International Poetry Competition

    World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March. Its purpose is to improve people's ability to read, write, and teach poems all over the world.

    This year, the International Poetry Centre is holding a poetry competition to celebrate the festival! The competition is open to all the poets(诗人)aged 18 and over from all over the world, and they will be divided into two groups:

Open Group (open to all the poets aged 18 and over)

ESL Group (open to all the poets aged 18 and over who can write in English as a Second Language)

The winners of each group will receive￡1000.

RULES:

All the poems must be unpublished (未出版的) works.

Poems will not be returned, so please keep a copy.

    The poem(s) must be in English and created by the poet himself/herself.

    Poems can be written on any proper subject. No subject on violence(暴力) or drugs.

    The competition begins on 3 March, 2017 and ends on 28 August, 2017.

    To enter the competition, please visit the Centre Shop to pay ￡5 for each poem. Once the payment is made, please email the poem(s) to poetrycomp@center.uk. Remember to mark Open or ESL in the top right-hand corner of the document(文档) to show which group to enter before emailing your poem(s).

Questions about the competition can be emailed to poetrycomp@center.uk.