Poetry Reciting Competition by The Poetry Archive [Poetry Archive NOW! WorldView 2023; Prizes of Rs. 10k+]: Submit Entries by Aug 31!

Submissions are invited for the Poetry Reciting Competition by The Poetry Archive. The event is called ‘Poetry Archive NOW! WorldView 2023’.

The Poetry Archive is a not-for-profit organisation that produces, acquires and preserves recordings of poets reading their own work out loud. They make substantial excerpts from their recording sessions freely available online through this website and their dedicated Children’s Poetry Archive.

From June 1 to August 31, 2023, The Poetry Archive would love you to make a video/film recording of yourself reading or reciting a single poem which you have written in 2023.

They loved seeing where poets came from in last year’s videos, whether it was indoors or outside, and you’ll find some great tips on making home videos through your phone or computer in our FAQs.

When you are ready, simply complete the submission form and send your recording to them. They can then publish your poem for all to hear and see.

From June 1 onwards they have begun publishing the poems to their new Poetry Archive YouTube channel where the millions of people who visit the Poetry Archive each year can hear them and know the poets who created them.

After the deadline, a panel of judges will select their 20 favourite entries for a special Archive Collection for 2023 to be celebrated on their website. Plus, hundreds of other poets will be published on their YouTube and other channels where they will curate a series of special profiles, poetry festival events and publicly curated collections to ensure your work is shared as widely as possible with poetry lovers around the world.

UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage shows how it’s done – he made this video for them in 2020 from his garden. 

“Home-made film (daughter on phone camera) of me reading Lockdown, in the garden, in the West Yorkshire Pennines, on a fresh spring day. First day proper of the emergency measures, but the blue tits and the buzzard in the background obviously hadn’t heard about the restrictions on movement, gatherings and vitality. And the sun was reliably in its proper position at the given hour.”

Award-winning poet, Roger Robinson, also reads his unpublished poem called ‘A Conversation About Meat During The Plague’.

And if that’s not enough to get you inspired, try visiting the WordView 2022 winners collection here.

Each year, after the deadline, the Poetry Archive will assemble a panel of experts to choose their favourite poems to be part of a special annual collection, the Poetry Archive Now: WordView Collection. Each poet selected for this annual collection will be offered £100 (Rs. 10k+) for permission to display and share their poem on the Poetry Archive website. The Prize selection process consists of:

Go to the ‘Submit your poem for 2023’ section and fill out the submission form. On the final page of the submission form upload the file of your video entry and you’re done! 

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