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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.

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Poetry By Heart
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The Tyger

Tell me, tell me, Sarah Jane

It Was Long Ago

The Quangle Wangle’s Hat

The Language of Cat

What is Pink?

Escape at Bedtime

Nothingmas Day

The Months

There Was a Naughty Boy

Wynken, Blynken and Nod

The Spider and the Fly

Eletelephony

The Sleepy Giant

The Mock Turtle’s Song

Little Trotty Wagtail

A Bird Came Down the Walk

Child’s Song in Spring

Ye Spotted Snakes

The Song of Wandering Aengus

The Cataract of Lodore

The Witch

Casabianca

‘For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry’

Miss Lucy had a baby

Mosquito One

The North Wind

Answer to a Child’s Question

The Peacock at Home

The Way Through the Woods

The Owl

Written in March

from The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Song of Hiawatha

Tarantella

On a Night of Snow

The Door

Song for a Banjo Dance

Spell of the Air

Cargoes

Jamaica Market

Hyena

The Ceremonial Band

How to Cut a Pomegranate

Fisherman Chant

Double Trouble

Lone Dog

Lament of an Arawak Child

Rules

Vegan Delight

Granny Is

Pirate Pete

Extinct

If You Were a Carrot

House of Air

‘Please do not feed the animals…’

Instructions for Growing Poetry

Some One

Isn’t My Name Magical?

Time Transfixed