Max Jenner - 2015 - Dover Beach
Logan Jones - 2014 - Dirge For Two Veterans
Ebony Stephenson - 2015 - The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Peter Hanna - 2013 - Thoughts of Phena
Check in regularly to see new videos being showcased!
Founded by Andrew Motion and Julie Blake in 2012, developed by The Poetry Archive with The Full English, and funded by the Department for Education, Poetry by Heart is a national poetry recitation competition open to all pupils and students in England aged between 14 and 18. The Poetry By Heart website is a shared asset of The Poetry Archive and The Full English. It is maintained and developed by The Full English as a resource for a national poetry recitation competition and for teaching and learning about poetry.