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
Abigail Peters - 2017 - Envy (Adelaide Anne Proctor)
Abigail Peters - 2017 - Envy (Adelaide Anne Proctor)
Lydia Reed - 2017 - Sonnets from the Portuguese XXIV (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Rufiat Awolope - 2017 - The Witch (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge)
Jack Verschoyle - 2017 - “They flee from me that sometime did me seek” (Thomas Wyatt)
Indigo Douglas - 2017 Champion - Epistle to Miss Blount (Alexander Pope)
Isabella Redmayne - 2017 - The Witch (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge)
Jean Sprackland - 2017 - Competition Introduction and Poem Recital
Freddie Fox - 2017 - Speech and Recital
Jean Sprackland - 2017 - Speech for the Final
Issy Paul - 2017 - The Rights of Woman (Anna Laetitia Barbauld)
Luke Gyesi-Appiah - 2017 - The Destruction of Sennacherib (George Gordon Byron)
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.