Over 400 poets contributed 800 poems to celebrate Liverpool's 800th year. You can read them all here, just click anywhere on the picture of the Liver Building. Alternatively, you can select poems from a list

Contact: info@poem800.com

Daily Poem

Tadpoling


Tadpoling at Sefton Park,
took us to leafy lanes,
where the rich lived,
in fabulous houses,
their fabulous lives.
We'd bring jars with string
and little nets
from ' Woollies'
then spend the day
wandering through
rhododendron paths
and willow trees,
until we found
the smiling 'Peter Pan',
And there we'd eat
our sandwiches
with pond water hands.
As evening fell we'd
catch the bus back
to our little terraces,
teeming with people.
Like tadpoles in a pond.


Kath Dodd

Future Plans

This website will be maintained to keep all the 800 poems free to read, but this is not the end. We intend to publish the poems and due to the success of the project, we will be announcing another venture shortly...watch this space.

Disclaimer:

Great Links

Pete Price Radio City 10.00 pm Sun - Thursday (read him some poetry!)

Claire Hamilton Arts and Culture Show Sunday 1-4pm Radio Merseyside

SpotlightLancaster
Write Out Loud
Dead Good Poets Society
Magical History Tour
The celebrations for 700 years in 1907

Liverpool Poem 800 is brought to you in association with the North West Disability Arts Forum


Once published, all proceeds will be donated to
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