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WORDCUP 2023: Our national showcase of young poets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WORDCUP 2023 brought together teams of young people from across the country with the aim of creating a community of young poets and a platform for their voices to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following poetry and performance workshops delivered in six regional hubs by leading UK poets, the young people shared their work at a local showcase before heading to Manchester for a residential weekend in July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hosted by The Poetry Library<\/a> at Manchester Metropolitan University, the WORDCUP weekend provided an opportunity for the young people to represent who they are and where they come from in their own words through performing the poems they created via the workshop programme.  They built new relationships and understanding of each other and the power of spoken word through shared creativity and a celebration of the achievements of everyone involved in WORDCUP2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who was involved<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WORDCUP 2023 provided artists a chance to network and develop skills. Each team worked with an established poet and an assistant poet who developed their facilitation skills during the project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weekend was hosted by WORDCUP Artistic Director Jacob Sam-La Rose<\/strong> who was joined over the weekend with WORDCUP Celebrators Joelle Taylor, Shirley May<\/strong> and US Poet Danez Smith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WORDCUP was a partnership project and we were delighted to work with the following brilliant organisations from across England: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geraldine Connor Foundation<\/a> \u2013 Leeds
Young Identity<\/a> – Greater Manchester
Suffolk Libraries<\/a> – Suffolk
ArtfulScribe<\/a> – Hampshire
Sound Communities<\/a> \u2013 Devon 
John Bernard & Emilie Lauren Jones \u2013 Coventry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Word Cup 2023 Blogs:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Antosh Wojcik: tHE pATH FROM shadow to poet coach<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Poet Coach Antosh Wojcik began his Word Cup journey in 2014 as a shadow facilitator. Now in 2023 he returns as a Poet Coach leading the Hampshire team into the competition. Read more about his time leading the team and his own reflections on how his career has developed over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n