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World Cup Poetry Competition!
Posted on: June 10th, 2010
The World Cup 2010 is finally here and we want you to write a poem about it!!
Our fantastic poetry competition starts today – Friday 11th June 2010 - and lasts for a whole month….
Simply write a poem about the World Cup, include your name, age, address and telephone number, and send it to us at:
Streetspeak@hotmail.co.uk (e-mail)
Philippa Duxbury, National Football Museum, Urbis Building, Cathedral Gardens, Manchester M4 3BG (post)
- There are 3 categories:
Up to age 9
Age 10-13
Age 14-18
Entries will be judged by four of our poets – Paul Cookson, Terry Caffrey, Craig Bradley and Mark Mace Smith. Prizes for each category are:
- A replica 1966 World Cup football
- A replica 1966 Jeff Hurst football shirt
- Signed poetry books from each of our four judges
Winning poems will be published on our website. Good luck!!
The word is on the street about Streetspeak…
Posted on: September 22nd, 2009
Our second visitor in June 2009, Irfan Master, Manager of Reading the Game, National Literacy Trust, visited a Groundwork session on 19th June 2009.
Irfan watched Craig and young people from Groundwork invent their own poems… here’s one of them:
Pele
I saw Pele
On the telly
He looked really cool to me
He was quick
On the ball
He wasn’t very tall
He was a kid on the street
With no shoes on his feet
Playing football with some bags
Dressed in old torn rags
But he had passion in his heart
He was a living Work of Art
He could fly like a dart
He was a goal scoring machine
The best on the screen
But, Pele, for all your fame
We don’t even know your name!
After watching the Streetspeak session, Irfan said, ‘It was a more informal style of learning, and there was lots of learning going on and for young people that’s the best environment. They will go away with enhanced vocabulary, speaking and listening skills and they’ve been told they’ve done well. It will be a lasting memory. I’d have been quite chuffed to have been picked to take part – that’s a big deal. Poetry is a form of expression, and we can all be poets by default as soon as we can speak.’
