Set Poem

Adjudicator: Janet Tuckett LLAM. GODA. PGCA

All enquiries to: Ann Reed, 0845 838 2319 or

Please select ONE poem from the three alternatives set:
Each poem can be found in one of the following anthologies:

  • The Usborne Book of Poems for Little Children (Collected by Sam Talin)(U)
  • The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Poetry (Ed: Alison Sage)(HT)
  • The Macmillan treasury of Poetry for Children (Selection edited by Susan Gibbs)(MT)
  • Because a Fire was in my Head (ed: Michael Morpurgo) (BaF)

Each available from Devon County Libraries and www.amazon.co.uk at time of going to press) But in case of difficulty in finding copies of the set poems please contact the Section Co-ordinator (as above).

Please note that there are some changes in these classes from 2009

Class Number Class Name Level Time Fee Set Piece Credit or debit card payments handled securely by Paypal
6144 Set Poem 4 years x £4.00 Gorilla"" Kay Umansky (U) ""Up to the Ceiling"" Charles Thomson (U) ""Stepping Stones"" Anon (U)
6145 Set Poem 5 years x £4.00 Mice "" Rose Fyleman (U) ""Moving Away"" Peter Dixon (U)
6146 Set Poem 6 years x £4.00 The Cow"" R. L. Stevenson (MT) ""Brother"" Mary Ann Hoberman (HT) "" Sweet Song"" Vernon Scannell (HT)
6147 Set Poem 7 years x £4.00 Alligator"" Grace Nichols (HT) ""Nightmare"" Siv Widerberg (HT) ""Bedtime"" Eleanor Farjeon (U)
6148 Set Poem 8 years x £4.00 Building Site"" Marian Lines (HT) ""The Secret Song"" Margaret Wise Brown (HT) ""What is Red?"" Mary O'Neill (HT)
6149 Set Poem 9 years x £4.00 Blame"" Allan Ahlberg (HT) ""The Troll"" Jack Prelutsky (HT) ""Snail"" Ted Hughes (BaF)
6150 Set Poem 10 years x £4.00 Eddie and the Shreddies - Michael Rosen (HT); Watch Your French - Kit Wright (BaF); Dog - Ted Hughes (BaF)
6151 Set Poem 11 years x £4.00 Sky in the Pie!"" Roger McGough (HT) ""(Brackets)"" John Coldwell (HT) ""Who'd Be a Juggler"" Cicely Herbert (HT)
6152 Set Poem 12 years x £4.50 The Poem"" Amy Lowell (HT) ""Smile"" Matthew Sweeney (BaF) ""The Pet Wig"" Brian Patten (MT)
6153 Set Poem 13 & 14 yrs years x £4.50 Beachcomber"" George Mackay Brown (HT) ""Stop all the clocks…"" W H Auden (BaF) ""Back in the Playground Blues"" Adrian Mitchell (BaF)
6155 Set Poem 15 & 16 yrs x £5.00 There Came a Day"" Ted Hughes (HT) ""The Song of Wandering Aengus"" W B Yeats (BaF) ""The Burmese Cats"" George Macbeth (MT)
6157 Set Poem 17 & 18 yrs x £5.50 Woman Work"" Maya Angelou (HT) A Smuggler's Song"" Rudyard Kipling (BaF) ""Humming-Bird"" D H Lawrence (MT)

DPAF Trophy is a small plaque or medal which may be kept by the winner

The Wilkinson & Grand Trophy will be awarded by the Adjudicator for
the most promising performer in the Speech and Drama Section