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Suffrage protest poetry

“We don’t intend that you should be pleased”: a protest poetry challenge for universal suffrage

To mark International Women’s Day and 100 years since some women got the vote in the UK, former Foyle Young Poet Ankita Saxena is challenging you to make yourself heard! We want you to write protest poems using a classic device of both poetry and protest: repetition. Votes for Women In 1908, two early suffragettes interrupted a […]

Poems

  • there is no such thing as a womanZara Shams1st prize winner, protest poetry challenge
  • caryatidElla Standage2nd prize winner, protest poetry challenge
  • Instructions to the Three-Year Old GrandchildFiyinfoluwa Timothy Oladipo3rd prize winner, protest poetry challenge
  • ishahNatalie PermanCommended poem, protest poetry challenge
  • Fighting into the Night, for LightDipo Baruwa-EttiCommended poem, protest poetry challenge
  • Goodbye in AmericaEllora SuttonCommended poem, protest poetry challenge
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