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National Poetry Day

	National Poetry Day 2011 is on Thursday 6th October - the theme is 'Games'.
	Muse in the Museum John Hegley travelled to Leicester again to hold a workshop for one lucky group of students from Sparkenhoe School on Monday 3rd October at New Walk Museum, Leicester.
	Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Presentation, 6th October Bookmarks Bookshop, Bloomsbury Street, London WC1
	For One Day Only! Email us your own poem on this year's theme at any time during National Poetry Day and we will upload it to our Community Poetry Page - after 6th October the page will remain as read-only until Poetry Day 2012 engassoc@le.ac.uk
	Our Favourite Poems Nominate your favourite poem on this year's theme engassoc@le.ac.uk
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What the Association did to mark National Poetry Day, 7th October 2010
	Michael Murphy Memorial Prize launched 7th October 2010 The English Association announces the inauguration of a new biennial prize of £500 for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English published in Britain or Ireland, in the first instance between January 2008 and June 2011. The Prize has been established by some of his colleagues at Nottingham Trent University in honour of the Liverpool-born poet Michael Murphy, who died of a brain tumour in 2009. More information
	Muse in the Museum A Year 6 class from Sparkenhoe Primary School in Leicester won a unique opportunity to attend a free National Poetry Day Workshop with John Hegley - a joint venture between the Association and Leicester City Museums. With several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name, John Hegley visited New Walk Museum and Art Gallery to celebrate National Poetry Day. During his visit he led a workshop for the students who watched a short performance in the gallery and then worked with John in a hands-on workshop creating poetry inspired by the museum's temporary exhibitions and permanent collections.
	My favourite poem on this year's theme - Home Email us your favourite poem about home or a poem you have written - we'll keep the page running until October 2011 A poem by Rupert Loydell Mark Jacobs chooses two poems by Laura Riding Read a poem by Gregory Woods Deryn Rees-Jones has selected Michael Murphy's IV: from Below the River: Variations Stan Smith writes on three poems by Edward Thomas Anthony Rudolf translaties a poem by Yves Bonnefoy Two poems by Augustus Young Peter Cash chooses Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop [opens a new window on the Lovethe Poem website] and contributes his own poem about his family home in Lincolnshire A poem by Keith Wallis Julia Hughes chooses U A Fanthorpe's Earthed [Opens a new window on the Poetry Archive website] Pamela Bickley chose Seamus Heaney's Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication: For Mary Heaney - Sunlight [Opens a new window on the Nobel Prize website] Eve Bearne chose My Grandmother by Elizabeth Jennings [Opens a new window on the Carcanet website] Helen Lucas chose Carl Sandburg's Home Thoughts but was tempted by The Hangman at Home [Both links open a new window at Hello Poetry.com] Read a poem by Stan Smith here John Paine chooses Anniversary by R.S. Thomas [opens a new window onto R.S. Thomas blogspot] Ian Brinton writes on Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow by Robert Duncan A poem about homelessness by Davy King
2010 Fellows' Poetry Prize Competition is now closed	National Poetry Day Archive 2009
	National Poetry Day Website [Opens external link]

UPDATED: October 5, 2011

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