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You can use most of our website without any need to register. All the poem selections and ways of interacting with those are freely available, the resources in the Learning Zone, and lots of information about the Poetry By Heart competition including the competition guides. But if you want to take part in the Poetry By Heart competition or use the Teaching Zone resources, you'll need to register. This is because we need to know who you are and how we can talk to you, and where to send your competition resource pack if you are eligible to take part in the competition.

Registration takes a minute or two. We only collect the information we need to run the competition and we will not give it to anyone else without your express permission.

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Listen to more poetry on the radio

Links to some of the wide range of poetry programmes and podcasts to be listened to for free.

Poetry is something that we often think of as being written and read in text, on paper, but for the majority of human history it has been passed down in speech. When the radio was invented, people had been used to the idea of reading texts written by old authors, distant in time or space, but the human voice was still something that most people only experienced directly. The magic, intimate immediacy of a human voice is something that hypnotized early radio audiences, and this magic is still felt today when we hear poems spoken out loud.