In its 15th year, the 2025 Chiswick Book Festival Young Poets Competition aimed to encourage young people to enjoy creating their own poems. We looked for original poems on any theme, up to 25 lines long. It was free and open to children (UK only) in Years 3 to 7, aged 7 or 8 to 12.
There’s a detailed report on all the winning entries here on ChiswickW4.com.
One of the judges, poet James Pendle assembled and performed a mash-up of lines from the winning entries. Read it here (PDF download).