![]() ![]() The challenge: write a poem or poems using political language Congratulations, too, to the longlisted poets whose work impressed the judges: Dale Booton, Spencer Chang, Jack Cooper, Eleanor Dakin, Laura Hankins, Elsie Hayward, Diya Kandhari, Katie Kirkpatrick, Abigail Marett, Marina McCready, Sophie Norton, Tanya Singh, Alexa Stevens, Rena Su, Ellora Sutton and Ploy Techawatanasuk. ![]() Congratulations to the winners, whose poems you can read in the sidebar. Teachers can find a new teaching resource on this theme here. We’ve teamed up with Jeremy Wikeley from the Orwell Youth Prize to challenge young people to explore political language in their poetry, in the 75 th year of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. But because it is often absurd, political language is also ripe for satire. When used for political reasons, language can be dangerous: it can turn anyone you don’t agree with into a sub-human monster. As poets, we know that words are powerful. ![]()
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