Reason to Rhyme.

Times running out. Don’t miss the opportunity to see yourself on the Big Screen in Clayton Square performing your own work.
Enter the Nothing Rhymes with Poets competition, deadline 16 May.

From the initial submissions, a shortlist of poets will be given the opportunity to enhance their poetry performance skills to prepare them for a live audition. From the audition five people will be selected to take part in a short film to be broadcast on BBC Big Screen Liverpool throughout September and will receive a cash prize.

Harry Hawkins, Nothing Rhymes With Poets 2005 participant

My sister walked out of Tesco's under the Big Screen to see me for the first time in years. She phoned me to say: "can you hear it?" My image, regaling a peace march, echoing around Clayton Square, on a big screen, everyday for a few months. For me it was about identity, a search for identity, I didn't know I was from Liverpool until I left Liverpool! And I didn’t know I was a poet! But I do now.”

Owing to the success of last year’s pilot project, ran in association with Liverpool Centre For Arts Development, Nothing Rhymes With Poets have now received funding from the Arts Council England’s Grants for the arts programme and Awards For All. Working in partnership with BBC Big Screen Liverpool and collaborations with Dead Good Poets Society, The Windows Project, First Take and Toxteth TV, Nothing Rhymes With Poets are hoping to illustrate once again the commitment to enhancing Liverpool’s creative community.

Chair of Nothing Rhymes With Poets, Jacqui Lee said: “ we are really looking forward once again to receiving some fantastic poems. I’m just glad I’m not on the selection panel, I would want to choose them all! ”

For more information and to download an application form go to
the BBC Big Screen Webpage
or pop down to BBC Radio Merseyside, 55 Paradise Street, Liverpool, L1 3BP to pick up an application form.