•   07/09/2011Poetry Snakes & Ladders? Use our free snakes and ladders board on the Education page
•   08/09/11Running a quiz? Include some games and poetry questions, and give a poetry book as a prize....
•   08/09/11Compete to identify a poem by throwing dice. A quizmaster chooses a well-known poem: competitors throw dice to hear line 7, or 12, or.... until someone identifies it!
•   12/09/11Make a Humument poem from a newspaper or book - see our Poems page for an example.....
•   13/09/11Poetry Consequences - start with a well known line and go around a group, each person adding a new line.

National Poetry Day 2011 is coming up fast - on Thursday October 6th. Our theme is GAMES. How will you use it - in a themed reading, a poetry marathon, a classroom poetry game or a poetry workshop? We'll be posting new ideas on our ticker tape, above. Share yours @poetrydayuk on Twitter, or find us on Facebook.

If you're running an event, please list it via our 'Add Your Event' page - thousands of people see our listings. Meanwhile, here's our own game - which poets wrote the words on our four postcard designs? Check soon to see how you can win a prize by identifying all four.

We're working with sister projects Winning Words and the Forward Prizes for Poetry to make the best of poetry's big day; use this site to help you plan your National Poetry Day celebrations with resources including lesson plans, listings and blogs in the coming days.

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