Perform-a-Poem

Poems to perform	Out of copyright poems
We hope that you and your pupils will enjoy writing new poems to perform and film - see the Poetry writing activities page in the Resources for teachers section for inspiration.	The best source of out of copyright poems for pupils to perform is Project Gutenberg - the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks, on the internet. Below you can find the following poetry books suitable for children: Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales for Children The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts More Beasts (For Worse Children) William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience Lewis Carroll Phantasmagoria and Other Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Kate Greenaway Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children Rudyard Kipling If Edward Lear The Book of Nonsense Nonsense Songs The Owl and the Pussycat Walter de la Mare Peacock Pie, a Book of Rhymes Songs of Childhood The Listeners and Other Poems Palgrave’s The Golden Treasury Robert Louis Stevenson A Child’s Garden of Verses
It can also be fun to perform poems by other writers. The Perform-a-Poem Library is a unique collection of poems by some of the best contemporary poets in the UK, including Michael Rosen, Francesca Beard, Roger McGough and John Hegley. These poems have been generously donated to Perform-a-Poem with special permission for the poems to be performed by children in videos for this site only. View a list of available poems Important information about copyright Please ensure that you only upload videos of pupils performing either: original poems they have written themselves -- OR -- out of copyright poems -- OR -- poems from the Perform-a-Poem Library If you upload videos of pupils performing any other poems, you may be infringing copyright laws and be liable to prosecution.