Leeds Peace Poetry

Competition 2015

Programme
7.15-7.30 Arrival
Music performed by Harrogate Male Voice Choir

Award Ceremony

Great Hall
University of Leeds

7.30

1. Primary
2. Secondary

7.30 Welcome: John Whale (University of

Leeds) followed by host Khadijah Ibrahim

7.35 Music: Harrogate Male Voice Choir

I Vow To Thee My Country, music by Gustav
Holst, words by Cecil Spring-Rice, arr. Patrick
J. Lee
American Trilogy, music & words traditional,
arr. M. Newbury, adapted by Alwyn
Humphreys

Thursday 23rd April 2015

7.55 Presentation of prizes and reading of

shortlisted poems:

For the Beauty of the Earth, music by John

Rutter, words by Folliot Pierpoint

7.45 Dance performance: Star Wilkes,

Maureen D'Almeida, Leila De Carvalho,
Liliana De Carvelho, Mama Jabbi and Sara
Ghabr

3. Adult
4. School Prize

8.20 Music: Harrogate Male Voice Choir

In Flanders Fields, music by Patrick J. Lee,
words by John McCrae
If, music by Patrick J. Lee, words by Rudyard
Kipling
Softly As I Leave You, music & words by
Giorgio Calabrese and Tony De Vita, trans. by
Hal Shaper
Do You Hear the People Sing?, music by
Claude-Michel Schonberg, words by Alain
Boubil & Jean-Marc Natel, trans. by Herbert
Kretzmer

8.25 Vote of thanks

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Shortlisted Poems and Schools

Alana Mountain (GARFORTH ACADEMY)

Peace

PRIMARY
Jessica Jones (ST JOSEPHS)
Long ago there was fear

Sam Mainprize (GARFORTH ACADEMY)

The Crow and Deaths Observations

Owen OMalley (ST JOSEPHS)

Peace is Forever

Poppy Wald-Harding (GARFORTH ACADEMY)

Syrian War

Anna Kippen (WEETWOOD PRIMARY)

In my mind there is a memory, a place I dont dare
go

Amber Pashley
Peace not War

Feargus Hagerty (ST PAULS CATHOLIC PRIMARY)

The Fight for Peace
Luke Riley (ST PAULS CATHOLIC PRIMARY)
For the Last Time
Ketsia Makondele (WOODLANDS PRIMARY
ACADEMY)
The War One
Emily Lancaster (WESTERTON PRIMARY SCHOOL)
Evermore I Wait
Cian Daley, Jack Ainley, Lawrence Sheard
(WESTERTON PRIMARY SCHOOL)
Peace is not War
Charlie Taylor and Austin Widdows (WESTERTON
PRIMARY SCHOOL)
I Hope
SECONDARY
Eleanor Johnson
What will we become?
Isobelle Labbert (GARFORTH ACADEMY)
Forgotten Hero

Kiera Ahmed
Hope
Lydia Coyle (WOODKIRK ACADEMY)
End This War
Izzy Blakley (BOSTON SPA COMPREHENSIVE)
The Fallen
Finlay Dunlop (BOSTON SPA COMPREHENSIVE)
Blind Peace
ADULT
Rachel Flint, The Shade Battalion
Mike Harwood, Lest We Forget
Linda Loganathan, Egypt 2015
Jonathan Wright, Do not worry ma
Alwyn Marriage, Rosa Parks
Anita Lucas, The Reason Why
SCHOOL PRIZE
Broomfield South SILC
Westerton Primary Academy
Boston Spa Comprehensive
Garforth Academy

Leeds Peace Poetry Competition

sponsored by Together For Peace
in partnership with:
Leeds City Council
Leeds library and Information Service
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
University of Leeds
Yorkshire Evening Post