Given Poems for National Poetry Day 2019
For this annual competition poems needed to include five words chosen by poets from the collection More of Us. A record 200 poems were received from which a selection was published on Given Words. The winning poems have been selected by Charles Olsen, Mikaela Nyman and Clare Arnot. (You can read about them here.)


Lily Holloway – winner adult section


Thalia Peterson winner youth section (under 16)

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura’s article including the back story of how the competition came about