Inspired by the UK's Poetry Week, and with Andrew Motion, the UK Poet Laureate as its patron, International Poetry Challenge Day is the first Sunday in October each year. People of all ages are urged to learn a poem by heart to recite on this day to at least one other person, and preferably to an audience; and to get sponsored by relative and friends for your favourite non-profit cause (sending any money you raise directly to the charity or group you have chosen).

The Poetry Challenge the London Event 2008

This year's London Poetry Challenge will be held on a Sunday in October, and further details will be posted here nearer the date.

The Poetry Challenge & fund-raising for schools

The essentially straightforward principle behind The Poetry Challenge is that pupils and their teachers get sponsored by their family and friends to raise money for charity by reciting in public a poem that they have learnt by heart.

It can be any poem, and any charity, and the event can be held on any date in any term. It can take place over a week-long period, or it can be a single assembly. It can be run any way they fancy.

Click Below for downloads

Fund raising for schools
Sponsorship form
Performance certificate
A poster for you to use

The Poetry Challenge
12a Blackstock Mews
Blackstock Road
London N4 2BT
Tel: 0207 359 8391
poetry@alberyfoundation.org