Application form for Birmingham Poet Laureate and Birmingham Young Poet Laureate

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Young Poet Laureate (between 12 and 18 years old on 1 October 2026)
Poet Laureate (18 and over on 1 October 2026)

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Please enter with care - this is the address we will use to contact you about the role.

If you are applying for Young Poet Laureate, please tell us which school you attend: *

If you are home educated, please tell us that in this field instead.

If you are applying for the Young Poet Laureate, please let us know which school year you will be in from September 2026 *

You can apply if you are in school years 7 - 13 (roughly equivalent to ages 12 - 18).

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If your home address is not within Birmingham, please explain your connection to the region (via work, etc).

Have you had any poetry published, broadcast or performed? Please give brief details:

Please enter your short personal statement - this should include some suggestions of things you'd like to do if you were appointed as poet laureate. We would be particularly keen to know how your plans might help people engage with Birmingham's public libraries. *

Please enter your short personal statement. Please tell us why you are interested in applying and what you would bring to the role. *

Please upload an example of your poetry: 2 short poems (1 must be about Birmingham) , maximum 40 lines each). You are welcome to also include a link to a video of you reading one of both of the poems (after uploading to Dropbox, Google Drive, YouTube or similar), although this is optional.

Drag & Drop Files, Choose Files to Upload You can upload up to 2 files.

Please use MS Word, or pdf formats.

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