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

The Encyclical City

She shopped at Primark
and worked in Netto
and when she saw him
she could never forget him.
She flew from John Lennon
down to Jerez
there’s a convent there
next to the tourist office
with a square shaped cross
and his tortured body
framed onto it.
His lovely face
wreathed by sadness,
by incense and the wine
she’d drink later.
She gave money to a vagrant
then bought a candle
and knelt to light it
for all the wasters.
It’s a fact
we’re at our best
when we remember
generous acts.


Tony Wailey

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


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