You Can't Jail Minds
You Can't Jail Minds is our poetry competition that celebrates freedom of expression, inspired by prisoners who, inspite of everything, have still found a way to express themselves through poetry.
Young people in schools across the UK have been imagining they are in prison and have to write a poem without pen and paper. The power and creativity of the poems we received was overwhelming, and made judging a tough job, but here they are - congratulations to our regional winners!
Coming soon: See the winning poems in the You Can't Jail Minds gallery...
East:
Rosie Thurlow, Aylesham High (KS3)
Hannah Ehrlich, Parkside Community College (KS4)
North + Midlands:
Josh Lewis, Friary School (KS3)
Aditi Gaddam, St.Clare's, Oxford (KS4)
South West:
Jack Brownbridge-Kelly, Humphrey-Davy School (KS3)
South East:
Eleanor Reeve, Abbey School, Reading (KS3)
Rachel Rowan-Olive, St. Albans School for Girls (KS4)
Nations + Regions:
Amanda Evans, Bishop of Llandaff School (KS3)
Inspiration
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I will live and survive and be asked:
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I don't want fists and paws
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From the window of my small cell
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the night is like a day on the other side of the bars
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