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Got a way with words? Enter the poetry competition!

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The learning centres don’t just provide books, access to PCs, and of course our fantastic art exhibitions.  Did you know they also have poetry on display? 

The annual student poetry competition, UniVerse, has been launched this week and is open to all students.  The competition began in 2008, and each year the winning poems are printed onto canvas and displayed in each of the learning centres – the collection of poems has its own dedicated poetry wall on floor 2 of Adsetts! 

Along with the winning poems going on display in the learning centres, this popular competition offers Waterstones vouchers, limited edition postcards, and a celebration event rather like a poetry slam for everyone to come and listen to judges and winners alike read from their collections.  All details of how to enter, along with a copy of the rules, entry forms and FAQs are on the Universe blog where students can also see photos of previous winners and their poems, and video footage from last year’s prize-giving event. 

The poetry wall, Adsetts level 2

It’s fair to say that we love a bit of culture in the learning centres – but we also love to promote the creativity of our students.  Check out the UniVerse pages for more information, or take a look at shuspace, and get writing!

UniVerse event celebrates student poetry talent

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Winnners of Sheffield Hallam University’s poetry competition were announced at the UniVerse awards event last night.   UniVerse, which is now in its sixth year and aims to showcase student talent, attracted entries from courses as diverse as health psychology, maths, radiotherapy and oncology and childhood studies, as well as creative writing students.

Hosted by Nuala Devlin, Director of Learning and Information Services, the event brought together a celebratory atmosphere for a range of guests including students and staff, entrants, winners and judges.  Professor Philip Martin, Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic), welcomed everyone to the evening and each of the speakers was enthusiastic in their praise of the talent shown throughout the submissions.

UniVerse competition winners with their canvases

 

Each of the winners accepted their awards, including the sixth form students in the schools competition, and took turns to read a selection of their poems to the audience, creating a fantastic buzz and impressing all with their confidence.   With judges Debjani Chatterjee, Harriet Tarlo and Nell Farrell also reading poems from their own collections, everyone present was able to enjoy different types of poetry from dramatic to humourous, poignant to historical.

Limited edition poetry postcards

 

Each year the learning centre produces two canvases of the winning student poems. One is displayed at Adsetts on a permanent basis, the other at Collegiate Learning Centre for a year, after which time we offer it to the poet as a keepsake.  Winning poems from the last three years are available to view on Level 2 of the Adsetts Learning Centre, as well as in the Sheffield store of Waterstones who jointly sponsored the event.  Limited edition postcards have been printed of the four winning student poems, and more photographs from the event will be published through twitter and facebook in the coming days.   In the meantime, don’t forget to follow @ArtinAdsetts on twitter and come to the learning centres for a look at our brilliant student art and poetry work.