By-Heart Poetry Under the Stars for National Poetry Day

This year’s theme for National Poetry Day on October 4th is ‘Stars’, and so rather cleverly (fluke-cleverly), a bunch of us have decided to gather together under the stars in the incredibly evocative, "gutted" Gothic remains of Abney Park chapel in Stoke Newington to recite our favourite poems from the last couple of centuries.

We won’t be reciting work we’ve written (there’s enough of that about), but rather the poems we love, the poems we’ve ingested and set alchemically to work within us.

We also have a fund-raising agenda. Each line of poetry will be sponsored through our Fundraising Page to raise money for The Reader Organisation‘s Care Leaver Apprenticeship programme, a cause very close to our hearts.

The Reader Organisation is a national charity and social enterprise that works to bring about social change by sharing great literature with people of all ages, from all backgrounds. They do great work in London and across the UK.