Find current and past resources for National Poetry Day below, including poems, teaching notes, and audio and video recordings. To keep up to date with National Poetry Day news, sign up to our NPD mailing list.
National Poetry Day Archive
National Poetry Day 2018
We are the lead agency in Scotland for National Poetry Day. From 1999, NPD has been themed by Forward Arts Foundation; this year’s theme was ‘change’.National Poetry Day 2015
In 2015, the theme of national poetry day was ‘light’. You can read the poems selected below.
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