Competition: Ode to Librarians

Write An Ode to Librarians

The School for Young Writers invites you to express your thoughts and feelings about the people who make reading, learning and entertainment possible: yes, LIBRARIANS! To celebrate these unsung heroes of literacy we invite you to write: An Ode to Librarians

The School for Young Writers, in conjunction with LIANZA, has launched a poetry competition. An Ode to Librarians has three age categories: Years 3-5; Years 6-8 ; and Years 9-11. The deadline is 11^th September.

What’s an ode? 
It’s a poetic form dating back to ancient Greece. Pindaric Odes (celebrating heroic individuals, nations or abstract ideas) and Homeric Odes (celebrating people, virtues, and aspects of society or nature) have all sorts of rules, so we’ll keep it simple! Nowadays odes are much less formal poems of moderate length, rhymed or unrhymed, and often humorous. A related term is the Apostrophe. This is not the pesky punctuation mark that many people don’t use properly! In a literary sense, it’s a poem of praise directly addressed to a person, a place, an idea or an object.