{"id":1731,"date":"2021-10-07T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:34:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:34:16","slug":"national-poetry-day-7-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/10\/07\/national-poetry-day-7-october\/","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Day (7 October)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"389\" height=\"129\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/NPoetry-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/NPoetry-Day.jpg 389w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/NPoetry-Day-300x99.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 85vw, 389px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>National Poetry Day\u00a0is a UK-wide celebration of poetry and this year&#8217;s theme is\u00a0<strong>Choice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a selection of poems here <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpoetryday.co.uk\/celebrate-national-poetry-day\/\">https:\/\/nationalpoetryday.co.uk\/celebrate-national-poetry-day\/<\/a> to get you inspired and engaged, plus an online events listing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the many poems featured is \u2018<em>Instead<\/em>\u2019 by Brian Moses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of an X-box<br>please show me a pathway that stretches to the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of a mobile phone<br>please teach me the language I need to help me speak with angels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of a computer<br>please reveal to me the mathematics of meteors and motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of the latest computer game<br>please come with me on a search for dragons in the wood behind our house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of an e-reader<br>please read to me from a book of ancient knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of a digital camera<em><br><\/em>please help me remember faces and places, mystery and moonbeams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of a 3D TV<br>please take me to an empty world that I can people with my imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of electronic wizardry<br>please show me how to navigate the wisdom inside of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/NPoetry-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1732\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Poetry Day\u00a0is a UK-wide celebration of poetry and this year&#8217;s theme is\u00a0Choice. There is a selection of poems here https:\/\/nationalpoetryday.co.uk\/celebrate-national-poetry-day\/ to get you inspired and engaged, plus an online events listing. One of the many poems featured is \u2018Instead\u2019 by Brian Moses Instead of an X-boxplease show me a pathway that stretches to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/10\/07\/national-poetry-day-7-october\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Poetry Day (7 October)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}