Recently, I won my school's competition for Poetry by Heart which means that I'll progress to the next stage of the competition, the county competition. By entering the competition you are judged on your ability to comprehend and embody several poems, all to be recited in front of a panel of judges who have the power to take you through to the regional semi-finals, and then on to the finals. In this years competition students are required to recite 3 poems, one from before 1914, one post-1914 and a final first world war poem, to commemorate the war.
The next competition for me will be on Tuesday, so even now, I'm a reckless whirlwind of nerves. I can be quite competitive so it's difficult for me not want to win and the fact that writing is my life's passion doesn't quite help this either. Despite this, I was lucky to be asked to join two other entrants, to recite one of my poems on air at BBC Radio Oxford. Since it's my strongest, I chose to recite 'Thoughts of Phena' by Thomas Hardy. If you fancy listening to the broadcast, just follow the link here and you can listen back to the interview which starts at around 1:32 (heads up, it lasts for 29 days and I'm the first to recite a poem).
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