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!